title: Using management students as markers in engineering project papers

authors: Scott, Jonathan B.

abstract: This presentation reports on the value of a new assessment strategy in a final year project-based engineering paper. This assessment strategy is aimed to enhance students learning more efficient and effective selfmanagement skills as part of developing and completing their individual project-based work in the paper. The strategy requires students to regularly report their project’s progress and receive feedback from a manager/tutor (with Management background). As the manager does not have any detailed technical understanding, students need to communicate their technical concepts akin to how they would do so when working on real-life work projects involving interactions with potential clients from diverse backgrounds. The study makes more explicit the ways project-based work can be supported by enhancing students’ non-technical skills alongside their technical project work. The findings will be useful to inform further refinements to the teaching, learning and assessment in the paper to enhance students’ developing technical and non-technical skills useful in navigating their professional careers.

text: Using management students as markers in engineering project papers This presentation reports on the value of a new assessment strategy in a final year project-based engineering paper. This assessment strategy is aimed to enhance students learning more efficient and effective selfmanagement skills as part of developing and completing their individual project-based work in the paper. The strategy requires students to regularly report their project’s progress and receive feedback from a manager/tutor (with Management background). As the manager does not have any detailed technical understanding, students need to communicate their technical concepts akin to how they would do so when working on real-life work projects involving interactions with potential clients from diverse backgrounds. The study makes more explicit the ways project-based work can be supported by enhancing students’ non-technical skills alongside their technical project work. The findings will be useful to inform further refinements to the teaching, learning and assessment in the paper to enhance students’ developing technical and non-technical skills useful in navigating their professional careers.

year: 2017

title: The role of dynamics in enzyme activity

authors: Daniel, Roy M.

subjects: protein flexibility

abstract: Although protein function is thought to depend on flexibility, precisely how the dynamics of the molecule and its environment contribute to catalytic mechanisms is unclear. We review experimental and computational work relating to enzyme dynamics and function, including the role of solvent. The evidence suggests that fast motions on the 100 ps timescale, and any motions coupled to these, are not required for enzyme function. Proteins where the function is electron transfer, proton tunneling, or ligand binding may have different dynamical dependencies from those for enzymes, and enzymes with large turnover numbers may have different dynamical dependencies from those that turn over more slowly. The timescale differences between the fastest anharmonic fluctuations and the barrier-crossing rate point to the need to develop methods to resolve the range of motions present in enzymes on different time- and lengthscales.

text: The role of dynamics in enzyme activity Although protein function is thought to depend on flexibility, precisely how the dynamics of the molecule and its environment contribute to catalytic mechanisms is unclear. We review experimental and computational work relating to enzyme dynamics and function, including the role of solvent. The evidence suggests that fast motions on the 100 ps timescale, and any motions coupled to these, are not required for enzyme function. Proteins where the function is electron transfer, proton tunneling, or ligand binding may have different dynamical dependencies from those for enzymes, and enzymes with large turnover numbers may have different dynamical dependencies from those that turn over more slowly. The timescale differences between the fastest anharmonic fluctuations and the barrier-crossing rate point to the need to develop methods to resolve the range of motions present in enzymes on different time- and lengthscales.

year: 2003

title: Whāia ngā pae o te māramatanga: our horizons of pursuit

authors: Ruru, Jacinta

abstract: In Aotearoa New Zealand there is a growing recognition that Māori engagement and leadership across the science and research sector is essential for addressing national challenges and realising the distinctive contribution of mātauranga Māori to innovation and knowledge creation (Ministry of Education 2013a). To reap the benefits of the nation’s changing demographics and to centre Te Tiriti o Waitangi in society, it is critical that Māori are engaged in research and decision making in all disciplines and in all sectors. This article considers how Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM), New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, is contributing towards addressing and developing challenges and opportunities at the interface between mātauranga Māori and science. The article traces the contribution of NPM as a positive transformative contributor to research in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally

text: Whāia ngā pae o te māramatanga: our horizons of pursuit In Aotearoa New Zealand there is a growing recognition that Māori engagement and leadership across the science and research sector is essential for addressing national challenges and realising the distinctive contribution of mātauranga Māori to innovation and knowledge creation (Ministry of Education 2013a). To reap the benefits of the nation’s changing demographics and to centre Te Tiriti o Waitangi in society, it is critical that Māori are engaged in research and decision making in all disciplines and in all sectors. This article considers how Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM), New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, is contributing towards addressing and developing challenges and opportunities at the interface between mātauranga Māori and science. The article traces the contribution of NPM as a positive transformative contributor to research in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally

year: 2019