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Chase, Derek B. A. (Derek Brian Alan) Carleton University Dissertation Management Studies. "Utilization of professional ability in organizations - a LISREL model of the Canadian engineering profession." Ottawa, 1995.
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Dean, Travis Lawrence. "THE STATE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MATURITY AND LICENSURE." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/469.
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IEEE-CS is pursuing licensing for software engineers, but ACM believes that software engineering is too immature, and regulating the profession would be premature. In 1996, Norman Gibbs and Gary Ford from Carnegie Mellon University performed a qualitative survey of the maturity of the software engineering profession. I apply this model to the present state of the art in software engineering and analyze the results for 2010. I analyze the maturity of software engineering to determine that the profession is not yet ready for licensure. This is not because the infrastructure of software engineering is too immature, but because we have failed to establish an appropriate body of knowledge for software engineers. I also show that once an appropriate body of knowledge is established, licensure will be an appropriate next step and will open the way for the profession to fully mature.
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Winqvist, Mikael, and Jonas Jolhammar. "Personality traits and preference for media richness in the software engineering profession." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-17690.
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Buse, Kathleen Relihan. "Women Persisting in the Engineering Profession: A Paradoxical Explanation Adapting Intentional Change Theory." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333586402.
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Bourque, Pierre. "Contributions to the maturation of software engineering as a discipline and a recognised profession." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415869.
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Artemeva, Natalia. "Becoming an engineering communicator : a study of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100312.
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The study presented in this dissertation focusses on the analysis of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession, engineering. The goals of the study are: (a) to refine the current understanding of what constitutes professional genre knowledge and of how novices learn and use genres of professional communication, and (b) to test the effectiveness of the suggested pedagogy for an Engineering Communication course. This qualitative longitudinal exploration includes ten case studies that span eight years and trace the participants' trajectories through the university and workplaces. I use a combination of three theoretical perspectives---Rhetorical Genre Studies, Activity Theory, and situated learning---as a lens for the analysis of novices' learning trajectories on their way to becoming professional communicators. The study demonstrates that in addition to the knowledge of genre conventions and understanding of an audience's expectations, genre knowledge is a result of a summative effect of such ingredients accumulated from different sources at different time periods as (a) cultural capital, (b) domain content expertise, (c) the novice's understanding of the improvisational qualities of genre, (d) agency, as reflected in the novice's ability to both seize and create kairotic moments in the chronological flux of time and enact genres in the ways that are recognizable by the community of practice, (e) formal education, (f) workplace experiences, and (g) private intention. The study indicates that the ingredients of genre knowledge accumulated in one context may be used in another, that is, that rhetorical strategy may be portable, thus allowing novices to adapt genres learned elsewhere to a new rhetorical situation. The study also shows that communication practices can be successfully taught outside of local contexts, for example, in the academic classroom. In addition I draw pedagogical implications of the inquiry for the communication classroom; for example, that communication instructors need to extend their pedagogies beyond teaching genre conventions and audience awareness and provide classroom contexts that would allow students to develop the understanding of genre as allowing for flexibility and educated intervention. The study also shows that the timing of the offering of domain-specific communication courses is crucial for the students to be able to develop the sense of connections among communication courses, subject matter courses, and professional practice.
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Gardner, Peter John. "An investigation into information technology and related factors, and their effect on the UK structural engineering profession." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243651.
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Jesiek, Brent K. "Between Discipline and Profession: A History of Persistent Instability in the Field of Computer Engineering, circa 1951-2006." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30212.
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This dissertation uses a historical approach to study the origins and trajectory of computer engineering as a domain of disciplinary and professional activity in the United States context. Expanding on the general question of "what is computer engineering?," this project investigates what counts as computer engineering knowledge and practice, what it means to be a computer engineer, and how these things have varied by time, location, actor, and group. This account also pays close attention to the creation and maintenance of the "sociotechnical" boundaries that have historically separated computer engineering from adjacent fields such as electrical engineering and computer science. In addition to the academic sphere, I look at industry and professional societies as key sites where this field originated and developed. The evidence for my analysis is largely drawn from journal articles, conference proceedings, trade magazines, and curriculum reports, supplemented by other primary and secondary sources.
The body of my account has two major parts. Chapters 2 through 4 examine the pre-history and early history of computer engineering, especially from the 1940s to early 1960s. These chapters document how the field gained a partially distinct professional identity, largely in the context of industry and through professional society activities. Chapters 5 through 7 turn to a historical period running from roughly the mid 1960s to early 1990s. Here I document the establishment and negotiation of a distinct disciplinary identity and partially unique "sociotechnical settlement" for computer engineering. Professional societies and the academic context figure prominently in these chapters. This part of the dissertation also brings into relief a key argument, namely that computer engineering has historically occupied a position of "persistent instability" between the engineering profession, on the one hand, and independent disciplines such as computer science, on the other.
In an Epilogue I review some more recent developments in the educational arena to highlight continued instabilities in the disciplinary landscape of computing, as well as renewed calls for the establishment of a distinct disciplinary and professional identity for the field of computer engineering. I also highlight important countervailing trends by briefly reviewing the history of the software/hardware codesign movement.Ph. D.
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Hackett, James Arthur. "The role of cost estimators in UK construction : a case for, and steps towards, an estimating profession." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3001/.
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Estimators and Quantity Surveyors (QS) have pivotal roles in the profitability of construction contracts; however, only QSs have professional recognition. Comparisons between these groups suggested that this may be an anomaly. The purpose of this thesis was to consider the role of the Estimator relative to the accepted criteria attaching to professional status. To achieve this, definitions of a profession were used to compare QSs and Estimators in terms of remuneration, education and professional representation. A statistical analysis on each of these conditions suggested that there was no significant difference in terms of salary offered or education required, by employers. Further investigation, however, did reveal considerable differences in educational and professional opportunities, favouring QSs. With regard to the key defining criteria of a profession and the consideration given by employers, the results indicated that there was no difference between the two groups. Further surveys developed proposals for an Estimator “Body of Knowledge” (BoK) and Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and also found a changing role in meeting diverse client-driven procurement methods and employer requirements. As this demonstrated a case for professional recognition to be considered then these proposals could be used as a platform for further development.
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Hall, Abraham. "Using Freebase, an Automatically Generated Dictionary, and a Classifier to Identify a Person's Profession in Tweets." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5788.
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Algorithms for classifying pre-tagged person entities in tweets into one of eight profession categories are presented. A classifier using a semi-supervised learning algorithm that takes into consideration the local context surrounding the entity in the tweet, hash tag information, and topic signature scores is described. In addition to the classifier, this research investigates two dictionaries containing the professions of persons. These two dictionaries are used in their own classification algorithms which are independent of the classifier. The method for creating the first dictionary dynamically from the web and the algorithm that accesses this dictionary to classify a person into one of the eight profession categories are explained next. The second dictionary is freebase, an openly available online database that is maintained by its online community. The algorithm that uses freebase for classifying a person into one of the eight professions is described. The results also show that classifications made using the automated constructed dictionary, freebase, or the classifier are all moderately successful. The results also show that classifications made with the automated constructed person dictionary are slightly more accurate than classifications made using freebase. Various hybrid methods, combining the classifier and the two dictionaries are also explained. The results of those hybrid methods show significant improvement over any of the individual methods.M.S.
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Jingryd, Ola. "Impartial Contract-Engineering in Real Estate Transactions : The Swedish Broker and the Latin Notary." Licentiate thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7443.
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Even in the days of an ever closer European union, Europe contains no less than four different legal cultures with respect to real estate conveyances: the Latin-German notary system, the deregulated Dutch notary system, the lawyer/solicitor system, and the Scandinavian licensed real estate broker system. The latter is of particular interest in that Scandinavian brokers play a far larger role in real estate transactions than their European counterparts.This paper examines and compares the Swedish real estate broker and the Latin notary. The Swedish broker is required by law to act as an impartial intermediary, to provide counseling to both parties, and to assist in drawing up all contracts and other documents necessary for the transaction at hand. To that end, the broker must be active and observant of the particular needs of the parties to the present transaction, always striving to enable them to reach equitable and practical agreements so as to prevent future disputes. In other words, the broker is required to tailor the transaction to fit the needs of the buyer and seller.The Latin notary profession prevails in large parts of the world, particularly the Latin-German parts of continental Europe, and Latin America. While there are divergences in the notarial laws of all countries, the similarities are greater still, and it is correct to speak of a single profession throughout all these countries. The notary carries out several important functions, the nexus of which is the authentication of legal documents. In the preparation of these documents, the notary is required to provide impartial counseling in order to tailor the transaction at hand to fit the will and needs of the parties. To uphold the integra fama of the profession, and to safeguard the proper performance of the notarial functions, lawgivers in all countries emphasize the importance of impartiality and integrity. There are national divergences as to the specific rules of conduct related to impartiality, particularly those concerning what activities are considered incompatible with the notariat, but they rest on common principles. Most importantly, not only must the publica fides be honored, it must be seen in the eyes of the public to be honored. The organization and regulation of the notary profession raises important economic issues, particularly with regard to competition/monopoly and market failures. The discussion of the regulation or deregulation of the notariat is by no means settled. Comparing the two professions, it is striking to see the enormous similarities in the legal frameworks and their respective rationales. Two common features are of particular interest. Firstly, both the Swedish broker and the Latin notary are required to assist the contracting parties in the contract phase, drawing up any necessary documents and counseling the parties as to the implications of the transaction. In that respect, both professions function as tailors to the transaction. Secondly, both the broker and the notary are required to act impartially and independently – impartially visavi the contracting parties, and independently in order to preserve the public faith in the independence and integrity of the professions.The similarities can be summarized as a function on the real estate market: impartial counseling and contract-engineering. This function exists alongside other functions, such as the brokers’ traditional matchmaking, or the registration of property rights. This functional approach may prove very useful in all kinds of analyses of the real estate market, whether of political, legal, or economic nature. For instance, with respect to the merits and/or necessity of the Swedish impartiality rule, those wishing to amend the law and introduce a system of overtly partial brokers acting solely on behalf of their principal have to face the question of what is to become of counseling for the principal’s counterpart. Should the counterpart be forced to choose between hiring their own legal counsel or make do without? Further, those wishing to contest the mandatory notarial intervention in real estate transactions have to face the same question: what is to happen to impartial counseling, given not only to the client but also to the client’s counterpart? Both instances illustrate the common feature shared by the two examined professions: impartial contract-engineering and counseling. To complete the picture and cover the whole arena of real estate transactions, the next logical step is therefore to compare and analyze different systems for registration of property rights. Doing so will hopefully achieve a tool for examining the real estate market that will prove useful indeed, particularly in future discussions concerning European harmonization.
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Jelena, Fischer. "Istraživanje razvijenosti konstitutivnih elemenata profesije inženjer menadžmenta." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2016. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=101565&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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U disertacija se istražuje proces profesionalizacije nove profesije inženjer menadžment u savremenom srpskom društvu. Cilj je da se ispita koji su konstitutivni elementi razvijeni, koji još nisu ili nisu u potpunosti, te ih treba razvijati kako bi se ubrzali procesi profesionalizacije.Teorijski model primenjen u istraživanju sastoji se od elemenata strukturano-funkcionalističke teorije (društvena zaštita profesije i etički kodeks) i realističko-istorijske teorije (formiranje škola za profesionalno obrazovanje, profesionalno udruženje i izgradnja etičkog kodeksa profesije). Model je za potrebe ovog istraživanja proširen sa još dva relevantna elementa: resocijalizacija inženjera menadžmentau organizacijama i društveno vrednovanje profesije.Rezultati istraživanja dokazuju relevantnost izabranih nezavisnih promenljivih i potvrđuju njihov determinirajući uticaj na procese profesionalizacije profesije inženjer menadžmenta. Kao najrazvijeniji elemenat ove mlade profesije identifikovano je univerzitetsko obrazovanje. To pokazuje da je uvođenje studijskih programa inženjerskog menadžmenta na univerzitete u Srbiji prethodnica ekonomskog razvoja.The thesis focuses on the research of the process of the professionalization of the engineering manager profession in the contemporary Serbina society. The main objective is to examine which of the constitutive elements of this profession are developed and which of those are yet to be developed.The theoretical model applied in the research consists of the elements of the structural-functional theory (social protection of profession and ethical code) and realistic-historical theory (founding of the schools for professional education, professional associations, and establishment of the ethical code for the profession). This model was, for the needs of this research, broadened with two more relevant elements: re-socialization of the engineering managers in and social evaluation of the profession of the engineering manager.The results of the research prove the relevance of the examined factors and confirm their determining influence on the process of the professionalization of the engineering manager profession. As the most developed element of this young profession, the university education was identified. This shows that introduction of the study programme of engineering management in Serbia by the universities was in fact preceding the economic development.
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Robertson, Laura. "Engineering Design." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/781.
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徐順通 and Sung-thong Andrew Chee. "Computerisation in Hong Kong professional engineering firms." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31263124.
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Chee, Sung-thong Andrew. "Computerisation in Hong Kong professional engineering firms /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12316659.
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Matemba, Esther Elly. "Globalisation of Engineers: African Professional Engineering Education Perspectives." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82165.
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This thesis contributes an African engineering education perspective to the topic on developing global engineers. It poses the argument that the existing discourse is founded on the Global North perspective of engineering education, and that it does not speak from the actual situation that exists in most Africa countries. Using data from Tanzania, and applying Bourdieu's theory of practice, this research addresses the relevance of the existing discourse for developing global engineers in Africa.
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Reboli, Karin. "Fylla ett par skor : En arbetsvetenskaplig studie om sjuksköterskors tankar om profession, handlingsutrymme och position på arbetsmarknaden." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-26096.
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Den här studien fördjupar sig i sjuksköterskors tankar om deras position på arbetsmarknaden, profession, handlingsutrymme och relationer till andra professioner. Studien utgår från intervjuer med sju sjuksköterskor med erfarenhet från 12 till 43 år som arbetar inom hemsjukvård, sjukhus, vårdcentral samt bemanningsföretag. Studien visar på att sjuksköterskorna upplever liten grad av makt på arbetsmarknaden. Maktlösheten har sin bakgrund i att det inom sjuksköterskeyrket finns ett flertal specialiseringar, vilket skapar en stor grad av segmentering. Det försvårar sjuksköterskornas mobilisering av sina gemensamma maktresurser. Sjuksköterskornas dubbla uppdrag inom sitt yrke bidrar också till en hög grad av segmentering. En annan tendens som studien visar är att triangeln medicin, omvårdnad och erfarenhet är viktig för sjuksköterskornas tankar om sin profession, samt att relationerna med undersköterskor och läkare är viktig för sjuksköterskorna i deras profession. En viktig tendens som framträder i den här studien är sjuksköterskornas känsla av att vara utbytbara. Arbetsgivarens behov att att använda de maktresurser de förfogar över skapar en spiral där sjuksköterskorna känner sig som de endast fyller ett par skor och väljer då att byta jobb. Det gäller framför allt sjuksköterskor som jobbar på sjukhus. En tendens som framkommer är att vad som anses värdefullt vid en anställning har förändrats från fast anställning till en anställning som går att få ihop med privatliv på ett bra sätt. Studien visar också att arbetsgivaren har misslyckats med att ge sjuksköterskorna de resurser de anser sig behöva för att ta hand om patienterna på ett bra sätt. Det finns en känsla att det inte är lönt att engagera sig då de ändå inte har inflytande kring hur vården styrs.
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Ternovskiy, S. A. "Computer mechanics is one of the most advanced engineering professions." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33867.
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“Computer Mechanics” is one of the most intensive and exciting majors in the field of physics and mathematics. It is accredited at our university on the highest 4-th level. Graduates receive profound knowledge in basic subjects, acquire advanced information in the applied sciences and advanced computer technology. Basic knowledge is concretized and consolidated in the study of vocational-oriented subjects. This major belongs to a limited number of particularly difficult and important professions.
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Avery, Zanj Kano. "Effects of Professional Development on Infusing Engineering Design Into High School Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Curricula." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/548.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of professional development (PD) on the infusion of engineering design into high school curricula. Four inservice teachers with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, industrial education, math, and electrical engineering participated in the 2006 National Center of Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE)-sponsored PD workshops at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and provided three sources of data that were used to answer the research question, "What are the effects of PD on infusing engineering design into high school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula"? Three major themes emerged from the data. They were (a) incorporation of PD content, (b) challenges with incorporating PD content, and (c) benefits of incorporating PD content. It was shown that the effect that the NCETE PD had on the infusion of engineering design into high school curricula varied among each of the four teachers due to their subject area, educational backgrounds, and experiential knowledge. Implications of these findings may be used to inform the design and delivery of future STEM PD efforts.
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Jewell, Carol A. "A typology of construction professional service firms : a consulting engineering perspective." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553110.
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Construction professional services (CPS) make an important contribution to the UK economy through overseas trade. They have recorded a positive balance for at least a decade, yet the way CPS companies operate overseas is not well understood. Many CPS firms have globalised and changed their organizational structure, intra-organisation co-ordination, and business strategies. They operate in rapidly changing environment which has become more complex with greater foreign ownership, different forms of procurement, and the greater use of joint venturing. Globalization continues to transform the manner in which business is undertaken by the lowering of international barriers to the flow of goods, services, capital and labour, and a marked acceleration in the pace of technological and scientific progress. There is a significant amount of research undertaken to understand the definition, characteristics, classification, trading and marketing of services and an increasing amount of research into professional service firms. However, there is little research into CPS firms in the international construction market. The research identified most CPS firms want to operate globally, but localization is very important. The available multinational corporation (MNC) organisation models, based on manufacturing, do not fit well with CPS firms, whose services are highly customized and location specific. A typology was developed that sought to differentiate CPS engineering firms working overseas and explain the way they account and organise their business and their growth strategies. The typology, based on five dissimilarities identified from the within- and across-case analyses, reveal the importance of ownership, growth strategy and local autonomy in their overseas offices. Furthermore, the manufacturing models were shown to be inappropriate for CPS firms that are characterised by high customization and location specificity. Local responsiveness is important to the firms, but equally, centralized knowledge management, human resources and risk management systems allow the best available service is available to clients on a worldwide basis. It was shown that a heterarchical model would ensure a balance between the global and the local.
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Lodge, Hilary Michael. "Engineering status : an exploration of the professional status of chartered engineers." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241653.
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Gutierrez, Andriei. "Engenheiro, política e sociedade no contexto da reestruturação capitalista brasileira." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10064.
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L'objet d'étude de notre thèse correspond au groupe professionnel des ingénieurs brésiliens face aux transformations politiques et économiques menées au Brésil dans les années 1990 et 2000, notamment l'introduction des politiques néolibérales et de la restructuration productive. La thèse analyse comment les différentes fractions du groupe professionnel ont été touchées par ces transformations et comment ses distinctes organisations d'intérêt ont agit dans la conjoncture politique.D'un coté, la thèse montre comment la combinatoires des politiques d'ouverture commerciale, de déréglementation financière, de privatisations et de reforme de l'État sont liées à l'augmentation de la participation du secteur privé dans l'économie et à la croissante dépendance financière, technologique et patrimoniale du pays envers l'extérieur. D'autre par, la thèse suggère que les politiques de déréglementation du marché de travail, de réforme du système de retraites et de focalisations des dépenses sociales de l'État ont eu un effet sur le groupe professionnel : il y a une croissante tendance d'individualisation de la gestion de la carrière et du bien-être. A partir d'une étude quantitative avec des ingénieurs et qualitative entre ceux et leurs organisations d'intérêt, notre thèse est ciblée sur l'analyse de l'évolution historique et politique du groupe professionnel. Elle part, dans un premier moment, de la description de la littérature qui porte sur les organisations d'intérêt des ingénieurs dans les années 1970 et 1980 et analyse, dans un deuxième moment, la façon dont ces organisations ont agit dans la conjoncture politique des années 1990 et 2000. La thèse fait également une analyse exploratoire des profils politiques des ingénieurs des entreprises étatiques, en particulier la Petrobras, en les comparant directement avec les transformations dans leurs rapports de travail. D'une manière plus générale, notre thèse soutient que la dynamique des luttes macrosociales a une influence considérable sur le positionnement politique des différentes fractions du groupe professionnel et de ses organisations d'intérêtThis thesis analyses Brazilian engineers professional group in the context of the neoliberal policies and of the productive restructuring. It studies how the fractions of the professional group have been affected by these structural transformations and how their different political organizations have reacted in the political conjuncture.On one hand, the thesis shows how the combination of opening up the economy,privatization, States' reform and financial liberalization could raise private sector activities and Brazilian economic dependence. This thesis describes how both transformations have been qualitatively touched engineers activities. On the other hand, it suggests that the liberalization of labor market, the reform of the public retirement system and the policies of focusing State social investments have had an effect on the professional group: a trend towards an individual career and well being management.Through quantitative analyses amongst engineers and qualitative studies among them and their interest organizations, the thesis focuses on analyzing the evolution of political history of the professional group. First, it describes the literature which shows the Brazilian engineers interest organizations during the 1970s and 1980s. Second, it studies in depth how these organizations have acted in the political context of the 1990s and early 2000s.This thesis also makes an exploratory analysis of the political profiles of the engineers of state companies, particularly Petrobras, in direct comparison with the changes occurring in their labor conditions. In general, the thesis argues that the dynamics of the macrosocial conflicts carries considerable weight in the political positioning of the different fractions of the professional group and its interest organizations
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Osegowitsch, Thomas. "The relationship between global integration and performance in multinational professional engineering companies." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Management, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0059.
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This study investigates the link between global integration -- defined as the intra-firm cross-border transfer of operational resources -- and performance in multinational professional engineering companies. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques, we find some support for a positive association. We review two bodies of scholarship germane to our topic: the global integration - performance literature and the multinationality - performance literature. The inclusion of the latter is justified since the espoused performance benefits of multinationality are predominantly realised through global integration. Based upon an evaluation of these two bodies of scholarship and qualitative insights, we propose a positive relationship between global integration and performance as well as a mediating relationship, with global integration acting as a mediator between multinationality and performance. Hypothesis testing is performed in Partial Least Squares, a structural equation modelling technique ideally suited for small samples. Results reveal a significant positive association between global integration and MNC profitability. A separate research model testing the relationship between global integration and the alternative dependent, MNC growth, is rejected. Further analysis of the profitability-based research model provides support for the mediational hypothesis: the relationship between multinationality and profitability is fully mediated, suggesting no gains from multinationality per se. Supplementary tests reveal that the profitability effects of global integration are enhanced when it is strongly motivated by the desire to take advantage of specialised skills within the MNC; no such claim of moderation can be made when global integration is strongly motivated by a desire to improve staff utilisation on a global basis. The relationship between global integration and profitability is also unaffected by the origins (headquarters vs. subsidiaries) of the intra-firm operational resource transfers that constitute global integration.
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Muller, Jan. "Electrical engineering professionals’ continuing professional development needs within one South African company." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96694.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the study performed in 2014 was to identify what the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs are of a selected group of electrical engineering professionals from one company in South Africa. The interpretivist research paradigm formed the basis for the “Interactive Qualitative Analysis” methodology used in the study. Due to limitations research was focused on only one constituency, a selected group of electrical engineering professionals in one organisation, which is close to, but have very little power over the specific phenomenon of CPD. Research activities included conducting focus group and individual interviews with participants to gain a better understanding of identified problem through the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The phenomenon of CPD was found to lie within the spectrum of lifelong learning. Due to increasingly fast changing technological and work environments, practicing professionals take part in professional development, if it is compulsory or not, in order to stay competitive in the global arena. Research has shown that compulsory CPD for registered engineering professionals may further their professional development. From the “Possible Implications for CPD Provision for Engineering Professionals” document several issues and concerns were identified, which influence engineering professionals’ perception of the professional body. The CPD system and CPD provision facilitated by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) may be one of the key reasons why many practicing engineers choose not to register professionally. Through this study the perceived and proposed CPD needs for the selected group of electrical engineering professionals have been identified, but to identify the actual needs of practicing engineering professionals in South Africa, a more detailed study will need to be done that should include all the constituencies that practice within the engineering environment or have any influence on the CPD phenomenon. The study also identified aspects that could help to improve the CPD system and the available CPD initiatives, and enhance the leadership from the professional body. This may positively influence the perception of practicing engineering professionals. Such positive perceptions could result in more practicing engineering professionals registering with ECSA and maintaining their professional registration.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die studie uitgevoer in 2014 was om die Voortgesette Professionele Ontwikkeling (VPO) behoeftes van ‘n geselekteerde groep elektriese ingenieurs van een maatskappy in Suid-Afrika te bepaal. Die interpretatiewe navorsingsparadigma het die “Interaktiewe Kwalitatiewe Analise” metodologie wat gebruik is in die studie onderlê. Binne die studie beperkinge is gefokus op slegs een konstituensie, ‘n geselekteerde groep professionele elektriese ingenieurs binne een organisasie, wie digby die spesifieke fenomeen van VPO funksioneer, maar baie beperkte mag daaroor het. Navorsingsaktiwiteite het fokusgroeponderhoude en individuele onderhoude met deelnemers ingesluit om ‘n beter begrip van die geïdentifiseerde probleem te verkry deur analise en interpretasie van die ingesamelde data. Die fenomeen van VPO lê binne die spektrum van lewenslange leer. As gevolg van ‘n toenemend snel veranderende tegnologiese en werksomgewing, neem professionele praktisyns deel aan professionele ontwikkeling, of dit verpligtend is of nie, en bly sodoende kompeterend in die globale arena. Maar navorsing het ook bewys dat verpligte VPO vir geregistreerde ingenieurspraktisyns hul professionele ontwikkeling tot voordeel kan strek. Vanuit die “Possible Implications for CPD Provision for Engineering Professionals” dokument is verskeie kwessies en knelpunte geïdentifiseer wat professionele ingenieurs se persepsies van die professionele liggaam mag beïnvloed. Die VPO sisteem en VPO verskaffing wat deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad vir Ingenieurswese (SARI) gefasiliteer word, mag een van die kernredes wees waarom vele ingenieurspraktisyns kies om nie professioneel te registreer nie. Die perseptuele en voorgestelde VPO behoeftes van ‘n geselekteerde groep professionele elektriese ingenieurspraktisyns is geïdentifiseer in hierdie studie, maar om die werklike behoeftes van professionele ingenieurspraktisyns in die breër Suid-Afrikaanse konteks te bepaal is ‘n meer gedetailleerde studie nodig wat al die konstituensies insluit wat praktiseer binne die ingenieursomgewing of die VPO fenomeen in dié konteks beïnvloed. Die studie het ook aspekte identifiseer wat kan help om die huidige VPO sisteem en insiatiewe te verbeter, en die leierskap van die professionele liggaam tot voordeel kan strek. Dit mag ‘n positiewe invloed hê op die persepsies van professionele ingenieurspraktisyns. Diesulke positiewe persepsies kan lei tot meer professionele ingenieurspraktisyns wat registreer by SARI en hul professionele registrasie byhou.
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Webb, Donna Louise. "Engineering Professional Development: Elementary Teachers' Self-efficacy and Sources of Self-efficacy." PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2337.
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Currently, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is a popular buzz word in P -12 education as it represents a means to advance American competitiveness in the global economy. Proponents of the engineering component of STEM advocate additional benefits in teaching engineering, such as its capacity to engage students in collaboration, and to apply critical thinking, systems thinking, negotiation, and communication skills to solve real-life contextual problems. Establishing a strong foundation of engineering knowledge at a young age will provide students with internal motivation as it taps into their curiosity toward how things work, and it also prepares them for secondary science courses. Successful STEM education is often constrained by elementary teachers' low perception of self-efficacy to teach science and engineering. Elementary teachers with low self-efficacy in science are more likely to spend less instructional time teaching science, which suggests that teachers with little to no training in engineering might avoid teaching this topic. Therefore, the purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine the effects of engineering professional development on elementary (K-6) teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and perceptions of self-efficacy to teach engineering, and (b) to identify and explain sources influencing self-efficacy. Professional development was conducted in a metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest. Results revealed that after the engineering professional development, teachers experienced statistically significant gains in content, PCK, and self-efficacy to teach engineering. Increases in self-efficacy were mainly attributed to mastery experiences and cultivation of a growth mindset by embracing the engineering design process.
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Malhotra, Namrata. "International entry mode decisions of professional service firms, the case of engineering consulting." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0025/NQ46881.pdf.
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Wolmarans, Nicolette Sarah. "The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25654.
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Access to the practice of a profession is controlled by formal education structures. These structures are intended to induct future professionals into the specialised knowledge, skills and values that underpin that profession. Yet, despite meeting the academic requirements of a professional degree, many graduates struggle to 'apply' specialised knowledge when confronted with problems in professional practice. This is a study of the nature of knowledge as it is mobilised in professional reasoning. The case studied was located in engineering education, because knowledge relations tend to be more explicit in education than in practice. The data were collected from design projects located in two differently structured curricula in civil and mechanical engineering curricula. The research questions that directed the study were: 1. What is the nature of the reasoning involved when specialised disciplinary knowledge is recruited to develop specific, often concrete, artefacts? 2. What is the logic of progression in a trajectory of engineering design tasks in terms of the relation between knowledge and artefact? The study draws on two intellectual fields: models of professional reasoning and design thinking on one hand, and social realism in the sociology of education on the other. These traditions take different positions on professional reasoning. Design thinking is concerned with contextual detail and case precedent, while social realism in the sociology of education is concerned with conceptual coherence within knowledge specialisations and the power of generalisation. Both offer important insights into professional reasoning, but alone neither is adequate. The analysis was done using the semantics dimension of Legitimation Code Theory, LCT (Semantics), which required an adaptation in order to fully describe the significance of contextual detail evident in the data. The findings showed that specialised knowledge and contextual detail interact far more dialectically than previously assumed. This provides empirical insights for structuring curricula. Students can be more intentionally inducted into recontextualising academic knowledge for the purpose of solving contextually emergent problems. Theoretically the study contributes to the social realist school within the sociology of education by revealing its blindness to contextual detail and consequently offering a fuller understanding of the nature of regions. This has implications for other studies of professional knowledge and education.
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Tsu, Bruna Suzanne Aiello. "Internationalization of professional service firms: the case of a Brazilian engineering consultancy company." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/5671.
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Previous issue date: 2008-05-07T00:00:00ZInternationalization is an increasingly important subject for many companies and their managers. It is nearly impossible to remain unaware of globalization and its consequences; even if a company decides to remain in its original market, it must acknowledge the possibility of competition based abroad. Today, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as large ones, are engaging in international activities. Professional service companies, such as engineering consultants, are no exception. A few factors contribute to the interest in studying the engineering consultancy sector. First, there is its importance to society, especially in developing countries, which are often plagued by infrastructure deficiencies. Second, analogies can be made between this specific sector and other consulting businesses, such as those established by lawyers, accountants, and management experts. Finally, there is the fact that the most valuable asset of these companies is knowledge, which is increasingly important to most companies and tends to become a key performance driver. The purpose of the research undertaken here was to explore the internationalization process of Brazilian engineering consulting companies, identifying the main obstacles, constraints, and sources of competitive disadvantage faced by these companies in their internationalization processes. Efforts were also made to identify possible sources of competitive advantage that could compensate for these constraints. To achieve this goal, a case study, focusing on a company with a dozen international projects, was carried out. This allowed for interesting insights; it is hoped that the information obtained and the resulting managerial recommendations will contribute to future internationalization initiatives of small and medium-sized professional service companies.
A importância do tema da internacionalização é crescente, tanto para empresas quanto para seus administradores. É praticamente impossível permanecer alheio à globalização e às suas conseqüências; mesmo que uma empresa opte por permanecer em seu mercado local, pode ser necessário considerar os efeitos de concorrentes baseados no exterior. Hoje, além de grandes corporações, pequenas e medias empresas também tem se internacionalizado. Empresas prestadoras de serviços profissionais, como consultoria de engenharia, não são exceção, e alguns fatores contribuem para o interesse em estudar este setor específico. Em primeiro lugar, deve-se considerar a sua importância para a sociedade, especialmente os países em desenvolvimento, os quais frequentemente sofrem com a carência de investimentos em infra-estrutura. Além disso, existe também a possibilidade de estabelecer analogias entre este e outros serviços de consultoria, como os de advogados, contadores e administradores. Finalmente, contribui para o interesse o fato de que o ativo principal destas empresas é o conhecimento, o qual tem se tornado cada vez mais um aspecto chave para o desempenho e lucratividade das empresas. O objetivo deste estudo é explorar o processo de internacionalização de empresas brasileiras de consultoria de engenharia, identificando os maiores obstáculos, dificuldades e fontes de desvantagem enfrentados por estas empresas na sua internacionalização. Paralelamente, foram realizados esforços para identificar vantagens competitivas que pudessem compensar estas dificuldades. A fim de atingir este objetivo, foi realizado um estudo de caso, focado em uma companhia com uma dúzia de projetos internacionais. Este procedimento permitiu constatações interessantes; espera-se que as informações obtidas e as recomendações decorrentes possam contribuir para iniciativas futuras de internacionalização de pequenas e médias empresas de serviços profissionais.
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Careborg, Amanda. "”Jag vill känna att jag gör skillnad…” : En kvalitativ studie om socionomstudenters uppfattningar om socialsekreteraryrket." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-12337.
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During recent years, Swedish municipalities have had major recruitment problems regarding social workers, especially in child welfare and maintenance support. Previous research shows that high workload and inadequate resources are the main reasons why the social workers leave their jobs as an effect of New Public Management, which has characterized the public sector over the past three decades. The purpose of this study is to examine how Swedish social worker students percive and experience social work as a profession. Previous resarch put forward a clear hierarchical status scheme within the social workers professions community in Sweden, which can be seen affecting social worker students by socialization in to the professions structures. The result from this interview study shows that the social worker students belive that there is high workload, too much administrative work and too little room for discretion, which limits the ability to make a difference for the clients. The findings also shows that education and practical experience have a major impact on the way social worker students experience the social work. In addtion; media, society and family contribute to the perceptions of the profession. Furthermore, the students describe that their social environment is crucial in regards to becoming a social worker. For the understanding of perceptions of the social work, the study has theoretical frameworks of Bourdieu and Goffman in purpose to theorize student socialization into professional structures.
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Nel, Coenraad Josephus. "Developing a structured professional development program for engineering professionals within the public sector environment." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85671.
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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is currently experiencing a time in which existing infrastructure is reaching its design life end. With a growing economy and the increased level of social development, existing infrastructure is under extreme pressure. South Africa is also facing a challenge in which a need exists for engineering capabilities. These capabilities include engineering skills to maintain and manage existing infrastructure, plan for new infrastructure and construct new needed infrastructure. This study looks at a possible solution towards the above mentioned challenges. As a solution, the study proposes a professional development program to prepare engineers to work in the environment of infrastructure development. More specifically the program prepares civil engineers to work in public sector organisations responsible for basic service infrastructure. The research for the proposed professional development program is done by comparing literature with feedback received from various industry professionals. By doing this, the components for the proposed program were researched and identified. The components for the proposed program are professional work experience, professional training and structured mentorship. A further deliverable of the proposed program is to assist candidates taking part in the program to register as professional engineers on completion of the program. The study further showed the proposed program should be structured in such a way that all the components mentioned above work together interactively and should be centrally managed to ensure all the goals for the program are being reached. It is further stated that if the proposed program could successfully be implemented and if all the stakeholders commit towards the goal of the proposed program, the program could have a significant positive impact towards the challenges mentioned above.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika beleef tans 'n tyd waarin bestaande infrastruktuur besig is om hul ontwerp tydperk te bereik. Met 'n groeiende ekonomie en die verhoogde vlak van maatskaplike ontwikkeling is bestaande infrastruktuur onder geweldige druk. Suid- Afrika staar ook tans `n uitdaging in die gesig in verband met onvoldoende getalle professionele ingenieurs, veral in die omgewing van die instandhouding van bestaande infrastruktuur, die konstruksie van nuwe infrastruktuur, en die beplanning van verdere nodige infrastruktuur. Hierdie studie ondersoek dus 'n moontlike oplossing tot bogenoemde uitdagings. As 'n moonlike oplossing stel die studie voor dat `n professionele ontwikkelingsprogram vir ingenieurs saamgestel word. So `n program sal dus ingenieurs oplei en voorberei vir werk binne die openbare sektor wat verantwoordelik is vir die ontwikkeling en bestuur van basiese dienste infrastruktuur. Die navorsing vir die voorgestelde professionele ontwikkeling program is gedoen deur bestaande literatuur te vergelyk met inligting ontvang vanaf verskeie professionele ingenieurs in die praktyk. Deur dit te doen, is die komponente vir die voorgestelde program nagevors en geïdentifiseer. Die geïdentifiseerde komponente vir die voorgestelde program is dus soos volg: professionele werkservaring, opleiding en gestruktureerde mentorskap. 'n Verdere aflewering van die voorgestelde program is om kandidate te registreer as professionele ingenieurs teen voltooiing van die program. Die studie toon ook verder aan dat al die komponente, soos wat hierbo genoem is, geïntegreerd moet plaasvind en dat die program gestruktureerd bestuur moet word vanaf `n sentrale punt of organisasie. Dit word dan verder genoem dat indien die voorgestelde program suksesvol geïmplementeer kan word, en indien die verskeie belanghebbendes tot die program hulle self tot die program kan verbind, die program 'n beduidende positiewe impak op die uitdagings hierbo kan maak.
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Taylor, S. "Sourcing of public sector building surveying and engineering professional services : a framework for progression." Thesis, University of Salford, 2015. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/37026/.
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This research provides a significant and original contribution to knowledge, theory, the English local government, and other sectors. A robust examination of four outsourcing projects provides an important contribution to knowledge. The use of personal construct theory during the case study phase provides an original contribution to theory. The research and resulting framework provides beneficence to clients, suppliers, users, and researchers with a sourcing interest at both academic and practical levels. The literature suggested that cost, quality, and speed are the key drivers of sourcing. However, all three were rarely attained together. The literature also identified the importance of understanding the nature of the client / vendor relationship at operational and strategic levels, and the contingent preparation of a turnback / exit strategy. The research incorporated a mixed methods approach. The initial phase of the research employed a survey to contextualise the nature of sourcing within the local government sector. The survey was undertaken from an objectivist position. The results from the first phase indicated that facilities management was amongst the most popular services outsourced. The main driving factors were cost saving, improvements to operational capacity, and access to skills and technology. The popular contract values were up to £5m, and greater than £20m with contract durations 3 – 5 years and 10 plus years. The second phase of the research used a case study strategy that incorporated interview tactics from an interpretivist position. To observe the ‘truth of their reality’ personal construct theory incorporating repertory grids was used to elicit constructs from the participants, and ultimately inform the framework. The main issues arising from the case studies included: lack of client / supplier trust, contractual restrictions, performance monitoring, over promising and under delivering. The framework was synthesised from the key issues identified within the research modes of enquiry.
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Miller, Jonson William. "Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29135.
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The founders and officers of the Virginia Military Institute, one of the few American engineering schools in the antebellum period, embedded a particular engineering culture into the curriculum and discipline of the school. This occurred, in some cases, as a consequence of struggles by the elite of western Virginia to gain a greater share of political power in the commonwealth and by the officers of VMI for authority within the field of higher education. In other cases, the engineering culture was crafted as a deliberate strategy within the above struggles. Among the features embedded was the key feature of requiring the subordination of one’s own local and individual interests and identities (class, regional, denominational, etc.) to the service of the commonwealth and nation. This particular articulation of service meant the performance of “practical” and “useful” work of internal improvements for the development and defense of the commonwealth and the nation. The students learned and were to employ an engineering knowledge derived from fundamental physical and mathematical principles, as opposed to a craft knowledge learned on the job. To carry out such work and to even develop the capacity to subordinate their own interests, the cadets were disciplined into certain necessary traits, including moral character, industriousness, selfrestraint, self-discipline, and subordination to authority. To be an engineer was to be a particular kind of man. The above traits were predicated upon the engineers being white men, who, in a new “imagined fraternity” of equal white men, were innately independent, in contrast to white women and blacks, who were innately dependent. Having acquired a mathematically-intensive engineering education and the character necessary to perform engineering work, the graduates of VMI who became engineers were to enter their field as middle-class professionals who could claim an objective knowledge and a disinterested service to the commonwealth and nation, rather than to just their own career aspirations.Ph. D.
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He, William, and Josef Kahn. "Varför lämnar man fastighetsmäklaryrket? : En studie om varför tidigare mäklarstudenter lämnar yrket och vad de gör idag." Thesis, KTH, Fastighetsföretagande och finansiella system, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296617.
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Bakgrund: Fastighetsmäklare är en yrkesroll som förmedlar fastighetstjänster. Som en registrerad fastighetsmäklare är innehas behörig till att förmedla kommersiella lokaler, bostadsrätter, villor och tomträtter. För att bli en registrerad fastighetsmäklare i Sverige krävs en utbildning inom fastigheter om två till tre år samt en praktik på tio veckor. Problemet som den här studien kommer se mer specifikt på är faktumet att det är fastighetsmäklare som väljer att lämna sitt yrke och göra någonting annat, detta trots den tid och ansträngning som krävs för att bli en. Syfte: Syftet med detta arbete är att kartlägga och utforska vad Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan examinerade studenter inom programmet Fastighetsutveckling med Fastighetsförmedling gör efter examen, om de är fastighetsmäklare i dagsläget eller om de valt att ta en annan riktning. Denna kartläggning görs genom att undersöka dess bakomliggande faktorer. Metod: Med hjälp av intervjuer har kunskap inom de centrala begreppen bearbetats. Dessa intervjuer har gjorts med examinerade studenter från Kungliga Tekniska högskolan. Teori: Trots att vägen till att bli registrerad fastighetsmäklare är lång och svår tenderar många att lämna tanken om att bli en fastighetsmäklare efter examen. Eventuella orsaker kan vara provisionen eller ohälsa. Analys: Genom att jämföra teorierna och intervjuerna, om varför en viss person tenderar att lämna yrket som fastighetsmäklare, fann vi att det är mer än provision och ohälsa som är skälen. Uppenbarligen finns det skäl som föräldraledighet, arbetstider och person job fit. Resultat och slutsats: Som ett resultat fann vi att anledningarna till varför en student lämnar fastighetsmäklaryrket beror främst på provision, ohälsa, föräldraledighet, arbetstid och person job fit. Det är mestadels en kombination av alla dessa snarare än enbart en enstaka. Även om studenten för närvarande inte är en fastighetsmäklare, arbetar denne fortfarande inom fastighets- och finansområdet. Sammanfattningsvis anser vi att det till största del beror på att skolan och fastighetsmäklarens respektive kontor inte förbereder studenten tillräckligt för yrket.Background: Real estate agents are people who provide real estate services. As a registered real estate agent you can mediate commercial facilities, condominiums, houses and land. To become a real estate agent in Sweden it requires an education within real estates that runs two to three years. The problem that this study is going to look more into is the fact that there are real estate agents who quit their jobs and do something else, regardless of the time and effort they have put into becoming one. Aim: The purpose of this work is to map and explore what the Royal Institute of Technology students in the program of Real Estate and Agency do after graduation, if they are Real Estate Brokers at present or if they have chosen to take a different path. This mapping is done by examining its underlying factors. Method: With help from conducted interviews knowledge has been gained within the central themes of the study. This has been made by graduates from the Royal Institute of Technology. Theory: Even though the path to become a registered real estate broker is long and hard, many people tend to leave the idea of becoming a real estate broker after graduation. The reasons might be the commission or ill health. Analysis: By comparing the theories and the interviews made, of why a certain person tends to leave the profession -real estate broker. We found that it is more than just commission and ill health as reasons, apparently, there are reasons such as parental leave, worktime, person job fit. Result and Conclusion: As a result, we found that the reasons why a student leaves the profession - real estate broker is mainly because of commission, ill health, parental leave, work times, and person job fit. It is mostly a combination of all these rather than one alone. And even if the student is currently not a real estate broker, he/she is still working in the area of real estate and finance. In conclusion, we think it mostly is because the school and the respective office of the real estate broker are not preparing the student enough for the profession.
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Chiang, Yan-Nan. "Occupational commitment under conditions of social change : the case of professional marine engineering in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2200.
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The thesis is concerned with investigating the area of occupational commitment to marine engineering of students from various levels of higher education in maritime institutions. From a general description of socioeconomic change and its relationship to the seafaring profession, the study focuses on the case of Taiwan. A review of literature on commitment demonstrates that commitment may vary as the social-economy changes over time. As technology changes, ships' officers, more specifically marine engineers, are required by shipowners to be educated to degree level. The emphasis in this study is upon the commitment to the shipping industry of young engineering students at university. The theoretical model established takes individual intentions, willingness to study, and occupational commitment, as the dependent variables while students' demographic backgrounds, personal needs and values are taken as the independent variables. The theoretical model is tested with the aid of data from questionnaires administered to a sample of engineering students from various levels of academic institutions. The SPSS statistical package, including factor analysis and chi-squares, is employed on the data analysis. One result is that traditional Chinese cultural values, including "studying is superior to all other professions", and the current entrance examination system for Taiwanese universities, predominate in students "willingness to study", which in turn, affects the occupational commitment of engineering students. Another result shows that the "willingness to study" of students in seafaring-oriented departments is not related to their "occupational commitment". Marine Engineering at sea is not perceived as being able to satisfy the higher level needs of graduates. To overcome this disparity, the job characteristics of ships' engineer officers need redesigning to create a more challenging work context for graduate marine engineers. If, for whatever the reason, the job of the seagoing marine engineer cannot be redesigned to satisfy graduate engineers then the only alternative is to recruit non-graduate seagoing engineers from five year junior colleges.
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Nave, Amy Lynn Hermundstad. "All in a Day's Work: Women Engineering Students' Professional Development in a Living-Learning Community." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84934.
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The engineering profession requires engineers who have not only deep technical
knowledge but also broad professional competencies necessary to address complex
challenges that impact individuals and communities. While engineering students often
develop necessary technical competencies during their undergraduate education,
professional competencies are often lacking in graduates. This lack of professional
development can lead to graduates who are not prepared for the engineering profession
and lead to fewer people, particularly individuals from groups historically
underrepresented in engineering such as women, entering and continuing in these fields.
Due to the rigidity of the engineering curriculum, out-of-class experiences, such as
living-learning communities (LLCs), have become important sites for this professional
development and can help women explore engineering and learn professional
competencies. However, little is known about how these programs support students,
particularly in regard to professional development. To further our understanding of these
programs, a phenomenographic study was conducted to explore the experiences of 20
students who participated in an LLC for women in engineering. This study examined
women's views of professional development in engineering and the experiences within
the LLC that could support this development. Following an iterative analysis of
interviews, two models were developed: the PD2 Model captures women's views of the
professional competencies relevant in engineering; and the LEEPD Model captures
features of beneficial professional development experiences within the LLC.
Combined, these models serve as useful resources for creating beneficial experiences to
support women's professional development in engineering education contexts. The PD2
Model can help educators intentionally identify outcomes of professional experiences,
and the LEEPD Model can help in the design of a variety of experiences that are
beneficial for students.Ph. D.
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Korhonen, Kaisu. "Intercultural competence as part of professional qualifications : a training experiment with Bachelor of Engineering students /." Jyväskylä : University of Jyväskylä, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/21572.
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Martelli, Edmund R. "Intricacies of Professional Certifications for Quality Management (QM)." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/180.
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The modern manufacturing marketplace is extremely complex and constantly changing. Career professionals often seek job placement, career advancement, and continuing education through professional certifications. Professional certifications in the United States (U.S.) have been evolving since 1911. In the 1950s, engineering groups established professional certifications and licenses. In the 1980s, administration of accreditation of certification programs proliferated, and by the 1990s, many government and professional organizations sought to standardize procedures for the industry. Currently, professional certifications are available for virtually every profession and issued by multitudes of organizations.
Quality management (QM) encompasses an extensive combination ofprofessional abilities. Providers of professional certifications for quality management (QM) related occupations have increased as the demand for specialized employees increased. Certification can make professionals invaluable to their professions and offer substantial compensation. Return on the investment of personal development varies and requires consideration. Some non-accredited certification providers attempt to satisfy demand without conforming to consensual standards. Considering the accumulation of diverse sources professional certifications is subjective and industrial managers may consider them unnecessary, redundant of formal educations, or simply ineffective.
The dispute as to how certifications arr advantageous for what industries and individuals requires continual review. This investigation attempted to identify the individual career advantages, enterprise expectations, and the range of certification programs for quality management (QM).
The design of research used was a mixed-method approach to scientific inquiry. Participants from industrial professionals and certification providers participated in an online survey designed to identify certification parameters and perceptions.
Survey responses were statistically analyzed using a variety of descriptive and inferential techniques. The techniques included measures of agreement, central tendency, and dispersion combined with open-ended responses to deductively and inductively formulate, analyze, and interpret a referenced conclusion.
The results indicated essential parameters of professional certifications including what certifications existed, how they are implemented, acquired value ranges, perceived attributes and effectiveness, and a comparison of experienced and certified professionals.
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Sumell, Albert J. "The role of amenities in the location decisions of Ph. D. recipients in science and engineering." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12142005-143519/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005.Title from title screen. Laura O. Taylor, committee chair; Paula E. Stephan, Paul M. Jakus, Erdal Tekin, committee members. Electronic text (170 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 24, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-169).
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Condron, Linda S. "Tales of women in science and technology : how women computer scientists in engineering environments experience their professions /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794815862573.
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Andersson, Angelica, and Charlotta Chindeh. "“Det är en livsstil” : En kvalitativ studie om universitetslärares psykosociala arbetsmiljö." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-21388.
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Lärare inom högre utbildning är av tradition en fri profession med hög autonomi vars arbetsmiljö präglas av ett gränslöst arbete. Denna studie undersöker universitetslärares psykosociala arbetsmiljö inom högre utbildning. Vårt fokus ligger på arbetsmiljöfaktorer som gränslöst arbete, egenkontroll, arbetsbelastning och flexibla arbetsvillkor. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av åtta stycken lärare inom högre utbildning med titlarna universitetsadjunkt och universitetslektor. En kvalitativ ansats har använts i denna studie och intervjuerna har varit av semisturkturerad karaktär. Teorier som utgår ifrån krav-kontroll-stöd, gränsdragningsstrategier och ett professionsperspektiv har tillsammans med tidigare forskning använts för att förklara respondenternas upplevelse av deras psykosociala arbetsmiljö inom valda områden som berör arbetsmiljöfaktorer. Studien visar att det gränslösa arbetet och de flexibla arbetsvillkoren underlättar respondenternas vardag i form av att kunna styra över när, var och hur arbetet ska genomföras. Dessa flexibla arbetsvillkor och det gränslösa arbetet medför dock en svårdefinierad gränsdragning mellan arbete och fritid. Universitetslärarnas arbetssituation präglas av en låg grad av återhämtning, hårt tidsstyrda ramar att förhålla sig till, en hög arbetsbelastning och höga krav. En annan aspekt som utmärker resultatet är att respondenterna även på sin fritid tenderar att vara tillgängliga när kollegor och studenter söker dem. Samtliga av dessa faktorer bidrar till att respondenterna inte upplever att tiden som finns till förfogande räcker till utan att det finns ett behov av att arbeta mer än den tid som formellt sett är avsatt för arbetet. Det vilar därför ett stort ansvar på individens egen förmåga att hantera deras arbetssituation och kunna dra en gräns mellan arbete och fritid. Det går därför utifrån resultatet att utläsa brister från arbetsgivarens sida i förhållande till arbetsmiljöverkets organisatoriska och sociala föreskrifter. Det framkommer även att graden av egenkontroll över arbetet har minskat på grund av nya styrformer inspirerade av New public management. Det har inneburit att universiteten är konkurrensutsatta och det finns ett behov av att anpassa sig efter studenternas efterfrågan. Även ett flertal reformer som bland annat autonomireformen har inneburit en avprofessionalisering för professionen i stort där linjestyrning får en allt mer utmärkande roll. Det innebär att lärare inom högre utbildning får allt mindre att säga till om i de frågor som rör kärnverksamheten.
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Powell, Abigail Social Policy Research Centre Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The (Un) Balancing Act: The impact of culture on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities." Awarded by:Loughborough University, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40097.
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This thesis examines the impact of the engineering culture on women engineering students??? gendered and professional identities. It is simultaneously focused on exploring how identity shapes, and is shaped by, women???s experiences of the engineering culture and, the relationship between gendered and professional identities. The research is set within the context of existing research on women in engineering, much of which has focused either on women???s experiences in industry or experiences of staff in academia, failing to recognise the importance of higher education (HE) as a gatekeeper to the engineering professions. Furthermore, despite numerous initiatives aimed at increasing the percentage of women entering engineering, the proportion of women studying engineering has remained stable, around fifteen percent, for the last few years. The research is grounded in an interpretivist approach, although it adopts a multimethod research design. Specifically it draws upon qualitative interviews with 43 women and 18 men engineering students, a questionnaire with responses from 656 engineering undergraduates and two focus groups with 13 women engineering students from seven departments at one university. These datasets are analysed with the aid of NVivo and SPSS to explore women engineering students??? career choices; women???s experiences of the HE engineering culture; the relationship between engineering education culture and women???s identities; whether there are cultural nuances between engineering disciplines; and, implications for strategies to attract and retain more women in engineering. Key findings from the research are that women and men make career choices based on similar factors, including the influence of socialisers, knowledge of the engineering professions, skills, ability and attributes, and career rewards. However, the extent to which each of this factors are important is gendered. The research also highlights key characteristics of the HE engineering culture, including competition, camaraderie, gendered humour, intensity, more theoretical than practical, help and support for women students and reinforcement of gender binaries. These findings all suggest that women are assimilated into the engineering culture or, at least, develop coping mechanisms for surviving in the existing culture. These strategies reveal a complex and difficult balancing act between being a woman and being an engineer by claiming a rightful place as an engineer, denying gendered experiences and becoming critical of other women. The research also tackles two key issues, rarely discussed in the extant literature. Firstly the help and support women students receive from lecturers and other staff, and the negative impact this has, and may continue to have, on women. Secondly, the analysis of discipline differences shows that design and technology is significantly different from other engineering disciplines in terms of culture(s) and women???s experiences. The thesis concludes that women???s enculturation into engineering results in their ???doing gender??? in a particular way. This means that women???s implicit and explicit devaluing and rejection of femaleness, fails to challenge the gendered cultures of engineering and, in many ways, upholds an environment which is hostile to women.
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Powell, Abigail. "The (un)balancing act : the impact of culture on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/4833.
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This thesis examines the impact of engineering cultures on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities. It is simultaneously focused on exploring how identity shapes, and is shaped by, women's experiences of engineering cultures and the relationship between gendered and professional identities. The research is set within the context of existing research on women in engineering, much of which has focused either on women's experiences in industry or experiences of staff in academia, which does not acknowledge the importance of higher education (HE) as a gatekeeper to the engineering professions. Furthermore, despite numerous initiatives aimed at increasing the percentage of women entering engineering, the proportion of women studying engineering has remained stable, around fifteen percent, for the last few years. The research is grounded in an interpretivist approach, although it adopts a multimethod research design. Specifically it draws upon qualitative interviews with 43 women and 18 men engineering students, a questionnaire with responses from 656 engineering undergraduates and two focus groups with 13 women engineering students from seven departments at one university. These datasets are analysed with the aid of NVivo and SPSS to explore women engineering students' career choices; women's experiences of the HE engineering culture; the relationship between engineering education culture and women's identities; whether there are cultural nuances between engineering disciplines; and, implications for strategies to attract and retain more women in engineering. Key findings from the research are that women and men make career choices based on similar factors, including the influence of socialisers, knowledge of the engineering professions, skills, ability and attributes, and career rewards. However, the extent to which each of these factors are important is gendered. The research also highlights key characteristics of the HE engineering culture, including competition, camaraderie, gendered humour, intensity, more theoretical than practical, help and support for women students and reinforcement of gender binaries. These findings all suggest that women are assimilated into the engineering culture or, at least, develop coping mechanisms for surviving in the existing culture. These strategies reveal a complex and difficult balancing act between being a woman and being an engineer, in claiming a rightful place as an engineer, denying gendered experiences and becoming critical of other women. The research also tackles two key issues, rarely discussed in the extant literature. Firstly the help and support women students receive from lecturers and other staff, and the negative impact this has, and may continue to have, on women. Secondly, the analysis of discipline differences shows that design and technology is significantly different from other engineering disciplines in terms of culture(s) and women's experiences. The thesis concludes that women's enculturation into engineering results in their ‘doing gender' in a particular way. This means that women's implicit and explicit devaluing and rejection of femaleness, fails to challenge the gendered cultures of engineering and, in many ways, upholds an environment which is hostile to women.
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Seliman, Salbiah. "The genre and the genre expectations of engineering oral presentations related to academic and professional contexts." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1778.
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This research was done to find out if engineering oral presentations (EOPs) are a genre, if there are systematic differences between EOPs delivered by native speakers (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) of English, if there are systematic differences between EOPs delivered by novices and experts and, if the engineering discourse community (DC) members have beliefs concerning what constitute 'good' EOPs. One engineering seminar and four engineering conferences carried out in Malaysia and the UK between March and September 1994 were participated. From this participant observation exercise, 100 questionnaires were gathered and responses analysed; sixty-eight EOPs delivered by NSs and NNSs were transcribed and analysed using Genre Analysis frameworks. Results from the analysis of EOPs were counterchecked with the responses in the questionnaires. It was found that EOPs did have describable characteristics which qualify them as a genre; There were few differences between EOPs delivered by NSs and NNSs of English because the latter tend to follow the former; There were describable differences between EOPs delivered by experts and novices. The engineering DC members did have their genre expectations but not all of their beliefs concerning what constitute 'good' EOPs were possible to materialise in actual occasions because of certain unavoidable constraints. These constraints were found to be affecting the variants of the genre more than the invariants. These variant-invariant elements were found to be related to the characteristics of exemplars, prototypes, prestige markers and the patterns of imitations of NNSs and novices of the engineering DC members. 'Ecological validity' was pointed out to be one of the ways of achieving the reliability and the validity of the research. Potential teaching implications were also discussed. Unavoidable limitations of the research were pointed out and finally immediate and longer term research projects have been identified.
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Oshoniyi, Oluwaseun Abodunrin. "Perceptions of scarce skills in the department of Infrastructure and Engineering : Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019843.
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The scarcity of skills is a global phenomenon, affecting the capacity building, economic growth and development components of all nations. The African continent has been affected by skills shortages, emanating from certain socio-economic factors. This resulted in the ‘brain drain’, emigration and absorption of skilled talent to developed countries, in search of a better standard of living and employment opportunities. The issue of scarce skills in South Africa was identified by the Government in 2006, due to an identified shortage of expertise and proficiencies, required to fill numerous vacant positions within the local government to meet service delivery needs. The identification of skills shortages led to the formulation of macro-economic policies to address the issue of scarce skills and the identification of the most affected professions, which included, inter alia, engineers; technicians; project managers; and architects. Despite the implementation of these policies, underlying factors compound the issue, complicating and limiting remedial efforts. The South African Government is faced with the challenge of providing quality basic services for the public, especially at the local level. The country has since 2010 experienced multiple incidents of service delivery protests, predominantly in the under-developed communities. The Eastern Cape is no exception, as the Nelson Mandela Bay area has experienced protests, concerning poor service delivery, primarily in Walmer Township. The provision of basic services, are of dire necessity to the communities, as the Eastern Cape is one of the poorest provinces in South Africa. The educational system at primary and secondary levels is faced with challenges in the Eastern Cape province. These challenges are the shortage of teachers; poor infrastructure; and teacher absenteeism. This compounds the issue of scarce skills acquisition and development; the volume of skilled, expert and proficient talent available to the municipality, to fill in vacancies, gaps and areas with shortfalls and deficits within the entity, is reduced and minimal, underscoring the depth of the entrenchment of this scarcity of skills issue. The primary focus of the study is to expose the factors contributing to skills shortages and the implications, apropos service delivery, from the municipal workers’ perceptions. The study highlights and describes the factors affecting scarce skills acquisition and development in South Africa, along with providing a background of the Eastern Cape and demonstrating that the shortage of skills, within the Infrastructure and Engineering Department of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, has an impact on the production, efficacy and efficiency of services for communities. The study also emphasises the essentiality of quality leadership and management within the organisation, a pivotal aspect in ensuring the municipality performs at optimal level, meeting organisational goals. This is a critical issue, as the study revealed that sound management and leadership is lacking within the municipality, affecting quality of the service delivery output. The findings of this study further revealed that adequate training and development is lacking in the municipality. This is hampering skills development, outstandingly with regard to technical skills talents, as their training needs are not met.
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Douglas, Cameron (Cameron David). "Luck and skill in professional League of Legends (E-sports)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119960.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).
As professional gaming (e-sports) develops a greater global infrastructure, it will be critical to create league systems in which skill and luck balance to create competitive, exciting, and fair environments. This study uses the most developed e-sport leagues, found in the game League of Legends (LoL), to examine early efforts at crafting such environments. The use of "winning persistence" and Bayesian statistical analyses reveal that best-of-one matches in LoL demonstrate an overall luck-skill ratio similar to professional baseball (MLB) and football (NFL). Best-of-three matches exhibit an understandably higher ratio of skill, similar to professional basketball (NBA). With both match lengths exhibiting viable but significantly different luck-skill ratios, LoL creator, Riot Games has the tools to control how much luck and skill exist in their matches and leagues, setting an important precedent for future leagues and organizations.
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Rizk, Roy, and Shahin Farshchi. "Vem är planeraren? : En enkätstudie om studerande på stadsplaneringpå grundnivå på KTH, med examensår på avancerad nivå från 2008 till 2017." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231297.
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I takt med att komplexiteten av samhälls- och stadsplaneringen har ökat, har även planerarens rollbeskrivning utvecklats och diversifierats. Politisering av planeringen har beskyllts orsakaatt kompetenser inom planering inte tas tillvara på samt för att osäkerhet spridits inomprofessionen. Utvecklingen verkar dock inte ge utrymme för lösningar av exempelvis dennaproblembeskrivning genom förändringar av professionen på institutionella eller kulturellanivåer. Detta eftersom att bredare kompetensbehov och rollbeskrivningar samt flerinvolverade aktörer komplexifierar nätverken som förbinder planerarna. Vidare försvårarkomplexiteten konkreta definitioner av planerarrollen. Så undersökningar om planerare kanmotiveras av att det underlaget bättre kan avhjälpa analysering om professionens möjligautveckling. Möjligen kan även professionens identitet förändras vid utbildning av nyaplanerare och då blir kunskap om de som söker sig till utbildningarna grundläggande.Syftet med detta arbete har varit att undersöka vem planeraren är, avgränsat tillsamhällsplaneraren från KTH för att svara på hur planerarens bakgrund och intressen kandefiniera samhällsplanerarna som grupp. Utbildningens relevans för samhälls- ochstadsplanering har även det undersökts och den undersökta gruppens relation till planering harbeaktats.I arbetet har en enkät konstruerats för att samla in information om planerarna från KTH.Frågorna i enkäten gav svar som kopplade till frågeställningarna för syftet. Analys avresultatet från enkäten gjordes även för att se hur olika faktorer relaterar till varandra.Ämnesområdena hållbarhet, sociala frågor, engagemang och värderingar har varit av särskiltintresse.Slutsatserna var de att det går att finna några faktorer som troligtvis påverkar vilka somstuderar till planerare på KTH, att planerarnas intressen som relaterar till planering omfattarmycket och att de undersökta intressena inte i stor grad verkar ligga till grund för bland annatvad de arbetar med, samt att utbildningen ger goda arbetsmöjligheter för nästan samtliga somgått den.With the increase of complexity in urban planning, changes in and diversification of theplanner’s role have also taken place. Politicization has been blamed for the neglection of theplanners’ competencies and for causing uncertainty amongst professionals. The developmentseems not to allow for resolvement of this problem as an example, by changes in theprofession on institutional or cultural levels. This since wider needs for competence anddescriptions of the planner’s role together with more parties being involved in planningfurther complicates the networks that connect planning professionals. Complexity also makesthe role of the planner harder to define and therefore research concerning planners can bemotivated as it might, better than further observations of the role of the planner, aid inanalyzing the possible development of the profession. Perhaps the identity of the planners canbe changed with the education of new professionals and that would also further the need forknowledge of those studying planning.The aim of the study has been to investigate who the planner is, delimited to the urban plannerfrom KTH, to give an answer to how the background and the interests of the planner candefine the urban planners as a group. The relevance of the education to urban planning and therespondents’ relation to planning have also been taken into account.A survey was sent out to gather information about the planners from KTH. Results from thequestionnaire mapped to the objectives of the aim of the study and the analysis was made toalso show how different factors relate to each other. The topics of sustainability, social issues,commitment and values were of particular interest.The conclusions where that some factors probably affects who studies urban planning atKTH, that the planners’ interests are many and that they don’t seem to be determining forwhat their occupations are and more, and that the education at KTH gives good workopportunities to almost everyone that has studied there.
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Minichiello, Angela L. "Towards Alternative Pathways: Nontraditional Student Success in a Distance-delivered, Undergraduate Engineering Transfer Program." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4950.
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Today, postsecondary engineering education stands perched on the edge of transformation. A precursor to impending change is national recognition that nontraditional students—adults and working students with socioeconomic backgrounds not currently well-represented in engineering education—possess untapped potential to improve the diversity as well as increase the size of the U.S. engineering workforce. To support nontraditional student participation in engineering, a qualitative investigation was undertaken to examine the ways in which nontraditional engineering undergraduates defined and experienced success during their engineering education. It is thought that, through a deeper, richer understanding of the ways in which the nontraditional engineering undergraduates overcome barriers and experience success, newer, more impactful alternative pathways that assist nontraditional students in becoming part of the engineering profession can be envisioned and developed.
During this study, 14 nontraditional student participants were purposefully sampled from the population of undergraduates who participated in a distance-delivered, alternative engineering transfer program offered at a western, land-grant, public university between 2009-2015. Qualitative data from in-depth interviews were used to co-develop life history–style narratives for each of the participants. Completed narratives chronologically ordered and richly described the participants’ experiences leading up to, happening during, and occurring after their engineering education. Narrative analysis revealed that the nontraditional student participants viewed their own educational success contextually, relationally, and in terms of their long-term goals for social mobility through engineering careers. Additionally, the distance-delivered alternative engineering transfer program was seen to promote their educational success in three ways: a) working to promote long-range career goals through job market signaling, b) enabling academic bootstrapping in an adult learning environment, and c) maintaining connection to community-based support through place. Recommendations for engineering programs that seek to broaden nontraditional student participation are offered.
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Botha, Danie Van Rensburg. "Total quality management in the civil engineering consultancy industry in South Africa / Danie Van Rensburg Botha." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8649.
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Consulting Engineers worldwide, and in South Africa, render a professional service to clients consisting of project feasibility studies, planning reports, design, documentation and construction monitoring for infrastructure projects.
In rendering this service, consulting engineers are subject to certain project risks that can have a huge influence on their company’s success and hence their profitability. Quality Management is an instrument through which the risks associated with consulting engineering can be mitigated to a certain degree, if a Quality Management System (QMS) is successfully introduced and continuously managed.
The QMS must conform to the requirements of a recognized system like the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and in this particular case ISO 9001, which is a model for quality assurance systems in design, development, production, installation and servicing. The quality system requirements of ISO 9001 are aimed at preventing nonconformity at all phases of the product life cycle from design and/or development to servicing.
The study was carried out by obtaining a convenience sample of qualitative questionnaires among professional civil engineers in consulting management positions, testing their experience of a QMS. This study has indicated that a QMS can only be successful in a company if the users have a positive attitude towards the system, and if they believe in the benefits thereof. It is therefore required that the system be launched and maintained in a user-friendly manner, with the emphasis on real risk-reducing aspects. As one of the requirements of ISO 9001 is continuous improvement of the system, recommendations are made in this study towards improving the QMS of the particular company.
The influence of a QMS on the frequency and extent of Professional Indemnity cases against a company was investigated and reported on by studying 20 case studies of projects that have experienced difficulties, and have resulted in lawsuits against the consulting engineer.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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Arafah, Micah Maranda. "But What Does This Have To Do With Science? Building the Case for Engineering in K-12." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1307470279.
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Hyland, Robert Matthew. "The professional first degree : sites of struggle: two cases in context." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297493.
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