Nearly all 4-year college engineering programs, and even some 2-year engineering technology programs, have some form of introduction to engineering requirement for incoming freshman. Moreover,many incoming freshman engineers do not yet have an engineering major in mind. Yet at the same time, U.S. engineering schools are emphasizing engineering as a complex, interdisciplinary body of knowledge. Engineers when put into real jobs will have to at some point draw upon that diverse knowledge.
The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn qualityyou either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you dont. But thats simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfected by anyone.
A thoughtful exploration of the role of graphic design today, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession. From new media to marketing, from package design and print design to typography, opportunities in graphic design are everywhere. This book discusses both the familiar aspects of graphic-design jobs, such as art directing, copyright issues, and web design, and the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, the art world, and the future. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide to anyone starting out or seeking a place in the world of graphic design.
Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multiple criteria. However, this extension has still left a gap between the classical multi-criteria approaches and some real-life problems in which not all jobs contribute to the evaluation of each criterion.
Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either ‘basic-skills’ curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or ‘standards-based’ curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice, and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice.
This self-study guide will show you how to create checklists, lists of steps, forms, worksheets, decision tables, flowcharts all kinds of task aids to help employees take corrective action and perform their jobs. A ‘must have’ for any supervisor.
This bestseller has helped thousands discover their best career options through a unique and useful format. This book features the 500 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings and presents more than 65 best jobs lists. In just two steps, Best Jobs for the 21st Century helps readers quickly and easily focus their career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions). This completely revised edition turns the government s latest occupational data into a helpful, interesting reference for job seekers, students, career changers, and others. The book now gives information on each jobs career cluster and pathway, plus the top three industries for its growth and employment. New lists include best jobs in the 16 career clusters and best jobs in urban and rural areas.
This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides the reader with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises.’Microsoft Exchange 2013 Cookbook’ is targeted at network administrators who deal with the Exchange server in their day-to-day jobs. It assumes you have some practical experience with previous versions of Exchange (although this is not a requirement), without being a subject matter expert.
Unlock the secrets of the Terminal and discover how this powerful tool solves problems the Finder can’t handle. With this handy guide, you’ll learn commands for a variety of tasks, such as killing programs that refuse to quit, renaming a large batch of files in seconds, or running jobs in the background while you do other work.,
Get started with an easy-to-understand overview of the Terminal and its partner, the shell. Then dive into commands neatly arranged into two dozen categories, including directory operations, file comparisons, and , connections. Each command includes a concise description of its purpose and features.
Mac Kung Fu: Second Edition will blow your mind with secret hacks never before made public and little-known tricks that will change the way you work forever. From big tasks through everyday jobs, this book will improve your productivity and refine your workflow. You’ll customize and manage the OS X interface, boost the power of built-in apps, efficiently handle the filesystem, implement important , tricks, and much more.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the most significant update to this product since 2005, and it may change how , administrators and developers perform many aspects of their jobs. If you’re a database administrator or developer, , , Server 2012 Bible teaches you everything you need to take full advantage of this major release. This detailed guide not only covers all the new features of SQL Server 2012, it also shows you step by step how to develop top-notch SQL Server databases and new data connections and keep your databases performing at peak.
Where does it all go wrong with disaster recovery? Yes, why a disaster recovery plan fails the , and costs IT staff their jobs or a promotion? This book is an easytounderstand guide that explains how to get it right and why it often goes wrong.,
Given that Microsoft’s , platform has become a missioncritical application where business operations just cannot run without complete uptime of this technology, disaster recovery is one of the most important topics when it comes to SharePoint. Yet, support and an appropriate approach for this technology are still difficult to come by, and are often vulnerable to technical oversight and assumptions.
