scholarly journals Project Management and Agile Technology in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development in the “University – Employer – Region” System

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 02022
Author(s):  
Natalya Yevgenievna Ryazanova ◽  
Natalia Evgenievna Lobzhanidze ◽  
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kazakova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
The University

In this article, the authors present the outcomes of three years of their scientific work on the formulation of a research hypothesis, the formation of project research groups, and the presentation of the outcome to groups of “customers”: employers and/or regions. An interdisciplinary approach was applied in this work, which allowed to integrate environmental, economic, and social research methods. The objectives of the study were to determine the range of the relevant research topics in environmental science and sustainable development and formation of cases; to perform the personal and collective work in the project group; to form the skill of working with topic experts and documents in students; and to verify the work and present to the customer. The youth modeling of international and national processes and events, project laboratories, and cases obtained in the course of the study were presented in this work.

scholarly journals Design Thinking for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1363-1368
Author(s):  
Mara Zeltina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Undergraduate Study ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

The complexity of environmental and sustainability challenges has created an ongoing need for innovative and integrated approaches to address them. Design disciplines have a long history. The method “design thinking”, originally applied in architecture, engineering and business, has led to new and creative problem solving, thus creating much potential for use in sustainable development planning. While principles of good design are well established, there has been limited integration of design thinking with environmental science, sustainable development planning and education. This research was focused on how a sustainability approach can be merged with design thinking to develop socially responsible and environmentally sustainable products and services. The case study has been carried out in the master’s study course Sustainable Development Planning. Some of basic principles and stages of design thinking, such as empathy, creativity, collaboration, responsibility and interdisciplinary approach have been tested by using students project work evaluation regarding certain criteria and survey after the study course. The first results of approbated design thinking principles and methods, significant advantages and disadvantages and the perspective of using this method have been analysed and discussed. As the result from this study proposals for the improvement of the content of this study course and related study courses (a study course on sustainable development issues is compulsory in all undergraduate study programs in Latvia) and for the specification of test tasks have been developed, considering also future needs to provide the study course remotely.

Laser Assisted Machining: An Overview

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (4B) ◽  
pp. 766-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Chryssolouris ◽  
N. Anifantis ◽  
S. Karagiannis
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Laser Machining ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Laser Technology ◽  
Laser Assisted Machining ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applications

Since laser technology has considerable synergy with machining technologies, Laser Machining (LM) and Laser Assisted Machining (LAM) are relevant research topics. This paper attempts to give an overview of recent developments and research trends. Although scientific work on this area has contributed to the understanding of the process, there are still unresolved problems regarding the limitations of the techniques, optimum machining conditions, etc. The outcome of experimental investigations on LAM shows potential applications for this process but there are several issues to be resolved.

Teaching and learning about ethical aspects of environmental science with graduate students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Palinkas
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The University

<p>Humans and their environment are inherently linked, especially in coastal and estuarine regions, and scientific and social values often must be balanced in ecosystem management and decision-making. Graduate students discuss these balances in a 1-credit seminar offered via the Marine, Estuarine and Environmental Science (MEES) program, an inter-institutional program within the University System of Maryland. The MEES program uses an interdisciplinary approach to train students in scientific discovery, integration, and application to generate new knowledge and to solve environmental problems, including social sciences. In the seminar, graduate students examine these problems through the lens of Geoethics, the ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience research and practice, using a case-study approach. After a brief introduction to the concept, students develop a list of topics to examine throughout the seminar. In Spring 2020, these topics included climate-change communication, field harassment, community-based science, sustainability science, and preserving biodiversity. At the end of the semester, students give a presentation on ethical aspects of their own research.</p>

scholarly journals Development of a Mechanism for the Management of University Research Activities Based on the Principles of Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 05007
Author(s):  
Natalia Ketoeva ◽  
Maria Kiseleva ◽  
Victoria Dranitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
University Research ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The University

The article is devoted to the topical issues of performance evaluation and management of university research groups for its sustainable development. Scientific groups are one of the effective levers for increasing and activation of research activities in the university, as they cover all areas of its activities: performance of research and development work, building a portfolio of orders, preparation of applications for intellectual property objects, preparation of articles and reports, training of highly qualified personnel and implementation of expert activities. To develop a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of research teams, the existing methods for analyzing the management of research activities of universities in Russian and world practice were considered, where their advantages and disadvantages were identified. The university’s organizational and economic mechanism of research activities management was developed based on the above and the principles of sustainable development of higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Education for Sustainable Development at Notre Dame University – Louaize: Environmental Science Curriculum – a Pre-Phase to the Rucas Project on Education for Sustainable Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layla Khalaf-Kairouz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
General Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The University

Abstract The Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences at Notre Dame University - Louaize, conscious to the need of experts in the emerging field of sustainability and to the role that an educational institution plays for the service of the community, introduced into the university curricula a major in environmental science. This paper will present the programme’s components, goals and implementation. The curriculum encompasses natural, social and managerial sciences, given the interdisciplinary nature of environmental science. Topical courses on water, soil and air pollution, environmental impact assessment and environmental ethics were designed, which integrate theory and practice. The graduates are prepared for managerial, communication and, most importantly, ethical competences to be able to implement best practices in environmental protection and play an active role in the community, especially the public, private, industrial and educational domains. At an inter-faculty level, the programme was successful in offering general education requirements courses on environment, sustainability and ethics, which helped in raising sustainability awareness among the students’ population and strengthened the inter-faculty community relationships. To the present, the main focus of the programme was on education and preparation of graduates for the job market. Research, community outreach and campus sustainability practices need to be further addressed. Therefore, primary efforts should be exerted to improve the outcomes at these domains, especially that the university now joined the international educational programme: RUCAS - Tempus project, which emphasises development and improvements at all the institution sectors.

Fundamental Research into Thin Films in a Developing Country

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 500-501
Author(s):  
J.A. Eades ◽  
E. Grünbaum
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Empirical Process ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Film Research ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Controlled Deposition ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

In the last decade and a half, thin film research, particularly research into problems associated with epitaxy, has developed from a simple empirical process of determining the conditions for epitaxy into a complex analytical and experimental study of the nucleation and growth process on the one hand and a technology of very great importance on the other. During this period the thin films group of the University of Chile has studied the epitaxy of metals on metal and insulating substrates. The development of the group, one of the first research groups in physics to be established in the country, has parallelled the increasing complexity of the field.The elaborate techniques and equipment now needed for research into thin films may be illustrated by considering the plant and facilities of this group as characteristic of a good system for the controlled deposition and study of thin films.

The Roman Retail Revolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. R. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Bodies Of Evidence ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Tabernae were ubiquitous among all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections, and in numbers not known by any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city—indeed in the very definition of urbanization—is a point too often under-appreciated in Roman studies, or at best assumed. The Roman Retail Revolution is a thorough investigation into the social and economic worlds of the Roman shop. With a focus on food and drink outlets, and with a critical analysis of both archaeological material and textual sources, Ellis challenges many of the conventional ideas about the place of retailing in the Roman city. A new framework is forwarded, for example, to understand the motivations behind urban investment in tabernae. Their historical development is also unraveled to identify three major waves—or, revolutions—in the shaping of retail landscapes. Two new bodies of evidence underpin the volume. The first is generated from the University of Cincinnati’s recent archaeological excavations into a Pompeian neighborhood of close to twenty shop-fronts. The second comes from a field survey of the retail landscapes of more than a hundred cities from across the Roman world. The richness of this information, combined with an interdisciplinary approach to the lives of the Roman sub-elite, results in a refreshingly original look at the history of retailing and urbanism in the Roman world.

scholarly journals CSO Classifier 3.0: a scalable unsupervised method for classifying documents in terms of research topics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Salatino ◽  
Francesco Osborne ◽  
Enrico Motta
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Unsupervised Approach

AbstractClassifying scientific articles, patents, and other documents according to the relevant research topics is an important task, which enables a variety of functionalities, such as categorising documents in digital libraries, monitoring and predicting research trends, and recommending papers relevant to one or more topics. In this paper, we present the latest version of the CSO Classifier (v3.0), an unsupervised approach for automatically classifying research papers according to the Computer Science Ontology (CSO), a comprehensive taxonomy of research areas in the field of Computer Science. The CSO Classifier takes as input the textual components of a research paper (usually title, abstract, and keywords) and returns a set of research topics drawn from the ontology. This new version includes a new component for discarding outlier topics and offers improved scalability. We evaluated the CSO Classifier on a gold standard of manually annotated articles, demonstrating a significant improvement over alternative methods. We also present an overview of applications adopting the CSO Classifier and describe how it can be adapted to other fields.

scholarly journals Bridging Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Circular Flow of Interaction among the University, Industry, and People

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4532
Author(s):  
Rumpa Roy ◽  
Hesham El Marsafawy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Prior Learning ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Recognition Of Prior Learning ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

Universities foster a collaboration with industry with their commitment towards society. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of organizations facilitate implementation of the recognition of prior learning (RPL) in higher education, while creating long-term opportunities for sustainable development. The researchers of this study come from two different disciplines, and aim to embed sustainable development strategies for transforming education by utilizing the capacity of educators and industry professionals, while also contributing to the community and economy. The researcher with a specialization in economics identified the well-being of the community and economy, and another researcher with a design and ergonomics background brought the concept of service design. Results of the conducted surveys imply that a skill gap exists in the labor market and participants from the community are interested in receiving hands on training from the industry. The researchers introduce a model focusing on the significance and implementation of RPL, allowing youth and adults to accumulate credit through non-formal and informal learning experiences. The model reflects how the university assesses the current skills and needs of the target communities, how they are communicated to industry by identifying potential areas of development, how industry responds to the needs by providing training, and how the university acknowledges prior learning and promotes potential candidates to contribute towards industry.

Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Emily Hauptmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

ArgumentMost social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.’s first university-based social scientific research institutions, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and its spin-off, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), to share their data? Relying primarily on archived records, unpublished personal papers, and oral histories, I show that Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, Philip Converse, and others understood sharing data not as an ethical imperative intrinsic to social science but as a useful means to the diverse ends of financial stability, scholarly and institutional autonomy, and epistemological reproduction. I conclude that data sharing must be evaluated not only on the basis of the scientific ideals its supporters affirm, but also on the professional objectives it serves.

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