Engineering: general

Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means to mimic nature with technology.

There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements.

Recent Advances in Decolorization and Degradation of Dyes in Textile Effluent by Biological Approaches outlines various eco-friendly, cost effective methods for removal of toxic textile dyes.

As a consequence of social, technological, political and economic changes, the field of organizations management and engineering becomes highly complex, calling for more effective strategies.

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

This unique volume explores the various aspects of human resources management and challenges that leaders, managers, and employees are facing in dealing with the new normal that is the result of changing workplace conditions and priorities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leadership success depends on clarifying and simplifying complex problems while maintaining a positive outlook.

This book concerns software design, focusing on scalable design.

There has been a 2,500-year evolution in structured means of control and management systems.

Although usually well-funded, systems development projects are often late to market and over budget.

This book shares insights on post-processing techniques adopted to achieve precision-grade surfaces of additive manufactured metals including material characterization techniques and the identified material properties.

Das Buch stellt die Grundlagen der Steuerung logistischer Systeme dar.

This book presents the mechanics of implementing visuality on the value-add level known as Work That Makes Sense (WTMS).

To support the control design process, this book presents model-based control techniques for nonlinear, constrained systems.

This unique and timely text is designed to help food science students learn to perform critical analysis of food processing technology and consider the incorporation of elements that touch on contemporary technological developments in the food sector.

This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices.

Information Sources in Energy Technology presents the major sources in the field of energy technology.

We create technology enabling us to do things never before possible and it ultimately changes the way we live, work, play, and interact with each other.

Making the specifics of a complex concern accessible and its handling quite manageable, this fourth edition of the Project and Cost Engineers' Handbook examines the variables associated with international projects and project risk analysis.

Annual Reports on Fermentation Processes, Volume 6 focuses on the significant developments in fermentation processes.

How does industrial design operate outside of capitalist consumer culture?

Powtech '83: Particle Technology focuses on the techniques and processes involved in the handling and processing of powders and other related products.

Now in its seventh edition, Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology introduces and covers theory through detailed examples and laboratory experiments, enabling students to gain knowledge required by technicians in fields such as engineering, electronics, and telecommunications.

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

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems.

Over the last few decades, uncertainty quantification in composite materials and structures has gained a lot of attention from the research community as a result of industrial requirements.

Electronics and Instrumentation, Second Edition, Volume 3: Probability and Information Theory with Applications to Radar provides information pertinent to the development on research carried out in electronics and applied physics.

This book presents different topics related to innovation, complexity, uncertainty, modeling and simulation, fuzzy logic, decision-making, aggregation operators, business and economic applications, among others.

Modern project management had its genesis in the field of operations research in the late 1940s, but today it is a much more diverse subject.

One of the multiple approaches employed to monitor older people and check their health status is the use of the Hidden Markov Models (HMM), a statistical model that uses observable facts to model hidden events.

Offering a truly global perspective, this book serves as a road map for service-learning partnerships between information science and nonprofit organizations.

This book is a how-to generic approach with minimal theory by a well-known and very active participant in the leading maintenance organizations and conferences.

3D printing is a promising fabrication technique capable of creating objects with precise structures and shapes based on 3D model data, allowing for versatile alterations and production of intricate shapes while also reducing the consumption of feedstock, particularly crucial in the cost-sensitive realm of medicine.

The negative impacts of carbon emissions from human activities continue to dramatically reshape the environmental, political, and social landscape.

Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, SIld disseminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) * at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955.

This book discusses the latest advances in cyber-physical security and resilience of cyber-physical systems, including cyber-attack detection, isolation, situation awareness, resilient estimation and resilient control under attack.