A Brief History of Engineering Technology and a Case for Applied Engineering

This paper will present a brief history on Engineering Technology. It will then make the case why the four-year programs should be called “Applied Engineering.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Influence of shear stress applied during flow stoppage and rest period on the mechanical properties of thixotropic suspensions

We study the solid mechanical properties of several thixotropic suspensions as a function of the shear stress history applied during their flow stoppage and their aging in their solid state. We show that their elastic modulus and yield stress depend strongly on the shear stress applied during their solid-liquid transition (i.e., during flow stoppage) while applying the same stress only before or only after this transition may induce only second-order effects: there is negligible dependence of the mechanical properties on the preshear history and on the shear stress applied at rest. We also found that the suspensions age with a structuration rate that hardly depends on the stress history. We propose a physical sketch based on the freezing of a microstructure whose anisotropy depends on the stress applied during the liquid-solid transition to explain why the mechanical properties depend strongly on this stress. This sketch points out the role of the internal forces in the colloidal suspensions' behavior. We finally discuss briefly the macroscopic consequences of this phenomenon and show the importance of using a controlled-stress rheometer

Theorem Proving and Partial Proof Search for Intuitionistic Propositional Logic Using a Permutation-free Calculus with Loop-Checking

this paper the history mechanism is developed in two ways and applied t

Interpretation is Evolution: Whose History?

When I try to explain to non-history people what my degree means, I used to hit wall after all. It was so hard explaining exactly what, Applied History, really means. People understand, History, but the idea of public history has a certain brand of special sauce added on top. I used to say something akin to, doing Park Ranger things, though that never really worked. When I had a group on an historical landscape, I\u27d often just say, Public History is this. It doesn\u27t work. Those definitions aren\u27t clear. [excerpt

Systems management techniques and problems

Report is reviewed which discusses history and trends of systems management, its basic principles, and nature of problems that lend themselves to systems approach. Report discusses systems engineering as applied to weapons acquisition, ecology, patient monitoring, and retail merchandise operations