Israel Urieli (Dr. Iz), Associate Professor Emeritus Mechanical Engineering
My emeritus commitment to the ME department is to maintain some of the various web learning resources that I developed over the years, in particular:
Research (actually - Hobby):
Some previous ME departmental issues:
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April Fool's Day 2006: The ME Department Survivors Club
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September 2005: Proposed Pictures for the New ME Web Design
Various Technical Notes:
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Winter 2007: Ordinary Differential Equations
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Winter 2004: Using MATLAB to evaluate an Electric Scooter (updated 3/9/2011)
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Winter 2002: Ordinary Differential Equations
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Winter 2002: DFX - the eBici Handlebar Stem Clamp
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Winter 2002: The eBici Handlebar T Fixture
Personal Page:
Education:
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BSc (ME, EE) 1961: University of the Witwatersrand ( Wits ), South Africa
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MSc (EE) 1972: Technion , Haifa, Israel
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Phd (ME) 1977: University of the Witwatersrand ( Wits ), South Africa
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PhD Thesis: A Computer Simulation of Stirling Cycle Machines (57.9MB .pdf file)
Recreation & Fun:
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Spring 2020: Active Senior Classes
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Fall 2003: Pilates
Various Travel Highlights:
Family & Friends:
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My son Assaf's software development company in France Joliciel Informatique , specializing in OOAD and Java
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Assaf has a delightful blog under the pseudonym Moyshele Rosencrantz - it includes 3 themes:
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Literature review, including various books on the Holocaust era.
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Music , including Yiddish songs and songs of French singer/songwriter George Brassense - performed by Assaf.
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History - describing his grandfather's amazing experience walking from Russia to Israel (1927 - 29).
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An article published by the Yiddish Book Center (Pakn-Treger Jan 2013) on Assaf's contribution as a Computational Yiddish Linguist .
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An NEPR Interview (11/14/2019): 'Nu'? A Software Program That Reads Yiddish
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A Yiddish Forward Article (11/19/2019):
מע קען איצט דורכזוכן דום טעקס פון 10,000 דיגיטאליזירטע ביכער
(10,000 Digitized Yiddish Books Now Fully Searchable)