scholarly journals 2.3. Timing Is Everything When It Comes to Engaging with Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney

Author(s):  
Iza Witkowska ◽  
Wendy Liu ◽  
Duncan Loxton ◽  
Elizabeth Stokes ◽  
Sharyn Wise
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Norsyamira Shahrin ◽  
Rabiatul Adawiyah Abd Rahman ◽  
Noorliza Zainol ◽  
Noor Saliza Salmi ◽  
Mohd Faisal Abdul Wahab

Food handler still fails to play their part even when the government imposes “No Plastic Bag” campaign and a ban on polystyrene foam to pack foods. This research focuses on eco-friendly food packaging based on the perception and practice of young consumers, especially the undergraduates of Mara University of Technology Penang Campus (UiTMPP). Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to 315 respondents.  The collected data were analyzed with simple descriptive statistic of frequency, mean and standard deviation. Most of the respondents are aware on eco-friendlyfood packaging. They agreed that the university should propose some alternative to control and reduce non-biodegradable foods packaging. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Folusiak ◽  
Karol Swiderski ◽  
Piotr Wolański

AbstractThe idea of using the phenomenon of rotating detonation to propulsion has its roots in fifties of the last century in works of Adamson et al. and Nicholls et al. at the University of Michigan. The idea was recently reinvented and experimental research and numerical simulations on the Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) are carried in numerous institutions worldwide, in Poland at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) since 2004. Over the period 2010-2014 WUT and Institute of Aviation (IOA) jointly implemented the project under the Innovative Economy Operational Programme entitled ‘Turbine engine with detonation combustion chamber’. The goal of the project was to replace the combustion chamber of turboshaft engine GTD-350 with the annular detonation chamber.This paper is focused on investigation of the influence of a geometry and flow conditions on the structure and propagation stability of the rotating detonation wave. Presented results are in majority an outcome of the aforementioned programme, in particular authors’ works on the development of the in-house code REFLOPS USG and its application to simulation of the rotating detonation propagation in the RDE.


2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Asanda Ngoasheng

Traditional universities are often interrogated on their pedagogic underpinnings, while universities of technology are often left unchallenged on knowledge production. Universities of technology are often assumed to be transformed because they are a post-apartheid creation, with a mainly black, working-class student body. This assumption has led to little interrogation of the university of technology and its relationship with knowledge production. This paper explores the nature of curriculum contestation and reform at a university of technology. It outlines the historical context of a university of technology and its approach to curriculum development, which has implications for current curriculum transformation efforts. Using autoethnographic research methodology, the paper tracks a multi-year journey towards the development of a transformative, socially just curriculum intervention in the extended curriculum programme for the Architecture and Interior Design programme at a university of technology. The paper concludes that curriculum change does not happen in a vacuum, that it is political, difficult and emotionally taxing, and that it is best done in collaboration with different education stakeholders.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Noor Hazlina Wan Jusoh ◽  
Suraya Ahmad

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the use of iMindMap software as an interactive tool in the teaching and learning method and also to be able to consider iMindMap as an alternative instrument in achieving the ultimate learning outcome. Design/methodology/approach Out of 268 students of the management accounting at the University of Technology MARA (Terengganu), 97 students have participated in this survey to evaluate the effectiveness of iMindMap in teaching and learning. Findings Results indicate that the majority of the students acknowledged that iMindMap is more attractive than conventional teaching methods and found that iMindMap shows clearly how the points are all associated and linked together. Students could find that learning is an exciting experience and were able to visualize the whole course content remarkably via iMindMap. Originality/value This study presents an alternative instrument, which is innovative and interactive in teaching and learning, especially for accounting students where the students’ technology acceptance could also be viewed.


Author(s):  
Jade Herriman ◽  
Emma Partridge

This paper describes in brief the findings of a research project undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The research was commissioned by and undertaken on behalf of the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW). The aim of the project was to investigate current practices of environmental and sustainability education and engagement within local government in NSW. The research was commissioned by DECCW as the preliminary phase of a larger project that the department is planning to undertake, commencing in 2010.


Author(s):  
Selente Bezuidenhout ◽  
Rob Summers

As HIV/AIDS continues to spread and affect the lives of millions of people, a sense of urgency has developed about the imperative need to stop the epidemic. Education is the key to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. There is currently a gap in educationprogrammes targeting youths of ages 18-24 years, for example, those enrolled in tertiary institutions. The aim of the study was therefore to establish the level of HIV/AIDS awareness among undergraduate pharmacy students at the University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus)/ Tshwane University of Technology Schools of Pharmacy. A structured questionnaire was administered to pharmacy students on entry to the programme. Although the students of 2003, 2004 and 2005 obtained mean percentage HIV/AIDS awareness scores in the range of 70%-80%, they had inadequate knowledge of some transmission routes, events that occur when HIV invades the body, the “window period” and some symptoms. These knowledge gaps should be addressed by universities by integrating HIV/AIDS policies and education fully into all aspects of their planning, operations andteaching.


2020 ◽  
pp. 272-281
Author(s):  
Wahab K. AHMED ◽  
Talib A. ABED ◽  
Ahmed Q. SALAM ◽  
Khalid S. REZA ◽  
Maitham T. MAHDİY ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu

The absence of a single performance management system (PMS) aligned to institutional strategy and business processes often results in failure to deliver anticipated benefits as it is not cascaded down to all departments, teams or individuals. This study aims to determine employees’ expectations for the proposed PMS and their perceptions of the system’s impact on effectiveness within the university concerned. This study adopted a quantitative research design and a survey method was used, whereby, a structured questionnaire was administered by the researcher to a selected population size of 150 of which 108 completed questionnaires, generating a response rate of 72%. The study reflects a disproportionately high percentage of 34% of the respondents who disagreed and 21.3% who were undecided as to whether PMS is needed at the university concerned where the majority of these respondents being academics and those with matriculation. The university concerned should develop a PMS which is aligned to the university strategic plan and to other university policies coupled with structured change management interventions focusing on academics and semi-skilled employees.


2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Chris Nash

This special edition of Pacific Journalism Review publishes a selection of the papers presented at the Public Right to Know (PR2K) Conference in Sydney in October 2003. The annual PR2K conferences are a project of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at the University of Technology, Sydney. The 2003 conference was the third in the series.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Sturcz

Az 1860-as években a műegyetem tanári karában többször megfogalmazódott, hogy a reáliskolai képzés színvonalát emelni kell. Ennek módját egy reáliskolai tanárképezde felállításában látták. A kezdeményezés kölcsönösen összetalálkozott az Eötvös-féle tanárképzési tervezetekkel, így 1870-ben nemcsak a pesti egyetemen, hanem a műegyetemen is létrejött a tanárképző intézet. A reáliskolai tanárképezde megszervezésében Stoczek Józsefnek – az intézmény akkori vezetőjének – volt meghatározó szerepe, aki a képezdébe a műegyetemi tanári kar legjobb és legsokoldalúbb erőit vonta be, maga pedig az igazgatást is felvállalta. Stoczek az oktatókat részben polihisztori mivoltuk, részben a műszaki és humán műveltség iránti mély elkötelezettségük, továbbá közéleti szerepük miatt választott be a tanári karba. A műegyetemi levéltári dokumentumok alapján egyértelmű, hogy ennek az intézetnek a működését a magyar értelmiségképzés szempontjából kiemelt és küldetéses feladatnak tekintette a műegyetem. Az alapgondolat szerint egyrészt szakmailag igényes és pedagógiailag kiművelt reáliskolai tanárokat képeznének ki; másrészt az általuk jól felkészített reáliskolai növendékek minőségi és mennyiségi változást hozhatnának a műegyetemre felvételizők körében. Az 1780 és 1873 között működő műegyetemi reáliskolai tanárképezde a szakmai tanárképzésünk alapvető történeti szakaszának tekinthető. 1783 őszén Trefort Ágoston szervezetileg összevonta a két tanárképzőt egy intézetbe. A tapasztalatok egy része beolvadhatott az új közös intézetbe. A rövid ideig tartó műegyetemi működés ellenére – a szervezettség, az igényesség, a sokoldalúság okán – a tanárképző intézet szellemiségének további és jelentős kisugárzása volt a műegyetem munkájának egészére nézve, illetve a helyi pedagógiai szakmai vonulat megszületésére. ’At the distance of 150 years: teachers’ training institution of exact sciences operating at the University of Technology (1870 -1873)In the 1860s, the staff of the technical university worded several times that the quality of education at schools specialized in exact science should be improved. To achieve this, they believed a training institution for teachers of technical schools should be established. This idea met the plans of Eötvös’s teacher training plans, so in 1870 a teacher training institution was established not only at the university of Pest but the university of technology, as well. József Stoczek, the current director of the institution, had a decisive role in organizing the training institute for teachers of exact sciences; he involved the best and versatile members of the staff of the technical university, and undertook leadership himself. Stoczek selected the professors partly because of their generalist nature and engagement for exact and social disciplines, partly because of their role played in public life. According to the documents of the archives of the technical university, it is clear the university took the operation of this institute as a highlighted and mission-like task in terms of educating Hungarian intellectuals. The basic idea was that technical school teachers possessing high quality professional and pedagogical knowledge would be trained on one hand and the pupils prepared by these teachers could bring a qualitative and quantitative change in the group of university applicants.  The teacher training institute having operated at the university of technology between 1870 and 1873 can be considered a basic historical period of our vocational teacher training. In the autumn of 1883, Ágoston Trefort merged the two teacher training institutions into a new one. Despite the short time of operation at the technical university, the teacher training institution, owing to its being well-organized, high-standard and versatile, had further and significant impacts on the work of the whole university as well as the birth of the local pedagogical thread.   


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