The creation of a new baccalaureate degree program in mechanicalengineering at York College of Pennsylvania took place with the guidance and input provided by an industrial partnership of over 20 local and regional i...
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The creation of a new baccalaureate degree program in mechanicalengineering at York College of Pennsylvania took place with the guidance and input provided by an industrial partnership of over 20 local and regional industrial organizations. Initial start-up contributions amounting to $400,000, along with approximately $45,000 provided annually by industry, has resulted in the establishment of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities as well as partial scholarship support for students in the program. The program had its first class of students enter in fall 1995 and currently consists of approximately 100 students majoring in mechanicalengineering. The ABET evaluation visit under EC2000 occurred in September 1999 and resulted in accreditation of the program. Designing a new engineering curriculum - in concert with industrial partners - within the broad context of a private, moderately sized, comprehensive college posed many challenges. This presentation will review these challenges, the process used for establishing a new program in mechanicalengineering, and the role industry has played in developing and supporting the program.
Although the triboelectric nanogenerator(TENG)has been highlighted as a promising mechanical energy harvester,the requirement of stacking the two individual layers,contact and conductive layers,has been ball and chain...
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Although the triboelectric nanogenerator(TENG)has been highlighted as a promising mechanical energy harvester,the requirement of stacking the two individual layers,contact and conductive layers,has been ball and chain around the ankle of unleashing potential and an advantage of TENGs in their application expansion and ***,one-step fabrication of a single-layered bifunctional composite film-based TENG(BFTENG)driven by the sedimentation of a sol-state precursor is proposed for the extremely facile conversion of various ordinary items into energy *** BF-TENG consists of the polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)matrix and a carbon nanopowder filler,and it includes both the dielectric part(DP)and conductive part(CP)in one single *** electrical percolation threshold of the incorporated concentration of carbon,ICC,for CP to act as a passage through which induced charges move in BF-TENGs is determined to be 1.0 wt%.The degree of carbon sedimentation in developing the proposed composite can be controlled by the curing speed and the probability of a crosslinking *** maximum peak power is approximately 0.093μW when the contact surface area is 78.5 mm2;the contact frequency is 8 Hz,and the connected load resistance is 9 MΩ.Based on these results,the electrical performance of BF-TENGs in response to various physical stimuli is characterized considering the mechanical energy sources available in daily ***,converting ordinary surfaces such as desks and human skin into BF-TENGs through a single coating procedure and harvesting energy to power an electric device are demonstrated as a proof-of-concept.
Urban buses, particularly in large cities, are exposed to significant noise pollution. This paper presents a new family of materials at the micro/nano level designed for urban noise attenuation, specifically for appli...
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A physics-based, two-phase, and non-isothermal proton-exchange membrane fuel cell model is developed and used to evaluate the impact of three common modeling assumptions concerning mass and heat transport in a single-...
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The mechanical and corrosion characteristics of aluminum alloys can be influenced not only by the addition of grain refiners but also by heat treatment that modifies the microstructure and introduces variations in the...
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This paper presents a metaheuristic optimization-based approach for selecting a pre-determined number of measurement markers from the set of available markers that optimizes the performance of the recently introduced ...
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This study proposes designing and applying a video stabilization algorithm using LIDAR-inertial odometry (LIO). The performance of the video stabilization function was validated in narrow, low-light environments using...
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The Li-ion battery is electrical storage in the form of chemical energy and is considered the strongest candidate for electrical-based automotive applications. The performance of the battery greatly affects the perfor...
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