One of the environmental liabilities left by abandoned urban waste disposal sites, closed without the correct procedures, is the risk of exposure to their effluents, whose emissions may occur for many years. The purpo...
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One of the environmental liabilities left by abandoned urban waste disposal sites, closed without the correct procedures, is the risk of exposure to their effluents, whose emissions may occur for many years. The purpose of the proposed methodology, referred to as SISTAVAFE, an assessment system of a closed landfill, is to contribute in the risk assess- ment of exposure to leachate as well as to suggest procedures for site monitoring, according to different levels of care and urgency. The method is based on four matrices that help make an initial evaluation of the risk source, potential target and the surface and underground environmental paths. This paper only addresses the contamination caused by liquid effluents.
Using finite difference time domain numerical simulation approach we have investigated the use of ultra-wide band (UWB) radar techniques for vital signal detection in an earthquake debris environment. The model of ear...
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Stability level of tunnels that exist in an underground mine has a great influence on the safety, production and economic performance of the mine. Ensuring of stability for soft-rock tunnels is an important task for d...
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There is growing urgency to graduate more innovative engineers. This paper explores ways to foster the innovative capacity of undergraduate engineering students by challenging them with big questions, and introducing ...
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There is growing urgency to graduate more innovative engineers. This paper explores ways to foster the innovative capacity of undergraduate engineering students by challenging them with big questions, and introducing them to multiple perspectives. Students today are inspired by big questions that matter, like the NAE Grand Challenges. Students are aided in finding innovative solutions to these big, open-ended, questions by having them learn to entertain and explore multiple perspectives. While the importance of integrative thinking is recognized in ABET's EC-2000 (e.g. criteria (c), (h) and (j)), and integrative approaches are known to appeal to women and other underrepresented groups, there is still far too little integration in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The paper describes concrete examples of how to foster innovative and entrepreneurial capacity in engineering undergraduate students by harnessing the diverse and creative perspectives common to a liberal education. We draw on curricular and extra-curricular examples developed by participants in the Symposium on engineering and Liberal Education (E&LE). The Symposium was inaugurated in 2008 as a forum to explore the rationale and methods of E&LE integration. For three years, the Symposium has brought together academic leaders and scholars from both engineering and the liberal arts to explore models for integrating engineering and the traditional liberal arts. The examples presented are grouped into five different aspects of undergraduate engineering education, addressing different phases of students' progress, recognizing that fostering innovation must be a continuous process: 1. Projects that focus on first year or introductory material 2. Projects that focus on core engineering courses 3. Projects that focus on capstone and extra-curricular experiences 4. Projects that span the curriculum 5. Faculty professional development to support projects The paper also reviews research results linking innova
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in enhancing student learning in structural concrete design courses. In reinforced concrete de...
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A robotic fish localization system in a public aquarium is presented in this paper. The system is built on the marker-based camera pose estimation method. A webcam, an ARM processor, and multiple planar markers are em...
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A robotic fish localization system in a public aquarium is presented in this paper. The system is built on the marker-based camera pose estimation method. A webcam, an ARM processor, and multiple planar markers are employed for real-time camera pose estimation. The camera is attached at the bottom of the head of the robotic fish. Since the camera and the fish body are connected rigidly, the pose estimation method gives the absolute 6 degree of freedom (DOF) location of the robotic fish. The experiments above ground and underwater validate the proposed localization system. Through the tests in a public aquarium with the integrated robotic fish system, the autonomous swimming was successfully demonstrated.
We report on a two-week professional development workshop for middle and high school science teachers offered as part of a three-year Indiana Department of Education Math-Science Partnership grant awarded to Rose-Hulm...
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We report on a two-week professional development workshop for middle and high school science teachers offered as part of a three-year Indiana Department of Education Math-Science Partnership grant awarded to Rose-Hulman Institute of technology (RHIT) and Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC).
Highway-rail crossing safety is a critical issue, highlighted by the recently enacted Rail Safety Improvement Act (by the U.S. Congress. This article documents a national survey of peer state agencies as part of the e...
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In this article, based on the theory of two-phase flow and laboratory data, a three-dimensionally model is developed to simulate the floating rates of frazil ice particles in water under covered condition. The Lagrang...
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In this article, based on the theory of two-phase flow and laboratory data, a three-dimensionally model is developed to simulate the floating rates of frazil ice particles in water under covered condition. The Lagrangian trajectory method is used in the three dimensional simulation for floating rates of fxazil ice particles along a 180° bend channel. The velocity profiles in longitudinal and transverse directions, the turbulence intensity, and the residual pressure are simulated. Under the condition of gravitational similarity, the simulated floating rates of frazil ice particles in the model bend channel and the prototype bend channels are compared. Results indicate that the profiles for floating rates of ice particles for flows in the model channel are similar to those in the prototype bend channels. The simulated floating rates of ice particles are clearly higher along the convex bank than along the concave bank at each cross section. For the prototype bend channel in a large model scale, the variation of floating rate across each cross section is relatively small.
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