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Applications of Mathematical Modeling, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Computing for Industrial Development (Hardcover):... Applications of Mathematical Modeling, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Computing for Industrial Development (Hardcover)
Madhu Jain, Dinesh K. Sharma, Rakhee Kulshrestha, H.S. Hota
R4,360 Discovery Miles 43 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The text focuses on mathematical modeling and applications of advanced techniques of machine learning, and artificial intelligence, including artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, data mining, and fuzzy systems to solve performance and design issues more precisely. Intelligent computing encompasses technologies, algorithms, and models in providing effective and efficient solutions to a wide range of problems including the airport's intelligent safety system. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in fields including industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, computer engineering, and mathematics. The book- Discusses mathematical modeling for traffic, sustainable supply chain, vehicular Ad-Hoc networks, internet of things networks with intelligent gateways. Covers advanced machine learning, artificial intelligence, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computing, data mining techniques for real-world problems. Presents applications of mathematical models in chronic diseases such as kidney and coronary artery diseases. Highlights advances in mathematical modeling, strength, and benefits of machine learning and artificial intelligence, including driving goals, applicability, algorithms, and processes involved. Showcases emerging real-life topics on mathematical models, machine learning, and intelligent computing using an interdisciplinary approach. The text presents emerging real-life topics on mathematical models, machine learning, and intelligent computing in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers in diverse fields domains including industrial and manufacturing engineering, computer engineering, and mathematics.

Successful Supervisory Leadership - Exerting Positive Influence While Leading People (Hardcover): William J Rothwell, Behnam... Successful Supervisory Leadership - Exerting Positive Influence While Leading People (Hardcover)
William J Rothwell, Behnam Bakhshandeh, Aileen G Zaballero
R2,970 Discovery Miles 29 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why Study Supervision? This book presents two compelling reasons to study supervision and supervisory leadership: Influential Position: Supervisors exert considerable influence on organizational settings. Supervisors have been schooled, developed, and trained for their responsibilities. They can function more effectively than if they learn through informal, sometimes haphazard means. It thus pays to learn about supervision because supervisors can influence how efficiently and effectively their organization functions. Career Path: Many career paths lead to supervision. Supervisors are everywhere. Supervisors are teachers, doctors, accountants, lawyers, plumbers, and electricians. If you aspire to advance within your occupation, you may find that one career path leads to supervision. Preparing for supervisory responsibilities can prepare you for advancement. You may thus have a personal stake – your own future – in learning about what supervisors do and how they do it. In addition, this book: Provides strategies for building solid relationships with team members. Uses positivity as a foundational practice to lead and encourage other employees. Provides guidelines on how to hold employees accountable and set high expectations. Presents strategies to engage, coach, and develop employees by creating a positive environment to influence attitudes and behaviors. Offers various approaches for managing time and increasing productivity.

An Atlas of Edge-Reversal Dynamics (Paperback): V. C. Barbosa An Atlas of Edge-Reversal Dynamics (Paperback)
V. C. Barbosa
R5,087 Discovery Miles 50 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Atlas Of Edge-Reversal Dynamics is the first in-depth account of the graph dynamics system SER (Scheduling by Edge Reversal), a powerful distributed mechanism for scheduling agents in a computer system. The study of SER draws on strong motivation from several areas of application, and reveals very clearly the emergence of complex dynamic behavior from very simple transition rules. As such, SER provides the opportunity for the study of complex graph dynamics that can be applied to computer science, optimization, artificial intelligence, networks of automata, and other complex systems. In Part 1: Edge-Reversal Dynamics, the author discusses the main applications and properties of SER, provides data from statistics and correlations computed over several graph classes, and gives an overview of the algorithmic aspects of the construction of the catalogue, thus summarizing the methodology and findings of the cataloguing effort. Part 2: The Atlas, comprises the atlas proper-a catalogue of graphical representations of all basins of attraction generated by the SER mechanism for all graphs in selected classes. An Atlas Of Edge-Reversal Dynamics is a unique and detailed treatment of SER. Along with the catalogue, discussions of SER in the contexts of resource-sharing and automaton networks and a comprehensive set of references make this an important resource for researchers and graduate students in graph theory, discrete mathematics, and complex systems.

Designing for Longevity - Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products (Paperback): Louise Moller Haase, Linda Nhu... Designing for Longevity - Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products (Paperback)
Louise Moller Haase, Linda Nhu Laursen
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model. This book provides designers, developers, and creators with five distinctive expert strategies, detailed case studies, action guides and worksheets that support both beginning and advanced design practitioners in creating new product concepts with long-lasting strategic fits. Designing for Longevity shows how expert design teams create original and long-lasting product concepts from the early development phase. It focuses on integrating business knowledge, market conditions, company capabilities, technical possibilities and user needs into product concepts to make better strategic decisions. It demonstrates how, for products to be durable, designers must create a long-lasting strategic fit for the customer, company, and market. Key case studies of products such as Bang & Olufsen's A9, LEGO Ninjago and Friends and Coloplasts' Sensura Mio, among others, offer readers inspiration, guidance and real-world insights from design teams showing how the strategies can be applied in practice. Action guidelines and worksheets encourage broad, analytical problem-solving to identify and think through challenges at the early concept stage. Beautifully designed and illustrated in full colour throughout, this book combines original research and the hands-on tools and strategies that design practitioners need to create useful, sustainable products.

The Inventor of Stereo - The life and works of Alan Dower Blumlein (Paperback, New edition): Robert Alexander The Inventor of Stereo - The life and works of Alan Dower Blumlein (Paperback, New edition)
Robert Alexander
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history. Alan Dower Blumlein led an extraordinary life in which his inventive output rate easily surpassed that of Edison, but whose early death during the darkest days of World War Two led to a shroud of secrecy which has covered his life and achievements ever since. His 1931 Patent for a Binaural Recording system was so revolutionary that most of his contemporaries regarded it at as more than 20 years ahead of its time. Even years after his death, the full magnitude of its detail had not been fully utilized. Among his 128 Patents are the principle electronic circuits critical to the development of the world's first electronic television system. During his short working life, Blumlein produced patent after patent breaking entirely new ground in electronic and audio engineering. During the Second World War, Alan Blumlein was deeply engaged in the very secret work of radar development and contributed enormously to the system eventually to become 'H2S'- blind bombing radar. Tragically, during an experimental H2S flight in June 1942, the Halifax bomber in which Blumlein and several colleagues were flying, crashed and all aboard were killed. He was just days short of his 39th birthday. For many years there have been rumours about a biography of Alan Blumlein, yet none has been forthcoming. This is the world's first study of a man whose achievements should rank among those of the greatest Britain has produced. This book provides detailed knowledge of every one of his patents and the process behind them, while giving an in depth study of the life and times of this quite extraordinary man.

Safety Accidents in Risky Industries - Black Swans, Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events (Hardcover): Sasho Andonov Safety Accidents in Risky Industries - Black Swans, Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events (Hardcover)
Sasho Andonov
R4,397 Discovery Miles 43 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides an insight to safety managers in analyzing bad events and the ways to deal with them. Covers randomness, uncertainty, and predictability in detail. Explains concepts including reverse stress testing, real-time monitoring, and predictive maintenance in a comprehensive manner. Presents mathematical analysis of incidents and accidents using statistics and probabilities theories.

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications - The Change to the Competition Landscape (Hardcover): Subodha Kumar,... Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications - The Change to the Competition Landscape (Hardcover)
Subodha Kumar, Liangfei Qiu
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape provides a framework that allows you to understand and analyze the impact of social media in various industries. It illustrates how social media analytics can help firms build transformational strategies and cope with the challenges of social media technology. By focusing on the relationship between social media and other technology models, such as wisdom of crowds, healthcare, fintech and blockchain, machine learning methods, and 5G, this book is able to provide applications used to understand and analyze the impact of social media. Various industries are called out and illustrate how social media analytics can help firms build transformational strategies and at the same time cope with the challenges that are part of the landscape. The book discusses how social media is a driving force in shaping consumer behavior and spurring innovations by embracing and directly engaging with consumers on social media platforms. By closely reflecting on emerging practices, the book shows how to take advantage of recent advancements and how business operations are being revolutionized. Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications is written for academicians and professionals involved in social media and social media analytics.

The Belt Conveyor - A Concise Basic Course (Paperback): D.V. Subba Rao The Belt Conveyor - A Concise Basic Course (Paperback)
D.V. Subba Rao
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book describes all parts of belt conveyors, their functions and different types presented one after the other with necessary illustrations covering all the basic aspects so that the reader can obtain an overall understanding of their operation and implementation within the field of bulk material handling, mining and mineral processing. Dedicated study of this work will also enable engineers to carry out minor repairs on their own without having to wait for maintenance personnel. This is an introductory preliminary book for beginners in the field of bulk material handling, mining and mineral processing, written in lucid, easy-to-understand language, well-illustrated, and with self-explanatory descriptions that do not compromise in maintaining academic standards while dealing with the subject matter. A salient feature of this book is that all the new terminology used to describe the components and their functions has been included and explained. Much of the content of this book has been tested and evaluated positively by graduate and postgraduate students and professional engineers of several bulk material handling plants during training programs over the last twenty-five years in India.

Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering - Simulations and Modeling (Hardcover):... Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering - Simulations and Modeling (Hardcover)
Muhammad Altaf Khan, Abdon Atangana
R3,774 Discovery Miles 37 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the simulation and modeling of novel chaotic systems within the frame of fractal-fractional operators. The methods used, their convergence, stability, and error analysis are given, and this is the first book to offer mathematical modeling and simulations of chaotic problems with a wide range of fractal-fractional operators, to find solutions. Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering: Simulations and Modeling provides details for stability, convergence, and analysis along with numerical methods and their solution procedures for fractal-fractional operators. The book offers applications to chaotic problems and simulations using multiple fractal-fractional operators and concentrates on models that display chaos. The book details how these systems can be predictable for a while and then can appear to become random. Practitioners, engineers, researchers, and senior undergraduate and graduate students from mathematics and engineering disciplines will find this book of interest._

Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management - Irrigation Management and Optimization (Hardcover): Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh... Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management - Irrigation Management and Optimization (Hardcover)
Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh Eslamian
R4,370 Discovery Miles 43 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ever-increasing population growth has caused a proportional increased demand for water, and existing water sources are depleting day by day. Moreover, with the impact of climate change, the rates of rainfall in many regions have experienced a higher degree of variability. In many cities, government utilities have been struggling to maintain sufficient water for the residents and other users. The Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management examines and analyzes irrigated ecosystems in which water storage, applications, or drainage volumes are artificially controlled in the landscape and the spatial domain of processes varies from micrometers to tens of kilometers, while the temporal domain spans from seconds to centuries. The continuum science of irrigation hydrology includes the surface, subsurface (unsaturated and groundwater systems), atmospheric, and plant subsystems. Further, the book addresses the best practices for various types of irrigation methods including pressure, smart, surface and subsurface, and presents solutions for water scarcity and soil salinity in irrigation. Features: Offers water-saving strategies to increase the judicious use of scarce water resources Presents strategies to maximize agricultural yield per unit of water used for different regions Compares irrigation methods to offset changing weather patterns and impacts of climate change

Stiffness and Damping in Mechanical Design (Hardcover): Eugene Rivin Stiffness and Damping in Mechanical Design (Hardcover)
Eugene Rivin
R8,652 Discovery Miles 86 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offers designers and users of mechanical systems an overview of structural stiffness and damping and their critical roles in mechanical design. The text assesses the relationship between stiffness and damping parameters in mechanical systems and structural materials. An accompanying disk contains detailed analyses of stiffness- and damping-critical systems.

Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (Hardcover): Patrick Manu, Gao Shang, Paulo... Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (Hardcover)
Patrick Manu, Gao Shang, Paulo Jorge Silva Bartolo, Valerie Francis, Anil Sawhney
R4,650 Discovery Miles 46 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

• Truly innovative book and the first of its kind to combine the emerging research areas of Industry 4 technologies or Construction 4.0 with Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the industry • Builds on the existing Construction 4.0 framework to incorporate detailed research into a sector responsible for 100,000 deaths a year

Taxi, Limousine, and Transport Network Company Regulation - Recurring Challenges (Hardcover): James M. Cooper, Jorgen Aarhaug,... Taxi, Limousine, and Transport Network Company Regulation - Recurring Challenges (Hardcover)
James M. Cooper, Jorgen Aarhaug, John Scott
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Offers a factual in-depth analysis of the VFH market, without bias, to inform the practitioner and seeks to provoke further discussion amongst the academic community. - Illuminates the current situation surrounding the for-hire industry, and its dominance by a few large players such as Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing, and offers insights into the future of this fast-moving sector. - A unique examination conducted by renowned experts, relevant to all global markets.

STEM Education with Robotics - Lessons from Research and Practice (Hardcover): Purvee Chauhan, Vikram Kapila STEM Education with Robotics - Lessons from Research and Practice (Hardcover)
Purvee Chauhan, Vikram Kapila
R4,050 Discovery Miles 40 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

-Offers a synthesis of research, curriculum examples, pedagogy models, and classroom recommendations for effectively using robotics in STEM education, and demonstrating how use of educational robotics can enhance student learning and understanding. -Shows how robotics can be integrated with curriculum and instructional frameworks like technological-pedagogical-and-content-knowledge (TPACK), 5E, and Design-Based Research (DBR). -Features case studies, practical strategies, and standards-aligned lesson plans drawn from real-life classroom settings, allowing readers a rich source of application in their own classrooms and contexts.

Biomass and Carbon Fuels in Metallurgy (Paperback): Jaroslav Legemza, Maria Froehlichova, Robert Findorak Biomass and Carbon Fuels in Metallurgy (Paperback)
Jaroslav Legemza, Maria Froehlichova, Robert Findorak
R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Biomass and Carbon Fuels in Metallurgy presents contemporary and new insights into the use of carbonaceous (Biomass) fuels in the metallurgical sector. The authors describe application of these fuels in different technological processes to produce pig iron, steel and ferroalloys. Emphasis is placed on biomass and its metallurgical utilization. Coverage includes the specification of fuels, their classification and the characteristics of their basic properties. The use of carbonaceous fuels in the production of various kinds of agglomerates (ferriferous, manganese and metalized) is also covered. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive view of carbonaceous fuels in various metallurgy processes Details experiments conducted on the use of traditional and alternative (biomass) carbonaceous fuels for the production of agglomerates. Demonstrates that the energy potential of biomass can also be successfully used in pyrometallurgical processes Describes applications of biomass-based fuels in different technological processes for the production of pig iron, steel and ferroalloys. Coverage includes the specification of fuels, their classification and the characteristics of their basic properties.

What Every Engineer Should Know about Ethics (Hardcover): Kenneth K. Humphreys What Every Engineer Should Know about Ethics (Hardcover)
Kenneth K. Humphreys
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This compact reference succinctly explains the engineering profession's codes of ethics using case studies drawn from decisions of the National Society of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) Board of Ethical Review, examining ethical challenges in engineering, construction, and project management. It includes study questions to supplement general engineering survey courses and a list of references to aid practicing engineers in exploring topics in depth. Concentrating primarily on situations engineers encounter on a daily basis and offering pragmatic answers to ethical questions, What Every Engineer Should Know About Ethics discusses recent headline-making disasters such as the Challenger explosion, the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, and the Hyatt-Regency Hotel collapse; considers the merits and drawbacks of professional codes of ethics; covers the application of the "committee approach" to specific cases; compares and contrasts ethical codes and personal values with alternative approaches to morality; defines professional licensing and registration and enumerates their prerequisites; outlines legal standards for liability; emphasizes the importance of communication, coordination, and documentation; includes a discussion of "whistleblowing;" defines the engineer's primary ethical responsibility; and more.

Value Engineering - A Plan for Invention (Hardcover): Richard Park Value Engineering - A Plan for Invention (Hardcover)
Richard Park
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

After more than 50 years as a manager and VE pioneer, Richard J. Park presents Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process that can enable you to increase your problem solving skills, cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, and more.

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Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (Hardcover): John H.S. Lee, K. Ramamurthi Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (Hardcover)
John H.S. Lee, K. Ramamurthi
R2,597 Discovery Miles 25 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Discusses the concepts of mechanical, thermal, and thermodynamic equilibrium and their applications. Covers the molecular basis for internal energy, entropy, thermodynamic equilibrium, and reversibility. Enables the reader to model irreversibility and determine the net loss in performance of a thermal system compared to an idealized system and approach an ideal one. Demonstrates entropy as a path independent property by use of reversible heat engines and reversible heat pumps interacting with a process between two states, the environment and the reservoir. Covers the role of reversibility from a thermodynamics standpoint and relates it to other areas, such as gas dynamics, combustion, propulsion, power plant engineering, and engines.

Swarm Intelligence - Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications (Hardcover): Abhishek Sharma, Abhinav Sharma,... Swarm Intelligence - Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications (Hardcover)
Abhishek Sharma, Abhinav Sharma, Jitendra Kumar Pandey, Mangey Ram
R2,472 Discovery Miles 24 720 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a comprehensive review on new swarm intelligence Offers practical implementation of PSO with MATLAB code Presents statistical analysis techniques so that researchers can analyze their own experiment design Discusses swarm intelligence algorithms in social sector and oil and gas industries Covers recent findings and the implementation techniques to Machine Learning

Handbook of Material Flow Analysis - For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition):... Handbook of Material Flow Analysis - For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Paul H. Brunner, Helmut Rechberger
R1,448 Discovery Miles 14 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H. Brunner and Helmut Rechberger guide professional newcomers as well as experienced engineers and scientists towards mastering the art of material flow analysis (MFA) from the very beginning to an advanced state of material balances of complex systems. Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers, Second Edition serves as a concise and reproducible methodology as well as a basis for analysis, assessment and improvement of anthropogenic systems through an approach that is helpfully uniform and standardized. The methodology featured in this book is a vital resource for generating new data, fostering understanding, and increasing knowledge to benefit the growing MFA community working in the fields of industrial ecology, resource management, waste management, and environmental protection. This new second edition takes into account all new developments and readers will profit from a new exploration of STAN software, newly added citations, and thoroughly described case studies that reveal the potential of MFA to solve industrial ecology challenges.

Post Normal Accident - Revisiting Perrow's Classic (Paperback): Jean-Christophe Le Coze Post Normal Accident - Revisiting Perrow's Classic (Paperback)
Jean-Christophe Le Coze
R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow's classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical organisations. The operating landscape of high-risk systems has indeed profoundly changed in the past 20 to 30 years but the core sociological models of safety remain associated with classics of the 1980s and 1990s. This book examines the conceptual and empirical evolutions of the past two to three decades to explore their implications for safety management based on several strands of works in various research traditions in safety (e.g. cognitive engineering and system safety, high-reliability organisation, sociology of safety, regulatory studies) and other interdisciplinary fields (e.g. international business, globalisation studies, strategy management, ecology). It offers a new and insightful interpretation to the challenges of today. It investigates how globalisation has reconfigured the operating landscape of high-risk systems and emphasises the importance of thinking safety through a strategic angle. This book serves as an ideal resource for the safety professionals and safety researchers from any established disciplines such as sociology, engineering, psychology, political science or management. Features: Introduces an original analysis of popular safety writings, including Normal Accident, by Perrow Identifies the importance of thinking safety from a sociological angle with the help of key writers Stresses the need for greater sensitivity to strategy and "errors from the top" when it comes to the safety of high-risk systems Explains how globalisation has reconfigured the operating landscape of high-risk systems Renews our understanding of the current safety management challenges in an increasingly global risk picture

System Dynamics - Modeling, Analysis, Simulation, Design (Hardcover, New Ed): Ernest Doebelin System Dynamics - Modeling, Analysis, Simulation, Design (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ernest Doebelin
R9,720 Discovery Miles 97 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Maintaining an optimal blend of theory and practice, this readily accessible reference/text details the utility of system dynamics for analysis and design of mechanical, electrical, fluid, thermal, and "mixed" engineering systems-addressing topics from system elements and simple first- and second-order systems to complex lumped- and distributed-parameter models of practical machines and processes. Emphasizing digital simulation and integrating frequency-response methods throughout, System Dynamics furnishes up-to-date and thorough discussions on relations between real system components and ideal math models continuous-time dynamic system simulation methods, such as MATLAB/SIMULINK analytical techniques, such as classical D-operator and Laplace transform methods for differential equation solutions and linearization methods vibration, electromechanics, and mechatronics Fourier spectrum treatment of periodic functions, and transients and much more System Dynamics also contains a host of self-study and pedagogical features that will make it a useful companion for years to come, such as easy-to-understand simulation diagrams and results applications to real-life systems--including actual industrial hardware intentional use of nonlinearity to achieve optimal designs numerous end-of-chapter problems and worked examples over 1425 graphs, equations, and drawings throughout the text the latest references to key sources in the literature Serving as a foundation for engineering experience, System Dynamics is a valuable reference for mechanical, system, control/instrumentation, and sensor/actuator engineers as well as an indispensable textbook for undergraduate students taking courses such as Dynamic Systems in departments of mechanical, aerospace, electrical, agricultural, and industrial engineering and engineering physics.

Navigating the Engineering Organization - A New Engineer's Guide (Hardcover): Robert M. Santer Navigating the Engineering Organization - A New Engineer's Guide (Hardcover)
Robert M. Santer
R3,467 Discovery Miles 34 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Speaks directly and exclusively to an unserved group of new engineers joining their first professional technical or engineering organization Provides a basic foundation to understanding the engineering organization and covering the first critical steps to learning how to operate within it Shares the key academic framework supporting the basic foundation as a prerequisite to truly understanding the organization’s dynamics Through numerous case studies the book presents actual experiential guidance in dealing with engineering organizations from the new hire’s point of view Offers a method on how to extend these insights listed in the book and turn them into a valuable personal model, valid throughout the engineer’s career

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics - Volume 1: Transportation Systems (Hardcover, New Ed): Don Harris Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics - Volume 1: Transportation Systems (Hardcover, New Ed)
Don Harris
R1,462 Discovery Miles 14 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics at Stratford-upon-Avon, England in October 1996. The applications areas include aerospace and other transportation, human-computer interaction, process control and training technology. Topics addressed include: the design of control and display systems; human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and awareness, skill acquisition and retention; techniques for evaluating human-machine systems and the physiological correlates of performance. This volume covers Human Factors in transportation systems. Part One opens with a chapter by Chris Wickens on attentional issues in head-up displays; its concluding chapter by Peter Jorna, pulls together the Human Factors issues in air traffic management from both the pilot's and the air traffic controller's perspectives. Part Two considers the ground-based aspects to air traffic control, while Part Three emphasizes the psychology of the individual. The opening chapter of Part Four uses lessons learned from aviation to avoid similar mistakes in road vehicles. The final part contains topics such as naval command and control, and automation in trains and armoured fighting vehicles.

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics - Volume 2: Job Design and Product Design (Hardcover, New Ed): Don Harris Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics - Volume 2: Job Design and Product Design (Hardcover, New Ed)
Don Harris
R4,542 Discovery Miles 45 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the second of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics at Stratford-upon-Avon, England in October 1996. The applications areas include aerospace and other transportation, human-computer interaction, process control and training technology. Topics addressed include: the design of control and display systems; human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and awareness, skill acquisition and retention; techniques for evaluating human-machine systems and the physiological correlates of performance. While Volume one is more clearly focused on the domain of aviation and ground transportation, Volume two is concerned with human factors in job and product design, the basics of decision making and training, with relevance to all industrial domains. Part one opens with a keynote chapter by Ken Eason. It is followed by Part two dealing with learning and training, while Part three reflects the rapidly growing area of medical ergonomics. Part four entitled 'Applied Cognitive Psychology' is biased towards human capabilities, an understanding of which is central to sound human engineering decisions. Part five firmly emphasizes equipment rather than its human operators.

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