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Diseñando El Cambio El Activismo Gráfico Feminista De Sheila Levrant De Brettville, Mª Eugenia Blázquez Oct 2024

Diseñando El Cambio El Activismo Gráfico Feminista De Sheila Levrant De Brettville, Mª Eugenia Blázquez

GDI. Revista de investigación de Género, Diseño e Innovación

En los primeros años de la década de 1980, Sheila Levrant de Brettville introduce un conjunto de tácticas de diseño que representa los valores feministas. Estos principios, en sus diseños, abordan la representación de las personas desde diversas perspectivas, exploran la tensión y la contradicción que existe entre palabras e imágenes, y fomentan la participación activa del público en la interpretación de la comunicación visual. En consonancia con las corrientes de la tipografía experimental y el posmodernismo de la época, estas estrategias de diseño de Sheila Levrant de Brettville reflejan una sensibilidad hacia la multiplicidad de voces desde una perspectiva …


Más Allá De La Pasarela: El Impacto Tecnológico De Iris Van Herpen En La Experimentación Y Creatividad En La Moda Contemporánea, Paloma Rodera Martínez Oct 2024

Más Allá De La Pasarela: El Impacto Tecnológico De Iris Van Herpen En La Experimentación Y Creatividad En La Moda Contemporánea, Paloma Rodera Martínez

GDI. Revista de investigación de Género, Diseño e Innovación

Este artículo examina el impacto de Iris van Herpen en la moda contemporánea, centrándose en su uso innovador de la tecnología y su influencia en la experimentación y la creatividad en la industria. Van Herpen ha desafiado las convenciones de la moda tradicional al incorporar técnicas avanzadas como la impresión 3D y la manipulación digital de materiales en sus diseños. Su enfoque vanguardista ha abierto nuevas posibilidades para la expresión artística en la moda, al tiempo que ha redefinido los límites de lo que se considera posible en el diseño de prendas. A través de su trabajo, van Herpen ha …


13th International Conference On Business, Technology And Innovation 2024, University For Business And Technology - Ubt Oct 2024

13th International Conference On Business, Technology And Innovation 2024, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

Welcome to IC – UBT 2024

UBT Annual International Conference is the 13th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make …


The Path Of Al-Qanal Street (Al-Khashab Canal) In Maadi Area Between Preservation And Development, Kamal Mahmoud Elgabalawy Oct 2024

The Path Of Al-Qanal Street (Al-Khashab Canal) In Maadi Area Between Preservation And Development, Kamal Mahmoud Elgabalawy

Journal of Engineering Research

Preserving and developing the main traffic routes within the areas of distinctive value is an important topic, as they contain buildings and villas with a distinctive architectural style in addition to the distinctive general character. The path of Al-Qanal Street, Al-Khashab Canal, was previously chosen due to its importance, as it is located in Al-Sarayat within the Maadi area of distinctive value. It is located in the heart of Maadi within a classified area with a protection zone (A), which means a maximum protection zone, in addition to the fear of turning the path of Al-Qanal Street into a fast …


Chacahoula 2024, Vol 91, Alayna Pellegrin Sep 2024

Chacahoula 2024, Vol 91, Alayna Pellegrin

Chacahoula

MERGING REALITIES:

The 2023 issue of Chacahoula includes December 2023 and May 2024 graduating classes, as well as stunning photography of Week of Welcome, Homecoming, Mardi Gras, and Spring Fever. With features covering notable students, faculty, and staff, this year's time capsule beautifully preserves an academic year in the life of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.


American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit, 2024, Advanced Structures And Composites Center, University Of Maine Sep 2024

American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit, 2024, Advanced Structures And Composites Center, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

Among the most-established conferences dedicated to floating offshore wind in the United States, AFloat stands at the forefront of the nation's ambitious goal to deploy 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035. Join our mission to unite stakeholders from all corners in a collective effort to advance floating offshore wind across the nation and the world. AFloat brings together technical, regulatory, and permitting experts to share ideas and solutions, tackling issues through problem solving, barrier removal, risk mitigation, and forming meaningful partnerships.


Afloat : The Future Is Floating!, Taylor Ward Sep 2024

Afloat : The Future Is Floating!, Taylor Ward

General University of Maine Publications

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Afloat : Last Chance To Register, Taylor Ward Sep 2024

Afloat : Last Chance To Register, Taylor Ward

General University of Maine Publications

Among the most-established conferences dedicated to floating offshore wind in the United States, AFloat (American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit) stands at the forefront of the nation's ambitious goal to deploy 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035.


Engineering-Enhanced Theatre: How Engineering Involvement Can Aid Regional Theatres, Albert M. Le Sep 2024

Engineering-Enhanced Theatre: How Engineering Involvement Can Aid Regional Theatres, Albert M. Le

Architectural Engineering

Engineering and theatre are disciplines not often associated with each other within regional and small theatre companies in the United States. The distinction between the two fields of study is not simply from the fundamental differences between how each field is taught and practiced, but also the difficulties encountered within a scope of theatre often constrained with limited budget and time for each production. However, when beginning to explore the intersection between engineering and theatre, it is found that the empirical nature of current theatrical practices can be countered, and scenic design and construction can be re-envisioned with engineering involvement …


Scla 521 Ai In Society, Bert Chapman Aug 2024

Scla 521 Ai In Society, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides access to information resources on societal impacts of artificial intelligence from multiple libraries databases covering multiple disciplines including government information resources.


Persistent Luminescent Nanoparticle-Loaded Filaments For Identification Of Fabrics In The Visible And Infrared, Brian Yust, Abdur Rahaman Sk, Antonios Kontsos, Brian George Aug 2024

Persistent Luminescent Nanoparticle-Loaded Filaments For Identification Of Fabrics In The Visible And Infrared, Brian Yust, Abdur Rahaman Sk, Antonios Kontsos, Brian George

College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers

Persistent luminescent materials are those which can store an amount of energy locally and release it slowly in the form of light. In this work, persistent luminescent nanoparticles (PLNPs) were synthesized and incorporated into polypropylene (PP) filaments at various loading percentages. We investigated the optical properties of both the as-prepared PLNPs and the PLNP-loaded filaments, focusing on any changes resulting from the integration into the filaments. Specifically, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze the emission, excitation, and persistent luminescence of the PLNPs and PLNP-loaded filaments. The tensile properties of the extruded filaments were also investigated through breaking tenacity, …


Integrating A Biblical Narrative Into A First-Year Engineering Design Project, Matthew S. Kuester Aug 2024

Integrating A Biblical Narrative Into A First-Year Engineering Design Project, Matthew S. Kuester

Christian Engineering Conference

This paper describes the integration of a biblical narrative (Genesis 42) into a first-year engineering design project. Students designed, built, and tested robotic vehicles that mirrored the journey of Joseph’s brothers from Canaan to Egypt to obtain food in Genesis 42. The vehicles had to carry “Simeon” (a figurine) from “Canaan” to “Egypt” (across the room). Then, the vehicle needed to carry a bag of grain back to “Canaan.”

The narrative added context to the project and provided students an opportunity to interact with scripture. Student survey results suggest that students enjoyed the hands-on nature of the project and observed …


Collaborative Learning And Differentiated Instruction: Applying 1 Thessalonians 5:14 In The Classroom, Shannon L. Capps Aug 2024

Collaborative Learning And Differentiated Instruction: Applying 1 Thessalonians 5:14 In The Classroom, Shannon L. Capps

Christian Engineering Conference

Increasingly, student-centered, collaborative learning is advocated in the pedagogical literature. Here, the epistemological underpinnings of these approaches are examined. Where these practices are established on principles contrary to God’s revelation, how God’s design for the building up of the church could inform collaborative learning and differentiated instruction is explored.

Specifically, many modern pedagogical techniques arise from constructivist epistemology, which acknowledges not an objective truth but a cognitive failures and successes. Practitioners of these methods are not necessarily complicit in adopting this worldview. Nevertheless, repositioning pedagogical techniques observed to be helpful in practice within a biblical worldview is necessary for discerning …


Pedagogical “Seasoning” For Engineering Class Using Analogy, Message, And Theme In The Story, Hoo Kim, Paul Leiffer, Craig Olson Aug 2024

Pedagogical “Seasoning” For Engineering Class Using Analogy, Message, And Theme In The Story, Hoo Kim, Paul Leiffer, Craig Olson

Christian Engineering Conference

Engineering subjects typically do not refer to the Bible directly and may refer to technical things as neutral or independent of Christianity. In the Bible, Jesus frequently used analogies in His teaching. Through analogy, Jesus revealed truths to His audience in an effective way to enlighten and teach them. Moreover, Jesus used analogies to make sense only to a selected and chosen audience such as His disciples and to hide the meaning from other people. Jesus was successful in making His audiences listen to His teachings and understand His heart. With the use of analogy, an audience understands ideas and …


Augmenting Entrepreneurially Minded Learning With Christian Thought And Action, Benjamin D. Mcpheron Aug 2024

Augmenting Entrepreneurially Minded Learning With Christian Thought And Action, Benjamin D. Mcpheron

Christian Engineering Conference

As engineering programs attempt to develop engineering graduates who stand out to potential employers, integration of the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) is increasingly common. The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) currently has 63 partner institutions who have committed to curriculum oriented towards developing EM in students and graduates. KEEN defines the entrepreneurial mindset using 3Cs: curiosity, connections, and creating value. This entrepreneurial mindset is then coupled with engineering thought and action, expressed through collaboration and communication, and founded on character.

This framework is useful, but incomplete when viewed in the context of a Christian engineering program. The framework provides a strong …


The Calling Of The Christian Engineer, Peter J. Staritz Aug 2024

The Calling Of The Christian Engineer, Peter J. Staritz

Christian Engineering Conference

Engineering faculty at Christian universities have the freedom, opportunity, and responsibility to teach not only the technical knowledge future engineers need but also to delve into the theological aspects and implications of engineering. This work explores the fundamental question, what is the calling of the Christian engineer in Kingdom work? Answering this question equips engineering faculty at Christian universities to deepen the integration of faith and engineering in our teaching. This paper explores the calling of the Christian engineer, beginning with the great commandment from Matthew 22:37 – “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and …


Shalom Seeking: Contours For Flourishing, Kevin J. Timmer Aug 2024

Shalom Seeking: Contours For Flourishing, Kevin J. Timmer

Christian Engineering Conference

Jesus instructs us to seek first the kingdom of God (Matt 6:33) [1], which is no small task. Seeking the Kingdom is a process of striving to show God’s love by loving our neighbors and to the rest of the creation. It is serving them by enabling them to flourish. Seeking first the kingdom of God is striving for true progress in all its wholeness; it is seeking shalom. Shalom is an Old Testament word which refers to the restfulness, contentment, beauty, and harmony of life lived together in perfect obedience to God’s will. Shalom is a state of being …


Next Generation Computing And The Quest For Artificial General Intelligence (Agi): A Critical Examination From A Theological Perspective, Kenneth N. Oversby Aug 2024

Next Generation Computing And The Quest For Artificial General Intelligence (Agi): A Critical Examination From A Theological Perspective, Kenneth N. Oversby

Christian Engineering Conference

This paper delves into both the hope and the hype surrounding next generation computing research as a critical pathway for creating true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a quest that has garnered substantial interest and investment from global entities ranging from governments to major corporations. At the heart of this excitement lies the potential of emerging technologies such as neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNNs) which promise a leap forward in computational power efficiency, miniaturization, and achieving human-level cognition. Neuromorphic computing refers to the design of computer systems inspired by the human brain's structure and function, while Spiking Neural Networks …


Retreats For Christian And Engineering Virtue Formation, Stephen Frezza, Valerie E. Plaus Aug 2024

Retreats For Christian And Engineering Virtue Formation, Stephen Frezza, Valerie E. Plaus

Christian Engineering Conference

Franciscan University of Steubenville Department of Engineering and Computing has as its mission to be guided by our Catholic faith, driven by innovation: to form virtuous engineering and computing professionals to serve the authentic good with skill and excellence. While academically these are programs targeted to meet the ABET standards for program excellence, this mission explicitly embraces the formation of its students in Christian virtues pursuant to their vocation as engineers and computing professionals. As the formation of Christian virtue extends well beyond the classroom, the department remains committed to extra-curricular requirements to support student formation, primarily in the form …


Christian Stewardship During Transitions In Engineering Academic Leadership, Matthew G. Green, Michael J. Mcginnis Aug 2024

Christian Stewardship During Transitions In Engineering Academic Leadership, Matthew G. Green, Michael J. Mcginnis

Christian Engineering Conference

Christian Stewardship in Engineering Education calls us to handle the inevitable leadership transitions with grace and wisdom. These transitions range from rare and well-planned to frequent and sudden, and how we handle them impacts our students and our mission. Leadership transitions may require those without formal leadership training to lead on short notice, and faculty experience alone is often incomplete preparation for academic leadership positions. This paper offers encouragement and recommendations to help engineering faculty prepare to lead or support the process of academic engineering leadership transition.

The authors have served in multiple interim and full-time leadership roles across two …


Reflections On Christ-Centered Engineering Education, David C. Che Aug 2024

Reflections On Christ-Centered Engineering Education, David C. Che

Christian Engineering Conference

What is a Christ-centered Engineering Education? How to approach integration of faith and engineering? These are all questions an engineering faculty member in a Christian college/university needs to answer. The author shares his perspectives on various modes of integration of faith and learning. A manifold model is proposed. Christ-centered engineering education is compared with student-centered engineering education and subject-matter-centered engineering education.


100+ Years Of Faithful Engineering In A History Of 175 Years, Murat Tanyel Aug 2024

100+ Years Of Faithful Engineering In A History Of 175 Years, Murat Tanyel

Christian Engineering Conference

Geneva College Engineering Department celebrated 100 years of engineering education in the academic year 2020 – ’21. This academic year, the College celebrates its 175th year of existence. This paper will review the history of the College and the engineering program leading to the current state of engineering education at Geneva. This paper will be an expanded version of the article the author prepared for the 2024 summer edition of Engineers’ Society of Western PA Magazine with discussion on the faithfulness of the program to Christ’s call on the 21st century technological challenges.


Domus Dei Et Porta Caeli: House Of God And Gate Of Heaven, Justin M. Greenly Aug 2024

Domus Dei Et Porta Caeli: House Of God And Gate Of Heaven, Justin M. Greenly

Christian Engineering Conference

This paper introduces the technical accomplishments and the driving theological motivations of those who engineered the Gothic cathedrals. It ultimately derives lessons for Christian engineers, their processes, and their products. These exceptional feats of engineering, enabled by elements such as pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, and flying buttresses initiated a new style of building in the medieval equivalent of the last century’s space race. These cathedrals maximized height and light in the house of God, the true meeting place of Heaven and earth. Descriptors like “House of God” and “Gate of Heaven,” sung in the dedication liturgies, echo the patriarch Jacob …


What Engineers Can Learn From Wendell Berry, Danielle S. Wyenberg Aug 2024

What Engineers Can Learn From Wendell Berry, Danielle S. Wyenberg

Christian Engineering Conference

Born in 1934, Wendell Berry is a well-known poet, novelist, and essayist from rural Henry County, Kentucky. Berry moved away from his family’s farm as a young man and experienced success in his writing and teaching career, until, in 1965, he gave up a prestigious position at New York University to return to and work the farm. He is a farmer as well as an accomplished author, having written well over fifty publications including books of poems, volumes of essays, series of novels, and collections of short stories. His work has earned many prestigious awards, including the National Humanities Medal …


Redeeming And Sanctifying Engineering Imperfections, Markus D. Ong Aug 2024

Redeeming And Sanctifying Engineering Imperfections, Markus D. Ong

Christian Engineering Conference

Comparing God’s designs with engineering designs can help Christian engineers understand both better. Most of the analogies of God as a creative designer focus on extolling the beauty and wonder of the created universe, but this paper aims to take a deeper look at how good design handles imperfection in this world. Although imperfections are ubiquitous, the imperfect can be used. Even the imperfections themselves can be utilized to accomplish the goals of a good designer. This is evident from three different perspectives: a macroscopic view of engineered products, a microscopic view of materials processing, and a “missioscopic” view of …


A Framework For Engineering Analysis And Worship, Timothy A. Wood Aug 2024

A Framework For Engineering Analysis And Worship, Timothy A. Wood

Christian Engineering Conference

Engineers work in an objective world, defined by an external reality created by God. As engineers approach problems, they face the difficult challenge of aligning a complicated and unforgiving reality to available analytical engineering and math models. A helpful engineering analysis framework focuses on three models: God’s reality, the engineer’s mental model, and engineering community’s analytical models. The transition between these models structures problem-solving strategy and critical thinking as the engineer restates the problem, plans the analysis, solves the problem, and checks the answer. The framework also engages all three engineering languages (words, sketches, and math) to communicate holistically the …


Sustainability And The Engineer – Control Vs. Sympathetic Citizenship In The Kingdom Of God, Ben D. Giudice Aug 2024

Sustainability And The Engineer – Control Vs. Sympathetic Citizenship In The Kingdom Of God, Ben D. Giudice

Christian Engineering Conference

The world is facing a sustainability crisis. Specifically, the pursuit of economic and societal progress is being pursued at the expense of the environment, and this is compromising the inheritance of future generations. Engineers play a role in this crisis in two significant ways – one, because we helped to cause it, and two, because we can play a meaningful role in either deepening it or addressing it. As we consider how to address the current crisis, we must critically examine the ways in which our practice of engineering helped us reach this point, because the paradigms that led us …


Reflections On Thomas Tredgold’S Definition Of Engineering, Randal S. Schwindt Aug 2024

Reflections On Thomas Tredgold’S Definition Of Engineering, Randal S. Schwindt

Christian Engineering Conference

What is engineering? To a practicing engineer or to a college student majoring in engineering this question might be too obvious to ask or its answer too simple to bother articulating. Certainly, an engineering professor, an engineering educator, will have a ready answer... In any case, it behooves every engineer to consider and seek a broad, deep understanding of what he or she is about—after all, engineers know the value of good definitions. It is especially incumbent upon the Christian engineer to consider what engineering is in light of the Christian faith, in light of God, creation, man, Christ, and …


Design Analysis In Light Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Philip M. Tan Aug 2024

Design Analysis In Light Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Philip M. Tan

Christian Engineering Conference

Christian engineers ought to consider how their faith influences their assessment of the effects of their engineering products. In today’s age, words such as “sin” and “righteousness” are routinely deprecated in favor of more neutral terms such as “ethics”. Notwithstanding, the ancient list of the seven deadly sins—Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride—can serve as a refreshing, if supposedly anachronistic, framework for evaluating a product. In other words, to what extent does my product invite sin or virtue, whether in myself as the engineer, or in the end user? In traversing the list, I consider not merely the …


Design In Nature: Observing And Voicing God’S Glory Within An Engineering Vocation, Laurel Dovich Aug 2024

Design In Nature: Observing And Voicing God’S Glory Within An Engineering Vocation, Laurel Dovich

Christian Engineering Conference

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” [Gen. 1:1] The Bible starts with the most colossal, grandiose and formidable engineering feat ever. Without debating the literacy of the account, the Genesis creation story presents a prudent engineering critical path flowchart for filling the earth – making sure all the biological needs of each species are in place before it is called into being, and placement in a setting where arbitrary and unrelated constants of physics are amazingly and inscrutably fine-tuned to the narrow, precise values needed to sustain life. [1] The complexities of the process of creation …