| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Getting It Right: R & D Methods for Science and Engineering; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Biographies; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Research and Development; Chapter 2. Process and Preparation; Part II: Project Organization; Chapter 3. The Project Hierarchy; Chapter 4. The Project Task; Part III: Knowledge Representation; Chapter 5. An Epistemological Journey; Chapter 6. Categories and Types of Knowledge; Chapter 7. Roles of Knowledge Propositions; Chapter 8. Limits of Knowledge; Part IV: The Scientific Method; Chapter 9. Overview; Chapter 10. Analysis. |
| Summary |
Over the past decade, the author has met with directors of R & D departments in large industrial firms, who are frustrated by the lack of coherent and consistent methodologies in R & D projects. As a direct result the author was asked to design and present a seminar to provide R & D engineers and scientists a standard methodology for conducting coherent, rigorous, comprehensible, and consistent R & D projects. The author also realized that this training should be included in engineering and science curricula in universities and colleges. To this end, he designed and presented a pilot course for his de. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Research -- Methodology.
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Research -- Methodology. |
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Engineering -- Research -- Methodology.
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Engineering -- Research -- Methodology. |
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Engineering -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Scheibe, Bettina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bock, Peter, 1941- Getting it right. San Diego : Academic Press, ©2001 0121088529 9780121088521 (DLC) 2001089411 (OCoLC)48416898 |
| ISBN |
9780080491370 (electronic book) |
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0080491375 (electronic book) |
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0121088529 |
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9780121088521 |
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