BACKGROUND Alkaline α-amylases have potential applications for hydrolyzing starch under high pH conditions in the starch and textile industries and as ingredients in detergents for automatic dishwashers and laundries. While the alkaline α-amylase gains increased industrial interest, the yield of alkaline α-amylases from wild-type microbes is low, and the combination of genetic engineering and p...

The Sooner Lunar Schooner is a multi-disciplinary ongoing project at the University of Oklahoma to plan, design, prototype, cost and (when funds become available) build/contract and fly a robotic mission to the Moon. The goal of the flight will be to explore a small section of the Moon; conduct a materials analysis of the materials left there by an Apollo mission thirty years earlier; and to pe...

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY Thousands of workers are engaged in textile industry worldwide. Textile industry involves the use of different kinds of dyes which are known to possess carcinogenic properties. Solvents used in these industries are also associated with different health related hazards including cancer. In previous studies on textile and iron industries, the authors have reported genotoxic...

This paper presents a newly-developed robotics programming course and reports the initial results of software engineering education in robotics context. Robotics programming, as a multidisciplinary course, puts equal emphasis on software engineering and robotics. It teaches students proper software engineering – in particular, modularity and documentation – by having them implement four core ro...

This paper describes the software engineering concepts that systems engineering students need to understand in order to effectively work with software engineers who may be members of their system engineering teams, both as students and as practitioners. Ways to introduce this material into systems engineering curricula are addressed. This paper is a companion to “Teaching Systems Engineering to...

The position of technology education in Finland is quite different from that in most other European countries, even for Finland’s Nordic neighbors. Technology education is incorporated within the scopes of other subjects, such as physics, chemistry, biology, home economics, and craft education. Craft education is, in practice, further divided into technical work and textile work. Although the n...

for the purpose of investigating the effects of motivational, cognitive, intellectural and personality factors on the learning abiltiy and educational function of students, the scl-90-r and educational status questionnaire were administered to 1102 students of science, engineering, fine arts, and letters and humanition faculties of tehran university.findings indicated a significant difference b...

Bio-inspired engineering has been envisioned in a wide array of applications. All living bodies on Earth, including animals and plants, have well organized functional systems developed by nature. These naturally designed functional systems inspire scientists and engineers worldwide to mimic the system for practical applications by human beings. Researchers in the academic world and industries h...

This work in progress evaluates Grades 9-12 students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies during an engineering design project. The specific focus of this study is on student task interpretation and its relation to planning and cognitive strategies in engineering design activity. The two research questions guiding this study are: (1) to what degree does students’ interpretation of the desi...

The global market for textile industry is highly competitive nowadays. Quality control in production process in textile industry has been a key factor for retaining existence in such competitive market. Automated textile inspection systems are very useful in this respect, because manual inspection is time consuming and not accurate enough. Hence, automated textile inspection systems have been d...