The manufacturing sector is of paramount importance to a nation’s economy, as it creates employment opportunities, fosters innovation and enhances the competitive advantage in global markets. With the introduction of...
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Being a “gracious professional” is the key to leadership, whether you’re an engineer, a scientist, or an MIT professor. As managing director of Stanford University's ***, this Renaissance woman spends her time ...
Being a “gracious professional” is the key to leadership, whether you’re an engineer, a scientist, or an MIT professor. As managing director of Stanford University's ***, this Renaissance woman spends her time developing “adaptive learners.” Olin College's first president (and first employee) has plenty to say about engineering—and education. Rethinking the MBA at Harvard Business School.
This paper reports on the very impressive outcome of a project designed and built by a group of engineering students. The project was dubbed Project G (short for Godzilla). The students were all undergraduate students...
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Engineers who work in innovative design spaces during conceptual design have very different CAD and graphics needs than those who work in more conventional design spaces such as those of detail design.1,2They need rap...
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Suresh KalyanasundaramEdwin K. P. ChongNess B. ShroffMotorola India Electronics Limited
No. 66/1 Plot 5 Bagmane Techpark C. V. Raman Nagar Post Bangalore 560 093 India. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University Fort Collins CO 80523-1373 USA. Professor Edwin K. P. Chong received the B.E.(Hons.) degree with First Class Honors from the University of Adelaide
South Australia in 1987 graduating top of his class and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991
respectively both from Princeton University where he held an IBM Fellowship. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 1991 where he was named a University Faculty Scholar in 1999 and promoted to Full Professor in 2001. Since August 2001 he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. His current interests are in communication networks and optimization methods. He coauthored the best-selling book An Introduction to Optimization 2nd Edition Wiley-Interscience 2001. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in 1998. He coauthored a paper that was awarded Best Paper in the journal Computer Networks 2003. Professor Chong is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was founding chairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems and until recently served as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He has been on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Computer Networks. He has also served on the organizing committees of several international conferences. He has been on the program committees for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control the American Control Conference the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications and the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. He has also served in the executive committees for the IEEE Co
Solution techniques for Markov decision problems rely on exact knowledge of the transition rates, which may be difficult or impossible to obtain. In this paper, we consider Markov decision problems with uncertain tran...
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Solution techniques for Markov decision problems rely on exact knowledge of the transition rates, which may be difficult or impossible to obtain. In this paper, we consider Markov decision problems with uncertain transition rates represented as compact sets. We first consider the problem of sensitivity analysis where the aim is to quantify the range of uncertainty of the average per-unit-time reward given the range of uncertainty of the transition rates. We then develop solution techniques for the problem of obtaining the max-min optimal policy, which maximizes the worst-case average per-unit-time reward. In each of these problems, we distinguish between systems that can have their transition rates chosen independently and those where the transition rates depend on each other. Our solution techniques are applicable to Markov decision processes with fixed but unknown transition rates and to those with time-varying transition rates.
During the past ten years, The Ohio State University's College of engineering has moved from a series of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, and engineering problem solving...
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During the past ten years, The Ohio State University's College of engineering has moved from a series of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, and engineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of integrated course sequences in the introduction to engineering program (IEP) and the Freshman engineering Honors (FEH) program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add in hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. The relational practices - teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oral presentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs are designed to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. These programs were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for new freshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria. Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description of the freshman programs, a summary of changes accomplished, and the retention statistics for the College of engineering.
In the 1998-1999 academic year, the College of engineering at The Ohio State University implemented a new freshman program, known as the introduction to engineering (IE) program. This program was designed to incorpora...
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In the 1998-1999 academic year, the College of engineering at The Ohio State University implemented a new freshman program, known as the introduction to engineering (IE) program. This program was designed to incorporate the fundamentals of engineering graphics and basic programming with hands-on labs, opportunities for teamwork, and a stronger emphasis on communication skills. To guide the program's implementation and evaluation, a comprehensive assessment plan was developed to ensure that sufficient tools and methods were in place to properly evaluate the impact of the program. The program is now in its third year, and this plan continues to be instrumental in evaluating the program's effectiveness. This paper presents an overview of the plan, including its tools, methods, and outcomes.
During the past ten years, The Ohio State University's College of engineering has moved from a series of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, and engineering problem solving...
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During the past ten years, The Ohio State University's College of engineering has moved from a series of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, and engineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of course sequences in the introduction to engineering (IE) program and the Freshman engineering Honors (FEH) program. Ongoing assessment and regular evaluations of these programs are essential to maintain quality, ensure uniformity across sections, provide for feedback, and supply freshness. A key component of the assessments are the answers by students to evaluation inquiries collected frequently, regularly, and anonymously along with their comments, suggestions, and opinions. The constant cycle of self-assessment has enabled the Freshman engineering Honors program to continually evolve to quickly meet the needs of students. This present work describes an anonymous electronic journal system as it implemented and employed in the FEH program as a near real time assessment tool.
In the past decade, learning experiences for first year engineering students at Ohio State have evolved. This article provides an overview of that evolution with emphasis on the student experience in 2000. It will cov...
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In the past decade, learning experiences for first year engineering students at Ohio State have evolved. This article provides an overview of that evolution with emphasis on the student experience in 2000. It will cover course topics, teaching staff, facilities, faculty development, assessment and feedback methodologies, and results to date. Two important factors in bringing about change were Ohio State's participation in the NSF-funded Gateway engineering Education Coalition and substantial support from the Dean's office. Many subjects briefly discussed in this paper will be covered in more detail in separate papers presented at this and other conferences.
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Tibbitts, Capt. BarryKeane, Robert G.Capt. Barry Tibbitts
USN (Ret.):received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy and both an M.S.M.E. and a Nav.E degree from MIT. He served Jive years at sea in the Atlantic Fleet on an aircraft carrier and in two submarines (gunnery officer and chief engineer in one submarine operations officer and chief engineer in the other). His early assignments as an Engineering Duty Officer were in the Pacific Fleet and included SRF Yokosuka. CINCPACFLT staff and an advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy. Later he was Deputy tor Submarines at SUPSHIP Pascagouia. where for five years he supervised construction or overhaul of nine nuclear attack submarines and five surface ships. Washington assignments included CVV ship design manager director of NAVSEC's Hull Division and SECNAV staff. During two 3-year tours he directed the NAVSEC Ship Design Division and its successor the NAVSEA Ship Design Group. He was also Commander of the David Taylor Research Center where he played a key role in gaining approval for the Large Cavitation Channel (LCC). Following statutory retirement he was recalled to active duty to serve as Professor of Naval Construction and Engineering at MIT for three years. During his career he received seven personal decorations including two aivards of the Legion of Merit. Currently he is the Chief Systems Engineer for John J. McMullen Associates. He is a member of ASNE and SNAME and an overseas Fellow of RINA. He teaches at the NAVSEA Institute and DSMC and remains on the MIT faculty as a Senior Lecturer Robert G. Keane
Jr.:received a B.E.S. degree from The Johns Hopkins University an M.M.E. degree from Stevens institute of Technology and an M.S.E. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan. He began his Navy career in 1967 as a hydrodynamicist in the Surface Ship Dynamics Branch of the David Taylor Model Basin. After completing the EIT program in NAVSEC's Hull Division in 1968 he moved to the Ship Arrangements Branch. Between 1971–1981 he was suc
ABSTRACT The authors (and the late Bob Riggins) published a paper for ASNE Day 1988 (1) entitled, “Naval Ship Design—Evolution or Revolution?” The authors predicted that a revolution in naval ship design was possi...
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