Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Development and Implementation of a Robot-based Freshman Engineering Course Robert C. Maher, James Becker, Tia Sharpe, James Peterson, and Bradford A. Towle Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717-3780 USA rob.maher@montana.edu Abstract We describe the background and rationale for a new freshman course incorporating construction and testing of a small…

The first part of this thesis presents an exposition of some of the links between integrability, matrix models and Airy structures. We first introduce the notion of an integrable hierarchy and a tau function. We then probe tau functions further by considering matrix integrals. These are typically a good source of W-algebra representations that annihilate tau functions. We subsequently investigate such W-constraints from the point of view of higher Airy structures introduced in [1]. These constraints depend on two …

Acoustic gunshot signals consist of a high amplitude and short duration impulsive sound known as the muzzle blast and the shock wave. This experiment involved documenting gunshot muzzle blast sounds produced by eight commonly used firearms including Remington 870, Colt 45, Glock 19 with 9mm ammunition, Glock 23, Sig 239, AR15, 22LR, and Ruger SP 101 with 357 magnum and 38 special ammunition. An elevated microphone bracket (3m above the ground) was built to achieve a quasianechoic environment for the duration of th…