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Evaluation Results of an E and ET Education Forum

Description: This article discusses evaluation results of an Engineering (E) and Engineering Technology (ET) education forum at the University of Houston. A central focus to these discussions revolved around whether Engineering and Engineering Technology exist as separate fields or whether there was value in thinking about them as part of a continuum.
Date: 2011
Creator: Ramos, Miguel; Chapman, Lauren; Cannady, Mac & Barbieri, Enrique
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Evaluation of Superficial and Dimensional Quality Features in Metallic Micro-Channels Manufactured by Micro-End-Milling

Description: This article focuses on a set of experiments in the micro-milling of channels made of aluminum, titanium alloys and stainless steel.
Date: April 3, 2013
Creator: Monroy-Vázquez, Karla P.; Attanasio, Aldo; Ceretti, Elisabetta; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Hendrichs-Troeglen, Nicolás J. & Giardini, Claudio
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Stress-Softening and Residual Strain Effects in Suture Materials

Description: This article focuses on the experimental characterization of suture material samples of MonoPlus, Monosyn, polyglycolic acid, polydioxanone 2–0, polydioxanone 4–0, poly(glycolide-co-epsilon-caprolactone), nylon, and polypropylene when subjected to cyclic loading and unloading conditions.
Date: May 20, 2013
Creator: Elías-Zúñiga, Alex; Montoya, Beatriz; Ortega, Wendy; Flores-Villalba, Eduardo; Rodríguez, Ciro A.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael et al.
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Study of PVD AlCrN Coating for Reducing Carbide Cutting Tool Deterioration in the Machining of Titanium Alloys

Description: This article studies a thin nanocomposite film made out of AlCrN (aluminum-chromium-nitrite) to show experimental work in the deposition process and its characterization.
Date: May 24, 2013
Creator: Cadena, Natalia L.; Cue-Sampedro, Rodrigo; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Arizmendi-Morquecho, Ana M.; Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I. & Di-Nardo, Santiago
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Study of performance of high speed turning using the volumetric dimension coefficient of resultant cutting force

Description: This article describes the experimental study of the resultant cutting force evolution of two coating carbide and a cermet inserts, during the dry turning of AISI 1045 steel with 400, 500, and 600 m/min cutting speeds.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Hernández-González, L. W.; Pérez-Rodríguez, R.; Zambrano-Robledo, P. C.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael & Toscano-Reyes, H.
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Polymeric Materials Reinforced with Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes: A Constitutive Material Model

Description: This article discusses the modification of an existing material model to take into account softening and residual strain effects observed in polymeric materials reinforced with carbon nanotubes when subjected to loading and unloading cycles.
Date: July 16, 2013
Creator: Córdova, René K.; Elías-Zúñiga, Alex; Elizalde, Luis E.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Sánchez, José Antonio; Rodríguez, Ciro A. et al.
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Xurography as a Rapid Fabrication Alternative for Point-of-Care Devices: Assessment of Passive Micromixers

Description: This article evaluates the viability of xurography as a rapid fabrication tool for the development of ultra-low cost microfluidic technology for extreme Point-of-Care (POC) micromixing devices.
Date: May 16, 2016
Creator: Martínez-López, J. Israel; Mojica, Mauricio; Rodríguez, Ciro A. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
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Seismic Response and Engineering of Cold-formed Steel Framed Buildings

Description: This article discusses a North American effort which formed as part of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), known as Enabling Performance-Based Seismic Design of Multi-Story Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CFS-NEES), as it addresses seismic performance-based design for cold-formed steel framed buildings.
Date: May 26, 2016
Creator: Schafer, B. W.; Ayhan, D.; Leng, J.; Liu, P.; Padilla-Llano, D.; Peterman, K. D. et al.
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