The Role Of Earth System Literacy In Sustainability Education For Engineers

Engineers should be able to demonstrate sustainability competencies transcending their specialised discipline. But all cross-disciplinary sustainability competencies are not targeted adequately in engineering education and are often mismatched with competencies required by engineers in their professional roles. Future engineers should have an understanding of the environment alongside technical knowledge, with all engineering design and product showing consideration to sustainability. The study of the Earth system is relevant to the understanding of environmental issues and the interplay between the sub-systems of the Earth (atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere) . Yet, integration of Earth system literacy in the engineering curriculum has received minimal attention. This paper discusses the sustainability competencies in engineering education and, investigates if they can be addressed through Earth system literacy where weak or lacking. Based on two geology courses delivered to engineering students focusing on the sustainable management of different Earth resources with an understanding of their formation and extraction, it is evident that Earth system literacy can strengthen system thinking and, strategic and normative competencies in engineers. Most importantly it can target anticipatory competency that is not addressed adequately in conventional engineering courses

The Role Of Earth System Literacy In Sustainability Education For Engineers

Engineers should be able to demonstrate sustainability competencies transcending their specialised discipline. But all cross-disciplinary sustainability competencies are not targeted adequately in engineering education and are often mismatched with competencies required by engineers in their professional roles. Future engineers should have an understanding of the environment alongside technical knowledge, with all engineering design and product showing consideration to sustainability. The study of the Earth system is relevant to the understanding of environmental issues and the interplay between the sub-systems of the Earth (atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere) . Yet, integration of Earth system literacy in the engineering curriculum has received minimal attention. This paper discusses the sustainability competencies in engineering education and, investigates if they can be addressed through Earth system literacy where weak or lacking. Based on two geology courses delivered to engineering students focusing on the sustainable management of different Earth resources with an understanding of their formation and extraction, it is evident that Earth system literacy can strengthen system thinking and, strategic and normative competencies in engineers. Most importantly it can target anticipatory competency that is not addressed adequately in conventional engineering courses

Multi-Agent Simulation of Emergence of Schwa Deletion Pattern in Hindi

Recently, there has been a revival of interest in multi-agent simulation techniques for exploring the nature of language change. However, a lack of appropriate validation of simulation experiments against real language data often calls into question the general applicability of these methods in modeling realistic language change. We try to address this issue here by making an attempt to model the phenomenon of schwa deletion in Hindi through a multi-agent simulation framework. The pattern of Hindi schwa deletion and its diachronic nature are well studied, not only out of general linguistic inquiry, but also to facilitate Hindi grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, which is a preprocessing step to text-to-speech synthesis. We show that under certain conditions, the schwa deletion pattern observed in modern Hindi emerges in the system from an initial state of no deletion. The simulation framework described in this work can be extended to model other phonological changes as well.Language Change, Linguistic Agent, Language Game, Multi-Agent Simulation, Schwa Deletion

Nonrough norms in Lipschitz free spaces

In this paper we characterise nonrough norms of Lipschitz free spaces F(M) in terms of a new geometric property of the underlying metric space M

Nonrough norms in spaces with small diameter

In this work, we study the non rough norms in Banach spaces with small diameter properties, namely the Ball Dentable Property (BDP), the Ball Huskable Property (BHP) and the Ball Small Combination of Slice Property (BSCSP). We introduce two more notions of non rough norms, namely the weakly average non rough norms and average non rough norms in Banach spaces. We prove the duality between these three versions of non rough norms and the small diameter properties in Banach spaces. We also prove that each of the three non rough norms is a three space property under certain assumptions

Two aspects of small diameter properties

In this short note, we study two different geometrical aspects of Banach spaces with small diameter properties, namely the Ball Dentable Property (BDP), Ball Huskable Property (BHP) and Ball Small Combination of slice Property (BSCSP). We show that BDP, BHP and BSCSP are separably determined properties. We also explore the stability of these properties over Kothe Bochner spaces