How to Foster Engineers

How Should We Foster the Professional Integrity of Engineers in Japan? A Pride-Based Approach

I discuss the predicament that engineering-ethics education in Japan now faces and propose a solution to this. The predicament is professional motivation, i.e., the problem of how to motivate engineering students to maintain their professional integrity. The special professional responsibilities of engineers are often explained either as an implicit social contract between the profession and so...

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

How Groups Can Foster Consensus

A local culture denotes a set of rules on business behaviour among firms in a cluster. Similar to social norms or conventions, it is an emergent feature of interaction in an economic network. To model its emergence, we consider a distributed agent population, representing cluster firms. Further, we build on a continuous opinion dynamics model with bounded confidence (ε), which assumes that two ...

How to motivate, control and keep good engineers

B. Technical Management – the key to success Abstract-This paper looks at how to lead engineers so that they produce excellent and relevant work for the business while at the same time giving them an environment where they grow and thrive. The specific area looked at is the role of the technical management in producing this environment. The findings are based on a combination of practical knowl...

Cultures of interdisciplinary teams: how to foster good dynamics.

Teamwork is the most effective approach in which to accomplish complex tasks. In general, teamwork has been shown to improve production, augment organizational and employee performance, increase job satisfaction, and enhance decision making. In health care, teamwork is of vital importance in order to maximize patient care delivery. Interdisciplinary teamwork is recommended as a comprehensive ap...