The 21st century has brought an increasing demand for expertise in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although strides have been made towards increasing gender diversity in several of these disciplines, engineering remains primarily male dominated. In response, the U.S. educational system has attempted to make engineering curriculum more engaging, informative, and welcoming to g...

This chapter begins by reviewing the history of software engineering as a profession, especially the so-called “software crisis” and responses to it, to help focus on what it is that software engineers do. This leads into a discussion of the areas in software engineering that are problematic, as a basis for considering the knowledge management issues. Some of the previous work on knowledge mana...

There are two main parts to this paper. One, which is purely statistical, documents the number of female students and academics in engineering in Australia in recent years. This shows that the females are a small but growing minority. The second is a discussion of how this imbalance between males and females may affect cultural aspects within engineering education. Because the numbers of women ...

The principle of operant selection is examined as a prototype of cultural selection, and the role of the social environment is suggested as the critical element in the emergence of cultural phenomena. Operant contingencies are compared to cultural selection contingencies, designated as metacontingencies. Both of these types of contingency relations result in evolving lineages of recurrences tha...

Pervasive computing’s historical driver applications include environmental monitoring, safety and security, home and office productivity and guided experience of cultural activities. It also suggests and offers the means to achieve new types of expression in art and entertainment, which has not been a significant area of research despite its cultural and socio-economic importance and unique req...

This article presents a reflection about the way in which recent advances in pedagogy and technology could be harnessed to increase the access to Cultural Heritage. This would happen by using it as a resource for mobile learning in seemingly unrelated areas, such as economics, engineering, science and languages. The ‘long-tail effect’ of such contextualized content driven social interactions wo...

a’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

“occupy wall street” movement which has aimed the heart of the global financial capitalist system enjoys a special significance in the perspective of social-economic- political, human rights (work force), moral and cultural heritage of nations and can be considered as a symbol of work force economic jihad in national and global level in order to realize justice and socio-economic equality. but ...

Productivity management is a challenge for software engineering companies and, in this regard, there is a current trend toward globalization. Via acquisitions and mergers, business has become international and employs different national cultures. Therefore, the focus of this article is on the understanding of cultural differences affecting productivity in globalized software production. The rel...