Project engineering

About: Project engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 609 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8869 citations.

Berlin's new powerhouse [combined cycle power plant]

Abstract: The authors describe a state-of-the-art combined-cycle, cogeneration plant, designed to provide the heart of reunited Berlin with heat and air conditioning as well as electricity, which, they argue, provides a model worthy of emulation.

Getting to Yes: The Sustainable Energy Modeling Project (SEMPro) Model of Infrastructure Siting

Abstract: Social, economic and political constraints are critical barriers to the development of new renewable energy supplies. SEMPro is an agent-based, predictive analytics model that simulates how competing interests shape energy siting outcomes. Using a Southern California high voltage transmission line as a case study, we integrate project engineering, institutional, land use attributes and residential demographics. We model citizen attitudinal, Community Based Organization emergence and behavioral diffusion of support and opposition with cooperative game theory. We also simulate the competitive policy process and interaction between agency stakeholders using a non-cooperative game theory. We find CBO formation, utility and NGO messaging have a positive impact on citizen comments submitted as a part of the Environmental Impact Statement process, while project need and procedure have a negative impact. NGO and utility messaging modestly influences citizen opinions, but have the counterintuitive effect of increasing citizen opposition as citizens are mobilized by stronger messaging. As citizens communicate and across greater distances, less CBOs form but they are more effective and increase the number of citizen messages.

Technology enabled curriculum for a first-year engineering program

Abstract: For the past three years, all first year engineering students at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology have enrolled in a common introduction to engineering course. The course features a common curriculum contained on a course CD, utilization of technology tools, an engineering design project, and introduction to technical writing. All sections of the course are taught in a single classroom that is set up with tables and equipped with wireless notebook PCs. Technology tools are focused on collection, manipulation, and presentation of data using electronic portfolios, a permanent digital archive, spreadsheet tools, and data loggers. The use of spreadsheets for solving engineering problems is illustrated through example problems and several tutorial exercises that are both contained on the curricular CD. Portable data loggers are utilized in lab projects for collecting data that is then manipulated and analyzed on a spreadsheet. The design project requires students teams to function within specified design parameters, construct a simple device that is then used to collect data, analyze the data, and present the results both in an oral presentation and a formal technical document. In this paper, examples of technology uses in the curricular materials, engineering problems, and design projects used will be illustrated and discussed.

Managing Lifecycles of Complex Projects

Abstract: In this paper, Product Lifecycle Management ("PLM") refers to both the software application framework and discipline for electronically authoring and managing product related data, information and knowledge in large and complex engineering projects. Properly implemented, PLM revolutionizes the way projects are managed and can greatly reduce project costs by comparison to paper-based authoring and management systems. This paper summarizes some of the concepts developed over 17 years analyzing, controlling and designing systems to manage technical data, documentation and knowledge relating to various aspects of defense projects.