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Developing and Celebrating Faculty Scholarship
In this session, participants will discuss successful (and maybe not so successful) faculty development programs and activities. We will provide participants with some examples of building relationships with faculty early on, and how to demonstrate to faculty that the grants/sponsored programs offices are on “their” side. We will also discuss and share ideas of celebrating faculty scholarship, proposal submission and external awards.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore ways to connect with faculty early-on at your institution (during the interview process, at the start of the academic year, etc.)
- Learn some of the different ways institutions celebrate faculty scholarship, proposal submission, and external awards.
- Discuss different training methods to help make the proposal development and submission process go more smoothly.
- Discuss various incentives that different institutions use for faculty to submit proposals
Technology for the Future: In-Space Technology Experiments Program, part 2
The purpose of the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) In-Space Technology Experiments Program In-STEP 1988 Workshop was to identify and prioritize technologies that are critical for future national space programs and require validation in the space environment, and review current NASA (In-Reach) and industry/ university (Out-Reach) experiments. A prioritized list of the critical technology needs was developed for the following eight disciplines: structures; environmental effects; power systems and thermal management; fluid management and propulsion systems; automation and robotics; sensors and information systems; in-space systems; and humans in space. This is part two of two parts and contains the critical technology presentations for the eight theme elements and a summary listing of critical space technology needs for each theme
Training and qualifying distance learning tutors
The UK Open University (www.open.ac.uk) is a large distance teaching university
with some 200,000 students. The courses offered by the University are planned and written
for the most part by the one thousand or so full-time academic staff of the University,
working in course teams. Students are supported by face-to-face and on-line tutorial sessions
and by feedback on their work. This tutoring and feedback are undertaken by part-time
tutors, called Associate Lecturers (ALs), of whom there are currently some 7500.
The Open University (OU) has, throughout some 35 years of operation, placed great
emphasis on the importance of these ALs. The University has always provided staff
development and training to help them in their work. However, until recently, the University
has not in any systematic or large-scale way enabled these tutors to gain a qualification in
teaching in higher education.
Over the last fifteen years there has been a growing movement in the UK for those who
teach in higher education to gain a suitable teaching qualification. In 2006 it will become a
requirement for those new to teaching in higher education to gain an appropriate higher
education teaching qualification. This teaching qualification will sit alongside their doctorate
or other qualification in the discipline that they teach. (Some parts of this trend are also seen in
countries other than UK, although this paper will not provide an international review of
this topic.)
In these institutional and national contexts, this paper describes and analyses the
development, operation and evaluation of the OU’s Associate Lecturer Development and
Accreditation Pathway (ALDAP) initiative. ALDAP was developed through wide consultation across the University. It is delivered through a mixture of on-line and face-to-face education
and support similar to that used by ALs in their teaching. The paper uses research data on
the effectiveness of the initiative to date. It also draws broader conclusions about
appropriate forms of training and accreditation for those who teach in higher education, by distance learning and also face to face.peerreviewe
The X-43A Six Degree of Freedom Monte Carlo Analysis
This report provides an overview of the Hyper-X research vehicle Monte Carlo analysis conducted with the six-degree-of-freedom simulation. The methodology and model uncertainties used for the Monte Carlo analysis are presented as permitted. In addition, the process used to select hardware validation test cases from the Monte Carlo data is described. The preflight Monte Carlo analysis indicated that the X-43A control system was robust to the preflight uncertainties and provided the Hyper-X project an important indication that the vehicle would likely be successful in accomplishing the mission objectives. The X-43A inflight performance is compared to the preflight Monte Carlo predictions and shown to exceed the Monte Carlo bounds in several instances. Possible modeling shortfalls are presented that may account for these discrepancies. The flight control laws and guidance algorithms were robust enough as a result of the preflight Monte Carlo analysis that the unexpected in-flight performance did not have undue consequences. Modeling and Monte Carlo analysis lessons learned are presented
Technology for the Future: In-Space Technology Experiments Program, part 1
The purpose of the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) In-Space Technology Experiment Program (In-STEP) 1988 Workshop was to identify and prioritize technologies that are critical for future national space programs and require validation in the space environment, and review current NASA (In-Reach) and industry/university (Out-Reach) experiments. A prioritized list of the critical technology needs was developed for the following eight disciplines: structures; environmental effects; power systems and thermal management; fluid management and propulsion systems; automation and robotics; sensors and information systems; in-space systems; and humans in space. This is part one of two parts and is the executive summary and experiment description. The executive summary portion contains keynote addresses, strategic planning information, and the critical technology needs summaries for each theme. The experiment description portion contains brief overviews of the objectives, technology needs and backgrounds, descriptions, and development schedules for current industry, university, and NASA space flight technology experiments
REGIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF A WATERSHED PLANNING PROCESS TO REDUCE EROSION AND STREAM SEDIMENTATION
Farm-level and watershed-wide land-use changes resulting from policy initiatives are linked to a regional input/output model. As a result not only can the direct economic impacts at the farm and watershed levels be determined, so too can the direct and induced economic impacts at the regional level.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Polarisation properties of Milky-Way-like galaxies
(Abridged) We study the polarisation properties, magnetic field strength, and
synchrotron emission scale-height of Milky-Way-like galaxies in comparison with
other spiral galaxies. We use our 3D-emission model of the Milky Way Galaxy for
viewing the Milky Way from outside at various inclinations as spiral galaxies
are observed. When seen edge-on the synchrotron emission from the Milky Way has
an exponential scale-height of about 0.74 kpc, which is much smaller than the
values obtained from previous models. We find that current analysis methods
overestimate the scale-height of synchrotron emission of galaxies by about 10%
at an inclination of 80 degree and about 40% at an inclination of 70 degree
because of contamination from the disk. The observed RMs for face-on galaxies
derived from high-frequency polarisation measurements approximate to the
Faraday depths (FDs) when scaled by a factor of two. For edge-on galaxies, the
observed RMs are indicative of the orientation of the large-scale magnetic
field, but are not well related with the FDs. Assuming energy equipartition
between the magnetic field and particles for the Milky Way results in an
average magnetic-field strength, which is about two times larger than the
intrinsic value for a K factor of 100. The number distribution of the
integrated polarisation percentages of a large sample of unresolved
Milky-Way-like galaxies peaks at about 4.2% at 4.8 GHz and at about 0.8% at
1.4GHz. Integrated polarisation angles rotated by 90 degree align very well
with the position angles of the major axes, implying that unresolved galaxies
do not have intrinsic RMs.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
Properties of the warm magnetized ISM, as inferred from WSRT polarimetric imaging
We describe a first attempt to derive properties of the regular and turbulent
Galactic magnetic field from multi-frequency polarimetric observations of the
diffuse Galactic synchrotron background. A single-cell-size model of the thin
Galactic disk is constructed which includes random and regular magnetic fields
and thermal and relativistic electrons. The disk is irradiated from behind with
a uniform partially polarized background. Radiation from the background and
from the thin disk is Faraday rotated and depolarized while propagating through
the medium. The model parameters are estimated from a comparison with 350 MHz
observations in two regions at intermediate latitudes done with the Westerbork
Synthesis Radio Telescope. We obtain good consistency between the estimates for
the random and regular magnetic field strengths and typical scales of structure
in the two regions. The regular magnetic field strength found is a few
microGauss, and the ratio of random to regular magnetic field strength is 0.7
+/- 0.5, for a typical scale of the random component of 15 +/- 10 pc.
Furthermore, the regular magnetic field is directed almost perpendicular to the
line of sight. This modeling is a potentially powerful method to estimate the
structure of the Galactic magnetic field, especially when more polarimetric
observations of the diffuse synchrotron background at intermediate latitudes
become available.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by A&
An observational test for correlations between cosmic rays and magnetic fields
We derive the magnitude of fluctuations in total synchrotron intensity in the
Milky Way and M33, from both observations and theory under various assumption
about the relation between cosmic rays and interstellar magnetic fields. Given
the relative magnitude of the fluctuations in the Galactic magnetic field (the
ratio of the rms fluctuations to the mean magnetic field strength) suggested by
Faraday rotation and synchrotron polarization, the observations are
inconsistent with local energy equipartition between cosmic rays and magnetic
fields. Our analysis of relative synchrotron intensity fluctuations indicates
that the distribution of cosmic rays is nearly uniform at the scales of the
order of and exceeding 100\p, in contrast to strong fluctuations in the
interstellar magnetic field at those scales. A conservative upper limit on the
ratio of the the fluctuation magnitude in the cosmic ray number density to its
mean value is 0.2--0.4 at scales of order 100\,pc. Our results are consistent
with a mild anticorrelation between cosmic-ray and magnetic energy densities at
these scales, in both the Milky Way and M33. Energy equipartition between
cosmic rays and magnetic fields may still hold, but at scales exceeding 1\,kpc.
Therefore, we suggest that equipartition estimates be applied to the observed
synchrotron intensity smoothed to a linear scale of kiloparsec order (in spiral
galaxies) to obtain the cosmic ray distribution and a large-scale magnetic
field. Then the resulting cosmic ray distribution can be used to derive the
fluctuating magnetic field strength from the data at the original resolution.
The resulting random magnetic field is likely to be significantly stronger than
existing estimates.Comment: submitted to MNRA
IS Research and Policy: Notes From the 2015 ICIS Senior Scholar’s Forum
Based on the International Conference on Information Systems’ (ICIS) 2015 senior scholars’ forum, we provide insights on the role and opportunities of IS researchers in shaping policy
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