For the project, plot the results for the length of AD, the force of the collar on AC at D, and the required moment at A to keep the mechanism in equilibrium as functions of the angle at B.

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Robot Mechanism

Robot Mechanism: Part A, Baseline Mechanism

You are on a design team working on a robotic mechanism and have been assigned the analysis of part of the mechanism. The part for you to analyze is shown in the image. This linkage has an actuator at point A that needs to apply a couple at point B of up to 2.5 Nm. The angle range at point B is from 20 to 120 degrees. You need to determine the maximum torque (couple) required of the actuator at point A and the minimum length of rod AC.

For the project, you will plot the results for the length of AD, the force of the collar on AC at D, and the required moment at A to keep the mechanism in equilibrium as functions of the angle at B.

 

Robot Mechanism: Part B, Modified Mechanism

The lead designer would like to move the actuator at A 100 mm to the left. You need to analyze the new mechanism with the distance from A to B now modified to 250 mm.

Tasks:

Find the maximum torque (couple) by the actuator at point A to maintain the system in Equilibrium

Determine variables needed to complete task

Write code to complete task

 

What is the risk posture for each particular system as it contributes to the overall risk posture of the organization? In addition, how do all the systems’ risks sum up to an organization’s computer security risk posture?

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Architecture & Risk Posture Discussion

Given multivariate, multidimensional events generated by adaptive human agents, perhaps it would not be too far a stretch to claim that no two events are precisely the same. Given the absence of actuarial data, what can a poor security architect do?

2)Length:  Minimum of 600 words

Faced with the need to deliver risk ratings for your organization, you will have to substitute the organization’s risk preferences for your own. For, indeed, it is the organization’s risk tolerance that the assessment is trying to achieve, not each assessor’s personal risk preferences.

  1. What is the risk posture for each particular system as it contributes to the overall risk posture of the organization?
  2. How does each attack surface – its protections if any, in the presence (or absence) of active threat agents and their capabilities, methods, and goals through each situation—add up to a system’s particular risk posture?
  3. In addition, how do all the systems’ risks sum up to an organization’s computer security risk posture?

 

 

Review the resources for this week, and reflect on how healthcare administration leaders must exercise decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Consider how you might engage in decision making under uncertainty.

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DDHA 8800 WU Decision Making Under Uncertainty Biotechnical Engineering Case Study

As you have examined this week, healthcare administration leaders are expected to exercise decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Perhaps more so than any other business, healthcare administration leaders face multiple challenges since ineffective business practices might not result in poor performance with their bottom lines and, if not, it might negatively impact patient safety. Understanding how to appropriately exercise decision making under conditions of uncertainty is a useful skill for effective healthcare administration practice.

For this Assignment, review the resources for this week, and reflect on how healthcare administration leaders must exercise decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Consider how you might engage in decision making under uncertainty, as you complete the Assignment and the Case Study 6.4 on pages 275-276 of your course text.

The Assignment: (3–5 pages)

  • Complete Case Study 6.4 (Developing a Helicopter Component for the Army) on pages 275-276 of your course text.

 

Conduct a research then write a research paper discussing on Refrigeration set up with one compressor and two evaporators with individual expansion valves.

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Refrigeration set up

Conduct a research then write a research paper discussing on Refrigeration set up with one compressor and two evaporators with individual expansion valves.

 

Did your time at McPherson College meet the expectations you had beforehand? What do you feel you gained (personal, educational, skill development) during your time at McPherson College? What do you feel you have gained (personal, educational, skill development) after your time at McPherson College?

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Engineer to Win (Carroll Smith)

Reflection Paper

Options for Reading:

  • Car Guys vs. Bean Counters (Bob Lutz)
  • Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography (Rinsey Mills)
  • DeLorean (John Z. DeLorean)
  • Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile (Philip S. Egan)
  • Engineer to Win (Carroll Smith)
  • Glory Days: When Horsepower and Passion Ruled Detroit (Jim Wangers)
  • Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story (Michael Moritz and Barrett Seaman)
  • Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire (Richard Bak)
  • Charles F. Kettering: A Biography (Thomas Boyd)
  • Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry that Divided America (James P. Duffy)
  • My Forty Years with Ford (Charles E. Sorensen)
  • On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (J. Patrick Wright)
  • The Custom Body Era (Hugo Pfau)
  • The Birth of Chrysler Corporation and Its Engineering Legacy (Carl Breer)
  • Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagon Beetle (Andrea Hiott)

Topics to include (but not limited to):

Did your time at McPherson College meet the expectations you had beforehand?

What do you feel you gained (personal, educational, skill development) during your time at McPherson College?

What do you feel you have gained (personal, educational, skill development) after your time at McPherson College?

In what ways did you find your college classes helpful in preparing you for your time after McPherson College?

In what ways could your classes have been better in helping you prepare?

What career goals did you have upon starting at McPherson College? Did those change during your time and afterwards?

 

Research about the fourth industrial revolution in the food manufacturing industry, and how the industry 4.0 technologies can be used to increase efficiency increase productivity, and profits, reduce waste, plus other advantages.

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Industry 4.0 applications in the food industry

Use scientific literatures/journals and peer-reviewed articles as much as possible and reference appropriately. Google scholar can be used for the research. References can be more than 40 sources.

Research about the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) in the food manufacturing industry, and how the industry 4.0 technologies can be used to increase efficiency increase productivity, and profits, reduce waste, plus other advantages.

It can also mention how smart sensors are used in the machines. Maintenance of the machine is also an application such as in “machine condition monitoring”.

You can write how AI (artificial intelligence), advanced robotics, and internet of things (IOT) can be used in the food manufacturing industry.

Other technologies can be mentioned as well. A focus should be on the APPLICATION of industry 4.0 in the food in industry and mention Australian companies using such technologies.

 

Calculate and plot a stress-strain graph. Calculate and print the Young’s modulus (E) (linear regression). Calculate and print the 0.2% proof stress, ultimate tensile strength and failure strain. Calculate and print the energy absorbed for each material at high and low temperature.

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Lab report

Executive summary
For your final lab, the objective is to investigate the modes of failure of various materials, compare material properties by performing standardised tests, and discuss the most appropriate materials for a rod and axis assembly. You will have carried out the necessary experiments for this lab earlier in the year. This document describes the necessary steps for analysing this data using Python and writing up your report. Please note that whilst this instructional note uses the lab template in places the tone of English is not written as a lab report.


Lab Guidelines

1. Introduction
During the year every student has had the opportunity to either attend a physical materials lab if in Bristol or can view the equivalent video lab with access to the data. Students that did the on–campus lab but has since become a distant memory can prompt themselves with the video lab but also refer back to the notes they made in the green lab books provided at the start of term.

2. Expected Report Contents
The report must follow the supplied template, available in session 1 of the BlackBoard (BB) course. It should contain all the report sections (namely, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References) and answer the key research question, which material is most suitable and why, whilst the required pin diameter should also be stated. The report should cover all of the key points highlighted in the original guidance contained within the template. The peer feedback sessions have covered the key elements of the marking criteria for this assessment and the peer feedback questions are a valuable source of information to check your submission against. Reflecting upon what you considered both positives and negatives regarding other colleagues’ reports will be invaluable in obtaining a Pass for this unit.
Additional advice
It is suggested that you download the template again and go through section by section what you believe the key criteria for a successful approach would be given the guidance. Then, map this to
the peer feedback questions, you should hopefully find a close mapping. This short exercise will assist your internalisation of the assessment criteria.

3. Using Python
A single python script should be used for all calculations and plotting. The objective is to write a program that imports the raw data for the three materials for tension, torsion and impact, then analyses and creates the following plots. Specifically, the program will carry out the following calculations and plotting:

For tension
1) Calculate and plot a stress–strain graph.
2) Calculate and print the Young’s modulus (E) (linear regression).
3) Calculate and print the 0.2% proof stress, ultimate tensile strength and failure strain.

For torsion
1) Calculate and plot a stress–strain graph.
2) Calculate and print the Shear modulus (G).
3) Toughness (trapezium rule of each material).

For impact
1) Calculate and print the energy absorbed for each material at high and low temperature.

The appropriately labelled plots should be included in the results section of the report along with the calculated values presented correctly also within the results section of the report. The .py file should be submit as a separate file along with your written lab report.

Evaluate the risks associated with moving from a traditional construction method for constructing concrete formwork, to an advanced method that will be designed to take advantage of additive and/or automated and digital techniques.

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Risk Engineering

You have been tasked to evaluate the risks associated with moving from a traditional construction method for constructing concrete formwork (such as precast), to an advanced method that will be designed to take advantage of additive and/or automated and digital techniques.

Firstly, draw on your engineering background to gain an overview of the current construction methods and their respective times. Obviously, this information may not be readily available, therefore, you may be required to make some assumptions – but use your engineering judgements to make sure these are justified.

Then, select an appropriate advanced / alternative method for your project. It could also be a future construction method that is yet to be commercialised. Remember, this subject is about risk engineering, and this report does not require a full technical evaluation.

The next stage will be to implement a risk management process based on the ISO31000 and the content of this course. Some things to think about would include:
● Risks and opportunities
● Hazards
● Safe design principles

● The risk management process
o Risk identification
o Risk analysis
o Risk evaluation
o Risk treatment
o Risk monitoring and review

● Techniques and tools used for planning and probabilistic analysis
o CPM
o PERT
o Monte Carlo

● Summary
o Conclusions and lessons learnt
o Recommendations
o Future research

Demonstrate advanced knowledge of core principles of control and instrumentation. Critically analyse and evaluate transient response characteristics of first and second order systems.

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Project: Control design of a pH neutralization plant for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment.

Instructions

1) Submit your report via the Turnitin link on Moodle on or before the due date.
2) The date you upload to Moodle is considered as the ‘Date of Submission’ when calculating the late submission.
3) Any late submission will result in the application of the late submission rule.

Learning outcomes
The tasks within this assignment satisfy the Learning Outcomes of the course:
1) Demonstrate advanced knowledge of core principles of control and instrumentation.
2) Critically analyse and evaluate transient response characteristics of first and second order systems.
3) Apply and demonstrate instrumentation and control strategies for a feedback control system.
4) Formulate, apply and present tuning methods for finding suitable PID controller parameters to meet an industry standard requirement for a defined control design problem

This project is worth 30% of your final grade and uses MATLAB/SIMULINK to design a controller for a pH neutralization plant. The time scale of the project will be announced by your tutor.

What is the chemical composition of rice husk, and What are the engineering properties of those chemicals? Can rice husk panels be used in a wet area? What is the effect of rice husk on thermal conductivity and acoustic properties of panels?

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Construction Panelling using recycled plastics and waste – rice husk

1.4 Aim of the project
The research purpose of this experiment is to encourage the reuse and recycling of waste products of glass and plastic. Rice husk is often used as a farm additive, with the proposed use forming another alternative to agricultural use. The proposed commercial use of rice husk supports, affirms and complies with the green building and sustainability goals of
the UN and ecofriendly organizations such as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEEDS), Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method, and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the green building initiative. Green building use ecofriendly and sustainable material in construction with insignificant amount of energy required to keep the building comfortable in lighting, thermal, and air aeration services.
The project seeks to determine the quality and suitability of husk panels for non-structural use in the building. The specific objectives are:

1 – To determine the compressive strength of panels made using rice husk and a paste.
2 – To determine the suitability of rice husk panels in wet area construction
3 – To analyze the thermal insulation ability or performance of husk panels.

1.5 Research Questions
The experiment aims to answer these questions upon completion
1 – What is the chemical composition of rice husk, and What are the engineering properties of those chemicals?
2 – Can rice husk panels be used in a wet area?
3 – What is the effect of rice husk on thermal conductivity and acoustic properties of panels?