scholarly journals Incorporating Earth Systems Engineering Concepts Throughout The Civil Engineering Degree To Create The Engineer Of The 21 St Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Amadei ◽  
R. Scott Summers ◽  
Angela Bielefeldt
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
Engineering Degree

Industrial Ecology of the Paper Industry

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Tapio Pento
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Optimal Recovery ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
Controversial Area ◽  
Recycling Systems

Industrial ecology (IE) is a biological concept applied to industrial structures. The basic concepts of IE include regional, intra-firm and product-based waste recycling systems as well as the principle of upward and downward cascading. In best current examples of regional systems, several parties are in an industrial waste re-use symbiosis. Paper industry has learned to arrange the recovery and re-use of its products on distant markets, even up to a level where indications of exceeding optimal recovery and re-use rates already exist through deteriorated fibre and product quality. Such occurrences will take place in certain legislative-economic situations. Paper industry has many cascade levels, each with their internal recovery and recycling, as well as many intra-firm, regional, and life cycle ecology structures. As an example of prospects for individual cascading routes, sludges may continue to be incinerated, but the route to landfills will be closed. The main obstacles of legislative drive toward better IE systems are in many cases existing laws and political considerations rather than economic or technical aspects. The study and practice of engineering human technology systems and related elements of natural systems should develop in such a way that they provide quality of life by actively managing the dynamics of relevant systems to reduce the risk and scale of undesirable behavior and outcomes. For the paper industry, earth systems engineering offers several development routes. One of them is the further recognition of and research on the fact that the products of the industry are returned back to the carbon cycle of the natural environment. Opportunities for modifying current earth systems may also be available for the industry, e.g. genetically modified plants for raw materials or organisms for making good quality pulp out of current raw materials. It is to be recognized that earth systems engineering may become a very controversial area, and that very diverse political pressures may determine its future usefulness to the paper industry.

scholarly journals Creation of a Co-Terminal BS/MS Civil Engineering Degree Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Riley ◽  
Roger Lindgren ◽  
Sean St. Clair ◽  
David Thaemert ◽  
Matthew Sleep
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Engineering Degree

scholarly journals Impacto del uso de software libre en la formación de los ingenieros en sistemas computacionales como alternativa frente al software propietario para el desarrollo de las competencias específicas

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Alba Verónica BALDERAS-SÁNCHEZ ◽  
Claudia CRUZ-NAVARRO ◽  
Juan Manuel SALAZAR-MATA ◽  
Ángel Esteban TORRES-TREJO
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Software Training ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Application Analysis

This review shows the results obtained from the first stage of the TIC's Educational Research project that aims to "Implement the use of free software in students of Computer Systems Engineering as an alternative to proprietary software for the development of specific competencies". In this first stage, it was considered the first specific objective to determine the degree of use of free software in students of the Systems Engineering degree. For the development of the research was considered a mixed methodology, based on previous data analysis, and the application, analysis and interpretation of survey for determining the degree of use, in students. In addition, the observation and participation to the students with which the Free Software Laboratory in Tecvalles will be collaborated and those who benefit from its actions was considered. Finally, this seeks to contribute to the generation of a culture of using free software as a learning strategy in application subjects to improve specific competencies, proposing the use of digital repositories to share code implement free software training days to encourage their use.

scholarly journals Achieving Success For The Development Of A Systems Engineering Degree Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gary Teng ◽  
Ertunga Ozelkan ◽  
Yesim Sireli ◽  
Karen Elmore
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Engineering Degree
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