scholarly journals Implementation of Electric Vehicles in The Internal Route of The International University of Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Azanza ◽  
Álvaro Remache ◽  
Soraya Ruiz ◽  
Gorky Reyes ◽  
Andrés Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International University ◽  
Polluting Emissions ◽  
The University

Sustainable campuses have become one of the main objectives of agendas for a wide range of universities as a result of the impacts generated by the activities carried out within an academic life and how they directly affect the environment. An important aspect of the educational model of the International University of Ecuador, considering education as a focal transforming point of collective change, is to teach values and responsibility for the environment, considering that in terms of sustainability a higher education should not be understood only from the technical point of view, but as a process of realizing the significance of substantial values that would encourage future professionals to commit to the construction of a more fair and equitable society. For this reason, the objective of this study is to analyze sustainability through the implementation of electric mass transport vehicles in the internal route of the International University of Ecuador, for which the methodology is based on a quantitative approach, whose type of study is exploratory and of an inductive-deductive nature, analyzing the variables that directly influence a sustainable environment such as altitude above sea level (geographical location), benefited people, consumption and routes. Instruments such as sampling and surveys will be used to determine the decrease in polluting emissions that can affect the natural environment of the area. The technical considerations are the following: the location of the campus presents average slopes of 7.76 ° at 2560 masl, the results of autonomy in a route are 14.8 km benefiting around 450 people a day from the university community, having an annual load consumption of 297311 KWh during day hours and of 114715 KWh during night hours. With the implementation of an electric vehicle for the internal route, a power of 154.7 KW is required to overcome a slope of 18 ° with a campus route of 178.4 km, with this it would stop emitting 29.6 tons of CO2 and 0.76 tons of gases harmful for the environment per year

scholarly journals Metasynthesis Regarding the Sociocultural Adaptation of International University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Vanessa Sarmiento Quiñones ◽  
Claudio Enrique Bustos ◽  
Maria Victoria Perez ◽  
Diana Lucia Peralta ◽  
Natalia Zañartu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
International University ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Adaptation Processes ◽  
The University

This study centers on the sociocultural adaptation experience of international students in academic life and daily life. Responses to the guiding question of what differences and similarities are discernible in the sociocultural adaptation processes that international university students experience in the university versus outside university in the receiving society. It presents a metasynthesis of 12 empirical studies that apply qualitative methodologies to the study of international university students’ sociocultural adaptation, which were published in scientific journals indexed in Ebscohost, WOS and Scopus from January 2012 to March 2019. The metasynthesis results indicate that sociocultural adaption involves: (1) situations of shock that arise in the two environments of academic and daily life with specific challenges proper to each one, and (2) the deployment of varying intrapersonal and social resources in each context. Academic and daily life can be considered as necessarily linked to sociocultural adaptation given the compensatory function observed in relational dynamics of students as they move between the two settings. The emphasis of the research on presenting sociocultural adaptation as a primarily negative process, the theoretical implications of separating academic life from daily life, and the relevance of exploring the role of social networks in students’ daily life are discussed.

scholarly journals PHILOSOPHY IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY AS A BUSINESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
I.V. Zhurbina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
The Status ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
The University ◽  
Opening Up

The paper discusses the status of philosophy in the context of the increasing commercialization of higher education, which turns the university into a business. It shows that the neoliberal policy of the commercialization of higher education changes the structure of the educational process dramatically and brings humanism as an educational model inextricably linked with the development of humanitarian disciplines to the limit. In the era of capitalization of knowledge, the principle of utilitarianism becomes dominant. The paper gives reasons for the need to overcome the neoliberal tendency of the educational process dehumanization and return to humanitarian disciplines, which preserve the culture of human thinking in today’s world. The paper finds that the construction of the process of university education according to the being-in-place model actualizes thinking, which brings an individual back from the inertia of non-thinking existence. The paper describes specificity of philosophy as a practice of thinking and language which preserves the foundations of human existence and develops the hermeneutic type of thinking of an individual as “persona”. The hermeneutic type of thinking is focused on a person’s self-understanding of oneself as a personality. At the same time, it contributes to understanding the Other, a dialogue with whom opens up the opportunity not only to look at oneself in a different way, but also to understand the “point of view” of the Other, thereby opening up a different horizon of seeing the world in general.

scholarly journals BEYOND ALLIANCE FOR KNOWLEDGE FROM HAMK’S POINT OF VIEW

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Pertti Puusaari ◽  
Heidi Ahokallio-Leppälä ◽  
Janne Salminen
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Operation Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Good Basis ◽  
Research Results ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
University College ◽  
International University ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTLong term cooperation that is based on common trust, friendship and especially willingness to go forward together is a good basis for development of an international university. Challenging the modern world together makes it possible to reach goals beyond the average. This is the heart of the Beyond Alliance for Knowledge—an alliance between Feevale University, VIA University College and Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK). This article is written to highlight the basic needs for the Beyond Alliance for Knowledge from HAMK’s perspective. The perspectives are (1) the need for internationalisation of the university itself, (2) better education products for students and (3) effective research results for businesses and society. The ultimate goal in this alliance should be to develop competences which we need to challenge global wicked problems.Keywords: Alliance. Education. Competence. Co-operation. Research.  RESUMOA cooperação de longo prazo, baseada na confiança comum, na amizade e especialmente na disposição de avançar juntos, é uma boa base para o desenvolvimento de uma universidade internacional. Desafiando o mundo moderno juntos, é possível alcançar objetivos além da média. Este é o coração da Beyond Alliance for Knowledge - uma aliança entre a Universidade Feevale, a VIA University College e a Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK). Este artigo foi escrito para destacar as necessidades básicas da Beyond Alliance for Knowledge na perspectiva da HAMK. As perspectivas são (1) a necessidade de internacionalização da própria universidade, (2) melhores produtos de educação para os estudantes e (3) resultados efetivos de pesquisa para empresas e sociedade. O objetivo final desta aliança deve ser o desenvolvimento de competências que precisamos para desafiar os complexos problemas globais.Palavras-chave: Aliança. Educação. Competência. Cooperação. Pesquisa.

scholarly journals Categorizing findings on Language Tutor Autonomy (LTA) From Interviews

Relay Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 236-246
Author(s):  
Tomoya Shirakawa
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Tutoring Program ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International University ◽  
The University

Language Tutor Autonomy (LTA) is a new area of research and spans a wide range of social contexts with important implications. Anyone can be a tutor, and by doing so, they can learn by teaching. LTA can potentially may have many practical applications and, therefore, should be subject to further investigation. This study used interviews to understand LTA from the tutors’ perspective. The context was a peer tutoring program at an international university in Japan specializing in self-access learning. 11 tutors participated in the research, who are all undergraduate (2nd to 4th year) students enrolled in the university. A qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews was employed in order to understand how their teaching as tutors influences their learning as students, and, primarily, to identify unique aspects of LTA. The results were organized according to interview questions concerning: (1) dealing with difficulty, (2) preparing for weekly sessions, (3) sharing experiences (beyond teaching English) and (4) developing personally from the tutoring experience. The paper will offer a model of LTA and a framework for future research and practical applications in self-access learning settings, including peer teaching and learning advising.

scholarly journals University-Community Engagement: A grid-group analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Low
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Optimal Method ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
External Sources ◽  
The University ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
University Community

University-community engagement involves complex issues, entangling multiple and interacting points of view, all of which operate in a wider dynamic evolving social environment. For this reason, there is often disagreement about why engagement is necessary or desirable, and whether there is one optimal method to practice it. To address this issue, I argue that university-community engagement can be examined as a form of enquiry. In this view, engagement is viewed as a system that arises through the recognition of the dissent it embodies. As such, enquiry functions to process disagreements into diverse methods of communication. Most of the disagreements utilised by universities are derived from external sources, thus university-based enquiry must necessarily involve a dialogue with a broader community or environment. In this sense, university-community engagement can be viewed most generally as a method that processes disagreements into shared understandings through enquiry. To demonstrate how university-community engagement functions from an enquiry point of view, I use Mary Douglas’ grid-group diagramming method to develop a critical typology for classifying university-community engagement. My modified grid-group diagram provides a structured typological space within which four distinct methods of university-community engagement can be identified and discussed – both in relation to their internal communicational characteristics, and in relation to each other. The university-engagement grid-group diagram is constructed by locating each of Douglas’ four quadrants within Charles Peirce’s four methods of enquiry. Peirce’s work is introduced because each of his four methods of enquiry deals specifically with how disagreements are processed and resolved. When Peirce’s methods for fixing belief are located in Douglas’ grid-group diagram, they create a sense-making framework for university-community engagement. It is argued that the model offers a heuristic structure through which to view the diversity of university-community engagement and create shared understandings of the appropriateness of a wide range of possible engagement methods.

Image and Freedom in Fichte’s Doctrine of the State of 1813

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 240-257
Author(s):  
Luciano Corsico ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Original Model ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
The University ◽  
Methodological Reflection

In this paper, my aim is to offer an approach to the practical meaning of the concept of image in Fichte’s Doctrine of the State of 1813. The word “image” (Bild) plays an important role within Fichte’s philosophical terminology, especially during the last period of his intellectual production and his academic life, after leaving the University of Jena. Even a superficial reading of the several different versions of the Doctrine of Science allows one to recognize that the above-mentioned term is used by Fichte more frequently during his years in Berlin (1800–1814). Despite this, the determination of the concrete meaning of the term “image” represents a difficult interpretative challenge for readers of Fichte’s philosophy. From my point of view, Fichte uses the term “image” not only at the level of theoretical or methodological reflection, but also at that of praxis. For this reason, Fichte’s transcendental reflection in the Doctrine of the State contains not only an analysis of the negative relationship between image and being, but also, necessarily, an analysis of the positive relationship between image and freedom (Freiheit). Although his Doctrine of the State is based on a theological-religious conception, which could be questioned from the perspective of a secularized rationality, Fichte maintains a consistent conception of knowledge as an image of a world ordered by the moral law. Definitively, this image plays a central role as an original model for the action of every rational being in the sensible world.

scholarly journals Toward the recovery of common sense in a post-critical intellectual ethos

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Cannon
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Michael Polanyi ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This article attempts to articulate what philosopherscientist Michael Polanyi meant by a post-critical intellectual ethos and to explore its implications for concrete academic practice. The modern critical tradition’s strategy for defeating the demon of self-doubt and for securing certainty, as Hannah Arendt has written, restricts serious candidates for belief to those whose conditions of truth can be rendered wholly immanent to focal consciousness within a point of view that is simply taken for granted. Thereby it forecloses the possibility of recognizing the partiality of its own perspective vis-á-vis that of others, taking into account the relevant perspectives of other persons, and reaching any kind of sense in common between perspectives. The institutionalization of this strategy in 20th century academic life is amply and insightfully documented in Bruce Wilshire’s Moral Collapse of the University. Michael Polanyi, in his writings, adumbrates a post-critical intellectual ethos in which the making of sense in common between persons of differing perspective is central to the enterprise of teaching, learning, and research.

A Charging Management of Electric Vehicles Based on Campus Survey Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 492 ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bunyamin Yagcitekin ◽  
Mehmet Uzunoglu ◽  
Arif Karakas
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Driver Behavior ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The University

Road transport electrification has a great potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumptions. However, massive integration of electric vehicles (EVs) may cause a trouble on power grid. This point of view looks at the future state of EV development, charging scheduling and drivers’ behaviors are becoming increasingly important to charging management strategy. An optimal charging management leads to minimum effects on power grid, reducing peak power via vehicle to grid (V2G) mode and lower charging costs. In order to make an optimum charging management strategy, it requires some information of driver behavior, such as daily driving, parking times and usage frequency of the vehicle. At this perspective, a campus based driver behavior is gathered with face to face survey in Yildiz Technical University, Turkey. Survey data is utilized to determine daily optimum charging profile and increase the functionality of EVs. In this study, the comparison of possible effects of different charging scenarios on power grid are presented and analyzed. A case study is performed in the university campus and the simulation is realized in MATLAB/Simulink environment with actual data.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Environmental cell studies of deformation and fracture

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-517
Author(s):  
H. K. Birnbaum ◽  
I. M. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Damage Threshold ◽  
Chromatic Aberration ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Environmental Cell ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
The University

Studies of the effects of hydrogen environments on the deformation and fracture of fcc, bcc and hep metals and alloys have been carried out in a TEM environmental cell. The initial experiments were performed in the environmental cell of the HVEM facility at Argonne National Laboratory. More recently, a dedicated environmental cell facility has been constructed at the University of Illinois using a JEOL 4000EX and has been used for these studies. In the present paper we will describe the general design features of the JEOL environmental cell and some of the observations we have made on hydrogen effects on deformation and fracture.The JEOL environmental cell is designed to operate at 400 keV and below; in part because of the available accelerating voltage of the microscope and in part because the damage threshold of most materials is below 400 keV. The gas pressure at which chromatic aberration due to electron scattering from the gas molecules becomes excessive does not increase rapidly with with accelerating voltage making 400 keV a good choice from that point of view as well. A series of apertures were placed above and below the cell to control the pressures in various parts of the column.

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