The implementation of a service learning project into a manufacturing engineering course at Robert Morris University is discussed within this paper. The project has entailed the analysis of the production system of a local company utilizing several tools available in…

By 1965, behavioral social science had become a widely accepted approach to the scientific study of man and his politics. Any uncertainty as to what constituted a proper social science seemed to be raised most deeply by writers acquainted with…

Resource allocation in Alberta's postsecondary system has changed substantially since 1994. The changes evident are designed to advance a policy agenda that includes reapportioning financial responsibility for higher education, increasing the vocational outcomes of postsecondary education and increasing the transfer…

The authors of this article established the goal to detect and evaluate the wide possibilities for strengthening the value orientation towards innovativeness in the industrial enterprises. For this purpose exploration of the valuation on the innovativeness as a value was…

This research paper provides a HR crisis management reference for Chinese organisations. The aims of this paper are to discover and describe HR crises and management situations in Chinese organisations. The research questions are as follows: 1) – How did…

The principles of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) were applied to the redesign of a manual shredding machine used to harvest breadfruit in the Republic of Haiti. The DFMA methodology examined each function of the shredder assembly to determine…

Four members of Engineers without Borders UCLA (EWB-UCLA), constituting the Thinklab! team, collected eleven laptops from various personal and corporate donors to establish the Thinklab! computer laboratory. The project aspired to provide an education resource to encourage learning and creativity…

In Spring 2004, students in Smith College's new Picker Engineering Program
teamed up with the community-based organization Nuestras Raices in Holyoke, MA to address the problem of wood-fired oven emissions posed by the successful and expanding operation of Nuestras' entrepreneurial…

The purpose of this assessment was to determine the current state of wheelchair
technology in Tanzania and the factors that prevent Tanzania’s disabled from utilizing wheelchair technology. Ninety-nine interviews of wheelchair and tricycle users, wheelchair and tricycle manufacturers, and…

The main objective of the Cornell Solar Oven Team is to help communities in the developing world design solar cookers appropriate for their specific cultural, social, economic, and environmental conditions. Food is not only a basic human need, but also…