Browsing Mechanical Engineering (Conference Papers) by Title
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Lego® Serious Play® as a Business Innovation enabler
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-14)Improvements in innovation and quality processes can be achieved through the use of novel approaches such as LSP, which enables abstract thinking and advocates an open-mind for unconventional solutions. Within the scope ... -
The link between off campus work for students, reduced academic performance and increased mental health issues
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)Despite the Free Fees Initiative (introduced in 1996) Irish students pay an annual registration fee of 3,000 (Cassells, 2016). This, in combination with rising accommodation and living costs, means that the annual cost ... -
Managing enterprise networks: Support structures for SMEs
(2005)In an increasingly competitive global economy, small to medium sized enterprises (SME) realise that they must work together in order to survive. They must learn to share their experiences and knowledge and pool their ... -
Measuring and benchmarking digital literacy strategies and efforts: the BENTLI project
(2006)There are numerous interesting strategies in place in Europe, a large majority of them initiated and executed by regional or local government institutions, more or less successful in addressing groups with a high risk of ... -
Microscale flow structures measured downstream of a mechanical heart valve
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MISFITS: Lego, Wool, Art, Equations agus Seanfhocail: Professional Development Pilot –a living teaching portfolio initiative
(Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI Galway, 2017-06-23)[No abstract available] -
A model for surface tension in the finite volume particle method without parasitic current
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-26)A surface tension model has been developed in the finite volume particle method (FVPM). Surface tension force is applied only on free-surface particles, which are inexpensively and robustly detected using the FVPM ... -
Operations strategy development and implementation: a self assessment matrix
(Irish Manufacturing Committee, 1996)In both the increasingly competitve and the continuously changing business environment existing today, increasing pressure is placed on companies to maintain and improve their profitability. Managment teams are becoming ... -
Particle transport velocity correction for complex boundaries in the Finite Volume Particle Method
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-26)Particle methods such as smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the finite volume particle method (FVPM) can suffer from strongly non-uniform and anisotropic particle distributions when purely Lagrangian particle ... -
Product innovation management: Towards a constructive guide
(2000)Manufacturing companies rely heavily on successful new product innovation to maintain profits. Moreover, research indicates that new products will account for a greater percentage of profits in the future (Crawford, 1996). ... -
Product manager: A decision support tool for design engineers
(1999)The new product development process is the lifeblood of all manufacturing enterprises. Many tools and techniques have been developed in an attempt to make this process more efficient and effective. However, in spite of ... -
Product portfolio management: An analysis of a large medical device company
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013-07)This paper focuses on product portfolio management in a large multinational medical device organisation. The contribution of this research is to provide insights into the nature, composition and decision making processes ... -
Re-boot learning: providing an e-tivity scaffold for engagement for early research activity through blog technology embedded within teaching and learning
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)Increasing student numbers in higher education over the last decade has challenged educational environments. The challenge for educators is to re-think learning environments and delivery methods such that a student-educator ... -
Requirements of SME's for effective innovation management
(2003)Innovation has become one of the most important and effective ways of obtaining and sustaining competitive dominance in the market place over the past number of years. No longer can organisation depend the traditional ... -
Scale-up of bileaflet mechanical heart valve for enhanced resolution of the unsteady flow field
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Serious Play as a method for process design
(Springer, 2014-09-20)As motivating and including people is a crucial aspect in any plan-ning, design and change process there is always a need for appropriate methods and tools to support this. Lego Serious Play (LSP) is such a method which ... -
SME collaboration: Trick or Treat?
(2008)Collaboration is a major new source of competitive advantage and an essential regional, and indeed, global management requirement. The collaboration process will ultimately be successful if there is an existence of appropriate ... -
The student voice: the students own views on smartphone usage and impact on their academic performance
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)By the time they are 12 years of age, 90% of Irish children will have a smartphone (Bielenberg, 2017). This rise in smartphone ownership has meant that mobile technology has become an integral part of our daily lives. ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organization
(2005-07-03)There are ever-increasing demands from customers for more manufacturing agility in the form of higher product variety, smaller production runs of more customised products and batch sizes with shorter delivery times. To ...