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Systems Engineering for the Digital Age Comprehensive resource presenting methods, processes, and tools relating to the digital and model-based transformation from both technical and management views Systems Engineering for the Digital Age: Practitioner Perspectives covers methods and tools that are made possible by the latest developments in computational modeling, descriptive modeling languages, semantic web technologies, and describes how they can be integrated into existing systems engineering practice, how best to manage their use, and how to help train and educate systems engineers of today and the future. This book explains how digital models can be leveraged for enhancing engineering...
A guide that explores what enables systems engineers to be effective in their profession and reveals how organizations can help them attain success The Paradoxical Mindset of Systems Engineers offers an in-depth look at the proficiencies and personal qualities effective systems engineers require and the positions they should seek for successful careers. The book also gives employers practical strategies and tools to evaluate their systems engineers and advance them to higher performance. The authors explore why systems engineers are uncommon and how they can assess, improve, and cleverly leverage their uncommon strengths. These insights for being an ever more effective systems engineer apply...
John Hutchison was born in about 1745. He and his wife, Margaret, settled in Prince William County, Virginia in 1770. They had five known children. John died in 1825 in Montgomery County, Tennessee. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia and Oklahoma.
This pioneering book is the first-ever practical guide to developing and communicating technology and engineering strategies. It presents a unique step-by-step method for creating robust, evidence-based strategy, known as the Five Dimensions Process (or 5DP). The book also introduces a host of original insights, including a new theory of technology, a novel approach to product innovation, and groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of technological risk. It describes many easy-to-use tools, both new and established, for supporting activities such as solution design, system monitoring, risk identification, project management, the development of personnel, and ethical decision making. The book brims with strategic and tactical advice on such topics as university collaboration, technical compatibility, data utilisation, product design, project cancellations, outsourcing, knowledge management, and risk mitigation. It is essential reading for technologists and engineers across all disciplines, technology and engineering leaders, and professional strategy consultants.
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"Edmund Browder, a tobacco farmer in colonial Virginia, came to America sometime before 1693. The author believes this progenitor was of Irish descent (O'Broder, O"Broudair, etc.) but probably lived in England before coming to America. His wife was named Elizabeth, and their four sons were John (ca. 1685-1765), Edmund Jr. (ca. 1690-1771), George Andrew (born ca 1695) and William (born ca 1700)." -- welcome file from CD-ROM.
Tessellations, palindromes, tangrams, oh my! Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians is a children's activity book highlighting the lives and work of 29 African American women mathematicians, including Dr. Christine Darden, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan from the award-winning book and movie Hidden Figures. Although the book is geared toward children in grades 3–8, it is appropriate for all ages. The book includes portrait sketches and biographies for the featured mathematicians, each followed by elementary-school and middle-school activity pages. Children will enjoy uncovering mathematicians' names in word searches, unscrambling math vocabular...
What skills are needed for the future? This book argues for T-shaped professionals who are adaptive innovators, with broad communication skills and deep problem-solving skills. We invite readers to explore this question from the perspective of academics, educators, business practitioners, those in government, as well as researchers trying to measure more precisely just what it means to be a T-shaped professional and adaptive innovator.
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