University laboratories deliver unique hands-on experimentation for STEM students but often lack state-of-the-art equipment and provide limited access to their equipment. The University of Texas Cloud Laboratory provides remote access to a cutting-edge series elastic actuators for student experimentation regarding human-centered robotics, dynamical systems, and controls. Through a browser-based...

Three-dimensional electron microscopy is an enormously powerful tool for structural biologists. It is now able to provide an understanding of the molecular machinery of cells, disease processes and the actions of pathogenic organisms from atomic detail through to the cellular context. However, cutting-edge research in this field requires very substantial resources for equipment, infrastructure ...

This project focuses on optimizing the location of WEEE collection points for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which consists of determining a set of locations to install a network of gathering equipment. It is implemented using open source technologies following the current tendency of the present software market situation. In particular, the software application to be develope...

In modern manufacturing engineering, a major challenge is the contradiction between the need to reduce the time required to design and manufacture the products and the increasing complexity of product design. Today's market requires more varieties of products, and consequently the equipment and processes should be more flexible. Fixtures play an essential role in production of high-quality and ...

Received Aug 10 th , 2013 Revised Sep 15 th , 2013 Accepted Sep 30 th , 2013 ―Digital hospital‖ is a modern hospital mode that strongly relies on information technology and networks. Automated identification technology (AIT) mainly includes bar coding, radio frequency identification (RFID), and biometrics. AIT has been cutting-edge technology for supporting digital hospitals. Bar coding has bee...

tant Abt Associates Inc, showed that 90% do not have a consistent water supply and 50% do not have electrical generators. “We never have a day without the electricity cutting off for 12 hours or longer, and half of these centers have no generator,” said Alwan. The same survey showed that 95% of those centers do not have gynecologic tables or electrocardiogram machines. “When we say there’s a sc...

The current study reanalyzed 250 electrical fatalities in the construction industry from 1996 to 2002 into seven patterns based on source of electricity (power line, energized equipment, improperly installed or damaged equipment), direct contact or indirect contact through some source of injury (boom vehicle, metal bar or pipe, and other conductive material). Each fatality was coded in terms of...

Mechanical pressure plays an important role in many physiological and pathological processes. Mimicking the mechanical pressure present in vitro is necessary for related research, but usually requires expensive and complicated equipment. In this study we created a simple pressure culture system based on the transwell culture system. By cutting off the top rim of the transwell insert, the cells ...

We present an equipment development for PET Banding Header that complements the Steel Banding machine currently being utilized in Pohang steel works, South Korea. The PET Banding Header was developed due to the damages done on the surface of the cold rolling products whilst being transported. Because the PET Banding Header was designed as a friction-binding technology against the existing heat-...

Implementation of technological processes shaping is one the main components energy intensity mechanical engineering enterprises. One methods for reducing in implementation method compensating reactive component power consumed during their operation. It advisable to implement this by means automation, which allows not only considering actual parameters process and equipment, but also increasing...