PLM Education: The Role of Engineering Management Study Programs

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, and these results are parts of the Grant No. 451-03-68/2022-14/200132 with University of Kragujevac - Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak.Due to its ability to support the achievement of operational and strategic business excellence despite complex business conditions, growing globalization, demanding customers, and shorter product lifecycles, the Product Lifecycle Management concept (PLM concept) is becoming the most significant industry initiative today, while PLM education is becoming an essential strategy in the education of future engineers. The paper emphasized the necessity for the promotion of PLM education by academic communities, discussed PLM education issues, and identified key PLM competencies. It also explores the role of Engineering Management study programs in educating professionals with comprehensive PLM competencies.Publishe

A proposal to introduce digitalization technologies within the automation learning process

Although the digital factory (DF) concept has raised high expectations since its inception, it is still missing industrial impact. One of the problems attributed to this issue is the lack of education curricula for enhancing the related digital competences of the future professionals. Higher education institutions, as major stakeholders in education, should introduce the new technologies for DF in practical courses. However, it is difficult to deal with the complexity of those technologies in a time-limited environment such us a bachelor or a master course. Instead of providing complete knowledge, this paper proposes to focus on the methodological aspects that allow students to acquire the skills needed to handle those technologies. Specifically, this paper illustrates this approach for teaching virtual commissioning (VC) within the automation learning process. The goal is to show the students how to use powerful industrial tools for performing VC through a set of methodological steps that help students manage the complexity of the VC process regardless of the specific tools used for it.This work was financed by Erasmus+, UE (grant number 2018-1-FR01-KA203-048175) and by GV/EJ (grant numbers IT1324-19 and KK-2019-00095

The Chronicle [June 21, 1979]

The Chronicle, June 21, 1979https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/chron/3125/thumbnail.jp

Making the connection between disordered personalities and interpersonal dysfunction: A relational study

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a constantly evolving record of the conceptualization of mental problems. With each new edition, researchers seek to come ever closer to defining complex dysfunctional human behaviors as they occur in nature. Significant evidence suggests that the current conceptualization of personality disorders (PDs) as defined in the DSM-5 is not adequately capturing these disorders, leading to inaccurate diagnosis and ineffective treatment outcomes. This evidence has led to the formation of a new diagnostic model of PDs which is outlined in Section III of the DSM-5 under conditions requiring further study. Several measures have been developed to assess general personality dysfunction and dysfunctional personality traits as defined by the new model. Interpersonal dysfunction is suggested to play a substantial role in characterizing PDs, and the interpersonal circumplex provides a framework in which to locate specific interpersonal stressors inherent to abnormal personality. Triangulating the constructs underlying personality problems with interpersonal dysfunction was the primary purpose of this study, allowing for a thorough investigation of proposed personality constructs and their interpersonal expression. General personality dysfunction, problematic personality traits, and interpersonal dysfunction were measured in a sample of college students and in a clinical sample of individuals in residential substance use treatment. Obtained data were analyzed in order to explore relationships between the constructs and to provide preliminary evidence for the appropriateness of the proposed model of PDs. Overall, results provided support for the theory behind the proposed model and confirmed the majority of hypothesized relationships between maladaptive personality traits, general personality dysfunction, and interpersonal problems

Linden Bark, March 13, 1928

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood Collegehttps://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/linden_bark/1640/thumbnail.jp

MMORPG avatars: Representations of escapism in Chinese society based on semiotics of culture

The development of Internet technology and globalization have boosted the game industry, and among which Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPGs) provide a space where players could create their own avatar at will, and generate their physical and psychological involvement to participate in the virtual experience of the game context. Through cases with semiotics analysis and cultural phenomenon, the correlation between in-game avatar and escapism in Chinese context would be examined on how do in-game avatars connect with escapism in China. This highly resilient virtual social space provides a malleable field far from reality, for the transition from culture to nature, from reality to illusion, and from self to digital self. By analyzing the correlation and rooted reasons between in-game avatar in MMORPGs and escapism in Chinese social context, this project will contribute to the re-understanding of the symbolic meaning of in-game avatars and realistic meaning in Chinese society

Playing Guns: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Revolutionary Violence

Playing Guns theorizes the avant-gardes in relation to the following revolutionary movements from the extended Caribbean: the Mexican Revolution (Stridentism and Antonio Helú), the Cuban Revolution (Julio Cortázar), the Sandinista Revolution (Gioconda Belli), and post-NAFTA Mexico (Roberto Bolaño, Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II). These examples, in turn, help elucidate the following theoretical-historical problems: the Caribbean and Latin America as privileged sites of revolt and revolution; human emancipation in relation to interpellation and agency; and practices of confrontation vis-à-vis practices of resistance. I argue that Latin American avant-garde artists, movements and institutions engage in a radical variant of what Rancière theorizes as aesthetic free play—an egalitarian rearranging of our common sensorium that overturns social hierarchies. By doing so, the avant-gardes “recognize,” in Althusserian terms, the actual interpenetration of life and art and thereby call into question certain caricatures of the avant-gardes as counterrevolutionary and politically vacuous. I then propose that free play propagates radical modes of being that can lead to forms of human emancipation as they confront—not resist as Foucault theorizes—interpellating hierarchies from peripheral positions proper to Latin America. William Egginton and Eduardo González served as advisors for this dissertation

Constitution of the market through social media: Dialogical co-production of medicine in a virtual health community organization

This research explores new systems of marketing, and new roles and relationships of organizations and consumers developing in healthcare as a result of transformations occurring in technology, consumer/marketer value systems, forms of discourse and institutional roles. Inspired by observations from a Medicine 2.0 community organization, which turn social networking into a business phenomenon – PatientsLikeMe (PLM) – I explore how such systems develop and function and the institutionalizations that reconstitute roles and maintain relationships among actors in these systems through netnographic research. That is, (1) why and how patients in PLM participate in the social co-production of medical knowledge and experience, and (2) how the ‘community’ organizes roles and relations, and institutionalize ‘sharing’ in healthcare where privacy dominates relations. Findings articulate a dialogical approach to organizing roles and relations with the dilution of provisioning in this co-mediated market system, which reflects collaborative, connective and communal relations built on dialogues among diverse healthcare actors. From a theoretical vantage point, Foucauldian notions of biopower and govern-mentality are reconsidered in order to articulate why and how such a system may be attracting healthcare actors and maintain their interest and sharing in this community

No Ordinary Times: Reason For and Reactions During the First Red Scare.

With American involvement in World War I a drastic change in United States domestic policy occurred. Through the use of wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts came the tool to begin a campaign of suppression of political radicals. This came as the compounding of earlier events like the Los Angeles Times bombing in 1910 occurred with a campaign of anarchist bombings, a growing number of strikes, and wartime propaganda created a setting allowing for government officials to carry out raids, arrests, and both a censoring and punishment of speech. Between the actions of groups and government officials this caused an escalation of events from 1914 through 1920 before finally dissipating as public support for policies and officials waned. The Red Scare was finally over when a bombing of Wall Street did not even reignite hysteria that had ravaged the previous years. This thesis examines the both the causes for and actions during the First Red Scare on transnational, national, state, local, and individual levels. Through these various levels there is a transitioning from the traditional heavily focused narratives and events of the United States East Coast, to a larger national, yet more personal focused analysis. Within these varying levels of examination is an analysis of categories such as race, economics, gender, and other factors and the evolution of their repression throughout the Red Scare. By doing so, it shows that World War I provided the definitive turning point as it shifted repression and hatred and allowed for it to be acted upon by both the United States government and its citizens largely with impunity