In Germany we have seen a rising concern on lacking in numbers of students in science and engineering in recent years. Technological subjects are often regarded as not attractive by potential students. To address these problems early in the development of the children we offer courses in robotics. These benefit from the attractiveness of robots in popular culture, imposing a very low inhibition...

This paper focuses on the training needed by technical experts and explores the type of academic coursework as well as training that technical experts need in the field of standards and standardization.

In pure functional programming it is awkward to use a stateful sub-computation in a predominantly stateless computation. The problem is that the state of the subcomputation has to be passed around using ugly plumbing. Classical examples of the plumbing problem are: providing a supply of fresh names, and providing a supply of random numbers. We propose to use (deterministic) inductive definition...

This paper is a prolegomenon to an ethics of conceptual engineering. Ethics construed as primarily concerned with reasons for action, not belief, and it argued that most such are be understood in terms their connection well-being. In the case engineering, this well-being engineer others. There alethic but they derivative, many philosophical norms applying within engineering itself, parsimony re...

This paper presents the material production of an EST (English for Science and Technology) course in an English training programme for architects and civil engineers. The programme was specially designed for the construction professionals whose needs were investigated and analysed by the trainers, ESP (English for Specific Purposes) specialists from the British Council and Chinese counterparts....

Cloud computing not only changes the way of obtaining computing resources (such as computers, infrastructures, data storage, and application services), but also changes the way of managing and delivering computing services, technologies, and solutions. Cloud computing leads an opportunity in offering testing as a service (TaaS) for SaaS and clouds. Meanwhile, it causes new issues, challenges an...