contemporary engineering issues

Page 1 of 2 MEP 3302 S'16 Paper 1, contemporary engineering issues Hello MEP Systems and Design for Construction CONE 3302 – 001, Paper 1, contemporary engineering issues Turn in a proposal this Monday 1-Feb-2016 Turn in the formal written report Monday 22-Feb-2016 The report should go under a cover The report should have a cover sheet (not counted in the 7 to 10 pages of the report.) Use the ASCE, ASME, or IEEE format for writing a formal paper. Use the ASCE format, or IEEE format, or ASME format, they are all basically the same. Go on line or to the library to look at a few ASCE papers to get a feel for how they are presented. You should have at least five (5) hard copy references for your paper. Electronic references from the internet are not worth much, but they are acceptable. Electronic references from the internet are not hard copy references. Your paper should be about seven (7) to ten (10) pages total, of type written in 10 point type, 1 ½ spaces between lines (not 2 spaces). Graphs and figures are often necessary in the text of the paper but they don’t count as typed written text. All the graphs and figures you include will be summed and counted as 1.5 pages of written text. Next Monday you will submit ONE PARAGRAPH, ON ONE PAGE to be an outline for a formal written report topic. The paragraph should be an abstract for your proposed report. The topics will be on, “contemporary engineering issues”. The topics will be along the lines of the topics below. Some (but not all) Topics: Engineering Economics: nationwide, worldwide,: associated with manufacturing a particular product or family of products. Cars, Portland cement, steel pipe, Cu pipe, PVC pipe, electrical conductors, etc. Energy availability: Energy sources, Energy reliability, renewable energy, non-renewable energies, new energy recovery techniques, etc. Energy usage: nationwide, worldwide, : for living, transportation, communications, building construction, roadway construction, pipeline construction, manufacturing, etc Infrastructure: aging roads, aging bridges, aging underground pipelines, aging electrical grid, aging electrical generation, solar flares, global warming, green building construction, disposal or recycling non-toxic waste, disposal of toxic waste, cleanup of toxic waste, etc. Safety issues: work place safety, equipment design safety, engineering disasters causing injuries and loss of life, engineering practices that caused injuries or loss of life, etc . These are not the only topics you may write on, you may choose another. I will choose whether it is acceptable. All the issues have dollars ($) tied to them. It would be better to tie cost to British Thermal Units (BTU) or Joules (J) for these efforts rather than to use dollars or any other monetary measure. The monetary measure change with time. The energy for a task is mostly constant unless a new technology reduces the energy necessary for a particular task. A new technology may generate a new waste product that must be disposed of, in a safe fashion. Page 2 of 2 MEP 3302 S'16 Paper 1, contemporary engineering issues Bobby CONE 3302 MEP Papers (7 to-10 pages, 1.5 spaced, 10, or 11 or 12 pt type) ASCE formatting (ASME, IEEE, …) 1. Under a Cover (10%) 2 Cover Sheet, (10%) 3. Abstract, (15%) 4. Introduction, (15%) 5. Discussion, (20%) 6. Data/Tables/Graphs (if relavant), 7. Conclusion, (10%) 8. References, (1pt/internet, 3pts/hardcopy up to 20%) 1 – Professor Emeritus, Example University, 11017 South St., Waltham, MA. [email protected] 2 – Assistant Professor, Architecture. Another College, 145 North Ave., Bangor, ME 1 A Well-Titled Nonsensical Example Paper 2 3 Mary Q. Contrary1, John A. Doe2 4 5 6 Abstract 7 Praesent pretium semper lacus. Fusce sit amet augue ac augue porttitor commodo sit amet 8 vitae nunc. Sed sit amet consectetur mauris. Sed pretium tincidunt neque, in blandit risus 9 luctus nec. Donec eget varius erat. Aliquam porttitor est quis justo commodo id facilisis 10 erat convallis. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Mauris faucibus, magna nec tempus 11 pretium, turpis lectus vulputate mi, sed aliquam velit nibh at enim. Vestibulum 12 elementum purus semper tortor consectetur dictum. Integer vehicula, augue eu hendrerit 13 faucibus, risus purus mattis nulla, non varius ligula elit a odio. Maecenas nisi purus, 14 adipiscing eget euismod egestas, congue blandit nunc. Curabitur massa ante, tincidunt 15 quis lacinia ut, facilisis eget felis. 16 17 Introduction 18 Proin faucibus erat a massa ultricies vulputate. 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Mauris faucibus, magna nec tempus 30 pretium, turpis lectus vulputate mi, sed aliquam velit nibh at enim. Vestibulum 31 elementum purus semper tortor consectetur dictum. Integer vehicula, augue eu hendrerit 32 faucibus, risus purus mattis nulla, non varius ligula elit a odio. Maecenas nisi purus, 33 adipiscing eget euismod egestas, congue blandit nunc. Curabitur massa ante, tincidunt 34 quis lacinia ut, facilisis eget felis. 35 A Third Heading 36 Maecenas sagittis mattis varius. Aliquam et vulputate quam. Fusce id eros in leo 37 vulputate volutpat vel nec justo. Praesent purus risus, cursus sed pellentesque at, 38 malesuada at libero. 39 40 Conclusions 41 Donec eget varius erat. Aliquam porttitor est quis justo commodo id facilisis erat 42 convallis. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. 43 ? Praesent pretium semper lacus. Fusce sit amet augue ac augue porttitor commodo sit 44 amet vitae nunc. Sed sit amet consectetur mauris. Sed pretium tincidunt neque, in 45 blandit risus luctus nec. ? Morbi at erat ac leo 46 lacinia tincidunt eu et orci. Aenean blandit libero quis urna 47 placerat ut adipiscing diam porta. 48 ? Nullam quis justo enim. Vestibulum vitae gravida arcu. In malesuada suscipit eros, sit 49 amet ullamcorper nibh ornare sed. 50 51 52 References 53 Albanese, R. (1994). “Team-building process: key to better project results.” Journal of 54 Management in Engineering, 10(6), 36-44. 55 Albanese, R. and Haggard, R. (1993). Team building: improving project performance. 56 Construction Industry Institute: Austin, TX. 57 Awasthi, N.V., Chow, C.W. and Wu, A. (1998). “Performance measure and resource 58 expenditure choices in a teamwork environment: the effects of national culture.” 59 Management Accounting Research, 9(2), 119-138. 60 Berdie, D.R., Anderson, J.F. and Niebuhr, M.A. (1986). Questionnaire: design and use. 61 Scarecrow Press: Lanham, MD. 62 Black, C., Akintoye, A. and Fitzgerald, E. (2000). “An analysis of success factors and 63 benefits of partnering in construction.” International Journal of Project Management, 64 18(6), 423-434. 65 Chen, X.M., Bishop, J.W. and Scott, K.D. (2000). “Teamwork in China: where reality 66 challenges theory and practice.” In Li, J.T., Tsui, A.S. and Weeldon, E. (Eds.) 67 Management and organizations in the Chinese context, Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, 68 269-282. 69 Das, T.K. and Teng, B.S. (1998). “Between trust and control: developing confidence in 70 partner cooperation in alliances.” Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 491-512. 71 Dickinson, T.L., McIntyre, R.M., Ruggeberg, B.J., Yanushefski, A., Hamill, L.S. and 72 Vick, A.L. (1992). A conceptual framework for developing team process measures of 73 decision-making performance (Final Report). Naval Training Systems Center, Human 74 Factors Division: Orlando, FL. 75 Earley, P.C. (1989). “Social loafing and collectivism: a comparison of the United States Comment [V3]: See here for instructions on formatting references. Note that references are ALPHABETIZED and NOT NUMBERED. and the People’s Republic of China.” Administrative Sc 76 ience Quarterly, 34(4), 565- 77 581. 78 Earley, P.C. and Gibson, C.B. (1998). “Taking stock in our progress on individualism 79 collectivism: 100 years of solidarity and community.” Journal of Management, 24(3), 80 265-304. 81 82 Table 1: An Empirical Evaluation of Annual Celebratory Donations Good Birthday Gifts Bad Birthday Gifts Cash Chronic disease Concert tickets Half-eaten sandwich Hugs Socks 83 84 Table 2: Evaluation of commonly occurring spheres Sphere Color Approximate fuzziness Size Population Tennis ball Lime green Somewhat fuzzy Medium-small n/a Basketball Orange Not fuzzy Sort of big n/a Earth Green & brown Varies Really big ~7 billion 85 No figures here. No figure caption list here. 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