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Is it possible to practice ANSYS software at home??

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:46 AM PDT

Hi
title already explains that, what i have to say.
I am trying to learn ANSYS & other software. But i don't know how i install it in may pc as it is not freeware.
anyone please help me.

Hey there...

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Hello everyone :)

My name is Ricardo Quirino.

I'm Portuguese and I graduated last year in Civil Engineer.

Currently I'm searching for a job, and boy it's really hard to get a job in Portugal nowadays..

Hopefully I'll get better luck in the near future. And gather some tips from every crazy engineer, here :D

Aircraft Hydraulic systems

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Basic components of aircraft hydraulic systems and its working

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Panasonic Toughbook® H2 Features and Price

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:22 AM PDT

Panasonic Toughbook® H2 handheld tablet PC runs a full OS (Windows(R) 7 Professional).

It has 10.1" sunlight-viewable LED screen capable of up to 6000 nit in direct sun and sealed all-weather design.

It has Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processor*, magnesium alloy chassis encased in polycarbonate, the IP65 and MIL-STD-810G certified(1).

Toughbook H2's wireless features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® and optional 4G LTE (Fall 2011) or Gobi™2000 3G mobile broadband.

It is available this month for about $2,400.

The Art & Science of Appreciation - By Prof. (Er.) Suresh P. Khedkar

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:12 AM PDT

The Art & Science of Appreciation

I remember one article about various factors necessary for healthy growth of newly born babies. It said that, infants who got frequent touch of people, grew more healthily than those who got all the same care except the human touch. Needless to say that too much handling of babies is also undesirable. Out of our five senses, the sense of touch is most important in infantile phase of our life. The child gets its quota of "appreciation" through sense of touch by of hugs, kisses, patting and so on. It continues to seek appreciation but now not only through touch but all the senses. Similar experiments with animals & plants are also well known. Every living creature struggles for proving and sustaining its self worth throughout its life. It thus craves for being noticed, recognized & thus appreciated to make sure of its self worth. But as we grow up, our awareness about "appreciation" becomes distorted due to various reasons. It becomes one sided, means we become more demanding about it but tend to forget about our moral duty of giving it to others when deserved. So most of us are starved of recognition & appreciation. This affects our both productivity in the job & our peaceful personal life. So, whatever profession or vocation we are in, we must understand the art & science of Appreciation. Engineering is naturally no exception.

Our life is full of human to human interactions & good etiquette play a similar role in it as is played by a lubricant in a machine. Although science of lubrication is concerned with Mechanical Engineering ,every engineer & a layman understands it crucial importance. We are careful about our cars & bikes but not so much about our interactions with relatives, friends, colleagues & subordinates etc. Many people are careless with their superiors too. (we must appreciate their daring ha ha!) Art & Science of appreciation helps in providing us powerful lubricant in our daily interactions. We can generate our own lubricant abundantly & that too free of cost.

We need to change our attitude a bit for that . Do not get scared by the word but we have to be little spiritual (this is different than being religious). I think that, being spiritual means, realizing that how so ever rich, powerful & learned I may be, I am just a fleeting (temporary) and very small part of the universe & its environment. With this basic step we start appreciating so called insignificant happenings like a small flower blooming over the neighbour's fence or chirping of a not so beautiful bird on the telephone line. When we grasp basics of art of appreciating these entities , we can learn to appreciate the good things about other humans, crossing the walls of jealousy, hatred , self pride, anger & greed etc.

Some people create happiness wherever they go & some people do so whenever they go(away). Some people are always welcomed while others are always avoided. It is entirely on us, which category we should to belong. One who is universally interested is universally interesting & is welcomed everywhere. When we are universally interested, we can notice, recognize & of course appreciate even small good things surrounding us. We definitely get inner pleasure by doing so but it is only half the way. Expressing our appreciation appropriately does two additional good things. We make the other person truly happy without any cost to us. The happiness is reflected to us along with bonus. It has many secondary yet larger benefits. Mental peace & so mental health of the persons we are interacting in particular & society in general improves. Subsequently the violence & crime in the society will reduce (except for the violence by small number of perverted minds like terrorists). Productivity & hence quality of life will increase even with lesser material prosperity, benefiting the group/family, the organization & ultimately the nation. If we go one step further, the world off course. Prosperity of the world is a major concern of every engineer.

We many times mistakenly feel that we owe our appreciation only to Amitabh, Sachin , Kishorekumar or the likes & need not appreciate our near ones in daily routine matters. Said in lighter vein "I should continue to notice & appreciate good things about my spouse, which I noticed when I was newly married ." Praising & flattering are opposite poles yet many people confuse between them. Every body likes real currency note may be soiled but not counterfeit notes, howsoever new it may look. If we observe with open & unbiased mind we will definitely find something genuine to appreciate in every person (even your boss, ha ha ha !) & we need not flatter him/her . Undeserving, excessive & untimely praise is harmful . Similarly pampering & appeasing must be avoided at any cost.

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Article written by Prof. (Er.) Suresh P. Khedkar B.E. M.Tech. MIE. DBM. LL.B.

Biggest Engineering Branch

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT

Hai CEans,

Please post on the poll so that we can get an idea about the members in each engineering discipline. Hope to see your cooperation.

Caio

P.S. Please don't mind the cluster. It's due to lack of poll options. For those not listed, please post your discipline as a comment.

Which Engineering Branch are you from?

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Thread cancelled!!!!

Computer-Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries (CAEBAT)

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:54 AM PDT

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently awarded three industry teams, after a competitive procurement process, a total of $7 million for the development of computer-aided software design tools to help produce the next generation of electric drive vehicle (EDV) batteries.

These projects support DOE's Computer-Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries (CAEBAT) program. The objective is to help the automotive and battery industries design and develop a wide array of advanced EDV batteries more quickly, resulting in less expensive batteries.

EDVs — hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and electric vehicles — have the potential to significantly reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Project goals for the selected teams include:

• Developing battery engineering tools to design cells and battery packs
• Shortening the battery prototyping and manufacturing processes
• Improving overall battery performance, safety, and battery life
• Reducing battery costs.

Internship, Training or Certification?

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:30 AM PDT

Hello guys!

I am a second year(3rd sem) CSE guy at National Institute of Technology. I am strucked with a great dilemma, "whether to utilise my vacations for getting training in specific fields like Java and windows application development from an institute like NIIT and hence get done with the certifications like OCP JP(Oracle certification exam for Java) and MSPD(Microsoft certification for windows app development) OR to utilise for doing Internships?????"

I am very much desirous to go for these two certifications especially for MSPD but I am aware of the importance of internships too. After completing my 3rd sem I would be having only two weeks as my winter vacations, hopefully not enough for any internship. Then a huge summer holiday after 4th sem, which suits well for either internship or training courses in specific fields as mentioned from NIIT. Please help me in planning my way.

It would be greatly appreciable if you people would also comment on MSPD, i.e, a certification from Microsoft in windows app development using Visual Studio 10 in(.NET framework). I want to know its importance for a future software developer/engineer.

Thanks in advance :).

New GRE (Revised) Sentence Equivalance Practice Questions

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:21 AM PDT

Just as for regular text completion questions, you should read the question carefully and try to think of a word of your own to fit the blank. Once you are sure of the overall meaning of the sentence look carefully at the answer choices. The words you select will be synonyms (or at least closely similar). There may be more than one set of synonyms among the answer choices so ensure that the words you select make logical sense once inserted in the blank.

1. The prize competition was ____ as a showcase for new technology, but instead the competition was marred by disqualifications and disputes.

A. disappointing 
B. conceived 
C. touted 
D. heralded 
E. promising 
F. required

2. The new institute provides intensive postgraduate teaching to a wide range of students, in the hope that these students will use their knowledge to boost the country's ____ economy.

A. languishing 
B. emerging 
C. booming 
D. domestic 
E. bankrupt 
F. flagging

3. Like other metaphors, the "book of Nature" has two facets: it is ____ but if taken literally, it may mislead.

A. heuristic 
B. perceptive 
C. poetic 
D. insightful 
E. prosaic 
F. iconoclastic

4. The increasing interactivity emerging in the latest computer systems means that the traditional view of the computer as a ____ of information now unduly limiting.

A. gleaner 
B. transformer 
C. processor 
D. producer 
E. repository 
F. cache

5. Turing's life exerts a powerful and ____ effect on writers – the combination of the highly intellectual and the personally dramatic is hard to resist.

A. abiding 
B. pervasive 
C. perennial 
D. irresistible 
E. unmitigated 
F. multifaceted

6. As a result of his regimented upbringing, that left him unable to see the nuances of complex situations, he was often accused of being ____ .

A. indecisive 
B. tyrannical 
C. obtuse 
D. boorish 
E. xenophobic 
F. imperceptive

7. It is paradoxical that String Theory inspires such widespread respect when it is so ____ that few could ever hope to master its claims.

A. intractable 
B. confusing 
C. elevated 
D. arcane 
E. obscure 
F. rigorous

8. Those with a reputation for ____ behavior seldom inspire respect: unwavering adherence to a viewpoint is more admired than flexibility.

A. capricious 
B. bombastic 
C. dogmatic 
D. fickle 
E. honorable 
F. stalwart

9. The courtiers of the time had to be ____ in order to survive in an atmosphere where the least sign of rebellion could lead to banishment or worse.

A. taciturn 
B. fawning 
C. docile 
D. self-serving 
E. upright 
F. servile

10. Forgiveness was fine in theory, but she had trouble in accepting a religion that would allow ____ evil-doers access to heaven.

A. penitent 
B. contrite 
C. blatant 
D. venial 
E. pardoned 
F. recalcitrant

Kvpy project idea

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:08 AM PDT

Hello all, I have currently completed my first year at IIT Bombay, Civil department..
I am interested in submitting project under kvpy program and i would really appreciate if u could post your ideas in this thread.. thanx!!

Make only Useful Posts

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:52 AM PDT

HI All,

Its high time , we are 100K members strong and we are still posting useless posts.

We dont care activity now ( In terms of number of posts).

We just look for quality.

So Please post ONLY useful posts!! I agree I have also posted many useless posts!


I wanted to start this thread after reading few of my posts which are really useless, so from now on I will only post useful posts, I request everyone to follow that!

We should not count the post count/rank, we just need to post useful posts.

I dont think there is something wrong in this post, if it is then please ignore.

The Index

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Hello CEans,

This thread is an index thread.Many times we start a new thread but sometimes it goes unseen.
So,here just post the link of thread which you started but didn't got the answers(Or Dead thread).By this,your thread will become live again :)

Don't spam it with every new thread you start:confused:,
but the ones which became old and you still feel the need of answer for them.:)


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Anna University - Question Paper for VI sem -ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT

B.E/B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION,APRIL/MAY 2011
SIXTH SEMESTER
Computer science and engineering
CS 2354- ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Regulation 2008)

Time: three hours maximum:100 marks

Answer ALL questions
PART A(2*10=20 marks)

1. what is loop unrolling? and what are its advantages?
2. differentiate between static and dynamic branch predication approaches.
3. what is fine-grained multithreading and what is the advantage and disadvantages of fine -grained multithreading?
4. what a VLIW processor?
5. what is sequential consistency?
6. state the advantages of threading.
7. differentiate between write-through cache and snoopy cache.
8. compare SDRAM with DRAM.
9. what is multi-core processor and what are the application areas of multi-core processors?
10.what is Cell Processor?

PART B(5*16=80 marks)

11. (a) Briefly describe any techniques to reduce the cokntrol hazard stalls.(16)
or
(b) (i) discuss about any two compiler techniques for exposing ILP in detail(8)
(ii) Explain how ILP is achieved using dynamic scheduling(8)

12. (a) (i) describe the architectural features of IA64 Processors in detail(10)
(ii) Explain the architecture of a typical VLIW processor in detail(6)
or
(b)(i) describe the architectural features of Itanium Processor(10)
(ii) Explain how instruction level parallelism is achieved in Epic processor(6)

13. (a) (i) describe the basic structure of a centralized shared-memory multiprocessor in detail(6)
(ii) describe the implementation of directory-based cache coherence protocol(10)
or
(b) (i) what are the advantages and disadvantages of distributed-memory multiprocessors? describe the basic structure of a distributed memory multiprocessor in detail.(8)
(ii) describe sequential and relaxed consistency model(6)

14. (a)(i) with suitable diagram, explain how virtual address is mapped to L2 cache address.(10)
(ii) Discuss about the steps to be followed in designing I/O system(6)
or
(b) describe the optimization techniques used in compiler to reduce cache miss rate(16)

15. (a)(i) Describe the feature of SUN CMP architecture in details(6)
(ii) what are multi core processors? explain how a multi core processors works. (10)
or

(b) (i) discuss aboyt the SMT kernel Structure in detail(8)
(ii) describe the architecture of the IBM cell Processor in detail(8)

Anna University - Question Paper for VI sem -OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:06 AM PDT

B.E/B.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATION , APRIL/MAY 2011
sixth semester
Computer Science and Engineering
cs 2353 -OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
(common to information technology)
(regulation 2008)

time: three hours maximum: 100 marks

Answer ALL question

PART A(10*2=20 marks)

1. what is object oriented analysis and design?
2. define inception step.
3. what is domain model?
4. define aggregation and composition.
5. what is the use of system sequence diagram?
6. list the relationships used in class diagram?
7. what is use of operation contracts?
8. define coupling
9. what is the use of operation contracts?
10. give the meaning of Event, State, transition.

PART B(5*16=80 marks)

11. (a) briefly explain the different phases of unified process.
or
(b) explain with an example, how use case modeling is used to describe functional requirements. Identify the actors, scenario and use cases for the example.

12.(a) describe the strategies used to identify conceptual classes. Describe the steps to create a domain model used for representing conceptual classes.

or

(b) explain about activity diagram with an example.

13. (a) illustrate with an example, the relationship between sequence diagram and use cases.
or
(b) explain with an example interaction diagram.

14. (a) explain about GRASP patters.
or
(b) write short notes on adapter sigleton, factory and observer patterns.

15. (a) explain about implementation model(mapping design to code).
or
(b) Discuss about UML deployment and component diagrams. Draw the diagram for a banking application