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Engineering IT-Enabled Sustainable Electricity Services
by Le Xie Marija Ilic Qixing LiuSustainable energy services to customers - a balanced choice and coordination of energy generated by traditional and alternative sources - are the subject of this new innovative book. The myriad factors involved in modeling an effective sustainable power system are overwhelming. The "Green Islands" project represents a decade of work by over a dozen researchers who have developed a model designed to utilize the potential of distributed clean resources. The key is the proper use of Information Technology (IT). Sited on two islands in the Azores, the project developed the model of careful forecasting of demand and supply, down to the minute, coordinating the output of conventional power plants, wind energy, fly wheels, hydroelectricity, demand reduction, and even plug-in electric vehicles to take full advantage of the clean resources available. The energy contingencies of the remote islands are not unique. The issues of integrating promising clean technologies, such as wind, into a complex power grid are challenging in geographically far-flung, island-scale, power systems. Model-based sensing, communications, and decision-making algorithms to coordinate adaptive load management (ALM) could enable customers to utilize just-in-time (JIT), just-in-place (JIP), and just-in-context (JIC) energy resources. The distribution of flexible and efficient energy to customers is the goal. The model the authors have developed could change the way power portfolios are built. A new perspective for optimization of green energy is presented in this book. Additional data provided online via Springer represents a repository of real-world electric energy systems and its IT-enabled smarts.
Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice
by Jon A. Leydens Juan C. LucenaShows how the engineering curriculum can be a site for rendering social justice visible in engineering, for exploring complex socio-technical interplays inherent in engineering practice, and for enhancing teaching and learning Using social justice as a catalyst for curricular transformation, Engineering Justice presents an examination of how politics, culture, and other social issues are inherent in the practice of engineering. It aims to align engineering curricula with socially just outcomes, increase enrollment among underrepresented groups, and lessen lingering gender, class, and ethnicity gaps by showing how the power of engineering knowledge can be explicitly harnessed to serve the underserved and address social inequalities. This book is meant to transform the way educators think about engineering curricula through creating or transforming existing courses to attract, retain, and motivate engineering students to become professionals who enact engineering for social justice. Engineering Justice offers thought-provoking chapters on: why social justice is inherent yet often invisible in engineering education and practice; engineering design for social justice; social justice in the engineering sciences; social justice in humanities and social science courses for engineers; and transforming engineering education and practice. In addition, this book: Provides a transformative framework for engineering educators in service learning, professional communication, humanitarian engineering, community service, social entrepreneurship, and social responsibility Includes strategies that engineers on the job can use to advocate for social justice issues and explain their importance to employers, clients, and supervisors Discusses diversity in engineering educational contexts and how it affects the way students learn and develop Engineering Justice is an important book for today’s professors, administrators, and curriculum specialists who seek to produce the best engineers of today and tomorrow.
Engineering Karstology of Dams and Reservoirs
by Petar MilanovićKarst terrains have been modified and adapted through a range of human activities as the need for flood control, irrigation, food production, hydropower production and other resources has increased. Successful reclamation projects require construction of dams and reservoirs. Karst terrains present the most complex working conditions for dam foundation and realization of safe reservoir space. Practical engineering solutions are extremely complex and the need for successful solution requires serious investigations and the cooperation of a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers. A wealth of data on dam projects in karst has been collected and presented in this book. Since reservoirs in karst may fail to fill despite extensive investigations and remediation treatment the book includes a description of failures as well.
Engineering Law and the I.C.E. Contracts
by M.W. AbrahamsonThe forms of tender, agreement, conditions and bond published by the Institution of Civil Engineers have been designed to standardise the duties of contractors, employers and engineers and to distribute fairly the risks inherent in civil engineering.This classic guide to the contracts provides and authoritative reference, and also a rich and practi
The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself
by Cate HustonGreat engineers don't necessarily make great leaders—at least, not without a lot of work. Finding your path to becoming a strong leader is often fraught with challenges. It's not easy to figure out how to be strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills.This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.Understand what it means to be the driving force behind your careerLearn how to self-manage and avoid the pitfalls that many newer managers faceEstablish evolving practices and structures to best scale your teamDefine the impact of your team and its core mission and values
Engineering A Level
by Mike TooleyEngineering A Level covers each of the compulsory AS and A2 units from Edexcel in a dedicated chapter. Full coverage is given to the three units required at AS Level, and the 3 additional A2 units required for completion of the A Level award.Students following the GCE courses will find this book essential reading, as it covers all the material they will be following through the duration of their study. Knowledge-check questions and activities are included throughout, along with learning summaries, innovative ‘Another View’ features, and applied maths integrated alongside the appropriate areas of engineering study. All examples relate directly (and exclusively) to engineering practice, to emphasise application of theory in real-world engineering contexts.The result is a clear, straightforward and easily accessible text. The book offers a valuable insight into various areas of engineering technology and related industries, providing a potential springboard to further training, eventual progression to qualifications within higher education, or to suitable employment within the engineering sector.A companion website offers a variety of student resources providing practical assignments to supplement the material in the textbook, including using CAD / CAM, computer modelling (using spreadsheets), and Visio templates, shapes and symbols available for download.Mike Tooley is formerly Director of Learning at Brooklands College, Surrey, and is the author of many best-selling engineering and electronics books.
Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach
by B.S. DhillonOf the more than $300 billion spent on plant maintenance and operations, U.S. industry spends as much as 80 percent of this amount to correct chronic failures of machines, systems, and people. With machines and systems becoming increasingly complex, this problem can only worsen, and there is a clear and pressing need to establish comprehensive equi
Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges, Second Edition
by C. M. ChangEngineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives are emphasized throughout. Also underlined are discussions of leadership attributes, steps to acquire these attributes, the areas engineering managers are expected to add value, the web-based tools which can be aggressively applied to develop and sustain competitive advantages, the opportunities offered by market expansion into global regions, and the preparations required for engineering managers to become global leaders. The book is organized into three major sections: functions of engineering management, business fundamentals for engineering managers, and engineering management in the new millennium. This second edition refocuses on the new strategy for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals and managers to meet the global challenges through the creation of strategic differentiation and operational excellence. Major revisions include a new chapter on creativity and innovation, a new chapter on operational excellence, and combination of the chapters on financial accounting and financial management. The design strategy for this second edition strives for achieving the T-shaped competencies, with both broad-based perspectives and in-depth analytical skills. Such a background is viewed as essential for STEM professionals and managers to exert a strong leadership role in the dynamic and challenging marketplace. The material in this book will surely help engineering managers play key leadership roles in their organizations by optimally applying their combined strengths in engineering and management.
Engineering Management
by Robert E. ShannonA comprehensive guide for the engineer in a managerial position, treating both the management of engineering and engineers. Covers long-range, strategic management including work planning, staffing, training, and personnel concerns. Considers day-to-day operational problems and provides excellent advice to the new engineer and to the engineer recently promoted to a management position.
Engineering Management in a Global Environment: Guidelines and Procedures
by M. Kemal AtesmenIn today's global business environment with high speed interactions, engineering organizations are evolving continuously. Engineering Management in a Global Environment: Guidelines and Procedures provides guidelines for changing roles of engineering managers in the international arena. The book covers global, multidisciplinary, and flat engineering organizations. Recommended procedures for hiring, mentoring, work assignments, and meetings in the global arena are detailed. Guidelines for keeping up with technology and with the changing world, performance reviews, layoffs, necessary engineering tools, and work atmosphere are discussed. Procedures for engineering team building and for having good relationships with upper management, customers, subcontractors, and regulatory agencies are provided. Each chapter ends with a checklist summarizing engineering managerial guidelines in that chapter.
Engineering Managerial Economic Decision and Risk Analysis: Economic Decision-Making and Risk Analysis (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality #39)
by Teddy Steven CotterThis book directs the engineering manager or the undergraduate student preparing to become an engineering manager, who is or will become actively engaged in the management of economic-risk trade-off decisions for engineering investments within an organizational system. In today’s global economy, this may mean managing the economic risks of engineering investments across national boundaries in international organizations, government, or service organizations. As such, this is an applied book. The book’s goal is to provide an easy to understand, up to date, and coherent treatment of the management of the economic-risk trade-offs of engineering investments. This book accomplishes this goal by cumulatively sequencing knowledge content from foundational economic and accounting concepts to cost estimating to the traditional engineering economics knowledge culminating in fundamental engineering managerial economic decision-making incorporating risk into engineering management economic decisions.
Engineering Materials: Research, Applications and Advances
by K.M. GuptaIntroduces Emerging Engineering MaterialsMechanical, materials, and production engineering students can greatly benefit from Engineering Materials: Research, Applications and Advances. This text focuses heavily on research, and fills a need for current information on the science, processes, and applications in the field. Beginning with a bri
Engineering Materials: Fundamentals, Processing and Properties
by Khubab Shaker Yasir NawabThe book is intended to cover the different types of materials used in modern engineering applications. The book begins with an introductory chapter on the basic concepts of materials science. Subsequently, it includes a detailed overview of metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, textiles, 2D/nanomaterials, and biomaterials, exploring their structure and properties, processing techniques, and characterization methods. Last chapter of the book is dedicated on materials sustainability including life cycle assessment and its role in sustainable materials design. The book examines the environmental impact of different materials and processing techniques and explores strategies for minimizing this impact. Overall, this book will prove to be an excellent resource for undergraduate students and professionals working in domain of materials and allied areas. To the best of our knowledge, no other book available in the market comprehensively explores the engineering materials to such a breadth.
Engineering Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Methods, and Applications (Mathematics and its Applications)
by Herb Kunze Davide La Torre Adam Riccoboni Manuel Ruiz GalánThe fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have grown dramatically in recent years, with an increasingly impressive spectrum of successful applications. This book represents a key reference for anybody interested in the intersection between mathematics and AI/ML and provides an overview of the current research streams. Engineering Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Methods, and Applications discusses the theory behind ML and shows how mathematics can be used in AI. The book illustrates how to improve existing algorithms by using advanced mathematics and offers cutting-edge AI technologies. The book goes on to discuss how ML can support mathematical modeling and how to simulate data by using artificial neural networks. Future integration between ML and complex mathematical techniques is also highlighted within the book. This book is written for researchers, practitioners, engineers, and AI consultants.
Engineering Mathematics and Computing (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1042)
by Park Gyei-Kark Dipak Kumar Jana Prabir Panja Mohd Helmy Abd WahabThis book contains select papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Mathematics and Computing (ICEMC 2020), held at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Purba Midnapur, West Bengal, India, from 5–7 February 2020. The book discusses new developments and advances in the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, hybrid intelligent systems, etc. The book, containing 19 chapters, is useful to the researchers, scholars, and practising engineers as well as graduate students of engineering and applied sciences.
Engineering Mathematics and Statistics: Pocket Handbook
by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff Louise FerranteThis pocket handbook is intended as a handy reference guide for engineers, scientists and students on widely used mathematical relationships, statistical formulas and problem-solving methods. It is a compilation of useful formulas and generalised problem-solving techniques employed by practitioners in the analysis and interpretation of scientific data and problem solving. Written in short note form, it is intended to provide the user with a quick, easy reference to information with ample references provided for further readings. Illustrated examples are included for more involved problem-solving methods. Many of the techniques are well suited to adaptatation on personal computers and there are more detailed instructions included to guide and illustrate computer aided problem solving.
Engineering Mathematics by Example
by Robert SobotThis textbook is a complete, self-sufficient, self-study/tutorial-type source of mathematical problems. It serves as a primary source for practicing and developing mathematical skills and techniques that will be essential in future studies and engineering practice. Rigor and mathematical formalism is drastically reduced, while the main focus is on developing practical skills and techniques for solving mathematical problems, given in forms typically found in engineering and science. These practical techniques cover the subjects of algebra, complex algebra, linear algebra, and calculus of single and multiple argument functions. In addition, the second part of the book covers problems on Convolution and Fourier integrals/sums of typical functions used in signal processing.Offers a large collection of progressively more sophisticated mathematical problems on main mathematical topics required for engineers/scientists;Provides, at the beginning of each topic, a brief review of definitions and formulas that are about to be used and practiced in the following problems;Includes tutorial-style, complete solutions, to all problems.
Engineering Mathematics I
by Sergei Silvestrov Milica RančićThis book highlights the latest advances in engineering mathematics with a main focus on the mathematical models, structures, concepts, problems and computational methods and algorithms most relevant for applications in modern technologies and engineering. In particular, it features mathematical methods and models of applied analysis, probability theory, differential equations, tensor analysis and computational modelling used in applications to important problems concerning electromagnetics, antenna technologies, fluid dynamics, material and continuum physics and financial engineering. The individual chapters cover both theory and applications, and include a wealth of figures, schemes, algorithms, tables and results of data analysis and simulation. Presenting new methods and results, reviews of cutting-edge research, and open problems for future research, they equip readers to develop new mathematical methods and concepts of their own, and to further compare and analyse the methods and results discussed. The book consists of contributed chapters covering research developed as a result of a focused international seminar series on mathematics and applied mathematics and a series of three focused international research workshops on engineering mathematics organised by the Research Environment in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Mälardalen University from autumn 2014 to autumn 2015: the International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics for Electromagnetics and Health Technology; the International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics, Algebra, Analysis and Electromagnetics; and the 1st Swedish-Estonian International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics, Algebra, Analysis and Applications. It serves as a source of inspiration for a broad spectrum of researchers and research students in applied mathematics, as well as in the areas of applications of mathematics considered in the book.
Engineering Mathematics II
by Sergei Silvestrov Milica RančićThis book highlights the latest advances in engineering mathematics with a main focus on the mathematical models, structures, concepts, problems and computational methods and algorithms most relevant for applications in modern technologies and engineering. It addresses mathematical methods of algebra, applied matrix analysis, operator analysis, probability theory and stochastic processes, geometry and computational methods in network analysis, data classification, ranking and optimisation. The individual chapters cover both theory and applications, and include a wealth of figures, schemes, algorithms, tables and results of data analysis and simulation. Presenting new methods and results, reviews of cutting-edge research, and open problems for future research, they equip readers to develop new mathematical methods and concepts of their own, and to further compare and analyse the methods and results discussed. The book consists of contributed chapters covering research developed as a result of a focused international seminar series on mathematics and applied mathematics and a series of three focused international research workshops on engineering mathematics organised by the Research Environment in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at M#65533;lardalen University from autumn 2014 to autumn 2015: the International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics for Electromagnetics and Health Technology; the International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics, Algebra, Analysis and Electromagnetics; and the 1st Swedish-Estonian International Workshop on Engineering Mathematics, Algebra, Analysis and Applications. It serves as a source of inspiration for a broad spectrum of researchers and research students in applied mathematics, as well as in the areas of applications of mathematics considered in the book.
Engineering Mathematics Pocket Book
by John BirdThis compendium of essential formulae, definitions, tables and general information provides the mathematical information required by students, technicians, scientists and engineers in day-to-day engineering practice. A practical and versatile reference source, now in its fourth edition, the layout has been changed and the book has been streamlined to ensure the information is even more quickly and readily available - making it a handy companion on-site, in the office as well as for academic study. It also acts as a practical revision guide for those undertaking BTEC Nationals, Higher Nationals and NVQs, where engineering mathematics is an underpinning requirement of the course.All the essentials of engineering mathematics - from algebra, geometry and trigonometry to logic circuits, differential equations and probability - are covered, with clear and succinct explanations and illustrated with over 300 line drawings and 500 worked examples based in real-world application. The emphasis throughout the book is on providing the practical tools needed to solve mathematical problems quickly and efficiently in engineering contexts. John Bird’s presentation of this core material puts all the answers at your fingertips.
Engineering Mathematics with Applications to Fire Engineering
by Khalid Khan Tony Lee GrahamThis book addresses direct application of mathematics to fire engineering problems <P><P> Gives background interpretation for included mathematical methods <P><P> Illustrates a step-by-step detailed solution to solving relevant problems <P><P> Includes pictorial representation of the problems <P><P> Discusses a comprehensive topic list in the realm of engineering mathematics topics including basic concepts of Algebra, Trigonometry and Statistics
Engineering Mechanics 2: An introduction with many examples
by Christian MittelstedtThis book follows the classical division of engineering mechanics as taught at universities in Germany and is devoted to strength of materials, i.e. the determination of stresses and of deformations in elastic bodies. The aim of this book is to provide students with a clear introduction and to enable them to formulate and solve engineering problems in this field. For this purpose, the book provides a number of examples. This book is intended for university students of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, mechanics, but also all other courses in which the contents of this book play a role. The ContentsIntroduction to linear elasticity – Plane stress state – Bars – Beams – Beam deflections – Shear stresses in beams – Torsion – Energy methods – Buckling of bars
Engineering Mechanics 3: Dynamics
by Christian MittelstedtThis book follows the classical division of engineering mechanics as it is taught at technical colleges and universities and is dedicated to dynamics, i.e. the consideration of movements of bodies under forces. The aim of this book is to provide students with a clear introduction to dynamics and to enable them to formulate and solve engineering problems independently. The book provides a number of examples for this purpose. This book is aimed at students at technical colleges and universities of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, mechanics and all other degree programmes in which dynamics plays a role.
Engineering Mechanics and Design Applications: Transdisciplinary Engineering Fundamentals
by Atila ErtasIn the last decade, the number of complex problems facing engineers has increased, and the technical knowledge required to address and mitigate them continues to evolve rapidly. These problems include not only the design of engineering systems with numerous components and subsystems, but also the design, redesign, and interaction of social, politic
Engineering, Medicine and Science at the Nano-Scale
by Stephen J. Fonash Marcel Van de VoordeStudents at universities the world over will benefit from the authors' concise treatment, arising out of lectures given for a graduate and advanced undergraduate course at Penn State University (USA) and University of Technology Delft (NL). The textbook begins by addressing, in general terms, the phenomena and peculiarities that occur at the nanoscale. In the following five chapters, readers are introduced in detail to nanoscale physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology, followed by chapters on synthesis and fabrication as well as characterization at the nanoscale. In the next four chapters a variety of exemplary applications taken from a wide range of sectors are also presented and discussed. Concerns for safety, environmental impact, workforce development, economic wellbeing, and societal change issues arising from nanotechnology are woven throughout the book and additionally form the focus of the last two chapters.