Nowadays, the academic job has become very competitive for Ph.D. graduates, and many Ph.D. graduates remain unemployed or underemployed. “The highest rates of academic employment are reported by doctorate recipients in humanities and other non-S&E fields (near 80%); the lowest rates are reported by engineering (15%) and physical sciences (29%) doctorates”( National Science Foundation.2014) Few […]
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Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media
All faculties experience having students who are constantly updating their statuses on Facebook or refreshing their Twitter. Most of the faculties find the social media as a barrier to the learning of students at class. However, nowadays, some other faculties are using social media to enhance learning in class and improve their productivity. A report […]
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Dilemma: Open Access or Not?
As I came to the United States about three years ago, I rarely heard about open-access journals in my major: Construction Engineering and Management. I first exposed to that when my papers are accepted for ASCE journals (American Society of Civil Engineering), within the acceptance email, there was a note that I can pay the […]
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What Factors Do Threat Scientific Integrity and Ethics?
Before I got into cases, I decided to look at the ORI website, and the quarterly newsletter grabbed my attention. The March 2017 newsletter demonstrates the statistics that is very interesting to look at. ORI received 329 research misconduct cases between 2006 and 2015. 125 of these cases were closed with research misconduct findings, and […]
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The Power of Mission Statement
I received my master’s degree from University of Nebraska (UNL) and then, started my PhD at Virginia Tech (VT). For this reason, it was interesting for me to look at the mission statements of these two universities and discuss differences between a university ranked below 100 and a top ten university in graduate engineering program. […]
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