I recently surveyed the on-site development of the control system for a large concentrated solar power station. This “first of a kind” facility offered many control challenges, such as balancing heat ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has offered seven guiding principles for healthcare organizations designing a medication reconciliation process. The guiding principles are part of a ...

Author Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart discusses his new book, Nonlinear Model-Based Control: Using First-Principles Models in Process Control, and explains why nonlinear first-principles models should be ...

Child-friendly, not childish – that’s the mantra. Designing for young patients means designing spaces that inspire confidence, encourage playfulness, and offer hope. Our goal is to deliver pediatric ...

Innovation is management. For those of us that want to create a lasting innovation culture in our companies, understanding this principle is vital to success. There may be plenty of myth making around ...

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One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...

The processing needed to populate a data warehouse is generically referred to as “ETL.” ETL originally stood as an acronym for “Extract, Transform, and Load.” Those three kinds of actions were ...