An Electronics Workshop for Recent Graduates

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
T. A. Kasim
Keyword(s):  
Final Project ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
The University

A workshop in electronics has been designed at the University of Lagos. It is an intensive programme which is based on the response to a questionnaire by recent Nigerian graduates. The programme consists primarily of laboratory tutorials and projects. Furthermore, the final project is a ‘take-away’ finished product.

scholarly journals Usability as a Method for Assessing Discovery

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ipri ◽  
Michael Yunkin ◽  
Jeanne M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
The University

The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries engaged in three projects that helped identify areas of its website that had inhibited discovery of services and resources. These projects also helped generate staff interest in the Usability Working Group, which led these endeavors. The first project studied student responses to the site. The second focused on a usability test with the Libraries’ peer research coaches and resulted in a presentation of those findings to the Libraries staff. The final project involved a specialized test, the results of which also were presented to staff. All three of these projects led to improvements to the website and will inform a larger redesign.

IMPLANTATION OF THE TUTORIAL ACTION PLAN “GET READY FOR THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE FINAL PROJECT” FOR THE UNIVERSITY DEGREES

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Alba Martinez Burgos ◽  
María Fernández-Cabezas ◽  
María Encarnación Morales ◽  
Margarita López-Viota ◽  
José Luis Arias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Final Project ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Educating Aerospace Design Engineers: Perspectives from Design Creativity Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suo Tana ◽  
Catharine Marsden ◽  
Yong Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Aerospace Companies ◽  
Concordia University ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

When seeking candidates for engineering design positions, aerospace companies usually seek to hire high qualified professionals while overlooking recent graduates from engineering schools. The reason for this is the opinion that most of the engineers graduating from universities do not possess the skill sets the companies are seeking and that it takes too long to train recent graduates in the complexities of the aerospace design process. There is a need to minimize the gap between the needs of the aerospace industry and the training of engineers at the university level and this need cannot be met without the collaboration of aerospace firms, universities and government. In this paper, we propose an approach toeducating undergraduate aerospace engineering students based on design creativity theory. The NSERC Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (NCADE) at Concordia University will be used as a test bed to implement, validate, improve and promote this educational strategy.

scholarly journals Celebrating 15 Years of Music Therapy Training in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Brenda Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Therapy Training ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
15Th Anniversary ◽  
The University

In 2014, the Music Therapy Master’s training course at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, celebrated its 15th anniversary. To mark the occasion, two showcases held in Gauteng and Port Elizabeth celebrated the work that is being done by music therapists and community musicians across the country, both those with many years of experience, students and recent graduates. This report of the showcases highlights the calibre of exciting music therapy projects that are emerging and developing within diverse contexts and communities throughout our country.

Analisis Konten Webometrics Pada Repository Universitas Syiah Kuala Dan Universitas Sumatera Utara

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Aras Satria Agusta
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Search Results ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University ◽  
North Sumatra

Introduction. This article is entitled "Analysis of webometrics content in the Syiah Kuala University repository and the University of North Sumatra". The purpose in writing is to look at the quality of institutional repositories based on webometrics content, which has an impact on the ranking of webometrics 2020. Data Collection Method. In this article the authors use a descriptive quantitative approach, while observations are made by observing and analyzing search results on webometrics indicator devices systematically and in a standardized manner. existing indicators, data generated for each webometrics content indicator against size indicators, visibility indicators, rich file indicators, scholar indicators on institutional repository websites through search engines and normalized. Result and Discussions. The results of this study are that each indicator of size, visibility, rich file and scholar in the repository of the University of North Sumatra is superior to Syiah Kuala University with the total ranking of the December 2019 webometrics indicator is 3.56506 while Syiah Kuala University with a total value of 0.83811 . Then the difference in the total rating in the repository is 2.72695, which allows a change in the ranking of the two universities. Conclusions. From the results of the repository ranking, the University of North Sumatra was superior with a score of 3.56506 while Syiah Kuala University with a total score of 0.83811. Then the difference in the total ranking value in the repository is 2,72695 which has an impact on each achievement of activeness with loyal members of the community in developing institutional repositories. From this, the academic community of each campus should encourage their scientific works to be published on the repository website they already have, while students submit their scientific work in the form of a paper or final project to the library and then processed and disseminated on the repository website.

Why it’s Worth Going to University

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Book ◽  
Student Finance ◽  
The University ◽  
Year 2000

You may well have gone to university. If so, would you do it all over again? I expect so. One survey of recent graduates found 96 per cent of them would do it again. If you haven’t gone but are thinking about going to university you should almost certainly go for it. You won’t regret it. It may well turn out to be one of the most rewarding and transforming experiences of your life. But what is it that makes more and more of us go to university when the media are full of stories of graduates who are unemployed and the usual clichés that too many people go to university? And why are record numbers of young people going even after the changes in student finance, which I helped to bring in, mean that graduates are likely to be paying back more over their working lives? Just look at the newspaper headlines: . . . Thousands of new graduates out of work, figures show. Expansion of the university sector has destroyed its status. UK graduates are wasting degrees in lower-skilled jobs. Today’s university students are being sold a lie. . . . Is College Worth It? is a very fair question, and the American book with that title answers with a clear ‘No’ for many people, many courses, and many institutions. The conventional wisdom is that going to university is often an expensive waste of time. But for most students the truth is the opposite. For most young people it is a deeply rewarding, life-changing experience. And it matters particularly if you come from a poor background because then it really could transform your chances in life. I meet parents who think that too many people go to university but definitely want their own child to go—it is the other parents’ kids who aren’t supposed to go. But the other parents might not see it that way. A survey of mothers of children born in the year 2000 showed that even for the mothers with the lowest qualifications 96 per cent wanted their child to go to university.

Command college – foresight as a foundation to police executive development

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Bob Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Executive Development ◽  
Leadership Programs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Police Executives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Law Enforcement Executive ◽  
The University

Purpose The education of police executives has been a priority of criminal justice agencies for more than 40 years to address the need to professionalize law enforcement in America. Since the 1980s, programs for this purpose have existed, one of which is the California POST Command College. Command College is an academically oriented executive development program intended to “invest in the future” as its students – mid-career police managers – acquire the tools and skills necessary to be promoted to executive positions. This paper aims to answer the question, “Does the Command College achieve its intended goals?” Design/methodology/approach A survey instrument was used to obtain perspectives of recent graduates and of those who had graduated from the program more than four years before the survey. An assessment of the frequency of promotions to command and executive roles was completed, and an external academic assessment of the program’s curriculum was completed by a university. Findings Support for the program by graduates increased over time, graduates were promoted at a rate of three times higher than baseline averages for police managers and the program’s curriculum was vetted as being equivalent to graduate-level courses at the university level. Research limitations/implications As its value is validated through this assessment, others can learn how they might better prepare their police executives for the future. No similar law enforcement program has been similarly assessed, so others may also learn ways to ensure they are achieving their intended outcomes from this example. Given the differences in other law enforcement leadership programs in terms of student selection and specific goals, direct comparisons would be limited, both by the program differences and the research design used by others as they work to validate their success in meeting their goals. Originality/value Although law enforcement executive education has existed since 1935, and leadership training programs for the police since 1982, no research has been conducted to validate the outcomes and impact of such programs on the graduates of such programs and their agencies.

Occupational Therapy Students' and Graduates' Satisfaction with Professional Education and Preparedness for Practice

2007 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Hodgetts ◽  
Vivien Hollis ◽  
Ollie Triska ◽  
Steven Dennis ◽  
Helen Madill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Occupational Therapy Students ◽  
Preparedness For Practice ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Practice Methods ◽  
The University

Background. Occupational therapy students' and graduates' perceptions of their professional education have received limited attention. Purpose. This paper presents the perspectives of occupational therapy students and graduates regarding satisfaction with their professional education and preparedness for practice. Methods. Students and graduates provided feedback as part of an occupational therapy educational program evaluation at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Data were collected through surveys, focus groups, and telephone interviews. Results. Both students and recent graduates reported that they felt they lacked technical, intervention skills. Longer-term graduates were comfortable with their knowledge and skills, especially their ability to provide individualized intervention. Overall, students and graduates were satisfied with their education; however, it appeared to take between six months and two years of clinical practice for therapists to feel clinically competent. Implications. The results of this evaluation may have important implications for educational programs, students, graduates, fieldwork supervisors, and employers.

scholarly journals Helping aerospace engineering students develop their intercultural communicative competence

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Sofia Di Sarno-García
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Aerospace Engineering ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

This paper presents a six-week telecollaborative project carried out between B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for languages – CEFR) level learners of English from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, and B1 (CEFR) level students of Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Bath (UK). The aim of the project was to help Spanish-speaking students develop their Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). Students carried out asynchronous discussions focusing on two cultural topics in groups of four through the social network MeWe and participated in synchronous Zoom sessions in pairs. To conclude the project, students completed a collaborative task with their overseas partners. Qualitative data was gathered through the analysis of the transcripts of the Zoom sessions, the students’ posts on MeWe, as well as a final project questionnaire. Results revealed that the students who engaged the most in the synchronous sessions and felt curiosity about their partners’ culture were also the same ones who contributed the most to the cultural discussions on MeWe. At the end of the course all participants felt they had learnt something about their partners’ culture.

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