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Jacquelin, Thank you for your response. I've actually just found a reasonable method using these steps (which I created myself, so maybe it is not the most accurate method): 1. Created 4 columns in excel i. Y values from data. ii. Y = A*sin(B*x + C)+D*x+E iii. X values from data...

Just an update with an idea I had... I set up an excel document. The first four columns are the following: Y values from data, Y = A*sin(B*x)+C*x+D, X values from data, (B-A)^2. I plotted both on the same graph and am attempting to eyeball approximate values for A, B, C, and D. Then I'll...

Hello, I have a data set that follows an equation similar to sin(x)+x. Just from eyeballing the data, it seems like there should be a pretty simple trigonometric function A*sin(B*x)+C*x. I went to school for engineering so I have some basic/intermediate knowledge of mathematics but it's...

Hi all, I graduated college from a state school with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in May 2011 and started my job at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shortly after. I worked as a flight ops controller for a relatively high-profile (but old) Earth science mission, then in June of this...

This is a great idea! I think I'll use this and just omit all modules with consistently low values. Thanks for the idea.

I'm working on monitoring and trending the performance of a memory controller. Without getting into the technical details, I'm trying to find a good way to visualize the data I've collected in a way that will be easy for me to update when I receive new data. There are about 450 individual...

Thanks for the ideas and relevant criticism! I feel much more comfortable about my resume now. One more question: I recently took the GREs because I was considering attending grad school for mechanical engineering. I scorred 800 math / 450 verbal / 4.5 writing (800/800/6 is max). Is this...

I don't know... it's pretty much what I've been told to do by everyone at my school's career & academic planning center. I've been told that conciseness is extremely important when it comes to handing a resume over to an employer. It seems to make sense that they'd rather just have 1 page...

Thanks for the feedback. This would be so much easier if I had unlimited space to fit everything I want to put on here. I'm finding that I'm havnig a lot of trouble determining what things should be put on there. I know I should be as consice as possible and have nothing superfluous, but...

I am a senior mechanical engineering student getting ready to graduate this May. I'm beginning to look for jobs now, but haven't had my resume critiqued by someone in the field in which I'm looking for a job. I'd like to have my resume looked at by someone in the technical field. The school I...

I haven't taken calculus in quite some time, but this is the resource I use for all of the calculus that I've forgotten: www.wolframalpha.com It's EXTREMELY easy to use. So easy that all I needed to do was copy and paste straight from your post. The great thing is that for most problems...

Jerry, you will need to use a "solve block". Check it out in the MathCAD help documentation for more information. I'm not an expert with MathCAD and I don't have it on this computer, but I believe the code would look like this: given %note, "given" is required as this is what starts the...

So what you have is one fraction that you want to turn into another: The percentage you calculated (correctly), .97799, can also be written as a fraction: .97799 / 1. A way to add meaning to this fraction is to say "The odds of at least one person having an October birthday is .97799 in 1."...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your situation, but why are you sending your Physics GRE scores along with applications to a mechanical engineering graduate program?

I'll be applying to grad schools within the next month and need to decide which ones I should be aiming for as my "likely to get into" school. I have a 3.46 GPA 450 verbal / 800 quant on GRE No research experience or publications A summer internship as a product development engineer I...