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Internationalisation: From Quantity To Quality By Evolving Collaborations Across Academic Teaching And Research, Michael Kellerhals

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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The country of Switzerland is ranked among the worldwide top Innovation ecosystems. With the inception of the new Institute of Innovation & Technology Management at LUASA, the internationalisation strategy is moving towards select partnerships across academic areas including joint innovative teaching formats, joint research programs, faculty exchange and joint degrees.

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The country of Switzerland is ranked among the worldwide top Innovation ecosystems. Owing to its unique Swiss dual education system, the network of Applied Science Universities plays a central role for industrial innovation and technology transfer. Technical depth, interdisciplinary thinking, cross-cultural fluency and international experience are …

A Comparative Analysis Of The Performance Of Non-Traditional Students In An Ict Program In An Irish Higher Education Institute, Joseph Kellegher, Dermot Clarke, Brian Keegan

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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This study examines the performance, over a three year period, of non-traditional students in Ireland who move from Further (or Continuing) Education into Higher Education when they join the second year of a three-year ordinary degree program in ICT at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

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This study examines the performance of students from various Colleges of Further Education (CFE) when they join a three-year ordinary degree program in ICT at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Ireland.

Starting in the academic year 2012/13, the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering …

Stem Education Through A Different Lens, Yunfeng Chen, David Dylan John

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Current STEM education focuses predominantly on specialized knowledge and skills. Even technical background is important, companies have expressed explicitly that they lean towards those graduates well rounded with non-technical skills. This study is a qualitative investigation of students’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the most critical skills for STEM graduates’ success.

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Current STEM education focuses predominantly on technically specialized knowledge and skills. Both practitioners and academicians recognize the importance of those non-technical skills. Additionally, many studies are limited in their theoretical justification. More significantly, limited empirical evidence is provided. This study is a qualitative investigation of students’ …

The Learning Commons: Building Collaboration, Assessment, And User Experience Into The Education System, Kevin Michael Berkopes

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Current research restores our awareness that students’ mathematical proficiency impacts their future academic success, choices of majors at the university level, career choice, and early career earnings potential (Boaler, 2015; Geiser & Santelices, 2007; Rose & Betts, 2004). In this discussion, Dr. Berkopes presents the Learning Commons as a methodology for scaling competency based learning and peer-to-peer academic centered interactions.

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The teaching and learning of mathematics in the US has been a highly publicized political and economic issue for more than four decades. Despite decades of reform efforts, the US education system still predominantly provides access …

Work Ready Graduates; Through Competency-Based Teaching, Learning And Assessment, Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Ian Wilson

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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An ever growing need for graduate engineers, who possess academic knowledge and real world experience, sees a new approach to curriculum design by Wilson. I, Smith.C (2013), whereby teaching delivery and assessment on courses located on Unipart Powertrain Automotive (UPA) manufacturing site are structured around Competency-based education (CBE) concept.

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An ever growing need for graduate engineers who possess academic knowledge and real world experience, Coventry University further developed in 2013 based on work previously undertaken by Wilson and Smith (2012), the design and delivery of the first faculty on the factory floor, whereby students not only …

Understanding The Stem Skills Gap: A Regional Perspective, Charles R. Bomar, Shelley Lee, Leroy Lee

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Considerable discussion with regional stakeholders has occurred around the concept of a STEM skill gap. A reoccurring theme with regional employers seem frustrated that skills necessary for the workplace are not adequately provided in K-12 or higher education. We assembled a team to evaluate two aspects of the perceived gap. First we surveyed ten regional stakeholders to articulate their interpretation of the skills gap and perceived solutions. Secondly we reviewed (46 area school districts) standardized test scores (ACT Science and Math) and benchmarked regional scores relative to state and national standards; post high school graduation plans; high school …

Robotics And Iot: Interdisciplinary Applied Research In The Riot Zone, Richard Voyles, Juan Wachs, Dan Foti, Byung-Cheol Min

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Robotics and the Internet of Things are intrinsically multi-disciplinary subjects that investigate the interaction between the physical and the cyber worlds and how they impact society. As a result, they not only demand careful consideration of digital and analog technologies, but also the human element. The “RIoT Zone” brings together disparate people and ideas to address intuitive autonomy.

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Robotics and the Internet of Things are intrinsically multi-disciplinary subjects that investigate the interaction between the physical and the cyber worlds and how they impact society. As a result, they not only demand careful consideration of digital and …

An Examination Of Broadening The Engineering Curriculum In Ireland, Mike Murphy, Pat O'Donnell, John Jameson

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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This talk will explore whether and how undergraduate engineering programs in Ireland broaden the education of students through the inclusion of non-core engineering content, such as business subjects, in their curriculum in order to develop critical thinking skills and self-knowledge of what it means to be an engineer.

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The goal of the paper is to provide a commentary on the level of interaction between business faculty and engineering faculty, in the design and delivery of engineering programs, and the results of that interaction. To this end a taxonomy of engineering enlightenment is proposed, and this is …

Re-Assess And Modify Manufacturing Curriculum To Meet The Requirement Of Industry 4.0, David Ding, John Dzissah, Charles Bomar

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Evaluates the potential changes that might significantly impact the knowledge and skill‐set requirements for students that are/will be enroll in the manufacturing engineering program.

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The adoption of Industry 4.0 creates the need to reassess and modify the current Manufacturing Engineering program curriculum. The different aspects of Industry 4.0 and their potential impact to the current manufacturing engineering curriculum such as the human‐machine system, data‐driven decision making and cyber‐physical system will be discussed.

Aerodynamic Drag Reduction Of Class 8 Tractor-Trailers Using External Attachments, Mir Atiqullah, Emmanuel Nnamani

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Aerodynamic drag of tractor-trailers using add-on devices were studied using CFD simulations and wind tunnel testing on scale-model. Five external attachments were tested for effectiveness: (i) front fairing, (ii) trailer top, (iii) side skirt, (iv) gap cover and (v) trailing end oval. The resulting aerodynamic drag coefficients were significantly lower.

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Aerodynamic drag has significant influence on fuel consumption in large tractor-trailers. The primary objective of the current study is to reduce aerodynamic drag using add-on devices. Two approaches have been employed to measure the effectiveness of these devices: CFD simulation and scale model testing in wind …

Our Journey Into Learning Innovation And Competency-Based Education, Jeffrey J. Evans, Justin Seipel, Michael T. Smith

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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In 2013 a learning innovation incubator began with a question “what might an education addressing next-generation skills look like?” A result was the first competency-based undergraduate program at a main campus of a major university. This talk provides insights into a process involving learning and policy innovation.

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In 2013 a learning innovation incubator began to consider the question “what might an education addressing next-generation skills look like?” Faculty from technology, mathematics, science, and various disciplines in the humanities met weekly for six months establishing trust with the help of a learning innovation coach using open dialog …

Using Lean To Develop Partnerships Between Students And Industry, Jim Keyes, Angie Yudes

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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Partnering with industry provides students with real-world laboratory experiences. This presentation will detail the development and results of the hands-on partnership approach that UW Stout practices to instruct use and application of lean tools.

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Partnering with industry has provided students with a real-world laboratory experience. Companies varying from manufacturing to service operations have allowed students access to their operations to work directly with their employees to implement lean process improvements. This presentation will detail the development and results of the hands-on partnership approach that UW Stout practices to instruct use and application of lean tools.

A …

Solution Based Learning In Higher Education: Enhancing Employability Skills, Ian Wilson, Sdriana Ortiz

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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This paper looks to explain the principles of Solution Based Learning approach that is currently apply on the Manufacturing Engineering course and to show examples of how this approach is supporting the generation of employability skills.

* Conversation and communication skills, share ideas, presentation skills, problem solving, team working etc.

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This paper looks to explain the principles of Solution Based Learning approach that is currently apply on the Manufacturing Engineering course and to show examples of how this approach is supporting the generation of employability skills.

Examples can be taken directly from real companies with real …

Successful University Collaboration In The Areas Of Industrial Engineering And Innovation, Sascha Götte, Iris Reychav

Polytechnic Institute Summit

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The cooperation consists of joint intensive weeks offering complementary competencies to students from both institutions. The presented activities encourage students to consider master programs from the other partner institution, initiate jointly conducted research activities with industry partners from Israel and Switzerland and entrepreneurial activities of both university staff and students.

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Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Ariel University are both international oriented and agile institutions offering bachelor and master programs in Industrial Engineering with strong focus on innovation. The idea of the cooperation is to establish a bilateral student exchange offering complementary competencies to …

Developing Teacher Competencies For Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy And For Supporting Learning In Language-Minority Students, Peter Rillero, Mari Koerner, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Joi Merritt, Wendy J. Farr

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

Teachers need to be able to design and implement problem-based learning (PBL) experiences to help students master the content and the processes in new mathematics and science education standards. Due to the changed population of learners within schools, it is also critically important that teachers in the elementary grades have the abilities to work effectively with English language learners (ELL). This article discusses the implementation of a major initiative by our teachers college to achieve both of these goals through Problem-Based Enhanced Language Learning (PBELL), which combines PBL, enhanced opportunities for language, and ELL methods. The implementation began with a …

Memory And Identity-Focused Narratives In Tănase's 'Lived Book', Nicoleta D. Ifrim

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'" Nicoleta Ifrim analyses România mea (My Romania), Virgil Tănase's first book published after the fall of Ceausescu's regime, a collection of interviews in which personal history is fictionalized according to the narrative rules of a "spoken book." The text is representative for the Eastern intellectual travelling to the West, carrying out his own personal post-totalitarian traumas now mirrored in a self-oriented narrative.

The Introduction Of Informal Cooperative Learning Into Our Programming Laboratories, Guity Ravai, Ludmila Nunes, Ronald Erdei

IMPACT Presentations

Presented at the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) Change Leader Forum: Creating a Mindset for Action in Westminster, CO, USA

Main Campus And Remote Campus Engineering Technology Students: How Are They Different?, Anne M. Lucietto, Sarah E. Leach

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Engineering Technology students are underrepresented as compared to other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. In particular, they are a very small, often neglected population of which little is known to those outside their field of study. One large Midwestern University is studying their engineering technology student population to further understand how best to serve these students. The intent is to improve student services, learning opportunities, and environments with a goal of improving student skills and knowledge. The ultimate objective is to send them into the workplace more fully prepared for the challenges they will encounter. Due to the …

Engineering Technology Students - How Do They Compare To Other Stem Students?, Anne M. Lucietto

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

For many years, students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors were easily identified. However, since the realization that the US has a low number of students enrolled in STEM programs, great effort has been expended to encourage youth to pursue careers in these areas. Because of these broad-based efforts, the demographics of students moving into STEM are different from those in the past. There is a noted lack of diversity in students majoring in engineering technology; this is not as prevalent in other STEM fields.

Engineering technology students belong to a unique group. They are formally trained …

Understanding Young Students' Problem Solving Pathways: Building A Design Process Model Based On Sequential Analysis, Euisuk Sung, Todd R. Kelley

Technology Leadership and Innovation Faculty Publications

Many STEM-related K-12 education standards, such as the Next Generation Science Standards, Standards for Technological Literacy, and Common Core Mathematics Standards, place great emphasis on designing as a way of delivering their core concepts. However, the classroom delivery of core design concepts has been the focus of very few studies. Particularly, most design-based lessons use a design process model, which poses a challenge for many engineering and technology educators. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the actual process of engineering design using the sequential pattern analysis method. The researchers collected ten Concurrent Think-Aloud (CTA) protocols from fourth …

Book Reviews-Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

Against the Grain

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Against the Grain

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Don's Conference Notes-At The Helm: Leading Transformation-The 2017 Acrl Conference, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

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Wilderness Courage Scale (Wcs), Piotr Prochniak

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

This article presents a new tool—the Wilderness Courage Scale. The Wilderness Courage Scale is a scale that diagnoses undertaking activity in dangerous natural environments, despite personal fears. The validity of the Wilderness Courage Scale was tested using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The results of factor analyses verified the one-factor structure. The questionnaire’s internal consistency and intercorrelations were also tested. The Wilderness Courage Scale correlates with sensation seeking, some personality traits, and coping forms. The author discusses the findings in regard to the Wilderness Courage Scale as an instrument to measure exploration of dangerous natural environments. However, further studies need …

Datasets On The Genomic Positions Of The Mll1 Morphemes, The Zfp57 Binding Site, And Zfbs-Morph Overlaps In The Build Mm9 Of The Mouse Genome, Minou Bina, Phillip Wyss, Xiaohui C. Song

Department of Chemistry Faculty Publications

While MLL1 activates gene expression in most tissues, ZFP57 represses transcription. MLL1 selectively interacts with a group of nonmethylated DNA sequences known as the MLL1 morphemes. ZFP57 associates with a methylated hexamer (ZFBS), dispersed in the genomic DNA segments known as Imprinted Control Regions (ICRs) and germline Differentially Methylated Regions (gDMRs), to maintain allele-specific gene repression. We have identified a set of composite DNA elements (ZFBS-Morph overlaps) that provides the sequence context of ZFBS in the canonical ICRs/gDMRs. This report provides tables listing the nucleotide sequences of the MLL1 morphemes and ZFBS-Morph overlaps. The report also offers links to the …

Learning To Identify Depth Edges In Real-World Images With 3d Ground Truth, Krista A. Ehinger, Kevin T. Joseph, Wendy J. Adams, Erich W. Graf, James H. Elder

MODVIS Workshop

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A Single Shape From Multiple Cues: How Local And Global Information Organizes Shape Inference, Benjamin Kunsberg, Steven W. Zucker

MODVIS Workshop

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Shape Features Underlying The Perception Of Liquids, Jan Jaap R. Van Assen, Pascal Barla, Roland W. Fleming

MODVIS Workshop

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Scoring Scene Symmetry, Morteza Rezanejad, John D. Wilder, Sven Dickinson, Allan Jepson, Dirk B. Walther, Kaleem Siddiqi

MODVIS Workshop

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Can Cone Signals In The Wild Be Predicted From The Past?, David H. Foster, Iván Marín-Franch

MODVIS Workshop

In the natural world, the past is usually a good guide to the future. If light from the sun and sky is blue earlier in the day and yellow now, then it is likely to be more yellow later, as the sun's elevation decreases. But is the light reflected from a scene into the eye as predictable as the light incident upon the scene, especially when lighting changes are not just spectral but include changes in local shadows and mutual reflections? The aim of this work was to test the predictability of cone photoreceptor signals in the wild over the …