My academic career of more than 50 years has been committed to involving undergraduate and graduate students in the engineering design process [1]. A variety of experiences—childhood model making, vocational high school education, draftsman jobs, and military assignments during World War II—have convinced me that design is best learned by the necessity of reaching wellestablished and defined de...

Today mechanical engineering is one of the most dynamically developing industries. The products this industry are becoming more and complex, requiring continuous introduction new high technologies into production process. In addition, change in preferences consumers associated with an increase degree automation robotization their processes leads to need apply flexible product design approaches....

what is engineering and who is an engineer that changed our world so drastically? based on what type of education the engineers have gained the power to do this? what should we do for becoming successful in our professional career? engineers receive competencies in one of the engineering branches during their school years but less effort is made to answer the above questions. in other word, uni...

The freshman engineering program at the University of Tennessee consists of two 4 hour courses, Physics for Engineers I and II. Calculus I or higher is a co-requisite for Physics for Engineers I. The content of the Physics for Engineers courses is an introduction to engineering physics (approximately the first 20-25 chapters of an introductory engineering physics textbook), and an introduction ...

Many optimization techniques have been proposed since the inception of engineering optimization in 1960s. Traditional mathematical modeling-based approaches are incompetent to solve the engineering optimization problems, as these problems have complex system that involves large number of design variables as well as equality or inequality constraints. In order to overcome the various difficultie...