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Manufacturing Excellent Engineers
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been criticised by employers, government and graduates themselves, for not adequately developing required work skills. An example of practice that does develop student skills is a short industrial placement (SIP) where students are expected to solve a real …
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Women engineers in Britain, 1945-2000
This thesis looks at the work of women engineers in the period 1945-2000. Its central focus is the impact gender had on the likelihood of a woman making such a career choice, on the training to become an engineer and on women's lived experiences in the work place. It discusses the impact of the …
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Automating Self Evaluations for Software Engineers
<p>Software engineers frequently compose self-evaluations as part of employee perfor- mance reviews. These evaluations can be a key artifact for assessing a software engineer’s contributions to a team and organization, and for generating useful feed- back. Self-evaluations can be challenging …
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Jeremy Gilmer and the Confederate engineers
… his contributions to the Confederate Bureau of Engineers. Jeremy Francis Gilmer was a native of North Carolina. In 1835 he was appointed to West Point from where he graduated in 1839, ranked fourth in his class. He was subsequently appointed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. When the Civil …
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Message passing: How software engineers use talk.
In this thesis I present software engineering as a social process in which programmers work together to create technical solutions. I propose that the social structures which developers create and within which they work provide the foundations from which they are able to collaborate to build …
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The Influence of Engineers on Public Policy
<p>Engineers play a vital role in society and contribute positively to economic growth in various areas, including energy, transportation, telecommunications, and others. In the United States of America, these areas are monitored by public policies that are set by policy actors—mainly lawyers, …
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The London Millwrights and Engineers 1775-1825
… power-transmission mechanics and rudimentary engineers, from 1775-1825. It reveals an organised group of old-style journeymen, who had developed a powerful grip on all aspects of the trade itself, not just their terms and conditions (which were in the top bracket of London artisans of the …
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Psychological Distress Among South African Civil Engineers
… psychological distress among South African civil engineers. Specifically, the occurrence of availability of resources and communication, job control, (un)balanced workload, work relationships, job security and change, and working conditions are studied to determine the association between these …
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Developing Enterprise Architecture for Railway Machinery Engineers
This thesis presents an analysis of the machinery department organization at the Central Japan Railway Company (CJR) with the aim of enhancing the company's resilience in response to ecosystem and stakeholder changes, as well as the impact of technological advancements on company operations. Based …
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FPGA-Based Accelerator Development for Non-Engineers
… in extending FPGA-based acceleration to non-engineers in the life sciences was informally tested at two separate instances of an NSF-funded summer workshop, organized and hosted by the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. In both workshops, groups of four or five non-engineer …
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An Organizational Analysis of the Hiring of Engineers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:49:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114925.pdf: 14153091 bytes, checksum: ae4534d33b93728ec33271b607ed1c56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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The engineers and the urban system, 1968-1974/
The social policy agenda of the Great Society was shaped by the recognition that if broad social improvement was to be achieved in urban America, social planning and state intervention based on systemically acquired expertise about the city would have to be developed. As a case study in the …
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Combined ultrasound, photoacoustic and elasticity microscope for tissue engineers
Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines various aspects of engineering and life sciences and aims to develop biological substitutes to restore, repair or maintain tissue function. Currently, the ability to have quantitative functional assays of engineered tissues is limited …
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Water purification in Haiti : An engineers without borders project
… from the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Engineers Without Borders Chapter implemented a water purification project, explains the course of action that was taken and gives an example of a successful project. A summary of Haiti and its history paints a picture of the environment and …
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The work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers
… work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers through a Marxist perspective. The research is based on two case studies, one focused on a large German steel company based in Brazil and the other on a large Brazilian energy corporation. The fieldwork involved 114 interviews, with …
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Technical interaction among engineers and its relation to performance
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1967.
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Practical Exocompilation for Performance Engineers in User-Schedulable Languages
… User-schedulable languages provide performance engineers a productive way to optimize these kernels with welldesigned interfaces which provide users control over performance-relevant decisions and automate unnecessary concerns. Often, this is a tradeoff: too much control with too little …
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