Engineering Retention: Improving Inclusion and Diversity in Engineering

The researcher sought further understanding for strategies and pedagogies employed to serve the diverse learning and engagement needs of underrepresented minorities (URMs) enrolled in academic engineering programs. The researcher defined for this study underrepresented minorities as women, Hispanic Americans, and African Americans. There is a need for increased representation of URMs in both postsecondary education and the engineering profession. Underrepresented minorities are needed in the engineering profession to contribute to the complete solution and to provide improved ideas for consideration during the design process. The researcher discovered six factors utilized by engineering faculty and academic affairs in postsecondary education to aid underrepresented engineering students in their retention in higher education. The focus areas to improve retention are: community, mentoring, role models, active learning, empathy, and academic habits. The retention of URM engineering students by developing a sense of community is key to URM students’ success according to study participants. These six factors can be implemented with the goal of encouraging all engineering students at a university. Recommendations for faculty and academic affairs personnel are provided. Topics for further study are given for consideration

The replacement of a truss bridge by a concrete arch

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Illinois, 1912.Typescript

Oral History Interview: Sidney Morgan Martin

This interview is one of a series conducted concerning the experiences of West Virginian war veterans. Mr. Morgan picked cotton and worked in lumber until he was twenty-two. He then joined the United States Army and fought in the Spanish-American War. In 1973, he was a candidate for sheriff of Lyon County, Kentucky, where he was residing at the time of the interview. The interview concerns life on the farm and his war experiences.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1074/thumbnail.jp

A study of the adjustment of fifteen seizure controlled patients at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Editorial

Guest Editors: Imriyas Kamardeen, Sidney Newton, Benson Lim & Martin Loosemor

Jamming in finite systems: stability, anisotropy, fluctuations and scaling

Athermal packings of soft repulsive spheres exhibit a sharp jamming transition in the thermodynamic limit. Upon further compression, various structural and mechanical properties display clean power-law behavior over many decades in pressure. As with any phase transition, the rounding of such behavior in finite systems close to the transition plays an important role in understanding the nature of the transition itself. The situation for jamming is surprisingly rich: the assumption that jammed packings are isotropic is only strictly true in the large-size limit, and finite-size has a profound effect on the very meaning of jamming. Here, we provide a comprehensive numerical study of finite-size effects in sphere packings above the jamming transition, focusing on stability as well as the scaling of the contact number and the elastic response.Comment: 20 pages, 12 figure

A magnetoreflection study of arsenic and bismuth.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1968. Ph.D.Vita.Bibliography: p. 275-279.Ph.D

Luminosity-Diameter Relations for Globular Clusters and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

It is shown that globular clusters and the dwarf spheroidal companions of the Galaxy have a different distribution of flattening values, and appear to occupy adjacent regions of the M_v versus log R_h plane that can be separated by what will be referred to as the Shapley line. Surprisingly, typical dwarf spheroidal companions to the Milky Way System are fainter than the average Galactic globular cluster.Comment: includes two colour figures; MNRAS (Letters) in pres

Five monographs on business income; Income measurement in a dynamic economy;Business income concepts in the light of monetary theory;Business costs and business income under changing price levels;Monetary theory and the price level trend in the future;Case against change in present methods of accounting for exhaustion of business property

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