Function, quality and cost are the three core elements of a product. Especially in the future, under the general trend of digitalisation and AI, it is a must for manufacturing companies to establish a complete cost engineering system.Based on 25 years of practical experience and method research in German and Chinese automotive companies, the author systematically introduces cost engineering system, cost engineering methods and their practical applications in the entire product proc...

Funktion, Qualität und Kosten sind die drei Kernelemente eines Produkts. Vor allem in der Zukunft, unter dem allgemeinen Trend der Digitalisierung und AI, ist es für produzierende Unternehmen ein Muss, ein vollständiges Cost-Engineering-System zu etablieren.Basierend auf 25 Jahren praktischer Erfahrung und Methodenforschung in deutschen und chinesischen Automobilunternehmen stellt der Autor in diesem Buch zum ersten Mal Cost- Engineering-System, Cost-Engineering-Methoden und deren ...

This book addresses several important issues concerning the nanomechanics of graphene, an area that is vital to a fundamental understanding of graphene deformation, and to the design of graphene-related materials. The content chiefly focuses on the out-of-plane mechanical behaviors of graphene, and their effects on the mechanical properties of graphene composites. In addition, the book puts forward original theoretical mechanical models based on continuum mechanics, discontinuous effects a...

International students have long been seen as cash cows by Canadian universities, a revenue stream of high tuition fees for the same education received by lower-paying domestic students. While in the past their inclusion has been lauded as “recruiting global talent” to Canada, more recently these students have been blamed for social issues from housing shortages to spreading disease — various reductive framings that instrumentalize student migrants for political purposes. Meanwhile, studen...

纽约的小程序员王齐（王七），与他的大学同学张孝光（张大），李靖乾（李三）三人在纽约过着"百分之五十已完成"的单身生活，游戏人生中，他也渴望着爱情。王七的大学单相思发生在军训之初，对方是他美丽的女辅导员常广寒。在一个军训事故中常广寒开枪打伤了排长付严的手臂，而后者在疗伤过程也对她产生了恋慕之情。常广寒在与同校教师、未婚夫尚之圣结婚的前一天，失望于爱情而自杀身亡。事隔多年，王齐在纽约的一个旧货市场，因寻购物《聊斋》一书而巧遇清代文学家蒲松龄老先生，在中秋那晚的梦中，他被渡入了《聊斋志异》的仙境，经历了一程狂欢的月宫之旅。

This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally, The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng.The novel weaves into its narrative, through the characters' personalities and the events it illustrates, important details of Ming material life. Through the literary snapshot of the Ming material culture as ref...