Essays on Actuation

(MOG-A)

Recommendation Regarding Acquisition of MOOG Inc. (MOG-A)

Abstract The purpose of this report was to analyze the company Moog Inc. and recommend on whether or not the Embry Investment Group should acquire it. This business report aims to investigate and evaluate Moog Inc.’s performance and competitiveness in the market. The Embry Investment Group wanted to conduct a background research on Moog Inc. before carrying out the process of acquisition. The business report consists of the executive summary and background information on Moog Inc., which includes their history, a summary of their function, a summary of Moog Inc.’s aims and objectives, and an assessment ...

Part 1

The advantages of top-down approach to engineering problems A top-down approach is also known as the stepwise design and in most some cases; it is used as a synonym of decomposition. It is essentially the breaking down of a system in order to gain insights into its compositional and elemental sub-systems or sub-groups. In this approach, a brief or detailed overview of the system is formulated and specifying but does not detail any of the first-level sub-systems. Each sub-system is then defined and refined in yet greater detail, and sometimes in many additional sub-system levels, till the entire specification is reduced ...

Introduction

Nebulization is the most effective method for delivering medications to patients suffering from respiratory disease. Nebulizers do not require special inhalation techniques; therefore, hospitals utilize a variety of nebulizer designs for medicinal delivery. One of these devices is called AeroEclipse, which can be operated via one of two different modes. The breath actuation mode generates aerosol only during the patient’s inspiration while the other mode allows for the continuous generation of aerosol particles regardless of the patient’s inspiratory and expiratory efforts. Also, the AeroEclipse has two different patient interfaces: the facemask and the mouthpiece. The hypothesis of this ...