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Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering

Product Description: This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. It starts with the premise that a successful mentor guides students in a variety of ways: by helping them get the most from their educational experience, by introducing them to and making them comfortable with a specific disciplinary culture, and by offering assistance with the search for suitable employment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and National Academy of Sciences (other contributor)

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9780309063630 | Natl Academy Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students.

Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and National Research Council (other contributor)

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9780309294270 | Natl Academy Pr, January 13, 2014, cover price $36.00

The Carbon Dioxide Dilemma: Promising Technologies and Policies: Proceedings of a Symposium April 23-24, 2002

By National Academy of Engineering (compiler)

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9780309089210 | Natl Academy Pr, August 19, 2003, cover price $36.00

Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering

Product Description: Can the United States continue to lead the world in innovation? The answer may hinge in part on how well the public understands engineering, a key component of the 'innovation engine'. A related concern is how to encourage young people--particularly girls and under-represented minorities--to consider engineering as a career option...read more

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author)

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9780309119344 | Pap/cdr edition (Natl Academy Pr, June 10, 2008), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Can the United States continue to lead the world in innovation?

Educate to Innovate: Factors That Influence Innovation: Based on Input from Innovators and Stakeholders

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author)

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9780309368797 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, April 7, 2015), cover price $40.00

Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309096492 | 1st edition (Natl Academy Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $32.00

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security: A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues

Product Description: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology...read more

By William F. Ballhaus (editor), Jean-Lou A. Chameau (editor) and Herbert S. Lin (editor)

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9780309293341 | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology.

Engineer Of 2020: Visions Of Engineering In The New Century

Product Description: To enhance the nation's economic productivity and improve the quality of life worldwide, engineering education in the United States must anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of engineering practice. The Engineer of 2020 urges the engineering profession to recognize what engineers can build for the future through a wide range of leadership roles in industry, government, and academia--not just through technical jobs...read more

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309091626 | Natl Academy Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: To enhance the nation's economic productivity and improve the quality of life worldwide, engineering education in the United States must anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of engineering practice.

Engineering Within Ecological Constraints

Product Description: Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering. The volume looks at the concepts of scale, resilience, and chaos as they apply to the points where the ecological life support system of nature interacts with the technological life support system created by humankind...read more

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and Peter C. Schulze (editor)

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9780309051989 | Natl Academy Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering.

Fourth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering

Product Description: Provides summary papers of the presentations given at a 1995 meeting of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) initiated the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium program, which brings together 100 of the nation's future engineering leaders to learn about cutting edge research and technical work in different engineering fields...read more

By National Academy of Engineering and Calif Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering 1998 Irvine

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9780309062879 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $34.75 | About this edition: Provides summary papers of the presentations given at a 1995 meeting of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) initiated the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium program, which brings together 100 of the nation's future engineering leaders to learn about cutting edge research and technical work in different engineering fields.

Frontiers of Engineering

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780080289243, titled "Systems Science and World Order: Selected Studies" | Pergamon Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $58.00 | also contains Systems Science and World Order: Selected Studies

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9780309084987 | Natl Academy Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $31.00

Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-edge Engineering from the 2006 Symposium

This book discusses the impact of finance on the growth and performance of businesses in the long run with particular reference to economic theory and history, drawing on examples from the US, Japan and Europe. It focuses on the roles of regulation, institutions and organizations in shaping different financial systems. The book emphasizes the strategic role of regulation in the study of markets and institutions; links finance to performance and behaviour; and analyzes the historical evolution of financial systems in developed countries.

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780127754208, titled "Finance and the Enterprise" | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, August 1, 1992, cover price $172.95 | also contains Finance and the Enterprise | About this edition: This book discusses the impact of finance on the growth and performance of businesses in the long run with particular reference to economic theory and history, drawing on examples from the US, Japan and Europe.

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9780309103398 | Natl Academy Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $45.00

Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2011 Symposium

Product Description: The practice of engineering is continually changing. Engineers today must be able not only to thrive in an environment of rapid technological change and globalization, but also to work on interdisciplinary teams. Cutting-edge research is being done at the intersections of engineering disciplines, and successful researchers and practitioners must be aware of developments and challenges in areas that may not be familiar to them...read more

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author)

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9780256185676, titled "Contemporary Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: Theory and Practice/Study Package" | Student edition (Richard d Irwin, May 1, 1995), cover price $99.75 | also contains Contemporary Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: Theory and Practice/Study Package

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9780309221436 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The practice of engineering is continually changing.

Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-edge Engineering from the 2014 Symposium

An introduction to fire trucks, what they carry, and what they do.

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author)

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9780309314619 | Natl Academy Pr, February 11, 2015, cover price $44.00

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9780516201153, titled "Firetrucks" | Childrens Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $13.25 | also contains Firetrucks | About this edition: An introduction to fire trucks, what they carry, and what they do.

Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-edge Engineering from the 2015 Symposium

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309379533 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2016, cover price $49.00

The Future of Aerospace: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Honor of Alexander H. Flax Home Secretary

Product Description: Few technological advances have affected the lives and dreams of individuals and the operations of companies and governments as much as the continuing development of flight. From space exploration to package transport, from military transport to passenger helicopter use, from passenger jumbo jets to tilt-rotor commuter planes, the future of flying is still rapidly developing...read more

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309048811 | Natl Academy Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Few technological advances have affected the lives and dreams of individuals and the operations of companies and governments as much as the continuing development of flight.

The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems

By Braden R. Allenby (editor), National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and Deanna J. Richards (editor)

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9780309049375 | Natl Academy Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $34.95

The Industrial Green Game: Implications for Environmental Design and Management

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By National Academy of Engineering and Deanna J. Richards (editor)

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9780309052948 | Natl Academy Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $47.95

Information Technologies and Social Transformation

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309035293 | Natl Academy Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $19.95

Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Improving Offshore Drilling Safety

Product Description: Book by National Research Council (U. S.)

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and National Research Council (other contributor)

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9780309221382 | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Book by National Research Council (U.

Making Value for America: Embracing the Future of Manufacturing, Technology, and Work

Product Description: Globalization, developments in technology, and new business models are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, and distributed in the U.S. and around the world. These forces present challenges - lower wages and fewer jobs for a growing fraction of middle-class workers - as well as opportunities for "makers" and aspiring entrepreneurs to create entirely new types of businesses and jobs...read more

By Nicholas M. Donofrio (editor) and Kate S. Whitefoot (editor)

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9780309326537 | Natl Academy Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Globalization, developments in technology, and new business models are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, and distributed in the U.

9780441000159, titled "Quantum Leap: The Wall" | Ace Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $4.99 | also contains Quantum Leap: The Wall | About this edition: After leaping into the life of Missy, a six-year-old living in 1961 Berlin, Dr.

Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition

Product Description: The range of environmental performance and condition metrics, from the use of material flow data to monitor environmental performance at the national level to the use of bioassays to measure the toxicity of industrial effluents. This book offers something for everyone- policymakers, executives, engineers, managers, and advocates-with a stake in the measurement of environmental performance and ecological conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author) and Peter C. Schulze (editor)

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9780309054416 | Natl Academy Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The range of environmental performance and condition metrics, from the use of material flow data to monitor environmental performance at the national level to the use of bioassays to measure the toxicity of industrial effluents.

Memorial Tributes

Product Description: This is the 19th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind...read more

By National Academy of Engineering (corporate author)

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9780309377201 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, October 6, 2015), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: This is the 19th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

9780309312912 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, October 8, 2014), cover price $66.00

9780309074117 | Natl Academy Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: This is the 9th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

9780309048477 | Natl Academy Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $41.00

9780309046893 | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: "In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and engineering accomplishments of the deceased" from foreward.

Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering

Product Description: This series presents biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Engineering.

By National Academy of Engineering

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9780309055758 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, August 20, 1996), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This series presents biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Engineering.

Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering Of The United States Of America

Product Description: This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind...read more

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9780309213066 | Natl Academy Pr, October 10, 2011, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

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