MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor - Nuclear Science and Engineering



Introduction to Computation and Programming for Nuclear Engineers

Bryan Herman, graduate student, Alex Mieloszyk, graduate student

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Designed to provide a practical introduction to computer programming, emphasizing language features that are most used in performing numerical calculations for nuclear engineering.  Provides students with an introduction to the FORTRAN programming language.   Topics covered:  1) intro to Unix and FORTRAN, 2) commenting, documentation, and version control, 3) data types, 4) expressions and mathematical functions, 5) subroutines and functions, 6) conditionals and branching, 7) loops, 8) dynamic allocation, 9) formatted input and output, 10) modules, and 11) MATLAB programming.

Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Alex Mieloszyk, NW14-2317, 617-452-4702, amielosz@mit.edu


Jan/14 Mon 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/15 Tue 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/17 Thu 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/22 Tue 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/24 Thu 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/28 Mon 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/29 Tue 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi
Jan/31 Thu 03:00PM-05:00PM NW14-1112, bring your laptop with WiFi

Bryan Herman - graduate student, Alex Mieloszyk - graduate student