Faculty and Student Attitudes Toward Community Service: A Comparative Analysis

The Humanitarian Engineering initiative, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines, is creating a program that will support engineering students in understanding their responsibility for solving community development problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, data has been collected on faculty and student attitudes using the ‘Community Service Attitudes Scale,” developed and validated by Shiarella, McCarthy, and Tucker. During the fall 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty members responded to this instrument. Statistically significant differences were found between the attitudes of students and faculty, males and females, and among different age groupings with respect to service activities. A general finding was that faculty displayed better attitudes toward community service than the students.     

浅谈工程项目的预算(成本)管理

从施工单位管理的角度出发,在工程投标、施工前、施工中及完工等不同阶段对项目的预算管理重要性进行描述,充分表明了只有加强各个阶段的预算(成本)管理,才能真正提高经济效益。     

多因素线性模型在工程价款结算中的应用

工程造价与普通商品价格不同,其变动受到的影响因素较多,计算过程比较繁琐。文章主要通过对工程造价组成内容的研究分析,针对在建设项目管理过程中存在需要及时结算、快速报价等问题,提出了多因素线性模型的建立方法及应用。     

对我国工程监理咨询业未来发展的思索

随着国家加入WTO，国际间的竞争日益激烈，工程造价管理将受到怎样的影响，通过对比分析，比较现行的工程监理咨询制度与境外先进技术和管理的差距，如何把握机遇，面对挑战，文章试做一个探讨。     

短脉冲激光与岩石相互作用机理初探

石油开采过程中，为增大原始岩体的渗流速度，一般采用水压致裂或射孔弹的方法来加以实现，但两种方法都存在一定缺陷。为探索一种新概念石油开采技术，即采用激光技术增大原始岩体的渗透率，对短脉冲激光辐照自然、饱水和饱油状态的花岗岩、大理岩和红砂岩的响应作了初步研究。得到了激光辐照下，岩石试样内烧蚀坑的三维形态以及烧蚀状态与脉冲数的初步关系。结果表明：脉冲激光可以在试样局部产生一定的裂纹；饱油试样的烧蚀情况较饱水和自然状态更严重。但对于产生的裂纹数量，尺寸以及方向等方面的控制尚需进一步的工作。     

Characterizing navigation maps for web applications with the NMM approach

This paper presents the Navigation Maps Modeling approach (NMM), which provides platform independent models for characterizing navigation maps of web applications. The NMM approach is conceived to obtain a trade off between high and low-level design notations. As high-level design notations, NMM models permit architectural details that may hinder the overall understanding of the web application to be left out. As low-level design notations, NMM models can easily be transformed into detailed architectural designs, which are very valuable at coding and maintenance stages.     

Delivering Improvement from Truth — the Fragile Link Between Analysis and Effective Change

In the history of operations research in industry there has been an abundance of analyses and recommendations produced in millions of man hours by dedicated OR specialists. And yet the net improvement is significantly lower than expected. There are numerous reasons for this shortfall: incomplete analysis, too much theory, incomplete implementation, unreliable recommendations, or a combination of some of these reasons.
By describing several examples, the major reasons for the fragility of the link between recommendation and implementation will be reviewed. What has to be done today to increase the likelihood of implementing an OR recommendation and thus improve the performance of an industrial entity by using the power of OR tools will then be described.     

专家系统技术在采煤决策及设备选型的应用

专家系统的研究越来越受到人们的重视，它在综合机械化采煤中的应用刚刚起步，文章详细地论述了ＺＪＸＴ系统的知识获取与知识库构造，推理机的特点及系统的功能。