Updating Marine Engineering Education at the Us Merchant Marine Academy, the Marrage of Theory and Practice

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Tuttle ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Merchant Marine ◽  
The Us ◽  
Marine Engineering

Educating the Engineer of 2020

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Agogino
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Us

How will engineering practice change in the next twenty years? What are the implications to engineering education? Will we have achieved gender equity? These questions will be discussed in the context of three recent reports of the US. National Academy of Engineering – The Engineer of 2020: Global Visions of Engineering in the New Century; Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century; and Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.

scholarly journals World Citizens: Pathways for the Development of Eco-Citizenship in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Domon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
World Languages ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

It is time that universities reexamine what is meant by globalization. Contemporary researchers in science and the humanities (Critchley, Chomsky, Mumford, Ostrom, Eisenstein, Ferry, Orr, Shiva, Klein, Margulis, Meadows, Capra and Tolba, just to name a few) have aptly redefined the concept of « world » as a biological and cultural ecosystem. This paper seeks ways to integrate the theory and practice of eco-citizenship into various cross-disciplinary aspects of higher education, with a focus on curricular adjustments that may be steered by World Languages and Cultures programs. While "global citizenship" is still often understood today as a form of supranational citizenship that may find its actualization through the valuable, yet often arrested efforts of the United Nations, or as the individualistic result of a neoliberal economic emancipation of markets and capital throughout the world, this notion must rather be embedded within a radically cultural, natural and ethical bedrock from which a more potent world citizenry will stem. Departments of World Languages and Cultures and cultures are ideally positioned in the academic landscape to foster the development of a greater eco-civic and biospheric awareness that can permeate new curricular orientations of universities in the US and abroad.

scholarly journals Ingredients of Sustainable CEO Behaviour: Theory and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianpaolo Abatecola ◽  
Matteo Cristofaro
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Us ◽  
Bill Gates ◽  
Superstar Ceos ◽  
Ceo Attributes

What CEO attributes can improve corporate sustainability? In this regard, what do superstar CEOs, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, have in common? Also, did the personalities of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay contribute to the crack in the US Enron Corporation early in this century? Why, as far as presidential elections are concerned, are some countries, more than others, more likely to vote for seemingly narcissistic politicians? In our practice-oriented review article, we aim to contribute to shedding new light on the challenging evidence continuously evolving around CEOs, in general, and around their effect on corporate sustainability, in particular. Two distinctive features represent the main “so-what” value of our work. First, each of the CEO attributes which we sequentially focus on (i.e., power, personality, profiles, and effect) is, at the beginning, not only separately considered but also associated with many recent examples from business life and from the “CEO world” at an international level. Second, from our analysis, we then derive a conceptual framework which, combining all these attributes into a unique body of knowledge, could be used as a potential starting point for future investigations in this challenging research area regarding the CEO/sustainability relationship. In this regard, we believe understanding how all the analysed attributes coevolve will represent a pivotal question to address if we want to enhance the scientific and practical understanding of CEO (sustainable) behaviour.

scholarly journals Capital Asset Pricing Model, Theory and Practice: Evidence from USA (2009-2016)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad AbdelMohsen Al-Afeef
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Stock Market Index ◽  
Market Return ◽  
Market Index ◽  
Stock Market Return ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

This study discussed the Capital Assets Pricing model (CAPM) and its ability to measure the required return, the researcher tested this model on Amazon Company listed in S&P 500 during the period (2009-2016), to measure the impact of beta stock and market index return on the required return. Multiple regression model was used to test the effect of independent variables (Beta stock, Market Index Return) on the dependent variable (Required return), it should be noted that there is a statistically significant impact of the US stock market Return (S&P500) and Amazon stock Beta factor on Amazon stock required return, and the study model explanatory was 20% , this means that 20% of the changes in the required return are due to beta and market return, and 80% of the changes due to other factors, also find that CAPM can be applied on efficiency markets and huge companies.The researcher recommends applying the variables of the study on a group of large companies in the S&P 500 index, and looking for other factors that may affect the required return.

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