Excel for Cost Engineers

Excel is a powerful tool with a plethora of largely unused capabilities that can make the life of an engineer cognizant of them a great deal easier. This paper offers tips, tricks and techniques for better worksheets. Including the use of data validation, conditional formatting, subtotals, text formulas, custom functions and much more. It is assumed that the reader will have a cursory understanding of Excel so the basics will not be covered, if you get hung up try Excel's built in help menus, or a good book

Systematic organization of a reading curriculum for slow learners at Kennedy middle school

The necessity for providing adequate and appropriate kinds of educational experiences in reading for all children, and especially the slow learners, has been steadily becoming more and more urgent. In order to arrive at a solution, the problem must be understood and a method of attack planned that is realistic in terms of the facilities and personnel available. The solution often requires a complete rethinking of the reading curriculum

Correspondence to M. Rebecca Boggs, dates unknown

Correspondence to M. Rebecca Boggs, dates unknown. Box 2, folder 9.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnboggs/1019/thumbnail.jp

Guidelines for Ensuring Software Supportability in Systems Developed Under the Integrated Weapon System Management Concept

This thesis studied the software maintenance planning and practices of the pilot Integrated Weapon System Management IWSM programs. Before IWSM, a System Program Office SPO acquired an Air Force weapon system then passed it to an Air Logistics Center ALC for follow-on support. The ALC was forced to maintain the software despite its questionable maintainability. The SPO de- emphasized maintainability because maintenance was an ALC responsibility and building maintainable software increased development costs and lengthened schedules. The IWSM philosophy closes the gap between development and maintenance. A System Program Director SPD, who oversees both system development and maintenance, has an inherent interest in developing maintainable software because he or she is now also responsible for supporting it. This research was accomplished through a literature review of current maintainability plans and practices, followed by a survey of the pilot IWSM programs. This information was combined to form draft guidelines for ensuring software maintainability. The draft guidelines were then validated by experts in the field of software maintenance who offered opinions and recommendations on the guidelines. The guidelines stress both up front planning and techniques for improving maintainability during software development. The final guidelines are presented

Ground-State Properties of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interaction

The ground state of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction in a quasi-one-dimensional torus is studied in terms of the ratio $\gamma$ of the mean-field interaction energy per particle to the single-particle energy-level spacing. The plateaus of quantized circulation are found to appear if and only if $\gamma<1$ with the lengths of the plateaus reduced due to hybridization of the condensate over different angular-momentum states.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Reveiw Letter