Student Zone

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 702-702
Author(s):  
Filippo Accomando
Keyword(s):  
Field Experience ◽  
Student Chapter ◽  
The University

The University of Naples Federico II SEG Student Chapter was recently awarded an SEG outreach grant. The grant enabled members of the student chapter to create a field experience titled “Neapolitan volcanism: First-hand experience on risks and resources,” which was held 13–14 May 2021 in Naples, Italy.

scholarly journals Institutional Hurdles to Student Humanitarian Groups: Lessons Learned from a Failed Project

2014 ◽  
pp. 540-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Suhr ◽  
Timothy Griswold ◽  
Riannon Heighes ◽  
Nathanael Hill ◽  
Rachel Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Student Chapter ◽  
Primary Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Idaho ◽  
Engineers Without Borders

This paper examines the authors’ experience with a small scale, community level development project and the challenges of working with a network of institutions. Small-scale development projects are supported by a network of institutions that are essential to project success but create an inherent level of complication that may be daunting to student-based humanitarian organizations. Through a thorough examination of this institutional system, its complexity, and mechanisms which can lead to a project failure, this paper contributes to the knowledge base available to the development community. First presented is the background and development of a University of Idaho Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders chapter and their initial project in Bolivia, which ultimately failed. Our discussion will focus primarily on the interactions between the chapter and the primary institutions that we worked with including the University of Idaho, Engineers Without Borders USA, and Engineers in Action Bolivia. This is followed by an analysis of these interactions, the hurdles that arose within each institution, and recommendations for addressing such challenges. By examining these institutional hurdles, our goal is to provide other organizations with information useful to navigate the complex environment of community development work.

Reaching the Youth – Creating Entertaining and Educational HF/E Outreach Activities for Grades K-12

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 425-429
Author(s):  
Angie Avera ◽  
Michael Merta ◽  
Pamela Fournier ◽  
Ruben DeLeon ◽  
Nicholas Kelling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Clear Lake ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽  
Student Chapter ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Expected Outcome ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society aims to inform the public about the field of HF/E, and a great place to continue this effort is with the involvement of children. With that goal in mind, the HFES student chapter at the University of Houston – Clear Lake created and ran an outreach project with a class of local fourth grade students, consisting of five activities to introduce the students to various concepts of HF/E. We would like to expand upon that project in this alternative session by having attendees brainstorm and create activities for grade school children with accompanying learning objectives. The expected outcome of this alternative format session is to foster the development of a website resource that will contain HF/E educational activities for students in grades K-12 with access for HFES chapters across the country to access and host similar outreach events.

A Search for the Anthropology of Islam: Abdul Hamid El-Zein

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale F. Eickelman
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Field Experience ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Anthropology Of Islam ◽  
Symbolic Anthropology ◽  
The University ◽  
Second Period

“Zein,” as friends and colleagues knew him, practiced an interpretive anthropology that, like the writing of history, is a craft in which the best work is realized only after long years of field experience, study, and the development of concepts and themes through teaching and writing. Zein's sudden death on 13 August 1979 at the age of 44 cut short his work just as it began to achieve its fullest form.Zein's professional career was divided between two remarkably distinct periods. The first of these lasted for roughly the decade prior to 1966, during which he mastered the conventions of what might be called a standard, functionalist anthropology and applied them to ethnographic research in Egypt. The second period began in 1966 with his participation in the formative period of symbolic anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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