Background Vat photopolymerization (VPP) is used often in 3D printing for its ability to achieve high precision, excellent surface finish, and its capability to create complex structures with minimal support needs. Applications requiring high fidelity are best suited with the VPP process. However, two main challenges persist in the current VPP process....

Background Recent studies have showed the ability of Quantum Computers to produce atypical patterns which are hard to produce classically, which gives them a distinct advantage in the domain of machine learning. However, most devices today are considered Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, which are limited in the circuit breadth and suffer...

Background With the rapid development of network communication technologies and remote applications, the volume of data traffic generated by users and various IoT systems has significantly increased, especially during the recent pandemic. Cloud-based file storage services have been widely used for storing large amounts of user data as they provide...

Background Air traffic control is a crucial part of aviation safety, ensuring that aircraft are safely guided through the airspace and landed or taken off from airports. Effective workload management of air traffic controllers (ATCos) is an important component of maintaining safety within the aviation domain. One component of effective workload management...

Activated sludge process is the biotic conversion of organic matter of wastewater to CO2 and biomass. The biological conversion of organic compounds in activated sludge relies on the efficient transfer of dissolved oxygen. Oxygen mass transfer from the gas phase to the liquid phase and microbial oxygen consumption are critical for effectively removing...

Supply chains provide a network describing how resources move from a source to delivery for consumption by the end user. Supply chains also involve the components involved in production and transportation of the commodities being moved in the supply chain. There is a need for modeling links in a supply chain to estimate supply and demand and to ensure...

Background Utility pipes are a crucial component of public health and safety infrastructure, and it is critical to conduct regular inspections to ensure functionality. Currently, most pipes are inspected by human operators, which can pose safety concerns as well as inaccuracy and limited accessibility. As an alternative, in-pipe robots are increasingly...

­Background Electrolytic reduction of metal carbonates in molten salts at elevated temperatures have attracted attention over the past decade as a new way of producing various materials such as carbon materials and metal oxides. These carbon materials can be in various forms including carbon nanotubes, nanofibers, aggregates, amorphous carbon,...

Today's high-performance computing (HPC) systems are largely structured based on traditional central processing units (CPUs) with tightly coupled general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs, which can be considered domain-specific accelerators). GPUs have a different programming model than CPUs and are only efficient in exploiting spatial parallelism...

Today's high-performance computing (HPC) systems are largely structured based on traditional central processing units (CPUs) with tightly coupled general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs, which can be considered domain-specific accelerators). GPUs have a different programming model than CPUs and are only efficient in exploiting spatial parallelism...