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In today’s fast-changing economy, product designs are becoming increasingly complex while demands for faster design cycles never cease. Tighter collaboration among business partners and streamlined integration of engineering processes are becoming essential elements to succeeding in the competitive global environment. Modern computer-aided design/engineering solutions and revolutionary Internet technologies facilitate such real-time business-to-business (B2B) design collaboration. This paper discusses various emerging technologies that enable a true B2B virtual collaboration of an aircraft engine combustor design between GE Aircraft Engines, a jet engine manufacturer, and Parker Hannifin, a gas turbine fuel nozzle supplier. A case study involving the collaborative design and analysis of a fuel nozzle is also presented, which demonstrates the realistic implementation of these new technologies.

In this paper, we address issues of transparency, modularity, and privacy with the introduction of an open source, web-based data repository and analysis tool tailored to the Massive Open Online Course community. The tool integrates data request/authorization and distribution workflow features as well as provides a simple analytics module upload format to enable reuse and replication of analytics results among instructors and researchers. We survey the evolving landscape of competing established and emerging data models, all of which are accommodated in the platform. Data model descriptions are provided to analytics authors who choose, much like with smartphone app stores, to write for any number of data models depending on their needs and the proliferation of the particular data model. Two case study examples of analytics and responsive visualizations based on different data models are described in the paper. The result is a simple but effective approach to learning analytics immediately applicable to X consortium MOOCs and beyond.

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In today’s fast-changing economy, product designs are becoming increasingly complex while demands for faster design cycles never cease. Tighter collaboration among business partners and streamlined integration of engineering processes have become a dominating factor in expediting time to market and succeeding in the competitive global environment. With modern computer-aided design/engineering solutions and revolutionary Internet technologies, such realtime business-to-business (B2B) design collaboration becomes a reality. This paper discusses various emerging technologies that enable a true B2B virtual collaboration of aircraft engine combustor design between GE Aircraft Engines — a jet engine manufacturer, and Parker Hannifin — a gas turbine fuel nozzle supplier. A case study involving the collaborative design and analysis of a fuel nozzle is also presented which demonstrates the realistic implementation of these new technologies.