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Engineering design, planning, and management /
Description: Covering engineering design methodology with an interdisciplinary approach, Engineering Design, Planning, and Management studies the different approaches to project management and creative design. Useful design techniques like concept mapping and weighted decision matrices are introduce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Academic Press,
�2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Engineering Design, Planning, and Management; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Ancillaries; Acknowledgments; 1 An Overview of Design Projects; Introduction; 1.1 Projects and design; 1.1.1 Needs identification and specifications; 1.1.2 Concept generation and embodiment design; 1.1.3 Detailed design; 1.1.4 Building and testing; 1.1.5 Project closure; 1.2 Project planning and management; 1.2.1 Project problems and disasters; 1.3 Businesses; 1.4 Decision making; Further reading; 2 Needs Identification and Specifications; Introduction; 2.1 Needs; 2.1.1 Research
- 2.1.2 Benchmarking and surveys2.1.3 Market-driven design; 2.1.4 Patents; 2.2 Specifications; 2.3 Quality functional deployment; Further reading; 3 Design Concepts and Embodiments; Introduction; 3.1 Concepts; 3.1.1 Specifications to concepts; 3.1.2 Representing concepts; 3.1.3 Identifying concepts; 3.2 Concept generation; 3.2.1 Prototyping; 3.2.2 Brainstorming; 3.2.3 Morphological matrix methods; 3.2.4 Free thinking; 3.2.5 Deconstruction; 3.2.6 TRIZ; 3.3 Concept selection; 3.3.1 Decision matrices; 3.4 Embodiment designs; 3.5 Intellectual property; References; Further reading
- 4 People and TeamsIntroduction; 4.1 Individuals; 4.1.1 Personal growth; 4.1.2 Learning; 4.1.3 Attention and focus; 4.2 Organizations; 4.2.1 Motivation; 4.2.2 Politics; 4.2.3 Loyalty and trust; 4.2.4 Responsibility and authority; 4.3 Managing individuals in organizations; 4.3.1 Leadership habits; 4.3.2 Delegation; 4.3.3 Making inclusive decisions; 4.3.4 Wellness and productivity; 4.3.5 Conflicts and intervention; 4.3.6 Hiring and promotion; 4.4 Teams; 4.4.1 Skills matrix; 4.4.2 Profiling; 4.4.3 Personality matching; 4.4.4 Managing teams; 4.5 Professionalism; 4.5.1 Time management
- 4.5.2 Being organized4.5.3 Ethics; 4.5.4 Diversity; 4.5.5 Entrepreneurship; 4.5.6 A professional image; References; Further reading; 5 Decision Making; Introduction; 5.1 Critical thinking; 5.1.1 Critical analysis; 5.1.2 Selecting between alternatives; 5.1.3 Triage; 5.1.4 Project decisions; 5.1.5 Solving formal problems; 5.2 Risk; 5.2.1 Market; 5.2.2 Technical; 5.2.3 Procurement and purchasing; 5.2.4 Cost and schedule; 5.2.5 Staffing and management; 5.2.6 Organization; 5.2.7 External; 5.3 Risk analysis; 5.3.1 Design alternatives; 5.3.2 Risk reduction with design alternatives
- 5.4 Business strategy5.4.1 Assessment and planning; Further reading; 6 Planning and Managing Projects; Introduction; 6.1 Chunking the project; 6.2 Task identification; 6.2.1 Work breakdown structure (WBS); 6.2.2 Resources and people; 6.3 Schedule synthesis and analysis; 6.3.1 Critical path method (CPM); 6.3.2 Program evaluation and review technique (PERT); 6.4 Plan review and documentation; 6.5 Project tracking and control; 6.6 Assessment; Further reading; 7 Finance, Budgets, Purchasing, and Bidding; Introduction; 7.1 Corporate finance; 7.1.1 Accounting; 7.1.2 Value