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Katherine R. McCance; Margaret Blanchard – AERA Open, 2024
Interdisciplinarity has the potential to lead to more innovation and advances in knowledge than are possible from a single discipline. Yet, little is known about interdisciplinary collaborations and the perceptions of those involved. This quantitative study investigated the perceptions of U.S. faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Scientists
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McCance, Katherine R.; Teeter, Stephanie D.; Blanchard, Margaret R.; Venditti, Richard A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Interdisciplinary collaborations between different academic disciplines can create knowledge and solutions to challenges that are beyond the scope of what a single discipline can achieve. However, little is known about how interdisciplinary teams of faculty and graduate students function as a whole and the processes that guide them as they work on…
Descriptors: Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Science Teachers
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Tan, Song Wei Benjamin; Naraharisetti, Pavan Kumar; Chin, Siew Kian; Lee, Lai Yeng – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The advance of digital technology presents an opportunity to equip students with relevant skill sets as "Scientists of the Future" who are able to utilize knowledge at the interface between various disciplines. In this technology report, an open source programming language is used to automate a simple laboratory experiment commonly…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Computer Science Education
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Blumenfield, Tami; Nerad, Maresi – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
"Internationalisation" has become the new buzzword for universities around the world, with jointly offered degrees as well as smaller-scale exchanges for students. Despite this rapid expansion of international campuses and programmes, and the increasing acceptance and encouragement of international experiences for [post]graduate students, little…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Graduate Study, Measures (Individuals), Engineering
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Griswold, Wendy – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
Future professionals will bear the brunt of creating sustainable societies. Equipping them for the task is the challenge of current educators. Educational experiences facilitating the development of sustainable habits of mind are needed. This research reports on the experiences of developing scientists and engineers engaged in a sustainable energy…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Scientists, Engineering, Novices
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Weiss, Charles – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2012
Despite the ubiquity and critical importance of science and technology in international affairs, their role receives insufficient attention in traditional international relations curricula. There is little literature on how the relations between science, technology, economics, politics, law and culture should be taught in an international context.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts
Cutcliffe, Stephen H., Ed. – 1979
Newsletter issues pertaining to Lehigh University's Humanities Perspectives on Technology (HPT) Program, which was renamed the Science, Technology and Society Program, are presented. Additionally, a newsletter article excerpt entitled "Elements of Technology in a Liberal Education" is included. Two 1977 issues of "HRP News,"…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Cultural Context, Engineering Education
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DiLisi, Gregory A.; Eppell, Steven J.; Upton, Jan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
We describe the design and implementation of our Hierarchical Learning Ensemble (HLE) model, a pedagogy that assembles interdisciplinary teams of graduate, undergraduate, and secondary-level students to solve science and engineering problems. Our goal is to sensitize undergraduates to working in heterogeneous groups and thus better prepare them…
Descriptors: Team Training, Heterogeneous Grouping, Engineering Education, Scientists
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Boardman, Craig; Bozeman, Barry – Journal of Higher Education, 2007
One way in which university faculty members' professional lives have become more complex with the advent of contemporary university research centers is that many faculty have taken on additional roles. The authors' concern in this article is to determine the extent to which role strain is experienced by university faculty members who are…
Descriptors: Personnel Management, College Faculty, Role Theory, Role Conflict
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Acar, B. Serpil – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1998
Presents an overview of a course in systems engineering and creative systems at Loughborough University. Explains the way that creativity is encouraged, the use of systems understanding, and a model for design processes. Includes examples of projects and student work. (DDR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Creativity, Design, Engineering Education