Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology: Volume 11 Issue 3

Lean Six Sigma in SMEs: an exploration through literature review

M. Prasanna, Sekar Vinodh

The purpose of this paper is to explore the researches reported in literature on Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and determine the avenues by which lean anchorage can be improved in LSS…

The private sector's involvement in the water industry of Ghana

Albert P.C. Chan, Ernest Effah Ameyaw

The past few years have seen some private sector involvement in urban and small-town water provision in Ghana, as the government strives to improve access to water supply services…

Personal competency of selected women construction project managers in Malaysia

Nur Liyana Othman, Mastura Jaafar

– The aim of the current research is to assess the personal competency level of women project managers in the Malaysian construction industry.

An improved computational method in structural dynamics

Parviz Moradipour, Jamaloddin Noorzaei, Mohd Saleh Jaafar, Farah Nora Aznieta Abdul Aziz

In structural, earthquake and aeronautical engineering and mechanical vibration, the solution of dynamic equations for a structure subjected to dynamic loading leads to a high…

Teaching engineering and technology: cognitive, knowledge and problem-solving taxonomies

Moshe Barak

This paper aims to explore the objectives and methods of teaching engineering and technology education (ETE) through the lens of three educational taxonomies in cognitive…

Corporate social responsibility architecture and project alignments: A study of the Ghanaian construction industry

Scott Lichtenstein, Edward Badu, De-Graft Owusu-Manu, David John Edwards, Gary D. Holt

The developed world increasingly expects corporations to support the community under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) banner. For developing countries, the situation…

The production of social space: shopping malls as relational and transductive spaces

Johan Hagberg, Alexander Styhre

The concept of space is commonly transcending the binary separation between materiality and abstraction structuring social theory, being both a built, immutable environment and…

Application of CAD and reverse engineering methodology for development of complex assemblies

Abdul Afeez, Sanjay , Anjani Kumar

In the present paper, a CAD and reverse engineering (RE) methodology has been adopted for the development of a complex assembly of a TFC 280 crane cabin. A different approach has…