Faculty Internship in Industry

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-369
Author(s):  
Saeed Foroudastan ◽  
Ahad Nasab
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
State University ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Employment Benefits ◽  
Middle Tennessee State University ◽  
Free Process ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

Based on the authors' experience at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), an effective way for members of engineering technology faculties to keep abreast of new developments in their field is to establish a faculty internship programme. The internship programme at MTSU, fully supported by the university's industrial advisory council, is set up to be a very simple and paper-free process. Every semester one faculty member spends the entire semester working as an engineer at a local firm and continues to draw his or her normal salary from the university. The firm, in turn, reimburses the university for the cost of replacing the faculty member with an adjunct. Since the faculty member is employed as a contractor in the host company, he or she retains the employment benefits from the university.

Geoarchaeology and Bayesian Statistical Modeling of Radiocarbon Dates from 40CH171, a Multicomponent Shell-Bearing Site in Cheatham County, Tennessee

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
D. Shane Miller ◽  
Thaddeus G. Bissett ◽  
Tanya M. Peres ◽  
David G. Anderson ◽  
Stephen B. Carmody ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Site Formation ◽  
State University ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Middle Tennessee State University ◽  
Blue Creek ◽  
Middle Archaic ◽  
Cumberland River ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

Using multiple lines of evidence from 40CH171, including opportunistic sampling, geoarchaeology analysis, and Bayesian radiocarbon modeling, this chapter constructs a site formation process narrative based on fieldwork conducted from 2009 to 2010 by the University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University, and the Tennessee Division of Archaeology. This chapter argues that the shell-bearing strata were deposited relatively close to an active channel of the Cumberland River and/or Blue Creek during the Middle Holocene (ca. 7170–6500 cal BP). This was followed by an abrupt shift to sandier sediments, indicating that deposition after the termination of the shell-bearing deposits at the Middle Archaic/Late Archaic boundary took place in the context of decreasing distance from the site to the Cumberland River and Blue Creek.

scholarly journals An Economic Analysis of a University Educational Cafeteria Composting Program—Bobcat Blend

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 639-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Sanders ◽  
Tina Marie Waliczek ◽  
Jean-Marc Gandonou
Keyword(s):  
Organic Waste ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
Pilot Site ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Collection Sites

At Texas State University, a cafeteria-composting pilot program was established in which students source-separated their organic waste at one of the food courts while the program educated students on the value of organic waste and compost. Waste sorting bins were set up in a dining hall to direct students to sort trash into recyclables, compostables, and trash. Waste audit results demonstrated the value of the operation to the university in terms of savings in waste hauling expenditures, as well as showed the percent contamination, and percent waste diverted to the university's recycling and composting program. There was a significant difference between pre and post-test waste audits. The pilot site composting program resulted in a net loss of $3741.35 to the university during the first year, but was expected to produce a positive net return of $2585.11 in subsequent years. The pilot test showed the program was most successful when ongoing education at the dining hall occurred. Additionally, the student-run composting program resulted in hands-on training for students in producing a valuable horticultural commodity in an emerging waste management field. Results also indicated opportunities for further diversion such as the incorporation of compostable cups and utensils, as well as through expanding the operation to include more collection locations. With more collection sites and, therefore, more efficiency, the expanded composting program has the potential to become a self-supporting operation.

Ten Steps to a Successful Summer Music Camp

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Robert Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
String Education ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Music Camp ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
The University

Robert Gillespie is working on behalf of string education in a number of projects. A faculty member at The Ohio State University, he has also organized the ASTA Media Resource Center at the university. In this article he offers key information to establishing a summer string camp.

scholarly journals Assessment of Public Relations’ Practice of Edo State University Uzairue, Edo State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-602
Author(s):  
Obinna Johnkennedy Chukwu
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Edo State ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The study was carried out to assess public relations’ practice of Edo State University Uzairue. The study was predicated on Systems Theory (ST). The objectives were to determine the extent whether or not the Institution has a functional public relations department and to evaluate the extent of its public relations activities’ effectiveness, amongst others.  Interview schedule was used to elicit information from the public relations office headed by the public relations officer. Findings indicates, amongst others, that the University has a public relations office, but does not have public relations department, and that the extent of her public relations activities’ effectiveness is average, amongst others. Given the above and the enormity of the importance of public relations to the educational institutions, the study, thus, recommend that Edo State University Uzairue should set-up a PR department with its ancillary compliments; step-up, and also, utilise effective public relations strategies in order to achieve effectiveness in its public relations’ campaigns or activities.

Features of the application of the case method in the course «Pedagogy and psychology of higher education» for PhD students

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Ивлева ◽  
Marina Ivleva ◽  
Наталья Саенко ◽  
Natalya Saenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Case Method ◽  
State University ◽  
Teaching Pedagogy ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Russian Education ◽  
Moscow State University

The article is devoted to widely used in modern Russian higher school case method. The methodology is considered in the context of teaching «Pedagogy and psychology of higher education» for PhD students. In the spectrum of training the highest level specialist tasks is to prepare PhD students for teaching in vocational education. Traditionfor Russian education is the situation when personal is replenished by the graduates of the graduate school, «grown» by the University. Academic postgraduate course «Psychology and pedagogics of higher school», prepared by the Department of philosophy and psychology, Moscow state university of mechanical engineering (MAMI), is also intended to help future teachers in mastering the content of modern concepts of education and personality formation. But the most attention is paid to the practice of designing educational situations in higher education. The authors ‘ position is that the failure of the use of case studies is primarily concerned with the complexities of collecting and the formation directly of problem pedagogical situations. The propose variants: a) practical training using the case method, b) the collection and formulation of problem pedagogical situations, in) classes with the use of the case method, d) stages of the case. The authors share their experience and introduce the reader to the acquired fund of their pedagogical situations. In situations fund there are the following types of situations: conceptual, institutional, psychological, ethno-cultural and others. Specific situational feature of many tasks is the multiplicity of solutions. From this point of view, offered by the PhD students solutions can be divided according to the degree of risk, reasonableness of solutions, the cost of resources, but a variety of solutions will be correct and relevant to the task.

Environmental Studies, University

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kakela
Keyword(s):  
Public Affairs ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Hearing ◽  
State University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Beverage Container ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Bottle Bill ◽  
The University

I applied for a job at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, because it was founded in 1970 to be “the public affairs university” in the country. There I set up a course in Citizens’ Action in Environmental Affairs because I realized that you can talk forever about respecting the environment but if you don’t get into the political workings of power, your talk will mean nothing. I began the course by showing the students a dozen bills that Illinois legislators were going to consider while our course was in progress. We talked briefly about what directions the legislators might take, and then I asked the students what bills they’d like to work on. I had imagined they would form several groups and work on different projects, but they all wanted to study the Illinois Beverage Container Act, what we called “The Bottle Bill.” One of the fellows was the host for the late show on the university radio station. He wanted to get something about the Bottle Bill on his program immediately, but I slowed him down. I wanted to train these students in thorough investigation. At this time a public hearing in Chicago on the Bottle Bill was announced. That was two hundred miles away. “Can we go?” said several students. “Sure,” I said, and gave a tape recorder to those who were going and a couple of tapes I had bought. They went, and came back from Chicago all excited. In class they played some of the testimony they had heard. “That legislator didn’t even know this—” said one student, mentioning a crucial point. I was determined that right from the start my students would know what they were talking about. They had strong opinions, but in this course they would have to get the data. They had to read journals and study the reason and logic behind all points of view. As a group we worked to get the stuff together to make a Fact Sheet to present to legislators, lobbyists, and anyone else we were going to approach. I knew that otherwise the experts and the legislators would pay no attention to us.

A cost comparison of telepathology and a visiting pathologist service

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 200-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia L Moser ◽  
Sylvia Stadlmann ◽  
Günther Heinzle ◽  
Jürgen Pollheimer ◽  
Gregor Mikuz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Comparison ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
Case Load ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
North Western ◽  
Study Hospital ◽  
Telepathology System

We compared the costs of a dynamic, robotic telepathology service for intraoperative frozen sections with the cost of a once-weekly visiting pathologist service established between the small Reutte Hospital, located in north-western Tyrol, and the department of pathology of the University of Innsbruck. Telepathology required either 15 min or 30 min per case in order to make a diagnosis, depending on the type of tissue and the operator's experience in handling the telepathology system. Costs were calculated for a five-year period. The main costs of the telepathology service were for set-up, whereas the main costs of the visiting pathologist service concerned personnel. The threshold at which telepathology was cheaper than the visiting pathologist service was 46 cases per month (15 min for diagnosis) or 135 cases per month (30 min for diagnosis). The present case-load (eight cases per month) at the study hospital was below this threshold.

Innovative Applied Research Projects Using Industry Collaboration

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Foroudastan ◽  
Linda Hardymon
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Middle Tennessee State University ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
Solar Powered ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Partnerships between the Middle Tennessee State University Engineering Technology Department and the local industrial community are well adapted to research and development projects for the students. Resulting interactions between engineering technology programs and industry are advanced in many ways, including long-term partnerships, informal contacts between faculty members and industrial personnel, consulting, and collaboration on training opportunities, discussions, seminars, and teaching programs. Foremost, however, are the many ways students benefit from the related assignments. Through applied research projects, students focus on innovative project developments that provide practical solutions to complex problems. They learn to initiate, design, and implement new initiatives within the university and industrial partnerships and to profit from the opportunities to explore new technologies and practice skills that meet real world challenges. MTSU modified its introductory engineering course to incorporate not only the fundamentals required to the support basic engineering course learning experience, but to include a choice of hands-on design projects. At present, a solar powered vehicle and a moon buggy have been designed, constructed, and entered into national races to test the decisions and capabilities of the projects as a result of this innovative laboratory approach. The laboratory atmosphere centered on these applied research projects features the opportunity to work at the university and/or take advantage of the industrial partner’s equipment and expertise. Partnerships with industry are essential in providing access to the latest equipment and technology. Applied research projects are important for students to gain a much better “sense” of engineering and to progress to higher levels of project interaction that offer design and design problem issues, use of knowledge, physical application, and comprehension of engineering principles.

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