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Dr. Khim Kelly (UCF)

Posted on August 2, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Khim Kelly, UCF College of Business professor, presented a talk today on perfomance-based rewards at our Summer Lecture Series at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training. Kelly, K., Presslee, A., & Webb. A. 2017. The effects of tangible rewards versus cash rewards in consecutive sales tournaments: A field experiment. The Accounting Review, 92(6): 165-185….

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NCS Hall of Fame 2019

Posted on July 31, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Volunteered at our local National Center for Simulation (NCS)’s 2019 Hall of Fame Induction. This year they inducted: Dr. Peter Hancock, Dr. Randall Shumaker, and Michael Tschanz. In previous years, they have inducted the following modsim leaders. It was refreshing to see so many people from so many industries supporting the modeling and simulation community!

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Modern Wall-Mounted Trellis

Posted on June 26, 2019July 23, 2019 by Joe Del Rocco

Built a modern-looking wall-mounted trellis over a recent break. I mounted it to our outside garage wall, along the walkway to our front door. I wanted something both ornamental and natural in that space, and this is what I came up with… It took only 3 days of part time work, and most of that…

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Ten10 Rock and Blues Jam

Posted on June 6, 2019August 6, 2019 by Joe Del Rocco

Mike Wallace of Ten10 Brewing Company and Jeff Matz of Lure Design host a local rock and blues jam session every Wednesday at 7pm at Ten10 Brewing on Virginia Dr. near Mills (and have been doing so for several years now). It’s very laid back and friendly. We’ve had many musicians come out, including guitarists,…

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Star Trek DS9: What We Left Behind

Posted on May 13, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Just got back from watching the DS9 documentary at the theater. LOVED IT! A big thank you to Ira Stephen Behr for taking the time and effort to put it together. A big thank you to all the fine actors, writers and filmmakers for their work on this show! And a final thank you to…

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PHA Volunteer of the Year

Posted on April 12, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Honored to be The Parke House Academy Volunteer of the Year 2019! Every teacher in the school prepared a special dish for the volunteers luncheon. It was really nice (and delicious). Love this school!

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IST SMST Day Poster Award

Posted on April 10, 2019April 23, 2019 by Joe Del Rocco

Won a best poster award at UCF IST School of Modeling, Simulation & Training‘s first research+industry forum, dubbed SMST Day. If interested, here is the poster I presented. Congratulations also to Arash Zarmehr for both his posters! He’s done some fantastic work in the building performance space. You can see I’m always promoting Cacti Council…

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LaTeX Assignment Template

Posted on April 9, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

Added a LaTeX template for homework assignments on Overleaf. Please feel free to use it. I’m biased, but I think it’s neat and organized (and my TA liked it). It’s even Star Trek themed! Here is an example PDF.

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Palm Beach Zoo

Posted on April 7, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

We visited the Palm Beach Zoo on the way back from our stay at the Waldorf Astoria in Boca Raton. It’s a beautiful little zoo/conservatory located in a public park near West Palm Beach. There was no wait when we showed up (mid-morning). It has 4 main walkable areas, some larger than others. They have…

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Waldorf Astoria Boca Raton

Posted on April 7, 2019July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

We took advantage of our Hilton discount to visit the Waldorf Astoria resorts in Boca Raton, FL this weekend. They have 2 resorts, the Boca Raton Resort and Club (inland), and Boca Beach Club (on the beach). They are both very beautiful. They are also very expensive (sans discount). *** The Resort and Club is…

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