scholarly journals Creating a prototype for a seawater farm through an American-Tunisian virtual exchange

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Nadia Cheikhrouhou ◽  
Kenneth Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Instructional Support ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper will discuss a Virtual Exchange (VE) between the University of Michigan (USA) and the High Institute of Technological Studies of Béja (Tunisia) that took place between October and December 2019. Students from Tunisia and USA were enrolled in two entrepreneurship courses in their respective universities and joined together to work in groups on an innovative project on ‘creating a prototype for a seawater farm in the region of Khniss’ to be presented at the end of the semester. As this project was student-centered, the main focus was to show its impact on the students through their testimonials on what challenges they encountered and what benefits they gained from this experience at an academic and personal level. These testimonials showed that despite differences in intercultural communication competencies between American and Tunisian students and the use of English as a lingua franca, students gained valuable skills in team communication, collaboration, and coordination in a large team spread over two continents. Students taught each other and learned from each other while working toward solving a social and environmental problem the world is struggling with. Another light was shed on the impact of this VE on the instructors, the pedagogy adopted to conduct the project, as well as the contribution of the instructional support staff. Moving from a directive to a student-driven approach was rewarding for the Tunisian instructor who learned how to push students out of their comfort zone, dive into uncertain areas, and ask questions rather than accepting the norms. On his part the American instructor learned that it is possible to create meaningful, unconventional student-led projects across languages, cultures, and geography as long as the teams (students and faculty) are excited and committed to the project. He also learned that students get inspired to be brave, thoughtful, and resourceful when they can witness what effective professional collaboration by faculty looks like.

The University of Groningen in the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Berkel ◽  
Guus Termeer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
International University ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 university with 36,000 students, of whom 25% come from abroad and almost half of the academic staff is of foreign descent? What is the identity of this four-century-old university that is still strongly anchored in the northern part of the Netherlands but that also has a mind that is open to the world? The history of the university, as told by Klaas van Berkel and Guus Termeer, ends with a short paragraph on the impact of the corona crisis.

IBSE Training Feedback and Its Impact on the Design of the Next Training Program

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts ◽  
Stylianos Terzakis ◽  
Nikolaos Chaniotakis
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Training Session ◽  
The World ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

An inquiry science-based education is commonly followed in a variety of educational contexts around the world and is a key parameter in various national curriculum guidelines. The impetus of this chapter is to record the initial and final reactions of science teachers participating in a series of one-year action research and training program that took place in the University of Crete (UoC) in 2013-2016, identify their perception of the first training course, and explore the impact this data had on the program's redesign for the following training session by the technical board. Teacher reactions and responses regarding what they thought had, and had not, worked well in their classes were taken into account prior to re-designing the training program that the new teachers were going to join the following year. Looking into the general benefits as well as challenges, the authors also examined the overall effect of the UoC IBSE training program to participants as reported by both students and teachers.

Teaching a ‘Managing Innovation and Technology' Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In the last few years an increasing emphasis on developing entrepreneurship has been evident in many universities in an effort to prepare students to integrate effectively into the competitive working environment of the 21st century. A key question is how to do this. This work examines the impact of Student Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in a multidisciplinary undergraduate course of Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. It examines students' and lecturer experiences, benefits and challenges of implementing SCL, and gives recommendations to lecturers for designing a SCL based curriculum, incorporating inductive methods. The findings may be useful for academics who teach entrepreneurship related topics and seek ways to incorporate innovative approaches in their teaching and learning processes in order to motivate students towards the development of entrepreneurial skills and thinking.

The Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
G. V. Edmonson
Keyword(s):  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The University

Although the purpose of this paper is specifically that of describing the Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan, it is clear that an understanding of the faculty philosophy underlying the planning of this unit is a necessary part of the document. This is an age of technological expansion, the rate-of-change of which exceeds any progress the world has hitherto known. The seeking of new knowledge and the application of that knowledge is the work of an ever-increasing number of competent scientists and engineers not only skilled in a technology but equally successful in the art of human understanding and relationships. Institutions of higher education are an integral part of this technological age and, because of this fact, find themselves confronted with the task of foreseeing the educational and research needs of the future. This is an immense task, one which is occupying many of the best minds of this generation. The technological and social progress of the coming generation depends upon the continuing flow of students emanating from our institutions of learning. They must be adequately prepared for the responsibilities which they alone can assume.

William of Auvergne and the Manichees

Traditio ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland J. Teske
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Latin West ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
Scholarly Attention

William of Auvergne became a master of theology in the University of Paris in 1223 and was appointed bishop of Paris by Gregory IX in 1228. William governed the church of Paris until his death in 1249, while continuing to write the works which constitute his immense Magisterium divinale et sapientiale. Despite the fact that he was the first of the thirteenth-century theologians to appreciate the value of the Aristotelian philosophy that poured into the Latin West during the last half of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, his writings have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. Étienne Gilson has sketched well the impact of the influx of Greek and Arabian philosophical works into the Christian West: Up to the last years of the twelfth century, when the Christian world unexpectedly discovered the existence of non-Christian interpretations of the universe, Christian theology never had to concern itself with the fact that a non-Christian interpretation of the world as a whole, including man and his destiny, was still an open possibility.

Celebrating Half a Century of Environment and Behavior: A Bibliometric Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 469-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taciano L. Milfont ◽  
Keivan Amirbagheri ◽  
Elena Hermanns ◽  
José M. Merigó
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
Environment And Behavior ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Environment and Behavior is a leading international journal that publishes research examining the relationships between human behavior and the built and natural environments since 1969. Motivated by its half-century anniversary, the present article uses the Web of Science Core Collection database to provide a bibliometric overview of the leading trends that have occurred in the journal during the 1969-2018 period. The impact of the journal has increased over the years, Gary W. Evans is the author with most published papers, articles by Paul C. Stern and Thomas Dietz have made a notable scientific impact, the University of Michigan is the institution with the highest number of publications, and there is a growing trend in the number of women and international contributors to the journal. This bibliographic review provides strong evidence of the scientific impact of the journal, and the wider Environment-and-Behavior community should be proud of its story of success.

Political Issues and the Vote: November, 1952

1953 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus Campbell ◽  
Gerald Gurin ◽  
Warren E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
List Type ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In March, 1952 the Carnegie Corporation made available to the Social Science Research Council a research grant to support a major study of factors influencing the popular vote in the 1952 presidential election. Under the sponsorship of the Council's Committee on Political Behavior this project is currently being carried out by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan.The study was developed around six major objectives:1. To identify the voters and non-voters, Republicans and Democrats, within four major geographical areas, in regard toa. socio-economic characteristics;b. attitudes and opinions on political issues;c. perceptions of the parties and the candidates.2. To compare these groups to the corresponding groups in the 1948 presidential election.3. To trace the resolution of the vote with particular attention to the undecided and changing voters.4. To study the impact of the activities of the major parties on the population.5. To analyze the nature and correlates of political party identification.6. To analyze the nature and correlates of political participation.

Sensitivity and Robustness of Hydrodynamic Mooring Models

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joa˜o Paulo J. Matsuura ◽  
Michael M. Bernitsas ◽  
Luis O. Garza-Rios ◽  
Kazuo Nishimoto
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Systematic Change ◽  
Mooring System ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
First Order ◽  
Global Properties ◽  
Higher Order Terms ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Various hydrodynamic maneuvering models are available for modeling the slow motion horizontal plane dynamics of mooring and towing systems. In previous work, we compared four representative and widely used maneuvering models and assessed them based on the design methodology for mooring systems developed at the University of Michigan. In this paper, we study the impact of experimental uncertainties in the maneuvering coefficients on mooring system dynamic analysis. Uncertainties in higher order coefficients may even result in sign change as measured by different experimental facilities. This may indicate lack of robustness in maneuvering modeling. In our recent work, maneuvering models were classified in two schools of thought, each having a different set of coefficients subject to uncertainties. The first school is represented by the Abkowitz (A-M) and the Takashina (T-M) models, and the second by the Obokata (O-M) and the Short Wing (SW-M) models. The design methodology developed at the University of Michigan uses time independent global properties of mooring system dynamics to compare the maneuvering models, and assess their sensitivity and robustness. Equilibria, bifurcation sequences and associated morphogeneses, singularities of bifurcations, and secondary equilibrium paths are such global properties. Systematic change of important coefficients in each model shows that, for both schools of thought, sensitivity to first order terms is high while sensitivity to higher order terms is low. Accuracy in measurement of first order terms is high while accuracy in measurement of higher order terms is low. These two tendencies reduce each other’s impact, providing acceptable robustness.

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