Master's Projects Research Articles

Envisioning the future of learning and teaching engineering in the artificial intelligence era: Opportunities and challenges

Envisioning the future of learning and teaching engineering in the artificial intelligence era: Opportunities and challenges

Students’ project for instrumentation and automation of a manually operated torsion testing machine with educational purposes

From the pedagogical point of view, a very interesting initiative for engineering schools is to engage their students in design, renovation, or maintenance projects of laboratory equipment. It allows engineering students to work on real projects, with all the difficulties that arise in field testing, and to gain hands-on experience from the confrontation of practical situations and challenges, which presents positive outcomes regarding learning objectives and program appreciation. This article presents an engineering project developed by students for instrumentation and automation of an old manually operated torsion testing machine, for execution of accurate mechanical tests and reliable physical replications of real-world industrial processes on laboratory scale. An electrical resistive furnace is incorporated into the torsion testing machine to also allow hot torsion tests with controlled temperature. In addition to students’ skills development, this project yields a completely functional instrumented and automated torsion testing machine, with a controlled temperature electrical furnace and other features that have been used in Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral projects, laboratory classes, and new research.

Mastering the Patient Handoff

Mastering the Patient Handoff

A prospective study of various services utilization under the WADI project of NABARD by Tribal Women of Goalpara District

Purpose: The purpose of the Study is to evaluate challenges and opportunities of various services utilization under the WADI project of NABARD by Tribal Women of Goalpara in the prospective of study design.
 Theoretical Framework: There is a significant role of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in the socio-economic development of India in the perspective of the development of a sustainable development approach of livelihood for underprivileged people in the backward regions of India. In these consequences, a project of Wasteland Development in India (WADI) is a master plan NABARD for socio-economic development in the backward region of India, especially for promoting a sustainable development approach for scheduled tribes of India.
 Approach: The study is based on the review of related literature to study the various service utilisations under the WADI projects in the Goalpara district of Assam. For the purpose of the study various literatures, books, magazines, papers, newspapers and articles have been reviewed. Literature search revealed 121 articles or 99 abstracts, and citations showed 22 investigations. 39 publications did not meet the study's inclusion requirements, and 32 abstracts were rejected, 23 from non-English sources. 27 relevant peer-reviewed publications were chosen based on the inclusion criteria.
 Finding and social Implications: The findings of the study show that the implementation of master projects of NABARD is based according to the socio-economic and cultural practices of tribal communities in the Goalpara district of Assam because these tribes are inherited in their cultural landscape, and this cultural landscape represents their association with agroforestry. From these perspectives, it is found that the Goalpara district is the most backward region of Assam, where scheduled tribes account for the major proportion of the population of the district. Additionally, the role of NABARD is to promote and lead the mechanism of women empowerment through projects of WADI in the Goalpara district. However, it is also found that many challenges and problems emerged in the implementation of WADI projects due to the lack of transport and communication facilities in the Goalpara district of Assam.
 Originality/Value: In these consequences, it can be valued that NABARD is providing a sustainable approach to socio-economic development for scheduled tribes through the help of NGOs and organizations of the central government and state government of Assam. A depth analysis was conducted to understand the mechanism of role of the tribal community in the context of WADI projects of NABARD in the perspective of tribal abundant zone of Assam in India.

ÇOMAKLI DAĞI'NIN (MANİSA) SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR TURİZME KAZANDIRILMASI NOKTASINDA YAPILMASI GEREKENLER HAKKINDA COĞRAFİ TESPİTLER

In order to determine what needs to be done to bring Çomaklı Mountain, which is one of our unexplored tourism resources and has a great tourism potential, to tourism in accordance with the principles and goals of sustainable tourism, this study was aimed to reveal the current tourism potential of Çomaklı Mountain. Efforts have been made to prepare a list of the types of tourism that can be developed on the mountain and the things to be done in addition to the tourism potential of Çomaklı Mountain in accordance with the determined purpose. At the end of the study, a list of what needs to be done to bring Çomaklı Mountain to tourism has been prepared and this list has been shared with the readers in the results section of the study. In order to bring Çomaklı Mountain to sustainable tourism, tourism master plans and projects should be prepared first and put into practice as soon as possible. In order to develop tourism, the deficiencies of the infrastructure and superstructure should be eliminated and the suggestions, opinions, thoughts and wishes of the local people should be taken into account in all planning.

On the Use of the First-Person Pronoun ‘we’ in Final-Year Master Projects of South Algerian EFL Students

Literature on the use of the first-person pronoun in abstracts and conclusion sections of final-year projects is limited. In case of Algerian Master students, it is too scant. The present paper aims at filling this gap through a study concerned with students’ and engagement in their final projects (memoirs). This quantitative study examines the use of “we” and its various types, “our- us-I, my, the researcher” in memoirs chosen at random from the d-space portal of the University of Adrar, southern Algeria. Sixty-five papers, submitted in the fields of Linguistics or didactics between 2015 and 2020 and representing nearly half of the whole memoirs’ depository at the library’s d-space, constituted the corpus of study. The descriptive analytical analysis of the findings has shown that the pronouns “we” (exclusive), “our” (inclusive), and the ambiguous “us” are highly employed in general conclusions (GCs) than they are in abstracts. The results clearly suggested that the students’ use of the personal pronouns in GCs rather than in abstracts reflects their awareness to their implications in the paper not only as writers, but also as main researchers, thinkers and interpreters. The conclusions and interpretations have ultimately called for further studies with regard to their pedagogical and academic significance.

Conceptually novel diarylation for sustainable synthesis

Erika Linde earned her MSc in organic chemistry from Stockholm University in 2019 after completing bachelor's and master's projects in the groups of Assistant Prof. Nicklas Selander and Prof. Berit Olofsson, respectively. She started her PhD studies the same year in the Olofsson group, where her research focuses on sustainable functionalizations with hypervalent iodine reagents. Outside of work, she enjoys running and hiking through the beautiful Swedish countryside, always in the company of her beloved dog. She is also a big supporter of her local football team, Hammarby.

From-scratch development and improvement of a problem-based learning course: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Chemical and Biochemical Processes*

This paper describes the development from scratch of a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control course, which was designed for 5th year Process Engineering master's students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). After taking the course, students are able to program their own nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) in MATLAB, and have gained a good understanding of the most important issues related to the implementation of this type of controller in chemical and biochemical processes. The course follows problem-based learning principles. It is heavily focused on “doing”, where coding assignments are a large part of the course load. The student learning is assessed by an unconventional combination of formative feedback (one-to-one session, where we discuss their assignments and the solution strategies of the students) as well as summative feedback (systematic grading of their assignments and final exam). The student perception of the course, which was assessed by a feedback questionnaire, shows that the course adds value to them by not only helping them write more interesting Master's projects but also by improving their skill set for the job market.

Public health nurse education in the Nordic countries.

Higher education should promote critical reflection and guide students towards international activities. In the Nordic countries public health nurse educational programmes are mostly based on guidelines issued by national educational authorities, which describe students' learning outcomes. The aim of this paper is twofold: to give an overview of public health nurse education and service in the Nordic countries and thereby discuss opportunities for collaboration within the programmes. National legislations for public health nurse education and services are used as data. Since all sources are written in the language of each country, all the authors wrote the parts that describe each countries conditions in English and contributed to the compilation of data. We found both similarities and differences in public health nurse education and services. Opportunities for collaboration between the programmes are discussed. Critical reflection by the public health nurse students can be enhanced by arranging collaboration projects, an exchange of clinical placement, and joint master projects. Collaboration among academic staff within the educational programmes, in education and research, have the potential to enhance quality both within public health nurse education and in developing the profession of public health nursing.

The importance of heritage conservation in architectural education at university level

The subject of the article covers analyses of the methods and effects of architectural and conservation education at the university level on the basis of the research results of the Erasmus+ SURE project and our own experience in creating and implementing conservation curricula at the Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. The observations concerning the works sent to the Professor Jan Zachwatowicz International Competition (ICOMOS Poland), in which master's diploma projects on the protection and restoration of architectural monuments were evaluated, were presented as a comparative material. It is a place of confrontation of the effects of teaching in the majors of architecture and heritage conservation, which shows differences in systems and methods of teaching at universities. This made it possible to draw conclusions regarding education in the specialization of architecture and urban planning as well as to outline necessary program changes, some of which were successfully implemented in Poland in 2020, by introducing a new core curriculum.

Review of the Textbook “Master's Projects in “Audiovisual Art and Production” at the Kyiv University of Culture” by O. V. Bezruchko, I. A. Gavran, A. O. Medvedieva, H. P. Chmil, 1 and 2 Vols.

Review of the Textbook “Master's Projects in “Audiovisual Art and Production” at the Kyiv University of Culture” by O. V. Bezruchko, I. A. Gavran, A. O. Medvedieva, H. P. Chmil, 1 and 2 Vols.

Review of the Textbook "Master's Projects in "Audiovisual Art and Production" at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts" by O. V. Bezruchko, I. A. Gavran, S. V. Zhelezniak, S. V. Kotliar, H. P. Chmil, 1 and 2 Vols.

Review of the Textbook "Master's Projects in "Audiovisual Art and Production" at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts" by O. V. Bezruchko, I. A. Gavran, S. V. Zhelezniak, S. V. Kotliar, H. P. Chmil, 1 and 2 Vols.

Primary school pre-service teachers competence level of computational concepts in programming using Dr. Scratch

This descriptive research aimed at providing a general description of primary school pre-service teachers’ competence level of computational concepts in programming with Scratch using Dr. Scratch. This study analyzed Scratch projects made by 87 sophomore students of the Primary School Teacher Education Program of Sanata Dharma University as part of their Media Pembelajaran Berbasis ICT (MPBICT) course. The projects were then submitted to the Scratch Online Community platform and analyzed using a web tool called Dr. Scratch to analyze their competence level of computational concepts. The analysis results provided by Dr. Scratch showed that 75.86% of the Scratch projects belong to the category of developing projects while 22.99% of them were categorized as master projects, and only 1.15% of the projects could be labeled as basic projects. The results also revealed that the most common bad coding practices identified in the submitted projects were duplicated scripts and object namings. These results indicated that the primary school pre-service teachers of the Primary School Teacher Education Program of Sanata Dharma University had moderate competence level in integrating Scratch computational concepts such as flow control, data representation, synchronization, and user interactivity but the pre-service teachers still needed to be provided with more opportunities to work with other Scratch computational concepts such as abstraction, parallelism, and logic.

Особливості навчання усній професійної комунікації студентів старших курсів немовних ВНЗ

The article deals with the problem of teaching students (for whom foreign language is not a specialty) an oral foreign language professional communication. A number of scholars’ woks, including methodologists and linguists devoted to this topic were analyzed. Numerous studies are dedicated to the problem of teaching oral speech in a nonlinguistic university but most of them are often concern only with the initial stage of education. Less attention is given to the problem of teaching senior students professionally oriented oral communication. Professionally oriented teaching refers to training based on the needs of students in teaching a foreign language dictated by the characteristics of the future profession or specialty. It involves the combination of mastering a professionally oriented foreign language with the development of the personal qualities of students as well as with the acquisition of special skills based on professional and linguistic knowledge. It is necessary to highlight the communicative intentions of business communication among other communicative intentions. A typical example of the natural conditions of communication in the specialty is the defense of master's projects. Oral speech during the defense of master's projects is a conversation, a special type of dialogue between the master and the examiner, which is based on the examiner's questions and the master's answers. This type of communication is typical for other situations of communication between specialists. As a result of the study, we came to the conclusion that the basis of the linguistic material in the specialty can be some complexes of information on certain topics composed of texts of different types of technical literature and presented not only in the form of printed sources but also audiovisual materials. The topics of oral speech, the choice of speech means to a large extent will be determined by the range of so-called selected problem questions-tasks. Training specialists in a non-linguistic university is carried out within a limited time as well as on a rather limited material therefore mastering spontaneous speech is quite problematic.

DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLKIT SOFTWARE

Chemistry Department of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University develops a program-methodical complex (PMK) SchoolKit. It is based on three software tools: ChemKit - designed to measure temperature, electromotive force, amperage, control devices (heaters, power sources, etc.); SoundCardScientificKit - focused on the use of DAC (digital-to-analog converter) and ADC DAC (analog-to-digital converter) computer sound card; created for visualization of low-frequency signals and generation of signals of a special form; ColorKit - developed for processing photos, movies and visual data in real time for scientific purposes. This software has been tested in student and master's projects. All tools for working with visual data are divided into two categories: functions - non-specialized tools (allow to be fully creative, require some skills to work with the application, are a significant help in creating algorithms for processing visual data for the user's own software) and tools - specialized tools that simulate the operation of devices such as colorimeter, refractometer, spectrophotometer, polarimeter. To reduce the cost of projects, the paper proposes to use: digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to-digital (ADC) sound card converters, photo and video devices and other available peripherals in the development of digital learning tools. The paper also describes the interface and capabilities of ColorKit software. Its versatility shows that a student or teacher could build their own research system by adding and configuring macro modules. This software allows not only on the basis of visual data processing to make various measurements (colorimetric, refractometric, spectrophotometric, determination of the photosynthetic surface, etc.), but also to clearly demonstrate the principles of physicochemical devices. Peripherals for this software can be easily made by hand. Devices developed by students on the basis of ColorKit software have been repeatedly presented at various competitions: Junior Academy of Science, "Touch of Nature", "Water Net". The paper defines the main directions of applications of software ColorKit, ChemKit, SoundCardScientificKit in STEM training. Further prospects for the development of ColorKit software are outlined. The paper marks up the necessity of development of domestic educational digital laboratories and training of specialists in this field.

PRIORITIZATION OF URBAN MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS BASED ON URBAN CONFIGURATION AND ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING

ABSTRACT Purpose: This article aims to propose an alternative methodology of analysis, assessment, and prioritization of urban mobility master projects capable of supporting investment decision-making, considering financial, economic, and space variables. Originality/value: There are no clear criteria on project proposal selection, what corroborates the critics about the selection process and prioritization of urban mobility projects in the Ministry of Cities. Intrinsically economic issues that are leveled in recent methodologies of investment and project analyses are variables considered hard to be converted into financial benefits to make up the financial evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology proposed will draw on the multidimensional scaling as a multivariate assessment tool in order to evaluate and prioritize the projects using their economic variables, the spatial variables of the urban planning, and the financial models of each project. The economic variables arise from the economic analysis available in the projects, as well as the projects’ financing models. The spatial variables acquired from the social logic of space theory or spatial syntax allow the assessment of cities’ integration capacity before project implementation and after their development, making it possible to identify improvements in urban mobility conditions. Findings: The use of multidimensional scaling by applying economic, financial, and spatial variables has proved to be effective in promoting decision-making, whether by indicating the best project or identifying how close and/or distant they are from the objectives of a given public policy.

Strategies to Turn a Graduate School Paper Into a Publishable Journal Manuscript.

Graduate students complete papers for course requirements, doctor of nursing practice and master's projects, and doctoral dissertations. The valuable information contained in these school papers may be appropriate for publication in professional journals. Graduate students must learn the key differences between school paper and journal article styles. Using this critical information, students can revise their school papers in journal style and achieve a successful publication that contributes to the literature and, ultimately, to the care of patients and their families.

ORGANIZATION OF STUDENTS’ RESEARCH WORK IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The article considers the peculiarities of the organization of students’ research work in a technical university in foreign language classes with a gradual transition from simple forms of research to more complex ones, which is aimed at the harmonious development and improvement future specialists’ skills and abilities. The purpose of this article is to identify the main problems of the organization of students’ research work in a foreign language and consider ways of improving this process. Special attention is paid to the tasks, functions, components and various forms of students' research work. The researcher describes the possibility of using assignments for research work and organizing their performing by students in a foreign language class, in particular, such tasks as writing a summary of the text proposed by the teacher, corresponding to the student’s specialization, drawing up a plan for it, drawing up terminological dictionaries, preparing reports on a given topic, writing creative works, essays, drawing up tables and diagrams, solving problematic issues related to the future profession of a student, writing abstracts, preparing the presentation of study' results. The involvement students in the work of scientific conferences, seminars, competitions, contests, and meetings with leading foreign experts are encouraged. The defense of master's and diploma projects in a foreign language prepares the student for the exercise of profession and integration into a foreign language environment. The examples of the most common mistakes made in the preparation of research works, which indicate the lack of students’ research skills formation are given, and ways to overcome them are recommended. The conclusions are related and future works are suggested. Thus, it also possible to create an education plans of student’ research work in foreign language and recommendations for the specific academic curriculum.

How common are experimental designs in medical education? Findings from a bibliometric analysis of recent dissertations and theses

Background: There has been a recent influx of researchers in the field of medical education coming from medical and health science backgrounds. Researchers from health fields often misunderstand that studies involving experimental designs are relatively rare throughout educational research. Experts in education research note that experimental designs largely are incompatible with educational studies due to various contextual, legal, and ethical issues. Purpose: We sought to investigate the frequency with which experimental designs have been utilized in recent medical education dissertations and theses. Methods: A bibliometric analysis of dissertations and theses completed in the field of medical education between 2011 and 2016. Results: Fewer than 10% of doctoral dissertations and master's theses involved some type of experimental design. Only 6.12% of all dissertation and master's projects involved randomized experiments. Conclusions: Randomized experiments occur only slightly more frequently in medical education than other educational fields.

Novice supervisors’ practices and dilemmatic space in supervision of student research projects

ABSTRACTGrowing interest in student research projects in higher education has led to an emphasis on research supervision. We focus in this study on novice supervisors’ approaches to research supervision as they explore their practices and experience difficulties supervising medicalstudents. Teacher noticing was used as a sensitising concept and relations with teacher dilemmas were explored in the research supervision context. To provide in-depth insights into supervisors’ practices and pedagogical choices, twelve stimulated recall interviews with supervisors were analysed. The supervisors were involved in individual undergraduate or master degree student research projects at a research-intensive university. Analysis revealed four kinds of dilemmas which may influence research supervision practices, namely questions regarding regulation, student needs, the student-supervisor relationship and supervisors’ professional identity. We explain the relationship between novice supervisors’ practices and dilemmas in detail. Implications are given to enhance initiatives for professional development of supervisors.