Browsing Mechanical Engineering (Conference Papers) by Title
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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 ... -
Supporting global collaboration teams through innovative Web 2.0 technologies.
(Fraunhofer-Verlag, 2011)Enhanced collaboration among multicultural European countries is necessary for effective enterprise development and innovation. The current climate of an increasingly competitive global economy provides opportunities to ... -
Supporting online students through the liminal space from facilitated online modules to self-starting a thesis
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)Most third-level institutes now offer online education (Bowers & Kumar, 2015). Allen et al. (2016) report that in excess of 28% of all American higher education students are enrolled on at least one online course. Online ... -
Sustaining multi-national subsidiaries operations in the electronics industry in Ireland
(2010-09)US multi-national corporations' (MNC) subsidiaries operating in the electronics industry represent a significant and important grouping of the high tech manufacturing sector in Ireland based on the number of people employed, ... -
Systems innovation management: Supporting innovation in a manufacturing environment
(1999)Each year organisations spend a significant amount of money developing new products and processes in an effort to satisfy customer demands and manufacture high quality products efficiently. Both development processes - ... -
Systems innovation tools
(1999)Manufacturing organisations are continuously innovating their systems and processes in order to survive in today¿s turbulent environment. There are currently a number of software tools available on the market, which can ... -
Technology transfer model
(2007)According to Burgleman and Maidique (1998) the ability to undertake technology transfer is a key capability for an organisation. It enables them to extend their product life cycles when older technologies mature. Technology ... -
Towards effective knowledge management: An analysis of European manufacturing SMEs
(2006)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within European organisations in general and because of their importance to the economy Manufacturing SMEs in particular. The key challenges that face such organisations ... -
Towards Empathic Design in the Irish Medical Device Industry
(2012-05)The goal of this study is twofold (a) to identify whether empathic design methods are used in the medical device industry in Ireland and (b) to identify the challenges faced by designers when implementing empathic design ... -
Turbocharging the journey into the liminal space and beyond
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2017-03-06)In the last decade, tertiary educational environments accommodated increasing student numbers (Reidy, 2015) while remaining competitive in differentiating their programmes in an arena of MOOCs (Alraimi, Zo, & Ciganek, ...