Program Assessment: Equivalency and Credentials for the Global Marketplace

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winfred M. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Program Assessment ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Sewer System ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
At Home

Abstract Great engineering achievements, from the Aqueducts of Rome and Hausman’s Sewer System for Paris to the Boeing 757 and the Space Shuttle, have always benefitted from international influence and content. The reliability of engineering structures and systems has always engendered the confidence of international users. U.S. citizens drive European automobiles with confidence and Europeans drive across U.S. bridges without pause. Today, international content is extensive, often formalized and regulated and a permanent part of tomorrow’s engineering. Engineers both participate in their profession worldwide and evaluate and accommodate international content at home. Multinational companies demand multinational engineering practice. “Credentials without borders” is desired. Accreditation is key to quality assurance.

A Fuzzy-Based Decision Support Tool for Appraisement of Supplier's Quality Assurance Practices

2016 ◽  
pp. 255-290
Author(s):  
Chitrasen Samantra ◽  
Saurav Datta ◽  
Siba Sankar Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Effective Components ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Interactive Relationship

Recently competition in the global marketplace has stimulated immense attention being paid by the enterprises towards securing highest quality, cost effective components and materials, consistently delivered on time. This objective can only be achieved by establishing long term, close working relationships with suppliers, who adopt a proper quality philosophy. Supplier Quality Assurance is the confidence in a supplier's ability to deliver a commodity or service towards satisfying customer's needs. Supplier Quality Assurance can be achieved through interactive relationship between the customer and the supplier; it aims at ensuring the product's ‘suitably fit' to the customer's requirements with little or no adjustment or inspection. In the present context, the study develops a decision-making framework to assure as well as to assess suppliers' existing quality philosophy, current policy and related practices. An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set (IVFS) theory has been adopted to develop such an evaluation model.

Description of Pharmacist Recommendations in the Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany Loy Melville ◽  
Janine Bailey ◽  
Jason Moss ◽  
William Bryan ◽  
Judith Davagnino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Clinical Pharmacist ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Program Assessment ◽  
Potentially Inappropriate Medications ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Clinical Pharmacists ◽  
Coach Program ◽  
At Home

OBJECTIVE: To describe recommendations made by geriatric clinical pharmacists within an innovative care model focusing on patients with dementia living at home. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. SETTING: Outpatients in a tertiary care Veterans Affairs health care system. PARTICIPANTS: Veterans who underwent a Caring for Older Adults and Caregivers at Home (COACH) Program assessment and had at least one medicationrelated recommendation made by a geriatric clinical pharmacist. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary endpoint was the number and category of medication-related recommendations made by a geriatric clinical pharmacist at the initial COACH program assessment. Secondary endpoints were recommendation acceptance rates and change in potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) at six months. RESULTS: There were 104 patients included. The mean age was 81 years and the majority of patients were male and Caucasian. At baseline, patients were receiving a mean of 12 medications/person, and 59% of patients were receiving at least one PIM. There were 248 total medication recommendations made, with a mean of 2.4 recommendations/person (range 1-5). The three most common recommendation categories were to discontinue a drug, decrease the dose, and switch to a potentially safer alternative. Providers accepted 110 (44%) recommendations within six months. Patients were receiving a mean of one PIM/person at baseline, and no change was observed at six months.CONCLUSION: This study describes recommendations made through medication reviews by geriatric clinical pharmacists within an innovative care model for patients with dementia living at home. These data may provide information to other clinical pharmacists implementing consult services in similar settings.

scholarly journals Arab Open and Virtual Universities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Porcaro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Virtual Universities ◽  
At Home

The landscape of online and virtual universities has been expanding in the Arab world in the past decade. Enrollments are rising steadily, allowing access to higher education for students at home and overseas. As growth continues, more centralization, institution-created content, and quality assurance may be required.

scholarly journals Geotechnical Problems Of The Foundation Of Road Embankments By The Bridge Structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-281
Author(s):  
Andrzej Batog ◽  
Elżbieta Stilger-Szydło
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analyses ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Soft Soils ◽  
Design Performance ◽  
Bridge Structures ◽  
Low Strength ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Geotechnical Problems ◽  
Lower Silesia

AbstractThis work presents the geotechnical problems occurring in the interaction area between road embankments and the bridge structures in case a subsoil characterised by complex and complicated geological and engineering conditions. These significant problems that occur during the design, performance and exploitation of the abutment structures, are illustrated on the example of engineering practice in Lower Silesia, concerning a road embankment that constitutes access to the bridge. The results of numerical analyses concerning the process of consolidation of low-strength soils and their impact on the settlements of road embankment indicate the need to carry out such analyses also in the cases, when the soft soils occur in the direct geotechnical layer under the designed embankment. The Authors included in this article a discussion regarding other effective actions and solutions that can be used in the design and performance phase, leading to the elimination or reduction of problems concerning the connection of engineering structures with road embankments, which have been recurring for years, ultimately resulting in the improvement of quality, comfort and safety of road exploitation.

Engineering Software Quality Management and ISO 9000

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Schoonmaker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Iso 9000 ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Engineering Software ◽  
Software Quality Management ◽  
Independent Auditing

Abstract This paper presents a management model for “in-house” engineering software. This model expands on a previous publication by the author, and this model is intended to satisfy the requirements of an ISO 9000 registration. ISO 9000 is the quality assurance standard of the International Organization for Standardization. ISO 9000 registration, which includes on-site independent auditing, is becoming a requirement for some businesses operating in the global marketplace. This paper draws on the author’s first-hand experience with this process. The author also urges the ASME to produce guidelines or standards on this material which will allow other mechanical engineers to benefit from his experience.

scholarly journals System Hazard Platform: Case Study NASA Field Joint Failure

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Kouroush Jenab ◽  
Josh Herrin ◽  
Saeid Moslehpour ◽  
Sam Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Failure Rate ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Joint Failure ◽  
Space Shuttle Challenger ◽  
Extreme Cold ◽  
Solid Rocket

<p class="1Body">NASA became overconfident with consecutive successful flights with no major failures leading up to Flight 25 of the Space Shuttle Challenger and failed to correctly apply quality assurance to reanalyze the possibilities of failure when extreme cold weather was present for what would become the last Challenger launch. System Hazard Analysis applied correctly to analyze the failure rate patterns of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger Solid Rocket Booster field joints may have prevented the launch of the tragic Flight 25, where there was a total loss of aircraft and seven astronauts were killed in the accident. The steps of System Hazard Analysis will be explained that if followed may have provided the data necessary for NASA to correct the field joint error prior to instead of after the Challenger explosion.</p>

Simulation on Entrainment Process of Suction Mouth under Negative Pressure in the Medium Dry Sanitation Trucks

2014 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Jia Qiang E ◽  
Teng Liu ◽  
Wei Zuo ◽  
Yi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Negative Pressure ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Circulation Type ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Pneumatic Conveying ◽  
Entrainment Process ◽  
Pressure Suction ◽  
Conveying System ◽  
At Home

Since twentieth Century 40's, some foreign enterprises in developed countries began to study and produce sweeper [1-2]. Research on China's sweeping car began in twentieth Century 60 years, but until the 80 time end when china had been reforming and opening that it began to rapidly develope [3-4].But the study of mouth has the same general trend at home and abroad. Due to the different design of suction mouth, circulation type pneumatic conveying systems in general can be divided into open pneumatic conveying system using pure suction type suction mouth [5] and the use of reverse blowing type suction mouth delivery system [6]. Now most of the sweeper adopts the latter, but if the back blowing type suction mouth design improperly ,it can not achieve the ideal effect of absorbing dust, and may lead to strong fugitive dust [7-9].Today although road sweeper have been studied for decades at home and aboard, but these studies mainly is through the enterprise using engineering practice means to complete ,there are two situations occurring as follows: a number of technical on research and development need to rely on our own to explore; The engineering practice have greater demand for human, material and financial resources, and it is difficult to achieve better expected. In order to solve the problems of the above two points, according to the fluid mechanics analysis, this paper mainly research and analyze the sweeper suction mouth's flow field pickup role of entrainment process for particulate contamination by negative pressure suction, which can provide a foundation for the research and optimization of sweeper pneumatic conveying system.

scholarly journals Sewer system optimization in housing and communal services

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 02002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Smirnova ◽  
Yuliya Larionova ◽  
Arkadij Larionov
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Power Saving ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Source Control ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Sewer System ◽  
Main Trunk

The purpose of the article is to present the design decisions used in the construction of the extended main trunk sewer of the North in St Petersburg. One of its key elements is the siphon, a unique structure in engineering practice for optimal and safe water disposal system. Its special feature is in the arrangement of connections in the pits of the trunk sewer header portion. For the purpose of investigation it had to describe the general situation relative to sewerage network in the city. Following this, a precondition, which determined the structure design as the optimum for movement of effluent, is presented. Further, author concludes that the new pit structures using composite materials made it possible to complete construction of the trunk sewer on schedule and by means of it to move to purification works practically all of the city’s effluents (98, 4%) and realize the goal of steady economic development. Then author shows that it is necessary source control techniques be designed to counter increased discharge of water. It should to provide in the buildings power saving technologies, the hot water recirculation systems, modernize the existing hot water supply facilities, and to install low-cost highly efficient small heat exchangers instead of obsolete locally based boilers and just only of increasing the norms, coefficients and tariffs. Hence it appears that the multi-objective sewer system optimization provides more rational and practical solutions to avoid sewer overflows, reduce risks to public health and to protect the environment from water pollution.

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