This timely volume provides thorough and practical treatment of the engineering and managerial issues surrounding project management. Project Management offers managers, engineers, and technology experts a larger appreciation of their roles by defining a common terminology, explaining the interfaces between the different disciplines involved, and teaching the techniques commonly used in the planning and execution of modern projects. Shtub, Bard, and Globerson outline for readers, techniques for learning how to better select, plan, monitor, and control a project throughout its life cycle. They emphasize organizational design as well as the types of data and systems needed for successful decision making. Stressing integrative concepts rather than isolated methodologies, Project Management relies on simple models to convey ideas and intentionally avoids detailed mathematical formulations and solution algorithms; presents some of the more important analytic techniques in project management and provides references for further study; includes real-world case studies, with forty worked-out examples illustrating how computations and methodologies can be applied on the job (many examples relate to the design of the U.S. Space Station); and features a continuous chapter-to-chapter Team Project. The accompanying disk contains an educational version of Computer Associate’s SuperProject Expert – one of the most sophisticated project management software packages available today.
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Structural Concrete: Theory and Design
Incorporating the 1995 ACI Code requirements for the design of structural concrete, this comprehensive book fills the gap between industrial and educational requirements by helping readers understand the practical aspects of the modern design of concrete structures. This book includes an in-depth treatment of the ultimate strength concept of reinforced concrete; detailed, yet easy to follow examples in each chapter; unique chapters on the design of different types of stairs; and the design of curved beams.
Transportation Engineering: An Introduction
Offers practitioners a detailed, current, and interdisciplinary introduction to transportation engineering and planning. This up-to-date know-how drawn from current literature and practice references the latest computer programs in the public and private sectors. Includes coverage of geometric design that reflects the latest revisions of AASHTO’s Geometric Design. Discusses Transportation Economics, Traffic Flow, and Transportation Systems Management. For practitioners in transportation engineering and planning.
Engineering Economy
Designed to provide students with a sound under- standing of the principles, basic concepts, and methodology of engineering economy, and help them develop proficiency with these methods and with the process for making rational decisions regarding situations they are likely to encounter in professional practice. DLC: Engineering economy.
Fundamentals of AutoCAD Using Release 14
As practical as it’s functional, this reader-friendly, hardbound book focuses on using AutoCAD as a drafting tool. It progresses into an AutoCAD book with a practical approach that emphasizes 2D techniques, offers discipline specific workbooks, and a website. The book will help readers understand the foundations for the software’s commands, learn basic skills, and more advanced drawing areas such as dimensioning an object. Based on current standards, it offers a non-discipline approach that is equally accessible to the readers/students of mechanics, architecture or electronics, and weaves many examples and exercises throughout to expose users to real-world problems and situations. Appropriate for readers interested in design/industrial technology or engineering technology.
