It's beneficial to establish a standard folder and file-naming structure for your papers. It ensures that when collaborating with others, that your collaborators can find the information they need while working on the paper. In addition, it makes it much easier for the future you to access. The folder ...

I would remiss if I didn't post a link to the recently-available web version of Feynman's Lectures on Physics.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

This volume covers mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat.

I use RSS to follow the news sites, blogs, etc. that I'm interested in. I also use it to follow the journals and funding agencies in my research area. Most journals publish an RSS feed of their recently published papers' abstracts and dump 20-30 new articles out every few ...

Yesterday in MCHE 470, I mentioned that I use the speak to text capability of OS X to do the final proofread of any important documents I submit (papers, proposals, etc.). The computer voice makes any typos, grammar mistakes, or awkward sentence construction immediately obvious.

In OS X, this capability ...

Welcome to the C.R.A.W.LAB Etoufee Blog. I'll be posting interesting and useful things here on what I hope will be a regular basis. They'll stem from the activities of my research group, the C.R.A.W.LAB in the Mechanical Engineering Department at ...