IIT Bombay alumni George Koshy (MTech '72 ME), a rocket scientist with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is the project director for Chandrayaan-1, India 's maiden unmanned moon mission.
The SHAR spent Rs.396 crore only on this moon as comparatively less amount with other countries.
One of the team members of the scientists’ team interestingly commented no technocrat from IIT’s or MIT’s not take part in this space mission launching. Annadurai the project director of Chandrayan -1 is also an engineer from regional engineering college and schooling from a backward rural village. (It is in contradiction to first item)(differnt sources of information).
http://mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?passfrom=enterprisestory&storyid=11782
Friday, October 24, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Engineering Design Processes - Web Pages
Engineering Design Processes
http://www.iisme.org/etp/HS%20Engineering-%20Engineering.pdf
Engineering Design Processes, Problem Solving &Creativity
Don L. Dekker
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie95/3a5/3a54/3a54.htm
The Engineering Design Process
http://www.design.engr.uvic.ca/uploads/engr400-designprocess.pdf
Usability Engineering Design Process
Brad Myers
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/1997spring/lecture04process.html
Engineering Design Process –An
Interdisciplinary Approach
Maureen MacGillivray, Tanya Domina , Terry Lerch, Patrick Kinnicutt
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant MI 48849
http://icee2007.dei.uc.pt/proceedings/papers/495.pdf
Issues in Mechanical Engineering Design Management
http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0406/RR3.VIPER031.pdf
Engineering design management: an information structure approach
A. YASSINE, D. FALKENBURG and K. CHELST
http://www.iese.uiuc.edu/pdlab/Papers/IJPR.pdf
TEACHING ETHICS IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS:
A LEGAL SCHOLAR’S PERSPECTIVE
Vincent M. Brannigan*
http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/get/epd/155/ross/brannigan_ethics.pdf
http://www.iisme.org/etp/HS%20Engineering-%20Engineering.pdf
Engineering Design Processes, Problem Solving &Creativity
Don L. Dekker
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie95/3a5/3a54/3a54.htm
The Engineering Design Process
http://www.design.engr.uvic.ca/uploads/engr400-designprocess.pdf
Usability Engineering Design Process
Brad Myers
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/uicourse/1997spring/lecture04process.html
Engineering Design Process –An
Interdisciplinary Approach
Maureen MacGillivray, Tanya Domina , Terry Lerch, Patrick Kinnicutt
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant MI 48849
http://icee2007.dei.uc.pt/proceedings/papers/495.pdf
Issues in Mechanical Engineering Design Management
http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0406/RR3.VIPER031.pdf
Engineering design management: an information structure approach
A. YASSINE, D. FALKENBURG and K. CHELST
http://www.iese.uiuc.edu/pdlab/Papers/IJPR.pdf
TEACHING ETHICS IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS:
A LEGAL SCHOLAR’S PERSPECTIVE
Vincent M. Brannigan*
http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/get/epd/155/ross/brannigan_ethics.pdf
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Automotive sector related stories
Electronics in the developments of car engines 0
Leaders in the automotive electronics domain are already working onstand alone intelligent sensors, which consume minimum power and comply safety and emission requirements. These initiatives are key to the next generation power train and vehicle management system?
Automotive technology is rapidly moving toward increasing safety through driver assist systems like auto pilot. These advancements in the automobile industry have been largely due to the increasing amount of electronics going into today's cars. Since the advent of electronics and software in cars from 1980 onwards, electronic con-tent inside the car has increased over the years.
Author's Details
The author is 'Practice Head' for Power train Practice at Wipro Technologies' Automotive Electronics Group. He has more than 19 years of industry experience in Embedded Software System Development, with more than six years of working experience in Automotive Electronics focusing on core powertrain domain.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1613
Leaders in the automotive electronics domain are already working onstand alone intelligent sensors, which consume minimum power and comply safety and emission requirements. These initiatives are key to the next generation power train and vehicle management system?
Automotive technology is rapidly moving toward increasing safety through driver assist systems like auto pilot. These advancements in the automobile industry have been largely due to the increasing amount of electronics going into today's cars. Since the advent of electronics and software in cars from 1980 onwards, electronic con-tent inside the car has increased over the years.
Author's Details
The author is 'Practice Head' for Power train Practice at Wipro Technologies' Automotive Electronics Group. He has more than 19 years of industry experience in Embedded Software System Development, with more than six years of working experience in Automotive Electronics focusing on core powertrain domain.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1613
Manfacturing related Stories
Real-time collaborative manufacturing 0
With massive challenges confronting the factory floor operations across the extended enterprise, will real-time collaborative manufacturing technology fulfill the specific requirement
Spurred by the growth of e-commerce, a new manufacturing model has emerged in re-sponse to customers? needs for build-to-order products. The impact on shop-floor systems is compounded by the increasing need to outsource components or entire assemblies to external suppliers. To service their customers shop operations managers still need visibility and control of delivery, quality, and configuration records of outsourced components. Supply chain management is critical to the manufacturing process and new tools are necessary to keep pace with the needs of manufacturing.
Author's Details
Courtesy: Rockwell Automation
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1586
Lean production basics
In the past, man in his quest for better standard and quality of life has allowed all other consideration to take a back seat and this accelerated the process of environmental degradation and began to threaten the earth's delicate ecological balance through which life on this planet survives. All manufacturing activities necessarily generate some form of waste. The manufacturing process does not consist of 100 per cent of conversion of material and energy inputs into usable final products; some portion of the material and energy inputs inevitably ends up as wastes. When the waste generated exceeds the maximum assimilative capacity of the environment it becomes pollution. Lean productions aims at elimination of wastes thereby reducing the environmental degradation.
Lean is about doing more with less: less time, inventory, space, people and money. Lean manufacturing (also known as the Toyota production system) is in its most basic form the systematic elimination of waste, over production, waiting, transportation, inventory, motion, over-processing, defective units and the implementation of the concepts of continuous flow and customer pull. Five areas of drive Lean manufacturing / production includes cost, quality, delivery, safety and morale.
Author's Details
S Ilangovan is Senior Lecturer and N Saravanan is Lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed University), Coimbatore.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=119
With massive challenges confronting the factory floor operations across the extended enterprise, will real-time collaborative manufacturing technology fulfill the specific requirement
Spurred by the growth of e-commerce, a new manufacturing model has emerged in re-sponse to customers? needs for build-to-order products. The impact on shop-floor systems is compounded by the increasing need to outsource components or entire assemblies to external suppliers. To service their customers shop operations managers still need visibility and control of delivery, quality, and configuration records of outsourced components. Supply chain management is critical to the manufacturing process and new tools are necessary to keep pace with the needs of manufacturing.
Author's Details
Courtesy: Rockwell Automation
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1586
Lean production basics
In the past, man in his quest for better standard and quality of life has allowed all other consideration to take a back seat and this accelerated the process of environmental degradation and began to threaten the earth's delicate ecological balance through which life on this planet survives. All manufacturing activities necessarily generate some form of waste. The manufacturing process does not consist of 100 per cent of conversion of material and energy inputs into usable final products; some portion of the material and energy inputs inevitably ends up as wastes. When the waste generated exceeds the maximum assimilative capacity of the environment it becomes pollution. Lean productions aims at elimination of wastes thereby reducing the environmental degradation.
Lean is about doing more with less: less time, inventory, space, people and money. Lean manufacturing (also known as the Toyota production system) is in its most basic form the systematic elimination of waste, over production, waiting, transportation, inventory, motion, over-processing, defective units and the implementation of the concepts of continuous flow and customer pull. Five areas of drive Lean manufacturing / production includes cost, quality, delivery, safety and morale.
Author's Details
S Ilangovan is Senior Lecturer and N Saravanan is Lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed University), Coimbatore.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=119
Design Related Stories
The Autodesk Inventor 3D series helps Hardinge reduce design time by40 per cent to compete in the new low-price band
Like many companies in the manufacturing industry, Hardinge Inc. is affected by the new global economy where exchange rates, competition from foreign markets, the U.S. recession, and the ability to create inexpensive, yet high quality products are critical business challenges. The ma-chine tool industry in which Hardinge competes is highly competitive, particularly the Japanese and German markets. In addition, due to complex nature of the machine tool industry, design times can be long, making it difficult to quickly create a product in response to an immediate opportunity.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1614
The future of CAD driving revolution in three dimensions
3d CAd software will steadily improve engineering productivity by speeding the design process, suggesting options along the way, and identifying problems earlier...
We've witnessed dramatic advances in CAD usability, speed, graphics, 'intelligence,' and automation over the past few years, but even the best 3D mechanical design packages leave plenty of room for improvement. As with every area of computing, 3D mechanical design software still needs to be faster, easier to use, and more useful for communicating with non-engineers.
Author's Details
John J McEleney is the CEO of SolidWorks Corporation. SolidWorks Corporation (www. solidworks.com) develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1598
Easy optimisation of design
Design Analysis with FEA is a technology that engineers use to simulate the physical behaviour of a design under specific operating conditions. in an exclusive interaction, Rajagopalan Varadarajan, technical Manager, Analysis Products, Asia Pacific Operations, solidWorks Corporation, explains its vital role to P K Chatterjee. Excerpts?
What is Finite Element Analysis or FEA?During the early 1990s, the product development process began evolving from the prototype-test approach to a new product development paradigm that is driven by comput-er-aided design (CAD) technology.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1560
Crossing The Design Challenge Chasm
The role of technology in the design process is increasing by the day. to ensure success, companies need to prioritise development of deep domain expertise and understand the pain areas?
The world of products is becoming increasingly complex. Succeeding in today's competitive product markets requires firms to respond more quickly to changing market demands, to differentiate more product variations for rapidly segmenting markets. Manufacturers have em-barked on continuous product improvement, delivering more features, more innovation, and better looking products all while meet-ing increasingly stringent product quality and supply chain cost targets.
Author's Details
Ajay Chamania Author: the author is senior Vice president, product engineering services, patni computer systems.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1549
Like many companies in the manufacturing industry, Hardinge Inc. is affected by the new global economy where exchange rates, competition from foreign markets, the U.S. recession, and the ability to create inexpensive, yet high quality products are critical business challenges. The ma-chine tool industry in which Hardinge competes is highly competitive, particularly the Japanese and German markets. In addition, due to complex nature of the machine tool industry, design times can be long, making it difficult to quickly create a product in response to an immediate opportunity.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1614
The future of CAD driving revolution in three dimensions
3d CAd software will steadily improve engineering productivity by speeding the design process, suggesting options along the way, and identifying problems earlier...
We've witnessed dramatic advances in CAD usability, speed, graphics, 'intelligence,' and automation over the past few years, but even the best 3D mechanical design packages leave plenty of room for improvement. As with every area of computing, 3D mechanical design software still needs to be faster, easier to use, and more useful for communicating with non-engineers.
Author's Details
John J McEleney is the CEO of SolidWorks Corporation. SolidWorks Corporation (www. solidworks.com) develops and markets software for mechanical design, analysis, and product data management. Founded in 1993, SolidWorks' mission is to unleash the power of 3D for everyone in product development and foster a collaborative user community.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1598
Easy optimisation of design
Design Analysis with FEA is a technology that engineers use to simulate the physical behaviour of a design under specific operating conditions. in an exclusive interaction, Rajagopalan Varadarajan, technical Manager, Analysis Products, Asia Pacific Operations, solidWorks Corporation, explains its vital role to P K Chatterjee. Excerpts?
What is Finite Element Analysis or FEA?During the early 1990s, the product development process began evolving from the prototype-test approach to a new product development paradigm that is driven by comput-er-aided design (CAD) technology.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1560
Crossing The Design Challenge Chasm
The role of technology in the design process is increasing by the day. to ensure success, companies need to prioritise development of deep domain expertise and understand the pain areas?
The world of products is becoming increasingly complex. Succeeding in today's competitive product markets requires firms to respond more quickly to changing market demands, to differentiate more product variations for rapidly segmenting markets. Manufacturers have em-barked on continuous product improvement, delivering more features, more innovation, and better looking products all while meet-ing increasingly stringent product quality and supply chain cost targets.
Author's Details
Ajay Chamania Author: the author is senior Vice president, product engineering services, patni computer systems.
http://www.industry20.com/ReadArticle.php?StoryId=1549
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec – Green Diesel Car
Mercedes Bluetec is diesel that is less polluting than petrol cars.
The special equipment used on the car includes a particulate emission trap as well as the oxidation catalyst. The bluetec car gets its name from the Adblue or urea tank in the rear of the car, which helps in reduction of NOx emission. Liquid urea is added into the exhaust tract and stored in the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) catalyst in the form of ammonia. This ammonia combines with the nitrogen oxide released by the engine to produce harmless nitrogen.
The Adblue tank needs to be topped at service intervals.
Mercedes has a diesel Bluetec Hybrid on the way to better the performance of this vehicle on environment as well as fuel efficiency issues.
Mercedes is not selling this vehicle in India as it needs ultra-low sulphur diesel.
http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/specials/scr/en/index_nocom_en.htm
The special equipment used on the car includes a particulate emission trap as well as the oxidation catalyst. The bluetec car gets its name from the Adblue or urea tank in the rear of the car, which helps in reduction of NOx emission. Liquid urea is added into the exhaust tract and stored in the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) catalyst in the form of ammonia. This ammonia combines with the nitrogen oxide released by the engine to produce harmless nitrogen.
The Adblue tank needs to be topped at service intervals.
Mercedes has a diesel Bluetec Hybrid on the way to better the performance of this vehicle on environment as well as fuel efficiency issues.
Mercedes is not selling this vehicle in India as it needs ultra-low sulphur diesel.
http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/specials/scr/en/index_nocom_en.htm
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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