Interdisciplinary problem

At this point Dr. Willard F. Libby, Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate, stepped in. Dr. Libby had an idea — perhaps not for the first time in his life — but a truly heretical idea among those grounded in basic science. What he envisioned as essential to solve the inherently interdisciplinary problems... 

Several companies have introduced cross-functional task teams to circumvent the specialization problem. Unfortunately, mixed composition alone does not change much, as many project teams know. We believe there are two success factors in creative interdisciplinary problem solving 1) a dear task must be set that can only be completed if the team really works together, and 2) a long-term time scale needs to be provided, to give the team the chance to build mutual trust. Only these considerations make cross-functional teams really distinctive. 

Creativity takes place at the intersections between fields of knowledge. Cross-functional teams with a clear task and a long-term time scale are generally the option of choice for creative interdisciplinary problem-solving. 

Klavs Jensen Sebastian Reyes research on percolative fragmentation, which is the work that Adel Sarofim cited, is an example of what can be achieved by interdisciplinary problem solving, in this case a combination of fluid mechanics and reaction engineering. The idea of using percolation theory came from attending seminars on enhanced oil recovery in Skip Scriven and Ted Davis research group. 

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems. 

Imperiali When I was a graduate student, a desk, a bench, and a chemical hood was my territory. Now, students have a desk, but they move around the lab to different stations to do their experiments. There s also a lot more intermixing of labs. That happens a lot—it s absolutely the thing to do when you re trying to tackle interdisciplinary problems. 

For now, these partnerships can certainly be judged a success in terms of the increasing number of students able to deal with interdisciplinary problems, the enhanced technical interactions among academics and industrial scientists, the diffusing of issues surrounding the incompatibility" of their respective cultures, and the renewed awareness of our interdependence in the process of innovation. 

The second project, called the interactive qualifying project (IQP), involved teams of i-A students applying technology to an interdisciplinary problem in society, usually addressing a significant human need. This project best reflected the Institute s motto. Lehr und Kunst (theory and practice). 

Interfacing between application-based functionality and embedded-based solution. In the first line it is an interdisciplinary problem—how to formulate a problem from the application field using a formal (unified) embedded framework. Embedded system engineers need some basic understanding from targeted application fields (especially difficult is to formalize requirements from descriptive-oriented fields). 

The early study phases focus on two aspects. Figure 10. First, fostering an understanding of the engineering profession and of the multi-facetted areas of activity for engineers. Second increasing awareness of and capacity for interdisciplinary problem-solving. 

This chapter provides a brief overview of the design, characterization, and function of chemically sensitive interfaces. Chemical sensing is an interdisciplinary problem involving the synthesis of new materials, the characterization of materials and interfaces, the design of new methods of signal transduction, and the development of techniques for microfabrication and miniaturization. This chapter summarizes current research in each of these areas, referring to contributions in the literature and to specific chapters in this book in which recent advances are described. 

In this book, we want to build on the long history of applying infonnatics methods to chemical problems, and to pay tribute to the scientists who started out decades ago to develop this interdisciplinary field. 

Nomenclature. Colloidal systems necessarily consist of at least two phases, the coUoid and the continuous medium or environment in which it resides, and their properties gready depend on the composition and stmcture of each phase. Therefore, it is useful to classify coUoids according to their states of subdivision and agglomeration, and with respect to the dispersing medium. The possible classifications of colloidal systems are given in Table 2. The variety of systems represented in this table underscores the idea that the problems associated with coUoids are usuaUy interdisciplinary in nature and that a broad scientific base is required to understand them completely. 

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