Download or read book Controlling Technology written by Eric Katz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Download or read book Control Systems Technology written by Curtis D. Johnson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents All of the major topics in modern analog and digital control systems, along with the practical, applications oriented knowledge and skills needed by technicians. It contains user-friendly conceptual explanations and clearly written mathematical developments. Examples of both Mathcad and MATLAB illustrate computer problem solving--but this book emphasizes the ability to use any suitable software to achieve successful results in solving problems and performing design. Chapter topics include Measurement; Laplace Transforms; Control System Models; Static and Dynamic Response; Stability; Frequency Response Analysis; Root Locus; State Variable Analysis; Introduction to Discrete Control Systems; Z-Transforms and Discrete State-Space Analysis; Digital Signal Representations; Discrete Time Control Systems; Stability of Discrete Control Systems; and Advanced Topics in Control Systems. For engineers and technicians working for companies that integrate control systems with the use of programmable logic controllers.

Download or read book Modern Control Technology written by Christopher T. Kilian and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives. Also included is new information on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors and networking used in control systems."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Advanced Industrial Control Technology written by Peng Zhang and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Control engineering seeks to understand physical systems, using mathematical modeling, in terms of inputs, outputs and various components with different behaviors. It has an essential role in a wide range of control systems, from household appliances to space flight. This book provides an in-depth view of the technologies that are implemented in most varieties of modern industrial control engineering. A solid grounding is provided in traditional control techniques, followed by detailed examination of modern control techniques such as real-time, distributed, robotic, embedded, computer and wireless control technologies. For each technology, the book discusses its full profile, from the field layer and the control layer to the operator layer. It also includes all the interfaces in industrial control systems: between controllers and systems; between different layers; and between operators and systems. It not only describes the details of both real-time operating systems and distributed operating systems, but also provides coverage of the microprocessor boot code, which other books lack. In addition to working principles and operation mechanisms, this book emphasizes the practical issues of components, devices and hardware circuits, giving the specification parameters, install procedures, calibration and configuration methodologies needed for engineers to put the theory into practice. Documents all the key technologies of a wide range of industrial control systems Emphasizes practical application and methods alongside theory and principles An ideal reference for practicing engineers needing to further their understanding of the latest industrial control concepts and techniques

Download or read book Controlling Technology written by Stephen H. Unger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-02-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling Technology Ethics and the Responsible Engineer Second Edition This valuable guide provides an in-depth treatment of what constitutes ethical behavior on the part of engineers. It carefully examines the various conflicts faced by engineers and offers practical, proven advice on what to do in such situations. This revised and considerably expanded Second Edition examines the causes and consequences of technological disasters such as Bhopal, Chernobyl, Challenger, and the precursor of them all, the Titanic. It also describes such highly successful projects as the Panama Canal and the Shinkansen. All the major areas of engineering are covered with interesting case histories describing exemplary behavior of engineers placed in difficult situations. The way in which such ethical engineers can be supported by their professional societies and by the law is explored in depth. Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, Second Edition presents a practical and fascinating examination of the moral obligations, responsibilities, and challenges faced by engineers as they perform their professional duties. This invaluable guide is must reading for all engineers, graduate engineering students, and others interested in technology and society issues.

Download or read book Industrial Control Technology written by Peng Zhang and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook gives comprehensive coverage of all kinds of industrial control systems to help engineers and researchers correctly and efficiently implement their projects. It is an indispensable guide and references for anyone involved in control, automation, computer networks and robotics in industry and academia alike. Whether you are part of the manufacturing sector, large-scale infrastructure systems, or processing technologies, this book is the key to learning and implementing real time and distributed control applications. It covers working at the device and machine level as well as the wider environments of plant and enterprise. It includes information on sensors and actuators; computer hardware; system interfaces; digital controllers that perform programs and protocols; the embedded applications software; data communications in distributed control systems; and the system routines that make control systems more user-friendly and safe to operate. This handbook is a single source reference in an industry with highly disparate information from myriad sources. Helps engineers and researchers correctly and efficiently implement their projects An indispensable guide and references for anyone involved in control, automation, computer networks and robotics Equally suitable for industry and academia

Download or read book Controlling International Technology Transfer written by Tagi Sagafi-Nejad and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling International Technology Transfer: Issues, Perspectives, and Policy Implications discusses topics that concern technology transfer control. The book assesses related issues and perspectives, as well as examines alternative policy imperatives from different perspectives. The text is comprised of 15 chapters, which are organized into three parts. The first part contains Chapters 1 to 8 that tackle the underlying issues of technology transfer control, such as alternative channel and modes, the impact of new control systems, pricing, taxation, and business practices. The second part contains Chapters 9 to 14, which cover topics concerning policy perspectives and implication, such as control incentives, technology importing/exporting, and control systems. The last part contains Chapter 15, which provides a closing discussion regarding actors, issues, and alternatives. This book will be of great interest to readers who are concerned with the technology transfer systems.

Download or read book Information Technology and Control in a Changing World written by Blayne Haggart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women’s and gender studies, and Science and Technology Studies, who consider how the control of knowledge is shaping our everyday lives. From “weaponised copyright” as a censorship tool, to the battle over control of the internet’s “guts,” to the effects of state surveillance at the Mexico–U.S. border, this book offers a coherent way to understand the nature of power in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book A Dangerous Master written by Wendell Wallach and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone; makers and hackers can 3D-print guns as well as tools; and supercomputers can short-circuit Wall Street just as easily as they can manage your portfolio. One thing these technologies can't do is answer the profound moral issues they raise. Who should be held accountable when they go wrong? What responsibility do we, as creators and users, have for the technologies we build? In A Dangerous Master, ethicist Wendell Wallach tackles such difficult questions with hard-earned authority, imploring both producers and consumers to face the moral ambiguities arising from our rapid technological growth. There is no doubt that scientific research and innovation are a source of promise and productivity, but, as Wallach, argues, technological development is at risk of becoming a juggernaut beyond human control. Examining the players, institutions, and values lobbying against meaningful regulation of everything from autonomous robots to designer drugs, A Dangerous Master proposes solutions for regaining control of our technological destiny. Wallach's nuanced study offers both stark warnings and hope, navigating both the fears and hype surrounding technological innovations. An engaging, masterful analysis of the elements we must manage in our quest to survive as a species, A Dangerous Master forces us to confront the practical—and moral—purposes of our creations.

Download or read book The Technology of Political Control written by Carol Ackroyd and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1980 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No

Download or read book Controlling Technology Ethics and the Responsible Engineer written by Stephen H. Unger and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes ethical behavior on the part of engineers? What happens when engineers--and the companies for which they work--fail to act ethically?"Controlling Technology Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, Third Edition," examines the conflicts faced by the engineers constructing the technological landscape in which we all now live, and offers practical, proven advice on what to do when conflicts arise between commerce and the common good. Revised and expanded, the Third Edition examines the causes and consequences of technological disasters such as: The chemical accident that devastated Bhopal, India The Chernobyl nuclear accident, in what was then Soviet Ukraine The loss of the space shuttle ChallengerAnd, the precursor to them all: The destruction of The Titanic, "The ship God Himself could not sink," lost on her maiden voyage. It describes, as well, such highly successful projects as the construction of the Panama Canal and the Shinkansen--Japan's "Bullet Train." All the major areas of engineering are covered with case studies describing the exemplary behavior of engineers placed in difficult situations: fights that were won; fights that were lost. The ways in which ethical engineers can be supported, by professional societies and by the law, is also explored in depth. "Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, Third Edition" is a practical and fascinating examination of the moral obligations, responsibilities, and challenges faced by engineers as they perform their professional duties. It is, as well, invaluable guide--and a MUST read, for: Engineers; For engineering students, both graduate and undergraduate; For anyone interested in or concerned about the ways in which the technologies that are so intimately woven into our lives are (and are not) under appropriate control.Whether we pay attention to this or not, day by day, more and more, technology dictates: what we do; how we do it; what is or is not possible. The danger in not attending to how technologies are both designed and utilized--to whether or not those uses are ethical or not--to what governing principles control them, is incalculable. Guidance in this area is crucial, both to engineers and to "civilians." "Controlling Technology" elucidates the ethical component of a landscape which is key to people understanding how technologies can--and should--be subjected to reasonable scrutiny and control, for the benefit of all.

Download or read book United States Technology Export Control written by Douglas E. McDaniel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-03-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a broad-ranging study of U.S. strategic export control policy. In particular, this book analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of export controls in delaying the acquisition of militarily sensitive high technology by the Soviet Union and its allied states. Furthermore, the question of whether or not U.S. economic competitiveness in various high-technology sectors has been unduly undermined by export controls is also evaluated. Numerous official government studies and reports, supplemented by a host of interviews with government officials, businesspeople, and analysts in the United States and Europe are utilized in drawing conclusions and posting policy recommendations. The consequences for export control policy of the revolutionary political upheavals in Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. are also addressed. The study concludes that the strategic/security goal of utilizing controls to hinder and delay the acquisition of militarily significant high technology by the former Soviet Union and its allied states was generally effective. More controversially McDaniel argues that export controls per se have not been a significant determinant of lagging U.S. competitiveness in high technology. However, this conclusion is qualified by the observation that while overall trends in U.S. high-technology exports to important trading partners do not suggest that controls by themselves have unduly hurt U.S. exporters, individual sectors and small firms may be disadvantaged. Finally, the study cautions that U.S. policy must adapt or risk becoming outmoded and increasingly ineffective. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, international political economy, and international business.

Download or read book Department of Defense Policy Statement on Export Control of United States Technology written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Controlling Technology written by William B. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of readings, spanning an authorial range from Karl Marx to Studs Terkel, that focus on the conflicting views and arguments concerning the nature of modern technological systems as they relate to the quality of everyday life and to the larger problems of human survival on the planet. Ann

Download or read book Diary of an Angry Targeted Individual written by Renee Pittman and published by Mother's Love Publishing and Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to the success of weaponized beamed technology derived from the Electromagnetic Spectrum depends on several factors. One of the most successful is the strategic effort to discredit victims by applying the mental illness tag and hoping it will stick. For success, the use of anyone around victims, especially family members become crucial. Renee Pittman continues her mission of exposing the hidden evil today by pulling back the shroud of secrecy. This is not only done through the testimony of professionals and compiled open literature evidence but through her personal experiences and the testimony of victims both men, women, and even children, confirming legalized, ongoing human experimentation on steroids. In a diary-like setting, the author gives explicit details of her continued, day-to-day battle, to combat covert technological terrorism. She details the continued hope of many for justice system intervention and coping with the roadblocks faced as an inability to effectively litigate against a Goliath, in these cases, high-powered government agencies of the United States of America. Sadly, many attorneys will not touch these difficult to prove cases, due to the invisible beamed weapons being used. As a result, thousands of lives are being destroyed without recourse. However, to the dismay of those seeking to keep the widespread use of advanced psychotronic technology under wraps and its capabilities, Pittman details, not only its machination but also provides excellent examples of precise, heinous, manipulative techniques, for example, the creation of sexual deviance as well, as a means of controlling targets and even blackmailing into submission. With the focus on women, many report covert efforts to turn women into sex slaves by the men of depraved minds who are some of the more perverse at the helm of these advancements. The battle to bring the truth before the public continues with the assurance that the truth will ultimately prevail and inevitably always has!

Download or read book Technology Transfers and Non Proliferation written by Oliver Meier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the issue of the proliferation of dual-use technology and the efforts of the international community to control these technologies. Efforts to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) increasingly focus on preventing the proliferation and misuse of dual-use technologies: information, materials and equipment that can be easily applied for peaceful and hostile purposes. The threat of terrorist attacks with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, in particular, makes it necessary to develop a sustainable non-proliferation policy that effectively hinders the misuse of dual-use technologies. In this book, leading non-proliferation experts from different regions of the world reflect on the political, legal and technical obstacles with an aim to finding a better balance between control and cooperation in dual-use technology transfer regulations. This broad approach makes it possible to compare regimes which may be structurally different but are similar in the way they attempt to regulate dual-use technology transfers by balancing controls and cooperative approaches. This book will be of much interest to students of weapons proliferation, arms control, global governance, international organizations and international security.

Download or read book Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems written by Tim Wescott and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many embedded engineers and programmers who need to implement basic process or motion control as part of a product design do not have formal training or experience in control system theory. Although some projects require advanced and very sophisticated control systems expertise, the majority of embedded control problems can be solved without resorting to heavy math and complicated control theory. However, existing texts on the subject are highly mathematical and theoretical and do not offer practical examples for embedded designers. This book is different;it presents mathematical background with sufficient rigor for an engineering text, but it concentrates on providing practical application examples that can be used to design working systems, without needing to fully understand the math and high-level theory operating behind the scenes. The author, an engineer with many years of experience in the application of control system theory to embedded designs, offers a concise presentation of the basics of control theory as it pertains to an embedded environment. Practical, down-to-earth guide teaches engineers to apply practical control theorems without needing to employ rigorous math Covers the latest concepts in control systems with embedded digital controllers