scholarly journals MODELS FOR LEADERSHIP IN CURRICULAR INNOVATION: CONCORDIA’S CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING IN SOCIETY

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Govind Gopakumar ◽  
Deborah Dysart Gale ◽  
Brandiff Caron ◽  
Robin Drew
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering ◽  
Pedagogical Philosophies ◽  
Engineering Pedagogy

This paper provides an overview of emerging trends in Innovative engineering pedagogy incorporating interdisciplinary ventures in universities. These trends encompass both pedagogical philosophies and institutional modes of delivery. We examine similar models across North America, with special reference to the Canadian context. We conclude with a case study of Concordia University’s Centre for Engineering in Society (CES), a small academic unit of interdisciplinary humanities and social science scholars housed within the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and staffed by disciplinary experts working together with engineers; CES presents a unique model in Canada. The CES model offers some promising opportunities for engineering education as it pursues its mission to articulate the difference between the competent technician and the professional as citizen and leader who pilots the technological trajectory of society. The presence of non-engineering faculty members leads to interdisciplinary research and collaboration, improved integration of risk, social impact and equity assessment in curricular and project design, and innovation in addressing CEAB graduate attributes. CES also presents a neutral space for activities that cross engineering and computer science boundaries, in particular collaborative global engineering projects, humanitarian engineering, and groups such as Engineers without Borders. Challenges include faculty and students indifference to non-technical subject matter, inability to negotiate critical studies of technology, and a tendency for marginalization of faculty without technical expertise.

scholarly journals Values-Based and Global Systemically Important Banks: Their Stability and the Impact of Regulatory Changes After the Financial Crisis on it

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Schäfer ◽  
Sebastian Utz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Bank Stability ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Systemically Important Banks

AbstractWe study the financial stability of Values-Based Banks (VBBs) and Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs), and how regulatory changes in the aftermath of the financial crisis affected bank stability. These two types of banks allow contrasting an environmental and social impact banking approach to a conventional one. VBBs exhibit significantly higher financial stability before and during the financial crisis. However, regulatory changes in the aftermath of the financial crisis requiring higher capital buffer, have significantly affected GSIBs and rendered the difference in stability levels insignificant.

scholarly journals The bases of coordination development as the emergent quality of investment goods supply chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
V. Falovych ◽  
N. Falovych ◽  
S. Semeniuk
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Production System ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Common Information ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Reducing Costs ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Internal Stakeholders

In this paper article the authors point out the importance of actions aimed at reducing waste, increasing productivity and reducing costs in the supply chain, which will ensure the development of coordination as an emergent function of the supply chain and contribute to the formation of responsibility to internal stakeholders; they also note the difference between logistics and supply chain management (SCM), which, primarily, is that logistics usually refers to the activities taking place within one organization, and supply chains belong to the network of companies working together and coordinate their actions to product supply to the market. The authors point out that the development of partnership in supply chains makes it possible to perform collaborative planning on a common information base, collective management of stocks, risks and all this provides reasons to coordinate activities in the supply chain, i.e. the dependence of «exit» on «entry» becomes homogeneous. Particular attention is paid to the ways of improvement the supply chain functioning, which is proposed to carry out at three levels. The highest level includes the processes taking place throughout the supply chain, and concerns the relationship between all participants [10]. At the operational level (the second level), the constraint theory recommends to use the LPS (Logical Product Structure) method. At the current actions level (the third level) TOC proposes to use the concept of management of the production system DBR (English: Drum – Buffer – Rope), the application of which enables to increase the capacity of the production system. In order to identify the area of necessary changes, the authors propose to build a detailed flowchart of processes, actions and functions from receiving the order from the customer (either external or internal) up to the moment of order fulfilment and delivery to the customer, which makes it possible to analyze sequentially the system operation in the current time and identify the areas of necessary changes, as well as to increase the level of meeting the customer needs, ensuring the efficiency of material and information flows, strengthening the manufacturer status in the market.

PIERRE BOULEZ IN INTERVIEW, 1996 (IV) SOME BROADER TOPICS

Tempo ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (258) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Keyword(s):  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Principal Work

EG:Who – except Stéphane Mallarmé – is being portrayed in your principal work Pli selon pli – portrait de Mallarmé? Nobody? The listener? Or Pierre Boulez himself?PB: I think that it is a double portrait: It is a portrait of Mallarmé and myself. Of course Mallarmé is a poet who has been terribly important to me. The kind of relationship we had, our working together – in spite of the difference in centuries! – brings up somebody else: That is the portrait of a kind of mixture of Mallarmé and me, finally.

scholarly journals FACILITATING COLLABORATION IN ONLINE LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Collaborative Activity ◽  
Shared Cognition ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Collaborative Activities

Collaboration entails working together toward a common goal, but what is the common goal we want students to work toward in classes? What kinds of interactions and outcomes do we value as collaboration, and how do we facilitate them? This paper addresses these questions, beginning with an examination of research on groups, community, and shared cognition that inform collaboration, and then addressing what we mean when by collaboration. Three questions define the discussion: Why do we emphasize collaboration and try to engage students in collaborative activities and collaborative learning? What outcomes do we expect from collaboration in terms of how students interact, tasks are conducted, learning accomplished, and knowledge created? How does communication differ online from offline, and how does the difference affect collaboration? Each section ends with some recommendations on how to facilitate collaboration, and the paper concludes with a brief summary and some key concepts for facilitating collaborative activity.

scholarly journals Software Quality and Security in Teachers' and Students' Codes When Learning a New Programming Language

10.28945/2292 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 123-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomi Boutnaru ◽  
Arnon Hershkovitz
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Programming Paradigms

In recent years, schools (as well as universities) have added cyber security to their computer science curricula. This topic is still new for most of the current teachers, who would normally have a standard computer science background. Therefore the teachers are trained and then teaching their students what they have just learned. In order to explore differences in both populations’ learning, we compared measures of software quality and security between high-school teachers and students. We collected 109 source files, written in Python by 18 teachers and 31 students, and engineered 32 features, based on common standards for software quality (PEP 8) and security (derived from CERT Secure Coding Standards). We use a multi-view, data-driven approach, by (a) using hierarchical clustering to bottom-up partition the population into groups based on their code-related features and (b) building a decision tree model that predicts whether a student or a teacher wrote a given code (resulting with a LOOCV kappa of 0.751). Overall, our findings suggest that the teachers’ codes have a better quality than the students’ – with a sub-group of the teachers, mostly males, demonstrate better coding than their peers and the students – and that the students’ codes are slightly better secured than the teachers’ codes (although both populations show very low security levels). The findings imply that teachers might benefit from their prior knowledge and experience, but also emphasize the lack of continuous involvement of some of the teachers with code-writing. Therefore, findings shed light on computer science teachers as lifelong learners. Findings also highlight the difference between quality and security in today’s programming paradigms. Implications for these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals The Social Impact Toward A North Carolina Man As Seen In Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
Siti Marda Yuliana
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
High Class ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

The problem in this study is social impact from North Carolina citizen for the main character’s life. In the novel, Noah’s life is influenced by his social life, especially his love story with Allie. They are separated because of the difference of social class and people’s view about them who come from different status. From the result of this study found that, 1) social impact from people around to the main character in The Notebook novel, that is separating social class into three types, low class, middle class and high class, 2) social impact also influenced by the environment , which is North Carolina has beautiful view and make the people love their hometown by writing the poem, but in other side, environment makes space between people and their social status, 3) social impact is influenced by North Carolina citizen’s view who separate people based on the social class, and it makes the interaction between low class and high class is very limited, especially in relationship and marriage.    

scholarly journals Global Engineering Projects from the Young African Leaders Initiative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Lacksonen ◽  
Scott Springer ◽  
Devin R. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering

In this paper several projects that integrate globalization issues into undergraduate engineering and technology coursework are discussed.The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders brings African entrepreneurs to United States campuses for six weeks every summer, providing an excellent opportunity to identify potential clients for global engineering class projects. Many of the fellows could benefit from having access to engineering skills to grow their businesses. The university’s engineering faculty partnered with fellows on projects in freshman Impacts of Engineering, junior Lean Manufacturing, and senior Capstone Design classes. Projects have included conceptual product design, detailed product design, process selection, manufacturing equipment design, and facilities design. Several engineering and technology majors have participated in the projects. The highlight is a micro-hydroelectric generator design project spanning several classes and semesters.The projects are similar to traditional class projects and cover all existing course objectives. Students are also required to research and apply international standards, including product, safety and facility standards. Students also must consider the appropriate level of technology, humanitarian engineering aspects, and societal impact of the design. Assessment of the international component of one project allows programs to evaluate performance indicators on the global and societal impact of designs as part of ABET Outcome H assessment. The projects are also part of a larger humanitarian engineering initiative at the institution, and are assessed through surveys for that initiative.Submitted to the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference

Constructive mathematics and computer programming

1984 ◽  
Vol 312 (1522) ◽  
pp. 501-518 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Program Synthesis ◽  
Constructive Mathematics ◽  
Inference Rules ◽  
Computing Science ◽  
Intuitionistic Theory ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Correct Program

If programming is understood not as the writing of instructions for this or that computing machine but as the design of methods of computation that it is the computer’s duty to execute (a difference that Dijkstra has referred to as the difference between computer science and computing science), then it no longer seems possible to distinguish the discipline of programming from constructive mathematics. This explains why the intuitionistic theory of types (Martin-Lof 1975 In Logic Colloquium 1973 (ed. H. E. Rose & J. C. Shepherdson), pp. 73- 118. Amsterdam: North-Holland), which was originally developed as a symbolism for the precise codification of constructive mathematics, may equally well be viewed as a programming language. As such it provides a precise notation not only, like other programming languages, for the programs themselves but also for the tasks that the programs are supposed to perform. Moreover, the inference rules of the theory of types, which are again completely formal, appear as rules of correct program synthesis. Thus the correctness of a program written in the theory of types is proved formally at the same time as it is being synthesized.

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