scholarly journals Pathways to Science and Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees for Men and Women

2014 ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joscha Legewie ◽  
Thomas DiPrete
Keyword(s):  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees

scholarly journals Learning Ethical, Environmental and Professional Responsibility at Universitat Politècnica de València. Where Are We?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9991
Author(s):  
Ester Gimenez-Carbo ◽  
María Esther Gómez-Martín ◽  
Ernesto Fenollosa ◽  
Marta Cabedo-Fabrés ◽  
Eloína Coll-Aliaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Precise Diagnosis ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
The University ◽  
Great Complexity

This paper presents a study on the development of the cross-curricular learning outcome (CCLO) “Ethical, environmental and professional responsibility” for students of different Bachelor’s Degrees taught at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). The work involved in the development of this learning outcome entails great complexity, given the double dimension of responsibility that it involves. At the end of their training at the university, students are expected to show ethical, environmental, and professional responsibility towards themselves and others. Interviews have been conducted with lecturers who work and assess this outcome in their subjects, most/all of them related to science and engineering. The objective was to identify the learning approach used in the different subjects to guarantee the acquisition of this CCLO by the students. A focus group has also been carried out with students to determine the importance they give to this learning outcome, and to know their degree of satisfaction with the training received. The methodology used to obtain the data from lecturers and students and to process the information to get a precise diagnosis is fully described in the paper. Results are satisfactory to some extent: most of the lecturers carry out appropriate activities and most students achieve the expected proficiency level. Finally, recommendations are given to improve the development of this cross-curricular learning outcome.

The Academic Depression

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Riesman
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Great Crash ◽  
The University ◽  
Boom Period ◽  
American Academic

Men and women receiving their bachelor's degrees now have for the most part been those who entered college near the end of what has been the greatest boom period in American academic history. With accelerating momentum during the last four years, it can at least be suggested that the academic analogue of the Great Crash of 1929 has occurred. Universities are even more diversified than the securities listed on the stock exchanges; they are not so closely interlinked; hence, what is a depression in some institutions is a mild recession or a plateau in others, and perhaps a pause that refreshes in still others. There are surely some institutions (until recently, the University of Texas was one) so richly supported that they could use the slack market for faculty as a time for academic bargain-hunting.

Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University: Responding to an Industrial Need

2001 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Moll ◽  
William B. Knowlton ◽  
David E. Bunnell ◽  
Susan L. Burkett
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
State University ◽  
Materials Selection ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
A Minor

ABSTRACTThe College of Engineering at Boise State University (BSU) is a new program in only its fifth year of existence. Bachelor's degrees in Civil Engineering (CE), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) are offered with M.S. Degrees in each discipline added this year. The industrial advisory board for the College of Engineering at BSU strongly recommended enhancement of the Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E) offerings at BSU. In response to local industry's desire for an increased level of coursework and research in MS&E, BSU has created a minor in MS&E at both the undergraduate and graduate level.The MS&E program is designed to meet the following objectives: provide for local industry's need for engineers with a MS&E competency, add depth of understanding of MS&E for undergraduate and graduate students in ECE, ME and CE, prepare undergraduate students for graduate school in MS&E, improve the professional skills of the students especially in the areas of materials processing and materials selection, provide applied coursework for Chemistry, Physics, and Geophysics students, and offer coursework in a format that is convenient for students currently working in local industry.

Critism of STEM Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ḥafṣa Azalea Azra
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Applied Approach ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Slow Growing

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications. However, the focus on increasing participation in STEM fields has attracted criticism. First, no one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelor's degrees or higher. Second, most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations. Third, based on the data, science should not be grouped with the other three STEM categories, because, while the other three generally result in high-paying jobs, many sciences, particularly the life sciences, pay below the overall median for recent college graduates. Efforts to remedy the perceived domination of STEM subjects by men of Asian and non-Hispanic European backgrounds has led to intense efforts to diversify the STEM workforce. However, I feel that this practice in higher education, as opposed to a strict meritocracy, causes lower academic standards.

scholarly journals Born in War: Canada's Postwar Engineers and Toronto's Ajax Division

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Trudel
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
World War ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Male Veterans ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

ABSTRACT With the start of the Second World War, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering embarked on an unprecedented expansion that would eventually lead it to a wartime boomtown forty kilometers to the east of its downtown campus. For three and a half years after the war, returned men and women studied engineering in the converted barracks and buildings of the Ajax shell-filling plant. The stage for the postwar engineering boom, common to many Canadian universities, and especially Toronto's, was set during this time, and some of engineering's more enduring traditions at the University of Toronto may have been reinforced by the forced seclusion of the Ajax engineers as well as by the special treatment accorded to the overwhelmingly male veterans by the faculty and staff. In many ways, the story of Ajax Division is pivotal to understanding the training of engineers at the University of Toronto since the Second World War.

Ultrastructural comparison of prolactin adenomas of pituitary in men and women

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 346-347
Author(s):  
R.C. Caughey ◽  
U.P. Kalyan-Raman
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Phosphate Buffer ◽  
Pituitary Adenomas ◽  
Osmium Tetroxide ◽  
Secretory Granules ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
En Bloc ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Transmission Electron

Prolactin producing pituitary adenomas are ultrastructurally characterized by secretory granules varying in size (150-300nm), abundance of endoplasmic reticulum, and misplaced exocytosis. They are also subclassified as sparsely or densely granulated according to the amount of granules present. The hormone levels in men and women vary, being higher in men; so also the symptoms vary between both sexes. In order to understand this variation, we studied 21 prolactin producing pituitary adenomas by transmission electron microscope. This was out of a total of 80 pituitary adenomas. There were 6 men and 15 women in this group of 21 prolactinomas.All of the pituitary adenomas were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde, rinsed in Millonig's phosphate buffer, and post fixed with 1% osmium tetroxide. They were then en bloc stained with 0.5% uranyl acetate, rinsed with Walpole's non-phosphate buffer, dehydrated with graded series of ethanols and embedded with Epon 812 epoxy resin.

Race Difference in Auditory Sensitivity

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Shepherd ◽  
Robert Goldstein ◽  
Benjamin Rosenblüt
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Auditory Sensitivity ◽  
Race Difference ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Auditory Thresholds ◽  
Békésy Audiometry ◽  
Method Of Adjustment ◽  
Better Than

Two separate studies investigated race and sex differences in normal auditory sensitivity. Study I measured thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 cps of 23 white men, 26 white women, 21 negro men, and 24 negro women using the method of limits. In Study II thresholds of 10 white men, 10 white women, 10 negro men, and 10 negro women were measured at 1000 cps using four different stimulus conditions and the method of adjustment by means of Bekesy audiometry. Results indicated that the white men and women in Study I heard significantly better than their negro counterparts at 1000 and 2000 cps. There were no significant differences between the average thresholds measured at 1000 cps of the white and negro men in Study II. White women produced better auditory thresholds with three stimulus conditions and significantly more sensitive thresholds with the slow pulsed stimulus than did the negro women in Study II.

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