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Building digital library applications is often a search for an applicable and adequate data or document model as well as for software tools which meets the requirements. Especially in digital archives, there are several data and document models to be considered. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all document model or system. For each application, the requirements and properties of a project...
Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-gaming context. It is been getting a lot of attention in recent years. However, the number of research done on gamification is limited. One of the problems it faces is sustainability. Designers might overlook the elements that increase sustainability due to lack of a standard framework that contains the essential components to achieve that...
This paper presents an ongoing, multi-year, student-run project to provide access to clean water at specific, targeted communities in Haiti. Project Haiti is a yearly student research, design, fabrication, test, installation, and training effort at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) to deliver sustainable water purifiers and originate a companion micro-business to sell excess clean water...
The incorporation or lack thereof, of sound research data management practices can spell the difference between a successful and unsuccessful research project. This is typically reflected by the quality of the final project outputs. Establishment and sustainability of good institutional research data management practices require an institutional framework that includes policies, infrastructure and...
The introduction of sustainability skills into higher education curricula is a natural effect of the increasing importance of sustainability in our daily lives. Topics like green computing, sustainable design or environmental engineering have become part of the knowledge required by today's engineers. Furthermore, we strongly believe that the introduction of this skill will eventually enable future...
The Rochester Institute of Technology has recently developed an Engineering and Public Policy master's program that is modeled after the program instituted at Carnegie Mellon University in 1976. One of the key graduate-level courses in this program, and the focus of this paper, is the Sustainable Energy Management (SEM) course offered within the Mechanical Engineering Department. SEM is an upper level...
The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) is a pilot initiative from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to study whether the NSF I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps guides teams based on established strategies for business start-ups, using Blank's Lean LaunchPad and Osterwalder's Business...
Embedded systems and Robotics are subjects that involve multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving with an emphasis on hands-on experiments. Due to lack of infrastructure — robotics labs to execute projects, or trained teachers to mentor projects — engineering students in India do not get the benefits of hands-on experience. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative is designed as a scalable and sustainable...
The paper presents how the TIC has been employed in the redraw process of the cartographic documents in the research project I+D+i "Strategies for Sustainable Regeneration of Tourism Settlements on the Mediterranean coast " carried out by members of the IAM of the School of Architecture La Salle URL. This project aims to establish urban and architectural guidelines for a sustainable regeneration...
The increasing scarcity of resource has raised sustainability awareness in recent years. In response, many manufacturers develop green co-products using materials that would be otherwise discarded to alleviate consumption of scarce resource. In this work, we apply game theoretic analysis to examine a monopolist manufacture's product design problem when consumers are heterogeneous in valuing quality...
In 2008 Birmingham City University (BCU) embarked on an ambitious new city centre campus development scheme. The scheme is materialising into two new campuses of circa 18000 and 24000 square metres respectively; as the main part of a £180m investment by BCU. The first campus is open and operating, the second is being built and due to open in September 2015. From the initial planning stages of the...
In order to understand young students' perceptions of bioenergy and the social environment of their learning about bioenergy, a survey was conducted among 1903 school students of 15 years age in Finland, Slovakia, Taiwan, and Turkey. The results showed that the students were critical of bioenergy especially the issues related to energy production from forest biomass. Most of the students did not have...
The concepts of both business process management (BPM) and Green IS are on the agenda of IS researchers. BPM has a long-lasting legacy from enterprise resource planning and business process re-engineering. Green IS is still a young topic, although significant research progress has been made in recent years. However, in terms of combining the two aspects, there is still a lack of research. While there...
This paper takes the form of a combined narrative of the school principal and the dean of development, research and technology on their reflection of the school's efforts in the integration and pervasive use of technology for teaching and learning. The main intent of this paper is to put in writing the tacit knowledge and insights — the expansive cycles that we have experienced (Engeström, 2001) and...
This paper addresses challenges part of the shift of paradigm taking place in the way we produce, transmit and use power related to what is known as smart grids. The aim of this paper is to explore present initiatives to establish smart grids as a sustainable and reliable power supply system. We argue that smart grids are not isolated to abstract conceptual models alone. We suggest that establishing...
For the sake of the sustainability of supply chain a decision framework is designed in this essay. The meaning of sustainability is explored in economical, environmental and social angles as well as relevant decision stakeholders. Based on this analysis an interactive decision mechanism is verified, and then a decision path and methodology Based on analysis network process theory is designed to improve...
ICT accounts for approximately 2% of world CO2 emissions, a figure equivalent to aviation, according to Gartner estimates. In the remaining 98% software counts for both operationalizing the private sector in doing its business and the public sector in supporting the society, as well as delivering enduser applications that permeate personal life of individuals and families. Software can contribute...
Bicycle has been used in many cities around the world such as Germany, Paris, Barcelona, Melbourne, and Japan as a new mode of daily transportation in moving forward a sustainable growth. The phenomenon of cycling has given a big impact towards a better quality of life. Due to economical maintenance of the bicycle, pollution free, healthy and space efficiency, bicycle also helps to enhance the social...
An increasing focus in K-12 educational outreach is on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A challenge in educating students about STEM topics is the ability to communicate the key concepts on a level that engages the students. The student-directed learning approach allows the students to create educational content and the teacher to oversee the development. The...
Developmental instruction in four sustainability contexts (environmental, social, economic, technical) in an engineering design curriculum offers a strong foundation and framework upon which to build an engineering program that teaches students the necessary methodologies for designing for sustainability. Instruction in sustainability contexts described in the current paper employs a developmental...
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