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The STEM Advantage: Career Planning and Internship Strategies for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Postgraduate Students
Ben Archer · James Cook University · 2025
This comprehensive guide bridges the gap between academic learning and professional application, offering a structured framework developed through experiences of students successfully completing their internship programs. Educators and students alike will benefit from practical methodologies that transform theoretical knowledge into workplace readiness, with strategic guidance for creating personalised career trajectories and maximising internship experiences.
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Business Math
Jean-Paul Olivier · Red River College of Applied Arts, Science, & Technology
In the contents: 2.02: Fractions Decimals and Rounding (Just One Slice Of Pie Please) · 2.05: Linear Equations - Manipulating and Solving (Solving the Puzzle) · 3.03: Ratios Proportions and Prorating (It Is Only Fair)
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Project Management for Instructional Designers
David Wiley · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.05: 1.2 Project Definition and Context -- Project Management for Instructional Designers · 2.04: 2.3 Complex Systems and the Darnall-Preston Complexity Index -- Project Management for Instructional Designers · 3.01: 3 Project Phases and Organization -- Project Management for Instructional Designers
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Communicating Strategically in the Workplace: A Resource for Engineering and Science Majors
Karishma Chatterjee; Damla Ricks; Diane Waryas Hughey · Mavs Open Press · 2025
We created this book to provide a targeted understanding of the process of communication to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) students. We have included specific and concise information in this book catering to technical and professional fields. Students will be able to develop their skills in writing, presenting, and interviewing, and improve their interpersonal relationships in the workplace.
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An Australian and New Zealand Human Resource Management Guide to Work Health and Safety
Lynnaire Sheridan · University of Otago · 2023
An Australian and New Zealand Human Resource Management Guide to Work Health and Safety (WHS) is comprised of three sections: an historical overview, an introduction to theory, and a guide to WHS implementation via the adoption and enactment of a safety management system. The socio-historical review of human ‘labour’ outlines foundational knowledge on the intertwined origins of worker labour and safety rights, while contextualising the formation and role of unions in securing labour rights that, today, are standard in Australian and New Zealand contexts. It enhances understanding of the historical origins of the contemporary disciplines of Employment Relations and WHS to explain their commonly shared assumptions and principles. The theoretical introduction defines key concepts for WHS management and outlines James Reasons’ Swiss Cheese Model of safety incident causation. A systems-based approach to WHS management is proposed as a mechanism to identify, and actively resolve, latent factors before introducing organisational safety culture as fundamental to effective WHS management. The guide to implementation outlines the leadership commitment, policies, procedures, planning, and compliance competency required before a safety management system can begin. It explores implementation of hazard identification, risk assessment, and hazard control procedures before emphasising that this should occur parallel to establishing effective emergency response procedures. It concludes by outlining how to use measurement and evaluation to ‘close the loop’ ready for the next iteration of the safety management system cycle. This book affords Human Resource managers a comprehensive overview of Safety I approaches to WHS while outlining how theory and practice is shifting towards a more human-centric, Safety II, approach. It puts workers, and their health, at the centre of WHS management while recognising the organisational constraints within which WHS practitioners operate.
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Design Roadmapping: Guidebook for Future Foresight Techniques
Lianne Simonse · TU Delft Open · 2024
DESIGN ROADMAPPING is for anyone interested in design, strategy and innovation, and its wonderful combinations. For those who dare to create a future vision, frame the time pacing and map the pathways towards it. This guidebook teaches you how to create a roadmap. It outlines the origins, design theories and science results. Strategic designers, innovation managers and professors share their roadmapping experiences, views and achievements, including venture CPOs, Head of Design, product and program managers of international companies such as Canon, Peerby, Ferrari, Philips, Victoria State Library and many more. By design roadmapping you devise creative responses to future strategic challenges. Guided by future foresight techniques, you uncover new trends, scout for new technologies and map the values and ideas on the roadmap. Through strong visualization, a design roadmap supports an organizational mindset on value innovations.
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Policy Analysis of Multi-Actor System
Ben Enserink; Pieter Bots; Els van Daalen · TU Delft Open · 2022
Policy of Multi-Actor Systems is an introduction into the art of craft of problem exploration and problem structuring. It positions policy analysis as a scientific discipline focused on systems analysis in a multi-actor context to support better informed decision-making. The approach presented in this book is considered to be the cornerstone of the curricula of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology and underlies the research on (the governance of) socio-technical systems. Systems thinking applied in a multi-actor environment and its inherent multi-disciplinary character is what makes this work stand out from traditional hard- and soft systems approaches. The core of the book is dedicated to systems analysis, actor- or stakeholder-analysis and discusses methods for dealing with uncertainty. These analytical activities combined lead to a rich problem description and to plans for further research. Due to the stepwise approach this book serves as a basis for any problem analysis both for our bachelor and master students, our alumni worldwide and any interested practitioners.
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Information Systems for Business
Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar · OERI
In the contents: 04: Data and Databases · 4.01: Introduction to Data and Databases · 4.05: Sidebar- The Difference between a Database and a Spreadsheet
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Research-Based Strategies for Even Better Preschool Storytimes
Erin Ingram · University of Kentucky
In the contents: 02: Integrate Songs and Digital Technology · 2.4.01: Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Book Selection · 2.4.02: Gender and Sexual Identity Family Structures
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Information Systems for Business (Revised 1st Edition, 2021)
Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
In the contents: 04: Data and Databases · 4.01: Introduction to Data and Databases · 4.05: Sidebar- The Difference between a Database and a Spreadsheet
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Strategies for Success in a Nursing Program
Lisa Harding, Alex Rockey and Joselle Merritt · Bakersfield College
In the contents: 1.06: College Culture and Expectations · 1.09: Summary- How Can This Book And This Course Help · 2.04: Public Speaking and Class Presentations
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Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Ferrier and Mays)
Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.02: Taking Risks and Building Resilience on the Path to Innovation · 1.03: From the Field- QandA With a Young Innovator · 1.04: Whats an Intrapreneur And How Do I Become One
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Information Systems for Business 2e
Pham & Desai-Naik · Evergreen Valley College
In the contents: 1.03: The Evolution and Role of Information Systems · 04: Data and Databases · 4.01: Introduction to Data and Databases
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Introduction to Intellectual Property
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.02: Deciding Whether and How to Enforce a Patent · 2.10: Patent Trolls and Efforts to Thwart Them · 3.05: Rights and Terms
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Management Information Systems Remix
Candice Nance · Cañada College
In the contents: 1.03: The Evolution and Role of Information Systems · 04: Data and Databases · 4.01: Introduction to Data and Databases
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Nutrition Science and Global Food Issues
Mardi Parelman · San Diego Miramar College
In the contents: 01: Nutrition and You · 1.02: Defining Nutrition Health and Disease · 1.04: The Broad Role of Nutritional Science
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Irrigation Systems Management (AET 021)
Dean E. Eisenhauer, Derrel L. Martin, Derek M. Heeren, Glenn J. Hoffman · University of Nebraska Lincoln
In the contents: 1.04: Impact of Irrigation on Water Resources and the Environment · 2.05: Available Water and the Soil Water Reservoir · 2.10: Measuring Soil Water Content and Matric Potential