What makes a good engineering lecturer? Students\\ put their thoughts in writing

What makes a good teacher? Lessons from teaching medical students.

What Makes a Good Empirical Software Engineering Thesis?: Some Advice

An empirical software engineering (ESE) PhD thesis has some special features, which makes it slightly different from a thesis any other different field. One of the differences between the two is the intensive use of empirical studies in an ESE dissertation. This talk starts by giving students advice on what makes a good ESE PhD thesis in the form of a list of do’s and don’ts. The keynote later ...

What makes a life good?

Two studies examined folk concepts of the good life. Samples of college students (N = 104) and community adults (N = 264) were shown a career survey ostensibly completed by a person rating his or her occupation. After reading the survey, participants judged the desirability and moral goodness of the respondent's life, as a function of the amount of happiness, meaning in life, and wealth experie...

What makes a good prion?

Introduction Although transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been studied for decades, prion biology is still a young discipline. The prion concept has existed for less than a quarter of a century, and the study of fungal prions is barely in its teens. The fascinating idea that a protein can turn into a deadly self-replicating entity attracts neurobiologists, cell biologists, geneticist...

What Makes a Good Footprint?

2. Region approximation [1, 2]. Given a discrete set of points, and for each point whether it lies inside or outside some region of interest, we want to draw a polygon to represent that region. This problem can appear in two guises: (1) the region in question is well-defined, but we either do not know, or do not wish to spare the computational resources to represent, its exact boundary; (2) the...