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Category Archives: PFP12F
Being a faculty: duties
I already posted this in the forums, but was not sure where exactly to put this. So I am having this blog entry as well. Throughout the entire course so far we have gone through various aspects of academic … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 10 – Changing Higher Education
In this blog, I’m going to discuss two topics in higher education where I would like to see a change. The first of these topics, a redefinition of our grading system, was prompted after our class discussion of the flaws … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 9 — Parental Expectations
Did anyone else see this article in The Chronicle today? The article discusses the disconnect some first generation college students feel when interacting with their families and includes stories from interviews with several Ph.D. students from working class backgrounds. As … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 8 – Citation of Unethical Studies
One thorny issue that we spent some time in class discussing, and which I’d like to discuss further here, is the ethical obligation of a scientist when considering whether to cite a study with unethical data collection methods. For the … Continue reading → Continue reading
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A course-a journey! PFP 2012
The semester is almost over. For most of us it has been a struggle as always and for some lucky few it has been a cruise! I was thinking about this semester, the PFP course and all the marvelous experiences I … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 7 – Communicating Science
Although I was out of town during the special class on communicating science, I’d like to use this blog to talk about why communicating science is so important and how we, as scientists, can improve this communication. Why Is Communicating … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Entrepreneurship in higher education
I always wanted to write about it. I don’t remember anyone talking about this aspect in the blogs.(pardon me if I missed) We all look for jobs when we graduate from our universities. Specially in higher education, after finishing Masters … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 6 – Scientific Misconduct and Living with a Broken System
In a previous blog, I talked about the limitations of peer review in catching cases of scientific fraud. Science has traditionally been considered a self-policing field, but if our peer review process cannot determine if a paper is fraudulent, how … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 5 – Flipping the Classroom
One topic that has come up in our discussions in class is the idea of flipping the classroom – in this blog, I talk about my experiences with and thoughts on how this technique can be used in engineering. As … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Blog 4 – “Binary” Representation of Ethics
In class, we touched a bit on the way ethics is typically taught at the undergraduate level in the engineering. For me, this brought to mind my recent experience taking the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) Exam. Because of my background, … Continue reading → Continue reading
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