Abstract: Today’s engineering managers who use total quality management (TQM) face the challenge of moving it from adoption to seamless incorporation into their organizations. Both the application and the theory of TQM can be advanced ...

Abstract: The nation has achieved substantial progress over the past 30 years in improving environmental conditions throughout the United States. Civil engineers have played leadership roles in achieving this progress. Today, there ...

Abstract: This paper describes the emerging challenges for engineering during times of complex changes. It discusses the sources of these challenges by drawing upon complexity theory as a framework to characterize the changing ...