scholarly journals PEER MENTORING IN ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR WOMEN STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Elliott ◽  
Hanan Anis ◽  
Catherine Mavriplis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Peer Mentorship ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Program ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The University

Entrepreneurship in engineering is anintersection of two male-dominated domains and isparticularly prone to a gender gap. Entrepreneurshipeducation—the teaching of skills and cultivation of talentsthat students need to start businesses, identifyopportunities, manage risk and innovate in the course oftheir careers—is now a staple in many universities acrossCanada and around the world. However, theparticipation of women in such entrepreneurial programsremains quite low. This paper presents the novel Women'sStart-up Network program at the University of Ottawa.The objective of the program was to develop anentrepreneurial mind-set and competencies in femaleengineering and computer science students throughfacilitated peer mentorship training. Participants weresurveyed to determine the degree to which a peer mentortrainingprogram could increase participants’ knowledgeabout entrepreneurship and influence participants’entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions. This paperreports on the preliminary results of the program and theimplications for entrepreneurial learning and careerintentions among female engineering students.

Engineering for good: A case of community driven engineering innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinweike Eseonu ◽  
Martin A Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Consideration

There is a culture of disengagement from social consideration in engineering disciplines. This means that first year engineering students, who arrive planning to change the world through engineering, lose this passion as they progress through the engineering curriculum. The community driven technology innovation and investment program described in this paper is an attempt to reverse this trend by fusing community engagement with the normal engineering design process. This approach differs from existing project or trip based approaches – outreach – because the focus is on local communities with which the university team forms a long-term partnership through weekly in-person meetings and community driven problem statements – engagement.

COVID-19: implications for NHS Staff

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Environments ◽  
Public Health Institutions ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

In light of the emergence in China of COVID-19, the novel corona virus, emeritus professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton discusses the role of the World Health Organization and other public health institutions in responding to potential new global pandemics and deliberates on the role of NHS staff in coping with infectious disease in clinical environments.

scholarly journals The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT. Anderson & E. Yelchin

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arwen Thysse
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Person Account ◽  
The University ◽  
Narrative Function

Anderson, M.T. and Eugene Yelchin. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge. Candlewick Press, 2018. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge throws the reader into a topsy-turvy wonderland with the gripping adventure of two unlikely heroes, Brangwain Spurge and Werfel the Archivist. These two historians find themselves caught in a myriad of misunderstandings as they meet at the crux of a diplomatic mission between their warring nations of elves and goblins. An elfin historian turned diplomat and spy, Spurge must confront his own deeply entrenched prejudices against goblins, while his enthusiastic and well-intentioned goblin host, Werfel, attempts to guide him through an unfamiliar culture. Through a series of entertaining mishaps and cultural misunderstandings, M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin use their vivid characters and narrative style to craft an enjoyable story with underlying messages about cultural conflict and the ways in which prejudice colours our view of others. Most commendable in this book is the authors’ brilliant use of visual and text media to craft a work showing how individuals can understand the same events in wildly different ways. The mixed media drawings not only add a striking visual force to the novel, but they also serve a narrative function by showing the world through the eyes and imagination of Spurge. It becomes clear that Spurge’s understanding of his experiences conflicts with the more objective third-person account of events, illustrating how Spurge’s view of the world has been heavily skewed by his institutionalized prejudices. As Werfel quite wisely says: “Isn’t it so fascinating how in different countries, we have different views of the same events?” This book is appropriate for the intended age group of individuals aged ten to fourteen, but it can also be enjoyed by older teens and adults. With its compelling design and timely messages, this book would be an excellent addition to school and public libraries.  Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Arwen Thysse Arwen Thysse is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Arts program and the University of Toronto’s Master of Medieval Studies program. She is also an avid musician, and enjoys children’s books.

scholarly journals Enrico Fermi’s IEEE Milestone in Florence. For his Major Contribution to Semiconductor Statistics, 1924-1926

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Global History ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Electronic Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Program ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

Enrico Fermi, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1938, taught at the University of Florence just for two academic years (1924-25 and 1925-26). His research activity in these two years saw the publication of the statistics bearing his name (the two original 1926 papers by E. Fermi are reproduced in full in this book), which is at the basis of semiconductors, and hence of modern electronics. This volume is printed for the placement, at the School of Engineering in Florence, of an IEEE Milestone, within the ‘IEEE Global History Network program’, commemorating the event. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) is the largest professional association in the world devoted to advancing technological innovation in electrical, electronic engineering, and related fields.

Representing women in science: designing laboratory activities based on women’s work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Maciel ◽  
Gustavo Braga Alcantara ◽  
Caroline Gomide ◽  
George Sand Franca
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Female Scientist ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

<p><span>The gender gap is measured globally by the World’s Economic Forum in four key areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. According to the 2020 Global Gender Gap index, it will take us nearly 100 years to get gender parity. Also according to the World’s Economic Forum report, if we consider the fastest growing professions of the future, a critical data reveals a problematic situation: women form only 26% among people with AI and data skills, 15% among people with engineering skills and 12% among those with cloud computing skills. Education is thus an important key to embed gender parity into the future. Today, 55% of working-age women are in the labour market, against 78% of men. This gap can increase even more if we do not include young girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses. Gender issues concerning access, permanence and ascension of women in STEM careers, in general, relates to various aspects. Between other elements, we point the underrepresentation of women in science communications, sexual or moral harassment caused by professors and colleagues during undergraduate and graduate ages, or the overload of housework for girls, when compared to boys, during early school ages. In other words, gender imbalance in STEM careers is the result of a series of structured oppression suffered by women of all ages. In this context, we developed a set of laboratory routines based on the work of female scientists, directed to students from 12 to 18 years old, at the Planaltina Campus of the University of Brasília. The University of Brasília is the 4th most prominent university in Brazil, and its resources are distributed between four camps. Planaltina Campus is situated 40 km away from the main campus. In recent research, it has been shown that only 30% of Planaltina young population has the intention of accessing the university. From those, only 15% pretend to study exact and earth sciences. Thinking about the World’s Economic Forum alert about professions of the future, we felt the necessity of promoting a program to capacitate, inform and demystify tabus from exact sciences among high school students, especially among girls. The activities start with the rescue of a prominent female scientist in the field that will be worked on that day, followed by a pedagogical transcript of her work. We conduct a hands-on laboratory within the University of Brasília infrastructure. The idea of the labs is to work as a school reinforcement on natural sciences disciplines, and to give visibility to women in science, improving issues such as underrepresentation and mistrust in women work. We will present the results of an implemented questionnaire and also comment about the challenges of our experience. </span></p>

scholarly journals Academic Motherhood in Mathematics Education during COVID-19: Breaking the Silence and Shifting the Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Eugenia Vomvoridi-Ivanovic ◽  
Jennifer K Ward
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Educators ◽  
Education Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Despite decades of social change and institutional reform, the academic gender gap continues to exist in many countries around the world and disproportionately affects women with children. Early indicators suggest that COVID-19 will widen this gap and exacerbate issues academic mothers face. In this essay we seek to raise awareness to the challenges and tensions academic mothers in mathematics education face both outside of and during a pandemic. We use existing literature on academic motherhood to make sense of our lived experiences, working to reframe pieces that are so often viewed as deficits to assets for our work in mathematics education. We hope that this will bring visibility to the invisible ways our identities as mothers inform our work as mathematics teacher educators and researchers. We conclude this essay with a call for the university-based mathematics education community to break the silence around the inequities associated with academic motherhood in our field and to shift the discourse from deficits of academic mothers to asset orientated views.

Harford, Lesbia (1891–1927)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Pottroff
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Class Woman ◽  
The University ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Socialist Politics ◽  
Urban Working

Lesbia Harford was an Australian writer and political activist. Despite these seemingly complementary roles, she did not view her writing as an instrument for social change, and very few of her poems are overtly political. Harford’s poetry is both social and romantic, addressing themes of love, work, and domesticity. Her writing negotiates the world of imperfections through a minimalist style. Harford attended the University of Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1916. During her undergraduate years, Harford, already committed to social justice, became embroiled in anti-war and anti-conscription activism. Rather than pursuing a legal career, she embodied her socialist politics and worked at a clothing factory. She later joined the Industrial Workers of the World. Only a few of Harford’s poems were published during her lifetime. New interest in reclaiming marginalized writing led to the discovery of Harford’s lost novel, The Invaluable Mystery, in the Australian Archives. Published in 1987, the novel concerns an urban working-class woman and her struggle to survive independently during the Great War.

scholarly journals Awake and Dreaming by K. Pearson

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlene Slobodian
Keyword(s):  
Peer Group ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Young Mother ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Low Pay

Pearson, Kit. Awake and Dreaming. Toronto: Puffin Classics, 2013. Print.Recently published in a new edition by Puffin Classics, Awake and Dreaming feels just as relevant to lonely children as it did when it was first published in 1996. One of Canada’s favourite authors of junior fiction, Pearson’s award-winning tale of a lonely girl, Theo, will wrench at the heartstrings of readers of all ages.Nine-year-old Theo longs to be part of a large family, with brothers and sisters to play with, living a stable life that does not involve moving from apartment to apartment. Her young mother works long hours for low pay, and is focused on her own problems and wants, neglectful, at times, of Theo’s desire to be cared for. Theo uses books as an escape from her dreary and lonely life, daydreaming during school of the kind of large, caring family she reads about in library books.Shortly after Theo and her mother move to their new Vancouver neighbourhood, her mother, Rae, runs into an old friend and they begin to date. Soon Theo is shuttled onto a ferry to Victoria to live with an aunt she barely remembers, until Rae and her boyfriend can “get used to living with each other” and she can return to her mother. While on the ferry, Theo meets her perfect idea of a family, and they welcome her into her home. She lives a wonderful, stable life for a few months, before she starts to be ignored again, this time by the only people whom she thought truly cared about her. A sharp return to her old life leaves her feeling miserable and more lonely than ever. Was her dream family just that, a dream? Will she ever find them again? Who was that strange woman staring at her on the ferry? Readers will have to finish the book to discover the startling and intricate tale behind Theo’s unusual circumstances.Awake and Dreaming is similar in tone to some of Pearson’s other works, which tend to feature lonely and, at times, frightened children, who are forced to confront the harsh realities of the world in which they live. Although this book was published almost twenty years ago, the majority of the content is still relevant and applicable to children growing up across Canada  today. Though the magic in the plot twist is dubious even for those die-hard believers in magic, the message of hope and of Theo’s desperation to belong to her peer group are strongly enforced throughout the novel. A new introduction written by Kenneth Oppel, as well as a character list, author profile, and discussion questions are included in this edition, making it a useful addition to classrooms, libraries, and book clubs.Reviewer: Carlene SlobodianRecommended: 3 stars out of 4Carlene Slobodian is an MLIS candidate at the University of Alberta with a lifelong passion for children’s literature. When not devouring books, she can be found knitting, cooking, or discovering new kinds of tea to sample.

scholarly journals Mentoring program for students newly enrolled in an Engineering Degree

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Juan Pedro Peña-Martín ◽  
Eva González-Parada ◽  
Carmen García-Berdonés ◽  
Eduardo Javier Pérez-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Generic Competences ◽  
The University ◽  
Senior Students

<p class="Textoindependiente21">This work presents a mentoring program for first year engineering students in the Telecommunications Engineering College (ETSIT) at the University of Malaga (UMA). Actors involved in the program are professors from staff, veterans mentoring students and, of course, freshmen. All of them has been organized trough the Moodle based Virtual Learning Environment Platform of the UMA. The program has gone through several phases over three years. This paper shows the main objectives of this mentoring program, the initial design to get them where professors played mentor role, and successive changes made to try to improve the results, including the assumption of the mentor role by senior students (peer mentoring). The tools used for program evaluation are shown too. Despite the low participation, it has been a framework for the development of various educational and socializing activities (for mentors and mentees) focused on developing generic competences. Furthermore, it has been a research tool to get a better understanding of problems affecting students newly enrolled.</p>

scholarly journals Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Abstract Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender bias in the academic world and in society at large at that time, most scholars are male. The contemporary writers’ choice of female trainee academics is worth investigating as it speaks to the visibly changed gender make-up of contemporary academia. However, this utopian situation is complicated by the fact that the writers have chosen to frustrate the characters’ entry into the world of scholarship by having them leave the university environment altogether before the end of the novel. The fact that these females all choose to depart the university forms a contrast with notions of the university found in Victorian novels, in which leaving or not attending university might have detrimental effects on the characters.

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