Education and automation

Commentary: Education for automation

Technological Developments in Education and Automation

This study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, an efficiency model, to measure public schools in Thailand. Data came from 455 public upper secondary schools in Northern Thailand. The results reveal that the schools mostly operate inefficiently. To ascertain the efficiency measures, sensitivity analysis reveals the robustness of the resulting efficiency measures on efficiency....

Editorial: Education and training for laboratory automation

Laboratory automation has become so commonplace over the last few years that it is widely accepted and fully integrated into our university graduate teaching programmes , but is it really? When we started the Journal in 1978, it was clear that few colleges were in fact teaching laboratory automation and that, particularly in the UK, the basic training for our analysts provided little, if any, b...

A Framework for Office Automation Education

An educational framework for Office Automation (OA) education is presented. It is based on the analysis of educational content as a function of enabling factors, architecture, and range of integration of OA. These factors are embedded into an educational framework that relates the level of user involvement with the modes of interface with office systems. Educational goals for each user (involve...

Education for automation—reaching the right people?

Now more than ever instrument companies woo potential customers with the claim that their instruments are the panacea for all analytical problems. Often this claim is associated with the introduction of microprocessor technology. The unsuspecting analyst may find that he has purchased an instrument which is more sophisticated than he needs; he cannot be expected to predict that the instrument w...