Careers guidance

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 explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a "e;survival guide"e; for current and prospective PhD students.

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.

This book employs a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology to analyse the language used by university careers services in the UK.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, scholarly overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989.

This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges.

This book showcases how the latest and most advanced types of analytical modeling and empirical analysis can help to create value in the global supply chain.

This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept.

This book is a guide for mentors on how to recruit, mentor, and support students through a student research experience in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields.

This book is a complete guide for students on how to make the most of intensive, experiential research outside a college classroom.

This book is written to help readers with humanities backgrounds improve their academic research, tertiary-level teaching, professional service, and career trajectory.

The situation for career counselors today is particularly complex.

One of the most pressing issues in current and future human resource management is the inclusion of strengths and life stages within human resource structures.

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.

This book offers unique insights into the impact of the rise of a managerialist culture in Further Adult and Vocational Education (FAVE) in England.

The intention of this book is to demonstrate that curriculum design is a profoundly philosophical exercise that stems from perceptions of the mission of higher education.

All educators bring to their work preconceived ideas of what the curriculum should be and how students learn.

As long as humans have existed on the planet, they have looked at the world around them and wondered about much of what they saw.

This book includes theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and reflective discussions on issues and experiences pertaining to PhD by Publication for both the prospective and retrospective route.

The thrill of discovery and the excitement of innovation mean that research is often immensely satisfying.

Many of us have implemented oral communication instruction in our design courses, lab courses, and other courses where students give presentations.

Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females pursuing and succeeding in the field.

This handbook accelerates the development of analytical writing skills for high school students, students in higher education, and working professionals in a broad range of careers.

Introduction to Engineering Design is a practical, straightforward workbook designed to systematize the often messy process of designing solutions to open-ended problems.

This book is aimed to help instructional designers, science game designers, science faculty, lab designers, and content developers in designing interactive learning experiences using emerging technologies and cyberlearning.

As the existence of all life forms on our planet is currently in grave danger from the climate emergency caused by Homo sapiens, the words "e;sustainability"e; and "e;eco-responsibility"e; have entered the daily-use vocabularies of scientists, engineers, economists, business managers, industrialists, capitalists, and policy makers.

While more and more undergraduate engineering programs are moving toward a multi-disciplinary capstone experience, there remains a need for a suitable textbook.

This book presents a comprehensive optimization-based theory and framework that exploits the synergistic interactions and tradeoffs between process design and operational decisions that span different time scales.

Blending physics with the study of ancient Chinese science, technology, and culture is a unique and highly effective way to present the fundamentals of physics to non-science majors.

The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes.

This book focuses on a forensics-style re-examination of several historical events.

There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology, the application of the research-based nanoscale science, have changed significantly over the last three and a half decades.

Undergraduate and first-year graduate students engaging in engineering research need more than technical skills and tools to be successful.

The theory of electromagnetic beams is presented in a simple and physical way, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.

History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support.

A brief overview of astronomy and cosmology is presented in five different ways, through the lenses of space, time, evolution, process, and structure.

This book presents classical relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics in the Feynman-Stueckelberg event-oriented framework formalized by Horwitz and Piron.