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Fostering project management competencies in undergraduate engineering: An exploration of the use of management- educated tutors as coaches in problem-based learning
(2018)CONTEXT Problem-based learning (PBL) helps engineering graduates develop the competencies needed in order to engage effectively with complex and uncertain workplace demands. PBL’s effectiveness, however, also depends on ... -
Microwave aquametry of roasting coffee beans
(IEEE, 2016)We constructed a fluidsed-bed coffee roaster with a roast chamber that is also a microwave cavity in order to measure water content of roasting coffee. We identify factors involved in roasting that influence the data. We ... -
Using neural fields to model motor evoked potentials due to transcranial magnetic stimulation
(2018)Neural field models, in which populations of neurons are described through ensemble-averaged properties such as firing rate and axonal flux, have been well-used to describe electroencephalogram (EEG) effects in natural ... -
Flipped classroom learning in a first-year undergraduate engineering course
(2018)Flipped classrooms support student-centred learning and are increasingly being adopted in institutions of higher learning worldwide. This paper is a report on the findings of a two-year funded project conducted on the ... -
News from INTAV 2018
(International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), 2018)INTAV ran a workshop entitled “Best practices in tephra collection, analysis, and reporting – leading toward better tephra databases”, on Saturday 19 August, 2017, in Portland, Oregon, USA. The oneday workshop followed the ... -
Pedological and some other soil-related activities within the Earth sciences discipline at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand − the first 50 years (1969-2018)
(New Zealand Society of Soil Science, 2018)We outline teaching and research activities relating to pedology and soil survey, and some other soil-related work involving geomechanics, both in New Zealand and Antarctica, carried out by staff and students in the Earth ... -
2016 Subtidal Ecological Survey of Tauranga Harbour and development of benthic health models
(Massey University, 2018)This report summarises the results of biological and physical data collected from a broad-scale subtidal survey of Tauranga Harbour conducted between March and May 2016. The survey was designed to understand more fully the ... -
Hauraki Gulf sedimentation: Unintended consequences of flood protection
(2018)The Universities of Waikato and Bremen have examined sedimentation in the Hauraki Gulf, focussing on the sediment discharges from the Coromandel Peninsula and the Waihou/Ohinemuri river systems, to assess whether anthropic ... -
Using management students as markers in engineering project papers
(2017)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 ... -
Testing a biologically-based system for extracting depth from brief monocular 2-D video sequences
(IEEE, 2018)Knowledge of the 3-D layout in front of a moving robot or vehicle is essential for obstacle avoidance and navigation. Currently the most common methods for acquiring that information rely on ‘active’ technologies which ... -
Bovine blastocyst development depends on threonine catabolism
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2018)Increasing evidence suggests that pluripotency is a metabolically specialised state. In mouse, inner cell mass (ICM) cells and ICM-derived pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) critically depend on catabolising the amino acid ... -
MaxGain: Regularisation of neural networks by constraining activation magnitudes
(Springer, 2019)Effective regularisation of neural networks is essential to combat overfitting due to the large number of parameters involved. We present an empirical analogue to the Lipschitz constant of a feed-forward neural network, ... -
Introduction to tephra-derived soils and farming, Waikato-Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand. University of Wisconsin-Platteville Education Abroad Program: Winterim Field Trip (15-17 January, 2019).
(School of Science (Earth Sciences), University of Waikato, 2019)This tour guide describes the origin of tephras and tephra-derived soils in North Island, New Zealand, including via upbuilding pedogenesis, and their mineralogical and other properties relevant to farming and orcharding ... -
Steps to improve gender diversity in coastal geoscience and engineering
(2018)Robust data are the base of effective gender diversity policy. Evidence shows that gender inequality is still pervasive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Coastal geoscience and engineering (CGE) ... -
The preservation of last-glacial (>50 to 40 ka) colluvium on low-relief surfaces in Alishan, an actively uplifting mountain in southwestern Taiwan
(Elsevier, 2018)Geomorphic studies on the Taiwan orogen have long focused on the rapid erosion and efficient sediment transport in response to active tectonic uplift and frequent earthquakes/heavy rains. Little attention has been paid to ... -
Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands
(ANU Press, 2017)The northwestern region of the Arnhem Land plateau has long been relatively well-documented and is renowned worldwide for its wealth of rock art, including numerous paintings referencing items of material culture, people ... -
Efficacy of Borides in Grain Refining Al-Si Alloys
(2018)The grain refining efficacy of titanium, aluminum, and niobium borides, as well as niobium aluminides, introduced via commercial and lab made master alloys on Al-Si alloys was investigated. Significant grain refinement is ... -
Dating painted Panel E1 at Nawarla Gabarnmang, central-western Arnhem Land plateau
(ANU Press, 2017)Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. ... -
Educating the deliberate professional: Preparing for future practices [Book Review]
(New Zealand Association for Cooperative Edcuation, 2016)This book is Volume 17 of the Professional and Practice-Based Learning book series edited by Billett, Harteis, and Gruber. This Book Series aims to bring together international research on the development of professionals, ... -
Bonamia Response 2015: Report from the Technical Advisory Group on Resilience Breeding in Flat Oysters
(Ministry for Primary Industries, 2017)Bonamia ostreae is an unwanted and notifiable organism that was first detected in New Zealand in flat oysters (Ostrea chilensis) collected in 2014 from the Marlborough Sounds. It is not known how B. ostreae entered New ...
