IMS2019 Student Design Competitions

Student abstracts and poster competitions: encouraging research.

s with numbers that do not begin with the letter designation S were submitted through the AOA Research Conference and were thus published in the August 2010 issue of the JAOA along EDITORIAL Student Abstracts and Poster Competitions: Encouraging Research Joseph K. Prinsen, OMS VI Joseph K. Prinsen is the National Research Director for the Student Osteopathic Medical Association, a member of the...

Ac 2007-216: Independent Student Design Competitions and the Assessment Dilemma

One of the most difficult assessment problems for faculty is student design competitions where only one or maybe two teams participate for independent study. Students are excited and focused on the possibility of winning. The faculty is usually concerned with process and assessment in the context of a project and program not of their design. The issues are multiplied when you combine the proble...

Student Competitions and Bots in an Introductory Programming Course*

An introductory programming course that is both an introduction to the major and a university-wide distribution course can suffer from a large disparity of interest as well as ability. Motivating all students to participate improves outcomes. At St. Lawrence University we have found that competitions are fun and engaging for students while providing a vehicle for both individual and collaborati...

Optimal Mechanism Design with Aftermarket Competitions

This paper examines the revenue maximizing mechanism design with informed entrants in the primary market by taking into consideration that the winning entrant will engage in Cournot competition with an incumbent in the aftermarket. The designer has perfect control in the primary market but imperfect control in the aftermarket. This resembles a mechanism design problem with hidden information, h...

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