Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000), the recently revised set of accreditation criteria for engineering programs in the US, places considerable stress on outcomes assessments. EC 2000 requires the assessment results to be used to identify program improvements, and for such usage and the resulting improvements to be documented. While numerous assessment instruments have been developed and discus...

Evolutionary Computation (EC) mimics evolution processes to solve burdensome computational problems, like the design, optimization and reverse engineering of complex systems, and its effectiveness is tied to a proper formalization of the candidate solutions. Petri Net (PN) formalism is extensively exploited for the modeling, simulation and analysis of the structural and behavioral properties of...

This paper presents an overview of design and manufacturing curriculum in effect at Mercer School of Engineering for the undergraduate students in Industrial Engineering. There is a need to incorporate changes in the design and manufacturing curriculum to meet the ABET requirements of EC 2000 (“a” through “k”). The work in progress, the future plan for changes, a sample lab experiment in roboti...

Ethyl carbamate (EC), a toxic contaminant occurring in food processing, may possess a risk to human health. To facilitate the basic study on its metabolism and applied study on its monitoring, we first established a rapid determination method of EC in human cells (HepG2) based on UPLC-TOF-MS. This method showed good linearity over a range of 60-6000 ng/mL (R2>0.99) in both extra/intra-cellular ...

BACKGROUND To compare the clinicopathologic characteristics and survival of Chinese and Caucasian esophageal cancer (EC) patients residing in the US, using a population-based national registry (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results [SEER]) database. METHODS Patients with EC were identified from the SEER program from 1988 to 2012. Kaplan-Meier survival methods and Cox proportional hazards ...

Emphysematous cystitis (EC) is a rare form of complicated urinary tract infection, its characteristic feature being gas within the bladder wall and lumen. Patients with EC present with variable clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic to severe sepsis. EC is typically observed in elderly women with severe diabetes mellitus. Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae are often isolated ...

the objective of this study was to formulate and evaluate the drug-polymer interaction of mefenamic acid (ma) using two polymers with different characteristics as ethylcellulose (ec) and/or cellulose acetate phthalate (cap). microspheres were prepared by the modified emulsion solvent evaporation (mese). the effect of drug-polymer interaction was studied for each of microspheres. important param...