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Introduction to Engineering Library
This book provides a brief history and a comprehensive overview of the engineering profession and practice, describing the functions and career paths for various branches of engineering. Paul Wright offers suggestions on communications and creativity, as well as guidelines for the engineering code of ethics.
Discussion of the Method: Conducting the Engineer’s Approach to Problem Solving (Engineering & Technology)
While the study of the engineering method is important to create the world we would have, its study is equally important to understand the world we do have. –Billy V. Koen, Introduction, Discussion of the Method Discussion of the Methodoutlines the heuristic-based reasoning used by engineers and generalizes it to a universal method for problem-solving. Delving into the connection between engineering and philosophy, this ground-breaking text illustrates how the theoretical and the practical can merge to form real-world solutions. Furthermore, the methodology covered in this innovative book is extremely user-friendly, and easily synthesized with individual approaches to problem-solving. Discussion of the Methodis an ideal supplement for introductory and advanced courses in engineering, philosophy, and other disciplines, as well as a compelling read for general audiences. THE METHOD: AN OVERVIEW BL:Part I describes the problem situation that calls for the talents of the engineer and emphasizes how frequently this situation is encountered. BL:Part II defines the heuristic and the engineering method. BL:Part III lists examples of heuristics and techniques used to implement the engineering method, describes several alternative definitions of the engineering method, and renders the method in its final form. BL:Part IV generalizes the engineering method to a universal method. BL:Part V gives a concise, justifiable statement of universal method. BL:Part VI delivers a specific example of the universal method in use. Read the rest of this entry »
Six Characteristics to Look for in a Math Tutor
1. Educational Background
An effective math tutor must have the ability to master concepts they are teaching to others. Having a strong understanding of mathematical concepts will help the tutor and your child. When teaching elementary and middle school students a high school diploma is the minimal expectation. Math concepts on the high school and collegiate level may require a tutor with an undergraduate degree, preferably an individual with a major emphasizing mathematics engineering or science.
Structural Design Of Buildings And Safety From Seismic Upheavals
Nature and Probability
Although seismic upheavals earthquakes cannot be prevented in practice, science and engineering provide tools that can be used to reduce their effects quite substantially. Firstly, science can now identify where and when earthquakes are likely to occur, at what magnitude and determine the relative likelihood of a range of ground shaking levels. This information is readily available to architects, engineers, code writers, planners and to the general public. Secondly, seismic researchers and structural engineers with experience in seismic design have sufficient understanding of the effects of earthquake shaking on buildings to create designs that will be safe for various intensities of shaking. Modern building codes incorporate all of this information and require buildings to have structural engineering designs appropriate for each region.
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings–and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject. Read the rest of this entry »