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Oureconomy: Social Impact In Syracuse, Daniel Cowen
Oureconomy: Social Impact In Syracuse, Daniel Cowen
Honors Capstone Projects - All
In today’s society we rely on non-profits and government institutions to ameliorate our most pressing problems. Everyday these organizations employees work tirelessly to help people most in need. Their efforts are recognized and commendable, but they are constantly limited by countless restraints like lack of funding, slow service innovation, and accurate impact measurement tools. Implementing a new sector that would effectively combat the problems that organizations battle when they are doing their best to solve other people’s problems would exponentially improve services.
In this paper I start by outlining the societal problems that are especially prevalent in Syracuse, but characteristic …
Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh
Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
If you have ever had to seek technical information, you have probably run into an information access roadblock or a pay-wall. This is a major issue for our students as they leave our universities and our subscription resources and move on to become practitioners of their field. This session will outline the different types of freely available technical information - including patents, government funded technical reports, and open access journal literature - and demonstrate how to access them. The session will also give examples of how to integrate these resources into the classroom through design projects and information seeking assignments. …
Reconsidering The User, Nathan M. Aleskovsky
Reconsidering The User, Nathan M. Aleskovsky
Architecture Senior Theses
My thesis, Reconsidering The User, is a proposal for a digital application that unites the architect and the occupant in the design process of a home by transforming how design criteria are obtained and controlled.
Within the scope of the detached single-family house, my thesis argues that a design process that engages the expertise of both the architect and the occupant has the potential to create a design solution that is more accurately tailored to the preferences of the occupant. This is possible through reconfiguring the information phase of architectural design. Given my background and current entrepreneurial pursuit, best way …
Snapshot Of The Ivmf: Annual Report 2013, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University
Snapshot Of The Ivmf: Annual Report 2013, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University
Institute for Veterans and Military Families
This report overviews the accomplishments of the IVMF during 2012-2013.