Universities are being placed under increasing pressure to produce employable work ready graduates who are able to cope in a rapidly changing work environment. This has resulted in universities offering their undergraduate students the opportunity to gain business acumen and real world experience by undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) as part of their learning. This paper proposes a thre...

Awell-staffed sales function is vital to business success (Fogel, Hoffmeister, Rocco, & Strunk, 2012); however, many organizations struggle filling this important sales function because there is a shortage of qualified salespeople in today’s workplace on both a domestic and global market (Cummins, Peltier, Erffmeyer, & Whalen, 2013). To satisfy this need there has been a major growth of Univers...

BACKGROUND All medical schools in the UK are required to be able to provide evidence of competence in clinical communication in their graduates. This is usually provided by summative assessment of clinical communication, but there is considerable variation in how this is carried out. This study aimed to gain insight into the current assessment of clinical communication in UK medical schools. ...

Engineering senior design courses fill a critically important role in the curriculum forming a bridge between school and the workplace. Although sustainability is one of ABET’s considerations for design, it is often overlooked in student projects. In 2010-2011, the instructors for the senior design sequence in electrical engineering (EE) at the University of San Diego (USD) chose sustainability...

introduction: in medical education, particularly in residency courses, most of the training occurs in real clinical environments. workplace-based learning profoundly affects students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice; therefore, it should be properly planned. due to the extensiveness of the clinical environment and its importance in training residents, investigating how residents learn in the...

Part 2’s focus on empirical research—research into how genres are learned, how they function in particular contexts, and how they carry out communicative goals and reflect/reinforce ideologies—illustrates how research can inform our practices as writing teachers. Research into genre learning and acquisition has provided teachers with useful methods for situating learning and for fostering meta-...

The time courses of the effects of acute doses of amphetamine (5 and 10 mg/70 kg), alcohol (0.3 and 0.6 g/kg), diazepam (5 and 10 mg/70 kg), and marijuana (2.0% and 3.5% delta 9-THC) on performance engendered by each of four computerized behavioral tasks were evaluated in six human subjects. These performance-based tasks have potential commercial utility for drug-use detection in the workplace....

Scientists and engineers seek to discover and disseminate knowledge so that it can be used to improve the human condition. Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering serves as a valuable aid in this pursuit—it can be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on technical communication and ethics, a reference book for senior design courses, or a handbook for youn...

CASE tools are having an important role in all phases of software systems development and engineering. This is evident in the huge benefits obtained from using these tools including their cost-effectiveness, rapid software application development, and improving the possibility of software reuse to name just a few. In this paper, the idea of moving towards E-CASE tools, rather than traditional C...

Editor’s note: This editorial is part of a series written by editors and co-authored with a senior executive, thought leader, or scholar from a different field, to explore new content areas and grand challenges with the goal of expanding the scope, interestingness, and relevance of the work presented in the Academy of Management Journal. The principle is to use the editorial notes as “stage set...