Supporting research and education in mechatronics from a solution provider's point of view

Author(s):  
Dirk Pensky
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda N. Pokrovskaia ◽  
Marianna Yu. Ababkova ◽  
Denis A. Fedorov

Higher education has complex roles in society, the economy, and politics; it helps to transmit culture, transfer knowledge, and develop the personality of citizens. This diversity of roles is confronted with the limited resources that are related to the sources of financing, that is, students and their families, the national government, and local authorities, among others. The discussions related to the role of universities concern the economy of knowledge and the digital tools influencing education. The specific case of St. Petersburg universities simultaneously represents the impact of the deep socio-political transition from Soviet society to the liberal principles of a market economy, including the perception of higher education institutions as service sector companies. The services allowed by universities include research and training; however, from the consumer point of view, universities should create specific value: the increase of the intellectual components of human capital. These complex functions are interconnected. During 2017–2018, a survey in St. Petersburg was organised to ascertain the opinion of students, professors, and employers on the quality of education. The results of the survey demonstrate the impact of the exaggerated implementation of the liberal principles on education, both positive and negative. The positive effect is the renewing of content and innovative training techniques due to competition among universities. The negative impacts include the preference for popular disciplines and the opportunistic behavior of students that lose their passion for acquiring knowledge and choose instead the passive attitude of consumers of a competitive service. They are less interested in the sphere of their studies, in searching for a job, in the interaction with other social and economic actors, and even in the research and education options presented by the universities.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradly Alicea

A number of contemporary forces have conspired to drive highly-competent academics away from the academy. The vagaries of departmental hiring, institutional conservatism, and growth in the number of researchers versus available positions have displaced talent and innovation. Enter the alt-academic institution: small-scale institutions engaged in academic research in niche areas that are not viable at conventional institutions. I will introduce the reader to a specialized type of alt-academic institution by discussing their economics, organizational structure, and approach to collaboration/mentorship. Additionally, innovations such as infrastructural innovation, open access pipelines with version control, heterarchical organization, and a flexible contribution philosophy have made such institutions possible. The main subjects for this point of view article will be the OpenWorm Foundation (http://openworm.org/) and the Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory (https://orthogonal-research.weebly.com/). Readers are also provided with an account of institutional challenges, from article/book access to encouraging collaborative participation. As recent financial crises and pandemics have made clear, we need robust alternative institutions to overcome challenges to the pure research enterprise. Distributed virtual alt-academic institutions can also serve to increase diversity and overall participation in the research enterprise. This has positive consequences for science literacy and discovery more generally.


Author(s):  
Munawiroh Munawiroh

AbstractThe research aims to examine and find gaps and alternative solutions to problems, the implementation of the 5000 Doctoral Scholarship Program as a Strategic Program of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion. Therefore, the Center for Research and Education on Religion and Religion needs to evaluate the implementation of the program as the reason for not achieving 5,000 doctors, which is its strategic program. This type of research is evaluation research with a descriptive qualitative approach through an in-depth study of implementing the 5000 doctoral scholarship program at the PTIQ Jakarta Institute. Retrieval of data through interviews, observation, and documentation. The overall research results on the implementation of the scholarship program lectures have been carried out by following the procedures and stages, as stated in the MOU document between the Diktis and the PTIQ Jakarta Institute, both in terms of technical administration and management as well as technical academic implementation. From an administrative point of view, related to costs for students, it needs improvement or adjustment. Besides that, the course time limit is only three years, which becomes an obstacle for students in completing lectures so that graduate quality standards are not met. In academic terms, there is a gap between students from Java and outside Java. This is a result of the recruitment system, which refers to equal distribution/regional representation.AbstrakPenelitian bertujuan untuk mengkaji dan menemukan kesenjangan, serta alternatif pemecahan masalah, penyelenggaraan Program Beasiswa 5000 Doktor sebagai Program Strategis Kementerian Agama RI. Oleh karena itu Pusat Penelitian dan Pendidikan Agama dan Keagamaan perlu melakukan evaluasi pelaksanaan program tersebut sebagai penyebab belum tercapainya 5000 doktor yang merupakan program strategisnya. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian evaluasi dengan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif, melalui pendalaman tentang penyelenggaraan program beasiswa 5000 doktor di Institut PTIQ Jakarta. Pengambilan data melalui wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian secara keseluruhan penyelenggaraan perkuliahan program beasiswa tersebut telah dilaksanakan dengan mengikuti prosedur dan tahapan-tahapan sebagaimana tertuang dokumen MOU antara Diktis dan Institut PTIQ Jakarta, baik dalam hal teknis administrasi dan manajemen penyelenggaraan maupun teknis akademis penyelenggaraan. Dari segi administrasi, terkait dengan biaya bagi mahasiswa perlu perbaikan atau penyesuaian, selain itu juga batas waktu perkuliahan yang hanya tiga tahun, menjadi kendala mahasiswa dalam penyelesaian perkuliahan sehingga tidak terpenuhinya standar kualitas lulusan. Pada teknis akademis terjadi kesenjangan antara mahasiswa dari Pulau Jawa dan luar Pulau Jawa, hal tersebut akibat dari sistem rekrutmen yang mengacu pada pemerataan/keterwakilan daerah.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Daniel F Johnson- Mardones

This paper explores the tensions in qualitative research and education. With this objective, it offers a brief introduction to qualitative research in education, a vision of the historical link of these two fields of study, to lead to a reflection between the thematic and the methodological when we talk about qualitative methodologies in education. Under that approach, the text focuses on the tensions that appear in the formulation of a proposal, development, writing and publication of a qualitative research in education. The tensions in the proposal are concentrated in the formats of formulation and presentation of research projects when we construct the object of study from a qualitative perspective. In the development of the research, time appears as a central concern from various points of view, as well as the tension between the order of analysis and the order of presentation. The writing is approached from the tension between the option for an argumentative text and a narrative text. Finally, the tensions in the publication focus on sending manuscripts to thematic journals or journals specialized in methodology. The tensions in each of these moments of qualitative research in education are explored from the point of view of their possibilities.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Cláudio F. Rocha ◽  
Christiane Guilherme ◽  
Günther Gehlen

Physiology teaching has been always associated to the use of laboratory animals. Since the current discussion about the real need of laboratory animals in research and education, and the strong local and international recommendation for animal use reduction, physiology teachers are facing the challenge of rethinking the physiology lab lessons. The aim of this work is to report the animal replacement approaches taking place at Universidade Feevale, as well as the point of view of those involved.


1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.


1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Richard Greenberg

ABSTRACTThe mechanism by which a shepherd satellite exerts a confining torque on a ring is considered from the point of view of a single ring particle. It is still not clear how one might most meaningfully include damping effects and other collisional processes into this type of approach to the problem.


Author(s):  
A. Baronnet ◽  
M. Amouric

The origin of mica polytypes has long been a challenging problem for crystal- lographers, mineralogists and petrologists. From the petrological point of view, interest in this field arose from the potential use of layer stacking data to furnish further informations about equilibrium and/or kinetic conditions prevailing during the crystallization of the widespread mica-bearing rocks. From the compilation of previous experimental works dealing with the occurrence domains of the various mica "polymorphs" (1Mr, 1M, 2M1, 2M2 and 3T) within water-pressure vs temperature fields, it became clear that most of these modifications should be considered as metastable for a fixed mica species. Furthermore, the natural occurrence of long-period (or complex) polytypes could not be accounted for by phase considerations. This highlighted the need of a more detailed kinetic approach of the problem and, in particular, of the role growth mechanisms of basal faces could play in this crystallographic phenomenon.


Author(s):  
T. E. Mitchell ◽  
M. R. Pascucci ◽  
R. A. Youngman

1. Introduction. Studies of radiation damage in ceramics are of interest not only from a fundamental point of view but also because it is important to understand the behavior of ceramics in various practical radiation enyironments- fission and fusion reactors, nuclear waste storage media, ion-implantation devices, outer space, etc. A great deal of work has been done on the spectroscopy of point defects and small defect clusters in ceramics, but relatively little has been performed on defect agglomeration using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the same kind of detail that has been so successful in metals. This article will assess our present understanding of radiation damage in ceramics with illustrations using results obtained from the authors' work.


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