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Past Coursework

Many of these files are in the Adobe PDF format.

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Carnegie Mellon University 2008-2009

• Machine Learning 10-701 Spring 2009
  The semester project was called "NBA Oracle", where we used machine learning techniques to predict the outcome of NBA basketball games, as well as provide support for coaching and personel decisions.
  • Project Report
  • Project Poster
• Advanced Computer Architecture 18-741 Spring 2009
  This semester project was to investigate automatic program phase detection in an asymmetric multi-core processor.
  • Project Report
  • Project Poster

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University of Minnesota 2007-2008

• Robotics
  • Fall Semester: Programming a Parallel Parking Robot
  • Spring Semester: 2D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
• Computer Vision:
  • Computer Vision for Augmenting Reality
• Senior Honors Project - Accelerometer-based Inertial Navigation
  • Final project report
  • Final presentation slides
  • Poster from Undergraduate Research Symposium

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University of Minnesota 2006-2007

• Junior Electronics Lab I: EE3101
  • Non-ideal Behavior of Electronic Components at High Frequencies and Associated Measurement Problems
  • High-Frequency Behavior of the Bipolar Junction Transistor
• Program Design and Development: CSCI3081W
  • Research Paper: Software Refactoring
• Junior Electronics Lab II: EE3102
  • Feedback Amplifiers

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University of Minnesota 2005-2006

• History of Science 3332:
  • Pure and Practical Science
  • Darwinism comes to America
• Introduction to Microcontrollers:
  • Introduction to Assembly Language Programming with the PIC Microcontroller
  • Arithmetic Programming with a Pseudo-Random Number Generator
  • Multiplexing Input and Output
  • Accurate Time and Interrupts
  • Human Response Timer
  • Analog Output with a Digital to Analog Converter
  • Building a Digital Voltmeter with Serial Communications
  • Serial Terminal EEPROM Interface
  • Infrared Data Transmission with the PIC Microcontroller
• Circuits Lab 1: EE2002
  • Creating I-V Curves and Load Line Calculation
  • BJT Characteristics and Amplifiers
• Plant Propogation:
  • Introduction to Experimentation: Herbaceous Stem Cuttings
  • Sexual Propagation: Scarification to Overcome Hard Seed Coat Dormancy
  • Effect of Growing Media on Seed Germination and Seedling Performance
  • Effect of Concentration of Auxin on Rooting from Woody Stem Cuttings
  • Asexual Propagation Using Leaf-Piece Cuttings: Adventitious Meristem Formation in Response to Distance of Cutting from Leaf Tip
  • Asexual Propagation: Comparison of Leaf-Petiole & Leaf-Bud Cuttings as Methods of Asexual Propagation
  • Sexual Propagation: Effects of Seed Coat Removal, Treatment with GA3, Seed Drying, and Cold Stratification on the Germination of Apple Seeds

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University of Minnesota 2004-2005

• EE1701 - Energy, the Environment, and Society: Nuclear Waste: What can we do?
• Forensic Science: The Emergence of Digital Imaging in Forensic Science
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 1902: Statistics and Analysis of Bus Route Simulation
• Physics:
  • Fall Semester:
    • Trajectory Simulations and the Coefficient of Air Drag
    • The Effect of Pressure on Elasticity
    • Chaotic Motion of a Double Pendulum
  • Spring Semester:
    • Behavior of Satellite Objects in the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points: - Black and White Pages - Color Pages
    • Chaotic Circuit Dynamics - View the associated video
    • Calculation of Coherent Light Wavelength Through Diffraction

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