248 research outputs found
The Old Grandin School
No full textNewspaper article about tyhe Old Grandin School ( King Edward School)which the Poruks children attended in the Strathcona Plaindale newspaper.11.0 Education, 11.1.23 Children's Education in Albert
UTSim2 validation
No full textThe Center for NDE (CNDE) at Iowa State University has a long history of developing physics models for NDE and packaging these models into simulation tools which make the modeling capabilities accessible to CNDEs industrial sponsors. Recent work at CNDE has led to the development of a new ultrasonic simulation package, UTSim2, which aims to continue this tradition of supporting industrial application of CNDE models. In order to meet this goal, UTSim2 has been designed as an extensible software package which can support previously-developed physics models as well as future models yet to be developed. Initial work has focused on the implementation of a Gauss-Hermite beam model, a paraxial approximation, which is implemented as part of the Thompson-Gray measurement model. This paper will present recent validation results and include comparisons against both previously-validated model output and newly-performed experiments.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This proceeding appeared in Grandin, Robert, and Tim Gray. "UTSim2 validation." AIP Conference Proceedings, 1806, no. 1 (2017): 150007, and may be found at DOI: 10.1063/1.4974731. Posted with permission.</p
Buijtenhuijs, Robert. - Le mouvement "Mau-Mau". Une révolte paysanne et anti-coloniale en Afrique noire.
No full textGrandin Nicole. Buijtenhuijs, Robert. - Le mouvement "Mau-Mau". Une révolte paysanne et anti-coloniale en Afrique noire.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 13, n°49, 1973. pp. 163-164
Buijtenhuijs, Robert. - Le mouvement "Mau-Mau". Une révolte paysanne et anti-coloniale en Afrique noire.
No full textGrandin Nicole. Buijtenhuijs, Robert. - Le mouvement "Mau-Mau". Une révolte paysanne et anti-coloniale en Afrique noire.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 13, n°49, 1973. pp. 163-164
Evaluation of the fidelity of feature descriptor-based specimen tracking for automatic NDE data integration
No full textThis research addresses inspection location tracking in the field of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) using a computer vision technique to determine the position and orientation of typical NDE equipment in a test setup. The objective is the tracking accuracy for typical NDE equipment to facilitate automatic NDE data integration. Since the employed tracking technique relies on surface curvatures of an object of interest, the accuracy can be only experimentally determined. We work with flash-thermography and conducted an experiment in which we tracked a specimen and a thermography flash hood, measured the spatial relation between both, and used the relation as input to map thermography data onto a 3D model of the specimen. The results indicate an appropriate accuracy, however, unveiled calibration challenges.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This proceeding appeared in Radkowski, Rafael, Stephen Holland, and Robert Grandin. "Evaluation of the fidelity of feature descriptor-based specimen tracking for automatic NDE data integration." AIP Conference Proceeding 1949, no. 1 (2018): 030008, and may be found at DOI: 10.1063/1.5031531. Posted with permission.</p
Grandin School District No. 4066
No full textPhotograph - A view of the Grandin School building, Alberta. ATS ?-64-13-W
GPU-accelerated depth map generation for X-ray simulations of complex CAD geometries
No full textInteractive x-ray simulations of complex computer-aided design (CAD) models can provide valuable insights for better interpretation of the defect signatures such as porosity from x-ray CT images. Generating the depth map along a particular direction for the given CAD geometry is the most compute-intensive step in x-ray simulations. We have developed a GPU-accelerated method for real-time generation of depth maps of complex CAD geometries. We preprocess complex components designed using commercial CAD systems using a custom CAD module and convert them into a fine user-defined surface tessellation. Our CAD module can be used by different simulators as well as handle complex geometries, including those that arise from complex castings and composite structures. We then make use of a parallel algorithm that runs on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to convert the finely-tessellated CAD model to a voxelized representation. The voxelized representation can enable heterogeneous modeling of the volume enclosed by the CAD model by assigning heterogeneous material properties in specific regions. The depth maps are generated from this voxelized representation with the help of a GPU-accelerated ray-casting algorithm. The GPU-accelerated ray-casting method enables interactive (> 60 frames-per-second) generation of the depth maps of complex CAD geometries. This enables arbitrarily rotation and slicing of the CAD model, leading to better interpretation of the x-ray images by the user. In addition, the depth maps can be used to aid directly in CT reconstruction algorithms.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This proceeding appeared in Grandin, Robert J., Gavin Young, Stephen D. Holland, and Adarsh Krishnamurthy. "GPU-accelerated depth map generation for X-ray simulations of complex CAD geometries." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1949, no. 1, p. 190002. AIP Publishing LLC, 2018, and may be found at
DOI: 10.1063/1.5031636.
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Dr. Temple Grandin (ticketed separately)
No full textTemple Grandin, Ph.D., Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, is one of the first on the autism spectrum to publicly share her personal experiences of and insights on autism.
Dr. Grandin is a celebrated author and autism expert. She also designs livestock handling facilities and is a consultant on animal behavior and animal welfare to the livestock industry. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human, as well as Thinking in Pictures, Humane Livestock Handling, Improving Animal Welfare, and The Autistic Brain. Dr. Grandin credits autism with allowing her to connect with and understand animals.
“Autism helped me understand animals because I think in pictures. Since animals do not have language, their memories have to be sensory-based instead of word-based,” Grandin said in an interview with Stanford Medicine.
She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and is the subject of an Emmy Award-winning film starring Claire Danes.
Dr. Grandin maintains that autistic brains are a gift to the world
Leveraging Cognitive Diversity
No full textBest-selling author and autism advocate, Temple Grandin, will discuss how different ways of thinking affect people’s approaches to problems. Diagnosed with autism at the age of four, Grandin is now an expert in the field of animal science and brings personal perspective on how appreciating diversity in cognitive styles can encourage collaborative problem solving
Temple Grandin redefines human consciousness
No full textDr. Robb Scott review Temple Grandin’s new book titled The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions (2022). Grandin advocates for more visual thinking in formal education and engineering, innovation, and design, to solve the world’s hard problems
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