Demands Of Tomorrow Research Articles

Workforce Development Needs and Objectives of Today’s Transportation Engineering Professionals

Given the growing influence of technology and innovation, the skill set and knowledge required of today’s transportation engineering professional includes many different subject areas. For this reason, transportation engineers and managers alike must constantly seek out workforce development opportunities to expand either their learning or the skill set of their employees. This study examined transportation education needs from a Pacific Northwest regional perspective on two fronts. First, an assessment was initiated identifying available course training offerings and their curriculum and delivery characteristics. Second, an investigation into training needs was conducted using a mixed-method approach consisting of personal interviews and an online survey. This study concluded that although training is a highly personal decision and influenced by many different factors, those related to cost, location, and topic area ultimately drive an individual or agency to pursue such opportunities. These findings can inform both practitioners and researchers to strategically determine how future training opportunities should be developed and shaped to meet the growing demands of tomorrow’s transportation engineer.

Welcome Speech from Chairperson

Excellences, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies, and Gentlemen,As chairman of The 2nd ICFAES in conjunction with The 6th Annual Conference of the Asian Society of Ichthyologists, It gives me great pleasure and honor to extend to you all a very warm welcome on behalf of the international conference committee. I wish to take this opportunity to welcome the participants from Europe, America, Australia, and Asia as the representative of the students, lecturers, and researchers. I also wish to welcome our keynote speaker Prof. Lawrence Page, Dr. Martin Wilkes, and Dr. Luky Adrianto and our invited speakers, Prof. Siti Azizah, Prof. K. Marimuthu, Dr. Pengfei Li, Dr. Zeehan Jaafar, Dr. Sebastian Lavoue, for coming to our campus. I hope, today's event will serve as a catalyst for strengthening international cooperation on the transfer of knowledge. In addition, I am most thankful for the ceaseless efforts of staff members of Marine and Fisheries Faculty of Syiah Kuala University including our Rector, Prof. Samsul Rizal and our Dean, Prof. Muchlisin. Conferences such as this one provide an opportunity to talk about common challenges, share best practices, and discuss groundbreaking scientific research and technology that will help our fisheries and the environment grow, adapt and innovate so they can meet the realities of tidal as well as the demands of tomorrow. Through such international collaboration, Syiah Kuala University will be able to contribute even more to the promotion of welfare both at home and worldwide. Moreover, we will provide full support so that technology and knowledge developed at other distinguished universities in Indonesia can be spread globally, with Syiah Kuala University serving as the channel. Our interest can succeed only with continued interest and support from diverse parties including not only Syiah Kuala University itself but also industries, the academia, the government, and investors. Last but not least, I strongly hope that all of the distinguished guests gathered here today will offer your generous support and encouragement for the success of this event. Once again, I am most grateful for your participation and support.Thank you very much!Adrian DamoraList of Sponsor Logo, Advisory Board, Organizing Committee and International Scientific Committee are available in this pdf.

INTELLECTUALIZATION BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPETENCE OF ITS EMPLOYEES

The main trends of modern economy development and features of future economy, the demands that it brings to the professionals of tomorrow are defined. The role of human factor and intellectual capital in forming of the results of production activity of enterprise is shown and some ways of ensuring that the knowledge and skills of workers will satisfy the demands of tomorrow's economy are formulated.

Recommendations on e-infrastructures for next-generation sequencing.

With ever-increasing amounts of data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) experiments, the requirements placed on supporting e-infrastructures have grown. In this work, we provide recommendations based on the collective experiences from participants in the EU COST Action SeqAhead for the tasks of data preprocessing, upstream processing, data delivery, and downstream analysis, as well as long-term storage and archiving. We cover demands on computational and storage resources, networks, software stacks, automation of analysis, education, and also discuss emerging trends in the field. E-infrastructures for NGS require substantial effort to set up and maintain over time, and with sequencing technologies and best practices for data analysis evolving rapidly it is important to prioritize both processing capacity and e-infrastructure flexibility when making strategic decisions to support the data analysis demands of tomorrow. Due to increasingly demanding technical requirements we recommend that e-infrastructure development and maintenance be handled by a professional service unit, be it internal or external to the organization, and emphasis should be placed on collaboration between researchers and IT professionals.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13742-016-0132-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

DC: Is it the alternative choice for naval power distribution?

Historically, the vast majority of electrical power distribution designs in marine applications have been Alternating Current systems. This has continued for recent platforms and is arguably due to commercial inertia, conservatism and the manufacturing and technology supply base. however whilst it is widespread in use, it may not allow fully optimised power systems to meet tomorrow's demand for more efficient ships with greater flexibility. This paper on the back of a recent programme of work, questions the future use of fixed frequency AC generation and power transmission on board ships, and asks if maybe Thomas Edison was on the right lines over a century ago?

Changing professional demands in sustainable regional development: a curriculum design process to meet transboundary competence

Within a region, public sector organisations, private sector organisations and knowledge institutions all have a stake in finding novel ways to face tomorrow's demands. In this paper we focus on the enhanced role of universities within the social network of our increasingly knowledge based society. The regional level of this study is the cross-border Rhine-Scheldt Delta and its knowledge network on sustainable innovations in water management. The challenge of sustainable development implies a frequent crossing of boundaries between disciplines and stakeholder perspectives and leads to what is called transboundary competence. This paper considers the implications of changing professional demands in the domain of sustainability from the point of view of the university. It addresses the research questions: How can a university incorporate transboundary competence in its view on learning and curriculum development? And how can the academic quality of learning outcomes be guaranteed in such curricula designed to meet the needs of stakeholders? Proposed is a design process based on open curriculum development in interaction with the workfield. The design process has been tested in the design of a blended learning Master in Delta Water Management.

Pigments with improved properties – microreaction technology as a new approach for synthesis of pigments –

Clariant, as an important pigment producer forces the investigation of new pigments with improved qualities and properties to fulfill the rising tomorrow's demands of customers. For these reasons, new production ways like microreaction technology are included. This paper focuses on results obtained in manufacturing pigments in a lab-scale microreactor as well as in a microreactor pilot plant. Investigations of the diazotation, azo-coupling and laking steps of pigments have shown not only the principle feasibility of these reactions in laboratory microreactors but also significant improvement of coloristic properties. The microreactor pilot plant, realized by the concept of numbering-up instead of conventional scaling-up process, allowed more detailed investigations of the complete azo-pigments synthesis under production conditions.

Learning with noiseless information and payoff-relevant signals

In models of active learning or experimentation, agents modify their actions to affect the distribution of a signal that provides information about future payoffs. A standard result in the experimentation literature is that agents experiment, if at all, to increase information. This finding is a direct consequence of Blackwell's theorem: one experiment is more informative than another if and only if all expected utility maximizers prefer to observe the first. Blackwell's theorem presupposes, however, that the observed signal only conveys information and does not directly affect future payoffs. Often, however, signals are directly payoff relevant, a phenomenon that we call signal dependence. For example, if a firm is uncertain about its demand and uses today's sales as a signal of tomorrow's demand, then that signal may also directly affect tomorrow's profit if the good is durable or if consumers form consumption habits. Datta, Mirman and Schlee [9] and Bertocchi and Spagat [4] show that, if the signal is payoff relevant, experimentation may indeed reduce information. Here we show that, despite the inapplicability of Blackwell's Theorem, agents always experiment to increase information if the information structure is noiseless: given the true value of the unknown parameter, the signal realization is deterministic. We then apply our framework to analyze Lazear's [16] model of retail clearance sales, a model with both signal dependence and noiseless information.

Deploying complex decision technologies with APL to solve the daily output planning problem

A key decision faced each day, shift, or time period at a semiconductor manufacturing facility is how many wafers or lots it should commit to produce at each operation over a specified period of time to meet immediate demand and position the line to meet tomorrow's demand. This paper will describe an approach which integrates various decision technologies using APL to generate a “daily output plan” for low part number high volume wafer fabrication lines. A related approach for high part number logic lines using due dates is not described in this paper. The ability of the “APL Problem Solving environment” to easily handle very different decision technologies was critical to the development of this approach.

Daily output planning: Integrating operations research, artificial intelligence, and real-time decision support with APL2

Abstract A key decision faced each day, shift, or time period at a semiconductor manufacturing facility is how many wafers or lots should it commit to produce at each operation, over a specified period of time to meet immediate demand and position the line to meet tomorrow's demand. This paper will describe the approach used by IBM Burlington Advanced Industrial Engineering group which integrates various decision technologies using APL2 and OSL to generate a “daily output plan” for IBM's semiconductor facility near Burlington, VT.

Resource Allocation: Optimisation for Tomorrow's Demand

Optimum allocation of resources is today's means of designing a logistic network to deal with tomorrow's demands. Accepting this and in order to ensure that a logistic network is being managed efficiently, it is argued that it is essential to look at what is now achievable, given the advances in computer technology and Artificial Intelligence. The parameters necessary for each market segment in the resource allocation process are defined and the characteristics and problems of data describing the parameters encountered in practice are presented.

Social Science Implications of Agricultural Science and Technology: Discussion

Bonnen and Evenson approach the topic from two somewhat different perspectives, but both arrive at the same conclusion. That is, for agricultural economists to be relevant in the future a different set of research priorities is demanded. Gone are the days of research with efficiency and growth as the sole focus. Today and tomorrow demand that externalities, equity, and distributional factors associated with science and technology also be included. Both papers make the case that basic science must be linked in an articulated institu-

The case for solar/hydrogen energy

Since sustainable, technologically-converted solar energy is the likely basis for our post-fossil-energy future, there is a basic need for solar-produced fuels. It is noteworthy that heat and electricity, solely, are being developed as solar-energy delivery means, while historically civilizations depend on fuels. Hydrogen, a clean, efficiently-used fuel, can be readily derived from water using any of a number of both proved and prospective solar-energy conversion technologies—both direct and indirect (hydropower, wind, etc.). Solar/hydrogen (and oxygen) can also extend depleting fossil-energy resources while ameliorating environmental degradation. The Hydrogen Energy System concept is overviewed as background. A recent ‘Solar/Hydrogen Systems Assessment’ delineated early-availability systems based on photovoltaic, thermal/heat-engine, wind and hydropower solar conversion, and associated water electrolysis to yield product hydrogen and oxygen as ‘hydrogen energy’. Involved technologies being highly modular, good economics of equipment manufacture and deployment are inherent, as is early availability and as-needed rates of construction (in contrast, e.g., with nuclear-plant experience). Proved technological means exist for transporting, storing and distributing hydrogen energy to end-users. Most significant, both small-scale (local, dispersed) and large-scale (central, remote) solar/hydrogen generation facilities can be established in balance with prevailing societal-selection dictates. Involving a readily storable, transportable ‘energy currency’, then-existing hydrogen-energy systems can be inter-tied as desired, providing load-management-related economic advantages to both the energy-user and the ‘energy utility’ of that era. Future solar/hydrogen-electric residences might, as is illustrated, buy and sell hydrogen and electricity in a ‘grid-cooperative’ arrangement. The salient operative question concerns the efficacy of ‘conventional wisdom’ in the energy free-market decision-making process. Will early-enough, adequate level-of-effort programmes be implemented to ensure non-disruptive meeting of tomorrow's demand worldwide? In an aura of business-as-usual, solar/hydrogen's timely contribution to ‘picking up the load’ from exhaustible fossil fuels in the face of still-escalating world energy demand is judged most problematic. Consequently, an unprecedented cooperative world effort for the research, development, demonstration and deployment of solar hydrogen energy delivery capabilities is suggested.

How we Plan University Physics Curricula to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow

Summaries English What kind of physics knowledge will be required from our students in the future? What kind of attitudes and abilities will be desirable from the point of view of the future employers of our students? How should we plan university teaching of physics to meet the demands of tomorrow? Here we give a very brief report of some Swedish attempts to find answers to these questions and develop appropriate activities.

The Arts: A Bridge to Learning

ness or urgency of our current direction in basic skills, vocational development, and the entire career education movement in meeting the demands of tomorrow's technological world. What is disconcerting is the unequal attention that is accorded the exigencies of our civilization as opposed to our culture. Our more astute colleagues are already noticing the largely unanticipated consequences of the massive development of institutions which function blindly and impersonally. In the presence of large-scale social change, the adolescent, if not our entire society, runs the risk of bewilderment and anxiety resulting from aimlessness and impotence. Deeper personal needs, moral principles and reasons for living must somehow be intertwined in the fragmentary basic skills

Gamma Spectrometry at a Nuclear Power Plant Using a Digital Computer

A gamma spectrometer system with sodium iodide and germaniumlithium drifted detectors and digital minicomputer was selected for use at the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant. The equipment selection was based on the effluent reporting requirements of AEC Safety Guide 21 - MEASURING AND REPORTING OF EFFLUENTS FROM NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. General software routines were not available for this specific application. A functional description of the software has been defined and the specific routines are in development. These routines automate radionuclide analysis and report generation for the nuclear power plant technician. The operating objective of the gamma spectrometer system is to routinely provide a detailed radionuclide analysis of samples, using a minimum of wet chemistry, to meet the requirements of plant Technical Specifications while operated by the plants' Radiation Control and Test Technicians. Changes in in-plant and effluent analysis requirements during the post two years have made existing equipment of that time inadequate for the needs of today and the future. The minicomputer based gamma spectrometer system provides the maximum amount of flexibility available today to meet tomorrow's demands.

Education Today for Environmental Challenges Tomorrow

The education of engineering students today for the environmental challenges of tomorrow demands an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving and design. Students must obtain a firm foundation in science, mathematics, engineering sciences and the liberal arts which will permit them to be versatile and to grow in the future. In addition, students must be challenged by real-world, poorly defined problems involving social and economic values as well as science and technology. This paper analyzes the professional engineering program at Dartmouth College in relation to the aforementioned objectives, and emphasizes the need for open-ended projects, both group and individual, undergraduate and graduate, to prepare students for environmental problems of the future. Specific projects, sponsored by industry and others, are noted including undergraduate group projects focused on human or environmental needs and individual graduate design projects developed in the context of industrial internship.

Fire Protection for Tomorrow's Demand

This article discusses the factors that influence demand for fire protection, including: the characteristics of the burning material, as well as the amount of water needed to extinguish the fire; a knowledge of the contents of the buildings and of how the building's materials burn; the arrangement of the building space, with fire sprinkler protection required for hard to reach areas; and, the protection of life against fire, as in nursing homes and hospitals where people can not be moved. Proper allocation of fire protection costs is discussed, along with shifting most of the burden for the extraordinary future demand on public water systems to the property owners who create them, effective enforcement of a building code, fire protection of specific properties, and connection charges.

The Growth Outlook for Petroleum

The Growth Outlook for Petroleum

Tomorrow's Demands on Education

Tomorrow's Demands on Education