Engineering A Life

Author : Krishan K. Bedi
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781943006427

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Engineering a Life by Krishan K. Bedi Pdf

Included on BookBub’s "The Most Exciting Memoirs Coming Out in 2018” list Krishan Bedi came to the United States in December of 1961 at the tender age of twenty. He had only $300 in his pocket, and he had made it out of his small village in India on sheer faith, determined to get education in the US. For him, there was no option but to succeed—so he began his new life in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he had to adapt to the culture shock not only of being in the US but a Punjabi man in the South in the 1960s. Engineering a Life is an examination of Bedi’s life, and how he has handled the plethora of curve balls thrown his way with determination, humor, and an unwavering faith that everything would work out. This is a book about values and faith and the importance of friendship, family, and hard work. It’s a story about achieving the American Dream, proving that no matter how thoroughly you map out your life’s journey, no matter how many blueprints you draw up, when you veer off the course you’ve plotted—as we all do, somehow, in the end—you end up where you’re supposed to be.

Author : Saeed Benjamin Niku
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781627058599

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Engineering Principles in Everyday Life for Non-Engineers by Saeed Benjamin Niku Pdf

This book is about the role of some engineering principles in our everyday lives. Engineers study these principles and use them in the design and analysis of the products and systems with which they work. The same principles play basic and influential roles in our everyday lives as well. Whether the concept of entropy, the moments of inertia, the natural frequency, the Coriolis acceleration, or the electromotive force, the roles and effects of these phenomena are the same in a system designed by an engineer or created by nature. This shows that learning about these engineering concepts helps us to understand why certain things happen or behave the way they do, and that these concepts are not strange phenomena invented by individuals only for their own use, rather, they are part of our everyday physical and natural world, but are used to our benefit by the engineers and scientists. Learning about these principles might also help attract more and more qualified and interested high school and college students to the engineering fields. Each chapter of this book explains one of these principles through examples, discussions, and at times, simple equations.

Author : Christopher E. Mason
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262543842

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The Next 500 Years by Christopher E. Mason Pdf

An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds. As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

Author : Hubert Osterle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030314828

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Life Engineering by Hubert Osterle Pdf

Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our lives. Internet traffic and sensors in households, cars, and wearables provide data that oligopolistic companies collect and use to extract patterns of human behavior. Further, active digital assistants are taking over more and more of our everyday decisions. Humanity is on the verge of an evolutionary leap and it is time to determine if this development will benefit people’s wellbeing or will just mean the accumulation of capital and power with no regard for quality of life. This book integrates the perspectives of various disciplines that are striving to establish resilient foundations – computer science, economics and social sciences, political science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics and religion – in order to clarify a number of positions and, as a result, objectify the discussions. Written by Hubert Osterle, a researcher working at the interface of these disciplines, the book promotes debate on the future of man and machine, on happiness and evolution and on the major changes brought about by digital technology. Last but not least, it is a manifesto calling for a new – integrated – discipline to be founded: life engineering. „If you want to think more deeply about what machine intelligence (aka AI) really means for humanity, you should read this book. Hubert Oesterle takes an amazingly broad and multi-disciplinary look at all relevant aspects, from the roots of human behavior to the impact advanced digital assistants might have on our daily lives (and who will control these assistants). Highly recommended!” Andreas Goeldi, Partner at btov Partners

Author : Mark Denny,Alan McFadzean
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674060852

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Engineering Animals by Mark Denny,Alan McFadzean Pdf

The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.

Author : Manel Baucells,Rakesh Sarin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520951426

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Engineering Happiness by Manel Baucells,Rakesh Sarin Pdf

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences—including management science, psychology, and economics—they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world’s religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone—regardless of background, profession, or aspiration—who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life. • Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive • Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice • Explores how to avoid happiness traps • Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

Author : Chad D. Carpenter
Publisher : Chad Carpenter
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781501073847

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Engineering - U by Chad D. Carpenter Pdf

Are you considering becoming an engineer? Do you know someone who could be? This a great book for them to learn what they are getting into. Engineering offers a life full of fun, excitement, and job satisfaction. However, getting through all the difficult technical courses, dealing with professors who don't know how to talk on a student's level, and the normal hoops of college life can make the path to becoming an engineer quite challenging. I hope to provide readers with an insight to what to expect as an engineering student. Readers can also expect a few tricks of the trade to help them not only survive, but help them thrive as an engineering student. There are hordes of books for students that strive to be medical doctors or lawyers, but there is a lack of literature for the student who wants to become an engineer. This book fills that void.

Author : José Augusto de Oliveira,Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva,Fabio Neves Puglieri,Yovana María Barrera Saavedra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030780449

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Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Products by José Augusto de Oliveira,Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva,Fabio Neves Puglieri,Yovana María Barrera Saavedra Pdf

This book presents the role of life cycle engineering and life cycle management of products and services and their contributions to corporate environmental sustainability and the circular economy. It addresses the main techniques, tools, systems and practices for improving the environmental performance of business products and services throughout their life cycles. The book covers the main topics and concepts related to life cycle engineering and life cycle management applied to the business context. It presents the themes through basic and in-depth theories. In addition, all chapters provide examples of real and hypothetical case studies for discussion and assimilation of theoretical content and its contextualization in the real and practical business scenario. The chapters are complemented by quantitative exercises.

Author : Arturo Molina,José M. Sánchez,Andrew Kusiak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780412812507

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Handbook of Life Cycle Engineering by Arturo Molina,José M. Sánchez,Andrew Kusiak Pdf

This handbook focuses on a series of concepts, models and technologies which can be used to improve current practice in life cycle engineering in manufacturing companies around the world. Experts on the main issues relating to life cycle engineering have produced a superb collection of chapters. All the contributing authors are researchers and engineers in the fields of manufacturing paradigms, enterprise integration, product life cycle and technologies for life cycle engineering. Academics and researchers will find this book to be a valuable reference tool. The book illustrates those key factors that ensure successful enterprise and product life cycle integration. Due to the book being developed as a joint industry and university project, its approach should be helpful to both practising professionals and academics. An overview of life cycle engineering concepts, models, methodologies and practices that have been proved to significantly improve the integration and productivity of manufacturing companies have been clearly explained in this handbook. This book will be essential for engineers, designers, product support personnel dealing with enterprise engineering projects. It will also be of immense use to lecturers and senior lecturers working in the fields of enterprise integration, product development, concurrent engineering and integrated manufacturing systems.

Author : Jacqueline A. Stagner,David S. K. Ting
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781793625021

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Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow by Jacqueline A. Stagner,David S. K. Ting Pdf

Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship, and the management of energy-intensive facilities.

Author : Rodney L. Custer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Bioengineering
ISBN : 168140477X

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Engineering in the Life Sciences, 9-12 by Rodney L. Custer Pdf

Author : Richard L. Meehan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262630893

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Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life by Richard L. Meehan Pdf

Meehan's anecdotal essays on his education, socialization, and professional experiences as a geotechnical engineer should be illuminating to people who think of engineers as a dull lot and engineering as a dehumanized profession.

Author : Guang Yang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471715290

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Life Cycle Reliability Engineering by Guang Yang Pdf

As the Lead Reliability Engineer for Ford Motor Company, Guangbin Yang is involved with all aspects of the design and production of complex automotive systems. Focusing on real-world problems and solutions, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering covers the gamut of the techniques used for reliability assurance throughout a product's life cycle. Yang pulls real-world examples from his work and other industries to explain the methods of robust design (designing reliability into a product or system ahead of time), statistical and real product testing, software testing, and ultimately verification and warranting of the final product's reliability

Author : Luis A. Campos,Michael R. Dietrich,Tiago Saraiva,Christian C. Young
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226783574

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Nature Remade by Luis A. Campos,Michael R. Dietrich,Tiago Saraiva,Christian C. Young Pdf

“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the long twentieth century. These essays span the many levels at which life has been engineered: molecule, cell, organism, population, ecosystem, and planet. From the cloning of agricultural crops and the artificial feeding of silkworms to biomimicry, genetic engineering, and terraforming, Nature Remade affirms the centrality of engineering in its various forms for understanding and imagining modern life. Organized around three themes—control and reproduction, knowing as making, and envisioning—the chapters in Nature Remade chart different means, scales, and consequences of intervening and reimagining nature.

Author : Slobodan Kalajdziski,Nevena Ackovska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030008253

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ICT Innovations 2018. Engineering and Life Sciences by Slobodan Kalajdziski,Nevena Ackovska Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International ICT Innovations Conference, ICT Innovations 2018, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2018. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. They cover the following topics:sensor applications and deployments, embedded and cyber-physical systems, robotics, network architectures, cloud computing, software infrastructure, software creation and management, models of computation, computational complexity and cryptography, design and analysis of algorithms, mathematical optimization, probability and statistics, data management systems, data mining, human computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence, machine learning, life and medical sciences, health care information systems, bioinformatics.