Productivity and Industrial Structure: A Statistical Study of Manufacturing Industry in Britain, Germany, and the United States. S. J. Prais , Anne Daly , Daniel T. Jones , Karin Wagner

1983 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 524-527
Author(s):  
Martin Neil Baily
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
The United States

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Within Undergraduate Programs

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim A. Shollenberger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics Cfd

There has been a rapid increase over the past three decades in the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis by industry as a tool to design and manufacture products. It is currently a vital part of the engineering process for many companies around the world, and utilized in nearly every manufacturing industry. Employers of engineering students who perform this type of analysis have expressed the need for students at the undergraduate or B.S. level to have some CFD experience. As a result, engineering programs in the United States have begun to respond to this need by developing new curriculum and by exposing students to the use of CFD for research. The level of incorporation and implementation of CFD into the undergraduate curriculum and research at institutions varies widely. The objective of this paper is to conduct a survey of the current use of CFD in the undergraduate curriculum within mechanical engineering departments in the United States. Twenty ABET accredited U.S. schools that offer a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering are investigated in this study that are a representative sample of engineering schools in the U.S. today in terms of admission standards, private versus public, predominate terminal degree, size, and geographic location. Topics investigated include if CFD classes are offered to undergraduates whether they are required or optional, when they are first introduced into the curriculum, number of credit hours dedicated to CFD, types of courses that include CFD, and whether commercial or in-house codes are utilized.

USMCA brings Mexico broad continuity, with some risks

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Export Sector ◽  
The One ◽  
United States Mexico

Subject The new USMCA. Significance Mexico, Canada and the United States agreed on September 30 to a new trilateral free trade agreement, to replace NAFTA. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) presents a mixed scenario for Mexico’s economy. On the one hand, Mexican officials and businesses are relieved that the uncertainty surrounding the negotiations has been resolved. On the other, the agreement imposes new rules in the auto sector, which could have negative consequences for Mexico’s most important manufacturing industry. Impacts New auto industry rules could raise prices and disrupt supply chains in Mexico’s key export sector. Despite the USMCA’s provisions for higher wages, it will in practice do little to raise them in Mexico. Mexico remains vulnerable to the Trump administration’s protectionist whims.

scholarly journals Markets: Ready-Mixed Concrete

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Syverson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Transportation Problem ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transport Barriers ◽  
Ready Mixed Concrete ◽  
Ready Mix Concrete ◽  
Mixed Concrete

Concrete's natural color is gray. Its favored uses are utilitarian. Its very ubiquity causes it to blend into the background. But ready-mix concrete does have one remarkable characteristic: other than manufactured ice, perhaps no other manufacturing industry faces greater transport barriers. The transportation problem arises because ready-mix concrete both has a low value-to-weight ratio and is highly perishable—it absolutely must be discharged from the truck before it hardens. These transportation barriers mean ready-mixed concrete must be produced near its customers. For the same reason, foreign trade in ready-mixed concrete is essentially nonexistent. This article is an introduction to the basics of the market for ready-mix concrete, focusing mainly on its consumers and its producers in the United States, but with occasional comparisons to other countries when contrasts are useful.

Industrial Policy: A Solution in Search of a Problem

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Schultze
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
American Labor

Evidence from the 1970s does not support the view that the United States is “deindustrializing.” Nor is there evidence that, in periods of normal (nonrecession) economic conditions, American labor and capital cannot successfully make the gradual but inevitable transition from older to newer industries and occupations. There is no need for a new “industrial policy” under which the federal government attempts to influence industrial structure by some combination of “picking the winners” and “protecting the losers.” Industrial policy is not the secret of Japanese industrial success. And in the American political and governmental structure, such a policy would almost surely do much more harm than good.

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