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Factories in Space
It is almost a standard question in a job interview to ask prospective employees their expectations if they were hired. During his interview with the...
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MASS Design Group
MICHAEL MURPHY LOOKS THE PART of a successful, Harvard-trained architect. He is tall and carefully groomed, thoughtful and articulate. He runs a...
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The Unfulfilled Potential of the External Tank
The story of the Space Shuttle development shows that the Orbiter’s design underwent severe alterations. As it was meant to be a spaceplane, nobody...
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Using Intelligent Data Analytics for Urban Planning and Design
The key to any smart city begins with a focused planning process. This effort, if conducted properly, has only a single purpose. This is to define on...
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Flight Testing for Combat: Military Vehicles
What the X-29 forward-swept-wing project sought to achieve − maneuverability far in excess of contemporary fighter aircraft − the X-31 actually...
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Pathways to Sustainable Agricultural Development
In this chapter, we describe the design and implementation of more sustainable development pathways based on two components. Participatory processes...
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Understanding Safety Management Through Strategic Design, Political, and Cultural Approaches
As the author shows, we need more than one lens when discussing the failure or success of error reporting. Looking through the strategic design lens,...
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Ambitions Renewed
In the early 1990s, NASA’s administrator Daniel Goldin implemented a policy of smaller missions dictated by the ethos “smaller, cheaper, faster, and...
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Elements, Landers, Launch Vehicles and Upper Stages
While the PPE was introduced in Chapter 2 as part of an overview of the Artemis Program, this...
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Products & Services
Companies can build circular product and service portfolios by focusing on initiatives across four key areas: design, use, lifetime extension, and...
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Gyorgy Kepes
My interactions with Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) followed from my first edited volume on symmetry. He immigrated to America from Hungary in 1937 and...
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The Future of Management in an AI World Redefining Purpose and Strategy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining the nature and principles of general management. The technological revolution is resha** industries,...
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One Man Can Make a Difference
Building a complicated and expensive machine for studying the frontiers of physics is far from a conventional construction project. All such...
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Phase II: Designing Operations
Negotiating impactimpact for the resourcesresources needed to scale can influence a social enterprise’ssocial enterprise supplysupply (how to move...
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The Mars Science Laboratory Mission
The Mars Science Laboratory mission is derived from NASA’s strategic vision for Mars, called the Mars Exploration Program. It is the product of the...
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Wallfahrten, Gorillas und Bedenkenträger – Mentale Modelle und Mentale Transformation
Monaco, Anfang April 2019. Ein US-amerikanischer IT-Gigant hat seine europäischen Top-Manager zu einer dreitägigen Führungskräfte-Konferenz...
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Designing Technology Platforms for Collective Co-Production: Advice When Selecting Crowdsourcing Platforms
How should the technology platform look like in order to unmindcuff the crowd in a way that collective production occurs? Since our initial search...
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Anatomy of a Mission
ESA had little experience of sending spacecraft far beyond Earth orbit, so it was not surprising that, in some ways, the design of the Rosetta...
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A Brief History of ITER
Nuclear fusion researchers long realized that international cooperation was the best way to go: fusion is a complex scientific discipline that...
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VLSI and Beyond: The Dream of Impact, Creating Technology with Inclusive Cultures
Telle Whitney describes her journey from her early days in Salt Lake City to becoming CEO of the Anita Borg Institute, creating and leading the...