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Universities as Engines of Economic Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Universities as Engines of Economic Development

This book describes patterns of behavior that collectively allow universities to exchange knowledge more effectively with industry, accelerate innovation and eventually contribute to economic development. These are based on the effective practices of leading and ambitious universities around the world that the authors have benchmarked, and the personal experiences of the authors in a number of international institution building projects, including those of MIT. The authors provide guidance that is globally applicable, but must be locally adapted. The approach is first to describe the context in which universities act as engines of economic development, and then present a set of effective pra...

Rethinking Engineering Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Rethinking Engineering Education

This book describes an approach to engineering education that integrates a comprehensive set of personal, interpersonal, and professional engineering skills with engineering disciplinary knowledge in order to prepare innovative and entrepreneurial engineers. The education of engineers is set in the context of engineering practice, that is, Conceiving, Designing, Implementing, and Operating (CDIO) through the entire lifecycle of engineering processes, products, and systems. The book is both a description of the development and implementation of the CDIO model and a guide to engineering programs worldwide that seek to improve the education of young engineers.

Technical Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Technical Universities

This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of higher education institutions. Introduced in the age of industrialization, polytechnical schools rose to prominence in many national settings during the second ...

Peer Review in an Era of Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Peer Review in an Era of Evaluation

This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical contributions on various peer review practices with relevance for the scientific community and higher education institutions worldwide. Consisting of three parts, the editors and contributors examine the history, problems and developments of peer review, as well as the specificities of various peer review pract...

World Directory of Crystallographers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

World Directory of Crystallographers

The 10th edition of the World Directory of Crystallographers and of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods is a revised and up-to-date edition of the World Directory and contains the current addresses, academic status and research interests of over 8000 scientists in 74 countries. It is produced directly from the regularly updated electronic World Directory database, which is accessible via the World-Wide Web. Full details of the database are given in an Annex to the printed edition.

The Digital University - Building a Learning Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

The Digital University - Building a Learning Community

This is the thoroughly revised second edition of one of the first books to provide an overview of how key aspects of university life - such as teaching, academic research, administration, management and course design - are being affected by digital and web-enabled technologies. More than three-quarters of the material has been revised and updated. Still further, three new chapters now address the following aspects: the virtual classroom, vicarious learning, and educational metadata. The main body of the text focuses on asynchronous collaboration by examining the following four key topics: principles, experiences, evaluation, and benefits. A timely and up-most important guide to all aspects of modern university education in the digital age.

Proceedings of the Symposium on Lithium Batteries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594
Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond

This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.

Lithium Air Battery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Lithium Air Battery

What Is Lithium Air Battery The lithium-air battery, also known as the Li-air battery, is a kind of metal-air electrochemical cell or battery chemistry. It works by inducing a flow of current by the oxidation of lithium at the anode and the reduction of oxygen at the cathode. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Lithium-air battery Chapter 2: Electrode Chapter 3: Lithium-ion battery Chapter 4: Zinc-air battery Chapter 5: Nanobatteries Chapter 6: Lithium-ion capacitor Chapter 7: Lithium-sulfur battery Chapter 8: Thin-film lithium-ion battery Chapter 9: Solid-state battery Chapter 10: Nanoarchitectures for lithium-ion batteries Chapter 11: M...