Dr Andrew Bruce

Research Highlights

1. Bruce, A. (2022). Semiheaps and Ternary Algebras in Quantum Mechanics Revisited. Universe, 8(1), 56

   https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8010056, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59243

All Research

• EG-113 Engineering Mathematics 1 (Aero & Civil)

  This module (in combination with Engineering Analysis 2A) provides the essential grounding in mathematical analysis techniques for engineering students. This module ensures that all students have a suitable level of analytical skills for subsequent engineering modules.

• EG-114 Engineering Mathematics 1 (Mech & EEE & Engineering)

  This module (in combination with Engineering Analysis 2B) provides the essential grounding in mathematical analysis techniques for engineering students. This module ensures that all students have a suitable level of analytical skills for subsequent engineering modules.

• MA-282 Game Theory and Optimization

  Game theory is about strategies for making decisions, in cases where there are two or more players. The complication is that the possible choices for the other players may influence a particular player's choice of strategy. Economics has many examples of the application of game theory, but it has also been applied to areas as diverse as global politics (e.g. the Cuban missile crisis) and evolutionary biology (e.g. the hawks and doves game). Optimisation is about finding the optimum strategy (e.g. maximising profit for a company) by maximising or minimising a function in a specified domain. Again it has applications in economics, but it has also been used in engineering design (e.g. genetic algorithms were used to design the superconducting magnets in the CERN particle accelerator) and molecular biology (modelling shapes of molecules by minimising energy).