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How do engineers add real value? How can they create shareholder value out of the money they are trusted to invest? Can engineers operate within the mature industrial fan sector, measure their performance and make their business case? How can engineers justify the trust their business places in them? How can engineers measure their effectiveness with more accuracy? "Advances in Industrial Fan Technology" answers these questions and more. The editor and authors go beyond an incremental approach, providing insight into the reality of what is needed to drive a technological revolution within the industrial fan industry. Touted by many leaders, both domestically and internationally, this book will appeal to: cooperative managers who must ultimately choose where they will invest; senior engineers who are trusted to deliver shareholder value; junior engineers who wish to learn what it means to transform an industry; those within the industrial fan community who wish to remain relevant in a changing world order; those within the aerospace community who wish to forge new partnerships with an industry that is evolving into a new force within the industrial turbomachinery community; and, those within academia who are looking for new opportunities to leverage their own capabilities.

Wearing many hats, Geoff Sheard is the Flakt Woods Group Vice President of Fan Technology, a leading global supplier of energy-efficient solutions operating in both the air climate for buildings and air movement for the infrastructure and industry markets. He is a director of Flakt Woods Limited, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Northampton Business School and a Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale. Geoff is also a director of the Air Movement & Control Association (AMCA) and a member of the AMCA Executive Board. He is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Fluid Machinery Group and Chairman of the organizing committee for Fan 2012, an international conference on fan noise, technology and numerical methods. He also leads the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Fans & Blowers initiative. Geoff has doctorate degrees from Oxford University in turbomachinery aerodynamics and from the University of Northampton in leadership and team development. He also holds a masters degree in business administration from Cranfield University and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Liverpool University. He is a chartered engineer, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers, Geoff has published widely in both technical and management areas. He has published two books, two monographs, over 75 articles, and is a member of the Journal of Management Development editorial advisory board and the Leadership and Organisational Development Journal editorial review board.