Workshop Objectives

Workshop objectives are met only when measurable improvements in safety, loss prevention, and security programs have been made in participants own areas as a result of attending the workshop. 

In general, historic experiments were performed primarily to explore characteristics and behaviors of tsunamis. On the other hand, a majority of recent experiments aims at providing adequate benchmark data sets for validation of muneric models. For example, benchmarking exercises for numeric models were conducted at the 1995 Friday Harbor Workshop and the 2004 Catalina Island Workshop Objectives of laboratory experiments have evolved together with advances in measuring instruments. 

The project that emerged was an ESJ workshop for interested engineering educators at our university. Though a full description of the workshop is beyond the scope of this chapter, we provide the workshop objectives here for context ... 

The new processes should be designed in a series of quality workshops. The objective of the first workshop is to develop a generalized process that could be used as a starting point for detailed design of the final processes. For example, ISO 9000 provides a management process for implementing quality. The elements of this general process are the minimum requirements for the later processes. This workshop should include representatives of ... 

At the initial workshop, someone from the integration project team should introduce the project and its objectives and then present the overall findings from the assessment. 

This brief summary is devoted to machines, not to the science they permitted. Yet, science relies critically on experimentation, the making of which may start in a laboratory, workshop, or in a factory. Astronomy is quite peculiar in respect of experimentation. It relies almost exclusively on contemplation recording images of inaccessible objects and their spectral properties i.e., recording data cubes (two angular coordinates and a spectral one), without any capability to act on the parameters of the observed object. Few sciences have lesser means to experiment yet none, perhaps, delivers so much with so little. 

Before mentors were allowed to act as such they were sent on a 1-day mentoring training workshop, which involved the following objectives ... 

Field Applicability Testing (FAT) Workshop. In March 1982, the EPA Office of Research and Development convened a workshop with the specific objectives to (1) assess the state of knowledge on determining the field applicability of laboratory bioassay tests, toxicity studies, microcosm studies, and mathematical chemical exposure models (i.e., the extent to which these methods have been tested/compared with field data), and (2) recommend research objectives and priorities to advance the current level of field testing. Workshop attendees included representatives from EPA research laboratories, universities, and private industry. 

M.R. Schilling, Workshop on Binding Media Identification in Art Objects, LabSTECH European Infrastructure Cooperation Network, 24 26 March, Amsterdam (2003). 

Galbiati L (2008) Main pressures threatening the achievement of the WFD s objectives. Optimization of the PoM to reach a good physical-chemical state. In 2nd Riskbase WP lb Thematic Workshop, Bridging Science, Water Management and Practical Experiences in European River Basins Oral presentation, Budapest, May 15-17... 

The main objective of the Workshop was to bring together people working in areas of Fundamental physics relating to Quantum Field Theory, Finite Temperature Field theory and their applications to problems in particle physics, phase transitions and overlap regions with the areas of Quantum Chaos. The other important area is related to aspects of Non-Linear Dynamics which has been considered with the topic of chaology. The applications of such techniques are to mesoscopic systems, nanostructures, quantum information, particle physics and cosmology. All this forms a very rich area to review critically and then find aspects that still need careful consideration with possible new developments to find appropriate solutions. 

A workshop should aim to produce scenarios, the most accessible notation to general users. Different small groups can work on different use cases. The main job of the facilitator is to show the groups how to abstract both actions and objects and not to get hung up... 

The Loss and Claim Adjusting Process Workshop Cost Estimation, Investigation Objectives, and the Settlement, Eric Lenoir, Straun Robertson, Michael Misurelli, Larry Collins, Berrin Tansel... 

A couple of years ago a workshop was organized to compare the performance of the various statistical methods applied for receptor model (12). To create an objective basis for the comparison of the different analyses, a synthetic data set was generated according to the following equation ... 

This chapter considers the role of variability and uncertainty in ecological risk assessment and discusses whether it is necessary to quantify them. It concludes by setting out the objectives and key issues that were considered at the Pellston workshop in February 2002, which are addressed in the following chapters of this book. 

In addressing its objectives and developing the case studies, the workshop gave particular consideration to the following key issues. 

Bayesian methods are very amenable to applying diverse types of information. An example provided during the workshop involved Monte Carlo predictions of pesticide disappearance from a water body based on laboratory-derived rate constants. Field data for a particular time after application was used to adjust or update the priors of the Monte Carlo simulation results for that day. The field data and laboratory data were included in the analysis to produce a posterior estimate of predicted concentrations through time. Bayesian methods also allow subjective weight of evidence and objective evidence to be combined in producing an informed statement of risk. 

Process simplification is executed in a formal workshop with a trained experienced facilitator. This VIP should always include key participants from each of the project owner s organizations, the engineering contractor organization, key third-party technology licensors, and equipment or systems vendors, where possible. One or more cold eyes reviewers or sul ect matter experts, who have extensive experience, should be included to provide an objective and unbiased perspective. 

This VIP reduces capital investment by confirming minimum required capacities and flexibility necessary only to meet current project business objectives. The workshop drills down to each specific system and subsystem and finally scrutinizes the design of each equipment item. This workshop is often combined with the value engineering VIP, which overlaps significantly. The design to capacity VIP should be conducted in the definition phase (FEL-3) when the first issue of P IDs is available. 

Preparation and Planning Before the VIP is begun, the goals, objectives, and scheduled time for the formal workshop must be agreed upon by the integrated project management team. The workshop facilitator must ensure that all the information required for the workshop is available and that the workshop team members have been fully briefed on the VIP s objectives, methodology, and expectations. 

The presentation phase The VIP team formally presents the profitability recommendations consistent with the objectives and constraints of the workshop and their implementation plans to the steering committee or the project management team. The steering committee then approves those recommendations that pass muster and authorizes the project team to begin the implementation effort. Often, this approval is conditional on early validation by subject matter experts within the project owner s organization, but not present within the workshop. This external feasibility check is meant to provide support to the project team for any additional resources and schedule time needed to fully incorporate the improvements into the project scope of work. 

This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by persons chosen for their diverse perspectives and techitical expertise in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the sum-maiy meets institutional standards of objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the workshop charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this workshop summary ... 

In this workshop, articles made of thin sheet iron are being given a protective coating of nickel, a much more expensive metal. By using electrolysis a number of objects can be plated at the same time. 

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