Professionalism can be identified only with the help of moral principles on which the profession is based. All these ideals or principles have some virtues. Virtues define moral excellence of behavior. So, virtues are some kind of ways which are related references to other individuals or groups or organizations. They are very much related to
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Engineering is a great profession which helps to realize anything and everything in the world. Engineering gives jobs and homes to people and also it improves the standard of living. The important and great liability of engineers when compared to other professions is that the work of an engineer is open to all and all
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Consensus means ‘agreement’ and ‘controversy’ means disagreement. The consensus and the controversies are playing the vital roles while considering the moral autonomy. When an individual exercises the moral autonomy, he cannot get the same results as others get in applying moral autonomy. Surely there must be some moral differences i.e. the results or verdicts will
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Gilligan’s Argument Caorl Gilligan was one of the students of Kohlberg. She criticizes Kohlberg’s theory on the basis of approaches made by both male and female towards morality. On the basis of her studies and researchs, she criticises Kohlberg’s theory which is only based on male bias and his studies are of typically male preoccupation
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Figure illustrates the configuration of a manipulator in three dimensions. The manipulator has 4 degrees of freedom: joint 1 (type T joint) allows rotation about the z axis; joint 2 (type R) allows rotation about an axis that is perpendicular to the z axis; joint 3 is a linear joint which is capable of sliding
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A robot moves in space to perform tasks and hence it needs actuators to move the links and sensors to know where each joint is. Sensors inform the controller by how much each joint has moved and thus enables the controller to enforce a particular velocity or position during motion. As we have seen in
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Commercially available industrial robots can be classified into four categories according to their control system. The types of robot controls : Limited sequence robots Playback robots with point to point control Playback robots with continuous path control Intelligent robots Of the four categories, the limited sequence robots represent the lowest level of control and intelligent
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A capacitor is broadly defined as two conductors that can hold opposite charges. It can be used as either a sensor or an actuator. If the distance and relative position between two conductors change as a result of applied stimulus, the capacitance value would be changed. This forms the basis of capacitive (or electrostatic) sensing.
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Mechanical characteristics such as spring constants and resonant frequencies of beams and membranes can be changed by introducing strain. In this section, we focus on discussing methods for tuning characteristics of cantilever beams to exemplify the methodology. For cantilevers, longitudinal strain can be introduced by axial or transverse loading forces. We will discuss these two
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A MEMS system, including sensors and actuators, invariably consists of mass and supporting structures. The supporting mechanical elements (membranes, cantilever, or suspensions) provide elastic restoring spring constants. Movement of the mass is impeded by collision with air molecules surrounding the mass. This constitutes damping, which is a velocity-dependant resistance force. As such, a MEMS system
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