What new element is Castigliano s Theorem introducing? 1. None, it's just a particular case of the PMPE 2. It's a totally different principle that allows to obtain solutions of elasticity problems with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in- cluding relativistic effects

Learning Objectives Understand the importance of good project risk management Understand what risk is and describe different tolerances for risk Describe each of the processes involved in project risk management

Look at the following pictures of big companies with u international reputation, Do you know whether they have some problems of business ethics. If they have, what are they? Listen to a short passage about how Japanese

Funny psychological test What is psychological test? Psychological test is a quantified measurement of one,s psychology, it makes a descriptive analysis on one's inner mind by way of testing the respondent,s responses to certain situations. You may have a better understanding of yourself by multi-dimensional analyses so that you can overcome your

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Today's Topics What are we going to study this course? Design Process OCourse information and requirement. How to be an engineer? Methods of learning A brief review of the machine history OHomework

Part Listening and Speaking Activities Introduction of functions Listen and speak Try to speak more Make your own dialogue What are they for? If you want to learn more

1. When you can measure what you are speaking about, and can express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowleage is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science. Lord Kelvin, a physicist

Too complex for complete analysis Separation into non-interacting subsystems distorts the results The most important properties are emergent Too organized for statistics Too much underlying structure that distorts the statistics Organized Complexity\(Weinberg) Copyright Nancy Leveson, Sept 1999

Table of contents PARTO- PRELUDE: REVIEW OF \UNIFIED ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS\ 0.1 What it's all about 0. 2 Definitions and fundamentals ideas of thermodynamics 0.3 Review of thermodynamics concepts