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This tutorial is designed to introduce engineers whose work deals with issues of sustainability to ethical considerations and the IEEE Code of Ethics. Dr. Starrett defines sustainable engineering as the process of using energy and resources at a rate that does not compromise the natural environment, or the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. He reviews two codes of ethics (the IEEE Code of Ethics and the ASCE Code of Ethics) that can provide guidance for engineers faced with ethical dilemmas in this area

This tutorial is designed to introduce engineers in the biomedical field to ethical considerations (e.g., use of human subjects in research) related to practice in this field. Dr. Starrett reviews the Biomedical Engineering Society Code of Ethics and discusses a case study involving fabricated data and other ethical transgressions of a noted researcher. He focusses on the ethical principles that were violated in this example and offers suggestions on how biomedical engineers can avoid making similar errors

This paper presents a study of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) needs for the Facilities Engineering Division (PENGD) of NASA Langley Research Center. PENGD currently has many more projects than resources. Government cuts and reductions in personnel promise to make the situation worse. PENGD needs to increase the throughput of its existing staff while also decreasing the product cycle of a project. The existing design scenario with PC based CAD is used as a baseline to evaluate possible improvements and cost savings by implementing workstation based CAD with feature-based solid modeling. A detailed case study is used to illustrate and compare the differences in designing with AutoCAD1 and ProlEngineer. Equivalent hourly engineering rates are calculated for each system based on a four year life cycle. The results of the case study and engineering rates are used to determine the actual cost of designing with both CAD systems. A cost-benefit analysis is used to determine the cost effectiveness of continued use of PC based CAD with complex design projects versus the purchase and integration of workstation based CAD. My findings conclude that projects with any degree of uncertainty benefit from workstation based CAD. Solid modeling provides a mechanism for thorough study which reduces modifications, rework, and schedule delays. The associative database greatly reduces the amount of time required to create and update drawings. As uncertainty increases, the savings from using workstation based CAD over PC based CAD also increases. ; Master of Engineering

"Union Carbide Corporation Nuclear Division operating the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant for the Atomic Energy Commission under U.S. government contract W-7405-eng-26." ; Y-1480 ; "Contract W-7405-eng-26 with the US Atomic Energy Commission". ; "Date Issued: May 4, 1965 ; Report Number Y-1480 ; Engineering and Equipment ; TID-4500 (38th Edition)." ; "March 1, 1965". ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-94). ; Contract : ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods

Engineers are trained to think analytically and base their technical decisions on relevant facts and research. Nonetheless, engineers will encounter many situations involving ethical questions during their careers. In order to improve their ability to make ethical decisions engineers require additional tools and training. These include an understanding of the relevant codes of ethics and learning to recognize ethical challenges and solutions through a case study approach. In this tutorial the author discusses how people commonly understand the definition of ethics and reviews the IEEE Code of Ethics. The author also provides a guided review of ethical decision-making using two case studies. Three historical approaches to ethical decision-making are also introduced. The author provides several suggestions and additional references for improving an engineer's ability to recognize, understand and respond to ethical challenges in professional situations

PetaFLOPS computing power is the newest goal of Federal Government agencies, in the increasingly active supercomputer field. To obtain this performance goal by the year 2007, sophisticated parallel processing designs are required. To effectively create network interfaces/routers for interprocessor communications in such computer systems, it requires optimal hardware and software codesigns. An interface is presented for the NJIT New Millennium Computing Point Design, a system that targets 100 TeraFLOPS performance by the year 2005. The router handles store-and-forward switching and wormhole routing for the system.

This tutorial is designed to assist those who work with engineering professionals who are new to the field in navigating ethical dilemmas. Engineers who are just entering the profession will inevitably confront ethical challenges in their work. Supervisors and more experienced colleagues can help new engineers handle these challenges successfully by discussing codes of professional ethics as well as sharing their experiences in resolving ethical dilemmas. Dr. Starrett reviews the IEEE Code of Ethics in depth and explains methods traditionally used to make ethical decisions. The author suggests that viewers consider ethical challenges they have encountered professionally and review their responses in light of the ethical principles presented in order to derive maximum benefit from the tutorial