Boundary crossing: negotiating learning outcomes in industry based student projects.

In order to prepare upcoming Industrial Designers to be able to operate successfully in increasingly complex work settings, the Industrial Design program at the University of Western Sydney is teaming up with industry to provide final year students with industry-based projects. The introduction of Industry-Based Projects into the final year research projects have disrupted many set ways the traditional student projects have been run in the past. Industry-Based Projects have brought to light a number of important issues associated with the assessment process and views held by academics about desired student project outcomes and assessment that were left lying dormant in the past. This paper explores the challenges academics faced negotiating student outcomes and assessment while supervising Industry-Based Projects

Dissemination of innovative teaching and learning practice: the Global Studio.

This project aims to disseminate teaching and learning resources from an innovative programme called the Global Studio to the ADM-HEA community. The area of innovation developed in the Global Studio was to link student teams across the globe in ‘designer’ and ‘client’ roles in order to undertake a product development project. This built on and extended the learning philosophy of learning in and through doing provided in a more traditional design studio. Throughout the project students worked in geographically distributed work groups in order to provide them with experience in using skills that would enable them to work successfully in distributed design teams

Analysis of standing vertical jumps using a force platform

A force platform analysis of vertical jumping provides an engaging demonstration of the kinematics and dynamics of one-dimensional motion. The height of the jump may be calculated (1) from the flight time of the jump, (2) by applying the impulse–momentum theorem to the force–time curve, and (3) by applying the work–energy theorem to the force-displacement curve

Teachers\u27 Perceptions on Special Education Students\u27 Social Skills and the Effect of Peer Perceptions in the General Educational Classroom.

This study identified inconsistencies between teachers\u27 perceptions of students with disabilities and parallels between the lack of positive peer perceptions and the inconsistent perceptions of general and special education teachers. To establish data this study used a selective group of seventh grade general and special education teachers from a middle school in central Virginia. This study also used one general education classroom containing students with and without disabilities. General and Special Education teachers were surveyed using the Profile/ Form Walker-McConnell Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment. Students used a modified version of the peer interpersonal assessment developed by Farmer, Rodkin, and Acker (1999). A significant difference was found between the general and special education teachers\u27 perceptions in the School Adjustment category. There was also a lack of positive votes among the general education peers. A connection between the lack of consistent perceptions for School Adjustment and the lack of positive peer perceptions may exist; however, the limitations in this research did not allow this connection to be made conclusively

Feasibility and optimum design study of a low speed wind turbine rotor system for underground communication power

A need has been recognized to have battery charging capabilities in underground mines, independent of outside AC power sources. In the event of emergency, the radios located throughout underground mines stay charged for periods insufficient to ensure the safety of trapped mineworkers. Air is always being distributed to supply oxygen and to dilute explosive gases throughout all sections of the mine. An idea to charge the batteries using the energy stored in the moving air was recently proposed. The feasibility of using a small wind turbine to charge the batteries in this airlflow will be addressed by this thesis. If the proposal is feasible, a numerical model will be constructed to design an optimal rotor system for the device.;The use of a small wind turbine to aid in emergency mine communication was found to be feasible and a numerical model utilizing Blade Element Momentum theory has been developed to produce optimal solutions to the battery charging problem. Several rotor configurations have been found to produce the amount of power required to charge the batteries (4 Watts). Due to the structural concerns in an underground mine, a wind turbine should be shielded for the protection of workers. A diffuser shroud can provide this structure and also increase the power output of the system for a given size rotor. A simple diffuser shroud is evaluated and included in the model. Results from the model include the physical parameters needed to efficiently design a wind turbine system for use in this application

Products of Small Integers in Residue Classes and Additive Properties of Fermat Quotients

We show that for any ϵ > 0 and a sufficiently large cube-free q, any reduced residue class modulo q can be represented as a product of 14 integers from the interval [1, q1/4,e1/2 + ϵ]. The length of the interval is at the lower limit of what is possible before the Burgess bound on the smallest quadratic nonresidue is improved. We also consider several variations of this result and give applications to Fermat quotients.23 page(s