List of Contributions

Languages, along with computer literacy, is one of the key element of the so-called "transferable skills", which are common to all engineering disciplines. Others are: understanding the profession, ethics (incl. willingness to serve society and the environment), ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary ...

Yeah, what the military calls collateral damage... A fire brigade or ambulance on duty, causing a traffic accident, would be of that type, jeopardizing the relief action they set out for (risks of failing mitigation on the side of the consequence tree). ------------------------------ J.-Martin Hohberg ...

Hi Mitch: Regarding oil spills I once found an instructive bow-tie application to accidents in fueling of an aircraft: I always liked the HACCP method of identifing critical control points (CCP) in hazard analysys (HA), which in this figure are called "safety critical tasks". Perhaps we could ...

Six Sigma is about improving process capabilities and control variations, which is the highest level (#5) of capability-maturity models (CMM). In the AEC sector I can imagine application in stationary processes like precasting yards or logistics for construction sites of long duration. Such process redesign ...

I'm living in Switzerland with four official languages: German, French, Italian and Rumantsch (cf. https://www.aboutswitzerland.eda.admin.ch/en/allegra-a-look-at-romansh-switzerlands-fourth-language). Because of a high immigration rate English has become accepted a the 5th language in academia and international ...