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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"engineering profession"”.
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Identifying motivational factors to increase the selection of a career in the engineering profession
… 2020). To recruit the best talent into engineering careers and address the increasing shortfall of highly skilled workers across the industry, my enquiry explores the influences, needs and motivators specific or unique to engineering careers. Identification of these factors in career …
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Advancing from Outsider to Insider: A Grounded Theory of Professional Identity Negotiation
… evidenced by a large body of research within the engineering education community, those individuals who do not maintain a sense of belonging, identify with engineering groups, or perceive themselves as engineers are more likely to leave the profession. However, little is known about the ways in …
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Interoperable software for parametric structural analysis and optimization
… building information modeling in the structural engineering profession has brought forth new challenges to the traditional methods of design and analysis. The need for faster, more robust analyses to mitigate expenses and increase structural insight is a demand that stems from the implementation …
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All in a Day's Work: Women Engineering Students' Professional Development in a Living-Learning Community
The engineering profession requires engineers who have not only deep technical knowledge but also broad professional competencies necessary to address complex challenges that impact individuals and communities. While engineering students often develop necessary technical competencies during their …
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Implementing software engineering practices in small industry with a focus on requirements elicitation
… any formal training in the practices of Software Engineering. My Thesis will discuss my evolving skills, gained through my Masters in Software Engineering degree work, as a Software Engineer and how I have been able to implement proper Software Engineering in my position in a small company. This …
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The State of Software Engineering Maturity and Licensure
… engineers, but ACM believes that software engineering is too immature, and regulating the profession would be premature. In 1996, Norman Gibbs and Gary Ford from Carnegie Mellon University performed a qualitative survey of the maturity of the software engineering profession. I apply this …
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Designing episode content for Design Squad, a new educational engineering children's television program : the human powered water pump as a design challenge
… years, problems have emerged in the realm of engineering and engineering education in the United States. Technology literacy is low, there are insufficient numbers of engineering students, and there are misconceptions surrounding the engineering profession. To remedy these problems, WGBH …
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Major Factors That Influence the Employment Decisions of Generation X Consulting Engineers
… that influence their employment decisions. Engineering consulting firms throughout the United States, particularly those in Lynchburg, have struggled to recruit young engineers in recent years. The recruiting of young engineers has been regarded by managers and executives as the single …
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Economic factors in engineering education in Great Britain: A review of existing literature and an indication of areas of research needs
… of the dissertation outlines the development of engineering education in Great Britain to provide a comprehensive insight into the present day pattern of education provision for engineers. The second chapter focusses on the debate between the Government Manpower Commission's views of a shortage …
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Legal aspects of sanitary engineering facilities
A study of 160 legal cases involving sanitary engineering facilities was made. Each case was read, summarized, and commented upon by the writer. Emphasis was placed on the engineering information contained in each case, with discussion of legal principles which pertain to the particular engineering …
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Designerds! : television as a tool for design education and a medium for problem-based learning
Many individuals have limited knowledge of engineering. As a result, high school students are often unaware of opportunities in engineering professions. Designerds! is a television show pilot targeted toward a young audiences that provides an introduction to product design. The pilot documents …
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Gendering professions : an analysis of peer effects
Professional identity is important both to professionals and to the professions of which they are members. In addition to being crucial for professional success at an individual level, and for the maintenance of professional boundaries and autonomy at the collective level, professional identity is …
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Rigid space frame analysis using successive corrections
… solutions. Indeed, the current literature of the engineering profession finds the Cross method being adopted in new fields and being applied to new problems. The classical methods of analysis, while still retaining some measure of their former utility, are being superseded by this and other …
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Development and Uncertainty Quantification of Hurricane Surge Response Functions and Sea-Level Rise Adjustments for Coastal Bays
… Method (JPM), are critical in the coastal engineering profession. The JPM has become the preferred surge hazard assessment method in the United States; however, it has a high computational cost: one location can require hundreds of simulated storms, and more than ten thousand computational …
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An experimental investigation of the stresses in the floor and wall of a cylindrical steel tank
… study of tank design is still needed by the engineering profession. It is hoped that this thesis may, to some extent, contribute to forming a basis for future improvement and simplification of the popular methods of tank design.
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Development of transferable skills with part-time HE students in engineering: employer case study
… and team working, are essential for entry to the engineering workforce (where they are often termed "employability skills") and for career progression therein. This study covered the first two cohorts of an employer-specific higher education programme for technical employee development, over a …
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The work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers
… from the companies, the Council of Engineering, the Engineering Education System and the Engineers Trade Unions. The findings show that the engineering profession in Brazil has shifted from its initial condition as a liberal profession to an organizational profession, with the …
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Ombyggnad pågår : Lunds tekniska högskola och ingenjörsrollens förändring
… the concepts “the polytechnical ideal” and “engineering science” came into use to denote the content and form of the engineering programs. These standards provided a stable ideological core and a common focus for a homogeneous set of stakeholders. Yet, these standards were challenged as the …
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An investigation into consulting engineering service quality perceptions and expectations
… or not there are shortfalls in the quality of engineering services provided by consulting engineers. It identifies service dimensions that are problematic and also identifies 'real' variables which consulting engineers should manage in order to improve their services. A survey research method …
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Analysis of the pressuremeter test by FEM formulation of the elasto-plastic consolidation
… device has been recognized by the geotechnical engineering profession as having high promise for evaluating in-situ stress-strain behavior of soils, its use is limited. In large part, this is due to the fact that there are important unanswered questions about the SBPM test. One of the major …
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