Technology & Engineering - General

An increasing number of robots are entering our lives and industrial production. Trajectory planning and object recognition have become key research areas, with tasks such as 3D grasping, flexible operation, and navigation depending on machine vision and multi-sensor fusion. Recent advances in such technologies...

In the ever-evolving landscape of wireless communication, antenna design and optimization play a crucial role in enabling next-generation networks. As we transition from 5G to 6G and expand the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for compact, efficient, and high-performance antennas continues to grow....

This Special Issue addresses the key challenges facing marine aquaculture, including species diversification, improving animal growth efficiency, adapting to climate change, developing alternative feed sources, conserving natural resources, and reducing environmental impact. The Special Issue brings together a diverse range of research studies that...

Remote sensing science and technology is a strategic emerging interdisciplinary discipline developed on the foundations of Earth science, traditional physics, and modern high technology. It provides humanity with diverse Earth Observation information and remote sensing data products, and has become a critical tool for...

Active flow control (AFC) has emerged as a vibrant research field with significant potential to address a broad spectrum of academic and industrial challenges. Recent developments in actuation technologies and computational/experimental methods, together with the resurgence of machine learning, have positioned AFC to achieve...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a tool that makes life easier-it's driving major transformations across education, healthcare, the economy, and security. From smart cities and humanoid robots to lab-grown organs and digital avatars, the future is being shaped right now.Adapting to AI...

This editorial introduces the Special Issue "Catalytic Reforming and Hydrogen Production: From the Past to the Future," which presents a curated collection of cutting-edge research articles and reviews dedicated to hydrogen (H₂) production through catalytic reforming processes. With growing energy demands and the urgent...

Recent advancements in electronic ceramics have revolutionized their role in modern technology, driven by innovations in material synthesis, processing techniques, and application-specific designs. Electronic ceramics, such as dielectric, piezoelectric, semiconductive, and ferroelectric materials, now exhibit enhanced performance metrics, including higher energy efficiency, superior thermal...

This Special Issue, entitled "Engineering Materials in Extreme Environments", aims to gather cutting-edge research and provide a comprehensive overview of the structures, properties, processing, and performance of engineering materials in extreme environments. By bringing together experts from various fields, it seeks to advance the...

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to significant advancements in IoT-empowered smart systems and applications across diverse networks, remote sensors, and endpoint appliances. Given the increased attack surface due to vulnerabilities; malware; escalated cyberattacks; information theft and unknown exposure;...

This book begins as an ethical narrative on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing) should be developed and applied based on teachings reflected in the social philosophy called Kawaida. Kawaida is a communitarian African philosophy created by Dr. Maulana Karenga that informed creation...

After spending a number of year traveling around Afraka as an IT specialist and connecting multiple countries to the internet, one of the things that I always wanted to do has been to return to Afraka and open up my own Cyber Cafe. In...

The engineering landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by AI, automation, and digital transformation. In this fast-changing world, technical skills alone are not enough-engineers must expertize uniquely, communicate powerfully, and monetize effectively to stay ahead.This book provides a clear, actionable roadmap for engineers at any...

The book covers data engineering types and their integration with scalable infrastructure and real-time analytics. It also shows how data engineering has evolved from traditional ETL processes to cloud-based distributed infrastructures and data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and governance. It gives details of the roles...

Engineering Insights: Cloud-Enabled BI for Critical Industry Transformation explores the evolution, architecture and real world applications of Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) across important industries. Cloud BI in itself is introduced, its advantages (over traditional BI) and its essential components in the book's first part....

This book details data engineering from data collection to insights. A practical reference for data engineers, IT professionals, and analysts to master modern data engineering basics and advanced approaches. This book provides a strong start by introducing data engineering's evolution, fundamental principles, and critical...

This book discusses how AI-based intelligence continues to revolutionise modern networked systems using cybersecurity, networking, and AI. It explains how AI improves networking, resource allocation, and security.First, the book outlines the inevitable growth of networking technology as AI is needed to govern system complexity....

The book sheds light on the historical roots of this missile and provides a hardware-based description and mathematical analysisof its motion-control system. Even when considering that this missile was put in service in 1962, with its continued service time in theformer Warsaw Pact armed...

T.C. Catz, author and collaborator of 3CAT BooksT.C. Catz has nearly three decades of experience in education. Catz is widely recognized as a pivotal figure in the field. Their unwavering dedication and significant contributions have made a lasting impact, earning them the respect and...

Embark on a project management odyssey in the manufacturing realm with this transformative guide. Behold the journey from initiation to triumphant conclusion, wielded with the Rapid Roll Out Project Management(c) method. Within, a novice project manager at High Voltage Computing Equipment LLC turns theoretical...

Concepts in Engineering DesignAuthor: Sumesh Krishnan,Dr Mukul ShuklaISBN-13: 9798895190197Publisher: Notion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

About the BookAgile and Kanban in modern development methodologies have changed the way software development world and business deliveries. The whole efforts are given to migrate from old style traditional centralized version control systems (VCSs) to a lightweight, distributed version control system (DVCS).As business...

Our business society had developed long time from farming period to manufacturing period, then to service industry period, till to nowadays technology service and manufacturing period. It brings this question: Can technology or human behavior may influence economic development? Human ourselves foolish or enjoyment...

Nowadays, our societies had been changing by human technological development., global travelling entertainment activities are popular. Some travellers like domestic travelling or some travellers like to catch airplanes to go to other countries travel. In consumer behavioral view point, when the consumer discovers the...

An aeroengine being the heart of an aeroplane becomes the most important powering mechanism, irrespective whether the flying machine operates in military or the civil aviation role. Due to hitherto experienced inadequacy of the indigenous manufacturing capability, India has been constrained to bank upon...

Due to concerns about resilience and performance, more and more stub networks in the Internet rely on multi-homing. Multi-homing consists in connecting a network to the Internet at different access points. As traffic leaves and enters the network through several access links, multi-homed networks...

Corrosion of reinforcement steel of concrete is one of the main causes of deteriorations of structures. Principally, it is an electrochemical process, which can be divided by two mechanisms - acidic and chloride initiated corrosion. Optical sensoric materials were prepared, which allow a non-destructive...

In this work gaseous fuels were released continuously and concentrically into confined annular co-flows of turbulent hot air. Following injection the fuel and air mixed and at some length downstream of the nozzle the reactive mixture autoignited. Original phenomena are reported of autoignition spots,...

A clear international tendency exists toward a considerable growth in High Rise Buildings construction, due to its impact in the urbanism, economy and architectural of the cities. However, in occasions this tendency has not been accompanied by an increase Fire Safety levels. Also, in...

Author: Norbert GstöttenbauerISBN-10: 3836486008ISBN-13: 9783836486002Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2008Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This paper discusses the device physics of as-deposited and light-soaked hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells. The staebler-Wronski effect is the key issue in this paper. The metastability of a-Si: H solar cell is explained by a modified hydrogen collision model to explain the degradation...

Over the last few years, the field of nanotechnology has shaped up to be the next big thing, with many potential applications such as switches, sensors, and single-molecule devices. Compared to the vast literature covering inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials, little is available on organic nanostructures...

The many studies on scientific and technical communication theory discuss the necessity of audience analysis in the classroom. Often, these discussions to address audience needs focus on how to negotiate the oppositional influences of the academy and industry. As a result, scientific and technical...

Most modern approaches to learning and instruction - and approach-es to computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in particular - foresee collaboration on complex problems to facilitate individual con-struction of multi-perspective, application-related knowledge. Lear-ners are often overwhelmed by working on complex problems, how-ever, and rather aim...

Advances in Earth observation and high-performance computing are revolutionizing how we monitor land cover and support sustainable development. This volume explores cutting-edge methods in land cover classification, highlighting deep learning applications such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and temporal analysis. Key contributions include the...

"Polymer-based Flexible Materials, 2nd Edition" is a comprehensive resource that offers an in-depth exploration of the latest advancements in polymer science, particularly in the realm of flexible materials. This second edition provides a detailed and updated analysis of the synthesis, processing, and characterization of...

This Special Issue gathers the best papers from EVS36, the 36th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition, which was held from 11 to 14 June 2023 in Sacramento, California, USA. The International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS) is the world's longest, largest, and highest-spec event...

This Special Issue explores cutting-edge advances in catalytic reforming processes for sustainable hydrogen production, presenting eight original research articles and two comprehensive reviews. Topics include the dry reforming of methane (DRM), methanol steam and aqueous-phase reforming, bio-oil reforming, and photocatalytic hydrogen production. The studies...

This Special Issue gathers the best papers from EVS36, the 36th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition, which was held from 11 to 14 June 2023 in Sacramento, California, USA. The International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS) is the world's longest, largest, and highest-spec event...

This Special Issue, entitled "Mechanical Property Research of Advanced Asphalt-Based Materials", has gathered original research papers regarding the mechanical properties of asphalt materials.Author: Bo LiISBN-10: 372583900XISBN-13: 9783725839001Publisher: Mdpi AGLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2025Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d

In an era defined by environmental consciousness, this Reprint, titled "Biopolymers and Biodegradable Polymers: Synthesis, Properties, Application, and Degradation Behavior," emerges as a pivotal resource. This Reprint bridges the gap between fragmented research, offering a comprehensive and unified exploration of the burgeoning field of...

This Special Issue focuses on the prospects and challenges of nanoremediation and environmental clean-ups, presenting several interesting contributions from researchers exploring the use of waste-derived precursors for the preparation of nanomaterials aimed at the remediation of contaminated water and soil.Author: Roberta G. ToroISBN-10: 3725838526ISBN-13:...

This Special Issue provides recent insights into state-of-the-art basic research on biological attachment systems (BASs) and derived biomimetic studies. It showcases the width of research in the field of attachment systems across biological taxa and disciplines. We appreciate the diversity of contributions to this...

Construction is one of the major industries that contribute to economic development, generating significant revenues and producing significant gross domestic product (GDP) for a country. This Special Issue aims to investigate drivers, impediments, opportunities, and implementation that can facilitate innovations towards a truly sustainable...

This synthesis highlights innovations addressing reservoir heterogeneity and fracture dynamics through integrated numerical modeling, data assimilation, and multi-physics coupling. Ensemble-based algorithms (e.g., ES-MDA) enhance history matching by assimilating 4D seismic and production data, reducing uncertainties by 15-20%. Hydro-mechanical models optimized with true triaxial experiments...

The following reprint explores the transformative advancements in metal additive manufacturing (AM) across cutting-edge industrial applications. Addressing key challenges in design, performance optimization, and application-specific development, it serves as a platform for state-of-the-art research and innovative methodologies. The collection features 10 high-quality papers authored...

Globally, more than USD 400 million/year is spent on corrosion protection and productivity losses due to corrosion. Corrosion, a process associated with chemical/electrochemical reactions, often has deleterious consequences on mechanical properties, ultimately resulting in the degradation of a material. Metallic components, widely employed in...

Path planning is fundamental and crucial for various kinds of robots, such as autonomous vehicles, multiple robots, or robot arms. It is crucial to generate a safe path without colliding with obstacles or other robots, in the case of path planning of multiple robots....

Ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials remain hot research topics for condensed matter physics and material science since they are an attractive realm for developing devices with enhanced functionality based on either their bulk or surface and interface properties. The application prospects in the field of...

This reprint intends to shed some light on recent advances in antenna design for these new emerging applications and identify further research areas in this exciting field of communications technologies. Considering the specificity of the operational environment, e.g., huge distance, moving support (satellite), huge...