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Sung, Johnny. "The developmental worker : social engineering and worker participation." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29344.
Full textViljoen, Ezalle. "Employee participation within an engineering support services company / E. Viljoen." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9237.
Full textThesis (MCom (Labour Relations Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
Nietner, Larissa F. "Shareables : systems for rapid prototyping of IoT devices to broaden participation in engineering design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113543.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184).
The thesis outlines the development of a design activity and toolkit for connected devices, which provide opportunities for social impact through technical creativity. Statistically, girls place higher value on social impact than their male counterparts, while they see less how engineering can have relevant social impact. These two factors contribute to girls tend to losing interest in STEM, often during middle school, so a mindset change is desirable to achieve a motivational and thus educational effect. Creative, innovative engineering activities with perceived social impact may motivate middle and high school girls and build their confidence in their ability to impact people's lives with technology they create. This work tests this hypothesis using different forms of a design activity that enables students to collaboratively build personal and wearable smart devices. Examples of creations based upon this design toolkit include connected medical bracelets, physical activity monitoring and other devices. Design requirements for intrinsically motivating and engaging experiences are derived from literature and practical examples in psychology, behavior and education research. A creative experience is based on these frameworks and is prototyped to test engagement, attraction, mindset change and other parameters with adolescent girls. This offers new working methods for the human-centered design process around complex systems design. Building on focus group experiments and experience testing, a hardware toolkit is developed, which combines modular sensing devices with a wirelessly connected cloud-based programming application. Sensors include accelerometers, temperature and pulse sensors. A multi-instance implementation of IBM's Node-Red interface is adapted and customized to form the basis of an interactive, audio-graphical program and application editor. The realization of this toolkit allowed for conducting experimental workshops and for quantifying an increase in participants' self-efficacy and interest in design and engineering as a result of the intervention. A fundamental change in many girls' mindset was observed in multiple experiments with the prototype systems, regarding both creative self-efficacy and engineering perception. Girls who initially thought of themselves as "not creative" were able to contribute viable, innovative ideas when they were introduced to the toolkit concept. Once equipped with adequate tools, ideas could form and come to surface. An important finding from experimental workshops was was that even girls with extensive prior STEM or coding experience showed a significant increase in their self-efficacy in using technology for social impact. The opportunity to impact a range of personally relevant areas adds purpose and meaning to existing skills. In the same experiments, interest in an engineering career also increased to a significant degree. In a separate analysis, the effect of instruction style on self-efficacy and motivation is investigated. It is shown that it is critical to encourage participants to reflect on the social impact of their creation in order to convey a relevant real-world experience ("I enjoyed it because I made something useful"). Based on workshop findings, detailed feature requirements specific to the toolkit are identified and implemented over multiple iterative design stages. A web platform that allows students to share, collaborate on and interact with each other's projects is developed to provide means for long-term engagement beyond the experimental workshop settings. This work contributes research methodology for quantifying the success of motivational interventions. Observed sensitivities and input gathered by participants inform design principles for similar educational experiences.
by Larissa F. Nietner.
Ph. D.
Ray, John R. "Barriers to more active contractor participation in the Department of Defense Value Engineering program." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA350145.
Full textThesis advisor(s): David A. Smith, Keith F. Snider. "June 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118). Also available online.
Wilson, Nicholas. "Cooperation, control and productivity : an analysis of participation and profit-sharing in British engineering." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278820.
Full textSandberg, Lennart. "Measurement of percieved participation in decision-making." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26153.
Full textRichards, Gregory Stephen. "Expressed attitude towards physical fitness contrasted with actual participation in physical exercise." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4682.
Full textHamel, Candyce. "Determinants of participation in an online community of practice (OCoP)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28383.
Full textRoue, Leah C. "Young women's perceptions of technology and engineering factors influencing their participation in math, science and technology? /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007rouel.pdf.
Full textSharma, Nand 1979. "The role of private participation in enhancing the Indian transport sector." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17830.
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The Indian transport sector, one of the largest transport networks in the world, faces some serious issues. These may be identified as follows: * Unmet demand for service and infrastructure * Conflicting responsibilities * Inadequate resource mobilization * Poor Asset Management * Inadequate imposition of accountability Increasing the level of private participation in transport sector is one of the possible solutions to solve these problems. At present, private participation in the transport sector in India is low and generally restricted to small projects. Although various steps have been taken to attract the private sector participation in transport sector in India, various indirect and direct constraints exist in its implementation. Indirect constraints include low economic growth, higher poverty rate and high population growth rate. The direct constraints include planning and the institutional issues, methodological or procedural issues, financial constraints, social and the political constraints. In order to alleviate these constraints various steps can be taken. At the planning and the institutional level, India needs to develop a strategic planning network. At the legal and the regulatory level, there is a need for well-drafted laws and regulations related to private sector participation. Also, the amount of government support needs to be clearly defined for the toll road projects in India. Traffic forecasting techniques should be improved, and the government should promote public acceptance for private participation in transport sector.
by Nand Sharma.
S.M.
Zetterberg, Pär. "Engineering Equality? : Assessing the Multiple Impacts of Electoral Gender Quotas." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-100822.
Full textClark, Abigail M. "Investigating the Impact of Informal Engineering Education on Middle School Girls’ Engineering Identity Development." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626713852044666.
Full textAlSugair, Najla. "Increasing the Female Labor Participation Rate in Saudi Arabia: A Systems Approach to Solving Childcare Access Issues for Saudi Women." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/367.
Full textSohn, Okjoo 1967. "The government's roles to regulate private participation in transportation infrastructures and services in Korea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47919.
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This thesis is to review lessons from worldwide experiences of privatization process for government's roles to regulate private participation in transportation infrastructures and services, to analyze current situation in Korea in context of privatization focusing on managing demand forecasts risks to deal with possible optimistic behaviors in the public and private sector under the generous government income guarantee mechanism through comparison with the case in UK, and to suggest strategic implication for the government to achieve service quality improvement from efficiency and creativity as well as expansion of transportation infrastructure and services from private participation.
by Okjoo Sohn.
S.M.
Ritter, Monique. "A review of causes for the relative unequal participation of women in science, engineering and technology and initiatives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71861.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Current literature reveals that men and women do not participate in the science, engineering and technology (SET) sector on equal grounds – not qualitatively (access) or qualitatively (ease of participation). It is important that women have access to and actively participate in science; they make up more than half of the world’s population and gender equality enhances a country’s economic growth and competitiveness. Furthermore, the focus should extend further than advocating for equal access to SET to actively promoting increased participation by women. Women bring a distinctive quality to SET precisely because of their gender. They are able to increase overall SET participation numbers and positively contribute to the quality and agenda of science. This study used the pipeline theory and lifecycle approach as theoretical bases to investigate the causes for unequal participation and reviewed initiatives aimed at increasing and facilitating the participation of women in SET. Identified causes include unequal access, male-dominated nature of science, tensions of reconciling professional and private life, differences in recognition and reward, and lack of female representation in leadership. The primary methodology used was a documentary analysis study design, consisting primarily of desktop literature searches and categorization. An initiative summary framework was used to summarise and code 123 identified initiatives into an initiatives summary database. Findings were both positive and negative. The study found that women in many cases are on equal footage with their male counterparts and can manage a healthy work-life balance if provided with the necessary support but many women still describe a male-dominated work environment that is exclusionary. Findings indicate that, although decreasing, there is still gender bias in recognition and reward and that female scientists underutilise financial rewards. Women in SET do not receive equal pay for equal work and there is a distinct lack of female representation in SET leadership bodies such as academies of sciences, scientific boards and publication boards of academic journals. The most common modes of intervention are policy interventions, gender mainstreaming, advocacy and interest groups, and provision of training and support. The majority of initiatives are aimed at bringing about change at a national/policy level and are driven primarily by government and academia with academia playing an important middleman role - assisting and guiding government in the design and roll-out of policies on the one hand and meeting the human resource needs of industry on the other. Although government and academia have done well in driving initiatives that increase the participation of women in SET at both school and tertiary level, more needs to be done by industry to drive the facilitation of participation. There are very few initiatives addressing the retention of women in SET; this is linked to the lack of attention to returners as a specific target group. The study concludes that the majority of countries are succeeding in closing the participation gap in terms of access or horizontal gender equality, but that vertical segregation (focusing on recognition, reward and advancement), although acknowledged, remains a mostly unaddressed challenge.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Huidige literatuur dui daarop dat vroue en mans nie gelyke deelname geniet in die Wetenskap, Ingenieurswese en Tegnologie nie – nie kwantitatief (toegang) of kwalitatief (gemak van deelname) nie. Die belangrikheid van deelname word gesket teen die kennis dat vroue die helfte van die wêreld se bevolking verteenwoordig en dat lande wat geslagsgelykheid nastreef oor die algemeen hoër ekonomiese groei en mededingenheid toon. Die fokus in die debat gaan dus nie meer net oor die reg tot toegang nie maar ook oor aktiewe en gemaklike deelname wat vroue toelaat om juis hul unieke eienskappe na die wetenskap te bring. Die studie het die pyplynteorie en ‘n lewenssiklusbenadering as die teoretiese grondslag gebruik om die deelname van vroue in die terrein te bestudeer. Die navorsing het gepoog om die hoofoorsake vir die relatiewe ongelyke deelname van vroue in die Wetenskap, Ingenieurswese en Tegnologie te bepaal. Die hoofoorsake is geidentifiseer as ongelyke toegang, die manlik-gedomineerde aard van wetenskap, die spanning om professionele en persoonlike lewe te versoen, verskille in erkenning en beloning; en die gebrek aan vroulike verteenwoordiging in leierskap. Verder wou die studie bepaal watter inisiatiewe in gebruik is vir die uitbreiding en vergemakliking van vroue se deelname in die veld. Die hoof metodologie was ‘n dokumentêre analise studie ontwerp. ‘n Inisiatief opsommingsraamwerk is gebruik om die 123 geïdentifiseerde inisiatiewe op te som en te kodeer en is saamgevat in 'n inisiatiewe opsommingdatabasis. Bevindinge was beide positief en negatief. Die studie het bevind dat vroue in baie gevalle gelyke toegang geniet en 'n gesonde balans tussen hul persoonlike en professionele lewe kan bestuur indien die nodige ondersteuning gebied word. Baie vroue beskryf egter nog steeds 'n manlik-gedomineerde werksomgewing. Hoewel die neiging dalend is, is daar nog steeds geslagsvooroordele in erkenning en beloning en vroulike wetenskaplikes maak nie genoegsaam gebruik van finansiële belonings wat wel tot hul beskikking is nie. Vroue ontvang ook nie gelyke betaling vir gelyke werk nie. Daar is 'n duidelike gebrek aan vroulike verteenwoordiging in leierskap soos aangedui in die samestelling van akademies van die wetenskap en die bestuursrade van wetenskaplike rade en publikasie rade van wetenskaplike vaktydskrifte. Die mees algemene vorme van intervensies is beleidsintervensies, geslagshoofstroming, voorspraak en belangegroepe, en die verskaffing van opleiding en ondersteuning. Die meerherheid van inisiatiewe is daarop gemik om verandering teweeg te bring op nationale en beleidsvlak en word hoofsaaklik gedryf deur die staat en die akademie. Die akademie speel dan ook ‘n belangrike middelman rol deurdat hul aan die een kant die regering bystaan in die implementering van beleid en aan die anderkant ook die menslike hulpbron behoeftes van industrie moet voed. Daar is ‘n leemte by die meerderheid van inisiatiewe in die aanspreek van die behoeftes van vroue wat wil terugkeer na die veld na ‘n periode van afwesigheid en aan die retensie van vroulike wetenskaplikes. Die studie kom dus tot die gevolgtrekking dat die meerderheid van lande en inisiatiewe daarin slaag om meer gelyke deelname in terme van toegang of horisontale geslaggelykheid te bewerk, maar dat vertikale segregasie (met ‘n fokus op erkenning, belong en bevordering), nog heelwat aandag moet geniet.
Calderon, Camilo. "Learning from Slum Upgrading and Participation : A case study of participatory slum upgrading in the emergence of new governance in the city of Medellín–Colombia." Thesis, KTH, Urban Planning and Environment, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9616.
Full textThis document compiles a highly discussed issue present in many cities of the developing world today; it brings forward the importance of facing the challenges that slums create to today’s cities and the mechanisms used for tackling such challenge. The study focuses on the use of Participatory Planning approaches in the context of slum upgrading, giving the reader an insight to the advantages and challenges that such an approach has. It is built around a case study in the city of Medellin, Colombia where there has been a strong political will and commitment to implement programs and projects in the poorest areas of the city. This initiative emerged as a need to tackle deep rooted problems present in the slum areas of the city that together with other issues placed Medellin as the most dangerous city of the world during the 1990s.
For tackling such a problem, the local Administration (2003-2007) created a slum upgrading model called “PUI - Proyecto Urbano Integral” (Integral Urban Project) which is said to be based on “participatory planning” and “slum upgrading” principles. The results of the first project following the “PUI Model”, the “PUI Noriental”, have been promoted by the Administration as highly successful and been considered as a model for slum upgrading both nationally and internationally. Therefore, there is the need to acknowledge and critically asses the PUI Model by evaluating its principles, its methods and its results having a deeper understanding and assessment of the concepts behind such an approach; specially since it has been internationally recognized that there is a lack of cases in which the ideals of participation and slum upgrading are put in practice.
In this order of ideas, the principles, methods and tools of the “PUI Model” and its implementation in the “PUI Noriental”, are evaluated based on international theories and experiences dealing with the topic. By doing so, it is shown the close link between the principles of participation and the very nature of slum upgrading processes. As well it is brought forward the need to implement such kind of a approaches in cities presenting problems with slum areas. The results of the evaluation show that even though there is a strong political will towards using principles of participatory planning and slum upgrading approaches in Medellin, there is still a high need to have a deeper understanding of such concepts and the way they can be implemented. Nevertheless, it is shown that even with these shortcomings the significant outcomes produced by the PUI Noriental are a clear example that participation in the context of slum upgrading is a strong tool to bring benefits to the people of such areas.
The thesis was not publishes (printed) by the department. The copy I am uploading is the final version accepted by the department.
Burton, Timothy Paul. "Public participation : principles and practice : the legal regulation of water pollution." Thesis, University of Hull, 1990. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3897.
Full textWhittier, Jeremy, and Christina R. Kalel. "Where did you go? Encouraging female participation within Red Hat, Inc." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608318.
Full textAs U.S.-based companies continue to struggle to fill science, engineering and technology (SET) positions with domestic talent, a large portion of the available workforce (women) continues to be underrepresented. This project discusses the strategic advantages of encouraging female workforce participation in SET roles within global technology companies. Three publicly traded companies - Netflix, Facebook and Red Hat, Inc. - are compared utilizing self-reported diversity numbers to see the varying levels of women in those workplaces. The diversity policies and benefits programs of these three companies are discussed as well as available corporate statements regarding workforce diversity policies. Finally, utilizing information from programs proven to increase women’s participation and retention within SET roles, suggestions are provided, namely sponsorship of women in the workplace.
Zhang, X. "Designing a geographic visual information system (GVIS) to support participation in urban planning." Thesis, University of Salford, 2004. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2178/.
Full textMinichiello, Angela L. "Towards Alternative Pathways: Nontraditional Student Success in a Distance-delivered, Undergraduate Engineering Transfer Program." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4950.
Full textRydhagen, Birgitta. "Feminist Sanitary Engineering as a Participatory Alternative in South Africa and Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2002. http://www.bth.se/fou/forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/0ecaa05e81bfec0ec1256fbd0057a98b?OpenDocument.
Full textChu, Katharine (Katharine L. ). "Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68515.
Full text"September 2011." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
Recently, governments have leveraged a variety of new technologies, especially new social media, to create an open government, or Government 2.0 that is transparent in its policies and gives its citizens the ability to collaborate and participate. Social media has been known for its ability to instantly connect a decentralized group of users; the ease at which the technology communicates makes the results of such technologies unpredictable and elusive. Despite television's reputation as a "passive" medium, I demonstrate that Taiwanese political call-in shows have been a successful form of credible and "controlled participation" for over a decade. With the inception of multi-party elections, these talk shows have served a purpose beyond getting good ratings and bringing in profits for the networks; they provide politicians and viewers alike an opportunity to participate. To understand the participatory culture, I studied Taiwanese political talk shows as a media system by analyzing the style and content of Taiwanese talk shows, as well as the social, cultural, legal, political, and economic institutions, practices, and protocols that shape the technology. The call-in talk shows transforms the medium into what John Gee calls an "affinity space," a term often used to describe the communities built using social media. Even with the culture of openness on Taiwanese political talk shows, the value system by which television is constructed and limited interactivity of the technology preserve the credibility content, and create an effective blueprint for bidirectional interaction between the government and the public.
by Katharine Chu.
S.M.in Technology and Policy
Sally, Mehdi. "Stakeholder participation and sustainability challenges confronting a small urban community-managed water supply project: case study of Buea, Cameroon." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106392.
Full textLes projets gérés par les communautés jouent un rôle important dans les efforts mondiaux pour atteindre l'Objectif du Millénaire pour le Développement rélatif à l'approvisionnement en eau, en particulier dans les pays en voie de développement. Toutefois, dans le contexte de l'urbanisation croissante ces projets de développement communautaires se trouvent de plus en plus dans les zones urbaines qui, par leur nature même, sont en conflit avec les notions et pratiques traditionnelles de la gestion communautaire rurale. Cette recherche examine le cas d'un projet de gestion communautaire pour l'approvisionnement de l'eau à Buea, une région en pleine expansion urbaine au Cameroun. L'étude a adopté des méthodes de recherche qualitative et a appliqué la modélisation de choix pour mieux comprendre les défis auxquels font face les projets de gestion communautaire d'approvisionnement en eau dans un contexte urbain, phénomène en pleine expansion dans de nombreuses régions en voie de développement. Les résultats de cette thèse font apparaitre que le contexte urbain rajoute des exigences aux processus de planification et de gestion. Ce qui nécessite un plus grand soutien de la part du gouvernement, des organisations non-gouvernementales, et des agences de développement pour améliorer les capacités techniques de planification ainsi que le fonctionnement et l'entretien des réalisations post-construction. En outre, les projets de gestion communautaires en milieu urbain ont aussi besoin de l'appui politique et institutionnel ferme pour assurer la durabilité de leurs mécanismes de participation qui sont de plus en plus difficiles à soutenir en zone urbaine et sans lesquels la viabilité financière de ces projets est mise en doute. A défaut d'appui, l'avenir des projets communautaires d'approvisionnement de l'eau dans les zones urbaines risque d'être compromis, affectant la réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement et obligeant un retour aux sources d'eau insalubres.
Opdyke, Aaron. "Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems| A Comparative Analysis of Post-Disaster Shelter Coordination, Stakeholder Participation, and Training." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10617829.
Full textSustainable infrastructure that is used and maintained by communities over time, and resilient to hazards, is sorely needed in developing countries where natural disasters cause disproportionate damages and mortality as well as impede development efforts. Shelter is universally recognized as a foundational element of disaster recovery; and while its ability to provide protection from the elements is a core function, it also affords broader social and economic benefits. Unfortunately, conventional approaches in post-disaster shelter reconstruction focus primarily on rapid and recognizable results over long-term outcomes, perpetuating pre-existing vulnerabilities and failing to provide acceptable standards of service. There exists a need to better understand how shelter recovery processes employed by stakeholders lead to eventual infrastructure system outcomes. This research longitudinally analyzed 19 humanitarian shelter projects following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines over a three-year period, seeking to answer the overarching research question of what combinations of coordination, stakeholder participation and training across project delivery phases lead to resilient and sustainable community infrastructure systems? A multi-method approach consisting of case study methods and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was employed to analyze the impact of combinations of project processes in leading to infrastructure outcomes. This research (1) identified key factors influencing inter-organizational coordination in post-disaster contexts; (2) identified types of household participation that arise in shelter projects and analyzed their impact on project outcomes; (3) identified methods of construction training used in shelter projects and their impact on household knowledge acquisition; and (4) analyzed combinations of coordination, participation, and training across the planning, design, and construction phases of shelter projects that led to infrastructure resilience and sustainability, in isolation and combination. The results contribute to understanding of shelter processes and organizing structures necessary for resilient and sustainable systems, building theory of reconstruction process pathways. Practically, findings can aid practitioners identify more effective modalities of delivering shelter assistance in post-disaster humanitarian response.
Tomlinson-Dykens, Susan Ann. "Executive education programs in the construction industry : an analysis of existing national programs and current industry participation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45718.
Full textNguema, Ndong Arland. "Investigating the Role of the Internet in Women and Minority STEM Participation: A Case Study of Two Florida Engineering Programs." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3734.
Full textSammons, Pamela Mary. "Participation in vocational further education : a study of factors influencing entry into commercial, construction and engineering training in Inner London." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1985. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3295/.
Full textAdams, Christiaan Scott 1973. "An interactive, online Geographic Information System (GIS) for stakeholder participation in environmental site selection." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30073.
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An interactive, online geographic information system (GIS) was developed to enhance the involvement of stakeholders in the public participation processes of site selection issues in the marine environment. Displaying educational material and interactive maps of relevant data, this new tool allows users to input personal preferences for the criteria they value in the siting decision, and produces a map showing the most and least suitable sites according to the user's weighting of the criteria. Current decision-making processes focus on finding an optimum solution from a number of alternatives using an objective analysis of the criteria, but are often inaccessible to many stakeholders, and do not consider the fairness of the outcome to the stakeholders. This tool is intended to educate stakeholders and enhance their involvement in the public decision-making process. To demonstrate the interactive, online GIS concept, a website called eSite was assembled, using as its case study the hypothetical issue of siting marine reserves within the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Marine resource protection is a controversial issue with many stakeholders in New England, where fishing in the Gulf of Maine has a long history, and human activities have had significant impacts on the marine environment. Marine reserves are an emerging tool for protecting marine ecosystems and enhancing marine resources, and the siting of reserves is an important emerging issue. Pre and post-surveys were conducted as part of the demonstration site to evaluate eSite. It was shown to be effective at increasing understanding of marine reserves and was perceived as a useful tool in improving the decision-making process.
by Christiaan Scott Adams.
S.M.
Byerline, M. Joleen. "How Kaizen Group Leader Selection Affects Group Participation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1273.
Full textReynolds, Morgan E. "It takes two to un-tango: Modulating continuous participation in joint activity." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594929298207994.
Full textMark, Emil. "Usability : Through the use of guidelines and user participation." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4910.
Full textInstitutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap vid Högskolan Väst i Trollhättan var i behov av ett nytt tjänsteplaneringssystem då det nuvarande system som är Excel-baserat är svårt att arbeta med och ej erbjuder något effektivt sätt för användarna att samarbeta.Syftet med studien var att studera hur de principer och riktlinjer som finns gällande interaktionsdesign kan användas för att skapa ett nytt webbaserat system. Syftet var också att undersöka hur deltagande design påverkar design processen och dess resultat.För att skapa ett system med en hög grad användarbarhet har ett antal regler och riktlinjer som berör användarbarhet och ett antal begrepp inom interaktionsdesign använts av utvecklingslaget som verktyg.Även om studien visar att användning av användarbarhetsriktlinjer kan vara ett värdefullt verktyg och erbjuda en god grund är det viktigt att använda fler tekniker. Till exempel användandet av deltagande design, som i studien har funnits vara av stort värde för utvecklingslaget.
Hall, Janice Leshay. "Disaggregating the Monolith: A Case Study on Varied Engineering Career Orientations and Strategies of Black Women in Tech." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103708.
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The lack of role models is a hindrance for aspiring Black women engineers and their decisions to continue choosing engineering. The lack of representation of Black women in industry similarly presents obstacles for their career advancement. Because neither role models or representation can be increased in retrospect, it is imperative to study and highlight the visibility of the Black women engineers currently practicing engineering and bring awareness to their career experiences in industry to better inform recruitment and retention efforts. The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study is to describe the varied career orientations of Black women working as engineers in Tech and to link their career orientations to their career outcomes. To support broadening participation efforts, this research uses an anti-deficit approach to examine the career mobility patterns of Black women working in computing and engineering roles in the Tech industry. Using a curated secondary data set based on social media artifacts and user generated data, this study characterizes the different career motivations, strategies, and points of transition in the careers of a diverse sample of Black women. In efforts to disaggregate Black women's engineering and computing career experiences, ten perspectives on how and why Black women move into, around and out of roles in the tech industry were examined. The analysis revealed that participants' career orientations were differentially motivated by needs, talents and or values which influenced how participants made career related decisions. Additionally, both physical and psychological mobility of participants was examined and then compared in the cross-case analysis to derive six unique career archetypes that were useful in characterizing the career challenges and aspirations in participants' lived career experience. This study aims to normalize "non-traditional" career trajectories and inform the next generation of Black women interested in Tech on the different way(s) to approach and achieve career success and satisfaction in engineering and computing fields. In addition, study findings can be leveraged by human resource personnel and career managers to anticipate common career challenges based on individual employee career orientations, and align better reward structures and policies to support a wider range of employee career outlooks. The study emphasizes the strategies and outlooks critical for Black women's success and satisfaction to support their continued participation in the engineering and computing workforce.
Ljungblad, Robert. "Blockchain in an Internet-of-Things Network Based on User Participation." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75041.
Full textInternet-of-things är ett relativt nytt men snabbt växande koncept som handlar om att koppla upp vardagliga saker till internet. Varje dag kopplas mer och mer enheter upp och det visar inga tecken på att sakta ner. Det görs även framsteg inom andra nya teknologier som blockkedjor, artificiell intelligens, virtuell verklighet och maskininlärning i stort sett varje dag. Dock finns det fortfarande mycket att lära sig om dessa teknologier. Denna rapport utforskar blockkedjeteknologins möjligheter genom att applicera det på ett internet-of-things-nätverk baserat på användarmedverkan. Mer specifikt, det är applicerat på ett användningsfall grundat i Luleå Kommuns önskan att lättare hålla koll på hur fulla deras soptunnor i och runtom staden är. Målet med denna rapport är att lära sig mer om hur blockkedjor kan stödja ett internet-of-things-nätverk och utforska vilka problem som kan uppstå. Metoden tar en explorativ ansats till problemet genom att delta i en workshop tillsammans med Luleå Kommun och genomföra en litteraturstudie. Dessutom tas en kvalitativ ansats genom att skapa en prototyplösning för att få förstahandserfarenhet av teknologin. Den slutliga prototypen och problemen som uppstod under projektets gång är analyserade med hjälp av information och erfarenhet som samlats genom hela projektet. Sammanfattningsvis kan blockkedjeteknologi hjälpa till kommunikationen i ett internet-of-things-nätverk baserat på användarmedverkan. Dock finns det fortfarande mycket att lära sig om denna teknologi i framtida forskning.
Carlson, Douglas. "Mapping Public Participation in Sweden : An overview of the individual's voice in the planning process." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208979.
Full textMedborgardeltagande i Sverige är något som kommit till efter demokratisering av planeringsprocessen i samhällsbyggnadssektorn. Målet var att stärka hållbarheten hos projekten medan man samtidigt bjöd in de berörda att direkt påverka och resonera kring behov och lösningar som uppstår vid exploateringen. För att ta reda på hur läget ser ut idag för medborgardeltagande så undersöks tre olika forum för planerare. De forum som utgås från är dels Boverket och SKL för den offentliga sektorn, dels Arkus som forskning samt PLAN som debatt och professionell plattform. Samtliga undersökta källor visar generellt konsensus om vad medborgardeltagande är i dagsläget samt dess problem, med några skillnader i synpunkter. Det råder obalans i representationen för olika sociala grupper där vissa har en betydligt starkare röst i påverkan av beslut, på grund av bland annat bristande resurser, viss apati angående ämnet eller projektet i fråga samt existerande fördomar. Detta, i kombination med vad som anses vara bristande kommunikation och information i överlag, leder till missförstånd och i allmänhet en mödosammare planeringsprocess. Vissa pekar på att lagstiftningen behöver effektiviseras och centralisera beslutsorganen mer medan andra pekar på större dialog utöver existerande samråd med en ständigt pågående och uppdaterande plattform utanför lagstiftningen. Modernisering av medlen och tekniken som används i dialogen verkar vara nästa steg i utveckling och vidare forskning bör göras för att fastställa dess effekt på medborgardeltagandet och dess vidare utveckling.
Gartland, Clare. "'Cultivating rough diamonds' : a study of student ambassadors' contribution to widening participation schemes in engineering and medicine at two contrasting universities." Thesis, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 2012. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/19996/.
Full textÖzalp, Dilek. "Science Teachers' Understandings of Science Practices before and after the Participation in an Environmental Engineering Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5388.
Full textEsposito, Vittorio. "Impact of the Botkyrka Project on Gender Equality and Youth Participation : A Capability Approach Perspective on #UrbanGirlsMovement." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-286213.
Full textPilotprojecktetd #UrbanGirlsMovement i Botkyrka hade som mål att implementera feministisk statsplanering på lokal nivå för att utveckla innovativa lösningar för att kunna förbättra socioekonomiskt utsatta områden. Baserat på feministisk stadsplanering, samskapande, och ungdomsdeltagande syftar det här arbetet att undersöka genomförandet, utforska möjliga effekter av, samt försöka reda ut hur pilotprojektet i Botkyrka kan ha skapat en förändring i samhället för mer inkluderande stadsplanering. Fördelar och nackdelar analyserades genom “Capability Approach” som prioriterar en individspersons förmågoristället för dess tillgångar. Resultaten pekar på att det finns ett behov av att utveckla förhållningssättet kring könsperspektiv inom stadsplanering genom att ge marginaliserade grupper en plattform där de kan bli hörda, samt hur viktigt det är att involvera ungdomen för att skapa en bättre framtid. Det är möjligt att projektet kan ha gett upphov till en kedjereaktion som skulle kunna bidra till långtgående effekter där gapet mellan civila och tjänstemän minskar, både i Botkyrka och kringliggande kommuner. Många hinder för en sådan positiv utveckling upptäcktes också, till exempel, institutionell tröghet, ekonomi inom offentlig sektor, och maktobalans.
Ogilvie, Andrea Marie. "Understanding Transfer Student Pathways to Engineering Degrees: A Multi-Institutional Study Based in Texas." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96022.
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Maczka, Darren Kurtis. "Computing Trajectories: Pathways into Computer Science and Programming Experience in the First Year." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92198.
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Many universities across the United States have been experiencing an increased demand for computer science majors. Adjusting curriculum to meet demand runs the risk of damaging efforts to increase the diversity of the computer science workforce. To manage growth and increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities (students who are not white or East Asian) in the field, we must first understand who currently studies computer science, and factors that lead to their success in the major. Universities with general first-year engineering programs present an opportunity for addressing some of the barriers that have traditionally discouraged women and underrepresented minorities from pursuing computer science. In particular, these programs could provide early positive experiences with computer programming which encourage more students to consider computer science as a possible major. To better understand how experiences during students’ first-year transition to college may impact decisions to major in computer science, I conducted studies to explore who enters computer science, and how they succeed in the major, as well as how students experience programming instruction in an introductory engineering course. All studies share the same context: a large public research institution with a general first-year engineering program. Results indicate that women are leaving computer science at all points of the curriculum, contributing to a reduced representation of women earning CS degrees. In contrast, underrepresented minority students and students with parents who did not receive a college degree, make up a higher percentage in the group graduating with a CS degree than in the group who declare CS as their first major.
Rådelius, Elias. "Community Radio 2.0 - Reinventing Participation, Empowerment and Community in Converging Public Spheres." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23049.
Full textXu, Nora (Nora Lan). "Active participation of buildings in the power sector : the case of small office buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103567.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140).
Under the broad context of decarbonization of the energy sector, commercial buildings are well-suited for providing ancillary services to the electricity grid and poised to transform from passive consumers to active electricity market participants. A data-driven multi-zonal thermal response model is formulated and fit to EnergyPlus simulation data from a Department of Energy Small Office Reference Commercial Building for the months of June, July and August. When validated and tested against EnergyPlus simulation data, the thermal response model performs well. The thermal response model is then used in a co-optimization of energy and ancillary provision for a small office building with a variable air volume system from [9] using summer wholesale electricity and ancillary services prices from ISO-NE. Under six different price cases, the individual small office building provides maximum hourly regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 3.2 and 4.4 kW respectively and daily total regulation and spinning reserve capacities of 51 and 46 kW respectively. When scaled up over similar building stock in New England, small office buildings can provide up to 9.5% of ISO-NE's daily regulation requirement and 8% of the daily spinning reserves requirement. From an economic perspective, a small office building's potential summer ancillary services' revenues are not sufficient to drive investment in installation of a building automation system, variable air volume system and associated metering. However, buildings may invest in the necessary equipment for energy cost reductions and to participate in other demand response programs. Increasing building participation rates in ancillary services markets requires addressing the principal-agent problem, building-specific concerns such as program controllability and convenience and targeted policies aimed at increasing availability of clear aggregator-enabled building participation avenues.
by Nora Xu.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Wendt, Mattias. "Stay Hydrated: How motivational design can support the caregiver’s role in patient participation." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23057.
Full textLidberg, Sebastian. "Användarmedverkan i systemutveckling : Problem och möjligheter i praktiken." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13725.
Full textUser participation is argued to be the solution for all issues regarding system development. However, researchers within this field have different views of the impact of involving users in this process. Even though the literature utilized in this thesis can be perceived as old, the author identified it to be the most frequently referred to by others. Thereby, the quality of the literature remains high. The digital development has contributed to a better technical understanding in general, but the question is if this has affected the user participation? The problem investigated was therefore: What is the view of user participation today, and what problems and opportunities are associated with it? The purpose of this study was to investigate today’s practice of user participation. More specifically, what problems and opportunities that are faced by companies and suppliers. This study was based on a previous thesis conducted by Agnes Hedberg & Sanna Järlstig (2016) from Linköping University, who perceived their own findings as biased and vague, due to their low number of interviewees. Therefore, the author of this thesis determined to triple the number of interviews to examine if the outcome changed. Moreover, the findings from the empirical data were also compared with the literature, in order to analyze if the current perception of user participation differs from the previous one. The result of this study demonstrates that the involvement of users in the development, was perceived as essential. The companies argued that the development process was costly and time consuming in general, but not to the same extent as the literature did. On the contrary, the interviewees emphasized the importance of not excluding the users, since their involvement rather added value to the process. This study’s results confirmed many of Hedberg & Järlstig (2016) findings, by highlighting the similarities between the two theses.
Luccioni, Carlo. "Open Participation - How online tools could foster user engagement aimed to city development." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22555.
Full textSjöberg, Helena. "Women's participation in the planning process : A case study of rural villages in the Uttarkashi district." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arkitektur och vatten, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64076.
Full textHuledal, Mattias, and Li Wirström. "Factors Affecting Employees' Participation in Employee Driven Innovation A case study at Viaplay during the innovation initiative called Hack Days." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224222.
Full textReeder, Christina. "Analysis of Students' Knowledge, Perceptions, and Interest in Engineering Post Teacher Participation in a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Professional Development." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955105/.
Full textDaniels, Anton. "Information Security in an Internet of Things Network Based on Blockchains and User Participation." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74757.
Full textTeninge, Alexandre. "PARTICIPATION AUX SERVICES SYSTÈME DE PARCS ÉOLIENS MIXTES : APPLICATION EN MILIEU INSULAIRE." Phd thesis, Grenoble INPG, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00473142.
Full textPeters, Anne-Kathrin. "Learning Computing at University: Participation and Identity : A Longitudinal Study." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datorteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331613.
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