Flipping on a Shoestring: A Case Study of Engineering Mechanics at the University of Technology Sydney

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gardner
Keyword(s):  
University Of Technology ◽  
Engineering Mechanics ◽  
The University

Setting up A Career Resource Centre

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hosking
Keyword(s):  
Career Counselling ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Occupational Information ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

Many careers services are realising the increasing importance of access to accurate information, and are further developing resource centres that clients can use to research their work and study options. When the Careers and Appointments Service at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) was re-established in early 1995, a career resource centre was created to support career counselling activities, and to give students access to a wide range of employer and occupational information. This case study outlines the tasks undertaken in setting up the centre, and reflects on issues involved.

scholarly journals Teaching Resilience: Enabling Factors for Effective Responses to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Baumber ◽  
Lucy Allen ◽  
Tyler Key ◽  
Giedre Kligyte ◽  
Jacqueline Melvold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Sydney Australia

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted higher education globally. Teaching staff have pivoted to online learning and employed a range of strategies to facilitate student success. Aside from offering a testing ground for innovative teaching strategies, the pandemic has also provided an opportunity to better understand the pre-existing conditions that enable higher education systems to be resilient - that is, to respond and adapt to disturbances in ways that retain the functions and structures essential for student success. This article presents a case study covering two transdisciplinary undergraduate courses at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The results highlight the importance of information flows, feedbacks, self-organisation, leadership, openness, trust, equity, diversity, reserves, social learning and nestedness. These results show that resilience frameworks developed by previous scholars are relevant to university teaching systems and offer guidance on which system features require protection and strengthening to enable effective responses to future disturbances.

scholarly journals Pacific Media Watch and protest in Oceania: An investigative free media case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Free Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Activist Groups

In the past three decades, global and regional media freedom advocacy and activist groups have multiplied as risks to journalists and media workers have escalated. Nowhere has this trend been so marked as in the Oceania region where some four organisations have developed a media freedom role. Of these, one is unique in that while it has had a regional mission for almost two decades, it has been continuously based at four university journalism schools in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Pacific Media Watch was founded as an independent, non-profit and non-government network by two journalism academics in the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at the University of Technology, Sydney. Its genesis was the jailing of two Taimi ‘o Tonga journalists, ‘Ekalafi Moala and Filokalafi ‘Akau’ola, and a ‘whistleblowing’ pro-democracy member of Parliament in Tonga, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, for alleged contempt in September 1996. PMW played a role in the campaign to free the three men. Since then, the agency has developed an investigative journalism strategy to challenge issues of ethics, media freedom, industry ownership, cross-cultural diversity and media plurality. One of PMW’s journalists won the 2013 Dart Asia-Pacific Centre for Journalism and Trauma Prize for an investigation into torture and social media in Fiji. This article presents a case study of the PMW project and examines its history and purpose as a catalyst for independent journalists, educator journalists, citizen journalists and critical journalists in a broader trajectory of Pacific protest.Figure 1: A Pacific Media Watch Fiji torture and social media investigation series won the Dart Asia-Pacific Centre trauma journalism prize in 2013.

Innovation in Engineering Mechanics Course Instructions: A Novel Practice

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Huang ◽  
Yuefang Wang ◽  
Feng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
College Education ◽  
Hydraulic Engineering ◽  
Teaching System ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Technology Age ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Engineering Mechanics ◽  
Course Innovation ◽  
The University

The course innovation in Engineering Mechanics in the Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Department, Dalian University of Technology is reviewed in this paper. For several decades, a complete system of mechanics teaching has been built up in the University. However, some drawbacks have appeared showing the system not apt to the information-technology age. In order to improve the teaching of Mechanics subjects and make it more suitable for the modern college education, a course innovation has been carried out since 1997 in the Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Department. The innovation includes the following perspectives: the construction of a new Mechanics teaching system, the adoption of new teaching methods, the edition of textbooks and the enforcement of experiments and practices. After a long time of practice, a new teaching system has been formulated and a much class time has been saved. Meanwhile, the qualification-oriented education rather than the examination-oriented education is emphasized. It is demonstrated that students benefit from this course innovation for not only mastering the knowledge from textbooks better, but also for greatly improving their abilities of analyzing and solving engineering problems.

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