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Nonyane-Mathebula, Beauhania Thobisile. "Engineers as entrepreneurs : entrepreneurial orientation of engineers in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25619.
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A positive relationship between economic growth and entrepreneurship has been established as derived from the body of knowledge in the domain of entrepreneurship. In acknowledgement of this relationship, governments have embarked on schemes and policies that encourage entrepreneurship in their economic development policies. The individual entrepreneur is a key player in new entrepreneurial venture process. The entire society is responsible for shaping an environment within which a behaviour pattern that promotes or hinders entrepreneurship is developed. The study mainly focused on understanding the behavioural phenomenon which is termed entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of engineers within the South African context. The assumed EO of entrepreneurial engineers was expected to be higher than that of non-entrepreneurial engineers. Cronbach Alpha’s tests found the prestructured EO scale to be reliable. T-test results for mean difference confirmed that entrepreneurs have a higher EO on the overal EO construct as well as on the autonomy, proactiveness and risk taking dimemensions.Factor analysis results supported the view that the EO construct is unidimensional. Situational factors that shaped the social environment alluded to above were studied as a secondary objective. Chi-square tests did not confirm the expectation that entrepreneurial engineers would be exposed to situational factors that promote entrepreneurship than their non-entrepreneurial counter parts. Lack of entrepreneurial education and finance have been identified as the key factors that hamper entrepreneurship. Recommendations are included in this report.CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Kam, W. K. "Mathematical education of engineers at technician engineer level in Hong Kong." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1985. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27089.
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Before the introduction of degree programmes in 1983, the route followed by technician engineers being trained in Hong Kong, particularly at the Hong Kong Polytechnic, was quite unique. About 680 students are admitted into the eight Higher Diploma engineering programmes at Higher Technician level each year at the Hong Kong Polytechnic. The students first took a three-year Higher Diploma programme, continued for a one-year Associateship programme and finally sat the Engineering Council Part II Examinations, thus fulfilling the academic requirements for Chartered Engineer status.
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Shawcross, Judith Karen. "Manufacturing excellent engineers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279677.
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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 problem in a company, in two weeks, working with one other student. This practice occurs in a one year Masters programme at Cambridge University Engineering Department. This work studies the SIP practice to understand why it is effective and determine lessons that could contribute to solving the wider skills problem. A five year research timeframe, coupled with an annually run programme, enabled a multi-stage study using an Engaged Scholarship methodology. The first-stage was an exploratory study that investigated the initial development of SIP skills, using simulated experiences, in a taught HE based module. Skills development was found to be a complex multi-component process. A theoretical skills development framework was constructed from literature and compared with practice. It was determined that five simulated SIP experiences provided the student with sufficient skills to undertake a SIP in practice and, the most significant problem was that SIP skills were not well defined. The second-stage focussed on defining skills. Skills were found to be context specific and defining skills required both the associated task and its context to be known. With tasks found to be both essential to defining skills and effective in describing what graduates do in practice, a SIP task framework was constructed which was tested on 80 different SIPs in one academic year. The resulting framework comprised twelve problem-solving process-stages, that in total contained 64 different tasks, and five generic task domains. These generic domains were investigated in the third-stage of this research. These were found to be more extensive and complex than anticipated resulting in a reconfiguration of the SIP framework, the generation of SIP specific domain descriptions and partial completion of task frameworks to describe each domain. This research has generated a plausible skills development theory for HEIs, and task frameworks to describe a SIP. Further work has been identified to refine the task frameworks and to continue work on the proposed skills development theory.
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Kutomi, Esdras. "Supporting Support Engineers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8431.
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The steady and uninterrupted availability of systems is essential for the mission of many companies and other organizations. This responsibility relies mostly upon support engineers, who are responsible to respond to incidents. Incident response is a unique type of task in software engineering, given it carries distinguishing characteristics like risks, pressure, incomplete information and urgency. Despite the importance of this task for many organizations, little can be found in the literature about the incident response task and model. To fill the gap, we created a theoretical foundation to foster research on incident response. We conducted an interview study, asking 12 support engineers about their experiences dealing with outages, service degradation, and other incidents that demanded an urgent response. We used our 22 collected cases to identify important concepts of incidents and their dimensions, and created an ontology of incidents and a model of the incident response. To validate the usefulness of our results, we analyzed our incidents based on our ontology and model, providing some insights related to detection of incidents, investigation and the hand over process. We also provide analytical insights related to the prevention of resource limitation incidents. Finally, we validate the usefulness of our research by proposing an improvement on monitoring tools used by support engineers.
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Chan, Kwok Hung Billy Carleton University Dissertation Engineering Mechanical. "Software for welding engineers." Ottawa, 1990.
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Waller, Steven D. "Engineers as managers : a comparative study of the career experiences of graduate engineers." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1998. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7163.
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The theme of the research stemmed from the generally held conviction that engineers are not found populating the managerial levels of UK based companies to the extent that is the case in most of continental Europe. Put simply, in the UK engineering is not considered to be the 'royal route' to management. In 1978 through a funding initiative by the then University Grants Committee, management enhanced 4 year engineering degree courses known as 'Dainton' courses after the then Chain-nano f the committee, Sir Frederick Dainton, were launched to attract some of the most able candidates to engineering. Designed to "fast track" engineers into management these courses have been running now for nearly 20 years and the research set out to answer whether their graduates have become managers, professional engineers, both or neither and how their background in technology and management may have influenced their subsequent career progression and migration into management. The study is based on 575 usable responses to a postal questionnaire sent to 1,838 'Dainton' graduate engineers and comparable control groups from Birmingham, Brunel, Cambridge, Impenal, Oxford and Strathclyde Universities. The responses to the questionnaire are supplemented by an ethnographical study of documentary course literature and discussions with staff responsible for the courses. Contrasts were found between the groups of engineers and the thesis explores these differencesa nd discussesth e possible reasonsf or them. By developing an insight into the role and influence of management training in engineering degrees the thesis concludes bv examining the consequences for the management of careers.
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Tootoonchy, Mahshid. "Conflict and communication among engineers." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60241/1/Mahshid_Tootoonchy_Thesis.pdf.
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The trend of cultural diversity is increasing in all organizations, especially engineering ones, due to globalization, mergers, joint ventures and the movement of the workforce. The collaborative nature of projects in engineering industries requires long-term teamwork between local and international engineers. Research confirms a specific culture among engineering companies that isassumed to have a negative effect on collaboration and communication among co-workers. Multicultural workplaces have been reported as challenging environments in the engineering work culture, which calls for more research among engineering organizations.
An everyday challenge for co-workers, especially in culturally diverse contexts, is handling interpersonal conflict. This perceived conflict among individuals can happen because of actual differences in tasks or relationships. Research demonstrates that task conflict at the group level has some positive effects on decision-making and innovation, while it has negative effects on employees’ work attitude and performance. However, relationship conflict at the individual level has only negative effects including frustration, tension, low job satisfaction, high employee turnover and low productivity. Outcomes of both task and relationship conflict at individual level can have long-term negative consequences like damaged organizational commitment. One of the most important sources of differences between individuals, which results in conflict, is their cultural backgrounds. First, this thesis suggests that in culturally diverse workplaces, people perceive more relationship conflict than task conflict. Second, this thesis examines interpersonal communication in culturally diverse work places. Communicating effectively in culturally diverse workplaces is crucial for today’s business. Culture has a large effect on the ways that people communicate with each other. Ineffective communication can escalate interpersonal conflict and cause frustration in the long term. Communication satisfaction, defined as enjoying the communication and feeling that the communication was appropriate and effective, has a positive effect on individuals’ psychological wellbeing. In a culturally diverse workplace, it is assumed that individuals feel less satisfied with their interpersonal communications because of their lack of knowledge about other cultures’ communication norms. To manage interpersonal interactions, many authors suggest that individuals need a specific capability, i.e., cultural intelligence (some studies use cultural competence, global intelligence or intercultural competence interchangeably). Some authors argue that cultures are synergic and convergent and the postmodernist definition of culture is just our dominant beliefs. However, other authors suggest that cultural intelligence is the strongest and most comprehensive competency for managing cross-cultural interactions, because various cultures differ so greatly at the micro level. This thesis argues that individuals with a high level of cultural intelligence perceive less interpersonal conflict and more satisfaction with their interpersonal communication. Third, this thesis also looks at individuals' perception of cultural diversity. It is suggested that level of cultural diversity plays a moderating role on all of the proposed relationships (effect of cultural intelligence on perception of relationship conflict/ communication satisfaction) This thesis examines the relationship among cultural diversity, cultural intelligence, interpersonal conflict and communication by surveying eleven companies in the oil and gas industry. The multicultural nature of companies within the oil and gas industry and the characteristics of engineering culture call for more in-depth research on interpersonal interactions. A total of 286 invitation emails were sent and 118 respondents replied to the survey, giving a 41.26 per cent response rate. All the respondents were engineers, engineering managers or practical technicians. The average age of the participants was 36.93 years and 58.82 per cent were male. Overall, 47.6 per cent of the respondents had at least a master’s degree. Totally, 42.85 per cent of the respondents were working in a country that was not their country of birth. The overall findings reveal that cultural diversity and cultural intelligence significantly influence interpersonal conflict and communication satisfaction.
Further, this thesis also finds that cultural intelligence is an effective competency for dealing with the perception of interpersonal relationship conflict and communication satisfaction when the level of cultural diversity is moderate to high.
This thesis suggests that cultural intelligence training is necessary to increase the level of this competency among employees in order to help them to have better understanding of other cultures. Human resource management can design these training courses with consideration for the level of cultural diversity within the organization.
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Debney, Jean Lindsay. "Engineered careers? : a study of women engineers in the offshore oil and gas industry." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433623.
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Phillipson, A. "'The business of engineers' : the organization and education of military engineers during the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496672.
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This thesis examines the organization and education of military engineers in the `long eighteenth century'. The period from 1789 to 1815 is addressed in particular detail, as it encompasses the creation of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Royal Military College, Royal Engineer Establishment, and other important changes driven by wartime expediency. A modern definition of military engineering is used to develop a wideranging analysis of the entire discipline, rather than the activities of particular military units. Austrian, British and French methods are compared to assess the influence of alliance and enmity in the context of both continental and maritime strategy. The extent to which imitation and innovation were employed is used to establish processes of knowledge acquisition in technical corps in order to see if one state led the field. The growth of corps of engineer officers and their progress towards military status in the first half of the century is examined alongside their relationships with various other corps contributing to engineering capability and the need for engineering knowledge within army staff structures. The employment of both officers and soldiers in departments of Quartermasters General is explained to correct previous misconceptions about Britain's Royal Staff Corps and the different titles used to define the roles of soldier engineers. Civilian education and military training systems are analysed in terms of their immediate practical value to the military capability of each state rather than against a theoretical knowledge-base advocated by authors of pedagogical texts. France, although widely accepted as the leading exponent of military engineering and state-organized education, was not widely imitated by Austria and Britain who, largely independently, developed organizational models to meet their own specific sociological and geo-strategical requirements. Austria made particular advances in bridging and mobility whereas Britain developed a strong staff system, supported by sound technical training, which gave their engineer departments particular strengths. This study makes important contributions to understanding the role of organization and training in developing military power in the eighteenth century.
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Chan, Kam-shun. "The need for a human resource development strategy for engineers in government : review and suggestions /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18037744.
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Jansen, Christoph. "Prozessunterstützung durch Wissensplattformen für business engineers /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00130106.pdf.
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Sjöholm, Linnea. "Computational handbook for power line engineers." Thesis, KTH, Hållfasthetslära (Avd.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-217480.
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The high voltage power network in Sweden consists mainly of overhead power lines, that is conductors suspended in the air by supports. Ideally when projecting a power line, all supports should be placed equidistantly and the conductors should be suspended at equal height. When this is not applied, the support placement may have consequences, such as uplifting forces in a support, which should be avoided. The objective of this thesis was to investigate both what in uences the support placement, and what consequences that may come out of it. This was investigated using mainly analytical calculations on poles and conductors, but was also implemented on a specic case. When solving the case, support placement and FEM software were also used and compared with the analytical calculations. It was found that the support placement is in uenced by both environmental factors; such as terrain, obstacles and solidity of the ground, as well as how long spans that are possible to construct. The span length is the distance between two nearby supports and is limited by sag, that is the de ection of the conductors, and the strength of the supports. The sag is dependent on the tension in the conductor, which is dependent on wind and ice loads, temperature and creep; a permanent elongation that for certain materials occur over time even if the load is constant. Since the sag will increase over time, and especially at high temperatures, the distance between the conductors and the ground will decrease. This extra de ection must be accounted for when designing the power line and determining the span length. When it comes to support designing, both bending and buckling should be accounted for. The greatest loads the supports are in uenced by are transferred from the conductors, and therefore are dependent of the span length. An analysis of buckling and bending as function of span length was therefore conducted on non-guyed timber pole supports. It was concluded that bending stresses; due to wind loads on the support and especially on the conductors, are usually the critical aspect when designing standard power line supports.
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Moorcroft, Karen Lorraine. "Equity among male and female engineers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ29501.pdf.
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Hyde, Rosamund Anne. "Educating engineers for environmentally sensitive practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0020/NQ45660.pdf.
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Moorcroft, Karen. "Equity among male and female engineers." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26695.
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The following research used data from the SSE to determine whether socialization or discrimination can explain the lower status of female engineers, compared to men. It was learned that female engineers with children are as committed to their careers as childless female engineers. Moreover, there is no difference in income or job status between these two groups. There is also no significant difference in income between male and female engineers when controlling for employment status, degree, job status and experience. However, female engineers are not found in management positions as often as their male colleagues, even after controlling for experience. This lower job status, in turn, affects the women's incomes. A reason for the lower status of female engineers is likely due to engineering being very male-dominated. No such difference in job status exists in the field of computer science, where the proportion of women is much higher.
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Alsamari, Haya. "Saudi Arabia Future Female Engineers Program." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/363.
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Since the beginning of the country's history, Saudi Arabia has dramatically transformed every aspect of its existence from its booming economy to the massive expansion of educational offerings. But this natural resource and tradition rich nation is now faced with a cultural revolution that is not unfamiliar in the history of mankind yet is exceptionally unique to modern society. In a time when almost all countries in the world have recognized women to be an essential part of civil society, the kingdom is just beginning to turn its attention to the inequality women experience there.
In light of this paradigm shift in the way women are viewed in Saudi Arabia, education is at the forefront illustrating evident signs of this change. With the support of the king and powerful political leaders universities are opening their doors to female engineers and companies are starting to employ more and more females outside the realm of education. With such momentum building it is an auspicious moment to further stretch the boundaries and reach for a wider audience including younger females in secondary school.
This project introduces a comprehensive program for the enrollment of secondary school female students in a program constructed around the hope to encourage girls to consider engineering as a topic of study at higher education institutions. The program embodies the idea of learning, applying, creating and engineering (LACE) where students will take an intensive engineering course (IEC) hosted by universities outside of KSA and a project course at their local secondary school to apply what they learned through the creation and engineering of a solution that address issues challenging their communities.
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Nippe, Anton. "Engineers and Managerial Training in Germany." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-13023.
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The master thesis presented deals with the question of whether superiors in the engineering field in Germany should undergo managerial training to be better-suited managers than superiors without such training. This thesis looks into this question through a survey of a homogenous group of engineering professionals working in Germany. The survey strives to gain information from the engineering professionals regarding their opinions and experience as managers with and/or without managerial training and their capacity to fulfill their managerial duties. This problem resonates widely in the engineering world, yet it seems that not enough action is being taken towards educating personnel in elevated positions throughout a company’s hierarchy.
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Savary-Leblanc, Maxime. "Augmenting software engineers with modeling assistants." Thesis, Université de Lille (2018-2021), 2021. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/LIBRE/EDMADIS/2021/2021LILUB027.pdf.
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La connaissance du domaine est une condition préalable à la conception et à la mise en œuvre de logiciels adaptés aux exigences des parties prenantes. Une façon courante de formaliser cette connaissance est réalisée par des modèles conceptuels, qui sont couramment utilisés pour décrire ou simuler un système. L'acquisition d'une telle expertise nécessite de discuter avec des parties prenantes bien informées et/ou d'avoir accès à des documents utiles, qui ne sont pas toujours facilement accessibles. Dans le même temps, de plus en plus d'échantillons de modèles peuvent être rassemblés à partir de sources multiples, ce qui représente un nombre croissant d'éléments de connaissance déjà formalisés et accessibles. Par exemple, certaines entreprises conservent des archives de référentiels de modèles internes. Il existe également de nombreux projets open source qui contiennent des modèles, tandis que certains outils de modélisation offrent même la possibilité de créer des projets publics que l'on peut parcourir librement. Ces sources de données pourraient être exploitées pour créer une connaissance du domaine qui pourrait être fournie aux ingénieurs logiciels lors de la modélisation. Pour être utile, cette connaissance doit être de haute qualité, mais doit aussi être bien intégrée dans le processus de modélisation du logiciel. L'objectif de cette thèse est de fournir un cadre pour exploiter les connaissances afin d'aider les utilisateurs d'outils de modélisation informatique avec des assistants de modélisation logicielle. Cette thèse présente d'abord nos questions de recherche basées sur une étude de cartographie systématique sur les assistants logiciels pour l'ingénierie logicielle, et se concentre ensuite sur les assistants logiciels pour la modélisation. Elle rend compte de la conception d'assistants de modélisation basée sur une approche centrée sur l'utilisateur. Nous présentons les conclusions des entretiens menés avec des experts en modélisation, une étape au cours de laquelle les exigences sont recueillies. Ensuite, nous développons la création d'un prototype de base de connaissances en modélisation permettant (i) de créer des connaissances artificielles générales et spécifiques en modélisation, et (ii) de les mettre à disposition de tout client logiciel via des recommandations. Après avoir présenté les résultats d'une expérience concernant la précision du système, nous discutons ces résultats préliminaires. Enfin, cette thèse présente l'implémentation d'un assistant de modélisation logiciel intégré à l'outil Papyrus, qui vise à cognifier l'environnement de modélisation UML en intégrant les connaissances précédemment créées. Notre travail permet de clarifier le besoin d'assistance pendant les travaux de modélisation de logiciels, de présenter une première approche de la conception d'assistants logiciels pour la modélisation de logiciels, et d'identifier les défis de recherche dans l'assistance à la modélisationDomain knowledge is a prerequisite to produce software design and implementation tailored to stakeholders’ requirements. One common way to formalize that knowledge is achieved through conceptual models, which are commonly used to describe or simulate a system. Acquiring such expertise requires to discuss with knowledgeable stakeholders and/or to get an access to useful documents, which both might not always be easily accessible. In the same time, more and more model samples can be gathered from multiple sources, what represents an increasing number of already formalized and accessible knowledge pieces. For example, some companies keep archives of internal model repositories. There also exist numerous open source projects that contain models while some modeling tools even offer the possibility to create public projects that are free to browse. Such data sources could be exploited to create domain knowledge that could be provided to software engineers while modeling. To be useful, this knowledge must be of high quality, but must also be well integrated into the software modeling process. The focus of this thesis is to provide a framework to exploit knowledge to assist users of computer-based modeling tools with software modeling assistants. This thesis first introduces our research questions based on a systematic mapping study about software assistants for software engineering, and then focuses on software assistants for modeling. It reports on the design of modeling assistants based on a user-centered approach. We present the conclusions of interviews conducted with experts in modeling, a stage in which requirements are collected. Then, we develop the creation of a prototype modeling knowledge base allowing (i) to create general and specific artificial modeling knowledge, and (ii) to make them available to any software client via recommendations. After introducing the results of an experiment regarding the accuracy of the system, we discuss these preliminary results. Finally, this thesis presents a software modeling assistant implementation integrated to the Papyrus tool, which aims to cognify the UML modeling environment by integrating the previously created knowledge. Our work helps to clarify the need for assistance during software modeling work, presents an initial approach to the design of software assistants for software modeling, and identify research challenges in modeling assistance
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Wray, Lesley. "Women engineers in Britain, 1945-2000." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54202/.
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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 equality legislation and considers the effect that the characterisation of engineering as a male profession had on the numbers of women in engineering and on their treatment. The thesis approaches these subjects through a study of the experiences of a group of women engineers. Their life histories are set against the social and economic changes that occurred over the period. It encompasses both women who were engineers at the beginning of the period and those from later generations. The use of oral history allows a rounded picture of the changing experiences of women engineers, their career expectations and the degree of success that they achieved. The thesis argues that the history of women engineers has been largely ignored. While their experiences have paralleled that of women in other careers, the continued overwhelming dominance of the profession by men has resulted in a number of assumptions regarding discrimination and harassment that remain unproven. It demonstrates that the social stereotyping of engineering discourages many women from considering the career, thus perpetuating both gender inequality and the myth that women are unwelcome in the career.
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Miranda, Jonathan Rodrigo A. "Automating Self Evaluations for Software Engineers." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1614.
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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 because a) they can be time consuming, b) individuals may forget about important contributions especially when the review period is long such as a full year, c) some individuals can consciously or unconsciously overstate their contributions, and d) some individuals can be reluctant to describe their contributions for fear of appearing too proud [24].
UNBIASED, Useful New Basic Interactive Automated Self-Evaluation Demon- stration, is a web application designed to tackle the challenges of performing a self- evaluation by automatically gathering data from existing third party APIs, perform- ing an analysis on the data, and generating a self-evaluation starting point for soft- ware engineers to build off. The third party APIs currently supported are: Bitbucket, Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, and JIRA.
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Li, Tak-shun Dominic. "Management training of a civil engineer /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12315813.
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Kea, Howard Eric. "How Are NASA Engineers Motivated? An Analysis of Factors that Influence NASA Goddard Engineers’ Level of Motivation." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1232149548.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 19, 2009). Advisor: Jon Wergin, Ph.D. "A dissertation submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy July 2008."--from the title page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-151).
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Chow, Lai-kit. "Incorporating fuzzy membership functions and gap analysis concept into performance evaluation of engineering consultants Hong Kong study /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B32003699.
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Keen, Julia. "Retention of women architectural engineers in industry." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3748.
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Arman, Björn, and Nordqvist Markus Damm. "Practical use of Eurocodes for design engineers." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93180.
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In January 2011, Boverket’s Design Regulations (BKR) expired in Sweden. New so-called Eurocodes will be implemented instead. Eurocodes are design rules that will be the same for the whole Europe and the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). In order to be efficient in all countries, despite different conditions regarding climate and geography, each country can select Nationally Determined Parameters (NDP). These parameters will be published by Boverket and Trafikverket in Sweden. This in the form of regulations called EKS (European construction standards) and VVFS (Vägverket’s traffic regulations). The purpose of this report is to make the transition from BKR to Eurocodes easier. The report responds to how the elements of the new Eurocodes are structured, what differences there are between BKR and Eurocodes and how the Eurocodes are used in practice. This is shown through a literature study that has been performed on parts from the material on which the Eurocodes are based and a number of example calculations there the Eurocodes has been used. These example calculations form the base for an annex in form of a collection of examples. By having this annex at hand the designer will be helped in his work when the transition occurs. From the collection of examples a "calculation of cumulative loads template" has been created. This is an Excel sheet that will help the designer in his work.Den 1 januari 2011 slutade Boverkets konstruktionsregler (BKR) att gälla i Sverige. Istället ska nya europastandarder som kallas Eurokoder användas. Eurokoder är gemensamma konstruktionsregler för länder i EU samt medlemmar i Europeiska frihandelssammanslutningen (EFTA) . För att de ska fungera i alla länder, trots olika förutsättningar i till exempel klimat och geografi får varje land ge ut nationella bilagor. Dessa bilagor ges i Sverige ut av Boverket och Trafikverket i form av föreskrifter vid namn EKS (Europeiska konstruktionsstandarder) och VVFS (Vägverkets författningssamling). Syftet med denna rapport är att underlätta övergången från BKR till Eurokoder. Rapporten ger svar på hur delar av de nya Eurokoderna är uppbyggda samt vad det finns för skillnader gentemot BKR och hur de tillämpas i praktiken. Skillnaderna redovisas genom en litteraturstudie som gjorts på delar av det stora material som Eurokoderna omfattar. Till detta har exempelberäkningar med de nya Eurokoderna utförts. Dessa exempelberäkningar ligger sedan till grund för en bilaga i form exempelsamling. Genom att ha denna till hands när övergången sker, kan en konstruktör få hjälp i arbetet vid övergången. Med hjälp av exempelsamling har sedan en ”Lastnedräningsmall” skapats. Detta är ett Excelblad där laster matas in, för att på så sätt få ut dimensionerande värden.
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Tresch, John. "Mechanical romanticism : engineers of the artificial paradise." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421655.
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Queiros, Ana Filipa de Moura. "Ecosystem engineers in diversity and process relationships." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528333.
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Tracey, Paul James. "Engineers and management in manufacturing and construction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11895.
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There is a widespread view in the relevant academic literature that the UK's economic performance would be better if the situations of its engineers, engineering and manufacturing were more favourable. In particular the apparent dominance of accountants and financial expertise and the relative lack of influence of engineers and technical and productive expertise in manufacturing companies have been much discussed. As a presumed consequence of this, and despite a shortage of empirical evidence, engineers are apparently marginalised in managerial hierarchies, particularly in the most senior positions, and there is a subordination of technical to financial and other commercial priorities and objectives. The role of engineers in construction, however, has been virtually ignored despite the sector's economic importance and the relatively large numbers of engineers employed in it. The author and his supervisor conducted 25 interviews with representatives of the engineering and other main organizational professions, management institutes, employers' associations and a small number of academic and policy researchers. Their aim was to help identify the main issues which were relevant to UK engineers. From these interviews, and from reviewing the literature about engineers and management, the author decided upon the aims of the research. These were: to examine how engineers in manufacturing and construction feel about their influence and career prospects vis-ä-vis the members of the other professional groups with whom they work; to explore the perceptions of management-level people in industry about the managerial abilities of engineers and their colleagues; to investigate how engineers feel about the trade unions and professional associations which represent many of them; to examine the views of engineers about issues surrounding it engineering education and the importance which employers place on formal engineering qualifications; and to determine how engineers feel about the social place of their profession and about their levels of remuneration. Eighty-two interviews were conducted with engineers and their colleagues in three industrial sectors: mechanical and electrical engineering, chemicals, and construction. In manufacturing the main functional groups seemed to enjoy more constructive relationships than was apparently the case during the 1970s and 1980s. Although they appeared to form an influential group, the author found little evidence to support the notion that accountants dominate manufacturing companies, and they were generally considered both by themselves and by engineers and other colleagues to be performing a support function. Engineers appeared to enjoy the widest range of career opportunities of all the main management level groups, with the possible exception of chemists in chemicals. These opportunities included promotion to the boardroom. However some respondents felt that engineers needed to become rather less involved in the technical aspects of their work to advance their careers. In construction it was found that the main professional groups appeared to operate in varying degrees of mutual opposition. Their roles and influence depended to a large extent on the nature of the product and on the method of contracting chosen by clients. Architects in building and design engineers in civil engineering appeared to have lost their dominant positions in the management of projects. In both cases the main beneficiaries were contracting companies, which are staffed at management level mainly by engineers, and to a smaller extent quantity surveyors. 111 The author found no evidence to support the view that engineers are superior or inferior to other professional groups in terms of their `management' abilities, although the latter are clearly very difficult to measure. Only three of sixty-one engineer respondents were trade union members and most engineers appeared to believe that trade union membership was incompatible with their professional and/or managerial identities. About half of the engineers in the sample were members of professional engineering associations but this varied between sectors, as did the importance attached by respondents and their employers to chartered status. The engineer respondents tended to believe that their profession was poorly organised and ineffectual. Although employers appeared to rely heavily on formal qualifications to distinguish between different grades of technical staff, most respondents felt that engineering degrees needed to more practically oriented. The social standing of engineers and engineering was generally considered to be low. Many engineers believed that the general public neither understood nor appreciated fully what they did. However, engineers in the manufacturing companies in the study were generally satisfied with their levels of remuneration, although most respondents in construction felt that they were underpaid. The thesis concludes by arguing that when taken together with other evidence, particularly the many useful developments in education for management, the results suggest that the prospects for the UK economy might be considered to be improving, and certainly better than they were during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Moher, James Gerard. "The London millwrights and engineers, 1775-1825." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254006.
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This study explores the history of a group of London handicraftsmen, the multi-skilled millwrights, who were 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 time). This amounted to a power-sharing partnership with their masters who accepted this arrangement for decades of the late eighteenth century because of the millwrights' unique skills, quality work and organised power as a trade club. The millwrights as individual handicraftsmen varied from 'rough and ready rule of thumb' mechanics to ingenious mechanical and civil engineers. Many of these latter could design and erect complex buildings and infrastructure for water, wind or horse-driven mills and install the transmission millwork/gear wheels of the time. They were, in effect, a powerful guild to which many of the masters belonged. With the growing demand for larger and more complex power sources of the early industrial revolution, this traditional trade came under tremendous pressure to overcome the restrictions imposed by the journeymen millwrights, especially from the businesses who employed the masters as contractors. The study examines the previously unappreciated role of the London brewers, distillers and other manufacturers in pressurising the master millwrights to resist the power of their combined journeymen. It was this pressure which induced the master millwrights to bring to Parliament a Combination Bill seeking to outlaw the London Society of Journeymen Millwrights' trade club and replace them by wage regulation of the magistrates of the City and neighbouring Home Counties. This wider development is examined in detail. Those City employers were also prominent in the more successful 1812-14 bid to remove the medieval apprenticeship laws which then underpinned all journeymen's control of skilled labour supply. But it was the exigencies of the wars with the French from the 1800s which really drove the technological changes which undermined the millwrights' exclusive control of mechanical work, especially using the new, better quality fabrication of iron and machinery. This development is examined at the Portsmouth naval dockyard in 1805 and the spread of new engineering works in the London area thereafter. A new breed of engineering employer now emerged who were successful in breaking the millwrights' grip on the trade with greater control in larger establishments. They made a practice of employing/training non- or short-apprenticed skilled fitters, turners and a variety of other specialised engineering workers to do aspects of the more expensive and less tractable high-skilled millwrights with what became known as an Engineers' Economy. This little-known episode of early British engineering history was illustrated throughout with contemporary prints and drawings and pen-pictures of the key figures who became involved - John Rennie, James Watt and Henry Maudslay, to name but a few. An update and rewrite has recently been produced entitled, The Old London Artisans: the Millwrights 1775-1825.
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Uliana, David Christopher. "FPGA-Based Accelerator Development for Non-Engineers." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78091.
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In today's world of big-data computing, access to massive, complex data sets has reached an unprecedented level, and the task of intelligently processing such data into useful information has become a growing concern to the high-performance computing community.
However, domain experts, who are the brains behind this processing, typically lack the skills required to build FPGA-based hardware accelerators ideal for their applications, as traditional development flows targeting such hardware require digital design expertise.
This work proposes a usable, end-to-end accelerator development methodology that attempts to bridge this gap between domain-experts and the vast computational capacity of FPGA-based heterogeneous platforms.
To accomplish this, two development flows were assembled, both targeting the Convey Hybrid-Core HC-1 heterogeneous platform and utilizing existing graphical design environments for design entry.
Furthermore, incremental implementation techniques were applied to one of the flows to accelerate bitstream compilation, improving design productivity.
The efficacy of these flows 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 participants made significant modifications to a bare-bones Smith-Waterman accelerator, extending functionality and improving performance.Master of Science
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Shah, Dhaval Kashyap. "Impact of Visualization on Engineers – A Survey." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6385.
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In the recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in data. Numerous research and technologies have been proposed and developed in the field of Visualization to cope with the associated data analytics. Despite these new technologies, the pace of people’s capacity to perform data analysis has not kept pace with the requirement. Past literature has hinted as to various reasons behind this disparity. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate specifically the usage of Visualization in the field of engineering. We conducted the research with the help of a survey identifying the places where Visualization educational shortcomings may exist. We conclude by asserting that there is a need for creating awareness and formal education about Visualization for Engineers.
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Tessmann, Oliver. "Collaborative design procedures for architects and engineers." Norderstedt : Books on Demand, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994900066/34.
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Bates, Christopher David. "Message passing : how software engineers use talk." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2014. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19328/.
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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 software. In doing so I characterise software engineering as being as much a social enterprise as it is a technical one. Since its origins in the late 1960s, the discipline of software engineering has been one that is concerned primarily with tools, techniques and processes. Research and writing within the area, by both academics and practitioners, have been interested in developing better ways to deliver better software and, hence, better customer satisfaction. Relatively little effort has gone into understanding what it is that software developers, in particular programmers, do as they work collaboratively. Starting from an ethnomethodological position, I present an examination of those activities of programmers which enable both sense-making and coordination. The research examines the work of developers in teams that self-identify as adherents to the Agile Manifesto. These teams are interesting because of the Manifesto's commitment to a social view of software development. Three teams of professional developers are studied in their normal working environments as they work on commercial projects for their clients. The first is a failing team which I follow as they begin to use Scrum whilst the second team has been using Scrum for a number of years. The final team uses a mixture of techniques from XP, TDD and Kanban to create their own way of working. By revealing the ethnomethods of developers across the three organisations I show that the design and implementation of code is enabled through social interaction.
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Woo, Yiu-man Edwin. "An investigation of motivation and job satisfaction of civil and structural engineers in the building and civil engineering industry." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42128183.
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Chan, Chi-yan Henry. "Local and expatriate leadership styles amongst civil engineers." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42128341.
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Chan, Chi-yan Henry, and 陳志恩. "Local and expatriate leadership styles amongst civil engineers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42128341.
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Ward, Jessica MacKay. "Community-level effects of nonindigenous aquatic ecosystem engineers." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92244.
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Pohl, Reinhard. "The education of hydraulic engineers in the GDR." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-160838.
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More than 40 years the political, social, economic and technical development in the two German states went different ways until 1990. This also applies to the education of civil engineers in the field of hydraulic engineering. The author undertakes the attempt to trace a picture of the related development in East Germany. During the GDR-period the Dresden University of Technology was the major place for university education of hydraulic engineers (GDR = German Democratic Republic). This is why the development of the education in Dresden and its relations to the hydro practice will be mainly considered here. In this paper the facts, the problems and the achievements are told and discussedBis 1990 ging die politische, soziale, wirtschaftliche und technische Entwicklung in beiden deutschen Staaten mehr als 40 Jahre getrennte Wege. Das trifft auch für die Ausbildung von Wasserbauingenieuren zu. Die Autoren unternehmen den Versuch, das Bild der zugehörigen Entwicklung im Osten Deutschlands nachzuzeichnen. Sie konzentrieren sich dabei auf die Technische Universität Dresden als den Hauptstandort der damaligen universitären Wasserbauausbildung in der DDR. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden die Tatsachen, die Probleme und das Erreichte dargestellt und besprochen
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Wood, Alexander Hilton. "The engineers and the urban system, 1968-1974/." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72862.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-81).
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 development of such expertise, in this thesis I explore the work of the Urban Systems Laboratory (USL), established in 1968 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with funding from the Ford Foundation. Using computationally intensive methods, behavioral models and the latest techniques of the information sciences, research at the USL emphasized the role of rational, analytical, social scientific expertise in managing social conflict. In particular, I explore the work of Jay W. Forrester, a member of the USL whose research on the city was published in 1969 as Urban Dynamics. Using an IBM Systems/360 Model 67, Forrester built one of the first large-scale, interactive, computational models of a city specifically to explore the consequences of the social policies of the period and more generally the possibility of the social engineering of complex social systems in a postindustrial society. This project of the production of expertise at the USL struggled to secure legitimacy in the early 1970s as the attempt to treat the problems of urban America as phenomena to be handled by a new class of experts was overwhelmed by the sheer scale of urban turmoil.
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Burke, Larry, Karina Osgood, John Muir, Christina Dearstine, Micheal Cardullo, and Timothy Fox. "ADVANCEMENTS IN TRANSMITTER HARDWARE FOR WIRELESS TELEMETRY ENGINEERS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605357.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaM/A-COM has developed a chip set designed specifically for miniaturized ballistic telemetry applications. One key component of this chip set is a dual port voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). This device allows for independent optimization of both modulation and tuning parameters at the chip level. In the dual port architecture, the modulation port of the VCO may be tailored for the peak (frequency) deviation requirements of each system, while still permitting the device to tune over entire SLOWER band. Additionally, M/A-COM has developed S band power amplifiers (PAs) for medium power (500mW, 1W and 2W) telemetry applications. These new PAs are very efficient, (>45% PAE) when operated in saturation. This improved efficiency means these components may be integrated into transmitters with a miniaturized form factor. The excellent thermal performance of these new PAs allows them to be packaged in commercial plastic packages which are robust in high shock/high vibration applications. This paper reviews the design of each MMIC device and presents system performance data.
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Butchers, Ann Marjorie. "Learning off the job : engineers and professional education." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14876/.
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This thesis identifies a framework of critical occasions documented by engineering students taking residential modules during the taught element of an MSc. It develops a categorisation of critical events on which future research could be built and will be of interest to practitioners, learners and academics. Building on this nomenclature the effect of important episodes on respondents' cognition and professional development is examined by applying fuzzy logic. Using a reflective interview based case study students were questioned about their background, attitudes and landmark events to investigate the classification. A focus group provided another perspective and validated early findings. The choice of a case study and use of interviews are discussed within the methodology. Previous literature on critical incidents, professional development and cognition was considered to illuminate the framework. The resulting data was analysed and patterns identified in the fieldwork chapters to catalogue the critical happenings. The developing professional identity of respondents is another area examined providing an insight into how and why such professional development occurs. Findings include: that milestones volunteered were representative of critical episodes found in previous writing and that attitudinal changes revealed within the subsets of Apprentices and Graduates appeared to converge as the course progressed. Practitioners may facilitate critical incidents and so enhance their own professional development. Learners will be interested to know that discussions with respondents highlighted occasions that resulted in increased cognition, improved confidence and presented opportunities for networking leading to professional formation. For academics the research presents ways in which students learn using critical thinking, highlighting a continuum of critical happenings on which future research could be encouraged. While offering no strong claim to generalisability the taxonomy identifies areas for further examination, which could lead to generalisability in the future.
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Hibberd, R. E. "Evaluation of computer-based training for professional engineers." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2001. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11425.
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The purpose of this research was to develop a novel framework for the evaluation of
computer-based training (CBT) programmes used by employees of industrial
organisation. Whilst there is increasing demand for training within industrial
organisations, appropriate models for the evaluation of CBT programmes appeared to be
absent. The literature review indicated that there are many models of CBT programme
evaluation that can provide data about a programme’s effectiveness. However none of
these models addressed the contextual factors that could affect a programme’s operation
or effectiveness. These models would indicate to the designer of the CBT programme
whether or not a particular programme was effective but not why. This research aimed
to rectify this situation by producing a model of evaluation that would assist designers
of CBT programmes understand the influence of contextual factors on their designs. In
order to achieve this it was necessary to gain an understanding of the factors that would
affect the attainment of appropriate training outcomes. It was also necessary to
understand those variables that would influence the use of CBT programmes within
industrial organisations. The former objective was achieved through an analysis of the
existing literature on learning, the latter through investigation of the criteria used by
employees of industrial organisations to evaluate CBT programmes. In the case of this
research, 47 employees of 9 industrial organisations were asked to evaluate a specific
CBT programme. Evaluative verbal utterances about a CBT programme were elicited
from participants using a methodology that involved the use of concurrent verbal
protocols supplemented by a series of specific questions on particular design features of
the CBT programme. The research strategy that was adopted arose in response to a need
to minims the time demands placed on participants, all of whom were employees of
industrial organisations. The results of this analysis allowed the development of a
descriptive model that identified the contextual factors that affected the perceived
effectiveness of CBT programmes. Further models of evaluation were also produced. A
normative model that described the cognitive and motivational factors that were
believed to be present during the usage of different CBT programmes. The descriptive
and normative models were combined to provide a normative model for the evaluation
of CBT programmes used in industrial organisations. The limitations of this model and
the research methods employed are also discussed.
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Pohl, Reinhard. "The education of hydraulic engineers in the GDR." Technische Universität Dresden, 2010. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28548.
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More than 40 years the political, social, economic and technical development in the two German states went
different ways until 1990. This also applies to the education of civil engineers in the field of hydraulic engineering. The author undertakes the attempt to trace a picture of the related development in East Germany. During the GDR-period the Dresden University of Technology was the major place for university education of hydraulic engineers (GDR = German Democratic Republic).
This is why the development of the education in Dresden and its relations to the hydro practice will be mainly considered here. In this paper the facts, the problems and the achievements are told and discussed.Bis 1990 ging die politische, soziale, wirtschaftliche und technische Entwicklung in beiden deutschen Staaten mehr als 40 Jahre getrennte Wege. Das trifft auch für die Ausbildung von Wasserbauingenieuren zu. Die Autoren unternehmen den Versuch, das Bild der zugehörigen Entwicklung im Osten Deutschlands nachzuzeichnen. Sie konzentrieren sich dabei auf die Technische Universität Dresden als den Hauptstandort der damaligen universitären Wasserbauausbildung in der DDR. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden die Tatsachen, die Probleme und das Erreichte dargestellt und besprochen.
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Bornsen, Susan Edith. "Motivational and Adaptational Factors of Successful Women Engineers." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26555.
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It is no surprise that there is a shortage of women engineers. The reasons for the shortage have been researched and discussed in myriad papers, and suggestions for improvement continue to evolve. However, there are few studies that have specifically identified the positive aspects that attract women to engineering and keep them actively engaged in the field.
This paper examines how women engineers view their education, their work, and their motivation to remain in the field. A qualitative research design was used to understand the motivation and adaptability factors women use to support their decision to major in engineering and stay in the engineering profession. Women engineers were interviewed using broad questions about motivation and adaptability. Interviews were transcribed and coded, looking for common threads of factors that suggest not only why women engineers persist in the field, but also how they thrive. Findings focus on the experiences, insights, and meaning of women interviewed. A grounded theory approach was used to describe the success factors found in practicing women engineers.
The study found categories of attraction to the field, learning environment, motivation and adaptability. Sub-categories of motivation are intrinsic motivational factors such as the desire to make a difference, as well as extrinsic factors such as having an income that allows the kind of lifestyle that supports the family. Women engineers are comfortable with and enjoy working with male peers and when barriers arise, women learn to adapt in the male dominated field. Adaptability was indicated in areas of gender, culture, and communication. Women found strength in the ability to ?read? their clients, and provide insight to their teams.
Sufficient knowledge from the field advances theory and offers strategies to programs for administrators and faculty of schools of engineering as well as engineering firms, who have interest in recruitment, and retention of female students. Future research includes expanding the research to other areas of the United States, and improving engineering education pedagogy with more active and experiential learning.
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Bauder, Stephen M. "A competency requirements analysis for digital television engineers." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998bauders.pdf.
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Bakht, Agha Bedar. "Engineering Leadership Competencies for Entry-Level Civil Engineers." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6165.
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The general problem is that while technical engineering firms today require entry-level, full-time engineers to possess leadership skills, companies have failed to indicate which leadership competencies are most important in their recruitment and hiring process. This study's contributions could have implications for the long-term career prospects of engineers as well as the future outlook and sustainability of engineering companies. The specific problem is that various disciplines in the engineering profession, such as the construction sector, have yet to clearly define which leadership competencies are most important for the job market in their specific areas. Advancements in this regard are important for both entry-level engineers and engineering companies given the strong competition in local and international markets. The purpose of this qualitative study using a multiple case study design was to explore the views of managers in the construction industry on leadership competencies most needed in the job market for entry-level civil engineers. The study was framed by three concepts of engineering leadership. The research question was: How do the perceptions of managers in the construction industry establish a basis of leadership competencies most needed in the job market for entry-level civil engineers? Applying the knowledge gained from this inquiry has the potential for positive social impact by driving reforms in educational curricula and professional settings and with industry leaders to further the personal development of early-stage civil engineers, supporting their career success and the success of their companies.
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Davis, Millicent Amanda. "Decision Making of Environmental Engineers on Project Selection." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2808.
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Some environmental engineers do not understand how to perceive profitable opportunities in redeveloping the large number of contaminated brownfield sites in New Jersey. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to find effective decision-making strategies that help environmental engineers acquire profitable environmental redevelopment projects. The target population consisted of 4 environmental engineers in an environmental organization in Camden County, New Jersey who possessed proven decision-making strategies that helped them acquire profitable environmental redevelopment projects in the past 5 years. The conceptual framework for this study was the multiple criteria decision method (MCDM). Semistructured interviews were conducted with the engineers, and company documents were additional sources of data gathered. Triangulation and member checking were used to ensure the trustworthiness of interpretations. Five themes emerged from the analyses relating to strategies for an MCDM assessment in project management, a go/no-go assessment in project selections, education and training, ethics as an organizational value, and project management. These findings may lead to social change in Camden County, New Jersey community organizations, such as schools, daycare centers, and local businesses, which may benefit from the knowledge and safety recommendations of remediation decision making. Furthermore, these findings may provide opportunities for environment organizations to teach and train stakeholders on environmental processes while providing profitable opportunities to shareholders through sustainable practices.
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Matemba, Esther Elly. "Globalisation of Engineers: African Professional Engineering Education Perspectives." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82165.
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This thesis contributes an African engineering education perspective to the topic on developing global engineers. It poses the argument that the existing discourse is founded on the Global North perspective of engineering education, and that it does not speak from the actual situation that exists in most Africa countries. Using data from Tanzania, and applying Bourdieu's theory of practice, this research addresses the relevance of the existing discourse for developing global engineers in Africa.
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Franks, Oswald Schweitzer Wesley. "Utilization of mechanical engineering manpower in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8392.
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Includes bibliographical references.The South African economy is currently experiencing a slow growth rate as a result of amongst other things, a shortage of engineers and technicians. This study sets out to investigate the present utilization and shortage of mechanical engineers. It was felt that with a comprehensive knowledge of the utilization of mechanical engineers, industrialists would be better equipped to improve productivity by taking the necessary steps to ensure effective utilization of engineering manpower. The study gathered empirical data, by means of a survey, from seven hundred and sixty seven (767) respondents located throughout South Africa. The study established that the present utilization of mechanical engineers is about sixty (60) percent and that the most probable cause of the poor utilization is a lack of sufficient technical support staff for the engineer.
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Cosic, Prica Srdjan. "Video Games and Software Engineers : Designing a study based on the benefits from Video Games and how they can improve Software Engineers." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-15324.
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Context: This is a study about investigating if playing video games can improve any skills and characteristics in a software engineer. Due to lack of resources and time, this study will focus on designing a study that others may use to measure the results and if video games actually can improve software engineers. Objectives: The main objectives are finding the benefits of playing video games and how those benefits are discovered. Meaning what types of games and for how long someone needs to play in order to be affected and show improvements. Another objective is to find out what skills are requested and required in a software engineer. Then it is time to design the study based on the information gathered. Methods: There is a lot of literature studying involved. The method is parallel research which is when reading about the benefits of playing video games, then also reading and trying to find corresponding benefits in what is requested and required in software engineers. Results: There are many cognitive benefits from video games that are also beneficial in software engineers. There is no recorded limit to how long a study can go on playing video games that it proves to have negative consequences. That means that the study designed from the information gathered is very customizable and there are many results that can be measured. Conclusions: There is a very high chance that playing video games can result in better software engineers because the benefits that games provide are connected to skills requested and required by employers and other expert software engineers that have been in the business for a long time and have a high responsibilities over other teams of software engineers.