Often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. Instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as FE structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. Yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

Value Engineering (VE) is the title given to a set of value techniques applied during the design or ‘engineering’ phases of a construction project that has its origins in the US manufacturing industry. Currently, value engineers attempt to infer design rationale information from drawings and specifications for carrying out the value engineering analysis. Access to design rationales can help val...

In this paper a method is presented in details to solve a nonlinear partial differential equation which has many applications in engineering fields. The boundary condition is mixed to be able to define the value of function on its variation on the boundary. Examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the method.

To prepare students for the serious ethical dilemmas encountered in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), higher education educators strive to influence students’ value development. Despite this goal, little is known about value development in undergraduate engineering education. Survey data from the 2008-2009 national administration of the revised College Student Experience...

Big data value engineering for business model innovation requires a drastically different approach as compared with methods for engineering value under existing business models. Taking a Design Science approach, we conducted an exploratory study to formulate the requirements for a method to aid in engineering value via innovation. We then developed a method, called Eco-ARCH (EcoARCHitecture) fo...

Systems architecting, requirements engineering and model-based systems engineering are the dominant schools of thought in systems engineering today. They evolved in response to each other, partly in agreement and partly in opposition. To some extent they invented their own terminology and semantics. Due to overlaps, systems engineering as a whole lost some coherence of terminology and semantics...