Among the different Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields, engineering continues to have one of the highest rates of attrition (Hewlett et al., 2008). The turnover rate for women engineers from engineering fields is even higher than for men (Frehill, 2010). Despite increased efforts from researchers, there are still large gaps in our understanding of the reasons that women leave eng...

The needs of surgeons for computer-assisted systems cannot be satisfied unless their requirements and expectations are known. We determined surgeons' needs for computer-aided systems using group facilitation processes that measure customer wants and needs, including quality function deployment and Kano Analysis. A one-day workshop hosted by the CISST ERC (Computer Integrated Surgical Systems an...

study of the engineering education from several aspects needs to be paid attention. in order to make ease the learning process, to get successful in educational courses and technical programs, and having a useful performance in working areas. these challenging issues make it necessary to educate engineers with ability of special competencies and skills as social capital, creativity, group worki...

The pharmaceutical area can present some opportunities for mechanical engineers to develop a vast type of dosage forms particularly novel forms like nanoparticles. The classical education of mechanics needs some alterations to prepare appropriate education courses in this regard. In order to present some views about this issue, we collect some information around the importance of mechanical eng...

The pharmaceutical area can present some opportunities for mechanical engineers to develop a vast type of dosage forms particularly novel forms like nanoparticles. The classical education of mechanics needs some alterations to prepare appropriate education courses in this regard. In order to present some views about this issue, we collect some information around the importance of mechanical eng...

Introduction: After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the capitalist economies (the US in particular) and other led by the communist economies, primarily the then USSR. There was a cold war between these two blocs. Lessdeveloped economies had no option than to join either of the two and ...

The 2007 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2007), the 12th ISAP, sponsored by the Communication Society of the IEICE and held at the Niigata Convention Center “TOKI MESSE” in Niigata, Japan, on August 20 through 24, 2007 was a great success. This symposium provided an international forum for attendees to present and discuss the progress of research and development in ante...

The International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) in its series has become one of the most important events in the areas of antennas, wave propagation, and electromagnetic theory, being widely considered as the representative conference in Asia Pacific region in parallel with the IEEE APS International Symposium in USA and also the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (E...

Increasingly, statisticians and reliability engineers in industry are being asked to analyze reliability data. Because of the complicated nature of the data and models that are often encountered in reliability studies, statistical methods and corresponding software needed for appropriate analyses are not developed as well as methods and software needed for the analysis of standard experimental ...