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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"engineering methods"”.
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Integrating manual and automated metabolic engineering methods
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Electrospun Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: Methods to Affect Anisotropy, Material and Cellular Infiltration
… electrospun scaffolds for use in the tissue engineering of articular cartilage. We developed a novel method of imparting mechanical anisotropy to electrospun scaffolds that allowed the production of a single, cohesive scaffold with varying directions of anisotropy in different layers by …
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Enhancing operational efficiency in hydrocarbon supply chains through engineering methods: a case study in fuel dispatch optimization
… situation highlighted the need to apply method engineering techniques to optimize processes and improve operational efficiency. The contribution of this research consisted of developing and implementing a process improvement model based on method engineering to increase productivity in the …
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Inverse Design Problems in Engineering: Methods to handle performance, constraints, and creativity requirements
Engineering design tasks often require synthesizing new designs that meet desired performance requirements. The conventional design process, which requires iterative optimization and performance evaluation, is slow and dependent on initial designs. Automating this process in its entirety, therefore …
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Internalization of robust engineering methods in automotive product development : a study of corporate quality change in a large, mature automotive company
… product development process and the quality of engineering, many automotive firms have implemented, and continue to implement, numerous initiatives designed to increase the discipline within the engineering process with the expectation of meeting cost, timing, and customer satisfaction/quality …
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A Multi-layer Dependency Model for Analysis of Safety-critical Embedded Systems
… However, conventional safety and reliability engineering methods, including redundancy or conventional dependency analysis, often lead to expensive and complex system designs. In this work, we propose a multi-layer dependency framework to analyze safety-critical systems. This framework …
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Usability Engineering Applied to an Electromagnetic Modeling Tool
… as medicine and consumer websites. Usability Engineering is the application of a systematic set of methods to the design and development of software with the goal of making the software more learnable, easy to use, and accessible. Two different Usability Engineering techniques — Heuristic …
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DESIGNER COLLAGEN-FIBRIL BIOGRAFT MATERIALS FOR TUNABLE MOLECULAR DELIVERY
One of the biggest challenges in tissue engineering currently is the formation of a functional microvascular network as part of an engineered tissue graft. Despite many advances in tissue engineering methods, the field still awaits biograft designs that enable neovascularization at clinically …
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Improving and mediating usability-to-software engineering communication
… design techniques into their software engineering lifecycle. However, because of lack of understanding and communication between two diverse teams, they often run into problems. One problem arises from the fact that the software engineering teams have their own techniques and tools for …
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Investigation of the Effects of Solution Additives on Nucleation and Growth During Copper Electrodeposition Onto Resistive Ruthenium Barrier Layers
… substrates. Such procedures will enable improved engineering methods for prediction, design, control, and optimization of electrodeposition processes for growth of thin films on foreign substrates.
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Time series forecasting with recurrent neural networks
… used in literature. Besides, different feature engineering methods such as CEEMDAN are also tools employed in the literature to improve prediction accuracy. In this paper, we will introduce different models and methods of handling time series and will conduct a comparative case study using the …
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Design method of a modular electronic printed circuit board testing system
… the root causes of failure, and use system engineering methods to decide what course of action should be taken. A Tradespace analysis is used to help decompose some of the complexity into a visualization that simplifies the decision process. The Tradespace analysis suggests that more utility …
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Entwurf eingebetteter Software mit abstrakten Zustandsmaschinen und business object notation
… software into everyday life boosts the need for engineering methods and tools for the development of high quality embedded systems. This trend is further amplified by the rising complexity of such systems and their usage for safety critical tasks. However, classical software engineering methods …
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Friction characteristics of microtextured surfaces under hydrodynamic lubrication
… over the past decade as one of the surface engineering methods to modify friction performance. We tackle two important problems associated with surface texturing – developing low cost scalable manufacturing technique and engineering design rules for fluid power applications. We report …
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… increasingly critical of design standards and engineering methods that promote car-dependent development patterns in American cities. Level of Service (LOS) is a design standard that has received scrutiny for its misapplication to urban streets, accommodating highway-like traffic flow where …
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An expert system for processing uncorrelated satellite tracks.
… were generated through traditional knowledge engineering methods and by a novel application of machine learning. The initial results are very good with the operational portions of the system matching the performance of the experts with an accuracy of 99%. Although not yet complete, the code …
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High performance MoS₂ transistors based on wafer-scale low-temperature MOCVD synthesis
… will also be investigated with different contact engineering methods. These findings represent crucial steps for high performance power electronic circuits as well as realizing ultra-large scale BEOL integration with silicon circuits.
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Corporate decision analysis : an engineering approach
… and their solutions under uncertainty using engineering methods. Corporate decisions tend to be complex; they are interdisciplinary and defy programmable solutions. To address these challenges, we take an engineering approach. Our proposition is that as in an engineering system, corporate …
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