Bøger af Darrell Velegol

This book is the result of about 25 years of extensive notes, reading, deriving, calculating, and discussing. I provide a new and rigorous way to analyze collective decisions, from a Chemical Engineering perspective. The perspective follows from - but differs from - the models of von Neumann or Shannon, revealing assumptions and offering new possibilities. It leads to the following ansatz: Human decisions can be treated mathematically as sets of chemical reactions of metaphorical molecules - that is, "decision reactions" involving "knowlecules" - within a broader framework of information flows and separations in networks and dialogical processes represented by process flow diagrams. Concepts like Gibbsian games, decision reactions, perception functions, entropic choices, and pain potentials permeate the pages of this book, and if experimental data support the model, a key benefit is that we can draw on many already-existing sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology. This book aims to be practical, providing measurement methods and equations that can be coded. My long term aim is to grow justice, equity, creativity, and dignity for people all around the world.

"Did you see this? ..." A minute later, the author, his brothers, and his cousins were laughing out loud, as they skimmed through a typed manuscript they had just found, written by their grandfather John L. Velegol, Sr., with the title "How to Have It Real Good". But as usual, Grandpap got the last laugh! ... He had planted in us the seeds to learning about God's Word in the Bible. Inspired by his Grandpap's love for God's Word, the author writes stories about how the Bible has impacted his own life.

This book has one primary goal: To get you moving quickly from learning basic principles of colloid science, to designing colloidal systems for your needs. I provide both intuitive explanations and practical algorithms in areas that our own lab uses regularly: 1. Overview: fabricating colloidal doublets 2. Electrostatic force 3. van der Waals force 4. Hydrodynamics 5. Brownian motion 6. Stability 7. Synthesis 8. Electrokinetics 9. Assembly 10. Characterization In each chapter, I add some "hard to find" pieces. I hope that you find this book to be extremely valuable in your own work!

We live in a wild world. Has the classroom prepared you? Student. Are you conformed and ranked at school, being force-fed subjects that are irrelevant to your interests? Parent. Has standardized testing hijacked your child's passions and purposes, and left you without a voice? Teacher. Are you frustrated by the rigid system that dictates what you teach and how you teach it? Neighbor. Have you lost touch with your local school, which plays no direct role in transforming your community? If so, you may be a Wild Scholar, looking for an educational process that prepares you to thrive in this wild world. This book explores an educational system that includes "Client-based Ventures", "Intelligent Fast Failure", "CENTER habits", "Coaches", and other concepts of a Wild Scholars education. How do we develop a system that focuses on Scholars' passions and purposes, rather than just their test scores? Dr. Darrell Velegol, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University, is an award-winning teacher and researcher. He has worked with 1000s of students, using his CENTER habits (www.velegol.org/CENTER.htm). In each young person he works with, he sees the capacity for greatness. He and his family live in State College PA.

Design of Innovation Processes: Flow from Idea to Market Launch with Higher Speed and Value, Time after Time introduces the concept of seeing innovation as a type of process manufacturing operation and offers a coherent set of principles that will accelerate innovation in the chemical processing industries. The book provides actionable practices for innovating chemically related products and services faster, and with higher value. The author shows that by coordinating an Integrated Innovation Team (IIT) consisting of R&D, marketing, manufacturing, regulatory, toxicology, analytical, legal, finance, VP-level leadership, sustainability, and other functions, it's possible to increase innovation throughput. The author, Dr. Darrell Velegol, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University, sees ineffective innovation processes as the reason why chemical process industries are growing less than industries like digitech, hence he provides valuable information in this updated resource.