Engineering Book Reviews Samples For Students

There exists a debate over whether genetically modified food should be labeled or not. Some people consider it the right of the people to know what they are consuming; whereas, others suggest that as long as people are getting what they want at affordable rates they should not be concerned about what it contains. People in favor of the argument that food products should be labeled and accurately indicative of the ingredients it contains. If it contains products that are genetically produced or are artificial in their nature, then it should be the individual’s decision whether to consume this ...

Introduction

Engineering systems is an engineering concept that is of great importance to the engineers and non-engineers. This is a way on which systems are developed for some purpose is one of the reasons for the development of this component of engineering discipline. This paper will focus on a summary of the book “Engineering systems: Meeting human needs in a complex technological world” by Weck, Roos, and Magee (2011).

Chapter 1

The first chapter talks about the history of engineering and the various inventions that have been done in the world concerning engineering. The chapter focuses in the way human inventions have complicated the world. ...

The elegant book written by De Weck and his co-authors suggest that, in today’s complex world, people must conform to the technology and engineering artifacts through adoption of macro engineering systems. Through their extensive study, they identify that this intersecting macro-engineering systems compost of the management, engineering, and social sciences. They consider the technology framework to comprise of future needs, societal consequences and evolution of the systems. The book denotes that the engineering system posses the capacity to promote that development of new approaches to design, manage and analyze these systems. This comprehensive book uses several historical records, ...

Biography of Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche is a German automotive engineer born in 1875 in Maffersdorf Austria. He had an honorary degree in engineering. He was an engineer operating in two countries, Austria and Germany. His early love towards cars and electricity landed him his first job in Vienna in 1893 when he was only 18. He enrolled for part-time studies around the same time at the Imperia Technical University in Reichenberg (current Vienna University of Technology).
He is popularly known a remembered for his design of Beetle vehicle, first hybrid vehicle while which could use both gasoline and electricity. He also went ahead ...

Sociology

Book Review
Critical thinking is crucial for navigating through the numerous arguments people come across in daily life- in the form of advertisements, political speeches and even college level debates. Capaldi and Smit provide an essential handbook for readers to identify arguments, analyze them, present cases, attack arguments, defend cases and undertake cause-and effect reasoning.
The very foundation of modern discourse rests on identifying arguments. It is necessary that people identify the premises and conclusions of arguments through their context, instead of grammatical location in sentences. The authors highlight the concept of interlocking arguments, where a conclusion acts as ...

Part one

Biodiversity is essential in the sustainability of the environment. In fact, lack thereof compromises the nature’s ability to adapt to environmental changes, therefore, enhancing its vulnerability. The development of science and technology paved the way for the incorporation of genetic engineering to living organisms. Precisely, since its introduction in 1996, many nations have embraced the conveniences offered by the genetic modification of crops to enhance their resistance and overall sustainability (Rifkin 15). This method is influential as it enables scientists to combat the development of a crop disease by altering the genetic composition of an organism. However, this ...

Introduction

The past century has been marked by tons of discoveries made in numerous fields such as technology, science, and engineering. One of the fields where the biggest leaps and breakthroughs have been made within that long period of time was in the field of genetic engineering. Ever since the human genome project was first conceptualized, genetic engineers and scientists knew that they are about to discover a lot of things just by simply sticking to what they are going to learn from the human genome project and in studying more modern genetic engineering concepts such as cloning and even stem ...

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann

- Clive Beggs had formerly been Chartered, BRE advisor, and engineer of the School of Civil Engineering under The University of Leeds and is the serving Professor of Medical Technology in the University of Bradford.
- He is a biomedical scientist and mechanical engineer and excels in the field of energy management.
- He, a world known speaker, has authored several scientific papers on designing of buildings that consume low energy, and are environment friendly.
- No wonder, he is the recipient of CIBSE Bronze Medal for his achievements in the field of desiccant cooling that uses water ...

The book “Professional Creativity” written by Eugene K. Von Fange is about creativity. The author of the book writes about the contribution of creativity in person’s professional life. He explains a logical view of creativeness and its effective use in aptitudes, planning and resources. By reading the book, the reader gets an understanding that how creativity helps in accomplishing goals successfully. Also, the deep study will let the reader know how to choose the path that will guide him towards creativity. The author of this book share his experience of professional use of creativity in the daily life to ...

‘A child’s garden’ is a novel describing a kid, Milena Shibush, the main character in this novel who feels that there is nothing wrong with her. It deals with the transformation of human existence on a global and an individual’s scale. In a future semi-tropical London, treatment for cancer has been discovered but has resulted to a decrease to the human life span by almost 50%. Moreover, capitalism has been replaced by socialism, the world in general has been transformed by global warming, and genetically engineered life forms have replaced the normal human livelihood. However, Milena is different from the other children: she ...

Chapter 1: Mendel’s little secret.

Gregor Mendel, a Moravian monk, carefully bred peas in separate breeding lines, crossing and backcrossing to watch how traits appeared in future generations. He found out that traits were transmitted to future generations from parent plants. Mendel also found out that there were certain plants such as the hawkweed that did not need any kind of sex to reproduce. Simply put, the plant was asexual hence self-reproducing.
Mendel is considered as the founding father of genetics and despite his death, more than one century later, scientists are still struggling to investigate this botanical mystery that is Apoximis. All this ...

PART 1

Group work on corn
Genetically modified plants are plants created through genetic engineering techniques (biotechnology). The genetic engineering experiments involve the DNA merging from different species thus creating an unstable plant combination. The result is termed to risky for human consumption because they may be vulnerable to viral developments. In relation to the genetically engineered corn, the food might be poisonous depending on stability against diseases. In addition, genetically modified corn is ranked as one of the highly risky biotechnology foods in America.
Genetically modified corn that is not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration ...

Introduction

This is a book which was written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in 2011 and published by the University of Chicago. It raised a great debate across the country drawing criticism as well as appreciations in equal measures. The book take a critical look at the higher learning in colleges and university in the united states of America in great depth and it concludes that the degree the current students are getting in colleges and the university is not worth much compared to the time and money invested in teaching the students. The book argues that the current graduates lack critical ...

An industrialist, a trend setter, entrepreneur, all these define one personality- Henry Ford. Starting off with a single car manufacturing, he went on to develop a completely new concept that would become world famous pattern of manufacturing in the longer run. He also had a trace of philanthropic element in him and aimed at improving the working conditions and overall life style of the workers involved in different industrial processes.
Henry Ford was born in the year 1863 in Michigan. His family had a descendance of farming and agricultural background. His personal inclinations did not show compatibility with the agricultural work and he ...

Book Introduction

There had been a lot of books that tackled the way how a company could excel in a certain field. There are books that exposed the mistakes that companies usually make while there are also other books that demand action done by these companies. In Jim Collins’ book titled “Good to Great”, there is no such thing as mistakes and mediocrity. For him, it’s the long term characteristics of a company that matter. There may be several companies who were genetically destined to become a large-scale enterprise in the future, but clearly, that is not the case for all companies. There are companies ...