Engineering Science & Education Journal
Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2002
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Volume 11, Issue 1
February 2002
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- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1,
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020107
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- Author(s): K. Jellonek and M. Kotulska
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 2 –6
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020101
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A rising demand for specialists in measuring and diagnostic systems (MDS) able to apply multidisciplinary knowledge from medicine, theory of measurements, automation and physics was the stimulus for launching a course in this field for students of biomedical engineering at Wroclaw University of Technology. The course was to provide training in medical system design, development and implementation, and cover the topics of general mathematical models of the phenomena, data acquisition, data processing, interpretation and result visualisation. The main aim was to link modern technology with the traditional measurement approach to biological quantities. During the course students are presented with real-world problems from the field of medicine. This article outlines the course curriculum and its Web-centric approach to laboratory equipment. - Author(s): M.A. Laughton
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 7 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020102
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The advent of fuel cells for the generation of electricity for portable, small and large-scale stationary and automotive purposes portends radical changes in electricity supply over coming decades. The five main types of fuel cell technology are reviewed (alkaline fuel cell, solid polymer fuel cell, phosphoric acid fuel cell, molten-carbonate fuel cell, and solid-oxide fuel cell) along with their characteristics and electrochemical reactions plus those of a nonhydrogen based regenerative fuel cell for large-scale power delivery. - Author(s): J.R. Coaton
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 17 –24
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020103
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The Victorian engineers displayed considerable ingenuity in overcoming technical problems and successfully manufactured the first carbon filament incandescent lamps. Apart from Swan and Edison, many others shared in this achievement. The materials and scientific knowledge at that time were limited; this article reviews the key steps that were made in manufacture-particularly in producing homogeneous filaments-in an amazingly short space of time. Some ideas 'withered on the vine', some survived and yet others have been recycled. The conversion of recorded candlepower into lumens is not straightforward and the performance of early lamps has often been overestimated. Calculations have been made using surviving filament data, coupled with modern information on carbon filaments and fibres, to obtain from first principles the luminous efficacy of these early lamps. - Author(s): Ng Kah Hwa and J. Ng
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 25 –28
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020104
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In the past, rocket scientists-people with advanced degrees in sciences-have been employed in Wall Street to develop new financial products by using financial engineering models. Today, these people are called financial engineers. Engineering schools and mathematics departments in universities are conducting multidisciplinary courses in subjects that apply science and engineering concepts to finance. Many postgraduate degree holders in engineering choose to study financial engineering on a further postgraduate course. Financial engineering is becoming increasingly important in the new economy. The article explains what financial engineering is, discusses career prospects and professional affiliations, and presents the profiles of students who have enrolled on financial engineering courses. - Author(s): T.J. Holroyd
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 29 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020105
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The acoustic emission (AE) technique is concerned with the detection of structure-borne ultrasonic activity that is naturally generated during the operation of all structures, machinery and processes. Most examples of its application involve the purchase and use of commercially available instrumentation by end-users. To satisfy these demands AE instrumentation has evolved into various forms for use by researchers, engineers and craftpersons. The increasing credibility of AE as a robust industrial measurement technique is creating opportunities for AE sensing to be built into machinery by original equipment manufacturers. In this paper, the evolution of AE technology towards an OEM technique is described and illustrated with examples of some of the information AE can provide in the industrial environment. - Author(s): R.M. Parkin
- Source: Engineering Science & Education Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 36 –40
- DOI: 10.1049/esej:20020106
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TCS is a UK Government scheme in which 2-year innovation projects are implemented by teams comprising senior staff from a company and from a higher education institution or research organisation, as well as graduates (TCS Associates).This article describes a TCS Programme between the Mechatronics Research Centre at Loughborough University and Feedback Instruments Ltd. The objective of the work was the mechatronics workbench, a concept for a range of didactic equipment facilitating the teaching and training of mechatronics principles in industry and in further and higher education institutions on a global scale.
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Measuring and diagnostic systems in biomedical education
Fuel cells
The genesis of incandescent lamp manufacture
From rocket scientists to financial engineers
Acoustic emission sensors for OEM applications
The mechatronics workbench
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