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, GameSec, and journals including Human Factors, Topics in Cognitive Science, and Computers & Security. Her papers in HICSS-2020 and GameSec-2020 received the best paper awards. Her professional activities include journal reviews for Computers & Security, Cybersecurity, Frontiers in Psychology, and conference reviews for HFES, AHFE, HICSS, Euro S&P, and CyberSA. She is also an advocate for the Cybersecurity Community of Practice at UTEP and a member of the Special Cyber Operations Research and Engineering (SCORE) Interagency Working Group.Xiwei Wang, Northeastern Illinois University Xiwei Wang is the Department Chair and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University. He earned
@uce.edu.ecAbstractThis study focuses on testing a pedagogical model designed to foster collaborativeentrepreneurship competencies in students pursuing technical careers. Entrepreneurship as a keycompetence for the economic and social progress of the country. However, the current training intechnical careers does not adequately cover the collaborative skills associated withentrepreneurship. The general objective was to test Moscoso´s pedagogical model that integratesspecific competencies, such as leadership, team communication, and team mediation, within thecurriculum of technical careers. The specific objectives focused on designing and proposing apedagogical model for the development of each of these competencies, comparing responses to aquestionnaire applied
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twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profit communitypartner – for example, a community service agency, a museum or school, or a governmentagency and a faculty, staff or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistants from sevendepartments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically-integrated, consisting of a mix of first-year students, sophomores,juniors, and seniors and are multidisciplinary drawing from across engineering and the entirecampus. Last year, over 60 majors participated. Teams operate for several years, from initialproject definition through final deployment and support. Once the initial project(s) is completedand deployed, new projects are identified by the team and its project
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should be fully accounted for.Fatigue damage occurs at stresses lower than the material’s yield stress level. Therelationship between the stress in the material (at the stress concentration) and the time tofailure is expressed in a S-N curve, or σ-N curve. Some engineering structural materials(most steels) exhibit a plateau behavior at a given stress level below which they areconsidered to have infinite life – referred to as the endurance limit. Maximum stressesfor many loaded geometries occurs at the surface of the material, where surface finish hasa significant effect on the fatigue strength.Since the problem stated that the bar was to be used in an application where loads werevarying, we may well have a situation where dynamic fatigue loads
collaborators who share an interest in the development of ethical reasoning. Pleasecontact the authors for more information.AcknowledgementsThis research is funded by the National Science Foundation, CCLI grant # 0817531. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. References1. NAE, Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society. (2011). [Web page] Retrieved from http://www.nae.edu/26187.aspx2. NSPE Code of Ethics. (2011). [Web page] Retrieved from http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html3. Hartwell, S. (1995). Promoting moral development
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in that was not part of your regular coursework? How many yearshave you performed research and at what level of your education (high school/college/etc?)?______________________________________________________________________________What was your high school GPA (4.0 scale)? _________What is your current GPA at IIT? _________What is your current GPA in your major(s) at IIT? _________What is your overall GPA in science courses? _________What college science courses have you taken so far? ______________________________________________Career & AspirationsWhat career or occupation(s) are you interested in pursuing after your studies at IIT? ____________________What individuals, if any, do you identify with who are in the field of science or
these reforms as students will need skills for: (a)finding, organizing, and managing information; and (b) team working, oral communication, andi This material is based upon work supported by the Learning through Engineering Design and Practice, NationalScience Foundation Award# 0737616, Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, underInformation Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Youth-based Project. Opinions, findings, Page 22.442.2conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflectthe views of the National Science
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mouth and a more sustained airflow. Con-sequently, the average magnitude can be used to distinguish between consonants and vowels.Consonants, on the other hand, often have higher frequencies associated with them. The hissingsound inherent in the “s” phoneme is an example. These two parameters provide a wealth of in-formation about speech waveforms.Computing a parameter for the segments in a word results in a short sequence of scalars, onescalar per segment, which uniquely characterizes a particular word. Whereas a one-second wave-form sampled at 8000 times per second contains 8000 data points, a parameter vector may be asshort as ten or twenty elements. This data reduction is a crucial part of time domain speech proc-essing.In addition to
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remarkablein any country seeking to industrialize. But in China, it carried special force”. However, when we think of innovation, are we overlooking something, is it justinnovation in the narrow context of new inventions? If we accept the broader definitionof innovation, “…act or process of inventing or introducing something new”, we reallymay be on to something. In other words we don’t have to invent a new widget to beinnovative, we might simply improve (optimize) the widget’s design, performance,durability, and manufacturing process. Many manufacturing processes have changed verylittle since the mid 1900’s. While there have been significant advances in manufacturing,most of the focus has been on process automation, Information Technology (IT
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the model to several independent study projectscompleted or on-going currently. Specifically, the model was used to evaluate 11 independentstudy projects that were authorized and completed during the 2008-2009 academic year, as wellas 8 independent study projects authorized and on-going during the 2009-2010 academic year.All independent study projects within the D-C&ME are executed under the requirements of acontract prepared collectively at the start of the academic year by the Cadets, faculty member(s)acting as the project advisor(s), and the course director responsible for oversight of allindependent study projects. The authors utilized only those contracts to evaluate the projectsusing the model. None of the authors were involved with
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Postdocs in S&E”. These data are collected from institutions(not individuals as the dataset name might imply), and often provided by the institutionalresearch office, the same entity that completes many institutional data reports, including the(IPEDS) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System reports for the National Center forEducation Statistics (NCES). For the sake of simplicity, we present data separately by genderwithin three race-ethnicity and citizenship groups. The URM group consists of U.S. citizens andpermanent residents who were members of three underrepresented minority groups: AfricanAmericans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Hispanics. At NMSU, the vast majorityof URMs are of Hispanic descent with small numbers of