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108952
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been helping students to become more literate in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), empowering students to become innovators, inventors, self-reliant, and logical thinkers. As technologically proficient problem-solvers, they will be able to compete as skilled "knowledge workers" in the twenty-first century. The laboratory hopes these efforts will help foster development of a future professional workforce prepared in STEM fields that address sensors, power/propulsion/energy, advanced materials/manufacturing, human performance, and air systems. Achieving and sustaining world-class expertise in these technology areas is vitally important to the AFRL's science and technology mission. Its STEM efforts span the whole of its enterprise. The authors report on progress made through specific AFRL STEM-related initiatives in Ohio, New Mexico, and California.
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In order to optimise the benefits of oil and gas resources, Local Content Regulations (LCRs) have escalated in the last 15 years among oil-rich economies. In Nigeria, the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act (NOGICDA) gives the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) the rights to drive policies and set targets for the growth of Nigerian Content (also known as local content) in the oil and gas industry. Despite the increased in-country engineering capacity observed as result of NOGICDA, the non-disclosure of basic details of contracts in the oil and gas industry creates difficulties in accessing local content contribution to Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Thus, a simple model based on in-country spends is proposed for the estimation of change in GDP as result of increased contracts to Nigerian companies. This proposed model is used to estimate the impact of Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN) spend on local contractors since 2010. The study is limited to SCiN since it has consistently published the total value of contract awarded to Nigerian companies since 2010. A yearly contribution of $5.6 billion to Nigeria’ GDP is estimated as a result the contracts awarded to Nigerian companies by SCiN.
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124716
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The article provides various historical anecdotes regarding efforts to engineer weather and climate. It includes the 1841 theories of American meteorologist James Pollard Espy to promote rain by igniting massive fires, the 1896 findings by Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius that found a direct correlation between a rise in carbon dioxide levels and rising temperatures across the globe, and the 1967-1972 Operation Popeye which used cloud seeding as a U.S. military tactic during the Vietnam War and its associated military operations in Cambodia and Laos.
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154786
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The importance of science in development has been increasingly recognised in development discourses and policy since 2000. Engineering is less visible though engineering and engineers are important for the building and maintenance of transport, water, energy, industrial, informatics, urban and health systems. This article aims to investigate why engineering has not received more emphasis, including why development engineering has not been institutionalised like tropical medicine. It explores the nature of engineering in development, highlights recent efforts to headline engineering for development and, using analyses of what engineers know and do inside international development, suggests that its profile and effectiveness is emerging.
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130739
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When Nylon 66 was irradiated by an optimum dose of e-beam in presence of polyurethane as impact modifierin combination with triallyl is ocyanurate as cross-linker, a superior performance was observed for the irradiated nylon 66. Significant improvement of properties, such as hardness, tensile strength, flexural modulus and impact strength was obtained on radiation processing of nylon 66 by e-beam. More interestingly, percent water absorptionof such irradiated nylon 66 was reduced substantially. Improvement of mechanical properties and reduction of water absorption of irradiated nylon 66 were due to the cross-linking of the polymer system. Increase of cross-linkingwith dose of e-beam was verified by the increased gel content at higher doses. Irradiated nylon 66 showed betterdimensional stability than those achieved with pristine nylon 66. The increase in dimensional stability may beattributed to reduction in crystallinity with increasing dose of e-beam as revealed by DSC studies.
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124304
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China has made improving the thermal efficiencies of its coal-fired power plants a national priority. Official data show that the average thermal efficiency was enhanced from 31.3% in 2000 to 33.2% in 2005 and 36.9% in 2010. This paper aims to assess the validity of China's claimed improvement, examine major responsible factors, and identify future improvement opportunities. Recognizable factors can account for about 80% of the reported progress in the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) and about 85% in the 11th (2006-2010) to largely verify the reported progress. Engineering approaches-especially replacing inefficient power units with more efficient ones-are the largest contributing factors, while optimization approaches-particularly electricity dispatch-remains inefficient in China. In 2010, the explainable efficiency improvement might have avoided around 500 million tons of CO2 emissions. In comparison, although the United States was fairly static with most of its coal-fired power plants seriously outdated, it has more efficient electricity dispatch. In China's ongoing 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), better dispatch patterns could be more important as opportunities for improvement through engineering approaches have been largely exhausted.
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108945
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The economic greatness that the United States achieved in the last half of the twentieth century was not assured at the end of World War II. The ascension and U.S. economic juggernaut was secured by three seminal events: (1) the passage of the G.I. Bill; (2) the Soviets' Sputnik launch and the start of the Space Age; and (3) John F. Kennedy's challenge to go to the moon and the subsequent Moon Race. These events spurred the United States to seize and retain leadership in space technology development and space activities; the nation invested in education systems and students, and encouraged a competition that brought out the best from its engineers and scientists and inspired important efforts. The resulting technical genius has fostered advances in a wide variety of other technologies, improving the nation's quality of life. The United States now faces a difficult road ahead unless something is done to reverse recent downward trends in science, technology, engineering, and math education. The authors ask: where is our next G.I. Bill, Sputnik, or Moon Race?
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Whether technological superiority guarantees air superiority remains a fundamental question in air power theory. Focusing on World War II (1939–45) and the Korean conflict (1950–53), this article considers the Cotton Aerodynamic Anti-G (CAAG) suit as a putatively “war-winning” innovation. Championed by the Royal Australian Air Force, it lost out to the Canadian Franks Flying Suit worn by Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm flyers, and to U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Navy anti-G outfits. Lacking consistent policy, priority, and pilot support, the CAAG suit’s proponents failed to convert its technological advantages into doctrinal and tactical benefits.
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The extreme conditions of all extraterrestrial environments restrict freedom of movement and encourage social, political and economic arrangements friendly to tyranny. However, deliberately engineered measures might be taken to maximise liberty in the space environment. For example, space settlements can be engineered to maximise the number of oxygen, food, water and power systems to disallow coercive regimes the opportunity to control single machines on which entire settlements depend. Spacesuits can be engineered to be easily manufactured and maintained, thus maximising the number available to occupants of a settlement and minimising the extent to which bespoke and difficult-to-service suits restrict freedom of movement. Other examples of this approach to engineering are provided, which we might term ‘freedom engineering’. Although attempts to deliberately engineer freedom into a settlement turn on the definition of ‘freedom’, it is suggested that objective criteria in the enhancement of certain types of individual and collective liberty can be used to determine when an act of freedom engineering is likely to be beneficial for a settlement. The space policy implications of these ideas are discussed.
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002943
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Norwood, ARTECH House, 1987.
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xvi,371p.:figures and tablesHbk
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0890062293
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 030348 | 621.38/ELB 030348 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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033489
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London, Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., 1980.
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493p.
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0710600488
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| 019388 | 629.10321/GUN 019388 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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108947
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2011.
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Problems facing the United States and the world today are complex, and the solutions require an innovative workforce, a population with critical thinking and problem solving skills. As the need for people in science, technology, engineering, and math careers continues to grow, the number of students graduating American universities with degrees in these disciplines is decreasing. Reversing this trend requires action at the national (macro-level), and at the classroom (micro-level). For the past three years, Tech Matters has been working with a local university and the kindergarten through 12th-grade school district to address barriers to the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math in the classroom through development and use of computer gaming and simulations. The successful proof of concept of Games for Learning Collaboratory has paved the way for further development.
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108943
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167094
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India’s programme for biometric registration, Aadhaar, is organised through engineering concept work that depends upon three distinctive claims for the ‘social’ as human condition: (1) the social as ‘socialism’, the failed premise of Nehruvian decolonisation understood to have placed the poor into a condition of bare life; (2) the social-yet-to-come as the effect of a proper distribution of the good termed ‘service’, to bring the poor into a self-ameliorating form of life; and (3) the social as the affective entanglements that family, caste and religious ties of biography demand, ties that divert service from proper distribution. Within the concept-world of Aadhaar, such entanglements prevent the social-yet-to-come, demanding a form of government that can produce a political subject outside of biography, which for the engineers is achieved by conceiving of India as a database, an archive prone to the duplication of its elements, and thus governing India as one would govern a database: by continually ‘de-duplicating’ it.
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2011.
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A senior panel of military and civil space, industrial, and academia leaders recently came together under the auspices of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to examine the state of science, technology, engineering, and math education within the United States. They concluded that there is a risk to continued U.S. global space leadership without an effective response and educational innovation and funding for technical challenges that are key to that response. This report summarizes the observations made by the panel members.
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045039
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New York, McGraw-Hall Book Company, 1971.
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xiv, 286p.Hbk
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108954
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2011.
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The research, innovation, and engineering triumphs of the United States over the past century are a child of a technologically and scientifically superior workforce. That expertise is at risk, however. Recent challenges to acquiring new space systems are attributable, in significant measure, to the loss of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills and experience. Evolving space mission needs demand improved STEM skills and experience across the spectrum of the space workforce. Unfortunately, many remedial programs have failed, and economic reality confronts the government, industry, and academic establishments as they are challenged to develop education and professional development programs responsive to STEM needs. To continue its leadership in global space activities, the United States needs to employ a comprehensive strategy to ensure it has a workforce with the skills to achieve short-term and long-term success. It can do this by increasing the numbers, and improving the quality of education and academic development of STEM-educated students, graduates, teachers, professors, and their mentors.
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