Ronald Zarrella, a marketer who is now president of G.M.'s North American operations, said that when G.M.'s automotive strategy board was given a two-hour briefing recently on 42-volt systems, "it was at a level that while we all understood the philosophy and objectives, few of us understood the technical dissertation".
He shot to academic fame as a 22-year-old prodigy at Harvard when he began a boldly sweeping and highly technical doctoral dissertation, published as a book in 1947 by Harvard University Press.
This review contains an exhaustive list of scientific references on the topic, including articles published in journals, industry magazines, books and conference proceedings, university dissertations, technical reports and government documents.
theses, Ph.D. dissertations, technical reports to international organizations, etc.
There are copy-editing service providers working on everything from student dissertations to technical papers.
The traditional training that most faculty members receive involves technical coursework leading to a dissertation, with perhaps some experience in teaching.
Unpublished work, defined as master's theses, dissertations, abstracts from conference proceedings, technical reports and studies filed in an investigator's drawer, was not included.
The sub-corpora +Technical received the tag of Technical-scientific, as it contains texts from thesis, dissertations, research projects, and scientific papers.
Unpublished research: 19 British National Bibliography for Report Literature, Dissertation Abstracts, Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings, National Technical Information Service, System for Information on Grey Literature.
For a document with less institutional weight but more technical detail, add to the stack the MIT doctoral dissertation (mine) that first explored the physics and engineering of APM.
