For engineering degree programs, one of the primary objectives is to teach engineering practice in a course-by-course academic structure. Although engineering programs typically have a yearlong senior level design project to provide engineering development experience, it is still a challenge to provide students with the full life-cycle experience and expose them to all of the various dimensions...

Estimation of gold reserves and resources has been of interest to mining engineers and geologists for ages. The existence of outlier values shows the economic part of the deposits subject to the fact that don’t depend on the human or technical errors. The presence of these high values causes a pseudo dramatically increment in variance estimation of economical blocks when applying conventional m...

One of the impediments to the wide dissemination of software estimation and measurement practices is the significant overhead imposed by these practices on the project and development team. Despite significant investment in research, the lightweight estimation of development effort is still an unsolved problem in software engineering. This study proposes a new, lightweight effort estimation mod...

The state of the art in software project estimation does not deserve this reputation, but the fact remains that modern methods are time-consuming and complex. Estimation methods such as COCOMO II [3] are oriented toward the needs of large and very large software engineering projects, and may require time-consuming calibration to fit the peculiarities of an organization, development team, and ap...

Much of software engineering is taught and practiced in a value-neutral context, in which every requirement, use case, object, test case, and defect is equally important. Too often, students learn that some of their stakeholders’ value considerations are more important than others by failing to consider this on the job and suffering the consequences. The recent book, Value-Based Software Engine...

Finding a suitable estimation of stability domain around stable equilibrium points is an important issue in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems. This paper intends to apply a set of analytical-numerical methods to estimate the region of attraction for autonomous nonlinear systems. In mechanical and structural engineering, autonomous systems could be found in large deformation problems or c...

The Weibull distribution is widely employed in several areas of engineering because it is an extremely flexible distribution with different shapes. Moreover, it can include characteristics of several other distributions. However, successful usage of Weibull distribution depends on estimation accuracy for three parameters of scale, shape and location. This issue shifts the attentions to the requ...