By bringing together leading industrial and organisational psychologists, this book helps explore the relationship between the theory of industrial and organizational psychology and the principles applied in 'real' organizations.

Showcasing exemplars of how various aspects of design research were successfully transitioned into and influenced, design practice, this book features chapters written by eminent international researchers and practitioners from industry on the Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice. Chapters written by internationally acclaimed researchers of design analyse the findings (guidelines, methods and tools), technologies/products and educational approaches that have been transferred as tools, technologies and people to transform industrial practice of engineering design, whilst the chapters that are written by industrial practitioners describe their experience of how various tools, technologies and training impacted design practice. The main benefit of this book, for educators, researchers and practitioners in (engineering) design, will be access to a comprehensive coverage of case studies of successful transfer of outcomes of design research into practice; as well as guidelines and platforms for successful transfer of research into practice.

Examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.

The four-volume set LNCS 11244, 11245, 11246, and 11247 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October/November 2018. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Each volume focusses on an individual topic with topical section headings within the volume: Part I, Modeling: Towards a unified view of modeling and programming; X-by-construction, STRESS 2018. Part II, Verification: A broader view on verification: from static to runtime and back; evaluating tools for software verification; statistical model checking; RERS 2018; doctoral symposium. Part III, Distributed Systems: rigorous engineering of collective adaptive systems; verification and validation of distributed systems; and cyber-physical systems engineering. Part IV, Industrial Practice: runtime verification from the theory to the industry practice; formal methods in industrial practice - bridging the gap; reliable smart contracts: state-of-the-art, applications, challenges and future directions; and industrial day.

This book details the foundations, new developments and methods, applications, and current challenges of systems engineering (SE). It provides key insights into SE as a concept and as an approach based on the holistic view on the entire lifecycle (requirements, design, production, and exploitation) of complex engineering systems, such as spacecraft, aircraft, power plants, and ships. Written by leading international experts, the book describes the achievements of the holistic, transdisciplinary approach of SE as state of the art both in research and practice using case study examples from originating at universities and companies such as Airbus, BAE Systems, BMW, Boeing, and COMAC. The reader obtains a comprehensive insight into the still existing challenges of the concept of SE today and the various forms in which SE is applied in a variety of areas.

This book presents a comprehensive review of currently available Control Performance Assessment methods. It covers a broad range of classical and modern methods, with a main focus on assessment practice, and is intended to help practitioners learn and properly perform control assessment in the industrial reality. Further, it offers an educational guide for control engineers, who are currently in high demand in the industry. The book consists of three main parts. Firstly, a comprehensive review of available approaches is presented and discussed. The classical canon methods are extended with a discussion of nonlinear and complex alternative measures using non-Gaussian statistics, persistence and fractional calculations. Secondly, the methods’ applicability aspects are visualized with the aid of computer simulations, covering the most popular control philosophies used in the process industry. Lastly, a critical review of the methods discussed, on the basis of real-world industrial examples, rounds out the coverage.

Nylon, Plexiglas, Dynamit: Viele industrielle Erzeugnisse "verdanken" wir den Prinzipien der organischen Chemie. Prinzipien, die Chemiestudenten vielfach als trockenen Lehrstoff ohne jeden praktischen Bezug büffeln müssen. Dass es auch anders geht, zeigen Green und Wittcoff. In zehn knappen Kapiteln verknüpfen sie die Theorie mit industriellen Prozessen - ein Gewinn nicht nur für Studenten, sondern auch für Lehrende. Da die meisten Chemiestudenten in ihrem späteren Berufsleben mit Problemen der organischen Chemie konfrontiert sein werden, sollte diese breite Zielgruppe nach Ansicht der beiden Autoren schon vom Beginn ihrer akademischen Ausbildung an über industrielle Produkte und Prozesse informiert werden. Organic Chemistry Principles and Industrial Practice beschreibt die Geschichte der industriellen Chemie, liefert wertvolle, sonst kaum zugängliche Informationen und bietet nicht zuletzt auch zahlreiche Anekdoten aus dem reichen Erfahrungsschatz der Autoren. Beide sind langjährige Dozenten. Sie liefern eine leicht zu lesende, klar strukturierte Einführung, die tieferes Verständnis der Grundlagen der organischen Chemie und ihrer Anwendungen ermöglicht. Das Werk eignet sich hervorragend als Ergänzung zu den Lehrbüchern, kann aber auch von Studenten höherer Semester, Laborassistenten, Chemieingenieuren und Chemikern in der Industrie genutzt werden. Die Autoren zeigen unter anderem, wie aus Petroleum nützliche Dinge werden, gehen auf die zentrale Rolle der elektrophilen aromatischen Substitution ein, erzählen die "Nylon-Story", beschäftigen sich mit Polyethylen, Polypropylen und den Grundlagen der Stereochemie und vergessen auch natürliches Gummi und andere Elastomere nicht.