Engineering and Engaged Scholarship at Penn State Part I: The Rationale

A concern for engaged scholarship

In SJIS volume 20 (2008), Mathiassen and Nielsen analyzed engaged scholarship in Scandinavian IS research. They conclude that the collaborative research practice and tradition for conducting action research projects might be jeopardized by a recent and general tendency to publish in compliance with traditional IS research publication channels: Investing a substantial amount of time in collabora...

The Cartography and Spatial Representation Traditions at Penn State

It is impossible to specify with any precision when the "cartography program" originated at Penn State. From the department's start in 1945, Penn State geography has been rooted in maps and mapping. Maps have been viewed as both an integral part of the research process and the result of research, rather than simply as a summary of research findings. Recent work using spatial adaptive filtering ...

ii THE PENN STATE

Assessing parental beliefs in early childhood is significant because of its ability toproperly understand parenting as an adaptational process along with child development.Sigel and McGillicuddy-De Lisi (2002) stated, “What parents believe about parenting isrelated to their own parenting and to virtually every aspect of children’s developmentalaccomplishments.” The purpose of th...

Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research

‘We’re engaged’: Mechanical engineering and the community

„•–”ƒ…– Mechanical engineering programs, like other professional fields of study, have long been expected to be relevant to the needs of their related industries. In a context like South Africa, university programs are also expected to contribute to the country’s development needs. In an effort to address these new requirements, the coordinator of a mechanical engineering program invited commun...