Engineering future trends

Levin, M. A. Kidd, G. H. Zaugg, R. H. Swarz, J. R. "Applied Genetic Engineering Future Trends and Problems" Noyes Publications Park Ridge, N.J., 1983. 

M. Perez-Gabero, E. Rjande and M.A. Lopez-Manchado in Proceedings of the lOM Conference - Elastomers for Engineering Future Trends, London, UK, 2006, p.30. 

The rest of the chapter is mainly composed of five diverse examples of application of evolutionary developmental methods to problems in engineering and computer science. The chapter concludes with an attempt to foresee some future trends in EDS research and application, followed by a very short story that we hope will entertain and perhaps inspire. 

With regard to specific types of equipment, the safety factor practices of some 250 engineers were ascertained by a questionnaire and summarized in Table 1.4 additional figures are given by Peters and Timmerhaus (References, Section 1.1, Part B, pp. 35-37). Relatively inexpensive equipment that can conceivably serve as a bottleneck, such as pumps, always is liberally sized perhaps as much as 50% extra for a reflux pump. In an expanding industry it is a matter of policy to deliberately oversize certain major equipment that cannot be supplemented readily or modified suitably for increased capacity these are safety factors to account for future trends. 

In May 2002 an International Invited Workshop, attended by leading researchers in polymer processing and polymer engineering science, was convened in order to take stock of the historical evolution of the held of polymer processing, analyze current developments in research, take note of structural changes in the industry, and consider future trends. The underlying rationale, outlined in Appendix A of the final report (2), was... 

In general, policy analysts use two structural types of models to make forecasts of future activity levels econometric and engineering or process models. Econometric models use historic data and relationships to estimate future trends in variables of interest. Engineering or process models use the physical relationships of production processes (i.e., the relationship between inputs to a production process and its outputs) to predict levels of the dependent variables. In general, the use of econometric modeling techniques to forecast activity levels provides a better long-term (beyond 20 years) trend because it relies on long-term, historical... 

In the remainder of this section, I discuss the significance of these future trends in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, beginning with the evolution of new theoretical tools and concluding with a more detailed description of future objectives, challenges, and opportunities for fluid mechanics research at the microscale. Some of the latter discussion is drawn from a more comprehensive report, The Mechanics of Fluids with Micro-structure written in 1986 by Professor R. A. Brown (MIT) and myself (with substantial input from the chemical engineering research community) as part of a general NSF-sponsored study of The Future of Fluid Mechanics Research. 

Le Pivert, P., (1984) Cryosurgery Current Issues and Future Trends, Proc. International Cryogenic Engineering Conf., Butterworth, Surrey, pp. 551-557. 

Membrane Applications in Industrial Waste Management (Including Nuclear), Environmental Engineering, and Future Trends in Membrane Science Introduction... 

Engineering, and Future Trends in Membrane Science Introduction.823... 

With the emergence of cheap, high speed computing platforms and the availability of commercial CFD codes and support, flow modeling needs to be harnessed to devise the best possible reactor hardware. Some comments on future trends and needs may be appropriate at this juncture. Each advance in the CFD community s capability to perform a particular class of computations, has led to a corresponding increase in the engineer s expectations. These expectations can be translated to define research and developmental requirements. These requirements may be classified into two categories computational and physical. The most important areas of computational character, in which further work is needed, are ... 

Future trends in electrochemical engineering will be influenced by the need to develop molecular-based discoveries into new and improved products and processes. What is needed is to develop a multiscale systems approach that builds upon the traditional base of continuum-scale mathematical models. 

Duducovic MP, Larachi P, Mills PL (2002) Multiphase Catalytic Reactors A Perspective on Current Knowledge and Future Trends. Catalysis Reviews-Science and Engineering 44(1) 123-246... 

Future trends in IA reside in several areas, including (a) new labels and improved sensitivity, (b) automation, (c) simultaneous multianalyte assays, and (d) genetic engineering. The trend must be to exploit the current advantages of IAs, which include sensitivity, simplicity, limited cost, and speed. Our goal must be to make the assays faster, better, and more accessible. However, it must be remembered that what is appropriate and acceptable in the clinical chemistry laboratory may not be acceptable or may be much less appropriate in the biopharmaceutical laboratory. Only trends that may apply to the pharmaceutical analyst will be discussed here. 

A future trend in the electricity supply industry, much discussed, is a move towards distributed (local) generation. This might be based on combined heat and power (CHP) schemes that would employ gas microturbines or gas engines, on solar energy (photovoltaic, solar—thermal) or on wind turbines. Most of the renewables are best utilized on a small-scale, local basis. Distributed generation is applicable in both semi-urban areas and in remote locations and may be the answer for many of those who currently are isolated from mains supplies. Sadly, often these people cannot afford such technology and their economic position is unlikely to improve until they do have access to electricity and fuels. 

In this chapter, the growth of mechatronics starting from 1970s will be discussed. For the ease of understanding of the developments in mechatronics, brief histories of electrical and electronics engineering are also presented. Finally, the future trends are discussed. 

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In addition to the computer software and hardware trends that will impact chemical-scientific database systems in the future, trends in chemistry will also impact them. The disciplines of genetic engineering and polymer chemistry have special needs for chemical database technology, as do computational chemistry and patent applications. The chemical/pharmaceutical industry will enjoy important gains in productivity when these needs are better provided for. 

A.J. Salgado, O.P. Coutinho, R.L. Reis, Bone tissue engineering state of the art and future trends, Macromol. Biosci. 4 (2004) 743-765. 

L., Multiphase catalytic reactors a perspective on current knowledge and future trends. Catalysis Reviews -Science and Engineering, 2002,44(1), 123-246... 

Burdick, J. A. Mauck, R. L. Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications. A Review of the Past and Future Trends, Springer, Wien 2010. 

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