Bio-Engineering at PCL

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
W C Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Bio Engineering ◽  
Research Assistants

The Polytechnic of Central London is situated within close proximity of some of the best research hospitals in the country. It was about ten years ago that the clinician became more aware of the contribution that the engineer could make in medicine and it was at that time that the multi-disciplinary Bio-engineering Research Group was formed at the PCL. The Group works within the School of Engineering and Science and is funded by the Polytechnic and the following grant awarding bodies: MRC, SRC, EEC and the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases. The staff consists at present of two members of the teaching staff, two research fellows, three research assistants and two research students.

Creative Waves

2010 ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Polaine ◽  
Rick Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The People ◽  
Professional Practitioners ◽  
Education Network

The past few years have seen the promise of online collaboration vastly augmented by developments in online technologies and emerging creative practices. Through our work with the Omnium Research Group, the authors argue that design should never be a solitary activity and benefits from many levels of collaboration - never more so than when dealing with complex issues facing today’s world. The highly connected global society in which many of us now live frequently uses web-technologies to enhance nearly every facet of day-to-day life. The authors strongly believe that design education should not isolate itself from such communal and collaborative potential. This chapter explores what happens when online creative collaboration is applied to a real-world design project tackling critical health issues affecting local communities in Africa. It offers an account of the most recent, fully-online Creative Waves project - Visualising Issues in Pharmacy (VIP) that saw over 100 graphic designers join forces with a similar number of pharmacists from over 40 countries worldwide to produce graphic proposals for public awareness campaigns about six health issues seriously affecting the people of a village community in Kenya. The three-month VIP project is explained in relation to its aims, objectives and graphic outcomes, as well as the online environment in which it took place. Creative Waves is a concept created in 2005 by the Omnium Research Group, based at The University of New South Wales in Australia, to form online communities of design students from many institutions around the globe. Consisting an array of enthusiastic students, teaching staff, professional practitioners and luminaries invited as special guests, these online creative communities have proved that amazing results can be produced through careful facilitation between distanced individuals who will most likely never meet. The Creative Waves concept has to date been offered twice in collaboration with Icograda and the Icograda Education Network.

scholarly journals G-Asks: An Intelligent Automatic Question Generation System for Academic Writing Support

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Liu ◽  
Rafael A. Calvo ◽  
Vasile Rus
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
Writing To Learn ◽  
Feedback Systems ◽  
Question Generation ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Semantic Errors ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Automatic Question Generation

Many electronic feedback systems have been proposed for writing support. However, most of these systems only aim at supporting writing to communicate instead of writing to learn, as in the case of literature review writing. Trigger questions are potentially forms of support for writing to learn, but current automatic question generation approaches focus on factual question generation for reading comprehension or vocabulary assessment. This article presents a novel Automatic Question Generation (AQG) system, called G-Asks, which generates specific trigger questions as a form of support for students' learning through writing. We conducted a large-scale case study, including 24 human supervisors and 33 research students, in an Engineering Research Method course at The University of Sydney and compared questions generated by G-Asks with human generated question. The results indicate that G-Asks can generate questions as useful as human supervisors (`useful' is one of five question quality measures) while significantly outperforming Human Peer and Generic Questions in most quality measures after filtering out questions with grammatical and semantic errors. Furthermore, we identified the most frequent question types, derived from the human supervisors' questions and discussed how the human supervisors generate such questions from the source text.

scholarly journals A New Digital Solution Helps Automatic Voice Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.4) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
M ABOULKHIR ◽  
S BOUREKKADI ◽  
S KHOULJI ◽  
K SLIMANI ◽  
M L. KERKEB
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Voice Recognition ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Home Automation ◽  
Engineering Research

This scientific work concerning an examination on automatic speech recognition (ASR) frameworks connected with the home automation and to express the importance of this academic work, an itemized investigation of the engineering of speech recognition frameworks was completed. Our goal in Information Systems Engineering Research Group ofAbdelmalekEssaadi University is to choose a speech recognition programming that must work in remote speech conditions and in a rowdy area.The proposed framework is using atoolbox called Kaldi, which must correspond as aclient created by an advanced programming language, with any home automation framework. 

Bio-Engineering in Orthopaedics

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-167
Keyword(s):  
Current Issue ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Morning Session ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Medical Teaching ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
Bio Engineering

A one-day symposium on the above subject was organized by the Trent Regional Post-Graduate Committee and held in the Post-Graduate Medical Teaching Centre at Doncaster Royal Infirmary on Thursday 19 March, 1981. The symposium was attended by some forty persons and the morning session was chaired by Mr R. W. Porter. Dr D. Ottewell of the Doncaster Royal Infirmary Bio-engineering Research Unit chaired the afternoon session and delegates had the opportunity to see a poster display and exhibition during the lunch period. Abstracts of seven papers* presented at the symposium have been collected by Mr R. W. Porter and they are included in the current issue of the Journal for the benefit of our readers.

Conducting Engineering Research Experiments in a Senior Mechanical Engineering Instructional Laboratory

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanie Hadady ◽  
Daniel J. Wetta ◽  
Emil J. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Teaching Laboratory ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Real World Application ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Instructional Laboratory

Engineering teaching laboratory experiments often suffer from being too deterministic. While this can allow students to predictably observe and measure various engineering phenomena, the students may doubt the real world application or significance of the experiment. On the other hand, engineering research experiments can often be tedious and repetitive. Research assistants, both graduate and undergraduate, can grow bored while collecting data, leading to mistakes and reduced quality of the data. This paper will present preliminary results from using a laboratory section of a senior mechanical engineering elective course, “Introduction to Microtechnology,”, to conduct a series of experiments for a research problem in the instructor’s research laboratory.

scholarly journals Toward a Theory of Engineering Professorial Intentions: The Role of Research Group Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Burt
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Faculty Careers ◽  
Group Experiences

This article advances the Theoretical Model of Engineering Professorial Intentions to explain why individuals do or do not choose to pursue faculty careers. A 13-month ethnographic study of members of a diverse chemical engineering research group was conducted. The resulting theoretical model accounts for six emergent components that contribute to members’ identification with faculty careers: (1) social identities and personal factors; (2) sociocultural factors; (3) participation, interactions, and learning in research group experiences; (4) faculty prototype; (5) social comparisons; and (6) individual and institutional experiences. The article concludes with implications for further research and recommendations regarding mentoring and design of research group experiences that may promote greater interest in and identification with the professoriate.

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