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Gisella Lamas
University of Kentucky
<p class="MsoNormal">Gisella Lamas is a Brazilian/Peruvian environmental engineer. She works as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky – Paducah Extended campus. Her research experience includes photochemical processes and applications of mathematical and statistical methods applied to engineering, study of bacterial communication, prevention of biofilms and toxins by Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. She has over 10 years of experience in Water and Wastewater treatment research, but she is currently focusing on Engineering Education: developing an undergraduate course of biofilms for engineers, introducing social responsibility to curriculum and computational tools in chemical engineering. She is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion, and she is actively involved with Outreach opportunities. She has been awarded the 2022 Engaged advocate award and she is currently taking a Global Diplomacy Initiative course from UNITAR.
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Creating your own Optimization code using numerical methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Students were taught how to use numerical methods such as the Golden Section search, Newton-Raphson and Secant method. These methods take a long time when doing by hand and the complexity of optimization problems ...