scholarly journals Forging New Frontiers

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Diana Granitto
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Contamination Control ◽  
The Past ◽  
Space Age

By 1958, the nascent environmental engineering profession had moved from wartime activities into the space age, and this journal began documenting the evolution of an industry. Over the past five decades and under as many titles, the Journal has witnessed advances into contamination control, ecological sciences, and nanotechnology, to name a few.

Prestige versus Practicality—A Dilemma for the Engineering Profession

1985 ◽  
Vol 199 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
K McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training

British engineers have claimed that their important contributions to economic and social well-being, based on their achievements as practical people, have gone unrecognized or unrewarded. Yet over the past thirty years efforts to boost the social prestige of British engineers appear to have undermined the social arrangements which fostered the strong practical ethos. Increasing reliance on the full-time educational system is tending to raise social prestige through bringing the ‘all graduate profession’ and through trends to recruitment from higher social backgrounds. Yet these trends have been associated with a fall in traditional and recognizable training. This paper examines both the nature of the ‘practical’ tradition and efforts to raise ‘prestige’ and asks whether the engineering profession is caught on the horns of an irresolvable dilemma—to boost either prestige or practicality. The paper concludes that in principle the British pattern of education and training has much to commend it still, with the strong emphasis on training elements in a working environment. But it is argued that its success will depend on engineers and their employers becoming much more active in the field of training.

scholarly journals Environmental technology education in Portugal: analysis and perspectives

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.G. Brito ◽  
L.F. Melo ◽  
F. Santana
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Environmental Technology

The scope of the present communication is the current status of environmental engineering in Portugal. The different approaches concerning the environmental engineering courses available at undergraduate levels as well as some post-graduation studies are described. Furthermore, an analysis based on strengths, weakness, opportunities and trend issues regarding the environmental engineering profession in Portugal is presented.

scholarly journals Exploring the Odds: Gender Differences in Departing the Engineering Profession

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-461
Author(s):  
Nadya A. Fouad ◽  
Michael B. Kozlowski ◽  
Romila Singh ◽  
Nina G. Linneman ◽  
Samantha S. Schams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The Past ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Theory Of Work Adjustment ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Categorical Response ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Women’s departure or nonentrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions, particularly engineering, has been a lively source of scholarly inquiry for the past three decades. Much of the literature in this area has been with solely female samples of participants, begging the question as to whether or not men and women either choose to leave the profession or not enter for the same or similar reasons. This present study collected a large sample of men ( n = 1,273) who had either left or never entered the engineering profession and compared their responses to a large sample of women ( n = 1,235) on a set of categorical response variables. Using the perspective of the Theory of Work Adjustment, our results suggest that there are gender differences in reasons for departure, raising the possibility that engineering climates differentially reinforce needs for men and women. Implications of this research are discussed.

Analysis of dam response for foundation fault rupture

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Lelio Mejia ◽  
Ethan Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Case History ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Fault Rupture ◽  
Seismic Evaluation ◽  
Embankment Dams ◽  
The Past ◽  
Limited Experience

Considerable knowledge and experience has been developed over the past 40 years in the engineering profession regarding the seismic performance and analysis of dams for earthquake shaking. However, comparatively limited experience is available regarding the evaluation of dams for the effects of foundation fault rupture during earthquakes. This paper examines the factors to be considered in the evaluation of embankment dams for foundation faulting, and illustrates the analysis of dam response under foundation faulting by means of a case history, the seismic evaluation of Aviemore Dam.

Strategic Weapons and Chinese Power: The Formative Years

1987 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 541-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wilson Lewis ◽  
Xue Litai
Keyword(s):  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
The Past ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Space Age ◽  
Formative Years

China entered the nuclear and space age as a result of a crusade that began almost as soon as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had completed the conquest of the mainland. In this article we will comment on some aspects of the entire nuclear programme over the past 30 years as it has affected the strategic role of the PLA.1

scholarly journals LES Analysis of Urban Environment- Progress in the field of building environmental engineering over the past 20 years -

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-425
Author(s):  
Akashi MOCHIDA ◽  
Yoshihide TOMINAGA ◽  
Yasuyuki ISHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Professional English Communication for Engineers in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Santosh Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Modern Context

This article is focused on the nature, needs and problems of the professional communications of the engineers in Nepal. It includes a number of significant aspects of the engineering professional communication with the use of English language. The study is an outcome of a survey of several aspects of the engineering profession, study of several relevant literature and the contact to a number of experts associated with the field of professional communication. The researchers in the field of professional communication require being more and more specific according to the changing specific needs of the professionals in the modern context today. It is necessary to pinpoint the nature of engineering professional skills, in order to save the time and other resources, if they are not properly utilized to achieve the set goals. The researchers in the past along with the students over here, are aware of the necessity of making more and more researches in the field of professional communication of the engineers in order to minimize the communicative problems of the engineers on one hand and to show a proper and adequate specific path in the areas of teaching and learning the specific skills of communication on the other. The sole purpose of the present research article is to indicate a number of measures to be applied to better the communicative situations of the engineers both during their study and at work. Hence a number of tentative suggestions and recommendations have been drawn following the conclusion of the article.Journal of Advanced Academic Research Vol. 3, No. 2, 2016, page: 14-21

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