A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the frequencies and characteristics of occupational exposures among medical and nursing students at a Brazilian public university, in addition to their prevention and post-exposure behavior. During the second semester of 2010, a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire was completed by 253/320 (79.1%) medical students of the clinical course...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The quality of the teaching-learning process at the universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad depends mainly of infrastructure that includes an optimal teaching space, personnel and equipment, in accordance with existing standards and norms. For the assessment of teaching at the faculties, the opinion of students is very important (4, 5...

Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that provides employers and clients with competent technical advice to a profession that serves the community in a socially responsible manner. Traditional engineering education caters to the former ideal, whereas increasingly both engineers themselves and their professional societies aspire to the latter. Employers...

This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries between 2007 and 2009. Exploiting comparable international data improves the estimation of the production technology, allows to assess the distance of individual countries to the global frontier and enables ...

The rapid change in teaching of engineering drawing using computer aided design (CAD) technology makes a tremendous change on the staff/students in teaching/understanding engineering drawing in technical institutions. Mastering CAD technology has become order of the day for staff/students especially in technical institutions. CAD course have become a compulsory subject in many technical univers...

Web Course Tools (WebCT) have enhanced the ability and motivation of institutes of higher education to support e-learning. In this study, we extended the Technology Acceptance Model to include technical support as a precursor and then investigated the role of the extended model in user acceptance of WebCT. Responses from 836 university students were used to test the proposed structural model. T...

Instructors typically communicate technical concepts to information systems (IS) students via lectures and textbooks. In some cases, instructors supplement this traditional approach with written case studies and projects. In this tutorial, we present a non-traditional approach that could be used to communicate technical, as well as non-technical, concepts to IS students – use of multimedia inst...

Teaching software engineering in an applied setting with projects provided by clients from industry creates a realworld learning experience for students. While clients are domain experts well-aware of the system’s requirements, they often lack technical knowledge required to make decisions regarding the system architecture or the technologies involved in the project. Therefore, it is challengin...

In usability research it is a common practice to take young and healthy university students as participants for usability evaluations. This chapter focuses on the “weaker” mobile phone users, which have been mostly disregarded in this field: Learning-disabled children. Their interaction with mobile phones is compared to that of average children and students. Results show that the consideration ...

1 Harvey F. Hoffman, Technical Career Institutes, 320 West 31 Street, New York, NY 10001 [email protected] Abstract Using a qualitative research methodology, this study explored reasons nontraditional students selected and entered an engineering program of study leading to a baccalaureate degree and then withdrew before graduation. The study focused on career oriented adult learners involved ...