Framed within the ongoing criticisms of MBA education and within the context of curriculum development, we explore our own learning in the design process and early delivery of a stage 1 module for a distance learning MBA programme. We use reflective dialogue to explore emerging issues of academic expertise, collaborative working and practice-based learning in both our own practice as educators ...

We proposed a family process model that links family financial resources to academic competence and socioemotional adjustment during early adolescence. The sample included 90 9-12-year old African-American youths and their married parents who lived in the rural South. The theoretical constructs in the model were measured via a multimethod, multi-informant design. Rural African-American communit...

Designing a systems engineering curriculum is a complex process, not in the least because it involves a variety of academic professionals whose perceptions and interests rarely concur from the onset. The variety in stakeholders breeds variety not only in values and objectives, but also in supposed—and mostly tacit—views of an educational system. In such an ambiguous design context, models serve...

Several studies have identified usability problems with CPOE. We performed a heuristic evaluation of a CPOE technology implemented in an academic hospital. User interface design features of this CPOE technology were evaluated against a variety of widely accepted usability heuristics and user interface design guidelines. The severity of the problems and redesign priority for each problem were al...

Every information visualization developer is engaged in a complex process of design – balancing the three requirements of utility, soundness and attractiveness within given constraints. This paper investigates the oftoverlooked requirement of attractiveness (or ‘aesthetics’) in visualization, and, in doing so, discusses a wider role for the design process which emphasizes the benefits of dissem...

introduction. the capability of the academic staff in teaching has a significant relationship with their awareness of educational process and curriculum. taking the necessity of the curriculum and precise implementation of its parts as a system into account, reveals the academic staff’s thinking system and educational process. education experts believe that the university student is the center ...

The Design of complex integrated systems faces a growing number of challenges from two frontiers. First, the increasing unpredictability of the progressing semiconductor manufacturing process requires new analysis and optimization approaches that utilize comprehensive modeling of process uncertainties for driving a novel, variation-aware design optimization flow. Second, the increasing system c...

260 What is the minimum amount of carbon dioxide that a process can produce? This may seem like a trivial question but it is not a question usually asked when processes are being designed. In many cases, there is a lack of a quantitative description of what is the highest efficiency, least amount of energy, or lowest amount of carbon dioxide that can be achieved for a particular process, i.e., ...

This paper addresses culturally rooted factors within web design and how their theoretical study must affect the design process. We describe and relate theories that have developed over a period of 20 years, traceable in the published literature. We follow the links that connect them in the study of cultural and cognitive aspects in web design and how they finally converge in practical recommen...