Mitchal Dichter

Education | Open-Source Developer

Introduction

Welcome to my personal webpage! Below you will find blurbs for some of my educational resources and open-source projects.

I graduted from UC Davis with a BS in Applied Mathematics and BS in Computer Science. My first real job was at UC Santa Barbara's Campus Learning Assistance Services (CLAS), where I instructed undergraduate students via discussion groups, office hours, and drop-in times that paralleled university mathematics courses from freshmen calculus to solving partial differential equations using Fourier series. While in Santa Barbara, I also wrote the solution manual for Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz. I left Santa Barbara to earn a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. Returning to Davis, I began working at the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center, where I mostly worked on automating the creation, simulation, and analysis of millions of building models with combinations of energy efficiency technologies on a UC Davis computing cluster. Next, I was briefly at a battery startup. Lastly, I worked as a developer on software for utilities, such as water distribution, natural gas infrastructure, and the electric grid.

MSc Applied Mathematics | BS Computer Science
LinkedIn Page | GitHub Projects

Maths Survival Guide

If you found this page looking for the Maths Survival Guide, click the previous link to go to the main page. If you believe you found an error, please send me an email at info@mitchaldichter.com with the specifics.

This is a passion project of mine. It's a website and a bunch of YouTube videos for an Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations course, and some other topics. When I worked at UC Santa Barbara, I really enjoyed helping students with their lower division maths courses, from a first course in calculus to differential equations. One thing students always asked for is online resources to supplement their courses. The resources exist, but they can be difficult to find, spread out across multiple places, and many of the things on the internet are just plain wrong! I don't work at UC Santa Barbara anymore, but I still like making educational materials for the common STEM maths courses. Hopefully some students out there find what I've made useful.

Strogatz Errata

I am the author of the solution manuals for the second and third editions of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz. I also manage the reported errata for both the main textbooks and the solution manuals. In case you found this page while looking for the errata page, here is a Strogatz Errata page link.

If you have found errata to report for one of the textbooks or solution manuals, please use info@mitchaldichter.com to contact me.

BEM Instructionals

This is my consulting business for EnergyPlus, which you probably found via the BEM File Editor open-source software I created and maintain for modifying EnergyPlus *.idf files. If this is what you were looking for when you found this page, the BEM Instructionals website has a lot more resources, such as the BEM File Editor installer for the latest version.

If you are interested in contracting with me through my LLC, you can contact me at mitchaldichter@beminstructionals.com or view the BEM Instructionals Consulting section of my website.

Contact

Please use mitchaldichter@beminstructionals.com for inquiries about the BEM File Editor and consulting for EnergyPlus.

Use info@mitchaldichter.com for everything else.