This report discusses the developmental stage of a Higher Education Academy (HEA) – Engineering Subject Centre project which concerns the designing of an objective assessment tool to evaluate students' basic electrical engineering skills. The form of assessment is based on the principle of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), which is an assessment method already widely adopted in ...

Direct measurement of radiative fluxes on board ORV Sagar Kanya were made during Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX) phases I & II for a total 120 days. The variation surface heat has been studied in this article. Negative values net flux are predominant the active phase monsoon. incoming short wave radiation is minimum 3 August 2002 and 8 June 2003 association with heavy rainfall. SST 2...

Background Objective-structured teaching encounters (OSTEs) are used across many disciplines to assess teaching ability. The OSTE detailed in this paper assesses 191 fourth-year medical students' (M4) ability to identify and address lapses in professionalism based on Association of American Medical Colleges' professionalism competencies. The research questions addressed are • How frequently do ...

Background and Objectives: Residents are often the primary educators for medical students during their clinical years. Residency training programs therefore responsible providing resident educator training. This, in turn, requires an assessment tool to ensure residents demonstrate knowledge, skills, behaviors required teaching responsibilities. To this end, a rating scale was developed applied ...

This paper presents the development of a novel framework that optimizes the evacuation of large cities using multiple modes including vehicular traffic, rapid transit, and mass transit shuttle buses. A large-scale evacuation model is developed for the evacuation of the City of Toronto in cases of emergency. A demand estimation model is first designed to accurately quantify the evacuation demand...

In China’s most recent round of curriculum reform, the “one situation to end” (OSTE) situational teaching method has been successfully introduced in geography classes improve students’ ability solve problems real-life situations. Taking an agricultural location course as example, this study analyzes implementation and discusses effect OSTE on topic sustainable development geography. Using a qua...

We present a Rubbery, Off-Stoichiometric Thiol-Ene-epoxy (OSTE+) polymer for direct lithography manufacturing, demonstrate its use in pneumatic pinch microvalves for lab-on-chip applications, test the lithography process achieving pillars of aspect-ratios (a.r.) 1:8, and characterize it’s surface as hydrophilic.

In this article we introduce a novel polymer platform based on off-stoichiometry thiol-enes (OSTEs), aiming to bridge the gap between research prototyping and commercial production of microfluidic devices. The polymers are based on the versatile UV-curable thiol-ene chemistry but takes advantage of off-stoichiometry ratios to enable important features for a prototyping system, such as one-step ...

INTRODUCTION Common bonding techniques for lab-on-chip (LOC) microfluidic devices require surface bio-functionalization to be performed in-situ after the chip has been packaged due to the bio-incompatible features of the bonding technique, including high temperature requirements (e.g. thermal bonding of thermoplastics), use of organic solvents (e.g. PMMA bonding) or plasma activation (e.g. PDMS...