...Eniac Babbage's big mistake was being born in an age which had the basic knowledge to design such a machine, but no technology with which to build it. LJISD 10/16/2012 Maria G. Picazo This is a short summary of what eniac is. ENIAC was the world's first general purpose, electronic, digital computer. "General purpose" means that ENIAC could be reconfigured to solve a variety of problems; "electronic" means ENIAC used electronic devices (i.e., vacuum tubes instead of mechanical methods like the relay switches that were used on most previous computers) for the actual computations; and "digital" means that ENIAC performed computations in discrete steps, unlike the analog computers prevalent at that time. ENIAC is the acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Eniac is short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The first one was made by time during world war2.It is an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, as it was the first operational electronic digital computer in the U.S. It was developed by the Army Ordnance. It was used as World War II ballistic firing tables. The ENIAC, weighing 30 tons, using 200 kilowatts of electric power and consisting of 18,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, and inductor, was completed in 1945. It was heavy, as a matter of fact according to calculations, cosmic-ray studies, thermal ignition, random-number studies, wind-tunnel design, and other...
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...improvement. Typically, these are written in the form of a memo addressed to your supervisor. For the current assignment, you are asked to identify a problem in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue and suggest a plausible solution to it. Your memo should be addressed to Dr. Ragu Balakrishnan, head of ECE. Please note that Dr. Balakrishnan will read these proposals and may choose to act on some of them, so your proposal could benefit current underclass and future ECE students. Format: The proposal should be one single-spaced page and adhere to the following format. Write in complete sentences and paragraphs using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. Assume that you are sending the proposal to Dr. Balakrishnan via interoffice mail. ____________________________________________ DATE: 12/1/11 TO: Ragu Balakrishnan Head, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering FROM: Joe Boilermaker (replace with your name) ECE 400 student Subject: Proposal to… (complete this phrase with your proposal topic) ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ BODY of the proposal: Introduction (this and the following headings are not used in a memo) * What is the purpose of this proposal? * What is the problem that needs to be addressed? * What are the limitations on this proposal and why? Discussion * What is the proposed solution...
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...Memo To: Who will receive this memo From: Your name CC: Additional parties that will see this memo Date: 9/11/2013 Re: Memo subject The purpose of this memo is to provide a model. Generally, you should clearly state your purpose at the beginning of the memo and request the action you want at the end. Confine your memo to a single purpose. Take the time to analyze your reader; that is, consider how he or she (always a single reader) wishes to be approached with your message. Consider the tone or language that will appeal to the reader. I am writing because The facts are I will, or I propose that you The following formatting devices will add to the attractiveness of your memos: Use block-style paragraphs. Single-space your memo (very short memos can be double spaced) Use 12-point Times New Roman as the default. Do not add a complementary close (e.g., sincerely). Do not sign memos at the bottom Add initials beside your name to indicate that you have read and approved the memo (optional). If the "copies to" list is longer than ten names, place it at the end of the memo. If your memo is addressed to a distribution list, name the list. Begin long memos with a paragraph that functions as an executive summary. Your reader determines what long is. Use the spell-check function. Break long lists of bullets into several clusters. Read your memo out loud to discover awkward rhythms and phrases. Proofread...
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...appropriate drop box on the Learning exchange. H is an investment group which owns a number of subsidiary companies. Each subsidiary produces a particular product, product range or service. For the purposes of management control, subsidiaries are organised into 3 sectors. 1) Consulting and Services (CS): comprising a consultancy practice which provides advice on product design, manufacturing technique and material usage both to H group companies as well as businesses outside the group. Salaries comprise about 95% of the costs in CS sector. 2) Heavy Engineering (HE): comprising 2 subsidiary companies producing machinery, equipment and tools used in a variety of industrial applications. These companies require a major investment in the form of factory premises, plant and transport facilities. 3) Light Engineering (LE): comprising 4 subsidiaries which produce a range of small mechanical and electrical components, many of which are designed into the products of HE sector companies. The production of these components is generally considered to be labour intensive. At the start of 2012 the management of H decides to prepare a five year plan strategic plan for the group. A team of H executives is assembled to prepare this plan. At its first meeting the team is provided with the following summary of the group’s performance in 2011. CS $’000 Book value at 31 December 2011 Non-current assets Current assets Current liabilities Capital Employed 80 90 (20) 150 HE $’000 LE $’000 4,970...
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...nrw | nrw | Risk Management Design -RV Dealer final report Risk Management Design -RV Dealer final report PART I 1. OBJECTIVE The objective of this report is to present a Risk Management Plan for the RV Retail and Depot facility located in Fountain, Colorado. The overall cost of the construction and restoration of the existing facility is approximately 1.5 million dollars. Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | 1- RV Design | 1.1 Initiation | 1.2.1 Initial Meeting with General Contractor Construction Architects to discuss the project. 1.2.2 Present the project to the team 1.2.3 Prepare a proposal 1.2.4 Present proposal 1.2.5 Proposal Approval | | 1.2 Planning | 1.2.1 Create a preliminary scope of work1.2.2 Determine the project team1.2.3 Develop a project plan1.2.4 Submit the project plan1.2.5 Project Plan Approval | | 1.3 Execution | 1.3.1 Project Kickoff meeting1.3.2 Verify and validate user requirements1.3.3 Create a cost estimate1.3.4 Present cost estimate to customer1.3.5 Milestone: Cost Estimate Approval1.3.6 Select equipment 1.3.7 Draft initial design1.3.8 Milestone: Present 60% design to customer1.3.9 Receive comments from customer1.3.10 Review comments1.3.11 Complete design using the customer’s comments1.3.12 Create a punch list 1.3.12.1 Team Coordination Meeting1.3.13 Milestone: Present 95% Drawings to customer | | 1.4 Control | 1.4.1 Project Management1.4.2 Project Status...
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...Wind Turbine San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering E10 Introduction to Engineering By Justin DeCastro, Cari Geldreich, Hugo Quiroz, and Ashley Mishra March 24, 2011 Professor Athanasiou Section 6 Project Summary The project that was assigned in lab was the wind turbine lab. The objective of this lab was to develop and construct a wind turbine that would create enough energy to conduct electricity. The goal of the assignment was to construct the most creative and stable structure so that it would withstand high winds. After constructing the turbine, which was 17 inches high and weight 255 grams, the next task was to test its stiffness using various amounts of weights and to look for the displacement. The maximum amount of displacement by the turbine was 4.81 mm. After finding out how stiff the turbine was, the next task was to measure the amount of power the turbine generated. The turbine worked quite well except for the fact that the blade broke within the first few minutes. The blade speed started out with 9703 RPM and went down to as low as 6000RPM when it had 6 light bulbs on. The turbine successfully completed all the objectives with ease. The only thing that it could’ve done better in was the stiffness test because it displaced more weight than it needed to. Table of Contents Introduction pg. 4 Turbine Structure Design Structure & Blade Design pg. 5 Structure & Blade Construction pg. 6 ...
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...Resources Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources lEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Understand the purpose of an organization and its operating environment. 2. Understand the structure, culture and functions of an organisation 3. Understand how HR/L&D activities support an organisation Activity A new manager is starting in the organisation shortly. You have been asked to provide a written breifing note for this new-starter so that they can gain some understanding of the organisation in preparation for their start. Contents * Page 1 – Learning outcomes & activity * Page 2 Bullet point 1/2/3/4 from the assessment activity template * Page 3 Bullet point 4 from the assessment activity template * Page 4 Bullet point 5 & 6 from the assessment activity template * Page 5 Bullet point 5 & 6 from the assessment activity template * Page 6 Bullet point 7/8//9 from the assessment activity template * Page 7 Bibliography I have been asked to provide a briefing note for a new starter. Below is a summary of information that will give the new starter a chance to gain some understanding of the organisation and what we do and how we operate. The wide range of services that Aardvarc Electrical Engineers include: professional advice; technical services; project management; purchasing assistance; value engineering; construction; commissioning and ongoing HV/LV maintenance to meet each customers individual requirements. Aardvarc...
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...Rochelle New York REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Specification No. 4731 CONSULTING SERVICES for DESIGN, ENGINEERING, PERMITTING and CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION of the CITY (FLOWERS) PARK ATHLETIC COMPLEX 1) INTENT The City of New Rochelle is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide consulting and engineering design services for the renovations and expansion of facilities located at the City (Flowers) Park athletic complex, located on Fifth Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. 2) PROPOSAL DUE DATE Proposals will be accepted up until 3:00 pm on December 12, 2007 in the Purchasing Office, City of New Rochelle, City Hall, 515 North Avenue, New Rochelle, New York 10801 and should be mailed to the attention of Mark Zulli, Deputy Finance Commissioner. Please include “RFP-NR-4731” on the outside mailing label of your response package. 3) OVERVIEW The project goals include the renovation/replacement, relocation, construction and expansion of five athletic fields within an existing athletic complex. The major change will be the relocation of the current 90’ baseball field, focusing on improved orientation with the creation of a regulation sized baseball stadium with lights, artificial turf, grandstands and a field house. Repositioning a lighted adult softball field to standard 300’ foul line dimensions. Relocating a youth baseball/softball field to create standard 200’ foul line dimensions, adding a new multi-purpose synthetic turf practice field and the replacement playing surface and lighting of the artificial...
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...Johnson & Johnson Kansas City Power & Light Company The McGraw-Hill Companies MeadWestvaco Corporation Merck & Company, Inc. Owens Corning PSEG Power, LLC Pfizer, Inc. The Procter & Gamble Company Rohm and Haas Shell Global Solutions (U.S.), Inc. Southern Companies Sunoco, Inc. TECO Tampa Electric Company Toyota Motor Mfg. North America Tyco International U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers U.S. General Services Administration The University Of Cincinnati Associate Member Companies Alberici Group, Inc. BE&K Bechtel Egizii Electric, Inc. Fluor Corporation Hunt Construction Group Jacobs Engineering Group Rudolph/Libbe Companies The Shaw Group, Inc. Tetra Tech FW Inc. Turner Construction Company Zachry Construction Corporation Association Associate Members Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) NEA – The Association of Union Constructors North American Contractors Association (NACA) Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) Construction Project Controls: Cost, Schedule, and Change Management UP-201 September 2004 Contents Page 1. Intent...
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...Responses to Significant Known Challenges 18 6 Optimised Decision Making 19 6.1 Optimised Decision Making Framework 19 6.2 Significant Projects 19 6.3 Likelihood of Events Happening 19 6.4 What Controls Can Be Put Into Place 20 6.5 Prioritisation and Decision Making Process 20 7 Financial forecasts 20 7.1 Overview 20 7.2 Long Term Capital Forecasts 20 7.3 Consequential Expenditure 21 7.4 Affordability 22 7.5 Forecast Valuations 22 7.6 Outcomes 22 8 Key assumptions and policies 22 9 Improvement plan 22 9.1 Implementing the Process 22 9.2 Improvement Programme 23 9.3 Monitoring Performance 23 Introduction The Introduction section describes the purpose, background, and structure of the Asset...
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...Unit 8 Assignment 1 Video Summary 6 VIDEO #3.01 Topics: * Microsoft Operating Systems * Other Operating Systems Terms: * DOS – Disk Operating System is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995 * UNIX - is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T UNIX. * Command Line Interface - also known as command-line user interface, console user interface, and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines). Summary: The video taught me that everything that was developed after series 9x of operating systems is built on the NT platform. Also the NT did not have a device manager or a hardware wizard as well as not supporting plug and play. I also learned that Linux was developed by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. This information is not really useful for me its old information that for me has no value unless I want to be a technology historian. Unit 8 Assignment 1 Video Summary 6 VIDEO #3.02 Topics: * Partitioning * Creating Partitions * Create/Delete Partitions Terms: * Partition - In personal computers, a partition is a logical division of a hard disk created so that you can have different operating systems on the same hard disk or to create the appearance...
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...Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics and the power and automation technology areas. It ranked 158th in the Forbes Ranking (2013). ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world. ABB has operations in around 100 countries, with approximately 140,000 employees in October 2015,[3] and reported global revenue of $39.8 billion for 2014.[1] ABB is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich, Nasdaq Stockholm and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.[4] ABB's Indian unit, ABB India Limited, is traded on the National Stock Exchange of India and on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The Indian subsidiary of ABB has a market capitalization of over $4 billion.[5] HISTORY ABB resulted from the 1988 merger of the Swedish corporation Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC); the latter had absorbed the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon in 1967. CEO at the time of the merger was the former CEO of ASEA, Percy Barnevik, who ran the company until 1996. ABB's history goes back to the late 19th century. The company was incorporated by Ludwig Fredholm in 1883 and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was formed in 1891 in Baden, Switzerland, by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri as a Swiss group of electrical companies producing AC and DC motors, generators, steam turbines and transformers. Organizational structure ABB is the world's largest builder of electricity...
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...------------------------------------------------- TENSILE TESTING OF MATERIALS Lecturer: Dr. Fadi Ghaith Submitted by___________________________________________ Sminoy Mohandas - 101668769 CONTENTS 1. Summary........................................................................................................3 2. Introduction ..................................................................................................3 3. Applications * Aerospace Industry ...............................................................................4 * Automotive Industry .............................................................................4 4. Theory ...........................................................................................................5 5. Experimental Method....................................................................................6 6. Results ...........................................................................................................6 7. Conclusion…...................................................................................................9 8. References ....................................................................................................9 Summary: Tensile testing is one of the simplest and most widely used mechanical tests. By measuring the force required to elongate a specimen to breaking point, material properties can be determined that will allow designers and quality...
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...its superstructure, separates space in buildings intorooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls. Building walls have one main purpose: to support roofs and ceilings. Such walls most often have three or more separate components. In today's construction, a building wall will usually have the structural elements (such as 2×4 studs in a house wall), insulation, and finish elements or surface (such as drywall or panelling). In addition, the wall may house various types of electrical wiring or plumbing. Electrical outlets are usually mounted in walls.Building walls frequently become works of art externally and internally, such as when featuring mosaic work or when murals are painted on them; or as design foci when they exhibit textures or painted finishes for effect.On a ship, the walls separating compartments are termed "bulkheads", whilst the thinner walls separating cabins are termed "partitions".In architecture and civil engineering, the term curtain wall refers to the facade of a building which is not load-bearing but functions as decoration, finish, front, face, or history preservation. A partition wall is a wall for the purpose of separating rooms, or dividing a room. Partition walls are usually not load-bearing.Partition walls may be constructed with bricks or blocks from clay, terra-cotta or concrete, reinforced, or hollow. Glass blocks may also be used.They may...
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...Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology Course No: CHE 302 Course Name: Chemical Engineering Laboratory- II ________________________________________________________________________ Experiment No: 01 Name of the Experiment: EXTRACTION OF OIL FROM OIL CAKE BY SOXHLET EXTRACTOR _______________________________________________________ Date of Performance: 18/11/15 Date of Submission: 25/11/15 Partners’ Std. Id- 1202012 1202013 1202014 1202015 0902058 Submitted To- Md. Nazibul Islam Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET Partners’ Std. Id- 1202012 1202013 1202014 1202015 0902058 Submitted To- Md. Nazibul Islam Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET Submitted by, Md. Touhidul Islam Std. Id- 1202011 Level- 3, Term- 1 Dept. – Ch.E Group- 03 (A1) ------------------------------------------------- 1.0 SUMMARY The objective of this experiment was to study Soxhlet Extractor and to determine the percent extraction of oil from oil cake and percent recovery of solvent used for extraction. In this experiment, a paper thimble was weighed and then measured amount of oil cake was taken in the thimble and placed in the Soxhlet holder. N-hexane, which was...
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