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Competition is no longer company to company, but supply chain to supply chain and flexibility is viewed as a key dimension of supply chain performance in global competition recently. Companies must manage the entire supply chain and work together with supply chain node enterprises, have access to resources, knowledge, and information from the network, and improve supply chain flexibility. Relational...
The objective of this paper is to present the methodology used for identifying the best Brazilian universities and professors in research topics of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector. This analysis was part of the R&D Lab planning activities in order to establish cooperative research projects with local universities. The motivation arises from the fact that Brazilian research...
Purpose of this presentation 1. To show what kind of commercialization management system is necessary for creating university venture. 2. To find out some lessons from case studies of commercialization management system in START projects. 3. To show the importance of management system and the project managers who promote business development in a pre-venture stage. Problems of present situation for...
In the paper, a scheme is proposed to predict whether the new employees could match their jobs or not, and discrete interval type-2 fuzzy set on time-varying universe is used for evaluating the experts' view of the employees' performance. The evaluation results are sent into a BP neural network to get the predicted value. Finally, the Markov model is adopted to revise the result and achieve a final...
This paper discusses the last 44 years of cryptomathematical life at NSA, during which time we have been the target of foreign espionage and have also targeted other countries to provide intelligence for our nation's leaders.
The given work is devoted to a series of issues related to the potential, requirements and appropriate ways to provide a successful outsourcing IT services to university department with marketable IT expertise. University is IT outsourcing partner which could catch special IT related needs and tasks of the companies or business and provide through the students those services for a profitable quantity/price...
VALS (Virtual Alliances for Learning Society) European Project has the aim of establishing sustainable processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use of Open Source Software. To achieve this, VALS builds knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies...
One of the main challenges in developing new engineering curricula is to satisfy industrial needs by the newly graduated students, increasing competiveness as well as adapting to social and economic demands, a fundamental aspect considered in European Higher Education Area, as well as by professional accreditation and engineering associations. Among the factors that reduce this necessary feedback...
In this paper, we describe and analyze how design research methodology has been implemented in one research project in engineering education. In a first part, we describe the research project in engineering education, we explain why we decided to apply the design-based methodology and how we did it. In a second part, we consider the methodology itself, and in the particular context of the study. First,...
Economic globalization has intensified the transactions among companies' cross-regional affiliated parties. More and more enterprises manipulate profit to obtain the tax benefits through transfer pricing. At the same time. intangible assets are becoming the main driving factors for enterprises' value creation. It has become a trend that lots of companies are transferring profit or implementing other...
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 evaluation of educational approaches is frequently challenging as it involves humans and requires the consideration of several angles depending on the educational objectives. On occasions, these objectives involve academic and industrial environments, thus implying additional challenges. Education in Global Software Development (GSD) has recently became important for companies that offer GSD training...
We all know that the development of science and technology from the middle of the twentieth century has been closely associated with computers. For nearly half a century, computers have been present in the life of my family and have largely determined it. We were not just witnessing the formation of the computer epoch, but also we were active participants in the upcoming era of "second literacy".
Brazil is experiencing economic growth, with a strong demand for highly qualified professionals. In the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Manaus, the situation is critical. The lack of professionals is considered a major risk, and to prepare students is a real challenge as there are few undergraduate courses, and the typical dropout rate is very high. STEM education is intricately difficult...
This paper describes a program called ESTEEM (Expeditions in Science, Technology, and Engineering Education through Mathematics) that helps to provide high school students and teachers, a non-traditional experience in mathematics and engineering exploration and demonstrates the multi-faceted role of integrated mathematics and engineering in solving problems from real-world applications.
This paper reports on the contribution of students to a research project. Its distinct characteristics are the relation between teaching and research, the early involvement of undergraduate students in research and the aim of raising students' environmental awareness. A group of students taking a compulsory course on Operations Management were asked to survey companies on the existence of synergic...
The overarching goal of our collective body of work is to develop a conceptual model of engineering students' development and utilization of social capital based on mixed-methods research. This paper makes a significant contribution to this long-term goal by utilizing qualitative methods to achieve a deeper understanding of first generation college students' engineering-related academic and career...
Recent studies from the Bogota Chamber of Commerce (Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá) in the field of digital animation and video games in Colombia show an accelerated growth of this industry in the last decade, positioning it as one of the most important for years to come. However, this strategic sector has very few adequate specialized academic training in the country, as identified in the study of...
The paper details changes made to the assessment methods employed on two modules delivered on six MSc programmes in Engineering. The assessment altered from all coursework to a combination of a coursework and examination to meet Professional Body requirements. Further, the paper will highlight how student feedback was sought on the new assessment approach and how this feedback led to developments...
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