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ThermoData Engine

Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Eric W. Lemmon, Ian H. Bell, Andrei F. Kazakov, Yauheni Paulechka

Ventilation, IAQ and Filtration in a Net Zero Energy House

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Lisa C. Ng, Dustin G. Poppendieck, Steven J. Emmerich
The Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) was constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the development

Halogenated natural products

Author(s)
Terry Bidleman, John Kucklick, Henrik Kylin, Robert Letcher, Liisa Jantunen, Fiona Wong
This chapter summarizes the occurrence and fate on HNPs in the arctic physical environment and accumulation processes and presence in arctic biota. Except for

Let’s truly add systems to industrial engineering

Author(s)
Timothy A. Sprock, Leon McGinnis
The ISE community can provide leadership in the design and decision-making required to support the scale, complexity and degree of automation expected of modern

Report for Dedicated JPSS VIIRS Ocean Color Calibration/Validation Cruise October 2016

Author(s)
Michael Ondrusek, Veronica P. Lance, Menghua Wang, Charles Kovach, Wesley Goode, Alex Gilerson, Sam Ahmed, Ahmed El-Habashi, Robert Foster, Matteo Ottaviani, Joaquim I. Goes, Helga de Rosario Gomes, Kali McKee, Joo Won Kang, Chuanmin Hu, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Shaojie Sun, David English, B. Carol Johnson, Zhongping Lee, Junfang Lin, Nicholas Tufillaro, Ivan Lalovic, Jasmine Nahorniak, Curtiss Davis, Mike Twardowski, Nicole Stockley, Kenneth Voss
The overall aim of the annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) dedicated Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Visible Infrared Imaging

Even Small Factories Can Get Smarter

Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Moneer M. Helu
Smart manufacturing uses data to deliver value the way automation, mechanical machinery, and labor did in the past. Yet engineers often worry that transitioning

The Long-Term Maintenance of CFAST

Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney
Even though zone fire models may seem like yesterday’s news, they still play a vital role in many aspects of fire protection engineering. How do we maintain

ThermoData Engine (TDE) Version 10.2 (Pure Compounds, Binary Mixtures, Ternary Mixtures, and Chemical Reactions): NIST Standard Reference Database 103b

Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Alexander Y. Smolyanitsky, Ala Bazyleva, Robert D. Chirico, Joe W. Magee, Yauheni Paulechka, Andrei F. Kazakov, Scott A. Townsend, Eric W. Lemmon, Michael D. Frenkel, Kenneth G. Kroenlein
The ThermoData Engine is a software expert system implementing the concept of dynamic data evaluation for thermophysical and thermochemical properties of

A Suite of Ontologies for Robotics and Automation

Author(s)
Sandro R. Fiorini, Julita Bermejo-Alonso, Paulo Goncalves, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alberto Olivares Alarcos, Joanna Isabelle Olszewska, Edson Prestes, Craig I. Schlenoff, Veera S. Ragavan, Signe Redfield, Bruce Spencer, Howard Li
One of the basic requirements for any type of robot communication (whether with other robots or humans) is the need for a common vocabulary along with clear and

Standards for Biomaterials

Author(s)
Stephen W. Freiman, John A. Tesk
This paper is a summary of a workshop session during the Workshop on Biomedical Materials and Devices, held June 13-14, 2001. The workshop is part of a series

Testing of an Alternate Smoking Material

Author(s)
Richard Gann
ASTM test method E2187-02b is not appropriate for measuring the ignition strength of a cigarette-shaped smoking material that does not have a tobacco column

Energy Escalation Rate Calculator (EERC1.0-03)

Author(s)
L I. Schultz, S Fuller
The Energy Escalation Rate Calculator (EERC) computes an average annual escalation rate for fuel prices, based on the annual energy price forecasts of the

Advances in Atomic Structure Calculations

Author(s)
Charlotte F. Fischer
Correlation and relativistic effects are both needed for accurate atomic structure calculations of energy levels and their atomic properties. For transition

Telling Time

Author(s)
Jonathan E. Hardis
In Low-Tech Blues [June], you note that we are surrounded by clocks, but lament the lack of systems to set them automatically. Our job is to help fix that. Your