Creativity engineering

We believe that the reader will find numerous examples of ingenious science and creative engineering in this volume, and we thank each of the authors for a job well done. In addition, we thank the editorial staff of the American Chemical Society as well as the secretarial staffs at Michigan State University, the University of Colorado, and DuPont for their support in this endeavor. 

Helps develop creative engineering thinking, leading to new, improved design. 

It is easy for creative engineers to overengineer the design of a MOC system with multiple pages of forms and autograph requirements from every engineering discipline and every manager. Keep in mind that the focus is to prevent catastrophic accidents and to properly evaluate the concerns of safety and health and to accomplish this review in a timely manner. The CMA s Executive Summary covers these points [2]... 

The compact tension technique could be readily adapted to elevated temperature use with a little creative engineering, but may not be as informative, or as robust, as the indentation strength methods. 

Which of these techniques are most likely, in my estimation, to be applicable to ceramic matrix composites Ultrasonics or acoustic emission evaluation techniques are adaptable for high temperatures if high temperature coupling materials can be used. The other techniques do not appear to be immediately applicable, even to monolithic ceramics. Laser holography has been shown to be useful in determining displacements and deflections in turbine airfoils.28 For experimental laboratory setups, the use of such equipment is relatively direct but the most likely drawback for in-service conditions is the size and placement of lasers and detectors compared to the available space and design. Some creative engineering will be required here in order to utilize these kinds of techniques. 

We begin with a description of the high-pressure polymerization process since it is an authentic example of how the principles of thermodynamics and kinetics can be combined with creative engineering to develop an economically viable high-pressure process. These principles can be generalized and extended to other high-pressure processes. After describing the polyethylene process, we move on to more recent work on polyethylene and ethylene copolymers, followed by a discussion of other recent SCF studies with a variety of other polymers and monomers. 

The rewards for converting light hydrocarbon gases to liquid fuels are clearly great however, many technical challenges remain for direct methane conversion to be practiced economically. The successful process will undoubtedly combine chemistry with creative engineering to handle the "demanding reactions. 

I believe, is the second distinguishing mark of the creative engineer and scientist others, less creative, are not so "absent-mlned" for they do not make a habit of thinking upon the problem so continuously and so persistently. 

Lewis, E. E. (2004). Masterworks of technology The story of creative engineering, architecture, and design. New York Prometheus Books. 

Inventive Engineering Knowledge and Skills for Creative Engineers... 

Figure l.l Local and global thinking. (Based on Arciszewski, T., Successful Education. How to Educate Creative Engineers Successful Education LLC. Fairfax. VA, 2009.)... 

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