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Five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality for all. Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley Stone, Barbara I. Cook, and Betty M. Nelson opened new avenues for women and became conduits for change, fostering...

The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself «a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash.» He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to close up stragglers, and nudged everyone toward a common goal. Sometimes his stubborn persistence caused clashes. His demanding behavior was for good, no matter what others thought. That was Kirby's way....

In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a «sparkler» who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene, safe water, childcare, and more....

Bridging theory and practice, this book contains over 200 practical exercises and their solutions, to develop the problem-solving abilities of process engineers. The problems were developed by the author during his many years of teaching at university and are kept brief, taken from the fields of instrumentation, modelling, plant control, control strategy design and stability of control. The algorithm flows and codes, which are mostly based on MATLAB?, are given in many cases and allow for easy...

Bridging theory and practice, this book contains over 200 practical exercises and their solutions, to develop the problem-solving abilities of process engineers. The problems were developed by the author during his many years of teaching at university and are kept brief, taken from the fields of instrumentation, modelling, plant control, control strategy design and stability of control. The algorithm flows and codes, which are mostly based on MATLAB?, are given in many cases and allow for easy...

Nachdem sich die Vorgängerauflage des Kommentars von 2012 zur unverzichtbaren Arbeitshilfe für alle mit dem Stahlbau befassten Fachleute entwickelt hat, wird nun eine überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage vorgelegt, die die zwischenzeitlichen Änderungen an den kommentierten Normen berücksichtigt. Dieser Kommentar enthält Erläuterungen zu den technischen Regeln für die Ausführung von Stahlbauten in DIN EN 1090-2 «Ausführung von Stahltragwerken und Aluminiumtragwerken – Teil 2: Technische Regeln...

Nachdem sich die Vorgängerauflage des Kommentars von 2012 zur unverzichtbaren Arbeitshilfe für alle mit dem Stahlbau befassten Fachleute entwickelt hat, wird nun eine überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage vorgelegt, die die zwischenzeitlichen Änderungen an den kommentierten Normen berücksichtigt. Dieser Kommentar enthält Erläuterungen zu den technischen Regeln für die Ausführung von Stahlbauten in DIN EN 1090-2 «Ausführung von Stahltragwerken und Aluminiumtragwerken – Teil 2: Technische Regeln...