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Record W1951854599 · doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.4701

The Role of Biology in an Engineering Program

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Danny Mann

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBiomedical and Engineering Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiological systems engineeringBiological engineeringSynthetic biologySystem of systems engineeringBiosystems engineeringComponent (thermodynamics)EngineeringEngineering ethicsComputer scienceSystems engineeringEngineering managementCivil engineering softwareBiologySystems designComputational biologyBioinformaticsPhysics

Abstract

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Biology may not be a typical subject in the traditional engineering disciplines (i.e., civil, electrical, or mechanical), however, it is a fundamental component of disciplines such as biosystems engineering. Biosystems engineering emphasizes the application of engineering principles to biologically-based systems (i.e., systems that include plants, animals, microorganisms, or humans). A biosystems engineering program is designed to give students knowledge of the fundamental principles of engineering and to introduce biological concepts to enable these engineers to successfully interact with relevant professionals when solving engineering problems involving biological systems. The Department of Biosystems Enginering at the University of Manitoba offers five specializations (agricultural,biomedical, bioprocessing, environmental, and sustainable building systems) that can be taken within the biosystems engineering program. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the biology content of the biosystems engineering program at the University of Manitoba and to highlight the importance of biology to each of the five specializations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.106
Threshold uncertainty score0.250

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0130.016
Scholarly communication0.0100.003
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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