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Looking beyond your own speciality: student and faculty perceptions of collaboration opportunities
Get PDFThis study examines engineering faculty and students’ views of collaboration beyond their own field, based on 12 engineering faculty interviews and a survey with 101 mechanical engineering students. Our analysis shows that faculty members’ views on collaboration exhibit more diversity in terms of crossing disciplinary, functional, organisational, and geographic boundaries, and they view this collaboration as more integrated into engineering work, professional practices, and problem-solving. Students, in turn, report a narrower scope of collaboration, primarily focusing on multidisciplinary collaboration to utilise engineering output. Our study helps inform engineering educators to integrate diverse collaboration more effectively with course design
Building team research targets and capacity in innovation hubs
Get PDFThis study describes how a multidisciplinary team at an Australian university’s innovation hub developed their research targets and capacity. The process through which research teams establish their research targets and strategies for achieving them is often tacit, which makes process sharing challenging. Referencing Situated Learning Theory (Brown et al., 1989) and using the Design and Development Research (DDR) framework (Richey and Klein, 2007) we document the process of how researchers negotiate to develop team research targets in this study. Our workshop data suggests that if researchers want to leverage the research abilities of others in their team, their targets must remain flexible. Additionally, a range of individual and organisation hinderers, barriers and enablers of conducting research were identified, that can inform practical actions to realise research strategy targets for innovation hubs
Chapter 5: Bright muon beams and muon colliders
No full textThe muon collider offers a path toward high-energy, high-luminosity lepton collisions that extends beyond the expected reach of electron-positron colliders and would be competitive in physics reach with proton colliders at the highest energies. Nonetheless, several challenging elements of muon collider technology must be more fully addressed to achieve a maturity level commensurate with linear colliders. In this chapter, the potential benefits of a muon collider in terms of cost, sustainability and timescale are outlined. The major remaining technical challenges are described and an R&D programme is outlined. This programme, assuming suitable funding, will enable the next Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics to make informed decisions regarding the future R&D path for lepton colliders
Comparing differences of trust, collaboration and communication between human-human vs human-bot teams: an experimental study
Get PDFAs machines enter the workplace, organizations work toward building their collaboration with humans. There is a limited understanding in litearture of how human-machine collaboration differs from human-human collaboration. Using an experimental design the study aimed at studying differences in trust, collaboration and communication between the two teams: humans and bot and humans-only teams. Due to limited availability of bots that express collaboration this set up was chosen. The findings highlight the differences in communication and collaboration between humans and bots as teammates. There were no differences in trust experienced by humans. The originality of the research is that it focuses on collaboration as a process and outcome rather than the team's performance
Are you an Alien Organization? Dare to take the test!
Get PDFDid you think the IdeaSquare innovation team has run out of things to think about? If so, you are wrong because this time the team explores alien civilizations
Co-creating the future through design-based education in innovation hubs
Get PDFCreativity and innovation have become prominent in higher education curricula. Applying a design paradigm has been frequently used to build innovative and creative skills in graduates across different discipline domains. Besides the design approach, another element that is important to increase innovation in organizations and society involves multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation. This observation triggered the establishment of the Aalto Design Factory in Finland in 2008, establishing an integrative, multidisciplinary education platform for design and experimentation. Offering vision, space, and courses focused on building capabilities to collaborate and innovate, Aalto Design Factory started sharing its reference model with other universities, supporting the establishment of other Design Factories worldwide. In 2022 the Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) included 37 co-creation platforms in 25 countries across the world. Sharing and learning from these experiences has become a crucial resource to develop DFGN operations further. One avenue where this takes place is a yearly meeting between the partners of the DFGN. In order to broaden the discussion beyond current Design Factories, as well as extend considerations from teaching and management to research, the first Design Factory Global Network Research Conference (DFGN.R) was piloted. In October 2022, 68 participants from 11 countries presented 22 studies at the first DFGN.R that took place at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. This special issue presents five selected papers that were first discussed at the DFGN.R 2022. The studies approach innovation and education from complementary perspectives and methods. Most of the studies have been conducted at one of the Design Factory hubs, showcasing the range of collaborative activities that happen in these hubs to increase innovation capabilities. Taken together, these five papers from three different continents give a glimpse into the activities taking place in the various Design Factories around the world. They explore how new approaches to innovation and creativity in Higher Education can take place, through applying effectuation theory and social learning theory, featuring metaphors such as cooking and sailing to inspire co-creation in action. We hope that these experiences will inspire educators, researchers, students and organizations active in Design Factory’s and similar co-creation platforms, to continue experimenting with the design paradigm, by exploring approaches and skills towards innovation and creativity that are imperative to champion change.
Chapter 1: Introduction
No full textThe 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU) outlined the current status and prospects in the field, and identified priorities for future particle physics accelerator facilities. In time order, these are: completion and commissioning of the CERN High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC); a future electron-positron Higgs factory; and a future hadron collider at the highest achievable energy and luminosity.
It is recognised in the community, and was acknowledged in the ESPPU, that construction of the next generations of colliders will be extremely challenging. In most cases, there are major technical obstacles to meeting the exceptional performance requirements. As documented throughout this report, achieving our long-term scientific goals will require the exploration and maturation of new technologies, materials and techniques to well beyond the current state of the art. Since many of these technologies are unique to particle physics in their immediate application, then this can only result from a new and extended phase of R&D organised within our own institutes and in conjunction with industry and related scientific fields. This is similar to the precursor R&D that led to the successful delivery of previous generations of machines, but is likely to be longer in duration and wider in scope
Chapter 9: Conclusion
No full textIn accordance with the recommendations of the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the European Laboratory Directors Group has completed a year-long process to determine the status and prospects of particle accelerator R&D in five key areas, and has proposed R&D objectives for the next five-to-ten years with an outline delivery plan to achieve them. The analysis and planning have been conducted by five expert panels, with membership from the European and international field. The panels have in turn consulted with a wide cross-section of the accelerator physics and particle physics communities, and relied upon their input and views for the identification, prioritisation and organisation of the future work plan.
This report therefore represents the view of the community within the five areas considered, whilst acknowledging that the future R&D programme will exist in the context of many other activities and demands on the resources of the field. The LDG has made ten recommendations concerning the future adoption and prioritisation of the roadmap, along with observations on the implementation and governance of the programme. It is our hope that the European accelerator physics community, in concert with the international partners, will use the Roadmap as a platform to move swiftly forwards into a new era of ambitious, cooperative, fundamental and applied R&D, and follow current projects such as Hl-LHC with increasingly rapid progress towards future generations of sustainable particle accelerators. The delivery of the facilities foreseen in the European Strategy, and the potential for future scientific discoveries in the long term, depends on it
Practical statistics for particle physics
Get PDFThis is the write-up of a set of lectures given at the CERN European School of High Energy Physics in St Petersburg, Russia in September 2019, to an audience of PhD students in all branches of particle physics. They cover the different meanings of `probability', particularly Frequentist and Bayesian, the binomial, the Poisson and the Gaussian distributions, hypothesis testing, estimation, errors (including asymmetric and systematic errors) and goodness of fit. Several different methods used in setting upper limits are explained, followed by a discussion on why 5 sigma are conventionally required for a 'discovery'
LHC Run-2 and future prospects
Get PDFThe lecture discusses both the current status of the Large Hadron Collider as well as its future running scenarios. In addition, a selection of the latest physics results from the experiments ATLAS, CMS and LHCb is presented