Tecnología industrial I : una ventana abierta a la investigación y experimentación en bachillerato.

Se presenta memoria final de proyecto educativo que propone la estructuración de los bloques temáticos de la asignatura de tecnología industrial I perteneciente al bachillerato tecnológico, a través de dos grandes centros de interés, uno de ellos estará basado en el azulejo sevillano y el otro en el aprovechamiento energético del sol. Se realiza en el IES Pablo Picasso en Sevilla. Los objetivos son: superar el anquilosamiento de un sistema excesivamente teórico; despertar el interés por el derecho que asiste a los pueblos a conocer a su cultura, valorando nuestro patrimonio tecnológico como bien social e irrenunciable; promover un proceso de aprendizaje en la línea de 'aprender a aprender'; aproximar al alumno a un contexto sociolocacional cultural de su entorno; despertar en el alumnado interés por la experimentación y la investigación; permitir un acercamiento globalizador o interdisciplinar con otras áreas; fomentar y ejercitar la creatividad, la capacidad de diseño, organización a nivel grupal e ingenio investigando y construyendo artilugios con materiales de desecho; habilitar a adquirir conocimientos también fuera del aula; descubrir con ambas propuestas las posibilidades de integración laboral; contribuir a que el alumnado tengan cabezas bien hechas que no bien llenas. El proceso consta de varias fases: aproximación, conocimiento, implicación y aportaciones; organización por grupos, asumir roles, directrices a seguir; concreción de contenidos; de desarrollo, salidas diversas, recogida de información; elaboración y organización de 'carpetas-dossier'; elaboración de documentos resumen; revisión y montaje de documentos definitivos; presentación de trabajos.

Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability

This volume of the final report documents the technical work performed from December 1998 through December 2002 under Cooperative Agreement F33615-97-2-5153 executed between the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Manufacturing Technology Division (AFRL/MLM) and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. The work was accomplished by The Boeing Company, Phantom Works, Huntington Beach, St. Louis, and Seattle; Ford Motor Company; Integral Inc.; Sloan School of Management in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Pratt & Whitney; and Central State University in Xenia, Ohio and in association with Raytheon Corporation. The LeanTEC program manager for AFRL is John Crabill of AFRL / MLMP and The Boeing Company program manager is Ed Shroyer of Boeing Phantom Works in Huntington Beach, CA. Financial performance under this contract is documented in the Financial Volume of the final report.

Financial Information Mediation: A Case Study of Standards Integration for Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment Using the COIN Mediation Technology

Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company operates its own financial information system or systems. By its very nature, financial information, like the money that it represents, changes hands. Therefore the interoperation of financial information systems is the cornerstone of the financial services they support. E-services frameworks such as web services are an unprecedented opportunity for the flexible interoperation of financial systems. Naturally the critical economic role and the complexity of financial information led to the development of various standards. Yet standards alone are not the panacea: different groups of players use different standards or different interpretations of the same standard. We believe that the solution lies in the convergence of flexible E-services such as web-services and semantically rich meta-data as promised by the semantic Web; then a mediation architecture can be used for the documentation, identification, and resolution of semantic conflicts arising from the interoperation of heterogeneous financial services. In this paper we illustrate the nature of the problem in the Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) industry and the viability of the solution we propose. We describe and analyze the integration of services using four different formats: the IFX, OFX and SWIFT standards, and an example proprietary format. To accomplish this integration we use the COntext INterchange (COIN) framework. The COIN architecture leverages a model of sources and receivers’ contexts in reference to a rich domain model or ontology for the description and resolution of semantic heterogeneity.