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WHAT CONSTITUTES A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE? BEST PRACTICES, SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES.
No full textThis paper reflects on how to practicallyachieve the necessary organizational and curricularpreconditions that allow for conducting MultiInterandTrans – disciplinary engineering capstone designindustrysponsored projects and thereby serveengineering graduates better. The differences betweenoffering multidisciplinary and the common singledisciplinarycapstone design courses are also highlighted.Simultaneously, this paper focuses on the key challengesthat aggravate the smooth implementation of such acomplex undertaking the fundamental goal of which is tooffer a multidisciplinary team-based design project workexperience to the Students that would be mimicking asclose as possible an analogue typical industrial setting.Possible remedial measures for overcoming thesechallenges are also discussed. A new multidisciplinarycapstone design project course offered at the Faculty ofApplied Science and Engineering (FASE) at theUniversity of Toronto in the 2013/14 academic year(“APS 490Y Multidisciplinary Capstone Design”)coordinated by Prof. Kamran Behdinan served as thebasis for this work.</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
OPTIMAL GEOMETRICAL DESIGN OF AIRCRAFT USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS
No full text With the advent of computers and search and optimization tools such as the genetic algorithm, the ability to manipulate numerous aircraft design parameters in a reasonable amount of time is feasible. From this angle, the lengthy time and effort spent creating and integrating aerodynamics codes, sizing routines, and performance modules, can be mitigated by the use of a genetic algorithm. Consequently, a genetic algorithm has been created and employed as a cost effective tool to explore possible aircraft geometries in the conceptual design process of the aircraft. A program has been developed to address most aspects of aircraft design such as aircraft sizing and configuration, performance, and propulsion, to name a few. These codes have been integrated into a genetic algorithm, which performs the task of searching and optimizing. The adaptive penalty method has been employed to handle all constraints imposed on the design. In addition, adjustments for varying degrees of selection and crossover intensities and types have been studied. A design study has also been carried out to compare an existing aircraft shape with the genetic algorithm optimized aircraft shape and configuration. Results indicate that the genetic algorithm is a powerful multi-disciplinary optimization and search tool, capable of simultaneously managing and varying numerous aircraft design parameters. Moreover, the genetic algorithm is capable of finding aircraft geometries and configurations that are both efficient and cost effective. </jats:p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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