Hi useRs, In trying to take R to engineering undergraduate students, I have been looking for context that would make R more accessible to the said audience. Though R is primarily a statistical tool, I would want to demonstrate the use of R for certain engineering courses (Design of Machine Elements - gear design, ball bearings, etc.) which would generate interest in it and provide students a way to extend its use to more "statistically" oriented courses like Quality Control (control charts, t-tests, drawing normal probability plots, etc.).
For example: Engineering Design has a topic that requires the solving of a set of equations to arrive at the appropriate parameters of a feasible gear design (diameter, number of teeth, material specification etc.). This would require the set of equations and other information to be available in a package, with added functionality to plot machine elements, reliability curves for various materials (steel of different carbon compositions, and such) and other visualisations/computations that are required for such studies. If any R user has employed R to teach engineering courses (which do not require much statistics), I would highly appreciate your feedback and insights gained from such an undertaking. I am not trying to dilute R's primary focus in being a statistical tool, but I would like to make R available to an audience who do not deal with a lot of statistics. Of course, there are other tools for engineering drawing, circuitry design and such others, but maybe there is a niche area (somewhere in between core engineering and statistics) which is yet untapped, and R "might" be of help there. Thank you. Regards Harsh Singhal ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
