Research issues include liquefaction, slope stability, bearing capacity, and settlement. Industrial collaboration is ongoing with large-scale plastics manufacturers. Students build small scale physical models and write software to test ideas. Future research will also involve graduate students in larger scale industrial testing. Establishing fractal data characteristics is difficult as LRD can be easily confused with non-stationarity.
Students develop and evaluate fractal models.
Research will impact the speed and reliability of web information flow. The compression and recognition of spoken digits to enable speaker independent, voiced control of telephones, catalog ordering, and aircraft control. Students build wavelets based, sub-word algorithms to compress and recognize important features of spoken digits. Research Facilities Engineering Mathematics has a LAN of workstations running Linux and Windows with shared access to the Dalhousie network computing resources. The Engineering Mathematics Department offers Programs leading to the M.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees in Engineering Mathematics.