Peer assisted study sessions (PASS) are a type of supplemental instruction (SI) that provide students with out-of-class study review sessions with a group of peers. A student, who has successfully completed the subject and acts as a mentor, facilitates the voluntary sessions. Results of the PASS...

This paper derives a novel procedure for testing the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) first-order optimality conditions in models with multiple random responses.Such models arise in simulation-based optimization with multivariate outputs.This paper focuses on expensive simulations, which have small...

This article investigates the effects of injection timing, injection pressure and compression ratio on performance characteristic (brake thermal efficiency) and emission characteristics (smoke, HC, CO and NOx) of a single-cylinder direct injection diesel engine when fueled with Honge oil methyl...

Energy storage is a persistent problem in general and electrical energy storage in particular. Supercapacitor is emerging technology in the field of electrical energy storage and its use along with battery or fuel cell is viewed as a solution in many portable systems. Supercapacitor is a new...

There is a growing interest in applying robust techniques for profiling complex processes in industry. In this work, we present an approach for analyzing fractional-factorial data by building distribution-free models suitable for dealing with replicated trials in search of non-linear effects....