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Strategies Automotive Manufacturing Managers Use To Deliver Work In Alignment With Project Milestones, Sashidhar Mr. Sankaranarayanan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Project managers working in manufacturing firms in the automotive industry frequently face challenges such as cost overruns, schedule delays, and scope changes. Project managers often lack effective strategies to ensure that different departments deliver their work in alignment with project milestones, which can negatively affect project success rates. Grounded in the balanced scorecard framework, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies managers in the automotive manufacturing industry used in their different departments to deliver their work in alignment with project milestones. The participants were three project managers who had successfully implemented strategies that reduced the …

Intelligent Beam Steering For Wireless Communication Using Programmable Metasurfaces, Nouman Ashraf, Taqwa Saeed, Hamidreza Taghvaee, Sergi Abadal, Vasos Vasos, Christos Liaskos Christos Liaskos, Andreas Pitsillides, Marios Lestas Marios Lestas

Articles

Future generations of wireless communications are envisioned to provide several Gbps data rates per user for billions of users simultaneously [1]. The proliferation of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in various industries has pushed wireless networks to their limits in terms of the required capacity to effectively communicate the vast amounts of data that are generated [2]. Moreover, the increasing number of IoT devices is changing mobile communication services from interpersonal communication to smart interconnection among billions of devices. 6G is expected to fulfill the requirements of a fully connected world and provide ubiquitous wireless connectivity for all …

A Literature Analysis Of Microgrid Optimization Studies, Izzy Medeiros

Honors Theses and Capstones

Senior civil engineering student, Izzy Medeiros, is presenting her honors thesis in the form of a literature analysis. Her research involved investigating existing microgrid studies and where there are current gaps in the knowledge. About 40 publications written within the last 20 years were analyzed for their research goals, optimization objectives, and microgrid design, pointing to where this research is currently lacking. Most real studies were conducted in Asia, as Southeast Asia has island communities that need the reliability of a renewable microgrid during extreme weather events. Photovoltaic panels in combination with wind turbines comprise the most common configuration of …

Optimum Design, Socioenvironmental Impact, And Exergy Analysis Of A Solar And Rice Husk-Based Off-Grid Hybrid Renewable Energy System, Barun K. Das, Rakibul Hassan, Polamarasetty P. Kumar, Ismail Hoque, Ramakrishna S.S. Nuvvula, Anas M. Maruf, Arnob Das, Paul C. Okonkwo, Baseem Khan

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study examines the optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid system comprising solar photovoltaic (PV), rice husk-based biomass, and lead-acid battery for meeting the electric demand of a rural community. Considering a selected remote village in Bangladesh as a case study, the proposed optimized system is primarily compared with the diesel generator and the micro gas turbine (MGT)-based options in techno-economic and environmental terms. The potential social benefits, such as the employment creation and the improvement in the human development index in the locality, have been investigated in this study. Moreover, the impacts of operational greenhouse gas emissions on the …

Uncertainties In Wave-Driven Longshore Sediment Transport Projections Presented By A Dynamic Cmip6-Based Ensemble, Amin Reza Zarifsanayei, José A.A. Antolínez, Nick Cartwright, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Darrell Strauss, Gil Lemos, Alvaro Semedo, Rajesh Kumar, Mikhail Dobrynin, Adem Akpinar

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

In this study four experiments were conducted to investigate uncertainty in future longshore sediment transport (LST) projections due to: working with continuous time series of CSIRO CMIP6-driven waves (experiment #1) or sliced time series of waves from CSIRO-CMIP6-Ws and CSIRO-CMIP5-Ws (experiment #2); different wave-model-parametrization pairs to generate wave projections (experiment #3); and the inclusion/exclusion of sea level rise (SLR) for wave transformation (experiment #4). For each experiment, a weighted ensemble consisting of offshore wave forcing conditions, a surrogate model for nearshore wave transformation and eight LST models was used. The results of experiment # 1 indicated that the annual LST …

Amplifying New Voices And Making Space For Alternative Knowledge Systems In Engineering Curricula – The Example Of Ubuntu, Anita Occhio, Fiona Caroline Saunders, Gladson Chikwa, Dawn Theresa Nicholson

Practice Papers

Engineering projects are ubiquitous; from developing COVID-19 vaccines to building new cities and developing climate change solutions. An inclusive approach to teaching engineers how to master the complexities of engineering project management is vital to the deliverability of sustainability and net zero initiatives (Hockings 2010). Yet, our engineering curricula remain deeply rooted in Western epistemology (Winter et al. 2022, Mbembe 2015). Arguably, this is an opportune time to consider decolonising our curricula. At a fundamental level, ‘decolonising the curriculum’ means introducing previously ignored voices, images, authors, theories and arguments into our teaching (Rogers et al. 2022). This is a challenge …

The Conceptual Understanding Of Basic Electricity Concepts By Junior Engineering Students: An Update, Aidan O'Dwyer

Practice Papers

The paper reports, analyses and reflects on the results of a multiple-choice diagnostic test to assess student understanding of basic electricity concepts (developed for U.S. high school and college students [1]) taken by nine cohorts of first year engineering students (n=1286) at the authors university, from 2014 to date. The diagnostic test was taken prior to instruction by all student cohorts, and post-instruction by some student cohorts. This paper updates a previous contribution by the author which described the application of the test to seven cohorts of junior engineering students (n=203) from 2008 to 2013. The manner in which this …

Queer In Ai: A Case Study In Community-Led Participatory Ai, Anaelia Ovalle, Arjun Subramonian, Ashwiin Singh, Claas Voelcker, Danica Sutherland, Davide Locatelli, Eva Breznik, Felip Klubicka, Hang Yuan, Hetvi J, Huan Zhang, Jaidev Shriram, Kruno Lehman, Luca Soldaini, Maarten Sap, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Maria Ryskina, Martin Mundt, Melind Agarwal, Nyx Mclean, Pan Xu, A. Pranav, Raj Korpan, Ruchira Ray, Sarah Mathew, Sarthak Arora, S.T. John, Tanvi Anand, Vishakha Agrawal, William Agnew, Yanan Long, Zijie J. Wang, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh, Nathaniel Dennler, Michael Noseworthy, Sharvani Jha, Emi Baylor, Aditya Joshi, Natalia Y. Bilenko, Andrew Mcnamara, Raphael Gontijo-Lopes, Alex Markham, Evyn Dong, Jackie Kay, Manu Saraswat, Nikhil Vytla, Luke Stark

Conference papers

Queerness and queer people face an uncertain future in the face of ever more widely deployed and invasive artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies have caused numerous harms to queer people, including privacy violations, censoring and downranking queer content, exposing queer people and spaces to harassment by making them hypervisible, deadnaming and outing queer people. More broadly, they have violated core tenets of queerness by classifying and controlling queer identities. In response to this, the queer community in AI has organized Queer in AI, a global, decentralized, volunteer-run grassroots organization that employs intersectional and community-led participatory design to build an inclusive …

Investigating K-12 Computing Education In Four African Countries (Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria, And Uganda), Ethel Tshukudu, Sue Sentance, Oluwatoyin Adelakun-Adeyemo, Keith Quille, Ziling Zhong

Articles

As K-12 computing education becomes more established throughout the world, there is an increasing focus on accessibility for all, whether in a particular country or setting or in areas of the world that may not yet have computing established. This is primarily articulated as an equity issue. The recently developed capacity for, access to, participation in, and experience of computer science education (CAPE) Framework is one way of demonstrating stages and dependencies and understanding relative equity, taking into consideration the disparities between sub-populations. While there is existing research that covers the state of computing education and equity issues, it is …

Urban Transportation Strategy As Urban Sustainable Indicator Frameworks Study Of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Rania Badawy Shokry

Mansoura Engineering Journal

— New models are being created for the planning and administration of sustainable cities as the worldwide trend toward urbanization continues. To create Masdar City, a carbon-neutral, zero-waste city that would showcase cutting-edge sustainable city architecture, the Abu Dhabi government declared in 2006 that it intended to invest $22 billion in its construction. This study aims to focus on one of the indicators of the sustainability of cities, which is sustainable transport, and to clarify how sustainable transport can be translated from Theory to Practice, by standing on the concept of sustainable cities and sustainable transport that works to enhance …

Uses Of Geographic Information Systems And Remote Sensing To Study The Natural Resource Management Of The Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Shrouk Galal, Fawzi Hamid Zarzoura, Mahmoud El-Mewafi

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The Red Sea governorate is rich in natural resources that create challenges for Egypt's future economy and growth. The right ways must be found to manage and discover these resources without wasting them. Remote sensing is one of the best methods used in the development of natural resources. It is based on measuring electromagnetic ray reflections from deep-seated or dispersed natural resources, and these images are processed uniquely for a variety of applications, including the detection of minerals, making land cover maps, shifting rocks, and monitoring of geological distortions. The altered rocks that existed in the study area were identified …

Enhanced Load Balancing Based On Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony With Enhanced Β-Hill Climbing In Cloud, Maha Zeedan, Gamal Attiya, Nawal El-Fishawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This paper proposes enhanced load balancer based artificial bee colony and β-Hill climbing for improving the performance metrics such as response time, processing cost, and utilization to avoid overloaded or under loaded situations of virtual machines. In this study, the suggested load balancer is called enhanced load balancing based on hybrid artificial bee colony with enhanced β-Hill climbing (ELBABCEβHC) to improve the response time, processing cost and the resource utilization. Our proposed approach starts by ranking the task then the greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) is used in initializing populations. Further, the binary artificial bee colony (BABC) enhanced with …

Effects Of Power Stations Emissions On Air Quality In Kuwait, Abdullah F.M. Al-Rukaibi, I. G. Rashed, M.M. El-Halwany, O. Hamed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The research describes the Gaussian plume model used to estimate the concentration of pollutants emitted from power plants and dispersed in the atmosphere. The object of the research is to compare the air quality between areas which is near to source station and away from the source station. The research estimates the concentrations of pollutants released from six electric power stations in Kuwait using the Gaussian plume model. A power plant with a stack height of 100 m, stack diameter of 2 m, and an emission rate of 1 kg/s for each station is considered. The Pasquill-Gifford stability categories are …

Comparison Between Different Codes In Design Cold-Formed Steel Lipped Channel Section Subjected To Axial Load Or Bending Moment, Samar El-Sayed Ibrahim Atya, Ahmed Hussain Ali Abdelrahman, Fikry Abdo Salem, Nabil Sayed Mahmoud, Mohamed Ghannam

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This paper presents a comparative analysis between Eurocode3 (EC3), the North American Specification (AISI), and the Egyptian Code of Practice (ECP-205) to design Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) compression and flexural members with channel profiles. The research recognizes similarities and variations in strength measures to facilitate the learning process in the design codes, as well as the expressions and limits provided in the ECP, EC3, and AISI design codes. A computer program was designed to improve the speed of the calculation process. The software was created utilizing the C+ programming language and was programmed to calculate the axial load and bending moment …

A Relativistic Geodetic Approach To Unify The Height System For Africa, Mostafa Ashry, Wen-Bin Shen, Abdelrahim Ruby, Zhang Pengfei, Ziyu Shen, Hussein A. Abd-Elmotaal, Mostafa Abd-Elbaky, Atef A. Makhloof

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This study focuses on the establishment of a unified height system for Africa called AFRUHS (African Unified Height System) by utilizing atomic 8 clocks and clock networks. The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) has 9 long aims to construct an International Height Reference Frame (IHRF), but the lack of accurate and globally harmonized vertical coordinates, particularly in Africa, has posed a challenge. To overcome this, the researchers propose using clock networks to determine geopotential or elevation differences between distant stations by measuring the gravitational redshift (GR) through clock frequency comparisons. The research employs simulation studies using the ACES (Atomic Clock …

New Dialogue Between Old Crafts And Historical City “Case Study: The Historical Fez Factory In Fowah”, Dalia Shebl

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Traditional crafts are playing an important part of local identity in the city … Nowadays more efforts are being made to preserve them and establish a base and anchor point of economic and touristic development in the Egyptian cities. the paper clarifies the heritage values could evolve in a future through present one of the oldest site in fowah has a characteristic location of traditional crafts therefore it played a great role in contributing and developing many crafts in the other Egyptian cities using a Past-Present-Future framework. The research followed an historical and theoretical methodology for documentation then analytical studies …

Accessing The Relative Sustainability Of Point-Of-Use Water Disinfection Technologies Through Costs And Environmental Impacts, Bright C. Elijah

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

According to the World Health Organization, 785 million people lack access to basic drinking water facilities, and 144 million people rely on surface water which is prone to microbial contamination. Point-of-use (POU) water disinfection technologies can be adopted to help address these issues by treating water at the household level; however, navigating various POU disinfection technologies for a given water source or location can be difficult. While numerous conventional POU technologies exist (e.g., boiling water, POU chlorination), new emerging POU technologies (e.g., using novel materials or advanced processes) have been coined by developers to be lower cost with higher treatment …

Analysis Of The Root Causes Of Fatal Injuries In The United States Surface Mines Between 2008 And 2021., Maria Fernanda Quintero

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Mining has long been recognized as a hazardous industry worldwide. An annual average rate of 10.3 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers was recorded in the United States between 2008 and 2021 (MSHA, 2022). This rate can be compared with the average of the industries with the highest average rates of fatal injuries—agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting; transportation and warehousing; and construction—which had average rates of 23.5, 13.1, and 9.9 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers, respectively, during the same period in the Unites States (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023).

The scope of this research is related to the fatal injuries …

An Unmanned Aircraft System For Marking Live Power Lines To Prevent Bird Collisions, Mattheuns D. Pretorius, Lourens Leeuwner, Kaajial Durgapersad, Constant Hoogstad, Peter Beckedahl, Michael D. Michael, Kishaylin Chetty

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Collisions with overhead power lines represent a significant cause of mortality for a number of large bird species worldwide. Certain threatened species are severely impacted by power line collisions, particularly those for which there are no other known significant threats. In South Africa, bird collisions with overhead power line cables, including collisions with phase conductors and shield wires, contribute significantly to annual threatened bird species mortalities associated with Eskom power lines. The most practical mitigation measure is to attach bird anti-collision devices as markers on the cables. Current marking methods involve installations by hand, where linemen are hoisted up to …

Validation Of Expanded Trend-To-Trend Cross-Calibration Technique And Its Application To Global Scale, Ramita Shah

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The expanded Trend-to-Trend (T2T) cross-calibration technique has the potential to calibrate two sensors in much less time and provides trends on daily assessment basis. The trend obtained from the expanded technique aids in evaluating the differences between satellite sensors. Therefore, this technique was validated with several trusted cross-calibration techniques to evaluate its accuracy. Initially, the expanded T2T technique was validated with three independent RadcaTS RRV, DIMITRI-PICS, and APICS models, and results show a 1% average difference with other models over all bands. Further, this technique was validated with other SDSU techniques to calibrate the newly launched satellite Landsat 9 with …

Simulating The Impact Of Emissions Control On Economic Productivity Using Particle Systems And Puff Dispersion Model, Najam Khan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A simulation platform is developed for quantifying the change in productivity of an economy under passive and active emission control mechanisms. The program uses object-oriented programming to code a collection of objects resembling typical stakeholders in an economy. These objects include firms, markets, transportation hubs, and boids which are distributed over a 2D surface. Firms are connected using a modified Prim’s Minimum spanning tree algorithm, followed by implementation of an all-pair shortest path Floyd Warshall algorithm for navigation purposes. Firms use a non-linear production function for transformation of land, labor, and capital inputs to finished product. A GA-Vehicle Routing Problem …

Extracting Road Surface Marking Features From Aerial Images Using Deep Learning, Michael Kimollo

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The traffic and roadway safety agencies spend significant efforts each year collecting roadway data, including lane configurations and other road surface marking data, such as areas with school zone markings, sidewalks, left turns, right turns, bicycle lanes, etc., for safety analysis and planning purposes. The current manual data collection methods pose significant operational and quality control challenges as they are costly and prone to errors. In addition to that the manual data collection is labor intensive and takes too much time involving high equipment costs, questionable data accuracy guarantees, and concerns about the safety of the crew.

This study aims …

Optimizing Technical And Economic Aspects Of Off-Grid Hybrid Renewable Systems: A Case Study Of Manoka Island, Cameroon, Reagan J. J. Molu, Serge R. D. Naoussi, Patrice Wira, Wulfran F. Mbasso, Saatong T. Kenfack, Barun K. Das, Enas Ali, Muhannad J. Alshareef, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The lack of accessible and reliable electrical energy in Cameroon has become a pervasive obstacle to the nation's progress, with energy availability, quality, and cost identified as key hindrances to development over the past 15 years. Conventional solutions that rely on combustion engines and electrochemical storage systems have proven to be cost-prohibitive, limited in power output, and constrained in capacity. The dependence on traditional diesel generators has perpetuated maintenance challenges and a continuous demand for fuel supply, while the accompanying noise and pollution have restricted their use in residential areas. Recognizing the imperative of reducing dependence on fossil fuels and …

การยับยั้งการเจริญเติบโตของเดนไดรต์สังกะสีโดยตัวคั่นเซลลูโลสนาโนไฟเบอร์/ทังสเตนคาร์ไบด์สำหรับแบตเตอรี่สังกะสีไอออน, ภัทรพร วุฒาพาณิชย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ตัวคั่นวัสดุผสมทังสเตนคาร์ไบด์-เซลลูโลสนาโนไฟเบอร์ (CNFs/WC separator) มีข้อดี คือประหยัดต้นทุนและการเตรียมที่ง่ายขึ้น โดยตัวคั่นที่ประดิษฐ์ขึ้นนี้สามารถลดศักยภาพของนิวเคลียสสังกะสีที่มากเกินไปได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ทำให้ตำแหน่งนิวเคลียสสังกะสีเป็นระเบียบ ลดการกัดกร่อนบนพื้นผิว และส่งเสริมการสะสมของสังกะสีที่สม่ำเสมอ จึงทำให้แอโนดสังกะสีมีประสิทธิภาพสูง ดังนั้นเมื่อเปรียบเทียบกับตัวคั่น เซลลูโลสนาโนไฟเบอร์บริสุทธิ์ (CNFs separator) ตัวคั่น CNFs/WC จะยืดอายุรอบการใช้งานของแบตเตอรี่สมมาตรเป็น 1,200 ชั่วโมง ภายใต้ความหนาแน่นกระแส 1 มิลลิแอมป์ต่อตารางเซนติเมตร และเป็น 1,000 ชั่วโมงที่ 5 มิลลิแอมป์ต่อตารางเซนติเมตร นอกจากนี้การใช้ (NH4)2V10O25·8H2O (NVO) เป็นวัสดุแคโทด ทำให้มีความสามารถในการอัด-คายประจุเหนือกว่าที่ 132 มิลลิแอมป์ชั่วโมงต่อกรัม คงความสามารถในการกักเก็บความจุที่ 85.2% หลังจากผ่านไป 500 รอบ ภายใต้ความหนาแน่นกระแส 3 แอมป์ต่อกรัม โดยในขณะที่แบตเตอรี่ที่ใช้ตัวคั่น CNFs ลดความจุลงอย่างรวดเร็วไปที่ 30 มิลลิแอมป์ชั่วโมงต่อกรัม ซึ่งบ่งชี้ถึงความสามารถในการกลับตัวของวงจรและความเสถียรที่ยอดเยี่ยมของแอโนด โดยตัวคั่น CNFs/WC

Evaluation Of E-Waste Generation Through G-Pestle Analysis In The City Of Zamboanga, Philippines: Basis For Management Strategies, Mary Ann Beth L. Kong, Edwin R. De Los Reyes, Francis Dave C. Siacor

Applied Environmental Research

Due to a growth in the production of electronic waste (e-waste), the Philippines, particularly Zamboanga City, a top-tier, highly urbanized city on the Zamboanga Peninsula, is coping with an e-waste problem. Understanding the outside forces influencing e-waste management is necessary for creating effective strategies. With the help of a G-PESTLE analysis (geographical, political, economic, social, technical, legal, and environmental) and recommendations for improvement, this study assessed the city's existing e-waste management situation. The study looks at possibilities and problems, then offers management tactics based on the results. The study employed a hybrid methodology. Using the G-PESTLE analysis framework, the external …

Systematic Analysis Of Covid-19 Consequences: Health, Economic, And Tourism Aspects, Kumpol Saengtabtim

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In 2020, our world faced the impact of the COVID-19 situation, which caused a lot of harm and consequences in multiple aspects. Many organizations and sectors were affected a lot by the pandemic. This research performed a holistic analysis to extract the lessons learned based on health, economic, and tourism consequences. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used to extract the best approach to prepare for the next pandemic. For the health aspect, the stepwise regression was used to extract the potential IHR States Parties Self-Assessment Annual Report (SPAR) health capacity provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) to deal …

การตรวจสอบความหนาของท่อไอน้ำด้วยวิธีถ่ายภาพด้วยรังสีเอกซ์โดยใช้แผ่นรับภาพดิจิทัล, ณัฐธิดา สุขใส

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อพัฒนาเทคนิคการตรวจสอบความหนาของท่อไอน้ำที่อยู่ภายใต้ฉนวนด้วยเครื่องกำเนิดรังสีเอกซ์แบบเคลื่อนที่และแผ่นรับภาพดิจิทัล เนื่องจากโดยทั่วไปแล้วท่อไอน้ำของโรงไฟฟ้าถ่านหินจะมีลักษณะเป็นท่อเรียงติดกันเหมือนกำแพงสูง การกำหนดให้แหล่งกำเนิดรังสีอยู่กึ่งกลางของแผ่นรับภาพได้พอดีนั้นทำได้ยาก งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้จึงใช้เทคนิคการส่งผ่านของรังสีแกมมา คือ Cs-137 ความแรง 200 µCi ร่วมกับอุปกรณ์นับวัดแบบช่องเดี่ยว (Single Channel Analyzers;SCA) สแกนหาตำแหน่งที่มีค่านับวัดรังสีสูงสุด จากนั้นถ่ายภาพท่อไอน้ำด้วยเครื่องกำเนิดรังสีเอกซ์แบบเครื่อนที่รุ่น XRS3 ความต่างศักย์ 270 kV ร่วมกับแผ่นรับภาพดิจิทัลรุ่น VXTD-3643FCWV ถ่ายภาพท่อไอน้ำที่ทราบความหนาเทียบกับท่อไอน้ำที่ต้องการตรวจสอบ โดยการนำภาพถ่ายรังสีมาอ่านเป็นค่าความสว่างด้วยโปรแกรม ImageJ และเปรียบเทียบด้วยวิธีคลื่นเสียงความถี่สูง ผลการวิจัยพบว่าสามารถหาตำแหน่งกึ่งกลางของแหล่งกำเนิดรังสีได้อย่างแม่นยำ ขอบเขตของภาพที่เอกซ์โพเซอร์ 90 และ 99 พัลส์ ให้พื้นที่ 18.38 × 18.38 ตารางเซนติเมตร ผู้วิจัยจึงเลือกใช้เอกซ์โพเซอร์ที่ 90 พัลส์ ในการถ่ายภาพด้วยรังสี เนื่องจากสามารถถนอมอายุการใช้งานของเครื่องเอกซเรย์ได้มากกว่า และในการหาความหนาของท่อไอน้ำมีความคลาดเคลื่อนเฉลี่ย 0.92 mm จากการเปรียบเทียบกับความหนาจริงของท่อไอน้ำ

การพัฒนากล้องจุลทรรศน์ขับด้วยมอเตอร์เพื่อประยุกต์มาใช้บน Jetson Nano และสถาปัตยกรรม Openflexure, ภาสวุฒิ ทองเทศ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อพัฒนากล้องจุลทรรศน์จากสถาปัตยกรรมโอเพนเฟล็กเซอร์(OpenFlexure) ให้สามารถระบุตำแหน่งเริ่มต้น หาภาพที่มีความคมชัดที่สุด และถ่ายภาพแล้วนำมาต่อให้มีขนาดใหญ่ได้ การวิจัยเริ่มจากการทบทวนวรรณกรรมที่เกี่ยวข้องเพื่อกำหนดกรอบแนวคิดและสมมติฐาน โดยพบว่ากล้องจุลทรรศน์มีความสำคัญทั้งทางการแพทย์และการศึกษา แต่ปัจจุบันมีราคาสูง ซึ่งหากมีมอเตอร์ควบคุมแต่ละแกนได้จะมีราคาสูงขึ้นอีก อย่างไรก็ตาม กล้องจุลทรรศน์โอเพนเฟล็กเซอร์ ที่สามารถควบคุมแต่ละแกนด้วยมอเตอร์มีราคาที่ไม่สูงมาก แต่มีข้อจำกัดในการระบุตำแหน่งเริ่มต้น ทำให้อาจเกิดความเสียหายได้ นอกจากนี้โอเพนเฟล็กเซอร์ยังเป็นโอเพนซอร์สที่สามารถพัฒนาต่อได้ ผลการวิจัยพบว่าเราสามารถทำให้กล้องจุลทรรศน์โอเพนเฟล็กเซอร์ระบุตำแหน่งเริ่มต้นและตำแหน่งต่างๆ ขณะเคลื่อนที่ได้ รวมถึงพัฒนาโปรแกรมการสแกนหาตำแหน่งที่มีความคมชัดที่สุดเพื่อสร้างภาพที่มีคุณภาพสูงและต่อภาพให้ใหญ่ขึ้นได้ ในอนาคตสามารถนำปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (Artificial Intelligence : AI)มาใช้ร่วมกับกล้องจุลทรรศน์โอเพนเฟล็กเซอร์เพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพและขีดความสามารถ ซึ่งจะทำให้พื้นที่ที่ไม่สามารถเข้าถึงกล้องจุลทรรศน์ราคาแพง สามารถใช้งานกล้องจุลทรรศน์ที่มีคุณภาพได้

Effect Of Brønsted And Lewis Acid On Ni-Based Bifunction Catalyst On Hydroprocessing Of Palm Oil To Biojet Fuel, Settapong Kantangkul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Jet fuels are mainly generated by refining petroleum feedstock, resulting in the emission of greenhouse gases. Therefore, biojet fuel is proposed as an alternative solution for solving this issue. Hydroprocessing of vegetable oils is an efficient pathway for producing biojet fuel. This process includes three reaction which are hydrodeoxygenation, hydrocracking and hydroisomerization over metal-acid catalyst. Biojet fuel series ranging from C8 to C16 must have a freezing point around -47 °C or lower, requiring the use of iso-paraffins which have low freezing points. There are challenges in improving the quantity and quality of biojet fuel production. This study aims to …

Exploring Job Burnout And Engagement Amongst Construction Managers In Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modelling, Thinley Lhendup

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Studies of job burnout have gained appreciable momentum within the construction industry in the past few decades, however literature incorporating the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is still sparse. Furthermore, a single piece of literature can be traced that utilized the six Areas of Worklife Survey (AWS) as an independent variable influencing burnout among construction professionals. This study proposed a hypothetical model in which Areas of Worklife potentially contribute to Job Burnout/Engagement among construction professionals in Thailand and explored the consequential relationships between perceived Job Performance and Turnover Intentions. Cross-Sectional data was explored using an online questionnaire survey, and Structural Equation …