___________ Engineers plan, produce, develop, design all of the nation’s constructed facilities (buildings, roads, dams, etc.).

To become a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas you will need to:

If you buy a 5.0 lb bag of potatoes, what is its mass in kg? Use the correct significant figures.  Conversions.png

This engineering field deals with hardware, software, programming, operating systems, and artificial intelligence, among others.

Organisms, road networks, and computer chips all share a design challenge related to the problem of delivering resources through a network to every node in the system. With design optimizations, how does the total size of the resource distribution system (the vascular system) of mammals scale as the mass of the mammal increases?

In the readings in An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, Mitchell describes the building blocks hypothesis. This hypothesis states the following, “Selection increasingly focuses the search on subsets of the search space with estimated above average fitness, beginning with low-order schema and over time detecting biases in high-order schema by combining lower-order schemas.” Which of the following operations is necessary for this hypothesis to be applied to genetic algorithms?

For which of the following problems would Textor’s algorithm be appropriate? (Select all that apply)

Consider the social insects assignment in which an agent-based model was used to simulate how an ant colony chooses between two available food sources. How would the model need to be adjusted if a third feeder was added to the simulation?

Organisms, road networks, and computer chips all share a design challenge related to the problem of delivering resources through a network to every node in the system. How does the size of the resource distribution network of these three systems grow with respect to system size?

The graph below shows an ROC curve produced using Textor’s negative selection algorithm. The solid blue line shows the false positive rate plotted against the true positive rate for different threshold values (θ in the assignment). The dotted orange line plots the function x=y.  Which of the following observations about the ROC curve are correct? (Select all that apply)