Engineering Case Studies

How do you handle conflicts of interest? Are there cases where we can - and should - act against an important principle to achieve an even-more-important benefit? Entrusted by the public to provide professional solutions to complex situations, engineers can face ethical dilemmas of all forms. Pursuing Engineering Ethics through Real-World Case Studies provides in-depth analysis with extended discussions and study questions of case studies that are based on real work situations. Organized by the canons of the ASCE Code of Ethics, this book is intended for practitioners, consultants, government engineers, engineering educators, and students in all engineering disciplines.

To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. This book offers in-depth case studies and pedagogical strategies from a range of science and engineering communication-intensive classes at MIT. Each case study is introduced by a description of its theoretical and curricular context and an outline of the objectives for the students' activities. of settings and institutions.

Using a case study approach, this reference tests the reader's ability to apply engineering fundamentals to real-world examples and receive constructive feedback Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering provides real life examples of the application of engineering fundamentals.

Sponsored by the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of ASCE, Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering: Structures, Foundations, and the Geoenvironment, Second Edition, provides short descriptions of 50 real-world examples of constructed works that did not perform as intended. Topics include foundation failures; embankment, dam, and slope failures; geoenvironmental failures; bridge failures; and building failures.

This Fourth Edition of Harold Kerzner's Project Management Case Studies features a number of new cases covering value measurement in project management. This new edition contains 100-plus case studies drawn from real companies to illustrate both successful and poor implementation of project management and represents a wide range of industries, including medical and pharmaceutical, aerospace, manufacturing, automotive, finance and banking, and telecommunications.

Metallurgical Failure Analysis: Techniques and Case Studies explores how components fail and what measures should be taken to avoid future failures. The book examines 37 case studies on high performance engineering components. The various case studies are classified according to the major causes of failures. The case studies pertain to Improper Material Selection, Manufacturing Defects, Casting Defects, Overload, Fatigue, Corrosion Induced Failures, Hydrogen Embrittlement and Stress Corrosion Cracking, Wear and Elevated Temperature Failures.

This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals. Case studies include a wide variety of processes and problems, including emergency department throughput improvement; operating room turnaround; operating room organization; CT imaging diagnostic test reduction in an emergency department; linen process improvement; implementing sepsis protocols in an emergency department; critical success factors of an enterprise performance excellence program.