 A Question of Quality (Dezember 2005)Quality has always been a key word in German business practice, particularly in the manufacturing and engineering sector. But, where does it begin and where does it end? And is it only the quality department who is responsible? A Sucker for Clean Windows(September 2005)Window-cleaning is a job most people hate, and a not-infrequent cause of accidents. Service robots don’t have this problem. They carry out this unpopular task without a word of complaint. The Luckless Leviathan(Juni 2005)Die Great Eastern war bei ihrem Stapellauf 1858 bei weitem das größte Schiff ihrer Zeit. Doch der Geniestreich des Ingenieurs
Isambard Kingdom Brunel war vom Pech verfolgt, und konnte erst bei der Verlegung des ersten Transatlantikkabels seine Größe zeigen. Trees Teaching Mechanics (März 2005)What do trees know about mechanics? Quite a lot, says Claus Mattheck, professor of biomechanics and tree lover. By looking closely at how things grow, he develops optimization methods for automotive parts, deploys cartoon characters in his teaching and thinks that the answer to life, the Universe and a lot of technical problems might be 45. Managing Germans (Dezember 2004)Why “Managing Germans”? After all, this is a magazine for German engineers, some of whom are managers. So, logically, we should be looking at the process of Germans managing other nationalities. The fact is, however, to really understand how cultures work, we have to explore how we are a product of our own.
The Art of Boatlifting (September 2004)When you build a canal you usually end up with different water levels. For the restoration of the Forth & Clyde and the Union Canals, British Waterworks looked for something more sophisticated than locks or boat lifts to bridge the gap: A Ferris Wheel for boats. Effective Email Writing (Juni 2004)With companies looking for ways to cut costs, andas new products like voice recognition programmes reduce the need to write in the traditional sense, managers at ever higher levels will be expected to handle their own written communication. Emailing is becoming a major part of this.Last yea,r 31 billion emails were sent daily. But how do emails differ from traditional letters? A Good Glass of Waste (Januar 2004)For centuries mankind has used glass as a storage container. From ancient Roman vials down to mother's preserving jar. Today, the amorphous and versatile material is even used to store nuclear waste - for centuries to come. | | MP3-PlayerUnsere Audio-Dateien liegen im verbreiteten MP3-Format vor und sollten von jedem Betriebssystem ohne zusätzliche Programme wiedergegeben werden können. Falls Sie dennoch Probleme haben, empfehlen wir Ihnen folgende kostenlosen Abspiel-Programme: iTunes
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