Feeling good,being good and looking good: Motivations for,and benefits from,project management certification

Project management (PM) is one of many occupations following a path to professionalization that includes voluntary certification. It has been said that certification, and especially voluntary certification, can be seen as an approach to being good by improving our competence in the profession, or a means to looking good, essentially signaling the capabilities of the holder. Based on self-determination theory, we contribute to this discussion the notion of feeling good whereby certification provides a way to challenge one's capabilities, provide self-actualization, and a sense of worth. Using two sets of survey responses, collected 10 years apart (2004 and 2014), we assess whether there are differences in the demographics of those seeking voluntary project management certification, and the motivations (expected benefits), and realized benefits associated with this certification, at these two points in time. Demographically, the people with certification and those not pursuing certification did not exhibit any significant differences in either time period. Analyses indicate that feeling good and being good are the main motivators but participants pursuing certification in 2014 reported lower levels of motivations and received more benefit than those in 2004. Comparing responses as to why professionals pursue voluntary PM certification across a decade span, gives us an indication of how these perceptions may be changing with the increased popularity of the certification. We compare these findings to similar studies examining other volunteer certifications and conclude by discussing the potential impact of these changes from the perspective of the individuals seeking certification, the occupation, and certifying organizations.     

人防工程综合集成智能化系统及其应用

深入探讨了综合集成智能化系统的组成和特点,阐述了系统的功能,并结合工程实例进行了说明,指出人防工程综合集成智能化系统具有功能丰富,配置灵活,可扩展性好等优势,适用各种防护等级和规模的人防工程。     

交通土建专业工程实践能力与就业一体化研究

通过对交通土建专业毕业生当前的就业形式的研究与分析,提出了加强交通土建专业工程实践能力的必要性,以及如何加强工程实践能力的途径与方法,以期培养大学生创新能力、实践能力,提高大学生的综合素质,促进学生的就业能力。     

产学研一体化土木工程创新人才培养研究

土木工程是一门实践性很强的学科,土木工程人才培养需要与工程实践相结合,产学研模式对人才培养质量提升具有重要意义。结合2009年至今的土木工程教学工作,探索并形成了产学研一体化的土木工程创新人才培养模式。高校需要培养更多适应社会需要的复合型人才,企业需要根据自身实际提出专业及技术需求。只有校企携手构建一套集协同办学、协同育人、协同创新于一体的产学研合作育人体系,才能有力推动学校产学研一体化土木工程人才培养的内涵式发展。     

Making refineries public utilities: An incision into vertical integration in the oil industry

In the current concern over the behavior and performance of the oil industry attention has frequently been drawn to possible alternative market structures for that industry-trustbusting, public ownership, etc. This paper applies the traditional tests of a public utility to one segment of the oil and gas industry-refineries-and finds that the fit is fairly neat. The presumed beneficial results would be an incision into the problems occasioned by intensive vertical integration and a closer relation of cost to price for the buyer.The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Congressional Research Service or the Library of Congress.     

Making method and application of standards for energy consumption quota of civil buildings

Based on the energy consumption survey in Wuhan, the paper provides the civil building energy consumption quotas according to the three energy efficiency indicators, which include the limit value, the admission value and the advanced value. The paper also presents the uses of different energy consumption quotas and analyses the difference between them. Adopting a statistical analysis method, the paper analyses the limit values of 39 kinds of building using SPSS software. Adopting a simulation method and a device isolation method, the paper provides 15 kinds of admission values and advanced values using DeST simulation software based on energy efficiency design standards. The paper also analyses that judging and excluding outliers are the basis for accurately formulating energy quotas. According to the building energy efficiency and fair principle, the paper gives unit building area energy consumption indicators for buildings with 39 kinds of different functions, air conditioning and heating energy consumption accounts for the proportion of building energy consumption, the limit values of energy consumption indicators of annual per capita energy consumption, per household, per bed, per student which are concerned with building function and standard deviations of the limit values.     

Glossing with graininess: cross occupations in postwar British film and architecture

This piece uses an anthropological definition of pollution taboos to initiate an investigation of common themes in post-war British film and architecture. It focuses on the fate of two rival architectural aesthetics, the picturesque and Brutalism, drawing parallels with the heyday of the Ealing studio and its eclipse by British New Wave cinema. The first part deals with the political and social circumstances underlying the adoption of Brutalism as the style of clarity and honesty, in particular in the context of the postwar fuzziness in definitions of national boundary and identity. The second part takes up this theme to consider the aesthetic kinship between post-war film and architecture. The article concludes by characterising Brutalism as a kind of Angry Young Architecture. It explicitly questions the possibilities of an equivalence in the social morality of architecture and film.     

土木工程专业力学课程群的整合和优化探讨

针对土木工程专业培养目标调整和学时缩减的现状,从力学课程群的角度出发,对课堂教学内容、实验教学层次以及考核评价等三个方面进行整合和优化,并对土木工程专业教学质量的提升进行了有益的探索和实践。结果表明:这些探索和方法提高了学生学习力学的兴趣和成效,对提升教学质量有参考价值。