A New Professional Science Master Program for Electric Power Systems Engineering

This paper outlines the main features of a new mater degree program for Electric Power Systems Engineering which is being developed at NC State University. The goal of the program is to give students a thorough understanding of the tools, methods, and practices of electric power engineering. The program encompasses a broad treatment of the engineering, management, and professional skills needed for a successful career in industry, and includes both core power engineering topics as wells as new cross-disciplinary technical topics relevant to the clean-energy Smart Grid. The degree is suitable for new graduates as well as experienced professionals who want to receive the necessary retraining to change careers.

The demand for engineers and their educators has been continuously growing in Australia. In recent years, the academia and industry leaders have proposed and implemented a number of strategies to meet the demand. One of these strategies in the State of Queensland has been the formation of power engineering alliance (PEA), which brings together industry and university partners with a common interest in education, research and professional development associated with power engineering. The objectives of the PEA are to boost the quality and number of engineering graduates with the skills and motivation for a career in power engineering, and to contribute to their ongoing professional development. Central Queensland University (CQU) has been one of the leading university partners to this alliance. CQU has been recognised as a provider of engineering teaching excellence to the Central Queensland region and beyond.

Proficiency in professional skills related to teamwork, ethical responsibility, oral communication, impact of engineering solutions, life-long learning, and contemporary issues is critical for success in the multi-disciplinary, intercultural team interactions that characterize 21 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">st</sup> century engineering careers. Yet, programs across the nation have struggled to define, teach, and measure professional skills since their introduction as ABET criteria for engineering programs in 2000. The Engineering Professional Skills Assessment (EPSA) is a direct assessment method centered on one of several inter-disciplinary scenarios that frame a contemporary societal problem, a generalized set of discussion questions intended to guide a meaningful, 45 minute discussion of multiple scenarios among 4–6 students, and the Engineering Professional Skills rubric that is broadly applicable for all scenarios. In this mini-workshop, participants will examine one scenario in detail along with self-scoring and peer-scoring of a scenario discussion among workshop participants. This experience will be structured to produce small-group and large-group insights about administering and scoring the EPSA in classroom situations. The intended audience for this workshop includes faculty who teach courses identified for collecting data on ABET professional skills, ABET coordinators from the entire spectrum of engineering programs, and ABET engineering program evaluators.

Higher education in Indonesia plays a pivotal role in preparing a generation ready for the professional world. The curriculum of the Master's Program in Sharia Science at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta is integral to this mission. However, this research identifies gaps in the curriculum that do not fully align with alumni needs and job market demands. A field study involving 104 alumni from September 2018 to August 2022 was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method with an empirical approach. Data was collected via a survey sent to alumni and analyzed using Ralph W. Tyler's theory and James A. Banks' multicultural education theory. Findings reveal that courses like Fiqh Studies, Sharia Science, and Islamic Family Law in Indonesia were highly valued and should be further developed. Conversely, courses such as Falak Science and Arabic Text Reading were seen as less relevant and suggested for removal. Additionally, the replacement of the final project with journal publication was criticized. The analysis suggests that the curriculum should evolve to better reflect societal diversity and complexity. The proposed changes emphasize developing relevant courses and revising or eliminating those deemed less beneficial. These recommendations aim to ensure that the Sharia Science Master's Program remains responsive, inclusive, and capable of producing graduates who can compete in the global era.

Telemedicine has entered the daily lives of doctors, although the digital skills of healthcare professionals still remain a goal to be achieved. For the purpose of a large-scale development of telemedicine, it is necessary to create trust in the services it can offer and to favor their acceptance by healthcare professionals and patients. In this context, information for the patient regarding the use of telemedicine, the benefits that can be derived from it, and the training of healthcare professionals and patients for the use of new technologies are fundamental aspects. This consensus document is a commentary that has the aim of defining the information on and training aspects of telemedicine for pediatric patients and their caregivers, as well as pediatricians and other health professionals who deal with minors. For the present and the future of digital healthcare, there is a need for a growth in the skills of professionals and a lifelong learning approach throughout the professional life. Therefore, information and training actions are important to guarantee the necessary professionalism and knowledge of the tools, as well as a good understanding of the interactive context in which they are used. Furthermore, medical skills can also be integrated with the skills of various professionals (engineers, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians) to birth a new category of health professionals responsible for building new semiotics, identifying criteria for predictive models to be integrated into clinical practice, standardizing clinical and research databases, and defining the boundaries of social networks and new communication technologies within health services.

This paper describes the laboratory projects developed in a system and network administration course in an Applied Computer Science Master's program. When teaching such a course, one often faces th...

While policy-makers and educators are thinking hard about making a more marketable Ph.D., a few universities have actually taken steps to equip their students with a broader doctorate. Some of those steps are examined here, and a sidebar takes a peek at a new science master's program, tailored for industry employment.

In the context of COVID-19, when most of the processes are transferred online, one of the tasks of digitalizing the main business processes of modern universities is the implementation of marketing strategies, in particular, for the implementation of career guidance activities, and helping future applicants - applicants for I and II (master's) levels of the higher education in the implementation of the choice of educational programs. Therefore, the need to design an information system for decision-making support for the choice of master's programs based on the results of career guidance testing is actualized. The creation and use of the system "Selection of a master's program" will contribute to an increase in the efficiency of career guidance work on the part of higher educational institutions, as well as a more conscious choice of an educational program on the part of applicants. Based on the results of the analysis of the needs of potential students (potential graduates) and other analogues, we have modelled a decision support information system for the choice of master's programs. The main business processes, types of users (applicant, methodologist, expert, analyst) and options for their interaction with the system, namely, the formation of tests, passing the test, the formation of recommendations (educational programs) and the implementation of educational analytics, have been determined. The option of realization of this system by means of Visual Studio Code and MySQL for definition of specialties and educational programs on an example of National university of bioresources and nature management (NULES) of Ukraine is offered. This web resource can be useful both for university students or prospective applicants of the University and for other users as the developed system belongs to the reference class. The directions of further research are determined, in particular, the application of data mining methods for educational analytics. The necessity of attracting specialists to create tests is defined to provide the basis for determining the educational program not only based on an analysis of future applicants’ preferences, but also the level of formation of the corresponding professional skills.

Military Professional Training and Development of Skills in Cadets from Logistics Specializations

Rethinking education for SDG 7: A framework for embedding gender and critical skills in energy access masters programmes in Africa

Master’s Graduate Programs in the Pharmaceutical Sciences: An International Survey

The Comparative Study and Development of Teaching Competency Standards in Higher Education Level Between Faculty Members and Senior Students Among 6 ASEAN Universities Under MOU.

Flow-Induced Vibration for Light Water Reactors (FIV for LWRs) is a program designed to improve the FIV performance of light water reactors through the development of design criteria, analytical models for predicting behavior of components, and general scaling laws to improve the accuracy of reduced-scale tests, and through the identification of high FIV risk areas. The program is managed by the General Electric Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Department and has three major contributors: General Electric Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Department (NPSED), General Electric Corporate Research and Development (CR and D) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The program commenced December 1, 1976. This progress report summarizes the accomplishments achieved during the final period from July 1981 to September 1981. This is the last quarterly progress report to be issued for this program.

The nature, size, extent, and growth rate of modern electric power systems are discussed along with examples to illustrate the large number of concepts and techniques used and to indicate the variety of technological challenges faced by electric power systems engineers. The discussion then turns to the need for a variety of educational programs to cover the breadth required, to the qualifications for faculty members who staff these programs, and to the ways in which these programs should interact with the power industry. Finally, the electric power systems engineering education program at MIT is discussed in terms of faculity, students, course offerings, and research projects.

The aim of this study was to evaluate professional development and promotion as well as whether the new competence was requested after completion of a one-year master programme (MP) in Cardiovascular (CV) nursing. In Sweden the first one-year MP within the CV area took place between 2003 and 2005 at Halmstad University with a follow-up in 2007. The sample consisted of seventeen former students who had completed the MP. A questionnaire was developed comprising twenty items grouped into three main sections.Most of the nurses stated that their knowledge was requested and that they had developed their professional attitude, skills and knowledge. Seven of the nurses had a new position and five of them had advanced in terms of leadership. In three cases, the master exam was critical for the employers' decision. Six of the nurses who had a new post had obtained an increase in salary. In conclusion, the MP led to increased competence as well as improved career prospects. Information about the MP should be available at clinics, and collaboration between clinical practice and education is necessary in order to ensure relevant use of master educated nurses' competence.