Toward General Principles for Resilience Engineering

Maintaining the performance of infrastructure-dependent systems in the face of surprises and unknowable risks is a grand challenge. Addressing this issue requires a better understanding of enabling conditions or principles that promote system resilience in a universal way. In this study, a set of such principles is interpreted as a group of interrelated conditions or organizational qualities that, taken together, engender system resilience. The field of resilience engineering identifies basic system or organizational qualities (e.g., abilities for learning) that are associated with enhanced general resilience and has packaged them into a set of principles that should be fostered. However, supporting conditions that give rise to such first-order system qualities remain elusive in the field. An integrative understanding of how such conditions co-occur and fit together to bring about resilience, therefore, has been less clear. This article contributes to addressing this gap by identifying a potentially more comprehensive set of principles for building general resilience in infrastructure-dependent systems. In approaching this aim, we organize scattered notions from across the literature. To reflect the partly self-organizing nature of infrastructure-dependent systems, we compare and synthesize two lines of research on resilience: resilience engineering and social-ecological system resilience. Although some of the principles discussed within the two fields overlap, there are some nuanced differences. By comparing and synthesizing the knowledge developed in them, we recommend an updated set of resilience-enhancing principles for infrastructure-dependent systems. In addition to proposing an expanded list of principles, we illustrate how these principles can co-occur and their interdependencies.     

Applying kaizen to the schedule in a concurrent environment

Not only ETO (Engineering to Order), but even serial production industry should know how to deal with projects and their schedule: plant commissioning, shutdown, introducing new products and similar circumstances should be managed with adequate planning and resource allocation techniques to create a schedule useful in decision making during the execution. The current complex reality, with evolving technologies and fierce pressure to reach the market as soon as possible, pushes the project managers to use more advanced techniques than waterfall planning, such as agile or lean. It also requires them to take a holistic view and manage concurrent tasks in complex projects. The contributions of this paper are two: the proposal to control specific parallel groups of waterfall activities under uncertain environments, which can lead to iterations and reworks, as a single concurrent Activity Managed by Kanban Methods (AMKM). This activity can be subsequently embedded into traditional scheduling approaches as CPM-PERT. The second contribution is the feasibility of its application in industrial environments due to the affordability of simulation software. Two use cases are shown as evidence. It is not a disruptive proposal, but a kaizen action based on very mature technologies. Finally, it is suggested some improvements to be implemented in Project Management Software due to this ‘kaizen’ proposal.     

基于新工科建设土建类多学科协同BIM人才培养与研究策略

为满足以新技术、新业态、新产业、新模式为主要特点的新经济发展需求，开展多学科交叉的创新型人才培养势在必行。基于新工科建设理念和BIM技术发展，对国内外BIM技术和BIM专业人才培养现状进行了对比分析，总结出我国高校BIM人才培养中存在的系列问题，并对高校土建类多学科协同BIM人才培养与实践进行探讨，通过分析BIM教学课程体系、师资力量、应用环境、实践教学等方面存在的问题，提出调整BIM人才培养方向，完善BIM人才培养方案，搭建产学研一体化BIM平台，优化人才引进和培养机制，提高师资力量，增加专业资源投入，优化BIM应用环境，建立人才培养综合能力评价考核体系，推动教学方法创新，深化校企合作等建议，为新形势下高校培养新型BIM应用人才提供思路。     

大工程文化育工程人的实践探索

大工程文化是河北工程大学基于新时代工程教育实践和学校发展实际，凝练升华而成的大学文化系统，其“十一大”脉系，在学校育人实践中发挥了重要作用，为落实立德树人根本任务提供了精神动力。     

工程师职业视角下的工程技术人才培养改革探索——以重庆文理学院为例

工科院校是工程师的摇篮,高等工程教育重在为社会培养优秀工程技术人才。通过分析当前我国高等工程教育改革的背景、存在的主要问题与不足、国际高等工程教育的发展历程与经验等,探索基于工程师职业视角的以工程能力和工程师职业素养为导向的工程技术人才培养模式与路径,从而培养学生具备基础扎实、思想朴实、为人诚实、工作踏实等品行,培养学生具备面向未来的思考能力、面向需求的学习能力、面向实际的动手能力、面向问题的分析能力、面向工程的设计能力、面向工作的交流能力、面向社会的适应能力等工程素质。     

A Strange Kind of Science: Making Sense of the Millennium Villages Project

Abstract

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are often critiqued as a strategy of social engineering. This analysis would seem to be supported by the case of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), the world's leading programme for the achievement of the MDGs. At the level of its discursive articulation, the MVP appears as a scientific ‘proof of concept’ for the comprehensive engineering of neoliberal social orders. But its evaluation methodology has been widely criticised for a lack of scientific rigour, and field research that I conducted in the Ruhiira Millennium Village in Uganda in 2013 revealed serious problems of implementation. I argue that the MVP is better understood not as a strategy of social engineering but as the staging of a social fantasy in which the constitutive antagonisms of capitalist development are concealed. In this fantasy space, the MDGs function to fill the gap between the promise of development and the impossibility of capitalism without poverty.     

工程机械制造产业集群竞争力驱动因素研究--以徐州工程机械产业集群为例

研究以文献元分析为基础,开发量表并设计问卷提取相关因素,并以徐州工程机械产业集群为调研对象进行调研,结合主成分分析对其作进一步统计学处理与探索性验证。结果表明：集群网络协作能力、集群知识创新能力、集群科技产出能力、集群内外部环境、集群发展后劲是驱动工程机械产业竞争力的关键因素。     

基于 CDIO 理念下的高校实践教学体系的构建

以培养具有实践创新能力和工程设计能力的应用型人才为导向,在高校实践教学中引入 CDIO 工程教育理念,设计了基于 CDIO 工程教育理念的实践教学课程计划,构建了融 CDIO 教育理念的多过程、多层次、多模式、多元化的实践教学新体系,完善了实践教学保障体系以及学生的 CDIO 能力评价体系,以期在实践教学方面有所突破,从而实现蕴含 CDIO 教育理念的教学目标,培养学生的创新意识和 CDIO 工程实践能力。     

论企业破产清算中劳动债权的优先权问题

在客观阐述物联网的概念和特征基础上,指出了物联网技术在工程机械行业的促进作用,并介绍了工程机械物联网的概念、关键技术、体系架构和应用。把物联网技术渗透到传统工程机械行业,使传统工程机械走进了“智能机器”时代,能实现工程机械的智能化识别、定位、跟踪、远程状态监测与故障诊断和信息管理。     

地方工科院校师资队伍建设中的问题追因及其分类建设探讨

随着大众化高等教育不断深入,地方高校人才培养质量不断受到社会各界高度关注。师资队伍无疑是影响地方高校人才培养质量的关键因素之一,针对当前地方工科院校发展定位特点与师资队伍建设中的实际问题,提出在现有地方高校师资队伍建设与管理体制下,构建教育教学研究型、工程实践指导型、科学研究型、技术研发与转化型四种师资类型,通过评职、考核标准等引导政策制度设计,可为地方工科院校尽早建成一支适应转型发展需要的新型师资队伍提供新思路。