Tunnel vision? Brunel's Thames Tunnel and project narratives

Looking at historical projects has much to offer our understanding of project management, for both research and practice. However, there are important challenges in how alternative narratives about such projects are reconstructed and related to each other. To explore these challenges, this paper uses the example of the Thames Tunnel project, completed under the direction of Marc Brunel in 1843, and reputed to be the first tunnel to be built under a major river. In telling the story of the project, we focus on five alternative discourses: technico-rational; practice; networks of people, things, and ideas; politics; and society. The common response to such variety is either to attempt to construct an overarching meta-narrative, or to explore the differences as a way of highlighting the localized and contingent nature of knowledge about projects, or adopt some intermediate position somewhere on the spectrum between these two extremes. Instead we seek a different route grounded in a sociology of knowledge that acknowledges simultaneous, provisional, and contested processes of division and stabilization in the ways that epistemic communities constitute knowledge through their own narratives and practices. These have implications for the stories that are told about project management and, crucially, the activities and interests that both shape and are shaped by such narratives.     

Team mental models in action: a practice-based perspective

The concept of team mental models (TMMs) has much to offer the study of design teams. However, I argue that care needs to be taken in how the concept is applied because existing studies of TMMs tend to draw upon problematic assumptions from conventional cognitive psychology. These encourage a focus on cognition as a mainly individual, passive, and disembodied affair involving the rule-bound internal manipulation of symbols that is ill-suited to understanding the thoroughly social, dynamic, and emergent character of knowing in design teams. After outlining the main weaknesses of the cognitive tradition, I suggest a practice-based approach as a more secure position from which to study the role of TMMs in action. This reframing of the TMM concept has important implications not only for the existing cognitive-orientated literature on team dynamics but also for practice-based approaches which, to their detriment, have tended to avoid any reference to the role of cognitive frameworks in interpreting and guiding social action.     

国家考古遗址公园发展十年回顾与实践思考

国家考古遗址公园作为大遗址保 护的有效手段和方式,已走过了十年的探索 与发展历程。本文通过不同种类公园的差 异比较,解析国家考古遗址公园的功能定 位;通过梳理103处国家考古遗址公园（含 立项）,分析其价值代表性、遗产完整性和 国家示范性等3个基本特点;其后,对国家考 古遗址公园规划与建设实践中存在的建设时 序、遗址复建、景观塑造、居民搬迁,以及 价值阐释与展示中的阐释与展示关系、遗址 博物馆展示等6方面问题展开讨论;最后, 提出国家考古遗址公园目前发展趋势中的几 个问题应引起足够重视,分别是重手段,轻 研究;重建设,轻体验;重迎合,轻引导。     

浅议集团检测单元技术创新管理与实践

检测部门是集团公司重要的辅助单元,履行着集团公司“产品质量守护神”、“集团海关”和“生产的眼睛”的神圣职责,在外购原料把关和产品出产检验等方面发挥着重要的作用。创新在检测进步的过程中发挥了越来越重的作用,基于这-.现状,本文从创新的目的和方向、创新的思维、激励机制、创新手段创新团队五个方面,结合检测中心近年来技术进步管理工作,就如何强化检测的技术创新管理提出了几点浅见。     

高效煤粉锅炉负荷提升优化实践

本文对金川集团东部贫矿锅炉房高效煤粉锅炉运行中负荷不能达产达标的问题进行了调查分析,探讨提出了负荷提升优化途径,并组织实施,取得了可观的经济效益和环保效果。     

生物工程学科教材建设的实践与成效

华南理工大学生物工程学科的教师,在进行学科建设和教学改革的过程中,充分认识到教材建设的必要性与重要性,十分注重本学科的教材建设.本学科编写的教材数量大,涉及的课程范围广,教材内容新颖、科学性强、系统性好、先进性突出,出版的教材颇具特色.本学科教材建设对促进专业课程改革和学科发展,对推动教学改革,提高教学质量和学生素质等方面,发挥了积极作用并取得显著的成效.目前,本学科教材建设正向更高水平和更广范围开展.     

复合材料与工程专业实践教学体系的构建与实施简

专业实践教学是高等教育的重要组成部分,对于培养学生创新意识、创新精神和创新能力具有不可替代的作用。加强实践教学改革,必须要建立相对独立的实践教学体系。我们从专业实践教学体系的构建原则和运行保障出发,梳理复合材料与工程专业实践教学的理论和实践研究,并根据大学生创新实践能力的内涵要求,构建了以创新和实践能力培养为目标的高校一体化实践教学体系。     

合成化学课程本科教学体系的选择与实施简

结合淮南师范学院化学与化工系近年来开设的合成化学课程,探讨了合成化学课程对化学各专业的选择,合成化学课程教学体系应遵循的原则,合成化学课程教学内容及合成化学课程教学组织与实施。     

指导高校工科工业现场实习“六讲法”的探索与实践

本文总结了采用＂六讲法＂指导工业实习的探索与实践。＂六讲法＂包括一讲工艺流程,二讲主要设备,三讲流程对比,四讲知识应用,五讲装备探新,六讲合理化建议。近年来的实践表明,学生参与实习的积极性高涨,实践能力、创新精神以及综合素质显著提高。     

全日制工程硕士创新型实践教学的探索

围绕为制药领域培养基础扎实、素质全面、工程实践能力强并具有一定创新能力的应用型、复合型高层次工程技术和工程管理人才的培养目标,我们在课程设置、实践教学环节等方面研究和探索全日制工程硕士专业学位研究生教育培养模式,以适应国家研究生培养类型和模式改革。