Design Engineering - Science topic

Submit your article to Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (RSC) https://click.rsc.org/rsps/m/9ws1zYx7jFDqcVG6Cw8wp_wjQEz7LjWCSQlqj1iW0lA

The role and importance of design in addressing pressing global complexities is increasingly recognised, but the personal and professional challenges designers face in trying to change the status quo are often overlooked. As design practitioners grapple with the pressure to drive positive change in complicated and complex systems, how can they navi...

The most hazardous COVID-19 epidemic progressed across 214 countries, disrupting every facet of our life. COVID-19 has a tremendous impact on the world, not only in health care but also in many other areas of human society, including transportation, education, politics, human society, and supply chain management. The healthcare industry is undergoi...

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has become the most widely used thin‐film deposition technique in various fields due to its unique advantages, such as self‐terminating growth, precise thickness control, and excellent deposition quality. In the energy storage domain, ALD has shown great potential for supercapacitors (SCs) by enabling the construction...

Measuring in-situ compression wave velocity (Vp) has become standard practice in many tailings storage facility (TSF) investigation projects to aid in identifying saturated zones. Identification of these zones is important for stability analyses where saturated zones (e.g., degree of saturation greater than 85%) are typically assigned undrained str...

It is with deep regret that we share sad news of the passing of Professor Valerii Semenovych Ponomarchuk, Head of the Functional Diagnostics Department at the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy, Dr Sc (Med) and Merited Doctor of Ukraine, who died on 12 September 2023. Valerii Semenovych was born on June 2, 1948, in Mykolaiv region...

Constructing pre-post test questions necessitates a different level of questions that is able to test the ability of the students. Questions solved in the analytical method can be placed under any level of Bloom Taxonomy. However, solving via computational method requires the level of Bloom Taxonomy to be adapted as most of the questions are target...

ABSTACT:-Students performance in Advanced Programming subject can be evaluated by examining through the final exam questions. Students need to understand the concept learn through a semester or 14 weeks of period and do necessary preparation to do the final exam questions. Rasch model is used to evaluate students performance in Advanced Programming...

Multi-outlet pipes can be used to distribute and collect fluids and have applications in various engineering fields, especially in the water supply system. The hydraulic design of a submain unit pipeline with multiple outlets is a very important concern for the proper hydraulic performance of irrigation water distribution systems. The operating inl...

When a vehicle leaves the road, crash barriers stop it and prevent significant damage to the vehicle, its environment, and the occupants. Typically, such protection systems are made of simple steel, but fiber-reinforced composites can efficiently absorb and dissipate the impact energy at high-risk locations. In order to design such protective syste...

Efficient and targeted delivery of therapeutic agents remains a bottleneck in modern medicine. Here, biochemical engineering approaches to advance the repurposing of extracellular vesicles (EVs) as drug delivery vehicles are explored. Targeting ligands such as the sugar GalNAc are displayed on the surface of EVs using a HaloTag‐fused to a protein a...

n the approach to an economic fusion reactor, the power circulating in tokamak-based devices has become increasingly large, producing serious challenges for the design engineer to ensure the protection of surfaces within the vacuum vessel. Careful design of divertors and limiters is needed to keep the power density per square metre~($Q$) below the...

In gearboxes, rolling bearing power losses often make up a large amount of the total gearbox power losses. Therefore, an exact calculation of rolling bearing power losses is very important for resource and energy efficient gearbox design. The state of the art offers numerous friction calculation methods with different levels of detail to calculate...

Dr Faycal Saffih on Bloodless Glucose Monitoring BGM and Artificial Intelligent Pancreas AIP The slides are here: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25528.52485 This post is about the culmination fruition of one of my various #International_Research_Collaboration (#IRC ) journeys. This journey, which was incepted from Canada with my fellow Algerian researcher,...

This post is about the culmination fruition of one of my various #International_Research_Collaboration (#IRC ) journeys. This journey, which was incepted from Canada with my fellow Algerian researcher, Dr. Soulimane S., from the Biomedical Engineering Dept., University of Tlemcen, Algeria, started up after my visit to Algeria early 2018 where I was...

Water management and infrastructure designs all over the world are mostly associated with ungauged watersheds. The critical task is to estimate the streamflow at a desired location and then to convert the streamflow as design streamflow by incorporating safety factors. In the current setting, practicing engineers find a deficiency in guidelines to...

Thermo-Mechanically Treated steel bar is increasingly used throughout the world for the construction of buildings, bridges, power plants, and other infrastructure both in land and marine environment because of its high strength and better performance under conditions of earthquakes and storms. But over time structural safety, serviceability, and du...

[BEST PAPER AWARD] To boost revenues and create a lasting competitive advantage in the present global market, an increasing number of manufacturing companies are experimenting with shifting from product-centric offerings to service solutions leveraging digital technologies according to the Industry 4.0 paradigm. This (digital) transformation, known...

Strategic detection of an error using a parity generator and parity checker is indispensable and enforces the design engineer to optimize upscale performance. Even advanced modern communication systems can have errors due to losses/noise. This paper brings to light the design of the superior high-speed, low-power 3-bit dynamic parity generator and...

AI and Law is considered to be a classic field for research as it posses problems and also benefits. This combination has much to be navigated than mere application area. Law and A.I goes at the first order of Reasoning the Second Representation and the third one learning. It is very specific to mention the no matter how the researcher arrives at t...

Praneel Bhattacharya and Madhurima Datta present a comprehensive exploration of the iron and steel industry in this extensive report, which serves as the culmination of their final year B.Tech training. Affiliated with the Chemical Engineering Department of Heritage Institute of Technology, their training was conducted at ArcelorMittal Design & Eng...

Student engagement is a dynamic and multifaceted concept encompassing physical, emotional, and cognitive components. Various instruments to assess student engagement exist; however, these are not intended to assess how students engage with one another and with community stakeholders in participatory health projects. Although instruments exist to as...

In engineering-design problems, usually, there are multiple goals (or objectives), continuous and discrete variables, nonlinear equations, nonconvex equations, goals with various units, and coupled decisions that are required. Ideally, the target of the multiple goals needs to be reached simultaneously within the feasible space bounded by constrain...

There is a growing need for intelligent devices with sensors that take data from their surroundings, evaluate it, and transfer it to remote locations where experts may further analyze it in other areas. Device security and privacy concerns have arisen due to the increased use of IoT gadgets and tight deadlines for device development. Commercial and...

The service capacity model based on movement patterns, is a model developed from passenger movement patterns in the departure hall at Sultan Hasanuddin Airport, this model is used to predict how the level of service that occurs at checkpoints/security checks. By doing several approach patterns from the movement of passengers that have occurred so f...

Personality analysis using handwriting is a method of understanding the personality traits of a person depends on the way person writes. Handwriting may be unique for each person and a person"s nature, behavior, and certain psychological aspects can be inferred based on it. The field that deals with study of handwriting analysis of a person termed...

Solar flat plate collectors are used for producing hot water at an outlet temperature of 80 degC by absorbing the solar radiation in the flat plate collector and heating a fixed quantity of water circulated by natural or forced circulation in the solar water heater.The research gaps in this experiment are the operating parameters and conditions tha...

The book titled "Performance Characterization of Lubricants" summarizes the past and current work in the area of lubrication with the special emphasis on its applications to design and manufacture various types of lubricants such as liquid, semi-solid, solid lubricants and 2D materials, and their potential future scopes. This book discusses the fun...

Ein grundlegender Ansatz des Designs ist, dass die Welt gemacht ist und deshalb auch anders gemacht werden könnte. In unserer zunehmend schnelllebigen und technologiegetriebenen Welt spielt Design eine immer größere und entscheidende Rolle bei der Entwicklung von Produkten, Produktsystemen und Dienstleistungen, die nicht nur kurzfristig profitabel...

Lung cancer really has no earlier symptoms other than detecting some minute features pulmonary modules of a CT input image of a patient. The World Health Organization (WHO) report is not a good sign for doctors, radiologists, patients and the entire mankind. Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems play a vital role in detecting these nodules and als...

One of the most crucial sectors propelling the growth of Indian & ASEAN countries is banking. It is also one of the most prevailing segments of the Financial sector. Bank help individuals and companies to reserve funds. They also support economic process by dispensing investments which have a potential to get better yields in future. This paper is...

In order to help the design engineer to choose the most economical design for roadway bridges according to the materials of constructions and the structural forms for various types of bridges, a set of computer programs has been developed to simplify the method of analysis and design. Although computer programs are valid to study numerous types of...

Chemical Process Engineering – Design, Analysis, Simulation, Integration and Problem-Solving with Microsoft Excel-UniSim Design Software By A. Kayode Coker and Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh Chemical Engineering students rely on various software tools in accomplishing their term projects, final year design projects and graduate thesis, which are quite e...

The main objective of the book is to provide researchers and students an intensive study material in the book “Laser Based Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing”. The book explains the Lasers in advanced materials applications, cutting edge manufacturing techniques, innovative design and computational intelligence methods used for solving nonl...

Emotional intelligence in present scenario, considered as most impactful factor in the success of ant organization. The purpose of the study is to check the impact of emotional intelligence on job satisfaction of the nurses working in various hospitals of Haryana. The sample taken for the study is the nurses working in the various government and pr...

Learning mathematics in elementary schools is a subject that is mandatory for students to learn. one of the direct objectives of mathematics lessons which also plays an important role in learning is the inculcation of concepts from mathematics itself. Several previous studies have identified learning difficulties for students in understanding the p...

Design Engineering (Toronto) http://thedesignengineering.com

The T-Shaped designer has previously been identified as a design engineer with the desirable set of skills for a successful career. Twelve design engineers ranging from novice to expert, were interviewed to gain an understanding of their skill set, how it has evolved and how it needs to evolve in order to be futureproofed. With the use of qualitati...

The International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) Challenge is a virtually hosted hackathon for Engineering Design researchers with aims of: i) generating open access datasets; ii) fostering community between researchers; and, iii) applying great design minds to develop solutions to real design problems. This paper presents the 2022 IDEA challenge...

The early-stage engineering design activities include conceptualising, identifying, and solving an engineering design problem. These activities are essential and standard roles of a design engineer. However, they seem to lack comprehensive practice within the engineering design community. In this study, semi-structured interviews conducted with 18...

Detection of surface defects in planar surfaces in the industrial manufacturing process is an ongoing area of research. It has always been burdensome to guarantee the absolute flawlessness of surfaces of carbon and iron alloys, or any surface for that matter. Quality of appearance, or rather, the surface of industrial products like metal sheets is...

This paper explores the suitability of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as an enabler of Design Automation in the turbomachinery industry. Specifically, the paper provides 1) a preliminary estimation of the effectiveness of ANNs to define values for design variables of reciprocating compressors (RC) and 2) a comparison of ANNs performance with tra...

In October 2022, A/P Justin Leontini (Dept. of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering) and A/P Max Schleser (Dept. of Film, Games and Animation) ran a mobile storytelling workshop with a regional primary school in Victoria, Australia. Pupils learned digital storytelling and rookie smartphone filmmaking basics to engage in a discussion about ener...

Engineering requires solid mathematical knowledge in addition to hands-on experience. At the same time, finding the right balance between mathematics and applications is challenging. This paper presents the implementation of virtual and real experiments in three math-heavy engineering courses at the University of Southern Maine. These courses were...

The focus of an amplifier's design engineer is always on its high gain and bandwidth. While larger transistors can produce higher gains, the trade-off is a narrower bandwidth. On the other hand, increasing an amplifier's DC biassing current results in an increase in its bandwidth, but at the expense of higher power consumption. In order to resolve...

We are delighted to bring to the readers of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the 18th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), held during the 2022 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers an...

This research aims to evaluate the effect of adding bacteria to improve the mechanical properties of high organic content soil by bio cementation using the microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) process. In general, this study consists of three stages, the first stage involves preparing the bacterial culture and soil samples. The samples...

In its final report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) described three stages of downward motion in the first several seconds of WTC 7's descent: a Stage 1 in which the acceleration was less than that of gravity; a Stage 2 in which the building's north face descended a...

The design of compact parallel-connected chained function filters is presented in this paper. The proposed filters will offer reduced sensitivity to manufacturing tolerance within the specified bandwidth in comparison to conventional Chebyshev filters for C-band applications. A new filtering function according to a chained configuration is derived...

Density of interconnections is dominating than subsystem in complex VLSI integrated circuits that are designed using DSM and UDSM technology. Scaling in transistor geometry and interconnect lead to increase density of wires and supports complex logical operations. Data transfer between multiple sub systems through interconnection lead to higher pow...

In the contemporary automobile scene, environmental effect abatement is being increasingly sought; this demands a full rethinking of the entire system and entails more than just the reduction in exhaust pollutant emissions. Currently, the most popular approach is the electrification of automobiles, which significantly reduces pollution in major urb...

In this paper we suggest a framework for developing valuable engineering system services based on digital twins. As an example we use a digital service for ice navigation based on Ulstein´s experience with expeditionary Arctic cruise vessels. We start from the simple, but often ignored, necessary condition that a DT based service should provide a n...

A spectrophotometric method for the determination of silica in the cement samples was described. The method is based on converting silica into silicon tetrafluoride (SiF 4) gas using concentrated hydrofluoric acid (HF) and concentrated sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) then the amount of generated silicon tetrafluoride gas was determined spectrophotometrica...

The technologies related to multimodal biometrics has lately picked up focus because of its ability to conquer specific inborn limitations belong to the biometric unimodalities and to advance higher the general recognition rates. A general biometric recognition framework comprises of modules for detection, extraction of features and coordination. T...

Determining the long-term corrosion fatigue strength of structural materials in service conditions is one of the most significant problems of the design engineer. Synergistic interactions between mechanical fatigue effects and environmental factors may be more harmful than the total effects of each mechanism working alone. Current understanding is...

Hygienic engineering has dedicated a lot of time and energy to studying water filtration because of how important it is to human health. Thorough familiarity with the filtration process is essential for the design engineer to keep up with and profit from advances in filtering technology and equipment as the properties of raw water continue to chang...

It was a case study of using LPG instead of Propane as a Solvent in a Propane De-Asphalting unit

There has been a growing interest in utilizing natural fibers to prepare conductive polymer low cost in recent years. This study was aimed Preparation of conductive polymers from okra plant waste with reference to electrical properties and Morphological (SEM, FTIR). (Polyaniline/plant polymer) blend and (Polyaniline/plant polymer/silver) nanocompos...

Introduction: Suicidal thoughts and suicide cases are increasing amongst youth in the current COVID-19 pandemic situation. Depression and anxiety are common, disabling, and costly mental disorders. Interdisciplinary research efforts in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) have increased dramatically in the mental health area. The literatur...

Design is a medium that allows for storytelling, at the same time design can be inspired, informed, or improved by stories. In Design Education, past year's efforts have been made to let the content speak more vividly to the students. We introduce the Future Scenario Development Play and Design methodology as a process for Research through Design....

In this era of globalisation, building development is advancing so swiftly that the acceleration of construction development is proportional to the increase of humanity. The acceleration may be noticed beginning with modest building construction and progressing to medium and big building construction. Typically, concrete is the primary building mat...

This study examined the moderating role of self-efficacy and self-esteem in the relation between basic needs and substance craving among youths .Participants comprised 300 undergraduate students that included 160 males and 140 females. They ranged from 16 to 35 years (M= 19.34, SD= 7.89). The participants were selected from two higher institutions...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the use of design thinking and other design methodologies to address the creation and implementation of a new subject in the Design Engineering and Product Development degree at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). The main teaching objective for this subject is to impro...

The article presents the RuralYU university entrepreneurship project, developed by the Youth University Design (YUDesign) Spontaneous Generation (GE) group of the School of Design Engineering (ETSID), at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). RuralYU aspires to reduce rural depopulation in collaboration with university students, who, by carr...

Design and synthesis of parallel connected die-lectric filters using chained function polynomials are presented in this paper. This filter will offer reduced sensitivity to fabrication tolerance while preserving its return loss response within the desired bandwidth in comparison to traditional Chebyshev filters. A novel transfer function FN accordi...

While there are numerous studies documenting the skills and abilities of experienced designers and engineers, research is needed to document the specific practices or behaviors of design engineers, a subset of creative engineers who solve complex problems. To document observed practices of design engineers, twelve experienced engineers were asked t...

Local economic development is a construction based on the community's ability to explore and manage regional potential, especially rural potential. The community have an active role in managing rural potential (resources). Rural potential with proper management can create business opportunities for the community so that it can increase community in...

Indonesia has poor distribution system that considered as one of the causes of high fish prices for end-users and low fish consumption. So, Indonesia needs a digital platform that can connect directly between fishermen and end-users. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the UTAUT factor on the digital fishery platform acceptanc...

India's constitution has 22 languages written in 17 different scripts. These materials have a limited lifespan, and as generations pass, these materials deteriorate, and the vital knowledge is lost. This work uses digital texts to convey information to future generations. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) helps extract information from scanned ma...

This paper present unsupervised learning K-mean clustering for the cataloguing of COVID-19 patients in philipen. The dataset for the present analysis retrieved from)KCDC(can be obtain COVID-19 dataset from website (Kagge). K-means clustering is applied for the 5000 instances based on five attribute (Gender,Age-group,Health state,Region,Case-id) Thi...

There has been a growing interest in utilizing natural fibers to prepare conductive polymer low cost in recent years. This study was aimed Preparation of conductive polymers from okra plant waste with reference to electrical properties and Morphological (SEM, FTIR). (Polyaniline/plant polymer) blend and (Polyaniline/plant polymer/silver) nanocompos...

The waste material from coal production in the form of fly ash (FA) and bottom ash (BA) is increasing from time to time so efforts are needed to make the most of it, but until now the use of BA is still very less compared to FA. This research was conducted by combining FA and BA in the manufacture of geopolymer paving blocks. FA as a binder and BA...

The building construction had a significant impact on the environmentin all stages. It affects climatic change, air pollution, landfill waste, and greenhouse gas emissions. So, the negative construction impact onthe environment could be decreased by utilizing reusableand green technology. Also, landfill wastes result from human use'seffect onthe en...

Introduction:

This paper presents a new topology optimization framework in which the design decisions are made by humans and machines in collaboration. The new Human-Informed Topology Optimization approach eases the accessibility of topology optimization tools and enables improved design identification for the so-called ‘everyday’ and ‘in-the-field’ design situa...