Engineering Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Energy usage and savings has become a major factor in the design of buildings. The performance of buildings is important for the design life of the building and contributes to cost incurred in the long run. The article provides a summary of research findings on the benefits of exterior energy improvements and provides reasons why it is important to construct a building envelope energy evaluation. The purpose of carrying out an energy evaluation is developing the best approach when doing an improvement project on a building.
John L. Pierson who is an engineering services manager with over 17 years experience in the ...

The article by Bryan Hoskins who has a Ph. D. in Fire Protection Engineering dwells on the importance of structurally sound tall buildings in the context of possible disasters caused by fires or explosions which destroy the buildings in question. There is also substantial guidance on how to design an egress system in a tall building whilst also taking into account the Life safety Code.
The main thrust of the article is also based on calculating how people will behave when a tall building is evacuated. This will assist the engineer to design an egress system which has to account for ...

Authors

Xingian Bian, Zheping Yan, Tao Chen, D.L. Yu, and Yufei Zhao

Review

This article is an extremely fundamental element in ocean engineering. The article was accepted in the ocean engineering body in 2012. The article pays exclusive concern on the design, implementation, as well as concrete assessment of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The article revolves around the main role of the AUV, which is conduct survey in vibrant, mainly unfamiliar, as well as unsafe environment, as well as operational constraints in the environment.
The outlined mission of the survey is linked to multiple areas and multi-sensors. These are mainly ...

Abstract

A company started loosing its market share due to a prolonged period of the system development life cycle (SDLC). We ensure that the time-to-market is reduced in order to increase a company’s competitiveness as we also work on minimizing the requirement engineering (RE) phase of the SDLC while holding the current quality levels of product high. In solving this problem, action research was utilized to a large extent as the preferred method of inquiry. Action research is divided into five types; dialogical, participatory, canonical and dual imperative. In this study, we combined the joint application design (JAD), group decision support system ( ...

Summary

The two articles have identified climate change as one of the outstanding challenges to the engineering profession. Natural disasters are linked to Earth’s climate, which has varied significantly over the years. Engineers have failed to fully exploit the knowledge of climate change, understand its impacts and interactions, and incorporate the knowledge in a sustainable system design. For successful planning and design, engineers must be able to assess the risks associated with the occurrence of natural disasters.
Various engineering failures have been caused by climate change challenges. Engineers should therefore learn from the engineering failures of the past and ...

The field of Civil Engineering deals with the design considerations, actual construction and maintenance of both man-made and naturally built structures and environment. Most people perceive Civil Engineering as that subject whose focus is limited to only buildings and roads. In fact, there are a lot more: from roads, tunnels, canals, bridges, retaining walls, highways, dams, industrial plants, airports, water and wastewater treatment, oil refineries, just to mention a few. All these parts require expertise in Civil Engineering. Undergraduate education in this field provides all the basic subjects that every student is expected to be conversant with. They include: ...

In his article “Codes of Ethics and the Moral Education of Engineering”, Luegenbiehl claims that the current codes of ethics available to Engineers are vague and in desperate need of alteration. In other words, the aim of his paper is to demonstrate how the codes have little value and are often ignored making them unusable and thus should be thrown out altogether, “the avoidance of the codesis justified because the codes of engineering ethics, in their present form, should not be utilized as a set of ethical rules of behavior” (Luegenbiehl 137). This statement clearly demonstrates just how adamant ...

Gene Editing Techniques

1. Gene Editing – General Background
Gene editing entails inserting, deleting and replace the DNA in a genome of an organism utilizing engineered nucleases. Sections of the natural gene are replaced and completed using a synthetic DNA chain. Also, the natural repair process gets rid of the mismatches and gaps in the DNA. On the other hand, gene disruption is a technique by which the DNA fragment is utilized to replace a genome sequence with a chosen marker gene like the kanavanine resistance. DNA –binding proteins are proteins that consist of DNA-binding domains and hence have affinity for single and ...

With advent of climate change, the global temperatures are soaring at an astounding rate. Not only are people affected by this increasing temperature, but also crops, the main source of our food, have been on the receiving end. Most crops do not have the capabilities to adjust accordingly to the increasing and many of them wither and die. However, the field of genetic engineering is about to change this. Scholars and scientists in the field have been carrying out extensive research and are on the verge of making new discoveries that will aid plants to adapt to tomorrow’s ...

Polyvinylidene fluoride polymer first exhibited the piezoelectric effect in the year 1969 followed by the pyroelectric effect some years later, leading to the development of numerous applications of pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity. PVDF possesses many attractive features as a tactile or touch sensor. Tactile sensors can be used to monitor skin conditions. They find use in minimally invasive surgery. Tanaka et al. developed an active palpitation sensor to detect hypertrophy and prostate cancer. Pyroelectric and piezoelectric polymers help in energy conversion. The Energy Harvesting Eel device created by Taylor et al. used piezoelectric polymers for the conversion of mechanical flow energy ...

Question 1

A community is composed of a set of individuals. In order for it to develop, each individual should be socially conscious and responsible towards the society, as it is a core of their existence. Social responsibility according to Vanasupa is about refining the quality of relations with key stakeholders. Vanasupa further states that individuals have societal obligations to fulfill and in that way harm or help themselves or others. Engaging in acts that may impair oneself or others should actually not be classified as a social responsibility. It is more of being irresponsible and may bring retrogression to the contemporary society.
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The invention of biotechnology about genetic engineering is significant in feeding the ever-increasing world’s population. There are several methods used to ensure there is enough food globally, for instance, using of greenhouses in which every condition required by the plant to grow is provided as indicated by biotechnologist at Pioneer Hi-Bred’s research center. The challenge is that these plants grow so big and are accompanied by what have been referred to as “super-weeds”. Examples have been seen in the developed countries such as US, Germany, Australia, China and France, which uses advanced bio-engineering producing their crops. This ...

Industrial Hygiene

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Identification of the Primary Issue
The article is based upon the incident which took place on May 2000, in a popcorn manufacturing facility. The workers of the facility displayed respiratory issues and treatment showed development of bronchitis obliterans. The local health department set up an investigating because bronchitis obliterans is an uncommon respiratory problem and needed serious supervision. The case went into the hands of OSHA, they proved the disease to be a result of occupational exposure to Diacetyl. The cases interested many lawsuits after which several workers and law agents followed the safety precautions ...

The article "Scientists Talk Privately About Creating A Synthetic Human Genome", written by Andrew Pollack, is about the research made by the author and other scientists in the sphere of the coordinated oscillations. They have managed to contemplate the human genome fabrication within the modern synthetic biology. They took various forms and components, linked them in order to create differently new forms with the aim of creating the new human DNA by use of chemicals. In general, synthetic biology considers the switches of genes, and the scientists made there investigations within that sphere.
In recent years, instead of the ...

Management

1. Why It's Worth Divorcing Information Security From IT
The article provides an informative view of the changing technological environment and the need for the adoption of viable security practices that remain independent of IT. In most organizations, information security has been recognized as a subset of IT, which for the last two decades developed into a viable union as the growth of the IT sector and consequent adoption of IT processes influenced the adoption of security measures geared towards maintaining information security within the organization.
Increased technological advancements and the rise of cyber-attacks in organizations have highlighted the ...

Introduction

The topic on genetically modified foods has evolved into one of the most equivocal topics that have generated a contentious debate across various settings all over the globe. This can be accredited to the much hypothesized repercussions of genetically modified foods. Worth noting is the fact that researches carried out in the recent past such as the much hypothesized studies on the effects of genetically modified corn pollen on butterflies have radicalized the public to respond differently regarding the issues on global warming. In fact, it is as a result of such researches that the federal government has established regulatory procedures ...

Article: Sommerville, I. (2011). System documentation
One of the most important aspects of developing software systems includes documentation. This is a phase that is overlooked in the software development lifecycle. This is because of the fact that it is not part of the working system. The different stages of the software lifecycle development will depend on proper documentation for these stages to be understood. There is a need to ensure that the procedures and the processes of documenting the system are clearly understood in the design of the project. This will ensure that the software that has been developed will ...

Discussion 2

This article seeks to provide solutions to three specific issues concerning the application of information technology in enterprises as they relate to ISCA (Information system of control and auditing). These issues include maintenance of information strategy goals and businesses objectives, efficient resource utilization and control of information technology related risks. The authors propose the improvement of IT governance to address these issues. The IT governance needs to include responsibilities of Chief information officer and chief financial officer clearly defined and ensure that overall planning is detailed.

Discussion 3

This paper explores the issue of inaccurate data in relational databases. Problems of ...

The horror of the Piper Alpha disaster happened about two decades ago. Explosion and fire ripped through the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. About 167 workers were killed as a result of the Piper Alpha Disaster.
Several investigations were made but most of them were hindered by a lack of physical evidence. However, an eye-witness account made it known that light hydrocarbon got released into the surrounding when a pump was restarted after maintenance. On that terrible day, the day shift maintenance crew were said to be on some of the pumps ...

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Article Title: The performance measurement revolution: why now and what next?
Provide a summary in your own words on the article you requested to read and analyze in the following space.
The article attempts to answer some questions regarding the business performance measurement, especially two questions. 1. What is the relevance of this question now? 2. What research is required for the advancement of the business performance measurement? The article do not stop with questioning, it gives elaborate answer to the questions. For the first question i.e. what is the need for business performance measurement, ...

Unfortunately nowadays climate change and exactly global warming has become one the most serious problems of humanity. To solve this problem different solutions have been suggested. As we know the main reason causing climate change, is the enormous amount of greenhouse gases in atmosphere and the main goal to solve the problem is the reduction of these gases. In this article a new solution is suggested and that’s Human engineering and why we should take it into consideration or why we shouldn’t is argued. basically these methods will make behavioral and physical changes in humanity and if we ...

Article review

According to Harris et al professional ethics is a complex of rules and standards developed and agreed by professionals. With this set of rules they are viewed by themselves and others as professionals and act as professionals. The professional ethics is not a moral duty therefore it is a formal code regulated by societies or association of professionals. Apart from associations code of ethics is regulated and adopted by state institutions. Codes of ethics are specially developed for the particular profession. Therefore, only relevant rules are adopted in such a code. Furthermore, professionals often have to take precedence over the personal morality to ...

Article summary: Microprocessor.

A microprocessor is defined as a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of all computers hence it is the brain of computers and a number of electronic appliances found in households. It entails the Functionality of a CPU on a few integrated and single ones, IC. Krishna further brings out its functions. He terms it as a multipurpose device that can be programmable to allow input digital data, processes the data in reference to instructions depicted in the memory. The results hence are produced as the output (61). This comes out in different forms depending on receiver.
Microprocessors can also be put together to form ...

Article ReviewProject Management - Quality

Introduction
This paper sets out to review and analyze an article that offers definitions of and discusses the concept of quality in terms of project management. The subject article is entitled: “Some perspectives on quality” (2012), by Kailash Awati.

Article Summary:

The article opens with quoting two different dictionary definitions of the word “quality”, which – because they give no indication of how quality is measured – are dismissed by the author as inadequate. He quotes the PMBOK (Project Management Body Of Knowledge guide) definition of quality, which is: “the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfil requirements”, stating that this ...

Research Article Summary

Mouchawrab et al (2011), published an article in the journal of IEEE on transaction software engineering which was entitled “Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State Machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments”. The main focus of the article was on the cost effective way of testing state machine on fault detection which is model-based in comparison with structural testing. The study uses controlled experiments and review of the previous findings to reach its conclusion. Uniform modeling language UML is the main focus in the study as a method of testing. UML according to the study is the most effective ...