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Post-Doctoral and Non-Faculty Doctorate Researchers in Engineering Education: Demographics and Funding
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Fomunyam, Kehdinga George – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
The driving force behind research in many countries is funding for research and development. The research at postgraduate level is predicated on a core research group championed by one principal investigator which might include staff scientists, postdoctoral appointees, non-faculty doctorate researchers, or graduate students and they play major…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Graduate Students, Student Research, Postdoctoral Education
Increasing Computational Protein Design Literacy through Cohort-Based Learning for Undergraduate Students
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Effect of Entrepreneurial Behaviour on Researchers' Knowledge Production: Evidence from Canadian Universities
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Rherrad, Imad – Higher Education Quarterly, 2009
The article studies the differences in knowledge production between academic researchers. In this perspective, it attempts at first to answer the following question: what factors explain differences in knowledge production between Canadian researchers in natural sciences and engineering? After a presentation of some of the empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Researchers
Faculty Research and Undergraduate Instruction
Haneman, Vincent S., Jr. – Engineering Education, 1975
States that professional undergraduate education is enhanced by professors engaged in research because of the teacher's currency of knowledge, motivation, recognition of service, and involvement in unresolved problems. Indicates that the use of sponsored research takes the financial burden from the academic budget and permits employment of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Science, Educational Finance, Engineering Education
Utilization of Science and Engineering Doctorates in Industrial Research and Development. Science Resources Studies Highlights, April 11, 1978.
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National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1978
This report is based on a survey of the National Science Foundation's Industrial Panel on Science and Technology. The panel comes from essentially all major types of industry involved in research and development (R&D) and covers a wide range of firms and cooperations. The findings of the survey show that almost one-half of those who responded…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Finance, Employment Patterns
Issue 1979--Bridging the Gap Between the Basic Sciences and Clinical Practice: Teaching, Research, and Service--Response from a Dean.
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Miya, Tom S. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1980
Three essential elements in resolving conflicts between segments of pharmacy are identified: motivation of individuals within the administrative structure of pharmacy schools especially, but also throughout the profession; faculty members and service staff who effect the change; and financial resources to effect change. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Finance
Government Funding: Legislative Concerns with Inflation of Academic Income.
Woods, Richard – 1978
Those outside the circle of scientists and research and academic administrators who criticize certain features of the symbiotic relationship between campus research and the Federal Government run the risk of being labeled anti-science by persons who view a continuing, increasing, and unquestioned flow of federal funds as the sine qua non of campus…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Government Role