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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Engineering Work"”.
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Engineering work breakdown and assignment for global product development
… of the products, change suppliers, and offshore engineering. This last strategy, offshore engineering, is a common practice in today's global industries. This thesis applies the cost-reduction strategy of offshore engineering to the automotive industry. Specifically, this thesis presents an …
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Architectural and engineering work on a building construction project financed by federal and state funds
… Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1940
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Twelve Tales of Engineering in the "Real World:" Narratives of Newcomers' Agency in Transitions to Engineering Work
Reports that call for change in engineering education date back to the Mann report (1918), but more recent reports like "The Engineer of 2020" (NAE, 2004), and "Lean Engineering Education," (Flumerfelt et al., 2015) describe the need for engineers who are creative leaders, who have sustainability …
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Measuring engineering quality in airplane development
… as most critical towards final quality of the engineering work. Integration, defined as the path and connectivity between teams and activities, was studied by analyzing performance of a small engineering support team. To understand the effects of early stage quality on later stages, i.e. …
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This Is Bigger Than Me: A Multiple Case Narrative Analysis of Sociopolitical Development within Black Engineers' Career Journeys
… narratives about the apolitical nature of engineering work and realize the potential of bridging the socio-technical divide. Sociopolitical development (SPD) is an inclination towards social justice, the motivation to address social inequality in surrounding environments, and the formation …
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Designing open-source, cross-platform user interfaces for improving home care
… collaborative processes that guide the software engineering work, the engineering work, and the outcomes of the engineered solution are described. Future work is also discussed.
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Worker profile: two functional assessment models
… lack the quantitative precision of industrial engineering work descriptors. This study develops two models of disabled worker behavior for use in the vocational assessment and job design process. In addition to providing the rehabilitation engineer a usable assessment of the client's abilities …
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A PHENOMENOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES WITH PROBLEMS INVOLVING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
… skills for solving such problems, undergraduate engineering programs can introduce such problems during the first year of students’ education, in the form of cornerstone design tasks. This provides students with more opportunities to develop their ability to engage with ill-structured problems, …
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Photoassisted Generation of Complex N, O, S Polyheterocycles
… beta-lactam fragment.</p> <p>A summation of engineering work is also included to detail the development and implementation of several new LED irradiators. These irradiators are key to the photochemistry that will be discussed, and their development will serve as a blueprint for future work …
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How to solve a physics problem: negotiating knowledge and identity in introductory university physics
… undergraduate courses in physics required for engineering majors, physics majors, and students in the life sciences, respectively to understand the ways that students in each class come to understand themselves as physics learners. Some of the students whose stories I will attempt to capture …
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Synergy of protein and genome engineering for fuels and chemicals production
… value-added compounds from biomass, significant engineering work has to be performed to optimize naturally occurring organisms with better catalytic properties. The rapid advancement in understanding of molecular mechanisms of biological functions as well as development of novel molecular …
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Breaking the Mold: Using Automated Design to Accelerate Composites Manufacturing
… experienced labor and a high-mix, low-volume workflow with frequent, non-recurring, low-value-added engineering work. In pursuing aggressive growth goals, CR must decouple revenue growth from headcount. A significant component of lead time is the engineering design and toolpath generation for …
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Machine therapy
… combining art, design, psychoanalysis, and engineering work in ways that access and reveal the vital, though often unnoticed, relevance of people's interactions and relationships with machines. Machine Therapy will be illustrated through the construction of several systems including …
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Structural engineering for northern Pakistan : indigenous architecture and earthquake resistance
… as structural engineer, and how quantitative engineering work was shaped by qualitative considerations of architectural design issues, and the unique culture of Karimabad. The broad range of structural design challenges in the area was assessed, and included earthquake loading, cultural …
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An improved powertrain attributes development process with the use of design structure matrix
… and are creating more of a challenge for the engineering teams working on them. This thesis focuses on improving the methods of managing powertrain attributes and the interactions between them. We are concentrating on the particular attributes of Shift Quality, Performance Feel, Driveability, …
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Pursuing Intentional Design of Global Engineering Programs: Understanding Student Experiences and Learning Outcomes
As engineering work becomes more globalized, it is important to prepare students to succeed in a global engineering workforce. Prior research has explored different factors important to the design of global programs generally, but less is known about the experiences and learning outcomes of …
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Studies in process analysis and control in batch reactors
This work is part of a number of projects dealing with the development of novel techniques for better analysis and control of chemical processes carried out in batch reactors. The problems of pH measurement and sampling, linked to the implementation of NMR and HPLC on-line analysers, are presented …
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Novel Design Strategies For Engineering Biliverdin-Binding Fluorescent Proteins
… and fluoresces in mammalian cells, and future engineering work will focus on turning this scaffold into a viable FP.
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the main drainage of London
The thesis submitted examines the work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891), Chief Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in designing and constructing the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and sewage treatment works which was built between 1859 and 1874 and which is still in …
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Business plan for the Solar Recycle-o-Sort
… part of their senior design class 2.009: Product Engineering Process. This solar-powered stand-alone recyclable sorter is able to differentiate and sort between glass bottles, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and trash. The ability to watch the sorting and distributing, as well as an LED feedback …
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