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Enhancing Design Learning Using Groupware, Andrew Wodehouse, Ozgur Eris, Hillary Grierson, Ade Mabogunje Dec 2006

Enhancing Design Learning Using Groupware, Andrew Wodehouse, Ozgur Eris, Hillary Grierson, Ade Mabogunje

Ozgur Eris

Project work is increasingly used to help engineering students integrate, apply and expand on knowledge gained from theoretical classes in their curriculum and expose students to `real world' tasks. To help facilitate this process, the department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde has developed a web-based groupware product called LauLima to help students store, share, structure and apply information when they are working in design teams. This paper describes a distributed design project class in which LauLima has been deployed in accordance with a Design Knowledge Framework that describes how design knowledge is generated and …


Structure Analysis Of Nanocrystalline Mgo Aerogel Prepared By Sol-Gel Method, G. Dercz, L. Pajak, K. Prusik, R Pielaszek, Janusz J. Malinowski, Wojciech Pudło Dec 2006

Structure Analysis Of Nanocrystalline Mgo Aerogel Prepared By Sol-Gel Method, G. Dercz, L. Pajak, K. Prusik, R Pielaszek, Janusz J. Malinowski, Wojciech Pudło

Janusz J. Malinowski

Wet gel obtained by sol-gel technique was dried in supercritical CO2 to prepare hydrated form of magnesium oxide. Calcination at 723 K under vacuum yielded nanocrystalline MgO aerogel. Structure studies were performed by X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microcopies. Electron microscopy images reveal rough, unfolded and ramified structure of solid skeleton. Specific surface area SBET was equal to 238 m2/g. X-ray pattern reveals the broadened diffraction lines of periclase, the only crystalline form of magnesium oxide. The gamma crystallite size distribution was determined using FW 1/5/4/5 M method proposed by R. Pielaszek. The obtained values of and ó (measure …