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Review of [The Economic Management of Research and Engineering] by P. C. Sandretto.
Review of a recently published book on research and engineering management, aimed at those who are urged to beat the competition to technological breakthroughs but to keep the budget down. As a practical guide to profit-motivated technical activity,...
Jan 1, 1969
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Spectrum Engineering System Pilot Project.
A discussion of the results of a Joint Technical Advisory Committee (JTAC) project to (1) investigate inadequacies of the present radio communications management system and (2) recommend an advanced technical system for fuller utilization of the spec...
Jan 1, 1969
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Wind Surfing — A New Concept in Sailing
Wind surfing overcomes two of the drawbacks to conventional sailing: the high cost of owning and operating a boat and the inconvenience of handling, maintaining, storing, launching, and landing. This Paper was presented at the first AIAA Technical Symposium on Sailboat design, Los Angeles, California, on April 26, 1969.
Dec 31, 1968
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LSI: The Basic Module for New Communication Networks
An analysis of the probable impact on communication systems of LSI (Large-Scale Integration), a new technology that enables placing the equivalent of hundreds of transistors on a single silicon pinhead.
Sep 1, 1968
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On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy
A discussion of the engineer's responsibility to protect privacy in an age of increasingly automated personal and business documentation.
May 1, 1968
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A Statistical-Engineering Approach to Estimating Railway Cost Functions.
Statistical and engineering methods both possess advantages and disadvantages in the determination of cost behavior. The two approaches are combined to form a statistical-engineering approach to estimating railway cost functions. The statistical-engi...
Jan 1, 1968
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Review of "Systems Engineering Methods" by Harold Chestnut.
A book review prepared for the Sigma Xi quarterly, the American Scientist. Devoted to project management methods, the book is written at a level, and in highly technical language, well suited to supervisory engineers. It is distinguished by a practic...
Jan 1, 1967
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Some Implications of Automated Design on the Engineering Process.
The use of computers in three categories of engineering design operations: drawing, theory, and applications. The use of CRT displays for contemporary projects is probably the most exciting development in design automation. In theoretical design a...
Jan 1, 1967
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Engineering in Regional Development : A Study of the Role of the Engineer in the Development of the Brazilian Northeast.
The story of development efforts in the Brazilian "drought polygon," a depressed area of 940,000 sq km with a largely illiterate population of 25,000,000. Since 1887 Brazil has been constructing vast public "works against the drought," but this hydr...
Jan 1, 1967
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Computer Aids for Aerospace Design and Engineering : Innovation, Economics, and Public Policy.
A discussion of the applications of computer systems to the weapons systems development process, with emphasis on the role that the government might play in promoting, supporting, and implementing development of new computer-based systems for enginee...
Jan 1, 1967
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Improper Solutions of the Vector Maximum Problem
Many problems in operations research, engineering, and economics require that several objectives be examined simultaneously.
Jan 1, 1967
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Lower Bounds to the Critical Rayleigh Number in Completely Confined Regions
Minimum Rayleigh number that will induce a state of convective motion in a Boussinesq fluid where temperature gradient is in direction of body force.
Jan 1, 1967
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Consideration of the Contributions of Engineering Analysis in the Study of Living Systems.
A symposium paper with discussion. Biological problems arising from modern research techniques are too complex to be solved without the most powerful techniques of mathematics and engineering analysis. Compared with the usual engineering problems, ho...
Jan 1, 1966
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Conservative Confidence Interval Procedures in Reliability Growth and Debugging Problems
An examination of two problems. The first deals with estimating the reliability of a system undergoing developmental testing to increase its probability of successful operation, increase its time-to-failure, or decrease its failure rate.
Jan 1, 1966
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An Approximate Procedure for the Solution of a Class of Transient-Wave Diffraction Problems
It is well known that the response to any given incident pulse can be constructed from the solution of the harmonic wave problem.
Jan 1, 1966
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Use of Hybrid Computing in Design Automation.
A discussion of computer-aided design for engineering use. The automatic drafting project of the Hughes Aircraft Company is described, including the development of ADMA, the machine and the language. The concept of the engineering information center ...
Jan 1, 1965
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Education in Bioengineering.
A proposal for a systematic educational program for bioengineering, a study that has arisen as a separate discipline because of educational deficiencies in biology and engineering. The bioengineering student should receive the best possible foundati...
Jan 1, 1965
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Systems modeling in engineering design
A theoretical framework of the first step toward structuring comprehensive analytic models applicable to the hardware design process. The models' major application would be (1) designing for industry where the state of the art is well established; (...
Jan 1, 1965
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Spectral Analysis of the Anisotropic Neutron Transport Kernel in Slab Geometry with Applications
A spectral analysis of the transport kernel for anisotropic scattering in finite slabs is achieved by first solving a type of generalized scattering problem for a subcritical slab.
Jan 1, 1964
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Titles and abstracts, "Geologie und Bauwesen" (Geology and civil engineering) 1946 to 1962
A compilation of authors, titles, and abstracts from Geologie und Bauwesen, For the years 1946 to 1957, only the titles are given (in both German and English); for 1958 to 1962, abstracts (in English) are given as well. In May 1963, the name of the p...
Jan 1, 1964

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