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Dan Romanoff, CPA, is an equity research analyst on the technology, media, and telecommunications team for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He covers software.Before Joining Morningstar in 2019, Romanoff spent 12 years in buy-side equity research covering the technology and telecommunications sectors, most recently at Holland Capital Management. Prior to that, he spent five years in sell-side equity research as an associate analyst at UBS and a senior analyst at Credit Suisse covering various areas within technology, including hardware, software, and semiconductors. Romanoff also has worked as an auditor and in valuation services for major public accounting firms.Romanoff holds a bachelor s degree in accountancy and a Master of Business Administration in finance, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds the Certified Public Accountant and Accredited in Business Valuation desig
Great Business Schools Releases National Rankings of Training and Development Master s Programs
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RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Great Business Schools (
https://www.greatbusinessschools.org/), a free online guide that takes students from the decision to attend business school all the way to an application and acceptance, has released four 2021 rankings of the best Training and Development Master s degree programs in the US:
25 Best Master s in Training & Development for 2021
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The Top 3 Best Training and Development Master s Programs for 2021 are: 1) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2) Rochester Institute of Technology; 3) 3. George Washington University. The Top 3 Online Training and Development Master s Programs for 2021 are: 1) Clemson University; 2) Rutgers University; 3) University of Missouri.
"You can have a good job, good insurance, do everything 'right,' and still find yourself struggling due to the nature of the healthcare system in the US."
Dr. Girish Krishnan, Associate Professor in the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
While robots and engineering artifacts are becoming increasingly smart, innovations in their structural design have not kept pace. Most robots still consist of myriad bulky rigid parts connected by interfaces or joints leading to non-optimal performance. In contrast, around 90% of nature’s species (invertebrates) are designed seamlessly and use material elasticity to undergo spatial continuum deformation. In this talk, I will demonstrate the translation of this bioinspired design paradigm, namely distributed compliance in two fields: soft robotics and architectured materials. Applying the paradigm of distributed compliance to soft mechanisms leads to a class of soft robotic building blocks that combine fibers, pressurized fluids and stretchable elastomeric skins. However, robots engineered with soft building blocks alone exhibit several trad