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"American Identities" is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from World War II to the present. The textbook charts the rich multiplicity of American identities as refracted through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war. Rather than simply teaching history, "American Identities" actively engages students in the history-making process while developing the skills crucial to interpreting meaningful and enduring cultural texts.
Substantial editorial matter and the accompanying instructor's guide provide resources for classroom use and for student projects, including:
Headnotes and study guide questions for each reading
Exercises for individual and group reading and viewing
Timelines
Interview questions
Bibliographies to guide students into becoming readers of American culture and historians of their families.
List of contents
1. Project Management - Systems Engineering - the Industrialization Process.
2. Metrics for Sustainability Assessment of Chemical Processes.
3. From Preliminary Projects to Projects.
4. Analysis of the Strategy of the Enterprise and the Enterprise Strategic Plan.
5. Excellence in Manufacturing and Operations Control.
6. Innovation and Change Management.
7. Water and Energy Challenges.
8. Engineers as Key Players for Sustainability: The Role of PSE Academia.
9. Plant of the Future.
About the author
Jean-Pierre Dal Pont is President of SFGP (French Chemical Engineering Society), General Secretary of EFCE (European Federation of Chemical Engineering) Paris Office and former Vice President Industrial of Rhodia (today Solvay) in Asia Pacific.
Catherine Azzaro-Pantel is Professor at INP ENSIACET (Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques, University of Toulouse, France). Her research interests lie in the area of Process Systems Engineering with a specific focus on optimization methods for design and operation of sustainable processes and energy systems.
Summary
Competition from emerging and developing countries, challenges related to energy and water, the continuing increase in the global population and the obligation to be sustainable are all impacting developed countries such as the United States, France, etc.
