Growing in MTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Hannah Toerner
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Experience Level ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Young Professional ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Marine Technology ◽  
Research Students ◽  
New Generation

Abstract Professional societies and the benefits they offer provide an environment for anyone to flourish at any point in their career. As an undergraduate student, they introduce members to scholarship opportunities, mentors, and a glimpse of what a world outside academia entails. Societies benefit graduate students by providing an environment to connect with others and share ideas as well as a place to present and further research. Students of all levels turn to societies to help launch their careers through internships and new job opportunities. As a young professional, these societies are heavily relied on for networking opportunities and finding mentors to help guide the new generation of workers through a constantly evolving workforce. As an experienced worker, professional societies offer a place to teach the new generation as well as learn from them. The Marine Technology Society has provided an environment that allows any individual, regardless of age, career, or experience level, to continuously grow professionally. Through conferences, networking events, camps, and more, MTS ensures anyone has the ability to continue learning at every point in their careers.

Relationships between research supervisors and students from coursework-based master’s degrees: information usage under social media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnan Dong ◽  
Dickson K.W. Chiu ◽  
Po-Sen Huang ◽  
Kevin K.W. Ho ◽  
Mavis Man-wai Lung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Information Usage ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Existing studies reflect that traditional teaching–learning relationships between supervisors and graduate students have become disjointed with actuality seriously. In particular, there are practical difficulties in handling many students from coursework-based postgraduate degrees under current university curricula. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationship between research supervisors and graduate students on social media, which is popular among students. Design/methodology/approach This study surveyed 109 graduate students from two majors (population around 100 each) of a university in Hong Kong to explore their information usage for research on social media, related attitudes and their perceived supervisor relationships. The differences between the two majors were also compared. Findings The authors’ findings indicated that graduate students were active on social media, and social media has successfully provided effective alternate ways for students to communicate with their research supervisors. Social media could improve relationships between supervisors and research students and among fellow students. Besides education purposes, students also discussed their personal affairs on social media with supervisors, demonstrating enhanced trusted relationships. Graduate students also showed confidence in the further application of social media in higher education. Some differences between respondents from the two programs were also found in terms of communication contents, strengths, personal preferences and purposes for using social media. Originality/value Scant studies focus on the relationship between supervisors and graduate students under the current social media environment, especially for students from coursework-based postgraduate degrees. At a deeper level, for the widespread use of social media in the information age, this study explores the specific changes brought about by social media. Therefore, this study is of great theoretical and practical value to graduate education under the current social media environment.

Enhancing the English Language Ability of Postgraduate Research Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Johnson Ocan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Postgraduate Level ◽  
English Language Ability ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Research Students

The chapter discusses opinions about grammar as a prescriptive diction in academic writing. It also argues that the problem of personal pronouns can be used to analyze the language used by post-graduate students in low-resource setting and others whether in speech or writing, in non-literally discourse or literature. The chapter analyzes four maxims of good writing: Make your language easy to follow; be clear; be economical; and be effective. To successfully create knowledge, especially at postgraduate level, authors must communicate concisely to present their sense.

scholarly journals Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uju C. Ukwuoma
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Language Of Instruction ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
New Generation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Voice

This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction. The respondents were comprised of 560 lecturers and graduate students (i.e. master’s, doctoral) selected through a purposeful random sampling frame from 15 public institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Lecturers declined to use Nigerian Creole as medium of instruction because they feared that its use might negatively affect their students’ learning of English. Graduate students indicated willingness to receive instruction through a combination of English and Nigerian Creole because they perceived the use of Nigerian Creole as fun and representative of the voice of a new generation of Nigerians. The sample reported that prior knowledge of Nigerian Creole does not facilitate the learning of English because both languages are too different to facilitate a transfer of learning.

scholarly journals Online E-phemera

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Mike Calver
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Text Images

Recently, an academic colleague showed me a letter of complaint from an undergraduate student who demanded to know why faculty continued to set expensive textbooks for students to purchase when the material needed ?is all available for free on the internet?. At one level, the student has a point. The internet is a rich and growing source of text, images, videos, interactive freeware and more of great value to teaching and research. For example, many government reports and statistical databases are available online rather than in print and online historical documents are now accessible to anyone rather than just those few with the opportunity to access physical archives (e.g., my personal favourites http:// showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html and http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/). Furthermore, increasing numbers of peer-reviewed research papers are available via open access, whereby authors, their institutions, or their granting bodies pay or provide a repository through which papers are available online for free to readers. Some granting bodies insist on open access for all published work arising from their support and some professional societies have gone to great lengths to place journal back issues online, in some cases back to the 19th century (e.g., the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive, http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/). Despite these advances, there can be worms in this apple of knowledge.

Expectations, Dispositions, and Experiences of International Graduate Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 872-882
Author(s):  
Alton Y. K. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Graduate Students ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
International Graduate ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Graduate International Students ◽  
Development Prospects

This chapter seeks to examine the expectations, dispositions, and experiences of international graduate students in a publicly funded university in Singapore. Using a qualitative research design, a total of 4 focus groups involving some 33 graduate international students from 8 countries were conducted. It was found that their expectations were set mainly in economic dimensions. These included good job opportunities, attractive salaries, and good career development prospects in Singapore. In terms of dispositions, participants' considerations for studying overseas were tied closely to the aspiration for graduate education as well as the perceived appeal of an educational qualification from Singapore. In terms of experiences, participants enjoyed pleasant encounters both on-campus and off-campus. Most felt welcomed and could cope well with their studies. This chapter paints a number of future trends before it concludes with a few implications for policy makers as well as suggestions for future research.

Does the Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Article Award Predict Scientific Impact?

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 935-938
Author(s):  
John D. Lee ◽  
Anna Shearer ◽  
Andrea Cassano ◽  
Kim J. Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
Total Citation ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Author Productivity ◽  
Practical Implications

Does the “Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Article Award” predict scientific impact? We answered this question by investigating whether the 13 award winning papers published in Human Factors between 1987 and 2000 were cited much more frequently than the 730 non-award winning papers published during the same period. The results showed the award significantly increases the citation rate of articles, but accounts for only 0.2% to 1.3% of the variance in the citation rate. Author productivity accounts for far more variance in the authors' total citation rate (65.0%) and in the citation rate of the authors' most cited article (12.0%) than does award receipt. These results have practical implications for the objective recognition of scientific impact by professional societies and for the choice of research topics, particularly by graduate students.

scholarly journals ORGANIZING AND ATTENDING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 912-917
Author(s):  
Georgios Tsaparlis
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Research Students

Conferences, and especially international conferences, have become an integral part of a scientist’s activities. The attendees are, as a rule, academics and their graduate students, with the latter usually accompanying their supervisors. In addition to recent graduates undertaking full-time research, the term graduate student can also apply to part-time research students, including teachers who often adopt an action research approach, using their own classes as the focus of their studies. With most conferences, the emphasis tends to be on the presentation and discussion of the findings of recent research. However, in the case of science education, the dissemination of good practice can be considered equally important. Here, “there is little reason to do research, unless there is a pay-off in the classroom” (Hurd de Hart, 1991).

scholarly journals High-Pressure Granulites from the Tetons: The Earliest Record of Himalayan-Style Tectonics in the World

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
B. Frost
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
National Park ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Grand Teton National Park ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In August 2004 a field party from the University of Wyoming consisting of one faculty member, two graduate students, and one undergraduate student spent two weeks mapping the basement gneisses in the area around Moose Basin. During this project we mapped an area on the pass between Moose Basin and Camp Lake (which is just west of Grand Teton National Park) in detail, made detailed traverses along the head of the cirque for about 3 km southeast of the Park boundary, and collected 44 samples for petrology (Figure 1).

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