contemporary engineering issues

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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.
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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
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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
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and the People’s Republic of China.” Administrative Sc 76 ience Quarterly, 34(4), 565-
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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.
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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
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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
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