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George J. Simitses - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Redesigning an Aerospace Engineering Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century: Results of a Survey
Journal of Engineering Education, 1998Co-Authors: Bruce K. Walker, San-mou Jeng, Paul D. Orkwis, Gary L. Slater, Prem K. Khosla, George J. SimitsesAbstract:This paper describes the development and results of a mail survey to determine the views of industrial, government, and academic aerospace professionals on the required content of future aerospace engineering curricula and on the skills that will be needed by aerospace graduates in the early twenty-first century. The survey is one step in an ongoing process by the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati (UC) to restructure its aerospace engineering curriculum. This paper discusses the development of the survey, its results, and the preliminary conclusions that have been drawn from the results. The survey included questions on such issues as introducing design experience to the students throughout the curriculum and presenting some topics using a more interdisciplinary approach than has traditionally been followed. While the survey was constructed primarily to gather information specific to the UC curriculum Redesign Effort, its results are relevant to other aerospace engineering programs considering or pursuing curricular Redesign.
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Aerospace engineering curriculum for the 21st century
1995Co-Authors: George J. SimitsesAbstract:The second year of the study was devoted to completing the information-gathering phase of this Redesign Effort, using the conclusions from that activity to prepare the initial structure for the new curriculum, publicizing activities to a wider engineering forum, and preparing the department faculty (Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at University of Cincinnati) for the roles they will play in the curriculum Redesign and implementation. These activities are summarized briefly in this progress report. Attached is a paper resulting from the data acquisition of this Effort, 'Educating Aerospace Engineers for the Twenty-First Century: Results of a Survey.'
Vinícius Carvalho Cardoso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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In Search of Adaptive Capacity: Development of a Strategic Management Model through a Co-Redesign Effort
2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2019Co-Authors: Adriano Proença, Vinícius Carvalho CardosoAbstract:The Strategic Management literature has been for a long time bringing the issue of Complexity to its agenda and pointing to the need for organizations to develop their Adaptive Capacity. However, the design of a management model for the strategic management of established organizations, so as to replace the traditional strategic management model — the one associated with strategic planning and the follow up and correction framework — still needs to be the object of systematic Research & Development Efforts in the field of Management Science and Engineering. This paper presents an approach in the context of such a Design Science Development Effort, where the first Redesign process, carried out in partnership with the organization where the practices are to be implemented (i.e. a core-design), is described, and its results analyzed. It presents a real-world solution for how the traditional model of strategic management can be overcome dialectically — when the initial design proposition is preserved, denied and exceeded at the same time, by the adoption of new management practices within and complementary to the standard model as adopted by the organization.
Carliss Y. Baldwin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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exploring the structure of complex software designs an empirical study of open source and proprietary code
Management Science, 2006Co-Authors: Alan Maccormack, John Rusnak, Carliss Y. BaldwinAbstract:This paper reports data from a study that seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define metrics that allow us to compare the structures of different designs. We use these metrics to compare the architectures of two software products---the Linux operating system and the Mozilla Web browser---that were developed via contrasting modes of organization: specifically, open source versus proprietary development. We then track the evolution of Mozilla, paying attention to a purposeful “Redesign” Effort undertaken with the intention of making the product more “modular.” We find significant differences in structure between Linux and the first version of Mozilla, suggesting that Linux had a more modular architecture. Yet we also find that the Redesign of Mozilla resulted in an architecture that was significantly more modular than that of its predecessor and, indeed, than that of Linux. Our results, while exploratory, are consistent with a view that different modes of organization are associated with designs that possess different structures. However, they also suggest that purposeful managerial actions can have a significant impact in adapting a design's structure. This latter result is important given recent moves to release proprietary software into the public domain. These moves are likely to fail unless the product possesses an “architecture for participation.”
Teresa Riesgo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrated hardware interfaces for modular sensor networks
VLSI Circuits and Systems III, 2007Co-Authors: Jorge Portilla, Angel De Castro, Ana Abril, Teresa RiesgoAbstract:Sensor networks have reached a great relevance during the last years. The idea is to use a large number of nodes measuring different physical parameters in several environments, which implies different research challenges (low power consumption, communication protocols, platform hardware design, etc). There is a tendency to use modular hardware nodes in order to make easier rapid prototyping as well as to be able to Redesign faster and reuse part of the hardware modules. One of the main obstacles for rapid prototyping is that sensors present heterogeneous interfaces. In this paper, a VHDL library for sensors/actuators interfaces is proposed. The purpose is to have a set of different sensor interfaces that include the most common in the sensors/actuators world, enabling the rapid connection to a new sensor/actuator. Moreover, the concept presented here may be used for new interfaces that can be easily developed. The VHDL implementation is independent of the final platform (any FPGA or ASIC) in order to minimize Redesign Effort and make easier rapid prototyping. The interfaces are installed in a UPM platform for sensor networks.
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a modular architecture for nodes in wireless sensor networks
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2006Co-Authors: Angel De Castro, Eduardo De La Torre, Teresa RiesgoAbstract:The growth of sensor networks during the last years is a fact and within this field, wireless sensor networks are growing particularly as there are many applications that demand the use of many nodes, even hundreds or thousands. More and more applications are emerging to solve several problems in data acquisition and control in different environments, taking advantage of this technology. In this context, hardware design of the sensor network node becomes critical to satisfy the hard constraints imposed by wireless sensor networks, like low power consumption, low size and low cost. Moreover, these nodes must be capable of sensing, processing and communicating physical parameters, becoming true smart sensors in a network. With this goal in mind, we propose a modular architecture for the nodes, composed of four layers: communication, processing, power supply and sensing. The purpose is to minimize the Redesign Effort as well as to make the node flexible and adaptable to many different applications. In a first prototype of the node, we present a node with a mixed design based on a microcontroller and an FPGA for the processing layer and Bluetooth technology for communications.
Bruce K. Walker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Redesigning an Aerospace Engineering Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century: Results of a Survey
Journal of Engineering Education, 1998Co-Authors: Bruce K. Walker, San-mou Jeng, Paul D. Orkwis, Gary L. Slater, Prem K. Khosla, George J. SimitsesAbstract:This paper describes the development and results of a mail survey to determine the views of industrial, government, and academic aerospace professionals on the required content of future aerospace engineering curricula and on the skills that will be needed by aerospace graduates in the early twenty-first century. The survey is one step in an ongoing process by the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati (UC) to restructure its aerospace engineering curriculum. This paper discusses the development of the survey, its results, and the preliminary conclusions that have been drawn from the results. The survey included questions on such issues as introducing design experience to the students throughout the curriculum and presenting some topics using a more interdisciplinary approach than has traditionally been followed. While the survey was constructed primarily to gather information specific to the UC curriculum Redesign Effort, its results are relevant to other aerospace engineering programs considering or pursuing curricular Redesign.