A catalyst of the bioengineering field plans its farewell The Whitaker Foundation is closing its doors next year. The organization was set up in 1976 to award grants and support research and education, particularly in biomedical engineering, and was uniquely designed to have a finite life. Now, having completed its mission and achieved the goals it was set up to accomplish, the foundation has s...

This paper presents a quantitative approach to software reliability and content relevance definitions validated by the systems’ potential reliability law. Thus it is argued for the unified math nature or quantitative paradigm of software reliability and content relevance. This paradigm integrates subject matter data and quantitative software reliability metrics and is viewed as a foundation of ...

1 Jeff Froyd, Texas A&M University, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Zachry Engineering Center, 3128 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3128, [email protected]. Abstract  The Foundation Coalition (FC), one of eight engineering coalitions funded by the National Science Foundation, was established as an agent of systemic renewal for the engineering educational community. Arizona State University...

Over the history of systems engineering, there have been numerous attempts to establish the foundations of that field on other disciplines. In this paper, we explore a new approach, founding systems engineering on an architectural metaphor. This approach is based upon our work of the past five years to establish a discipline of systems architecture. We outline the key principles of our approach...

In recent years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged as one of the potentially most successful modelling approaches in engineering. In particular, ANNs have been applied to many areas of geotechnical engineering and have demonstrated considerable success. The objective of this paper is to highlight the use of ANNs in foundation engineering. The paper describes ANN techniques and some...

1 Support from NSF under grant DUE-9950168 is gratefully acknowledged. 2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5406, {golshani, panch, oris} @asu.edu Abstract: We propose a new model for IT education based on engineering principles and in line with the latest advancement in information science. In this paper, we justify the needs for such a di...

For more than ten years, beginning in the early 2000s, the European Commission has been supporting targeted research in the fields of Cognitive Systems and Robotics. In this note we discuss the rationale of the underlying research agenda (including its relevance to the BICA challenge), structure the large set of funded projects, and outline perspectives for future research.

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This chapter is a case history of the computer-aided logic expert system (CALES), a quality and productivity tool for programmable controller software engineering now being used in an engineer-to-order manufacturing company. Strategic goals for CALES included the removal of a corporate bottleneck in the electrical engineering department and the development of a foundation for knowledge-based en...