A sampling of resources available through Newkirk Learning Commons. Contact library staff for more information.
Advances in Engineering Research by
This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents trajectory planning for robots with rigid bodies. Chapter Two explores image tracking of a humanoid robot based on visual serving. Chapter Three describes a project in the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), in particular for the continuous care of the elderly. Chapter Four reviews how widely combat robots will be used in the future. Chapter Five tackles the problem of diagnosing complex systems composed of units capable of executing tests on each other (so-called, mutual testing). Chapter Six demonstrates how data from learning processes can be extracted, semantically prepared, and transformed into mining executable formats to enable prediction of individual learning patterns and outcomes through further semantic analysis of the discovered models. Chapter Seven explores ways to make TSHD more dredging efficiency. Chapter Eight discusses personalised thermal comfort.
Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research by
The first edition of Caroline Whitbeck's Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research focused on the difficult ethical problems engineers encounter in their practice and in research. In many ways, these problems are like design problems: they are complex, often ill defined; resolving them involves an iterative process of analysis and synthesis; and there can be more than one acceptable solution. In the second edition of this text, Dr Whitbeck goes above and beyond by featuring more real-life problems, stating recent scenarios and laying the foundation of ethical concepts and reasoning. This book offers a real-world, problem-centered approach to engineering ethics, using a rich collection of open-ended case studies to develop skill in recognizing and addressing ethical issues.