scholarly journals Our child’s TBI: a rehabilitation engineer’s personal experience, technological approach, and lessons learned

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sulzer ◽  
Lindsay S. Karfeld-Sulzer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Rehabilitation Engineering ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Current State ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
The University

AbstractI (JS) am currently a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering. My primary research focus is rehabilitation engineering. In May 2020, a week before her fourth birthday, our daughter suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The purpose of this article is to describe the current state of pediatric neurorehabilitation from technologically-adept parents’ first-person perspectives in order to inform and motivate rehabilitation engineering researchers. We describe the medical and personal challenges faced during the aftermath of the accident, the technological approaches to her recovery that my wife (LKS) and I have examined, some of which may be considered beyond standard practice, and the lessons we have absorbed during this period regarding both the state of rehabilitation research and the clinical uptake of rehabilitation technologies. We introduce a set of questions for designers to consider as they create and evaluate new technologies for pediatric rehabilitation.

The Selection and Implementation of a Web Course Tool at the University of Texas at Austin

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Mark Lowry Decker ◽  
Morrie Schulman ◽  
Christopher Blandy
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research University ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Instructional Technologies ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Academic Computing ◽  
Parent Organization ◽  
Web Course ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
The University

For the past 10 years, the University of Texas at Austin has pursued the goal of integrating information technology into instruction. Through the Center for Instructional Technologies and its parent organization, Academic Computing and Instructional Technology Services, the University has recently developed a centralized approach to Web course development by selecting and implementing a tool for voluntary use by the faculty. This case study illustrates some of the challenges encountered and the lessons learned in initiating such a plan, given the institutional and personnel constraints of a large, historically decentralized research university. Educators from universities of all sizes realize that technological change has created a new reality for higher education both by intensifying the need for ongoing education and training and by creating tools that have changed the teaching and learning process. This study indicates that a small staff, even without overt institutional support, can have a large impact on this process by choosing an appropriate tool, actively promoting it, and conducting effective training.

A 3D Printing Vending Machine and its Impact on the Democratization of 3D Printing on a College Campus

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjai Bashyam ◽  
Joshua Kuhn ◽  
Carolyn Conner Seepersad
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
3D Print ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Common User

The Innovation Station is a 3D printing vending machine that provides on-demand, internet-enabled 3D printing to all students on The University of Texas at Austin campus. It was designed and built by the authors, who also operate the machine throughout the academic year. This paper introduces the Innovation Station and describes insights and lessons learned from operating the machine for its first academic semester. User statistics and common user mistakes are described, and a designer’s guide is provided to make it easier for first-time users to 3D print successfully.

scholarly journals Best Practices of Engineering Training in World Leading Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
A. M. Lider ◽  
I. V. Slesarenko ◽  
M. A. Solovyev
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Training

The paper reviews best educational practices in engineering training provided by world leading universities. Modern landscape of engineering training and education has been viewed; expectations and needs of different stakeholders of educational process have been considered, including those of industry representatives. The main purpose of our research is to study the educational practices of the world leading universities in engineering training, to analyze educational policies and training measures supporting their realisation. There are considered the innovations in educational policies of the universities whose experience in engineering training is determined by new objectives of reforming degree programmes via integrating new technologies of active, project-based, and problem-based learning in order to develop students’ key professional competences and generic skills. The examples of curriculum planning in collaboration with employers are viewed. The university staff training integrated into real industry operating is considered. The authors’ conclusions on the changes in the current state of engineering training are presented in the form of advice, with the orientation towards prospective piloting and integration of the best practices into engineering education in Russian universities.

scholarly journals The Impact of Modern Topo-Geodetic Technologies on Positioning Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mircea Emil NAP ◽  
Petre Iuliu DRAGOMIR ◽  
Silvia CHIOREAN ◽  
Jutka DEAK ◽  
Ioan LUPUȚ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Geodetic Measurement ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Permissible Deviation

The field of constructions has evolved extraordinarily in terms of measurement techniques, requiring increasing accuracy. This has led to the creation of new specific technologies, and implicitly measuring instruments. The range of classical geodetic measuring instruments has been completed with new high precision instruments, even in the field of physics or machine building. The use of geodetic measurement methods in the field of Engineering Topographic Measurement Techniques involves, in addition to ensuring precision requirements, the choice of appropriate devices and technologies. This choice is imposed both by the previous precision calculations, starting from a maximum permissible deviation given, and by the knowledge of the execution and assembly technologies. The purpose of this paper was to study the effect and also the impact that new technologies had on the main measurement activities, and of course on measurement techniques. This review article summarizes, analyzes and discusses the current state of primary research in terms of the impact of current or developing technologies on geodetic techniques. The global corpus of primary research is growing at an unprecedented rate. It is difficult for most researchers to grasp the state of the art of a topic. A vast number of bibliographic references were taken into account, on which analyzes were performed.

Course and Program Outcome Assessment Process

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Karimi
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Assessment ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Program Outcome ◽  
The Future ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
The University

Course and Program Outcome assessment process at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is briefly discussed. It is explained how data were collected, analyzed, and used in the enhancement of the undergraduate programs. This paper describes the management of the assessment process. Lessons learned from assessment experience are described and how these assessment processes will be streamlined in the future are highlighted.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

Interdepartmental BIM-elective of the university as a basis for the implementation of the new technologies in the educational process

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Vsevolodovna Gavrilova ◽  
Liubov Leonidovna Kniazeva ◽  
Vadim Viacheslavovich Koykov ◽  
Oleg Pavlovich Fyodorov
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The University
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