Industrial or vocational training

To understand modern science as a coherent story, it is essential to recognize the accomplishments of the ancient Hindus.

This book is designed to introduce designers, engineers, technologists, estimators, project managers, and financial analysts as well as students in engineering and business to strategic cost tools for project cost evaluations.

Early in the 20th century, our world was small and closed with boundaries.

This book is written to address the issues relating to data gathering, data warehousing, and data analysis, all of which are useful when working with large amounts of data.

This book is designed to be used in an introductory sophomore-level undergraduate course in chemical engineering, civil engineering, industrial engineering, chemistry, and/or industrial chemistry.

Each one of us has views about education, how discipline should function, how individuals learn, how they should be motivated, what intelligence is, and the structures (content and subjects) of the curriculum.

While in many university courses attention is given to the human side, as opposed to the technical side of engineering, it is by and large an afterthought.

Geometric Programming is used for cost minimization, profit maximization, obtaining cost ratios, and the development of generalized design equations for the primal variables.

This book is about the role of some engineering principles in our everyday lives.

The workbook provides over 100 3D visualization exercises challenging the student to create three dimensions from two.

In teaching an introduction to transport or systems dynamics modeling at the undergraduate level, it is possible to lose pedagogical traction in a sea of abstract mathematics.

In teaching an introduction to the finite element method at the undergraduate level, a prudent mix of theory and applications is often sought.

The aim of this book is to supply valid and reasonable parameters in order to guide the choice of the right model of industrial evaporative tower according to operating conditions which vary depending on the particular industrial context: power plants, chemical plants, food processing plants and other industrial facilities are characterized by specific assets and requirements that have to be satisfied.

The Engineering Design Challenge addresses teaching engineering design and presents design projects for first-year students and interdisciplinary design ventures.

This book discusses the ways in which engineering educators are responding to the challenges that confront their profession.

What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist?

The authors cover two general topics: basic engineering economics and risk analysis in this text.

It is often a challenging and overwhelming transition to go from being a student to being a teacher.

Energy is a basic human need; technologies for energy conversion and use are fundamental to human survival.

In recent years, the life sciences have embraced simulation as an important tool in biomedical research.

This book provides an overview of systems engineering, its important elements, and aspects of management that will lead in the direction of building systems with a greater likelihood of success.

Geometric programming is used for design and cost optimization, the development of generalized design relationships, cost ratios for specific problems, and profit maximization.

The experience of an untenured faculty member is highly dependent on the quality of the mentoring they receive.

Scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition.

This lecture provides a hands-on glimpse of the field of electrical engineering.

This lecture provides a hands-on glimpse of the field of electrical and computer engineering.

The book contains research results obtained by applying Bejan's Constructal Theory to the study and therefore the optimization of fins, focusing on T-shaped and Y-shaped ones.

Many products are designed with aesthetic sculptured surfaces to enhance their appearance, an important factor in customer satisfaction, especially for automotive and consumer electronics products.

This lecture book is an introduction to project management.

Relativistic Flight Mechanics and Space Travel is about the fascinating prospect of future human space travel.

For over 40 years, the tech industry has been working to attract more women.

Pragmatism attends to the practical outcomes of what we think and do, the social community in which we practice, and the bases of experience to inform our ideas and practices.

Tensor Properties of Solids presents the phenomenological development of solid state properties represented as matter tensors in two parts: Part I on equilibrium tensor properties and Part II on transport tensor properties.

Tensor Properties of Solids presents the phenomenological development of solid state properties represented as matter tensors in two parts: Part I on equilibrium tensor properties and Part II on transport tensor properties.

The journey to becoming an exemplary engineering educator is one that is rarely simple and straightforward.

This book is a response to the felt need of social work practitioners for professional supervision.

This book serves as an introductory reader for understanding a professional competencies framework for social work through a new approach.

This book serves as an introductory reader for understanding a professional competencies framework for social work through a new approach.

This edited volume remedies existing deficiencies in the literature on artificial intelligence and education in the context of work.

This book is about Case-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL) for medical educators.

This book contributes extensively to a better understanding of how vocational education and training (VET) and practice-based learning and teaching is developed and designed.

The editors and authors of this textbook introduce the relatively new subject of "e;academic and educational entrepreneurship"e; from a holistic viewpoint.

Navigating research careers is often highly challenging for early career researchers (ECRs) in the social sciences.