Software Engineering 7th Edition

[Octavia Leithoff]

Geistis the artful and playful convergence of uncompromising design, engineering, and manufacturing.

The drive for minimalistic but radical design, upmost manufacturing quality, ethical and environmental responsibility is embodied in a single object - an input device.Featuring a 65% layout plus Swiss-engineered rotary encoder and the unique 3D Bracket Mount, Geist is our interpretation of a high-end keyboard.

All of this is made in-house as well as in close collaboration with our local suppliers in Berlin, Germany. This allows us to make everything on our own terms, while upholding our beliefs in how an uncompromising object should be made.

Note: everything "raw machined" has CNC tool marks on purpose. Top case inlays are left raw machined with only the top surface being bead blasted - that means no tool marks on the outer top surface.

Although polycarbonate ("pc") is naturally a robust material, please treat pc parts gently and with care, especially with the screw threads being inside the pc top case inlays. The pc top inlays have CNC milled threads instead of metal inserts for a clean appearance.

The use case for platforms across functions is growing. Our 2024 report identifies the shared tactics that create a successful Platform Engineering approach. How can you use these insights to strengthen your security, support developers, and deliver efficiently? Download the free report today.

The State of Platform Engineering Report is the 2024 edition of Puppet's long-running State of DevOps Report. It includes new survey results from hundreds of individuals doing platform engineering in industries around the world.

Our findings reveal the skillset and support that a platform team needs to succeed, giving insight into how to make Platform Engineering work better for you and your org. From automation use cases to exploring the specific skillsets that make a great platform team, this report is built to help you get the most out of current trends.

The 2024 State of Platform Engineering Report from Puppet lays the groundwork for teams like yours to understand how platform engineering can make a difference for your productivity and DevOps culture.

Combining two of my favourite tech brands, Nothing and teenage engineering for my community edition seemed like a no-brainer. Both companies strive to create beautiful, disruptive products so it just makes sense for their iconic design languages to be synthesised into one stand-out piece of industrial design.

This photo is from my trip surveying watershed areas and taking samples for ecological analysis, which is part of my job at the Research Institute of Environmental Protection in my hometown of Sichuan Province in southwest China. The rivers lie in the mountainous regions on the west side of the Province, where few people travel. With very little human interference, nature preserves itself. Natural, healthy environments are rare in China.

I discovered a hidden recreation spot not very far from Tucson called the Parker Strip. It is just on the border of Arizona and California. I managed to spend four days outside in June without getting overheated. I even got up on a wakeboard, after a dozen or so tries!

This summer, I am on a leave of absence from my job at HRL Laboratories in Malibu. I am living in my Prius full time while I travel and race. By the time this is published, I will have started hiking the Colorado Trail, which runs 500 miles from Denver to Durango. So far this summer, I have spent a couple of weeks in the Tetons and am currently getting myself to Denver to start the trail on July 15. I am also spending a month in Oahu after the trail! Cheers!

I recently finished my first year as a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at UC Davis. The focus of my research is on sensors, and more specifically differential ion mobility spectrometry for breath chemical sensing. This photo was taken when I was in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education are yielding dramatic improvements in student learning and retention.

This book aims to cover all aspects of teaching engineering and other technical subjects. It presents both practical matters and educational theories in a format useful for both new and experienced teachers. It is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then leads to psychological and educational theories. The "practical orientation" section explains how to develop objectives and then use them to enhance student learning, and the "theoretical orientation" section discusses the theoretical basis for learning/teaching and its impact on students.

Written mainly for PhD students and professors in all areas of engineering, the book may be used as a text for graduate-level classes and professional workshops or by professionals who wish to read it on their own. Although the focus is engineering education, most of this book will be useful to teachers in other disciplines. Teaching is a complex human activity, so it is impossible to develop a formula that guarantees it will be excellent. However, the methods in this book will help all professors become good teachers while spending less time preparing for the classroom.

This is a new edition of the well-received volume published by McGraw-Hill in 1993. It includes an entirely revised section on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and new sections on the characteristics of great teachers, different active learning methods, the application of technology in the classroom (from clickers to intelligent tutorial systems), and how people learn.

Social engineering fraud is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than hacking via technological methods, in an effort to trick, deceive or manipulate unsuspecting individuals into transferring money or key confidential information, usually for financial gain. The schemes have become increasingly sophisticated and are often easily mistaken for being genuine. Although the fraud can be perpetrated through a number of different communication methods, such as telephone, fax and messaging platforms, e-mail is generally the most common conduit. Hackers usually monitor email traffic for months to familiarize themselves with the style and tone of communications. Targeted and well-constructed communications are then sent to individuals within a business, purportedly from people they know and would otherwise trust.

Cyber policies have always been designed to respond to schemes which result in stolen personal or confidential information. As cyber insurers looked for a competitive edge in the marketplace, crime endorsements emerged, expanding coverage for funds stolen through social engineering fraud. Although the coverage itself is similar to that which you would find in a crime policy, minimal sub-limits usually apply.

While having strict protocols and procedures in place to help prevent fraud is essential, crime (and indeed cyber) policies should form part of your defense strategy for protecting your company against social engineering fraud.

Ideally, this does make the most sense, as you would like the policies to work in lockstep with one another. Realistically, this might not always be the case as each insurer uses proprietary language and your primary crime and cyber insurers may differ.

We recommend putting both crime and cyber insurers on notice. Be mindful of potentially different notification requirements on both the crime and cyber policies. In most cases, the cyber policy will respond first for claims that result from the loss of confidential information and the crime policy will be primary for claims that result from the loss of funds.

Cyber underwriters generally do not require supplemental questionnaires when they offer social engineering fraud coverage on their policies, largely because of the small sub-limits that are available. Although cyber insurers have recently pulled back a bit when offering the additional coverage, particularly for financial institutions, the enhancement is still largely available for most clients, especially on large accounts. Excess insurers have, however, been increasingly reluctant to follow crime coverages.

The more modern and bespoke wordings generally offer a broader scope of coverage, compared to off the shelf insurer issued products. However, we are seeing some UK crime insurers pull back some of the coverage in some instances, particularly where those insureds have had previous incidents of social engineering fraud losses. UK cyber insurers, who already provided crime endorsements (albeit less frequently than their U.S. counterparts), began to pull back from adding this enhancement to certain cyber policies in 2020, particularly those written for smaller financial institutions given the full coverage offered under their crime policies.

Insurers have responded to the demand for social engineering fraud coverage in a variety of ways. We invite you to contact us if you have any questions relating to your current crime and/or cyber program and how to ensure you are positioned for optimal insurance recovery in the event of a loss. As there is an inherent overlap between cyber and crime coverage, insurers continue to evaluate areas where multiple policies may respond to the same loss.

Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, Third Edition, includes updated chapters and extended resources to assist in the research and teaching of solar energy engineering. Sections cover advances in solar collectors, solar water heating, solar space heating and cooling, industrial process heat, solar desalination, photovoltaic technology, solar thermal power systems, modeling of solar energy systems, and a new chapter on wind energy systems. This book provides students, teachers and professionals with the basic principles and applications of solar energy systems and processes to help them understand how to operate and design solar systems.

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