This study explores the feasibility of using large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4o (ChatGPT), for automated grading of conceptual questions in an undergraduate Mechanical engineering course. We compared th...
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This work presents a novel slotted patch antenna design featuring high gain and wide bandwidth, based on the Fabry-Perot approach. Advanced techniques are incorporated to enhance both gain and bandwidth. The proposed ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9788831299107
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350366327
This work presents a novel slotted patch antenna design featuring high gain and wide bandwidth, based on the Fabry-Perot approach. Advanced techniques are incorporated to enhance both gain and bandwidth. The proposed design utilizes a partially reflective surface (PRS), an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC), and conical PEC walls to improve gain and radiation characteristics. The conical PEC walls enhance gain and directivity by minimizing back radiation and concentrating radiated power. Additionally, it prevents side radiation leakage by reflecting it back onto the PRS. The proposed antenna achieves a maximum realized gain of 13 dB, with a wide 3-dB gain bandwidth of 27%, ranging from 28.6 GHz to 37.6 GHz. Optimized for fifth-generation (5G) high-frequency bands, the design also achieves a −10-dB bandwidth from 27 to 39 GHz.
In this paper, we compare two measurement techniques to analyze the dynamic response of a MEMS resonator, made of a microcantilever beam, that is electrostatically actuated via a side electrode. The first method is ba...
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Sewer systems play a critical role in transporting wastewater. Efficient maintenance requires accurate identification of sewer pipe defects, traditionally performed through manual interpretation of Closed-Circuit Tele...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331529734
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331529741
Sewer systems play a critical role in transporting wastewater. Efficient maintenance requires accurate identification of sewer pipe defects, traditionally performed through manual interpretation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) images from robot inspections. This manual process is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and susceptible to human error. While conventional computer vision methods (machine learning methods) have been explored, they often involve extensive image pre-processing and intricate feature extraction. In this study, we propose an automated approach for classifying sewer pipe defects in Iran using deep learning, specifically leveraging the ResNet50 architecture for defect classification. We applied this deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model to automatically detect three common defect types as root intrusions, deposits, and open joints within a dataset 4630 images extracted from CCTV inspection videos of sewer pipes. Our model achieved an average testing accuracy of 96%, highlighting its potential for automating the interpretation of sewer CCTV footage.
This paper analyzes the ability of microgrids to provide ancillary services, and in particular frequency response, to low inertia grids. Frequency response in power grids is highly dependent on the total available ine...
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Productivity and safety of the workers have been issues in most manufacturing facilities in Egypt and all over the world, as the main aim of any manufacturing facility is to increase profit and limit costs as much as ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350369106
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350369113
Productivity and safety of the workers have been issues in most manufacturing facilities in Egypt and all over the world, as the main aim of any manufacturing facility is to increase profit and limit costs as much as possible. Through analysis and simulation, this paper aims to create a safe workplace for the worker; risk assessment and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and the basics of the international standards ISO 31000 and ISO 45001 have been conducted to evaluate different hazards and potential risks. Moreover, lean tools such as 6S and Visual Management are proposed solutions to enhance workplace safety and decrease the possibility or severity of potential risks. Therefore, a new workplace design, an example of a high-level hazard in industry in Egypt's local market, has been established for the steel manufacturing facility under consideration using Sketch Up. The results of the proposed solutions, such as new frameworks, worker safety training, equipment replacements, and applying lean tools, have shown a practically acceptable percentage of safety improvements and a decreasing risk priority number (RPN). The percentage decrease for (RPN) ranges between 31.43% to 90.47% for different potential risks.
In this paper, we present the systemsengineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) framework we are developing for enabling educational organizations to scan, evaluate and transform their operations to achieve t...
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In this paper, we present the systemsengineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) framework we are developing for enabling educational organizations to scan, evaluate and transform their operations to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in student recruitment, retention, and graduation. The underlying structure and logic in our SEISS framework is that an organization such as a college of engineering is a sociotechnical system (STS) consisting of a social subsystem and a technical subsystem. The social subsystem consists of people, their roles and is a model of who talks to whom about what. The technical subsystem consists of all the activities, programs, policies, and operations that help the organization achieve its goals. In a sociotechnical system, the social and technical subsystems are interdependent in their functioning, and they must be jointly optimized from an organizational design perspective. Our SEISS framework which views a college or a similar organizational unit as a sociotechnical system lends the organizational designer a unique systems lens with which to view, analyze and design the operations and organize the capacities and resources in the college. The systems lens views an organizational unit, its sub-systems, components, and its corresponding capacities not in isolation, but as entities that interact with each other. With support from an NSF IUSE grant, we have been developing the SEISS framework and have piloted the framework in a predominantly white college of engineering to identify existing and potential technical and social system capacities for underrepresented minority (URM) students to succeed in the college. Preliminary results from our qualitative analyses of URM student interviews reveal the utility of the SEISS framework and the STS lens in unearthing the barriers and enablers for these students in the social and technical subsystems in the college. We also model the interactions between the social and techni
In this paper, we propose a general distributionally robust framework for performative optimization, where the selected decision can influence the probabilistic distribution of uncertain parameters. Our framework faci...
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Simultaneous multislice (SMS) imaging is a one of the acceleration technique of magnetic resonance imaging. SMS requires accurate sensitivity distributions in the slice plane for each receiving coil. This requirement ...
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