The Victorian engineers displayed considerable ingenuity in overcoming technical problems and successfully manufactured the first carbon filament incandescent lamps. Apart from Swan and Edison, many others shared in this achievement. The materials and scientific knowledge at that time were limited; this article reviews the key steps that were made in manufacture-particularly in producing homogeneo...
This paper discusses a proposed multimedia textbook to be implemented in a virtual education environment (VEE) at the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The aim of the multimedia textbook, which is targeted at engineering courses, is to bring out a student's creative abilities and to minimise basic study and learning time so that more subjects can be provided to prepare students for fut...
DNA chips, or biochips, have been developed to sequence unknown genes and to study gene expression, but the working principle suggests that they can be used for engineering applications that require parallel processing. DNA chips are proposed here as the physical substrate to store and evaluate a set of rules for knowledge-based systems.
