The estimation of the manufacturing cost of a part in all phases of the design stage is crucial to concurrent engineering. To better estimate the cost for a product, data must be available from both engineering systems and business systems. This paper presents a cost estimation system being developed to support design time cost estimation using the Federated Intelligent Product EnviRonment (FIP...

This paper reports on a Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC) design-build-test project focused on the development of a fully autonomous system for landing Navy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on transiting ships at sea. Our NEEC team of engineering students researched image processing techniques, estimation frameworks, and control algorithms to collaboratively learn and train in Navy-relev...

manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market. this paper is intended to investigate implementation of value engineering (ve) technique into the product design concept for necessary changes in design of the humidifier system in order to lower unnecessary costs and to increase quality of the p...

An integrated teaching and learning (ITL) program was initiated in 1992 by a team of faculty and students who articulated an ambitious vision for undergraduate engineering education reform: ` . . . to pioneer a multidisciplinary learning environment that integrates engineering theory with practice and promotes creative, team-oriented problem-solving skills.' The ITL Laboratory was dedicated in ...

Training of students on software engineering methods and practices demands more than the development of a project by a team. It demands effective training and monitoring on the software process, process tracking and team dynamics. Furthermore, lack of a dedicated space for team activities acerbates software development by teams and does not foster team effectiveness. We established a set of Sof...