It introduces the fact that the strengths of these tools must be weighed against their limitations as applied by engineers to make engineering decisions.
By simulating the process plant closely, the process engineer can remove a large amount of uncertainty from engineering decisions.
Often, engineering decisions implicitly involve life-or-death decisions, based on safety tolerances and risk factors.
We need better planning that considers the impact of many small engineering decisions on the larger regional ecosystem.
But the Abortion Access Hackathon did appeal to a core industry belief — that even the most intractable problems can be solved if only you break them down into the right set of engineering decisions.
"We are more integrated with the science agencies than ever before on issues related to climate variability, and the science informs the actionable engineering decisions we make," said Moira Kelley, a spokeswoman for the assistant corps secretary for civil works.
The report did not examine construction details or engineering decisions involved in turning the design into a building; a program for the report's authors showed that they were shown around the big site in an hour.
Of course, politics and culture have a pesky way of sneaking into engineering decisions, especially when a country's pride is on the line, according to Margaret A Weitekamp, author of Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program.
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An essential part of what goes into engineering decisions on design and into the development and revision of earthquake-resistant design codes is therefore seismological, involving measurement of strong seismic waves, field studies of intensity and damage, and the probability of earthquake occurrence.
