Industrial Engineering

Conquer the Industrial Engineering Field: Your Guide to a Career as an Industrial Engineering Technologist and Technician Helping Engineers Solve Problems Affecting Manufacturing Layout or Production is an essential resource for those aspiring to work in industrial engineering technology. This guide delves into the versatile role of technologists and technicians who collaborate with engineers to optimize workflows, enhance production efficiency, and ensure product quality. The book provides a comprehensive overview of industrial engineering concepts, from conducting time and motion studies ...

Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.

The ultimate hands-on guide to modern HVAC design — packed with real-world examples, diagrams, and step-by-step workflows. Whether you’re an engineering student, HVAC designer, or field technician, this book walks you through how to design, size, and layout complete heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems using practical, example-based methods. Each chapter presents realistic system designs drawn from actual engineering practice — including small offices, retail stores, residential buildings, warehouses, schools, and industrial facilities. You’ll learn not just how to ...

Want to create more meaning, growth, impact, and joy in your engineering or technical career? Want to get clarity on the next steps in your career path? Wish you could better align your career and life…while getting paid more and utilizing your greatest strengths? The key is to live your life with greater intentionality, which is what the book, The Intentional Engineer: A Guide to a Purpose-Driven Life and Career For Engineers and Technical Professionals, is all about.

Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of the space industry, allowing everyone to understand the role space plays in our lives and how it will continue to transform the world. Over 100 industry experts and leaders share insights, presenting a 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, and benefits.

Unlock the power of automation with SCADA and PLCs, your essential guide to mastering industrial control systems. Whether you're an engineering student, technician, or automation professional, this book offers a clear, hands-on understanding of the technologies that power modern industry.What You’ll Learn: The fundamentals of industrial automation and control logic How PLCs are programmed using Ladder Logic, Function Blocks, and more Architecture and design of SCADA systems, HMIs, and data acquisition Communication protocols such as Modbus, Profinet, OPC UA, and MQTT Real-world examples ...

Industrial/organizational psychologists are employed in organizations all over the world. They use principles and practices from their field to conduct the research required to improve workforces in terms of attitude and productivity. Their goal is to help employees find motivation and job satisfaction as their organizations grow, change, and evolve. This book focuses on the basic skills, knowledge, methodology, responsibilities, and benefits of I/O psychologists. It also examines their future potential as the field continues to grow and expand. The text is informational and educational, ...

Drawing from his own experiences, Grammy-awarded mix engineer Thomas Juth shares practical advice and firsthand insights on navigating the music industry. From building a successful career to fostering key relationships, overcoming obstacles, and seizing opportunities, this book is a comprehensive guide for aspiring musicians and industry professionals alike. Through stories and real-life lessons, Thomas shares his journey from starting as a tea boy in London's top studios to winning Latin Grammys. But this isn’t just a memoir—it's packed with timeless advice and valuable strategies to ...

Practical Data & AI for Engineers Applied Machine Learning, Data Pipelines, and AI Integration in Engineering Projects In today’s engineering world, data and artificial intelligence are no longer optional — they are essential. Practical Data & AI for Engineers bridges the gap between traditional engineering practice and the new era of intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and digital twins. This hands-on guide provides a real-world, engineering-focused introduction to applied machine learning, data management, and AI-driven solutions. It shows how engineers across disciplines ...

In 2018, the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the preexisting moral consensus, which had held for over 50 years before: While gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line. John H. Evans here provides a meta-level guide to how these debates move forward and their significance to society.

In The Origins of Efficiency, Brian Potter argues that improving production efficiency—finding ways to produce goods and services in less time, with less labor, using fewer resources—is the force behind some of the biggest and most consequential changes in human history.

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in 30 seconds - from first cut to final stitch.

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives - from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture.

WHEN THE SYSTEM BREAKS, WHAT DO YOU DO? You're in the middle of a meltdown. The platform is down, the phones are ringing, the headlines are brutal, and your team is looking to you for answers. The usual playbooks—careful planning, expert consultation, bold strategy—aren’t working. In fact...

Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes.

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes.

2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions: Why did the captain choose to sail into the hurricane? Why did no one on board or on shore stop him? And why was such an old and heavily loaded ship even allowed on the water? The crew of the SS El Faro is gone, but their haunting final hours were preserved by the ship’s black box.

Table of Content with Page Numbering Introduction. 2 1 Introduction to the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Industry. 3 1.1 What is EPC?. 3 1.2 History and Development of the EPC Industry. 4 1.3 Importance of EPC in Various Sectors. 5 2 Key Components of EPC. 6 2.1 Engineering.. 6 2.2 Procurement. 7 2.3 Construction. 8 3 The EPC Project Lifecycle. 9 3.1 Project Initiation. 9 3.2 Planning and Design. 10 3.3 Execution and Monitoring.. 12 3.4 Project Completion and Handover. 13 4 Roles and Responsibilities in EPC. 14 4.1 EPC Contractors. 14 4.2 Subcontractors. 15 4.3 Clients ...

Promising treatments now in more than 35,000 clinical trials could have dramatic impacts on cancer, autoimmune diseases, organ replacement, heart disease, and even aging itself. These treatments, which are saving the lives of patients in the trials, will soon be rolled to the medical community at large. The key to these breakthroughs is the use of living cells as medicine instead of traditional drugs. Research has found that our bodies are virtual treasure troves of adult cells that act as agents of remarkable healing and repair.

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment". Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a paternalistic medical regime in which "the doctor knows best."