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What the Engineer Measures: An Industrial Engineering Course in Sixteen Chapters

What the Engineer Measures: An Industrial Engineering Course in Sixteen Chapters

Van Houte, Cornelis

Paperback

Series: Frost Operational Guides: The Van Houte Method, Book 20

Technology & Engineering

ISBN13: 9798251003406
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 654
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The tools will not save you. They will only make your decisions more defensible. They will give you the word for what you already know.

In the sweltering heat of Kinshasa, where the infrastructure is crumbling and the electricity is a suggestion rather than a guarantee, Dr. Cornelis Frost van Houte-a man who measures everything and apologizes for nothing-is teaching a course that is about much more than math.

What the Engineer Measures is a groundbreaking hybrid: a rigorous, FE-exam-aligned textbook on Industrial Engineering wrapped in a high-stakes narrative of development, grit, and human resilience.

Follow Dr. Frost and a class of Congolese students-from a struggling bakery owner to a logistics manager fighting a broken supply chain-as they apply the cold logic of engineering to a world that feels anything but logical. Through sixteen chapters, you will master:

  • Engineering Economics: The real cost of loans and the time value of money.
  • Operations & Lean: Takt time, OEE, and balancing lines when the power goes out.
  • Quality & Six Sigma: Why a 3% error in a pharmaceutical tablet is a moral failure.
  • Logistcs & Ergonomics: Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem in the mud of a tropical storm.
Whether you are a student preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam, a professional looking to sharpen your systems-thinking, or a reader who loves Techno-Realism, this book offers a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

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