Effective Systems Engineering Training

The need for systems engineering training is steadily increasing, as both the defense and commercial markets take on more complex "systems of systems" work. A variety of universities and commercial training vendors have assembled courses of various lengths, format, and content to meet this need. This presentation looks at the requirements for systems engineering training, and discusses techniques for increasing its effectiveness. Several format and content options for meeting these requirements are compared and contrasted, and an experience-based curriculum is shown

Muslims, Catholics, and the secular state

Any attempt to explore the relationship between representations of Muslims and public advocacy in modern Western societies must at some point situate both processes in relation to the broader crises of liberal citizenship currently afflicting Western democracies. Calls heard in the 1990s for multicultural citizenship and pluralist “recognition” have long since given way to demands for the exclusion of new immigrants and the coercive assimilation of those – especially Muslims -- long since arrived. This essay examines French Catholic and Muslim perspectives on secularism and citizenship in contemporary France. It highlights disagreements among progressive secularists as well as mainline Catholics and Muslims over how to engage the secular state as well as one’s fellow citizens. It explores the ways in which Catholic advocacy for and with Muslim citizens has been challenged by conservative trends in French Catholicism, as well as the perceived rise of Salafism and, most important, growing support for far-right and Islamophobic movements. The example shows that real-and-existing public spheres look less like the genteelly deliberative public spaces Jurgen Habermas described a generation ago. They are landscapes reshaped by movements, social media, and political entrepreneurs making use of reductionist arguments and media caricature (“fake news”) as much as or even more than deliberative reasoning. These realities present serious challenges to those who hope to use education and dialogue in public advocacy with and for Muslim citizens.Accepted manuscrip

Let's P.L.A.Y. A Memoir of a Master

Have you ever wanted to escape the limitations of what your brain thinks you are capable of? Well, lets P.L.A.Y, Performance Living Actively in You! Enter with me into a rehearsal process where perfection is replaced with discovery; where creation need not be tied to rhyme or reason. Leave the critical adult mind behind and jump into the body-your personal vehicle to this imaginary world!Through my artistic experience acting in A Beautiful Day in November, I found that full body expression is where PLAY lives, in the world of a play. Playing with the body, and without the critical and intellectual brain, allows the actor to expand and discover their character beyond initial ideas or basic pretenses. The utilization of P.L.A.Y., is not only useful in absurdist works, like A Beautiful Day in November, but I also found it extremely freeing in the classroom, classical texts, and stage productions.I was able to apply Checkov’s technique onstage in Man in Love, and use full body expression as a gateway to tapping into an internal feeling. By tapping into the physical sensation of falling, my body took inventory of the feeling of losing control. I was able to transmute that physical feeling into an emotional fear that was outwardly expressed onstage in my character Darylnn’s agoraphobia.In classical work, such as Shakespeare, I found that heightened text is best understood, for both myself and audiences, when executed with full body expression. By metabolizing words into a physical expression, my body removes language as a barrier to the comprehension of storytelling.My process to discovery changed once I got my body involved. Before then, I was a captive to the limitations of my mind with no idea of my capacity to be a chameleon of an actress. Through graduate school, I have found that there is no story that my body cannot lead me through

Emergent Landscape: Urban Shadow Space, Illuminated

This study defines a new approach to the transformation of unmaintained land within cities, or urban shadow space. Although urban shadow space can offer a place of free expression for the community and spontaneous vegetative growth within a city, it is often dismissed as blighted land by public authority. This study maximizes existing opportunities of these spaces, illuminating a realm of the city that is currently dark to the public eye. A proposed set of guidelines is utilized in the creation of three alternative designs that illustrate the emergent landscape, a sensitively designed, evolving landscape that encourages user interaction with the site. These guidelines and the results of their application are intended to assist design professionals who wish to move beyond the typical “clean and green” strategy currently employed by many municipalities to embrace a site’s existing characteristics

Status of linear boundary-layer stability and the e to the nth method, with emphasis on swept-wing applications

The-state-of-the-art for the application of linear stability theory and the e to the nth power method for transition prediction and laminar flow control design are summarized, with analyses of previously published low disturbance, swept wing data presented. For any set of transition data with similar stream distrubance levels and spectra, the e to the nth power method for estimating the beginning of transition works reasonably well; however, the value of n can vary significantly, depending upon variations in disturbance field or receptivity. Where disturbance levels are high, the values of n are appreciably below the usual average value of 9 to 10 obtained for relatively low disturbance levels. It is recommended that the design of laminar flow control systems be based on conservative estimates of n and that, in considering the values of n obtained from different analytical approaches or investigations, the designer explore the various assumptions which entered into the analyses

Research in Natural Laminar Flow and Laminar-Flow Control, part 2

Part 2 of the Symposium proceedings includes papers addressing various topics in basic wind tunnel research/techniques and computational transitional research. Specific topics include: advanced measurement techniques; laminar flow control; Tollmien-Schlichting wave characteristics; boundary layer transition; flow visualization; wind tunnel tests; flight tests; boundary layer equations; swept wings; and skin friction

Combined riblet and lebu drag reduction system

The invention is a system of flow control devices which result in reduced skin friction on aerodynamic and hydrodynamic surfaces. The devices cause a breakup of large-scale disturbances in the boundary layer of the flow field. The riblet device acts to reduce disturbances near the boundary layer wall by the use of longitudinal striations forming V-shaped grooves. These grooves are dimensional on the order of the wall vortices and turbulent burst dimensions. The large eddy breakup device is a small strip or airfoil which is suspended in the upper region of the boundary layer. Various physical mechanisms cause a disruption of the large-scale vortices. The combination of the devices of this invention result in a substantial reduction in skin friction drag

Nurse Practitioner Supply and Demand and Development of a Family Nurse Practitioner Program

The development of a nurse practitioner program in a rural community to meet the supply and demand of Nurse Practitioners (NP) in North Carolina was the focus of this project. With the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (H.R. 3890), the United States (U.S.) is faced with a predicted primary care provider shortage of 45,400-65,800. According to Miller (2011) The New England Journal of Medicine ranked North Carolina as # 7 in the U.S. as having the biggest challenge of producing enough primary care providers to meet the needs of the newly insured. A detailed analysis was conducted to determine the current state of the supply of Primary Care Providers and possible solutions to the expected shortage. A portion of the results of a demand analysis identified a need of 39,000 physicians in the U.S. by 2020. North Carolina now has about 2,700 family physicians, with projections indicating the state will need 2,000 more by 2020. As physician extenders, Nurse Practitioners can help offset this shortage. Universities will need to explore NP program development to meet the demands. The need for nurse practitioner programs is warranted at both regional and national levels. In 2010 there were 10,233 qualified applicants turned away from masters\u27 programs in the U.S. including those offering NP education (AACN, 2011). Adding a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Program to the existing Master of Science in Nursing Program at a small liberal arts University is an innovative, proactive approach designed to meet the health care demands of the 21st century

Selective Factors in Human Survival

Author Institution: Miami University, Oxford, Ohi