Also called "first-come, first served" (FCFS) queuing, FIFO is the simplest queuing method. Packets are placed into a single queue and serviced in the order they were received. Each packet is assigned ...

Reliability allocation methods play a pivotal role in engineering, serving as the means by which system-level reliability requirements are systematically distributed among individual subsystems and ...

Cells are incredibly adept at creating complex molecules, like therapeutics, and can do so much better than many of our best factories. Synthetic biologists look to ...

This course is designed for engineering graduate students who are interested in furthering their knowledge in advanced and emerging methods of engineering design, with the focus on computational ...

This three-credit course in the School of Engineering exposes students to concepts and techniques for design. The class discusses the fundamental concepts and activities of design processes and ...

Organ failure impacts millions of patients each year and costs hundreds of billions of US Dollars. Over the last 30 years, scientists have utilized a combination of tools, methods, and molecules of ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has developed a new method of surface engineering polymer soft-materials that has potential to accelerate ...

Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...