Under certain conditions, shock-containing jets produce an intense tone referred to as screech. Screech was discovered about half a century ago by Alan Powell in England. Here I recount developments in supersonic jet screech ...

This module discusses the unique role engineers play in technology assessment; or the “process of discovering the potential benefits and risks of new technologies, weighing the social gains against the social costs, and ...

Invited virtual poster for the 2008 American Library Association annual conference. Examines categorizing IM reference questions.

This is a response to a talk given by Ralph Nader on "The Relationship Between the University and Business and Industry." The author acknowledges that a problems do come up when universities have close ties with industry. ...

I find myself agreeing with almost everything in Harris’s defense of moral theory except the end: moral theories can often be useful in resolving moral dilemmas. Both students and practitioners of practical ethics should ...

A rectangular jet was excited by controlled unsteady fluid mass addition using two miniature fluidic jets placed on either side of its narrow dimension. The subharmonic of the primary's preferred jet column frequency ...

A. Cinar et al. (1987) have shown that vibrational control of an exothermic continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) by vibrating the total flow rate modifies its behavior and leads to stabilized operation in its unstable ...

Vibrational control is an open-loop control strategy implemented by fast zero-average oscillations in the input variables of a system. It has been previously shown that vibrational control of an exothermic reaction in a ...

This talk looks at how engineering societies can promote ethical practice and discussion about ethics among their members. After some remarks about how engineers commonly handle ethical issues that come up within organizations, ...

This module discusses the history of whistleblowing and some of the ethical ethical dilemmas faced by whistleblowers, including the conflicting values of loyalty to one’s employer and protecting the public good, clashes ...