Important factors for the easy usage of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) are numbers of fitness calculations as low as possible, its robustness, and the reduction of its strategy parameters as far as possible. Multimeme Algorithms (MMA) are good candidates for the first two properties. In this paper a cost-benefit-based approach shall be introduced for the adaptive control of both meme selection ...

This study explores the role of empathic design techniques on solvingdesignproblems in adevelopingworld context. In our study, over 100 graduate students were asked to individually conceptualize and design an extremely affordable washing machine to be used in developing countries. All participating students, many of whomhad significant industry experience, were enrolled in a graduate-level prod...

Knowledge management is crucial in engineering tasks in advanced manufacturing industries. Human-centred design of knowledge management applications requires a profound insight into the tasks of engineers and their need for support. In this paper we describe the iterative approach of the modelling of user tasks and needs and defining functional specifications, using a mix of methods such as Use...

For system development projects, the proportion of the budget allocated to software development has been continually increasing in response to demand for system flexibility and maintainability. As a result, many technical organizations started by mechanical and electrical engineers now find themselves awash with software engineers. As system engineers see it, software people have different ways...

65 years ago Bell Labs forever changed technology with the invention of the transistor. Considered one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century, it is hard to find an element of our life that has not been impacted by its existence. This of course has had a profound impact on instrumentation as well. Companies like Hewlett-Packard were born from this silicon revolution and their instr...

In a stacked package, typically the bottom package is processor and the top pa of additional applications required by consumer industry, IC engineers add more features to their 2 generation processor and the memory performance is increased by faster communication to the processor. Test engineers need a sock seen many product offerings for this one level stacked socket. In order to move from 1 2...

Debra Engel is Associate Dean of Libraries for Public Services, Sarah Robbins is Web Services Coordinator, and Christina Kulp is Sciences Librarian at University of Oklahoma Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], respectively. © Debra Engel, Sarah Robbins, and Christina Kulp Many studies of information-seeking habits of engineers focus on understanding the similar...

Design engineers working in the automotive industry have to take many design decisions, based on numerous diverse criteria. This results in a high workload of complex decisions. One way to reduce decision complexity and improve decisions could be to improve design tools. Decision support systems (DSSs) have been used in a managerial context to improve decisions. In this article, the authors ass...

One day, you will discover a new adventure and knowledge by spending more money. But when? Do you think that you need to obtain those all requirements when having much money? Why don't you try to get something simple at first? That's something that will lead you to know more about the world, adventure, some places, history, entertainment, and more? It is your own time to continue reading habit....

Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments. Today, decisions made by engineers often have serious implications for not only their clients but for society as a whole and the natural world. Such decisions may potentially influence cultures, ways of living, as well as alter ecosystems which are in delicate balance. In ord...