Engineering category: 12393 books
by David Blockley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Have you ever wondered how it's possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner? Everything has structure. Structure is the difference between a random pile of components and a fully functional object. Through structure the parts connect to make the whole. Natural structures...
by Samuel C. Florman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Civil engineer Samuel C. Florman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer—to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's hypothesis that "in...
Automotive Milestones
The Technological Development of the Automobile: Who, What, When, Where, and How It All Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This is a general interest trade book that describes the development of automotive technology and engineering from the start of the industry before 1900 to the present day. It explains how various systems and elements in the automobile work in layman's terms, without resorting to mathematics, and...
International Contracting
Contract Management in Complex Construction Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This book, about international contracting and contract management, is written from the angle of the contractor and discussed from an international perspective. It comments on real-life cases, taken from various kinds of projects: infrastructural works (roads, bridges, tunnels, rail roads), wind-...
Risk Management in Global Organizations
Examples and Evaluating Figures
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Engineering - Safety Engineering, grade: 1, The Slovak Technical University (Institute of Safety and Environmental Engineering), language: English, abstract: In case of an unpredictable event, circumspect and aimed action is asked. In advance, goal-oriented...
Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering. Big Data and Machine Learning Techniques
5th International Conference, IScIDE 2015, Suzhou, China, June 14-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.
The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected...
CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 1
Road Safety Audit
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Research indicates that up to 28% of crashes are due to the road environment. The most important objective of road safety audit is to minimize crashes, and to minimize the severity of any crashes that may occur on a new road project. The series of CAREC road safety engineering manuals came from the...
Operational Modal Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures
An Introduction and Guide for Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book covers all aspects of operational modal analysis for civil engineering, from theoretical background to applications, including measurement hardware, software development, and data processing. In particular, this book provides an extensive description and discussion of OMA methods, their...
by Douglas C. Montgomery, Elizabeth A. Peck, G. Geoffrey Vining
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Praise for the Fourth Edition
"As with previous editions, the authors have produced a leading textbook on regression."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamentals of regression analysis
Introduction...
Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering
Capital Project Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
With the principles of business strategies in mind, the analysis of cost containment plans, project risk evaluation, and the wide-range of quality planning techniques is essential for the integration of renewable generation and capital-intense endeavors in the current electrical infrastructure. Business...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
This book reflects the shift in design paradigm in automobile industry. It presents future innovations, often referred as “automotive systems engineering”. These cause fundamental innovations in the field of driver assistance systems and electro-mobility as well as fundamental changes in the...
by Jan Christof Scheffold, Niels Gliwitzky
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Applied Sciences Bremen (Industrial Engineering), course: Organisational Behaviour, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Everywhere in the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Presents the state of the technology and points to future directions for semantic computing
Semantic computing, a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field, seeks to structure, design, and manipulate computer content to better satisfy the needs and intentions of users and create a more meaningful...
Cognitive Systems Engineering
An Integrative Living Laboratory Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological purview of multiple perspectives surrounding the human factors/human actors within living ecosystems. This book will provide useful theoretical...