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This volume of the journal Engineering Innovations contains articles that accent the reader's attention on the latest advances and results of research in materials science, electrochemistry, engineering design, power engineering, facial recognition technology and industrial engineering. The presented articles will be helpful to many researchers from the mentioned branches of engineering sciences.

As the global population continues to grow, the depletion of Earth's resources poses a significant challenge in ensuring food security for current and future generations. This book addresses this pressing issue by presenting innovative strategies and methods to reduce food loss, enhance production, identify alternative ingredients, and digitize the food system. It explores topics like the circular economy, cellular agriculture, artificial intelligence in food production, and novel sources of ingredients like microalgae and insects. Engineers play a pivotal role in translating ideas into tangible products and services that enhance human lives. Innovations in Engineering and Food Science is a comprehensive guide that explores the latest advancements, technologies, challenges, and solutions in the domains of engineering and food science. This book delves into the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Quantum Computing, and Virtual and Augmented Reality, showcasing their potential to revolutionize the engineering landscape. With a focus on emerging technologies and practical solutions, Innovations in Engineering and Food Science serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, academicians, and professionals in these fields. It provides a platform for expanding theoretical knowledge and offers insights into the applicability of various methods. This book empowers readers to adopt and test the proposed approaches in their own research, ultimately fostering advancements and contributing to the progress of engineering and food science. Featuring contributions from experts in the field, this edited volume covers a wide range of topics, including soft computing, image processing, sensors, smart cities, unmanned aerial vehicles, cybersecurity, cloud computing, nanotechnology in food safety, and innovative approaches for sustainable food production.

The 4th volume of the journal'Engineering Innovations'contains articles devoted to research results in machine and equipment design and some issues in biomedical engineering, such as the 3D printing of unique scaffolds for drug delivery and health informatics. There also are finite element analysis of damage of the cylindrical roller bearing of shot blasting machine, the development of the method for enhancing the energy efficiency of the heat exchanger, vibration analysis of mini unmanned aerial vehicle and some examples of the computational design of technological equipment. Engineers, technologists, academics, and students will appreciate the presented articles.

The core of engineering learning is the ability to solve problems in specific fields; thus, engineering courses emerge as places where design thinking is a useful tool in training future engineers.

This book summarizes the latest studies regarding innovation in urban design and planning. It shares many tips and insights about sustainable solutions for the issues facing transport systems, innovative digital technologies, and ICT trends. The book touches upon the need to integrate the three fields of Architecture, Engineering, and Technology that have become indispensable. This is intended to respond to the increasing human needs and population growth in cities on one hand and to develop a holistic approach that helps overcome challenges to sustainability and environment management on the other hand. With the power of engineering in practice, problems of design and development once considered too complex to be dealt with other than empirically, intuitively, or by trial and error, are now becoming more solvable and applicable. This book offers strategies and solutions that enable designers to bring together knowledge in the fields of architecture, engineering, and technology to overcome challenges facing in modern times.

This volume of'Engineering Innovations'presents research results on materials properties and their processing technologies, reliability of technological equipment and machines, and technologies of unit reconditioning. Readers can also look at the results of designing of abrasive removal system in the abrasive water jet cutting machine. In the volume are also presented results of an experimental study on truss-column pinned connections in large-span steel structures, and an assessment of the applicability of earned-value analysis methods in the construction projects. The presented volume of'Engineering Innovations'will be helpful to many specialists from the machinery and construction sectors.

The 45th volume of the journal'Advanced Engineering Forum'contains peer-reviewed papers that present the engineering solutions and research results in dye-sensitized solar cell, mechanical properties of welded rail joints and designing of morphing air wing with flexure hinge, construction mechanics, assessment of effectivity of two types of biofilters in a constructed wetland for the wastewater treatment. For readers will be interesting also the results of using the bio inhibiter for corrosion prevention, the conceptual design of the high-voltage transformer for scientific and industrial applications, results of cost-reduced optimisation of the hybrid renewable energy microgrid, and the design of cloud architecture for the cyber-manufacturing systems. The professionals, students, and scientific investigators working in the various engineering fields will find this volume of value.

This book examines a range of subjects with a specific focus on architectural and technological advancements. Architecture is the constant innovation in designing for high efficiency in the performance of buildings, in terms of planning, construction and energy, while maintaining creativity in its form. Moreover, the field of architecture goes hand in hand with that of technology. Nowadays, engineering technology has to cope with the rapid industrialization and urbanization seen in most countries. Furthermore, creative design and construction practices are challenging tasks to the architects and engineers to meet the ever-growing demands of society. Therefore, this book on'Advances in Engineering Science and Architectural Design'is provided to cover a wide range of topics in architecture, engineering, and technology.

As the existence of all life forms on our planet is currently in grave danger from the climate emergency caused by Homo sapiens, the words'sustainability'and'eco-responsibility'have entered the daily-use vocabularies of scientists, engineers, economists, business managers, industrialists, capitalists, and policy makers. Normal activities undertaken for the design of products and systems in industrialisms must be revamped. As the bioworld is a great resource for eco-responsible design activities, an overview of biologically inspired design is presented in this book in simple terms for anyone with even high-school education. Beginning with an introduction to the process of design in industry, the book presents the bioworld as a design resource along with the rationale for biologically inspired design. Problem-driven and solution-driven approaches for biologically inspired design are described next. The last chapter is focused on biologically inspired design for environment.

The 41st volume of the journal'Advanced Engineering Forum'contains peer-reviewed manuscripts presenting the engineering solutions and research results dealing with contemporary problems in materials science and processing technologies in mechanical engineering and environmental engineering, issues of hot corrosion of thermal power equipment, and control techniques in distributed power systems of renewable energy power generation. The engineers and scientific investigators working in the various fields of modern production will find these articles helpful and attractive.

LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019__________________'A much-needed antidote to pervasive pessimism'Financial Times'An ode to the ways in which engineering has improved human civilisation'John Hennessy, Chairman, Alphabet__________________Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives.Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the edge of catastrophe?John Browne argues that we need not and must not put the brakes on technological advance. Civilisation is founded on engineering innovation; all progress stems from the human urge to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom, health and wealth for all.Drawing on history, his own experiences and conversations with many of today's great innovators, he uncovers the basis for all progress and its consequences, both good and bad. He argues compellingly that the same spark that triggers each innovation can be used to counter its negative consequences.Make, Think, Imagine provides an eloquent blueprint for how we can keep moving towards a brighter future.

Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are the decisions about our health, security and finances made by computer programs inexplicable and biased? Will these algorithms become so complex that we can no longer control them? Are robots going to take our jobs? Can we provide housing for our ever-growing urban populations? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the edge of catastrophe?John Browne argues that we need not and must not put the brakes on technological advance. Civilization is founded on engineering innovation; all progress stems from the human urge to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom, health and wealth for all. Drawing on history, his own experiences and conversations with many of today's great innovators, he uncovers the basis for all progress and its consequences, both good and bad. He argues compellingly that the same spark that triggers each innovation can be used to counter its negative consequences. Make, Think, Imagine provides an eloquent blueprint for how we can keep moving towards a brighter future.

This book teaches readers the fundamentals of innovation and reduces them to practice in the context of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. It is a new, fresh look at learning and practicing innovation at the individual level, based on scientific knowledge and in the context of the 21st Century. The first chapter introduces the topic and describes the author's perspective. Next, an overview of the 21st Century landscape and innovation is presented, as well as a discussion of positioning oneself to stay relevant and fulfilled during the course of one's career. The third chapter teaches how to think creatively by learning the basics of creative thinking processes. The next chapter builds on creative thinking and describes innovation methods, including design, lateral, and systems thinking, and blue ocean strategies. Examples of organizations with a long history of innovation are presented, followed by ideas on measuring and tracking the innovativeness of organizations. The fifth chapter brings the concepts together to teach about launching an innovation project, particularly in the context of startups. The conclusion summarizes the takeaways. This book is written for engineering students and professionals, but can also be used by those in other disciplines by adapting the engineering analogies.

Nanomaterials and nanoscale interactions span an important and wide-ranging sector of modern science and industry. Championing developments in these fields, SPIE stages an annual forum to stimulate and support their growth: the Nanoscience and Engineering Symposium. This book represents a selection of compelling contributions from some of those innovators closely involved since the launch of this symposium. Among the key advances included are accomplishments with nanowaveguides, silicon photonics, solar energy conversion, lighting, nanofabrication and structure-determining methods for polymeric, organic, inorganic and composite materials, as well as biomaterials that can frequently achieve first-class response characteristics and that are of low-cost, and are readily available and environmentally responsible. Together, these contributions give a fascinating portrayal of the state of the art in the shifting landscape of current nanoscience and engineering.

Remote Sensing is the method of measurement of the object properties on the Earth's surface using data acquired from aircraft and satellites. This method makes it possible to carry out the measurement from the distance for the purpose of this research and to display those measurements over a two-dimensional spatial grid, i.e. images. Remote Sensing method, which is based on the data accessed from satellites, provides an opportunity to observe and monitor the Earth, collect appropriate information with further processing and integration of the Geographic Information System. This book's aim is to reveal the opportunities of the application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System advances in wide areas of engineering applications through analyzing its own achievements and challenges as well as creative sources existing in the indicated area. This book examines the conceptual aspects of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. Its applications are based on implemented projects and its outcomes found a perfect reliable place in the field of engineering.