Engineering: general

This book focuses on environmental sustainability by employing elements of engineering and green computing through modern educational concepts and solutions.

This book provides in-depth guidance on how to use multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and risk management.

This book provides an overview of the key transportation management processes from a shipper's perspective.

The world is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by radical technological changes and an accelerated globalisation process.

French for Engineering prepares students to study and intern in France as engineers.

Die Lehre vom Schall, die Akustik, beschreibt die Vorgänge der mecha­ nischen Schwingungen und ihre Ausbreitung in festen, flüssigen oder gasförmigen Stoffen.

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication.

The Effect of Vehicle Characteristics on Road Accidents investigates whether vehicle characteristics related to handling and stability contribute to road accidents.

Water Quality Management under Conditions of Scarcity: Israel as a Case Study focuses on the problems of water quality management under circumstances of severe water resource scarcity, particularly in Israel.

This book explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations.

Hospitals and health systems are facing many challenges, including shrinking reimbursements and the need to improve patient safety and quality.

New applications for composite materials are being developed at a rapid pace.

As the most important parts of rotating machinery, rotors are also the most prone to mechanical vibrations, which may lead to machine failure.

During the winter term 1987/88 I gave a course at the University of Bonn under the title "e;Manifolds and Modular Forms"e;.

Everyday technology is constantly changing, and it's hard to keep up with it at times.

The Social Psychology of Expertise offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, management, etc.

A major transformation in research and training is expected, using new, more advanced versions of computer-based systems.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in developing innovative service systems.

The entrance of fast-paced technology into the workplace necessitates a proper re-look into performance management whether it is in education, marketing, finance, or information technology.

When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes.

There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings.

Dieses Buch wendet sich zum einen an alle, die den Einstieg in eine sehr zukunftsträchtige Programmiersprache im Seihstudium betreiben wollen.

Liposome Technology, Volume I: Liposome Preparation and Related Techniques, Third Edition, is a thoroughly updated and expanded new edition of a classic text in the field.

Wood Pellet Heating Systems is a comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of wood pellet heating technology.

MASTER AND INTEGRATE THE GEOMETRY AND MECHANICS OF RAILROAD VEHICLE SYSTEM ENGINEERING WITH ONE PRACTICAL RESOURCEMathematical Foundation of Railroad Vehicle Systems: Geometry and Mechanics delivers a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical foundations of railroad vehicle systems.

From the pioneering glider flights of Otto Lilienthal (1891) to the advanced avionics of today's Airbus passenger jets, aeronautical research in Germany has been at the forefront of the birth and advancement of aeronautics.

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers.

Applying fundamentals of marketing to commercial passenger air transportation, this textbook puts the emphasis on marketing principles and illustrative ways in which airlines can distinguish themselves within the highly competitive global marketplace.

Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving healthcare services.

Recycling of materials in building and infrastructure applications are global concerns driven by natural resource preservation needs of modernized countries and sustainable development of emerging countries.

The 2016 International Conference on Materials Science, Energy Technology and Environmental Engineering (MSETEE 2016) took place May 28-29, 2016 in Zhuhai City, China.

Around the world, virtually every company is engaged in some form of effort intended to improve the processing that takes place across an end-to-end supply chain system as they work towards moving their organizations to the next level of performance.

In the original two editions of Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, a response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and underdevelopment, environmental sustainability, and native cultures was described.

Dieses Buch gibt eine anwendungsbezogene Einführung in das Gesamtgebiet der Wirtschafts- bzw.

The goal of this book is to present a modeling framework for the Virtual Organization that is focused on process composition.

Today, engineering systems are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of engineering systems around the globe.

Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, Second Edition introduces the basic concepts of thermodynamics and applies them to a wide range of technologies.