This book presents a comprehensive view of the safety in the workplace and the safety leadership factors and provides detail analysis of the OSHA regulations, safety training and technological aspects of safety in the workplace.

This book covers liquid pipeline hydraulics as it applies to transportation of liquids through pipelines in a single phase steady state environment. It will serve as a practical handbook for engineers, technicians and others involved in design and operation of pipelines transporting liquids. Currently, existing books on the subject are mathematically rigorous, theoretical and lack practical applications. Using this book, engineers can better understand and apply the principles of hydraulics to their daily work in the pipeline industry without resorting to complicated formulas and theorems. Numerous examples from the author’s real life experience are included to illustrate application of pipeline hydraulics.

This book covers liquid pipeline hydraulics as it applies to transportation of liquids through pipelines in a single phase steady state environment. It will serve as a practical handbook for engineers, technicians and others involved in design and operation of pipelines transporting liquids. Currently, existing books on the subject are mathematically rigorous, theoretical and lack practical applications. Using this book, engineers can better understand and apply the principles of hydraulics to their daily work in the pipeline industry without resorting to complicated formulas and theorems. Numerous examples from the author’s real life experience are included to illustrate application of pipeline hydraulics.

This book is concerned with the steady state hydraulics of natural gas and other compressible fluids being transported through pipelines. Our main approach is to determine the flow rate possible and compressor station horsepower required within the limitations of pipe strength, based on the pipe materials and grade. It addresses the scenarios where one or more compressors may be required depending on the gas flow rate and if discharge cooling is needed to limit the gas temperatures. The book is the result of over 38 years of the authors’ experience on pipelines in North and South America while working for major energy companies such as ARCO, El Paso Energy, etc.

This book is concerned with the steady state hydraulics of natural gas and other compressible fluids being transported through pipelines. Our main approach is to determine the flow rate possible and compressor station horsepower required within the limitations of pipe strength, based on the pipe materials and grade. It addresses the scenarios where one or more compressors may be required depending on the gas flow rate and if discharge cooling is needed to limit the gas temperatures. The book is the result of over 38 years of the authors’ experience on pipelines in North and South America while working for major energy companies such as ARCO, El Paso Energy, etc.

Software is driving most technology today, from PCs to mobile phones to thermostats. Software can evolve quickly, and that factor is driving an accelerating pace of change in technology. Software is also becoming more tightly connected to humans through advances in dealing with speech and human language, as well as being always available through mobile devices. As our connection to technology tightens, it drives rapid cultural evolution, in effect changing what it means to be human. Technological change driven by software also impacts our economy in basic ways, as computer technology drives more aspects of production, marketing, services, and sales. Software advances allow technology to do more tasks formerly requiring humans, creating efficiencies—productivity enhancements—that can grow the economy. On the other hand, the rapid changes are affecting the economy at a pace that is overcoming human abilities to adapt to the job opportunities available and companies’ ability to adapt to rapid market changes. We are seeing today the impact of that fundamental economic change in persistent unemployment and in stress on some major companies that have historically been solid performers. The Software Society digs into these fundamental trends of software’s impact on our culture and our economy. It explains the trend to use computer intelligence to enhance our human intelligence and discusses its potential and limitations. The book digs into the economic risk caused by automation moving faster than people’s ability to adapt to the change, and suggests solutions to address this danger.

Software is driving most technology today, from PCs to mobile phones to thermostats. Software can evolve quickly, and that factor is driving an accelerating pace of change in technology. Software is also becoming more tightly connected to humans through advances in dealing with speech and human language, as well as being always available through mobile devices. As our connection to technology tightens, it drives rapid cultural evolution, in effect changing what it means to be human. Technological change driven by software also impacts our economy in basic ways, as computer technology drives more aspects of production, marketing, services, and sales. Software advances allow technology to do more tasks formerly requiring humans, creating efficiencies—productivity enhancements—that can grow the economy. On the other hand, the rapid changes are affecting the economy at a pace that is overcoming human abilities to adapt to the job opportunities available and companies’ ability to adapt to rapid market changes. We are seeing today the impact of that fundamental economic change in persistent unemployment and in stress on some major companies that have historically been solid performers. The Software Society digs into these fundamental trends of software’s impact on our culture and our economy. It explains the trend to use computer intelligence to enhance our human intelligence and discusses its potential and limitations. The book digs into the economic risk caused by automation moving faster than people’s ability to adapt to the change, and suggests solutions to address this danger.

Software is driving most technology today, from PCs to mobile phones to thermostats. Software can evolve quickly, and that factor is driving an accelerating pace of change in technology. Software is also becoming more tightly connected to humans through advances in dealing with speech and human language, as well as being always available through mobile devices. As our connection to technology tightens, it drives rapid cultural evolution, in effect changing what it means to be human. Technological change driven by software also impacts our economy in basic ways, as computer technology drives more aspects of production, marketing, services, and sales. Software advances allow technology to do more tasks formerly requiring humans, creating efficiencies—productivity enhancements—that can grow the economy. On the other hand, the rapid changes are affecting the economy at a pace that is overcoming human abilities to adapt to the job opportunities available and companies’ ability to adapt to rapid market changes. We are seeing today the impact of that fundamental economic change in persistent unemployment and in stress on some major companies that have historically been solid performers. The Software Society digs into these fundamental trends of software’s impact on our culture and our economy. It explains the trend to use computer intelligence to enhance our human intelligence and discusses its potential and limitations. The book digs into the economic risk caused by automation moving faster than people’s ability to adapt to the change, and suggests solutions to address this danger.

Revitalizing Nigerian Education in Digital Age: What most of the papers in this book have in common is the concern for the revitalization of Nigerian education in the digital age through ICT and other modern methods of making education functional and effective in the new modernity. While some of the chapters deal with conceptual issues, others consider the various role of education in this digital age and how Nigeria can be relevant. Most of the chapters present well-researched, detailed, and informative papers on how to reposition Nigerian education in the digital age. Specifically, the role of education in bringing Nigeria’s new world about are discussed in simple language and then taken up in different forms all through the book. Since Nigeria has to act fast and decisively to be on the same development and education wavelength as the other members of today’s global family, serious actions are being suggested in this book. Revitalizing Nigerian Education in Digital Age simply means taking the above desiderata seriously. Nigeria has a daunting task here in view of the heavy education burden. This is the message that this book puts across.

Detective Dan Brandon is the special investigator who only takes cases that involve a Techno-Crime. He receives an early morning call from the CEO of Gladstone Electronics, Harold Remkin. The young genius responsible for the development of a special prototype, laptop super-computer was missing along with the laptop.

Brandon conceded that it was a Techno-Crime but Remkin wanted him to proceed without the help of the police.The CEO feared that his competitors might find Bob Clauson and the laptop before he did.The Lab Director said he would not be able to put the prototype into production without Clauson.

When Brandon agreed to take the case he understood all of the implications, including that it would not be a job he could quit.

The quality of a data warehouse (DWH) is the elusive aspect of it, not because it is hard to achieve [once we agree what it is], but because it is difficult to describe. We propose the notion that quality is not an attribute or a feature that a product has to possess, but rather a relationship between that product and each and every stakeholder. More specifically, the relationship between the software quality and the organization that produces the products is explored. Quality of data that populates the DWH is the main concern of the book, therefore we propose a definition for data quality as: “fitness to serve each and every purpose”. Methods are proposed throughout the book to help readers achieve data warehouse quality.

Smarten Up is a guide for communities who need to understand how to take advantage of the new online economy. It provides the reader with a clearer understanding of telecommunication infrastructure, online applications, strategies for implementation, and the regulatory environment. It is a guide written in easy to understand terminology for new leaders of telecommunication or networking projects, municipal councils, stakeholders in the education and healthcare fields, economic development practitioners, libraries, social service organizations, or students of community development strategic planning. Smarten Up explains how communities can create partnerships between public and private sector organizations to improve local or regional telecommunication infrastructure, develop new online applications that can improve quality of life and create synergy between organizations, and develop a business plan for creating a smart community.

Successful engineering design requires a strong understanding of fundamental concepts in the basic sciences and engineering combined with mathematics. This text provides an introduction to the design tools used in engineering design. It focuses on the first two steps of the design process: determination of need/problem clarification and conceptualization.

In addition, an overview of materials and manufacturing methods is presented. The use of Excel has been incorporated throughout the text for performing routine calculations, leaving more time for the creative aspects of the design process. Finally, the text contains an extensive discussion of systematic concept generation using the theory of inventive problem solving, TRIZ.

Below is a listing of the book's table of contents:

1. Engineering Design
1.1 Design
1.2 Engineering Design
1.3 Process Design
1.4 Overview of the Engineering Design Process
1.5 Design Reviews

PART I ENGINEERING DESIGN AIDS

2. Management of the Design Process
2.1 Introduction to Project Management
2.2 Planning and Scheduling (includes discussion of work breakdown structures, design structure matrix, activity networks and Gantt charts). Provides an automated MS Excel-based project management workbook that incorporates all these tools).
2.2 Directing

3. Collaborative Design
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Conceptual Understanding of Teams and Team Development
3.3 Challenges: Conflict Management, Performance and Motivation
3.4 Communication
3.5 Potential Factors Impacting Team Performance

4. Engineering Communication: Reports and Oral Presentations
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Formal Engineering Report
4.3 Plagiarism
4.4 Report Formats
4.5 Oral Presentations
4.6 Poster Presentations

5. Engineering Communication: Illustration and Solid Modeling
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Introduction to Digital Media
5.3 Technical Sketching and Solid Modeling
5.4 Working Drawings
5.5 Computer Generated Sketches for Documentation

6. Decision Making
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Rank Order: Pairwise Comparison Charts
6.3 Relative Order: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
6.4 Relative Order: Decision Matrices

PART II THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS

7. Problem Definition and Determination of Need
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Problem Definition
7.3 Determination of Customer/Client Needs
7.4 Revised Problem Statement

8. Conceptualization I: External Search
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Patents and Patent Searches
8.3 Benchmarking
8.4 Product Dissection
8.5 Biomimicry

9. Conceptualization II: Internal Search and Concept Selection
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Internal Search (Includes discussion on concept generation methods such as brain storming and its variations, Delphi method, synetics, checklists, scamper and morphological charts).
9.3 Concept Selection (Use of Pugh charts and decision matrices)

10. Systematic Innovation with TRIZ
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Simplified Steps for Application of TRIZ tools
10.3 Analyzing the System and its Resources
10.4 The Ideal Final Result
10.5 The 40 Design Principles
10.6 Technical Contradictions and the Contradiction Matrix
10.7 Physical Contradictions

PART III Overview of Materials and Manufacturing

11. Materials and Material Selection
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Materials and Material Selection
11.3 Mechanical Properties of Materials: Stress-Strain
11.4 Typical Mechanical Properties for Material Selection
11.5 Typical Thermal Properties for Material Selection
11.6 Typical Electrical Properties for Material Selection
11.7 Typical Manufacturing Properties for Material Selection
11.8 General Material Categories
11.9 Properties of Common Metals
11.10 Overview of Polymers
11.11 Properties of Common Polymers
11.12 Steps in Material Selection

12. Physical Models and Prototypes
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Rapid Prototyping - An Overview
12.3 Machining
12.4 An Overview of Fastening Methods

13. Commercial Manufacturing Processes
13.1 Manufacturing Processes for Metals - An Overview
13.2 Manufacturing Process for Plastics - An Overview

PART IV GENERAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

14. Green Design
14.1 Introduction: What is Green Design
14.2 Ecological Principles
14.3 Sustainability Metric - Ecological Footprint
14.4 Life Cycle Assessment

15. Engineering Ethics
15.1 What is Engineering Ethics?
15.2 Professional Societies and Codes of Ethics
15.3 Stimulating Moral Imagination
15.4 Recognizing Ethical Issues
15.5 Developing Analytical Skills
15.6 Eliciting a Sense of Responsibility
15.7 Tolerating Disagreement and Ambiguity

PART V APPENDICES

A Creation of Project Management Workbooks in Excel
B Adobe Illustrator 10 Tutorial
C TRIZ: Contradiction Matrices
D NSPE: Codes of Ethics for Engineers
E Component Tables
F Common Unit Conversions

Glossary

Faculty interested in receiving an evaluation copy of the book for course adoption should contact the first author using the address below

Dr. Madara Ogot
Engineering Design Program
213 Hammond Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

madaraogot@psu.edu

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THE CHALLENGE: Invent a town to solve all suburban problems, meet challenges like Jane Jacobs described; plus comprehensively solve all livability, environmental, and affordability issues. Impossible? IN THIS BOOK: Key historical influences are reviewed with fresh perspectives on current ideas. Entirely new town and home designs are presented.

Permanent infrastructure systems, long-term, can save 50% of home cost and add livability. Three-dimensional home site arrangements save costs and offer more privacy, freedom, and flexibility than in suburbia; neighborly potentials are enhanced. While at same as suburban densities, 70% of the same amount of land becomes an integral open space and farming system.

The Home Site, Near and Extended Neighborhood with Main Street act as a visual and functional unit for all life's moments, and are designed primarily for each individual's satisfaction.

This book describes the entirely new format necessary for a town to meet all these objectives.

A Town Primarily for People Enhances Everyone's Best Objectives:
- maintains rural country setting.
- cars are not seen from people places.
- distinctive urban advantages and atmosphere.
- convenience makes transit self-supporting.
- permanent infrastructure lowers cost.
- surrounded by an integral farming system.
- comprehensive sustainability for centuries.

Each Home Site:
- has an ideal location.
- is a convenient walk to everything.
- is in a cluster of homes around a play area.
- front overlooks Main Street activities.
- porch is a ringside seat of town and cluster.
- enjoys a safe neighborly surrounding.
- increases affordability in many ways.
- easily changed to meet budget and needs.
- has a totally private interior and back yard.
- back views hundreds of acres of open country.

WHY INVENT A NEW TOWN CONCEPT? Few towns, if any, have been primarily for people. Town plans based on cars make cars necessary. There is no incentive for high quality long-term investment in towns with short-term 25 to 50 year plans, with no truly long-term comprehensive strategy.

Current concepts, even if six-story, cannot solve all the problems. In the long-term, they will never solve the basic conflicts between housing eventually needing more land, the environmentalist, landowners, and developers. Everyone's trapped; the concept is the problem. As centuries pass, affordability, livability, and sustainability will be more difficult.

General Plans that dictate existing design solutions or are based on cars stifle any truly new ideas. To solve current and future challenges comprehensively requires entirely new concepts, a different paradigm. With insight from the past and today's technology, for the first time in modern history we can design human habitats to function as an integral part of the surrounding natural environment. This new-concept town approaches the efficiency and natural balance common in homes built by many other less intelligent life forms.

This new concept is functionally, structurally and financially feasible today. www.sprawlsolutions.com

    The Blankenhorn Effect explains how Moore's Law, a challenge laid down in 1965, has been applied to all the technology we touch.
    Not only have silicon engineers met Gordon Moore's 1965 challenge, so that today billions of circuits dance on slivers no bigger than a fingernail, but so have those working with magnetic memory, with optical memory, with optical storage, and even with radio to create today's Internet.
    Here you can learn why copper networks are obsolete, see why Enron and Worldcom self-destructed, and meet the Hollywood starlet who created digital radio.
    In just a few hours, The Blankenhorn Effect will turn you from a technology novice into a knowing member of the digerati, able to understand how Moore's Law is changing your work, your industry, and your children's future.
    You'll also gain a new perspective on the future. You'll learn about exciting new frontiers of technology and get a list of detailed Web addresses you can use for your own flight to the future.
    You are not a Dummie. But if you don't understand Moore's Law you've been made to feel like one. Now, with the Blankenhorn Effect, you can take your place confidently in the 21st century.