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工学系人材養成における大学院での文理融合の教育アプローチの可能性を検討した基礎研究である。工学系人材にはエンジニアリング・デザイン能力，技術者倫理，グローバル・コンピテンシーなどの獲得が期待される。本研究はそれに資するプログラムとして「博士課程教育リーディング大学院」の事例を分析した。結果，上記の3要素の学習成果の可視化，および教育目標や学生評価の基軸として学生の学びにおける文理融合の「統合」の水準の設定が肝要であると結論した。 / This is basic research that examines the possibility of an integration of humanities and social sciences educational approaches in graduate schools for the development of engineering human resources. Human resources in engineering are expected to acquire engineering design ability, engineering ethics, and global competencies. This study analyzes the case of the "Program for Leading Graduate Schools" as a program that contributes to this goal. As a result, we concluded that it is important to visualize the learning outcomes of the above three elements and to set the level of "integration" of humanities and social sciences in student learning as the basis for educational goals and student evaluation. / 博士(教育文化学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Education and Culture / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

<p>In this dissertation, I investigate the authentic learning experiences of students participating in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University within the framework of authentic education. Utilizing a quantitative approach, the study assesses the performance of new and returning students across five key outcomes that measure authentic learning during a single semester. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed significant main effects for time of assessment and type of student on performance, with an overall improvement in all outcomes observed from mid-term to final evaluations and returning students typically outperforming new students. Interaction effects between time and type were also examined, revealing subtle yet complex dynamics in students’ learning trajectories. The findings hold implications for enhancing authentic learning, especially in engineering design contexts, and offer insights to guide future implementation of and improvements to authentic education initiatives, particularly the EPICS program. Despite certain limitations, the research opens avenues for future investigations into diverse aspects of authentic education in STEM and beyond.  </p>

The ETSU Guitar Project’s Open Education Resource (OER) site is a repository of shareable files developed and used in the design & fabrication of electric and acoustic guitars. Begun in 2010, the ETSU Guitar Building Program is affiliated with the NSF-sponsored, national STEM Guitar Project to increase student engagement in the STEM disciplines from K-12 to Higher Ed. Guitar design, prototyping & build activities in the ENTC 3600 Manufacturing Technologies course use a hands-on mix of 2D CADD, 3D modeling, traditional woodworking, CNC routing and laser etching operations in a custom shop-type environment to create unique electric solid body and semi-hollow body electric guitars. Beginning in 2019, the Engineering Technology program faculty began partnering with faculty in ETSU’s groundbreaking Department of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Roots Music Studies program in building acoustic instruments. Designs of common and specialty acoustic instrument building including luthiers’ tooling, molds, templates, jigs and fixtures as well as alternative bracing are available from this repository. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-oer/1009/thumbnail.jpg

<p dir="ltr">This work will introduce a channel conceptualization and possible coding scheme for Graph-and-Symbol (GS) Communication. While Claude Shannon’s mathematical model for communication employed graphs to describe relationships and confusability among traditional time-sequenced signals, little work as been done to describe non-linear communication <i>with</i> graphs where we transmit and receive physical structures of information. The principal contribution of this work is to introduce a mathematical framework for communication with graphs which have symbols assigned to vertices. This looks like a molecule, and so we may think of these messages as coded forms of molecular communication.</p><p dir="ltr">At this time, many problems in this area will (and may remain) computationally intractable, but as the field of graph theory continues to develop, new tools and techniques may emerge to solve standing problems in this new subfield of communication.</p><p dir="ltr">Graphs present two difficulties: first, they contain ambiguities among their vertices and do not have an <i>a priori</i> canonical ordering, and second, the relationships among graphs lack structural regularities which we see in traditional error control coding lattices. There are no Galois fields to exploit over graph-based codes as we have with cyclic codes, for example. Furthermore, the shear number of graphs of order n grows so rapidly that it is difficult to account for the neighborhoods around codewords and effectively reduce communication errors which may occur. The more asymmetric a graph is, the more orderings on symbols it can support. However, asymmetries complicate the computation of channel transition probabilities, which are the cornerstone of all communication theory.</p><p dir="ltr">In the prologue, the reader will be introduced to a new educational tool for designing traditional binary cyclic codes.</p><p dir="ltr">1 through 10 will detail the development of Graph-and-Symbol (GS) Commu- nication to date followed by two example codes which demonstrate the power of structuring information on graphs.</p><p dir="ltr">Chapter 13 onward will review the preliminary work in another area of research, disjoint from the main body. It is included here for posterity and special interests in applying graphs to solving other problems in signal processing. It begins with an introduction of spacetime raythic graphs. We propose a new chamfering paradigm for connecting neighboring pixels which approximates solutions to the eikonal equation. We show that some raythic graphs possess structures with multiple, differing solutions to eikonal wavefront propagation which are essential to the construction of the Umbral Transform. This umbral transform emulates ray casting effects, such as shadows and diffraction within an image space, from a network-flow algorithm.</p><p dir="ltr">This work may be duplicated in whole or in part for educational purposes only. All other rights of this work are reserved by the author, Timothy Arthur Terlep Jr., of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN (effective August 2024), and subject to the rules and regulations of the Graduate School of Purdue University.</p><p dir="ltr">Readers may contact the author with any comments and questions at <b>taterlep@gmail.com</b></p>