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Review of "Systems Engineering Methods" by Harold Chestnut.

A book review prepared for the Sigma Xi quarterly, the American Scientist. Devoted to project management methods, the book is written at a level, and in highly technical language, well suited to supervisory engineers. It is distinguished by a practic...

Jan 1, 1967
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Some Implications of Automated Design on the Engineering Process.

The use of computers in three categories of engineering design operations: drawing, theory, and applications. The use of CRT displays for contemporary projects is probably the most exciting development in design automation. In theoretical design a...

Jan 1, 1967
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Engineering in Regional Development : A Study of the Role of the Engineer in the Development of the Brazilian Northeast.

The story of development efforts in the Brazilian "drought polygon," a depressed area of 940,000 sq km with a largely illiterate population of 25,000,000. Since 1887 Brazil has been constructing vast public "works against the drought," but this hydr...

Jan 1, 1967
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Computer Aids for Aerospace Design and Engineering : Innovation, Economics, and Public Policy.

A discussion of the applications of computer systems to the weapons systems development process, with emphasis on the role that the government might play in promoting, supporting, and implementing development of new computer-based systems for enginee...

Jan 1, 1967
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Improper Solutions of the Vector Maximum Problem

Many problems in operations research, engineering, and economics require that several objectives be examined simultaneously.

Jan 1, 1967
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Lower Bounds to the Critical Rayleigh Number in Completely Confined Regions

Minimum Rayleigh number that will induce a state of convective motion in a Boussinesq fluid where temperature gradient is in direction of body force.

Jan 1, 1967
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Consideration of the Contributions of Engineering Analysis in the Study of Living Systems.

A symposium paper with discussion. Biological problems arising from modern research techniques are too complex to be solved without the most powerful techniques of mathematics and engineering analysis. Compared with the usual engineering problems, ho...

Jan 1, 1966
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Conservative Confidence Interval Procedures in Reliability Growth and Debugging Problems

An examination of two problems. The first deals with estimating the reliability of a system undergoing developmental testing to increase its probability of successful operation, increase its time-to-failure, or decrease its failure rate.

Jan 1, 1966
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An Approximate Procedure for the Solution of a Class of Transient-Wave Diffraction Problems

It is well known that the response to any given incident pulse can be constructed from the solution of the harmonic wave problem.

Jan 1, 1966
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Use of Hybrid Computing in Design Automation.

A discussion of computer-aided design for engineering use. The automatic drafting project of the Hughes Aircraft Company is described, including the development of ADMA, the machine and the language. The concept of the engineering information center ...

Jan 1, 1965
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Education in Bioengineering.

A proposal for a systematic educational program for bioengineering, a study that has arisen as a separate discipline because of educational deficiencies in biology and engineering. The bioengineering student should receive the best possible foundati...

Jan 1, 1965
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Systems modeling in engineering design

A theoretical framework of the first step toward structuring comprehensive analytic models applicable to the hardware design process. The models' major application would be (1) designing for industry where the state of the art is well established; (...

Jan 1, 1965
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Spectral Analysis of the Anisotropic Neutron Transport Kernel in Slab Geometry with Applications

A spectral analysis of the transport kernel for anisotropic scattering in finite slabs is achieved by first solving a type of generalized scattering problem for a subcritical slab.

Jan 1, 1964
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Titles and abstracts, "Geologie und Bauwesen" (Geology and civil engineering) 1946 to 1962

A compilation of authors, titles, and abstracts from Geologie und Bauwesen, For the years 1946 to 1957, only the titles are given (in both German and English); for 1958 to 1962, abstracts (in English) are given as well. In May 1963, the name of the p...

Jan 1, 1964
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On Approximating Linear Array Factors

This Memorandum considers least-mean-square comparison of directivity patterns of line sources having different illumination distributions.

Feb 1, 1963
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A Product Theorem for Hilbert Transforms

A presentation of a mathematical theorem for finding the Hilbert transform of a product of functions in a simplified fashion under certain conditions.

Dec 1, 1962
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Engineering Model Atmosphere of Mars.

A technical model of the Martian atmosphere that gives extreme upper and lower probable limits between which must fall the atmospheric parameters of pressure, temperature, and density up to 150-km altitude over middle and low latitudes. Other parame...

Jan 1, 1962
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A Summary of the Supersonic Pressure Drag of Bodies of Revolution

A number of approximate theories for supersonic and hypersonic flow over bodies of revolution at zero angle of attack are appraised.

Jan 1, 1961
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A Systems Engineering Approach to Reliability

Reliability approached as a problem of designing reliable systems using existing and, therefore, none too reliable components.

Jan 1, 1961
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Some mathematical aspects of optimization problems in engineering.

An application of the functional-equation technique of dynamic programming as a guide in the formulation and in the analytical and numerical treatment of chemical-engineering problems that involve multistage decision processes. Deterministic, stochas...

Jan 1, 1960

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