One of the newest, hottest, yet coolest places on campus is an old machine shop where design, invention, innovation and fabrication intersect to allow students to hold ideas in their hands! Visit the Maker Space and set your creativity free with laser cutters, 3-D printers and other design tools. You’ll see what we mean.
Environment, Energy & Resilience
Rich natural resources? Check. Energy assets? Yes. Irrepressible spirit and globally relevant culture? You know it. Is there a better place than New Orleans to study the environment, energy and resilience? As the leading research university in the city, Tulane is perfectly positioned to develop innovative solutions to balance growing demands for energy with responsibility to the environment and people who live in it.
Here are just a few of the centers, institutes and programs that set Tulane apart in environmental, energy and resilience research:
Environmental Studies is a multi-disciplinary program offered by the School of Liberal Arts that encompasses natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and fine arts.
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Emergn Partners with University of Arkansas on Product Management Training Course
January 28, 2021 GMT
BENTONVILLE, Ark. & LONDON (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 28, 2021
Emergn, a leading global professional services firm helping transform the way people and companies work and deliver solutions to their customers, today announced the company has partnered with the University of Arkansas (U of A) to provide a product management training course designed to help product managers and product owners with any level of experience acquire the skills needed to define, develop and launch products, services and features that fully satisfy the needs of their customers.
Abstract
This article presents a work-based learning and research approach to professional postgraduate education specifically in the case of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs. It highlights a prototype of the Cohort-based Advisory Team (CAT) model as a useful strategy. The authors propose that a design thinking approach that empathises with the student experience as the “Master” of the design reveals insights that may inform future formal higher education in the professions. An overview of the design thinking process associated with the Professional Studies programs as developed at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is provided. Case accounts of HDR students in the law and engineering disciplines provide exploratory evidence of the student experience. The article concludes that there is a case to be made to professional associations that this form of professional development (work-based learning and research) should be recognised in terms of the contributions it