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Louis Woodhams
Washington University in St. Louis
I'm a professor of practice in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) department at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). I teach courses in computer-aided design, statics and mechanics of materials, numerical methods and matrix algebra, and finite-element methods. My research involves studying how cilia beat through image analysis and computational simulations.
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Forward and inverse kinematics of a robot arm part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Students will cover the derivation of the forward kinematics of a robot arm with an end effector (effector position as a function of joint angle) and write a forward kinematics function. They will then cover ...
Area Moment of Inertia Calculator part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Students must use Matlab to draw a region of interest on an image and calculate properties of the shape such as area, area moment of inertia, and principal axes.
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There must be a better way to present this material part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Essays
Louis Woodhams, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis In the Spring of 2020, I taught my first Numerical Methods class for sophomores in Mechanical Engineering. I had ...