Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Breaking down barriers:teenage girls’ perceptions of engineering as a study and career choice

Background: Stereotypically perceived to be an ‘all male’ occupation, engineering has for many years failed to attract high numbers of young women [1,2]. The reasons for this are varied, but tend to focus on misconceptions of the profession as being more suitable for men. In seeking to investigate this issue a participatory research approach was adopted [3] in which two 17 year-old female high school students interviewed twenty high school girls. Questions focused on the girls’ perceptions of engineering as a study and career choice. The findings were recorded and analysed using qualitative techniques. The study identified three distinctive ‘influences’ as being pivotal to girls’ perceptions of engineering; pedagogical; social; and, familial. Pedagogical Influences: Pedagogical influences tended to focus on science and maths. In discussing science, the majority of the girls identified biology and chemistry as more ‘realistic’ whilst physics was perceived to more suitable for boys. The personality of the teacher, and how a particular subject is taught, proved to be important influences shaping opinions. Social Influences: Societal influences were reflected in the girls’ career choice with the majority considering medical or social science related careers. Although all of the girls believed engineering to be ‘male dominated’, none believed that a woman should not be engineer. Familial Influences: Parental influence was identified as key to career and study choice; only two of the girls had discussed engineering with their parents of which only one was being actively encouraged to pursue a career in engineering. Discussion: The study found that one of the most significant barriers to engineering is a lack of awareness. Engineering did not register in the girls’ lives, it was not taught in school, and only one had met a female engineer. Building on the study findings, the discussion considers how engineering could be made more attractive to young women. Whilst misconceptions about what an engineer is need to be addressed, other more fundamental pedagogical barriers, such as the need to make physics more attractive to girls and the need to develop the curriculum so as to meet the learning needs of 21st Century students are discussed. By drawing attention to the issues around gender and the barriers to engineering, this paper contributes to current debates in this area – in doing so it provides food for thought about policy and practice in engineering and engineering education.

Bases de datos XML nativas

Conèixer les diferents opcions a l'hora d'emmagatzemar dades i documents amb format XML. Familiaritzar-se amb els SGBD nadius i l'accés i maneig de la informació. Conèixer diferents formes d'accés al SGBD, conèixer les APIs disponible Centre en el llenguatge Java. Integració de tots els coneixements adquirits, desenvolupant una aplicació que accedeixi i gestioni dades emmagatzemades al SGBD.

Proyectos en empresas: la experiencia de Ingeniería Informática Empresarial

Esta comunicación tiene por objetivo exponer la experiencia a la fecha de la participación de las empresas en el proceso de formación -bajo un enfoque de desarrollo de competencias- de los Ingenieros en Informática Empresarial de la Universidad de Talca (Chile). En primer lugar se presenta la carrera y el contexto en el que se inserta, así como los principios que guiaron la construcción de su plan de estudios, entre los cuales destaca su orientación hacia la innovación y la enseñanza dual, lo que implica la activa participación de las empresas en el proceso de formación. Esto último implica la aplicación de una metodología de enseñanza dominada por el aprendizaje basado en problemas, lo que conlleva necesariamente a una fuerte vinculación con empresas. Posteriormente se presentan los resultados de esta experiencia desde la perspectiva de los alumnos y de las empresas que permiten identificar las fortalezas, debilidades, oportunidades y amenazas detectadas. Partir de allí se desprenden algunas acciones a seguir con miras a superar las debilidades encontradas

Plan de orientación y acogida para un nuevo título de grado acorde al EEES en la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

El alumno percibe una gran diferencia entre la educación secundaria y la educación universitaria al comenzar sus estudios de grado. Los programas de orientación que ayudan a afianzar la integración social y académica de los alumnos de nuevo ingreso contribuyen a evitar el abandono de los estudios iniciados en un centro universitario. La Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (FI-UPM) cuenta con cuatro años de experiencia en la implantación de un programa de mentoría para la orientación y acogida de alumnos de nuevo ingreso, contribuyendo, junto a otras medidas, a una disminución notable de la tasa de abandono. Este bagaje ha permitido la definición de un Plan de Orientación y Acogida para el nuevo título acorde con el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), que incluye tres acciones de carácter complementario. En primer lugar, el Proyecto de Inicio para Alumnos de Nuevo Ingreso, el cual combina los aspectos de orientación y acogida con la realización de un proyecto en equipo en los primeros cuatro días del curso que permite la evaluación de las competencias de trabajo en equipo y presentación oral. En segundo lugar, el Plan de Acción Tutorial tiene como objetivo orientar al alumno a lo largo de toda la carrera universitaria, en especial en lo referente a la matriculación, para aumentar la eficiencia del alumno en los créditos superados frente a los matriculados. Como tercera acción, el Proyecto Mentor se complementa con las dos anteriores al proporcionar una orientación entre iguales, la cual tiene que acomodarse a las nuevas condiciones en las que se desarrollan los planes de estudio acordes al EEES

Installing and using an automatic data processing system; a case study for management.

Mode of access: Internet.

Data Processing Student Working

A student from the Data Processing program at the New York Trade School is shown working. Black and white photograph with some edge damage due to writing in black along the top.

SOAP processing performance and enhancement

The web services (WS) technology provides a comprehensive solution for representing, discovering, and invoking services in a wide variety of environments, including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and grid computing systems. At the core of WS technology lie a number of XML-based standards, such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), that have successfully ensured WS extensibility, transparency, and interoperability. Nonetheless, there is an increasing demand to enhance WS performance, which is severely impaired by XML's verbosity. SOAP communications produce considerable network traffic, making them unfit for distributed, loosely coupled, and heterogeneous computing environments such as the open Internet. Also, they introduce higher latency and processing delays than other technologies, like Java RMI and CORBA. WS research has recently focused on SOAP performance enhancement. Many approaches build on the observation that SOAP message exchange usually involves highly similar messages (those created by the same implementation usually have the same structure, and those sent from a server to multiple clients tend to show similarities in structure and content). Similarity evaluation and differential encoding have thus emerged as SOAP performance enhancement techniques. The main idea is to identify the common parts of SOAP messages, to be processed only once, avoiding a large amount of overhead. Other approaches investigate nontraditional processor architectures, including micro-and macrolevel parallel processing solutions, so as to further increase the processing rates of SOAP/XML software toolkits. This survey paper provides a concise, yet comprehensive review of the research efforts aimed at SOAP performance enhancement. A unified view of the problem is provided, covering almost every phase of SOAP processing, ranging over message parsing, serialization, deserialization, compression, multicasting, security evaluation, and data/instruction-level processing.

Training and education programs in automatic data processing (ADP).

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Organizational and direct support maintenance manual : data processing unit CP-1435/MYQ-4, (NSN 7010-01-092-2549).

Includes index.

Software engineering: methods, modeling and teaching

Since the emergence of software engineering in the late 1960's as a response to the software crisis, researchers throughout the world are trying to give theoretical support to this discipline. Several points of view have to be reviewed in order to complete this task. In the middle 70's Frederick Brooks Jr. coined the term "silver bullet" suggesting the solution to several problems rela-ted to software engineering and, hence, we adopted such a metaphor as a symbol for this book. Methods, modeling, and teaching are the insights reviewed in this book. Some work related to these topies is presented by software engineering researchers, led by Ivar Jacobson, one of the most remarkable researchers in this area. We hope our work will contribute to advance in giving the theoretieal support that software engineering needs.