Changing Geers: Engineering Instructor Perspectives on Education

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Engineering Education for a Rapidly Changing Technology

GALCIT, the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology, is a system now 50 years old, with which I have been associated for nearly 40 years. Conceived by R. A. Millikan as part of his general scheme to construct a small, very high level technological school, GALCIT was built up by Theodore von Karman (in the spirit of Felix Klein) to serve as a center for the f...

Changing Computer Literacy and Its Effect on Engineering Education

For the past six years all new entrants to two first year electronic engineering courses have been questioned on their use and awareness of basic computer literacy. This includes their ownership of personal computers, what they do with them, how they use them to study and their knowledge of different types of software, such as word processing, databases and spreadsheets. The original syllabuses...

Nursing students’ perspectives on clinical education

Introduction: The importance of optimal clinical nursingeducation in professional skills development is undeniable.In clinical education, nursing students are often faced withproblems. Recognizing nursing students’ perception on clinicaleducation is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conductedto determine the nursing stude...

Changing perspectives on palliative care.

In the United States, hospice and palliative care are two distinct expressions of the hospice interdisciplinary team approach to end-of-life care, which originated in Great Britain in the 1960s. The hospice movement developed largely as a home-care program and alternative to conventional care. Hospice regulations and reimbursement allowances limit services to patients who are expected to die wi...