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1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
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Research -- Methodology.
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Engineering -- Research -- Methodology.
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Recherche -- Méthodologie.
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Recherche technique -- Méthodologie.
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SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
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Engineering -- Research -- Methodology
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Research -- Methodology
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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 bk.) |
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0080491375 (electronic bk.) |
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0121088529 |
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9780121088521 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051860861 |
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AU@ 000054162468 |
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CHNEW 001005067 |
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DEBBG BV039830930 |
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DEBBG BV042315800 |
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DEBBG BV043157967 |
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DEBSZ 367760827 |
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DEBSZ 422202444 |
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GBVCP 802306403 |
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NZ1 12434848 |
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