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Social Roles And Psychological Continuity: Developing A Confucian-Psychological Continuity Hybrid Account Of Personal Identity And Ontology, Sammuel Byer

Comparative Philosophy

In this paper, I delineate a variety of questions related to personal identity and ontology. I develop and compare the Confucian conception of the person and the view of the person developed throughout Derek Parfit’s work on personal identity and ontology. I will demonstrate that the Confucian conception of the person has numerous instructive similarities with Parfit’s work on personal identity, despite a number of differences. I argue, briefly, that this project is worthwhile as a piece of comparative philosophy. One of the final two sections of the paper develop a new hybrid account of personal identity and ontology that …

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Comparative Philosophy

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Comparative Philosophy

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Comparative Philosophy

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Competency Based Learning In "Aerospace Structures I" In An Online Environment - Work In Progress, Maria Chierichetti, Nataliya Grigoryan, Radha Aravamudhan, Joseph Rodriguez

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In Fall 2020, we converted the engineering upper division class “Aerospace Structural Analysis I” from a traditional format to a competency-based learning model. “Aerospace Structural Analysis I” is a combination of topics from statics and strength of materials applied to aerospace systems. A total of about 100 students were enrolled in the class. Due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, this class was conducted in an online environment for the first time in Fall 2020. Competency based learning assesses students on how many topics/skills they are proficient, and allows students to engage with more complex topics only after mastering prerequisite …

Challenges And Successes Of The Transition To Online Format Of A Lower Division Aerospace Engineering Class During Covid-19, Lucia Rut Capdevila

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

During the Spring 2020 semester, after the transition to online modality due to the COVID-19 pandemic, student engagement and participation level dropped significantly and student performance suffered in “Computer Programing for Aerospace Engineers” (AE 30), a lower division computer programming course in Aerospace Engineering. Cognitive empathy, metacognition, and zyBooks (specific brand of interactive online course material) are known to improve student engagement, participation, and performance. Thus, a cognitive empathy ice-breaker activity, a metacognition exam reflection exercise, and interactive zyBook exercises were incorporated and implemented in AE 30 to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the new online environment. …

Virtual Fluidization Labs To Assist Unit Operations Courses, David R. Wagner, Fanny Huang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

As technology advances, educational platforms are changing, evolving towards partially or entirely virtual environments. New emerging virtual tools are used to enhance topics discussed in lecture settings. In chemical engineering education, one of the fundamental courses for undergraduate pathways is the unit operations labs; however, physical lab settings have a few drawbacks. Costs required to store and maintain the equipment in the physical labs can add up, and a limited number of students can access the equipment in labs. Thus, virtual lab platforms are viable and economical options for either an alternative or a lab preparation tool. For this study, …

Raising Awareness Of Diversity And Inclusion In One-Shot Information Literacy Classes, Anamika Megwalu

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

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Engineering Students Coping With Covid-19: Yoga, Meditation, And Mental Health, Kacey Beddoes, Andrew Danowitz

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In 2020, we conducted a nationwide online survey of undergraduate engineering students in the United States to examine how the novel coronavirus pandemic was affecting engineering students' mental health and what strategies they were using to cope with mental health challenges. The survey was a compilation of validated mental health instruments that screen for depression, anxiety, somatoform disorders, eating disorders, non-specific psychological distress, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Given that prior research has shown that yoga and meditation can help people suffering from anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, we were interested in exploring the subset of respondents who said that …

Understanding Factors Relevant To Poor Sleep And Coping Methods In People With Schizophrenia, Yen-Ching Chang, Megan C. Chang, Yun-Jou Chang, Ming-De Chen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Background

Sleep disruption is pervasive in people with schizophrenia, but few studies have explored their sleep experiences. This study aims to identify factors relevant to sleep problems and explore coping methods used by community-dwelling people with schizophrenia.

Methods

Eighteen participants with schizophrenia were recruited from three mental health centers in Taiwan. They completed a semi-structured interview and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) assessment. The Person-Environment-Occupation model offered a framework to assess factors related to sleep. Thematic analysis was used for the qualitative data analysis.

Results

Factors related to sleep were classified under person, environment, and occupation domains. The person …

The Effects Of Covid-19 On Faculty In The College Of Engineering At San Jose State University, Patricia R. Backer, Laura E. Sullivan-Green, Maria Chierichetti

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This paper reports on a survey of all engineering faculty at San José State University (SJSU) in Spring 2020. The purpose of the survey was to determine the impact of the shelter-in-place on faculty. Overall, 104 faculty completed this survey. Based on the number of COE faculty in Spring, 287, this equates to a confidence level of 95% with a margin of error of 8%. Because of this low margin of error, we can be fairly confident that this survey is representative of the faculty teaching in the College in Spring 2020. The majority of the respondents who answered the …

Learning From The Voices Of Faculty: An Analysis Of The Impact Of Shelter-In-Place On Faculty At San Jose State University In Spring 2020, Maria Chierichetti, Patricia R. Backer, Laura E. Sullivan-Green, Liat Rosenfeld

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This is a research paper based on an in-depth study conducted in Spring and Summer 2020 at San José State University College of Engineering that focuses on the students and faculty experiences during the shelter-in-place due to COVID-19. There were four parts to this study. In this paper, we focus on the interviews of 23 faculty members that taught in Spring 2021 (18 lecturers and five tenure-track and tenured faculty members). Seven women and 16 men were interviewed and they worked in almost every department in the College. The interviews were conducted via Zoom in Summer 2020. The faculty members …

Learning Experiences Of Social Science Students In An Interdisciplinary Computing Minor, Valerie A. Carr, Maureen C. Smith, Belle Wei, Morris E. Jones

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The rapid growth of the digital economy and an associated increase in user-generated data has created a strong need for interdisciplinary computing professionals possessing both technical skills and knowledge of human behavior. To help meet this need and with funds from NSF IUSE, we developed an academic minor in Applied Computing for Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Jose State University. The minor involves a four-course sequence that includes programming fundamentals, data structures and algorithms, data cleaning and management, and a culminating project. At our institution and nationwide, social science students are more diverse than engineering students, with respect to …

Types Of Models Identified By First-Year Engineering Students, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Angela Thompson, Matthew A. Verleger, Farshid Marbouti, Nishith Shah, Pujan Thaker

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This is a Complete Research paper. Understanding models is important for engineering students, but not often taught explicitly in first-year courses. Although there are many types of models in engineering, studies have shown that engineering students most commonly identify prototyping or physical models when asked about modeling. In order to evaluate students' understanding of different types of models used in engineering and the effectiveness of interventions designed to teach modeling, a survey was developed. This paper describes development of a framework to categorize the types of engineering models that first-year engineering students discuss based on both previous literature and students' …

Mechanix: An Intelligent Web Interface For Automatic Grading Of Sketched Free-Body Diagrams, Matthew Runyon, Vimal Viswanathan, Kimberly Grau Talley, Tracy Anne Hammond, Julie S. Linsey

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Sketching free body diagrams is an essential skill that students learn in introductory physics and engineering classes; however, university class sizes are growing and often have hundreds of students in a single class. This situation creates a grading challenge for instructors as there is simply not enough time nor resources to provide adequate feedback on every problem. We have developed a web-based application called Mechanix to provide automated real-time feedback on hand-drawn free body diagrams for students. The system is driven by novel sketch recognition algorithms developed for recognizing and comparing trusses, general shapes, and arrows in diagrams. We have …

Learning From The Student Experience: Impact Of Shelter-In-Place On The Learning Experiences Of Engineering Students At Sjsu, Patricia R. Backer, Maria Chierichetti, Laura E. Sullivan-Green, Liat Rosenfeld

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This is a research paper based on an in-depth study of the impact of COVID-19 on students and faculty in the San José State University (SJSU) College of Engineering completed in Spring and Summer 2020. In this paper, we report on the interviews we did with 40 students from the College. In March 2020, SJSU moved all of its classes to remote learning for the remainder of the Spring term. The students included freshmen (3 students), sophomores (2 students), juniors (7 students), seniors (11 students) and graduate students (17 students). During the interviews, the students reported more negative experiences with …

Libraries And Intellectual Production In The Field Of Library & Information In The Centennial Of The Jordanian State: An Analytical Study, Omar Al Jaradat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aimed at shedding light on the progress of the library movement in the centenary of the Jordanian state, by defining the role of libraries and operative institutions in this field, in addition to measuring the reality of the published intellectual production of books and periodicals qualitatively, objectively, and temporally using the descriptive analytical approach (bibliometric). The beginning was from the library of al-Salt School Library in 1926, then followed by public and university libraries, represented by the University of Jordan Library in 1962, accompanied by the establishment of the first institute for teachers to grant a diploma, which …

Islamic Bank Amid The 2008 Global Financial Crisis: A Bibliometric Analysis, Maulidar -. Agustina Ms., M. Shabri -. Abd. Majid Prof. Dr., Hafasnuddin -. Hafasnuddin Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to provide a bibliometric and science mapping analysis on the research area of Islamic banks and the 2008 global financial crisis published in the Scopus indexed database over the 2008-2021 period. The study used the VOSviewer software and MS Excel spreadsheet for data analysis. The study identified an increasing trend in publication on the topic. The study found that Alqahtani was the most productive author, while Bourkhis and Nabi were the highly cited authors. The authors from Malaysia were the productive publication, while the Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management was found to be …

Assessment Of Library Webpages Of Indian Institutes Of Management (Iims) North India: An Evaluative Study, Rashmi Gangwar, Research Fellow, Shilpi Verma Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article aims to assess library web pages of Indian institutes of management (IIMs) in North India. A checklist was designed and web analyzer sites use for analysis of library webpages of IIMs. The scope of the study is limited to the six Indian institutes of management of the North India region. The finding reveals that All the IIMs libraries have their working library webpage. All the IIMs libraries' WebPages (0%) do not have the feature of "visitor counter and date of library web page update." All six (100%) of IIMs libraries webpages have not used any web 2.0 tools. …

Benefits Of The Volta Regional Library On The Performance Of Bankoe Kpoanyigba E.P. Junior High School Students In Ho Municipality, Stephen Okyere, George Tesilimi Banji Dr., Baffour Gyem Darkwa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper investigated the benefits of the Volta Regional library on the performance of Bankoe Kpoanyigba E.P. Junior High school students in the Ho Municipality of Ghana. The study sought to discuss the concept of library; benefits of libraries on students’ performance; challenges in the use of the library for learning and strategies to boost the interest of students in the use of library.

A descriptive research design was adopted and a total of ninety (90) students and three (3) librarians were sampled for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used.

The study revealed some challenges that the regional …

It Is Not If, But When: Organizational And Leadership Recommendations For The Upcoming Demand For Expanded Dl Programs And Their Articulation, Eduardo R. Muñoz-Muñoz, Allison Briceño

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Within a policy climate that is permissive to Dual Language (DL) programs in California and within the social context of the ongoing gentrification of those programs, this case study explored the leadership and organizational structures required to expand DL programs beyond the elementary years. We asked: (1) What organizational arrangements may favor educational success in expanded K-12 pathways? (2) What leadership moves promote the development of cohesion and coherence within and across DL programs? Data collection included interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations with administrators, teachers, parents and students across all 8 DL schools in a large urban school district …

Back Cover, Maria Cruz

McNair Research Journal SJSU

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Toxic Masculinity: An Outcome Of Colonialism And Its Effects On The Latinx/Chicanx Lgbtq+ Community, Monica Martinez

McNair Research Journal SJSU

This research examines masculinity in the Latinx community within the U.S. Much of the theory behind masculinity involves discussing toxic masculinity and machismo. To do this, I look at film, poetry, and literature to discuss how toxic masculinity affects Queer Latinxs. Although this research focuses on fictional characters and the analysis of fictional works, these characters’ stories do not fall far from current LGBTQ+ Latinxs who may be experiencing the same issues. I examine La Mission, Mosquita y Mari, Gun Hill Road, “I am Joaquin,” “La Loca de la Raza Cosmica,” Rain God, and What Night …

Unpacking The Imposter Syndrome And Mental Health As A Person Of Color First Generation College Student Within Institutions Of Higher Education, Ling Le

McNair Research Journal SJSU

Extant literature on Imposter syndrome primarily focuses on Asian Americans. This current review of literature seeks to make a comparison of Imposter syndrome between two marginalized communities – Asian Americans and African Americans. Imposter syndrome, also referred to as the imposter phenomenon, refers to an individual who doubts their own skills, abilities, successes, and overall capabilities in their life (Parkman, 2016). Asian American students are stereotyped as the model minority and are believed to be intelligent, hardworking, high achieving, and academic and seen to be free from any emotional or adaptive problems. Although these stereotypes are perceived to be positive, …

Effects And Solutions On The Human Body After Long-Duration Space Flights, Jose Jaime Esquivel Patricio

McNair Research Journal SJSU

During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy made it a mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to accomplish a lunar landing and return to Earth. The final lunar landing and the last time humans left Low Earth Orbit (LEO) was in December, 1972. However, 47 years have passed and the fascination with traveling into deep space remains alive and flourishing. A major problem with future human missions to Mars is the effects of microgravity and Mars’ 0.38g environment. Unfortunately, space medicine is limited and little is known about the effects of microgravity on the human body …

Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem & Intra Group Conflicts Amongst Latinos, Christian Arevalo

McNair Research Journal SJSU

Unlike Salvadorans, Mexican/Mexican Americans have long established communities revolved around their culture. They have advanced in social class, education and political representation. On the other hand, Salvadorans have only just recently begun migrating and settling in predominantly Mexican/Mexican American communities. Competition over resources and the preservation of Mexican/Mexican American culture has caused continuing conflicts among Salvadorans and Mexicans/Mexican Americans. Additionally, inter-ethnic and in-group conflicts are also affected by generational differences (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd generation, etc.). Due to acculturation, Latinos/as struggle to retain their cultural heritage and parents often lose the ability to influence their children’s …

The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguirre

McNair Research Journal SJSU

World War II created mass destruction and economic distress but was also responsible for creating new opportunities for women. The war had torn families apart and had altered family dynamics. The high demands of the wartime economy called for a reevaluation of American women’s roles in society. In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a range of propaganda posters to encourage women to join the war effort.^[1] The most iconic was christened “Rosie the Riveter” and further popularized by Norman Rockwell. These images exemplified how the government …

Testimonio: The Experiences Of An Undocumented Student In California Post-Daca Rescindment, Isabel Rangel

McNair Research Journal SJSU

After Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA, 2012) was rescinded by the Trump Administration in 2017, many students were left in “limbo legality” (Gonzalez 2012) This study addresses the question, “What are the experiences of undocumented students regarding their academic motivation toward graduation now that DACA has been rescinded at San José State University (SJSU)?” Grounded in a Chicana Feminist Epistemology approach, the methodology of testimonio is used to capture the experiences of the author alongside an undocumented graduate student. Findings suggest that college campuses should incorporate faculty knowledgeable in policies that affect undocumented students, Undocumented Ally trainings in college …

Ethnic Studies As A Vehicle Of Empowerment: Students Of Color And Their Educational Journey, Briana Anguiano

McNair Research Journal SJSU

Students from marginalized communities often enter classrooms where their cultural heritage is not reflected within the classroom. As a result of being in an environment where one’s culture and experiences are overlooked, students can become disengaged in the classroom. This project investigates the ways in which Ethnic Studies courses hold social promise to inspire better academic performance for high school students. Therefore, the goal of this study is to document, describe, analyze, and advocate for the implementation of ethnic studies scholarship into the California high school curricula. My literature review will ask and answer the following research question: To what …

A Quasi-Experimental Study Of The Impact Of Virtual Service-Learning On College Students’ Development Of Compassion And Motivation For Service, Alma Acosta Sanchez

McNair Research Journal SJSU

The purpose of this research is to explain the impact of virtual service-learning (vSL) on college students’ development of compassion and motivation for service. The goal of the study is an effort to gain insight into the effect of several factors (the age of prior community service experience, academic motivations for self-selecting to enroll in a service-learning (SL) course, academic motivations for choosing virtual service-learning) on expectations and rating greater frequency for feeling compassion along with more motivation for virtual service-learning in the future. The benefits of virtual-service learning to acquire compassion will focus on a desire to help and …