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Works Project (work + project)

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Engineering75%

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Small Built Works Project

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2006
Energizing the Public Realm in Buffalo
The Small Built Works Project is an experimental design-build program that uses the city as its laboratory. Work is primarily initiated by a senior undergraduate option studio offered in the Spring then augmented by a construction techniques elective open to both graduate and undergraduate students. Small Built Works has completed twenty-seven streetscape projects in Buffalo's urban core since 2001 under the management construct of six conceptual projects that have generated four approved building permits. These six projects are the Community Transformation Project (2001,2004), the Bus Shelter Project (2002,2005), the Gateway Project (Kiosk and Planter 2003,2005), the Totem Project (Mardi Gras float and the Connecticut Street Sculpture Park 2004,2006), the El Museo Gallery (2005,2006), and the Greening Collaborative Project (2006). In 2005, the Small Built Works Project won the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards Grand Prize for the creative integration of education and practice. This presentation is broken down into three aspects of the concept of 1:1 inherent in the work. [source]

Child protection in the community: a community development approach

CHILD ABUSE REVIEW, Issue 6 2004
Sarah Wright
Abstract This article describes the development of a community work project which aims to address issues relating to the safety of children within their communities. The project's work is underpinned by an ecological theory of child abuse and embraces a community development approach. The approach aims to engage local communities in de,ning issues relevant to them and in identifying strategies for addressing these issues. The project has engaged in a mixture of direct service delivery, in,uencing and networking activities and ,community capacity building' activities. As the project has developed, the remit of its work has become increasingly de,ned by local people. Market research was undertaken to promote an understanding of the things that children and parents felt affected children's safety locally. A community conference was organized to promote awareness about the issues that were identi,ed and to engage local policy-makers and professionals in discussing potential solutions with community members. A youth forum has been established to enable young people to in,uence local decision-making about issues that affect their safety and well-being within the community. The community development approach is seen as being effective in helping young people to in,uence their environment and in reducing vulnerability through promoting self-esteem. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Computer-based management environment for an assembly language programming laboratory

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Issue 1 2007
Santiago Rodríguez
Abstract This article describes the environment used in the Computer Architecture Department of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) for managing small laboratory work projects and a specific application for an Assembly Language Programming Laboratory. The approach is based on a chain of tools that a small team of teachers can use to efficiently manage a course with a large number of students (400 per year). Students use this tool chain to complete their assignments using an MC88110 CPU simulator also developed by the Department. Students use a Delivery Agent tool to send files containing their implementations. These files are stored in one of the Department servers. Every student laboratory assignment is tested by an Automatic Project Evaluator that executes a set of previously designed and configured tests. These tools are used by teachers to manage mass courses thereby avoiding restrictions on students working on the same assignment. This procedure may encourage students to copy others' laboratory work and we have therefore developed a complementary tool to help teachers find "replicated" laboratory assignment implementations. This tool is a plagiarism detection assistant that completes the tool-chain functionality. Jointly, these tools have demonstrated over the last decade that important benefits can be gained from the exploitation of a global laboratory work management system. Some of the benefits may be transferable to an area of growing importance that we have not directly explored, i.e. distance learning environments for technical subjects. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 15: 41,54, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae.20094 [source]