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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Tackling the Engineering Resources Shortage
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Tackling the Engineering Resources Shortage
Author: Scoping Our Future
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Languages : en
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In 2010, Australian skills shortages in engineering were highlighted as a key constraint on a resources-led economic recovery, with the National Resources Sector Employment Taskforce hearing industry's concerns of a major labour market shortfall. Skills Australia has also designated engineering as a skillset requiring structured workforce development interventions to ensure that community need is met, particularly around climate change infrastructure adaptation. Engineers are globally in short supply, with Australian higher education providers producing only around half of the graduates needed to fill domestic demand, and in this environment systemic cultural issues, low numbers of women in education and in the workforce and an aging workforce have produced widespread issues with retention and sustainability. This paper surveys the available information about the scope of this skills crisis and highlights areas where action and research are needed. [Introduction, ed]
Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems
Author: David H. JonassenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351560581
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Problem solving is implicit in the very nature of all science, and virtually all scientists are hired, retained, and rewarded for solving problems. Although the need for skilled problem solvers has never been greater, there is a growing disconnect between the need for problem solvers and the educational capacity to prepare them. Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems is an immensely useful read offering the insights of cognitive scientists, engineers and science educators who explain methods for helping students solve the complexities of everyday, scientific problems. Important features of this volume include discussions on: *how problems are represented by the problem solvers and how perception, attention, memory, and various forms of reasoning impact the management of information and the search for solutions; *how academics have applied lessons from cognitive science to better prepare students to solve complex scientific problems; *gender issues in science and engineering classrooms; and *questions to guide future problem-solving research. The innovative methods explored in this practical volume will be of significant value to science and engineering educators and researchers, as well as to instructional designers.
The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program
Author: Caroline D’AmoursPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031540859
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Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Women's Studies Quarterly
Author: Lee QuinbyPublisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558612792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A timely and vital issue of this leading journal examines the impact of new technologies on the lives of women.
Proceedings
Author: Balancing the Equation
Author: National Council for Research on Women (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Women engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Comprises a series of reports which explore progress made in promoting the recruitment of women and girls into the sciences, engineering and technology mainly from the 1970s to 2000. Identifies future challenges and makes recommendations for enhancing women's and girls' possibilities in the sciences.
The Global Engineers
Author: Evan ThomasPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030502635
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity. This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural and historical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and improving lives. Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.
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