The Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
G. V. Edmonson
Keyword(s):  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The University

Although the purpose of this paper is specifically that of describing the Fluids Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan, it is clear that an understanding of the faculty philosophy underlying the planning of this unit is a necessary part of the document. This is an age of technological expansion, the rate-of-change of which exceeds any progress the world has hitherto known. The seeking of new knowledge and the application of that knowledge is the work of an ever-increasing number of competent scientists and engineers not only skilled in a technology but equally successful in the art of human understanding and relationships. Institutions of higher education are an integral part of this technological age and, because of this fact, find themselves confronted with the task of foreseeing the educational and research needs of the future. This is an immense task, one which is occupying many of the best minds of this generation. The technological and social progress of the coming generation depends upon the continuing flow of students emanating from our institutions of learning. They must be adequately prepared for the responsibilities which they alone can assume.

scholarly journals Reading Habits of Users of Sardar Patel University: A Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Shishir H. Mandalia
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Continued Education ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Reading plays a vital role in life of a human. Reading provides experience through which the individual may expand his horizons of knowledge, identify, extend and intensify his interest and gains deeper understanding of himself, of other human beings and of the world. The study carried out to assess the reading habits of user of Sardar Patel University, VallabhVidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat. As a research tool; questionnaire was used for the data collection. Collected data were analyzed and tables were used to present the results of findings. Reading especially is a resource for continued education, for the acquisition of new knowledge and skills, for gaining information through media, especially newspapers, books, radio, television, and the computers. In this article investigator attempts to investigate the reading habits of users of the university.

scholarly journals Higher Education in VUCA-World: New Metaphor of University

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Korsakova
Keyword(s):  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Organizational Ties ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The University ◽  
Current Reality

In the 21st century universities cannot survive if they simply support an established state of affairs because the modern world is described by the following relation: the rate of change tends to infinity; the transition interval tends to zero. This leads to the fact that universities cannot rest on their laurels and not change. The university that cannot construct new organizational ties loses its magnitude forever. The article describes the specific features of the new reality which are of great importance for building modern organizational systems in universities. Reference points have been being identified and that allows presenting the direction of development that meets the new requirements of the modern world to people, processes, technologies, structures, and systems accordingly to the university. Analysis of the selected reference points leads to the conclusion that in the conditions of dynamic changes and uncertainty of the world the concrete way of the vision of the university’s situation is to see it as if in the light of the modern world. A metaphor is presented, which is based on a comparison of the university internal world with the current reality. It is expressed by the acronym VUCA.

scholarly journals Out of the Jar into the World! A Case Study on Storing and Sharing Vertebrate Data

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Susan Borda
Keyword(s):  
Ct Scanning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
The University

In 2018, the Deep Blue Repositories and Research Data Services (DBRRDS) team at the University of Michigan Library began working with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) to provide a persistent and sustainable (i.e., non-grant funded, institutionally supported) solution for their part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) openVertebrate (oVert) initiative. The objective of oVert is to the digitize scientific collections of thousands of vertebrate specimens stored in jars on museum shelves and make the data freely accessible to researchers, students, classrooms, and the general public anywhere in the world. The University of Michigan (U-M) is one of five scanning centers working on oVert and will contribute scans of more than 3,500 specimens from the UMMZ collections (Erickson 2017). In addition to ingesting scans, the project involved developing methods to work around several significant system constraints: Deep Blue Data’s file structure (flat files only, no folders) and the closed use of Specify, UMMZ’s specimen database, for specimen metadata. DBRRDS had to create a completely new workflow for handling batch deposits at regular intervals, develop scripts to reorganize the data (according to a third-party data model) and augment the metadata using a third-party resource, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This paper will describe the following aspects of the UMMZ CT Scanning Project partnership in greater detail: data generation, metadata requirements, workflows, code development, lessons learned, and next steps.  

William Wallace Campbell, 1862-1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Mount Wilson Observatory ◽  
Hancock County ◽  
The World ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
The University

This great astronomer died on 15 June 1938. In a pathetic letter to his wife he explained that his complete blindness in one eye, approaching blindness in the other eye, and still more the fear of losing his reason would make him nothing but a burden to his wife and fam ily and so had few regrets on leaving the world. The high esteem in which he was held was testified by the pall-bearers at his funeral. These included the Governor of the State of California, the Acting President and Officials of the University, the Director, the late Director of the Lick Observatory, and the Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. William Wallace Campbell was born on 11 April 1862 in a farm in Hancock County, Ohio. H e became a student of the University of Michigan and took the degree of B.S. in the faculty of Engineering. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Colorado, but two years later, at considerable financial sacrifice, returned to the University of Michigan as Instructor in Astronomy. In 1891 he was appointed Astronomer at the Lick Observatory, and remained there till 1923, when he yielded reluctantly to the pressure put upon him to accept the post of President of the University of California.

World setting: large estates and capital-intensive enterprises

1986 ◽  
Vol 316 (1537) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Capital Intensive

Capital-intensive irrigation schemes occupy only a small percentage of the irrigated land in the world, but their contribution to total production is out of all proportion to their size. Examination of the development of irrigated agriculture in the recent past can help in recognizing the most promising trends, so that world agricultural production can be given a chance o f keeping pace with the increasing demands. Capital-intensive schemes may point a way ahead, by identifying research needs and providing a proving ground for new technology as it becomes available. The worldwide transfer of this technology is the main hope for the future. Scientists and engineers have a vital part to play in developing and applying the new technology that is so urgently needed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document