Day 1 Preliminaries for AERSP 001

• Course: Freshman Seminar, AERSP 001

• Who is instructor:
  • Dr. Lyle Long
    • Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering
      • Also: Bioengineering, Math, Mech. Engr., Computer Science and Engineering, and Acoustics
    • Director, Graduate Minor Program in Computational Science (CSci)
      
  • Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) IEEE Computer Society (software engineer)
  • Detailed Bio

  • My Education:
    • B.M.E., University of Minnesota (mechanical engineering)
    • M.S., Stanford University (aero/astro engineering)
    • D.Sc., George Washington University (aerospace engineering)

  • Experience:
    • Stanford/NASA Ames, Research Assistant, 1976-77
    • GWU/NASA Langley, Research Associate, 1977-1983
    • Lockheed Aircraft, Senior Research Scientist, 1983-89
    • Thinking Machines Corporation, Visiting Scientist, 1990-93
    • Caltech, Moore Distinguished Scholar, 2007-2008.
    • Penn State, Aerospace Engineering Professor, 1989-present

  • Have been involved in computing since 1975:
    • IBM 360
    • CDC 205
    • Cray XMP, Cray YMP, Cray 2, Cray T3D, ...
    • CM-2, CM-5
    • IBM SP-2
    • SGI Origin
    • Beowulf (PC) Clusters
    • Fortran, Lisp, *Lisp, c, c++, Java, Ada, ...
    • ...

  • Expertise in : Computational fluid dynamics, parallel processing, aeroacoustics, rarefied gas dynamics, hypersonics, molecular dynamics, software engineering, ... and more recently neural networks and intelligent systems

• Academic Integrity: Faculty Senate Rule 49-20 states, in part, "Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of this institution." Faculty are required to clarify the application of this rule to each course: I encourage you to study together and to discuss ideas for your projects, but the work that you hand in must be your own. Don't cheat: the specified penalties (see Policies and Rules for Students) are not worth it. At a minimum, assignments or exams that show evidence of cheating will be given zero credit. At the other extreme, you may be given an F in the course, or be reported for disciplinary action.

• I am very busy and hard to reach by phone, but am readily available via email (day and night). If you need to see me in my office, we can make an appointment thru email (lnl@psu.edu).

• I take teaching very seriously, I expect you to take learning seriously.

• DON'T BE LATE FOR CLASS !!! This is inconsiderate and rude. If you are late for class, I will make a note of your name, and you will lose points towards your final grade.

• Any dishonest behavior will be dealt with very seriously

• I will take attendance every day

• And turn off all cell phones!!! If your cell phone goes off in class, you'll be asked to bring cookies for the whole class for the next class period!

• Questions or comments ?