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Exploring journeys from sustainable design to design for sustainability

During the past two decades, educating students about sustainability issues has been a concern when designing engineering schools' curricula. One could think that nowadays students are trained to take into account the multiple dimensions of sustainability ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Community-Aware Group Testing

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Pavlos Nikolopoulos

Group testing is a technique that can reduce the number of tests needed to identify infected members in a population, by pooling together multiple diagnostic samples. Despite the variety and importance of prior results, traditional work on group testing ha ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Reduced order modeling of parametrized pulsatile blood flows: Hematocrit percentage and heart rate

Ricardo Reyes Sotomayor

This paper numerically evaluates the accuracy and performance of a stabilized finite element Reduced Order Modelling (ROM) approach that is designed to simulate pulsatile blood flows. The method is able to estimate fluid flow parametric solutions of intere ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Transmission and Distribution Equipment: Providing Intelligent Maintenance

Gaëtan Michel Frusque

One of the cornerstones of a reliable transmission and distribution (T&D) grid operation is fully functional components that can operate robustly and with a low outage rate under all specified operating conditions. Dependable maintenance strategies are thu ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger, Roland Schwan, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract mathematical models developed in scientific and engineering domains. As opposed to ...

IEEE2023

Epitaxial growth of GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattices

Rui Ning Wang

In the quest for superlattices with engineered interfaces for disruptive applications such as neuromorphic computing, we present a dedicated study on the epitaxial growth of nominal GeTe/Sb2Te3 chalcogenide superlattices (CSL) on the Sb passivated Si(111) ...

2022

Model-based Systems Engineering Papers Analysis based on Word Cloud Visualization

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu

With the continuous improvement of system scale and complexity, model-based system engineering (MBSE) is of great importance in the practice of system engineering (SE). MBSE has been widely concerned in industry, especially in the field of complex equipmen ...

IEEE2022

Operando X-ray diffraction study of thermal and phase evolution during laser powder bed fusion of Al-Sc-Zr elemental powder blends

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Samy Hocine

Elemental powder blends are an emerging alternative to prealloyed powders for high-throughput alloy design via additive manufacturing techniques. Elemental Al+Sc(+Zr) powder blends were processed by laser powder bed fusion into Al-Sc and Al-Sc-Zr alloys, w ...

2022

Gait-dependent Traversability Estimation on the k-rock2 Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Matthew Alfonso Estrada

Assessing the traversability of rugged terrain is a difficult challenge for legged robots, especially when they implement multiple, distinct gaits. We tackle this problem on the k-rock2 amphibious, sprawling gait robot by training a gait-dependent traversa ...

IEEE2022

A critical review on N-modified TiO2 limits to treat chemical and biological contaminants in water. Evidence that enhanced visible light absorption does not lead to higher degradation rates under whole solar light

César Pulgarin

Intensive research has been focused on the synthesis of N-modified TiO2 materials having visible light absorption in order to get higher solar photocatalytic degradation rates of pollutants in water. However, an exhaustive revision of the topic underlines ...

ELSEVIER2022

Secret Key Generation Using Short Blocklength Polar Coding Over Wireless Channels

Yanina Yurina Shkel

This paper investigates the problem of secret key generation from correlated Gaussian random variables in the short blocklength regime. Short blocklengths are commonly employed in massively connected IoT sensor networks in 5G and beyond wireless systems. P ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Hydration and durability of fast hardening binders incorporating supplementary cementitious materials

Sarra El Housseini

The use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is widely considered the most promis-ing approach to reduce CO2 emissions relative to cement production. SCMs are not commonly present in binders used for special applications. On the other hand, due t ...

EPFL2022

Shear behavior of single- and triple-thickness masonry panels strengthened by bed-joint structural repointing

Ricardo Javier Serpell Carriquiry

Bed-joint structural repointing is a widely used strengthening technique in historic masonry constructions, particularly in applications where the material appearance needs to be preserved. Despite its wide use, limited research is available on the effecti ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Scalable Bayesian optimization for model calibration: Case study on coupled building and HVAC dynamics

Emilio Maddalena

Model calibration for building systems is a key step to achieving accurate and reliable predictions that reflect the dynamics of real systems under study. Calibration becomes particularly challenging when integrating building and HVAC dynamics, due to larg ...

2021

8x8 Programmable Multi-Beam Pattern Projection Based on Multicast Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

We present an arbitrary 8x8 beam pattern projection system based on a programmable grating coupler array with a Fourier lens. The static power consumption and the reconfiguration time are below 1 mu W and 10 mu s, respectively. (C) 2021 The Author(s) ...

IEEE2021

Development of indoor environmental quality index using a low-cost monitoring platform

Dusan Licina

The fundamental goal of modern high-performance buildings is to achieve low environmental carbon footprint while securing indoor conditions that promote human health and well-being. Current procedures for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessment are o ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Experimental Characterization of Additively Manufactured Metallic Heat Exchangers

Mahbod Heidari

In this study, three manifold-microchannel heat exchangers were additively manufactured by direct metal laser sintering. The heat exchangers were manufactured from stainless steel (SS17-4) with an overall dimension of 64.2 x 46.0 x 27.1 mm. The thermal and ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Active Subdivision Surfaces for the Semiautomatic Segmentation of Biomedical Volumes

Michaël Unser, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

We present a new family of active surfaces for the semiautomatic segmentation of volumetric objects in 3D biomedical images. We represent our deformable model by a subdivision surface encoded by a small set of control points and generated through a geometr ...

2021

Dual Consensus Proximal Algorithm for Multi-Agent Sharing Problems

Ali H. Sayed, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim

This work considers multi-agent sharing optimization problems, where each agent owns a local smooth function plus a non-smooth function, and the network seeks to minimize the sum of all local functions plus a coupling composite function (possibly non-smoot ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Hybrid hydrogels for load-bearing implants

Céline Samira Wyss

Load-bearing tissues such as articular cartilage or meniscus are not infallible. They might fail due to trauma, over-solicitations, or diseases, which could subsequently alter the mobility of the patient. Repairing these damaged tissues in a minimally inva ...

EPFL2021