Classroom management refers to those activities of instructors that create a positive classroom environment within which effective teaching and learning can occur. As our classrooms get more and more diverse, traditional classroom management techniques seem less effective. It must be noted that diversity and inclusion is very important in a classroom regardless of the makeup and demographics of the students enrolled. Diversity lacking classroom management strategies may have negative effects on students' learning. Students may perceive that they do not "belong" in the classroom which can lead to decreased participation, feelings of inadequacy, and other distractions. Instructors may make flawed assumptions of students' capabilities or assume a uniform standard of a particular group of students based on their race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Instructors may themselves feel out of place based on their own inscriptive traits (i.e. differences based on class, privilege, etc.). Identifying and acknowledging these notions of difference and how they affect the classroom allow both students and instructors to see the classroom as an inclusive place. This study focuses on identifying effective classroom management strategies highlighting diversity and inclusion. The authors utilized survey, interviews and a meta-analysis of literature and identified five classroom management strategies: 1) creating a supportive physical environment, 2) establishing clear expectations of behavior, 3) communicating students in a culturally responsive ways, 4) creating a caring and inclusive classroom and 5) managing problematic behaviors - that can maximize inclusiveness in a classroom and enhance learning environment.

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The process of tenure and promotion which can be a harrowing experience for faculty in higher education is discussed. A tenured faculty member is one whose job, with a few exceptions, is secured for life. These exceptions typically include the closure of the department, gross negligence and sexual harassment. The paper addresses tactics, strategies and approaches that were utilized by the author to overcome the tenure and promotion process.

According to LeButte (1994), the fields of engineering and engineering technology both reported a decline in enrollment at almost all levels in the fall of 1993. Because of this low number of incoming freshman, it is extremely vital that every effort is made to retain those students who are enrolling in engineering and engineering technology. Retention is a group effort. It requires support and participation from everyone associated with the university from the president to the custodians, and includes secretaries and other students. It is the mission of The Freshmen Experience to plant the seed that will enable freshmen to achieve their highest level of success. To assist in these efforts, the Department of Engineering Technology at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, TN developed a freshman orientation course (The Freshman Experience) in the fall of 1994. The course's primary purpose is to decrease the attrition rate of engineering technology students at ETSU, while improving their success within the department. The goals of the course include: 1) engaging students in activities that will better introduce them to the university and the engineering technology department, 2) fostering relationships between students and faculty/staff by promoting activities of socialization outside of the classroom, and 3) providing students with a department mentor. It is the mission of the Freshman Experience to plant the seed.

The earthquake on April 25, 2015, in Nepal damaged thousands of houses; thereby leaving millions of people homeless. Most of the damaged buildings were mud and brick or stone bonded load-bearing structure. After the earthquake, there has been a lot of building reconstruction and renovation works going on in Nepal. During this phase, homeowners have faced many challenges such as inaccessibility to the construction site, scarcity of materials and equipment, and workforce shortage. Although few studies have explored the challenges during reconstruction in general, a thorough understanding of factors contributing to the obstacles is lacking. The objective of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of the factors contributing to building reconstruction and renovation challenges. A thorough literature review and interviews were conducted which helped to identify critical factors contributing to building reconstruction and renovation challenges. This study identified the top significant factors among reconstruction challenges in Nepal after the Gorkha earthquake. The top five significant factors are: a) dispute among family members on property, b) vested interest and corruption, c) lack of skilled laborer, d) lack of adopting and updating building codes, and e) lack of proper training on how to use new tools and techniques. The study also ranked the building materials and typology that suffered most damage during the Gorkha earthquake. Unreinforced mud or adobe building, unreinforced brick masonry building with mud mortar and timber floor, and stone masonry building with mud mortar were critical in each case. The findings can be used by construction professionals to improve their management strategies during pre-construction and be aware of top contributing factors during reconstruction and renovation process. The results will also help project managers, field engineers, and contractors in the understanding of building materials and typology that are vulnerable to earthquake.

The Department of Engineering Engineering Technology and Surveying at East Tennessee State University offers a graduate program-MS in Engineering Technology. The program has two concentrations-Engineering Technology and Entrepreneurial Leadership. The Engineering Technology concentration is for students who plan to become, or are now, involved in supervising or coordinating workers, materials, and equipment in a production system or who are resolving technical problems in the workplace. Individuals completing the program should be qualified to deal with tooling, methods, planning, quality control and reliability, safety and management aspects of production in manufacturing and other industries. The Entrepreneurial Leadership concentration was formed to provide students with skills that will help them thrive in the global economy of the twenty first century. The purpose of the Entrepreneurial Leadership concentration is to respond to the ever-increasing need for entrepreneurial leadership skills in the commercialization of innovative technology, and to respond to the broader application of entrepreneurial thinking in existing technology-based businesses, health care and higher education. This program is designed to provide the innovative, prudent risk-taker with a practical approach for commercializing innovative technology and for creating wealth by finding implementation methods for transforming creative ideas into value producing technology-based business models. Recently the program has gone through an academic review which is mandated by Tennessee higher education commission. This academic review is conducted every seven years and it is designed to improve the quality of the program and implement recommended changes in a systematic manner. The academic review consists of creating a self-study report and a site visit. The self-study focuses on learning outcomes, curriculum, student experience, faculty, learning resources and administrative support. A two-day long site visit was conducted by a panel of two external and two internal peer reviewers. This paper presents planning, preparation and lessons learned from this recent academic review of the program. Some of the highlighted lessons learned are plan early, develop and implement a continuous improvement plan, secure faculty and administrative support to drive success in a graduate program.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-147). / It has been proposed that if a vascular prosthesis is to more closely approximate the mechanical behaviour of a native vessel, it should similarly feature a multi-component structure. One of the components could be a metal support structure, similar to an endovascular stent. The objective of the project was to develop a numerical tool, using the Finite Element Method (FEM) to aid in the development and optimization of such a metallic support structure. This tool was used to simulate the behaviour of different designs under the simulated in vivo conditions. The numerical results of the predicted mechanical behaviour are then analysed.

The application of ergonomics in the industry has become significantly important nowadays, especially for designing a workstation. The purpose of ergonomics application in industry is to make the workplace best fit for the workers to ensure their comfort and safety. It impacts the workers' satisfaction, reduces the number of injuries and production rate. To maximize the safety and productivity of a working environment, an ergonomic approach must evaluate every aspect of the workplace and appropriately implement rules, guidelines, and plans. This paper addressed an injury risk in the manufacturing industry and proposed multiple solutions to resolve injury and musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk. The injury risks include bare skin exposure to sparks while grinding, poor back posture, and hand injury while performing the operation. Keeping the worker in mind and the need for precision and specific tolerances, the difficulties are significant. The proposed design modification of the polishing/grinding machine was challenging because of the type of job performed here and the space limitations. The improvement of the workstation was made by incorporating an economic and ergonomic design approach. The result was verified by the ergonomic risk factor assessment tool Rapid Upper Limp Assessment (RULA) before and after the design modification.

We are living in a decade, where the use of digital images is becoming increasingly important. Photographs are now converted into digital form, and direct acquisition of digital images is becoming increasing important as sensors and associated electronics. Unlike images in analogue form, digital representation of images allows visual information to· be easily manipulated in useful ways. One practical problem of the digital image representation is that, it requires a very large number of bits and hence one encounters a fairly large volume of data in a digital production environment if they are stored uncompressed on the disk. With the rapid advances in sensor technology and digital electronics, the number of bits grow larger in softcopy photogrammetry, remote sensing and multimedia GIS. As a result, it is desirable to find efficient representation for digital images in order to reduce the memory required for storage, improve the data access rate from storage devices, and reduce the time required for transfer across communication channels. The component of digital image processing that deals with this problem is called image compression. Image compression is a necessity for the utilisation of large digital images in softcopy photogrammetry, remote sensing, and multimedia GIS. Numerous image Compression standards exist today with the common goal of reducing the number of bits needed to store images, and to facilitate the interchange of compressed image data between various devices and applications. JPEG image compression standard is one alternative for carrying out the image compression task. This standard was formed under the auspices ISO and CCITT for the purpose of developing an international standard for the compression and decompression of continuous-tone, still-frame, monochrome and colour images. The JPEG standard algorithm &Us into three general categories: the baseline sequential process that provides a simple and efficient algorithm for most image coding applications, the extended DCT-based process that allows the baseline system to satisfy a broader range of applications, and an independent lossless process for application demanding that type of compression. This thesis experimentally investigates the geometric degradations resulting from lossy JPEG compression on photogrammetric imagery at various levels of quality factors. The effects and the suitability of JPEG lossy image compression on industrial photogrammetric imagery are investigated. Examples are drawn from the extraction of targets in close-range photogrammetric imagery. In the experiments, the JPEG was used to compress and decompress a set of test images. The algorithm has been tested on digital images containing various levels of entropy (a measure of information content of an image) with different image capture capabilities. Residual data was obtained by taking the pixel-by-pixel difference between the original data and the reconstructed data. The image quality measure, root mean square (rms) error of the residual was used as a quality measure to judge the quality of images produced by JPEG(DCT-based) image compression technique. Two techniques, TIFF (IZW) compression and JPEG(DCT-based) compression are compared with respect to compression ratios achieved. JPEG(DCT-based) yields better compression ratios, and it seems to be a good choice for image compression. Further in the investigation, it is found out that, for grey-scale images, the best compression ratios were obtained when the quality factors between 60 and 90 were used (i.e., at a compression ratio of 1:10 to 1:20). At these quality factors the reconstructed data has virtually no degradation in the visual and geometric quality for the application at hand. Recently, many fast and efficient image file formats have also been developed to store, organise and display images in an efficient way. Almost every image file format incorporates some kind of compression method to manage data within common place networks and storage devices. The current major file formats used in softcopy photogrammetry, remote sensing and · multimedia GIS. were also investigated. It was also found out that the choice of a particular image file format for a given application generally involves several interdependent considerations including quality; flexibility; computation; storage, or transmission. The suitability of a file format for a given purpose is · best determined by knowing its original purpose. Some of these are widely used (e.g., TIFF, JPEG) and serve as exchange formats. Others are adapted to the needs of particular applications or particular operating systems.

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