Acknowledgements References CHAPTER 4. GENERAL CONCLUSION V1 Acknowledgements I would like to thank the support and encouragement provided by Dr.Molian during the course of my study at Iowa State University. His support in helping me pursue a minor in Computer Science along with masters in Mechanical Engineering helped me greatly in my career. I would also like to thank Dr. Bullen for kindly accepting to be on my committee and Dr. Gadia for being graduate minor representative in Computer Science. I would also like to thank Larry Couture for his technical assistance in operating CNC lathe and my friends Diwakar, Melissa and Wenping for their support.
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