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Main description: It is the aim of this book to train and educate financial experts, investment bankers, traders, financial advisors and natural scientists who are active in financial engineering. Financial engineering is a necessary skill in many sectors of financial industry. Knowledge of financial engineering improves career opportunitiers for financial experts and opens doors to new and highli interesting employment opportunities. The bookk comes with numerous Excel and VBA models an can be used as the basis for a training course.

The experiences of women engineers working in the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, London, during the 1940s and 1950s, give insights into gender discrimination in broadcasting. These women first joined as radio engineers when the BBC was recruiting women during World War II, then transferred to television between 1946 and 1947. In interviews recorded in the 1990s, they talk about incidents of bullying and exclusion by men on crews who were hostile to women doing engineering jobs. Other memories are about being demoted from positions on camera and sound to vision mixing when the BBC Staff Association negotiated new grading for cameramen with BBC management at the expense of its female members. As the Television Service became established, women were eased out of skilled and responsible jobs when men returning from the war regained their positions in broadcast engineering.

You can be an entrepreneur! -- Audio innovations -- Sound start-up stars -- Construction companies -- Steel start-up starts -- Environmental awareness -- Plastic start up stars -- Radical robotics -- Robot start-up stars -- Taking flight -- Aerospace start-up stars -- Entrepreneurs changing the world -- Your start-up story -- Glossary -- Learning more -- Index

Engineers today cannot meet their professional obligation to the welfare of society if they do not have a broad, multidisciplinary vision, and yet a multidisciplinary vision is becoming enormously difficult to obtain. A new curriculum must emerge that can integrate a focused, discipline-based scientific approach with an integrated approach. To do this, we must recognize that there is already a structure that is deeply embedded into the current pedagogy, which values performance ratios such as efficiency as paramount. Current trends indicate a call for a broader, reflexive, and preventative curriculum, but like many other calls for change, these will fail if the focus continues to be on wrong values. A model for an adaptive engineering curriculum is developed that strives to maintain a scientific approach as well as a broad "culture-based approach." A new way of thinking about engineering curriculum must involve a "resymbolization" in which experience, context, community, and certain nonmeasurable principles are valued.

Front Cover -- FORENSIC ENGINEERING -- PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING TITLES IN THE ADVANCED FORENSIC SCIENCE SERIES -- FORENSIC ENGINEERING: Advanced Forensic Science Series -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- SENIOR EDITOR: BIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1. Introduction -- Principles of Forensic Science -- What Is Forensic Science? -- The Trace as the Basic Unit of Forensic Science -- Two Native Principles -- Nonnative Principles -- Further Reading -- Relevant Websites -- Forensic Classification of Evidence -- Introduction -- Methods of Classification -- Set Theory -- Taxonomy -- Manufacturing -- Forensic Approaches to Classification -- Class-Level Information -- Uniqueness and Individualization -- Relationships and Context -- Further Reading -- Interpretation/The Comparative Method -- Introduction -- Analogy and Comparison within a Forensic Process -- The Comparative Method within Forensic Science -- Further Reading -- Forensic Engineering/Accident Reconstruction/Biomechanics of Injury/Philosophy, Basic Theory, and Fundamentals -- Introduction -- Basic Principles -- Methodology -- Accident Reconstruction -- Occupant Kinematics and Related Concepts -- Biomechanics of Injuries -- Further Reading -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Additional Readings -- 2. Investigations -- Collection and Chain of Evidence -- Introduction -- Scene Examination -- Evidence Collection -- Control Samples -- Chain of Custody -- Further Reading -- Relevant Website -- Accident Investigation-Determination of Cause -- Introduction -- Targets -- Accident Analysis -- Postcrash Movement -- Collision Model -- Material Properties in the Contact Area -- Eccentric Impacts -- The Full Impact -- The Sliding Impact -- Energy Equivalent Speed -- Stiffness-Based and Mesh-Based Impact Models -- Precrash Movement -- The Driver's Reaction

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Scientific Revolution -- Chapter 1: Pharming: The Disease or the Cure? -- Chapter 2: Genetically Engineered Foods: Whose Appetite Do They Satisfy? -- Chapter 3: From Fabric to Fuel -- Chapter 4: Designer Babies -- Chapter 5: Extreme Genetic Engineering: The Future -- Notes -- Discussion Questions -- Organizations to Contact -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover