At Tufts University there exists an engineering educational outreach program called the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program. This program is designed to take engineering students and place them in K-12 outreach to act as mentors for teachers and students. Previous research conducted on the program showed that participation in the program helped students develop much needed citizenship a...

The digital transformation in both the social and business fields requires development of new skills related to use implementation contemporary IT technologies, which provide basis for Industry 4.0. One main concepts these changes is automation robotization processes. design, solutions this field require appropriate skills. Therefore, it necessary identify gaps reduce them with adequate trainin...

How does a firm’s human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two aspects of human capital: turnover and skills. First, we find that firms with higher employee turnover experience significantly ...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is often called a motor learning deficit. The question addressed in this paper is whether improvement of motor skills is just a matter of mere practice. Without any kind of intervention, children with DCD do not improve their motor skills generally, whereas they do improve after task-oriented intervention. Merely offering children the opportunity to pra...

This paper present experiences with the use of a didactical CASE-tool for teaching object-oriented domain modelling. The tool provides the student with interactive feedback and verification of the models helping in this way to find obvious mistakes. Furthermore, the tool enables validating the model against user requirements by generating a prototype. This helps the student in building a mental...