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Women's representation in construction and engineering continues to be low. Drawing on the stewardship theory, we investigated how women in the top management team and women in management drive the appointment and promotion of women at management and nonmanagement levels, respectively. We used a time lag research design and archival data from 495 construction and engineering organizations operating in Australia. The results of structural equation modeling suggest positive relationships between women's representation in management and both the appointments and promotions of women in nonmanagement roles. The findings also suggest some unpredicted relationships: women's representation in management is linked to the appointments of women managers, and hiring more female managers is linked to the promotion of more female managers. Together, these findings suggest that female managers act as "stewards" in their individual capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Thirteenth International Heat Transfer Conference held in Sydney, Australia. It was held under the joint auspices of the Australasian Fluids and Thermal Engineering Society and Engineers Australia for the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. The conference was intended to provide a forum for the exposure and exchange of ideas, methods and results in heat and mass transfer.

A novel way to support change and development in a country's education system is to send teachers abroad on a professional learning program, so that they become immersed in a different culture, language and education system. The focus of this study was to investigate the supports and tensions created during a professional learning and leadership development program, in which teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (n = 45) lived in Australia for one year. A multiple case study approach was used to report on the analysis of individual interviews with the KSA teachers (n = 5) and their capstone projects. Drawing on the 2019 study of McChesney and Aldridge,, we report on findings related to the teachers' evolving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) integration and leadership skills. Findings indicated that there were both tensions and supports for the KSA teachers. Tensions existed as the teachers were developing their English language proficiency and learned more pedagogical ideas about the integration of STEM into the curriculum. Furthermore, the KSA teachers benefitted from mentor teachers' support in schools and modelling of leadership practices with respect to planning and through completion of a capstone project. Implications concerning an international immersion program are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for automatic segmentation and object detection of tree crowns in airborne images captured from a low-flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in ecology monitoring applications. Cost effective monitoring in these applications necessitates the use of vision-band-only imaging on the UAV platform; the reduction in spectral resolution (compared to multi- or hyper-spectral imaging) is balanced by the high spatial resolution available (20cm/pixel) from the low-flying UAV, when compared to existing satellite or manned-aerial survey data. Our approach to object detection thus uses both geometry and appearance information (through the use of tree shape and shadow information) in addition to spectral information to help accurately distinguish tree crowns within our application. A predictive geometric template for tree detection is constructed using on-board UAV navigation data, sun lighting information and information about the geometry of the target crown. A two-stage detection algorithm is then used to segment tree crowns based on spectral (colour) information convolved with information from the predictive template. Results of our approach are presented using airborne image data collected from a fixed-wing UAV during a weed monitoring and mapping mission over farmland in West Queensland, Australia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Planting the Seeds of Science is a new early childhood science resource developed through a collaboration between science/engineering academics, early childhood teacher educators and early childhood pre-service teachers, with funding from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Based on best practice early childhood principles, the resource was designed to allow teachers maximum agency through interpretation of information, flexibility in choice of learning experiences, and adaptability in modifying learning experiences. This approach to curriculum development acknowledges teachers as professionals, and that the teacher best knows their children and interests, the teaching context, the environment, and the outcomes they wish to achieve. This paper outlines the emergent development of the resource, and presents an evaluation through multiple case studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australian archivists and records managers have been among the foremost international advocates of 'distributed' or 'post-custodial' management of electronic records. Ten years ago there was widespread acceptance of their view that those creating digital records would continue to manage them as archives, once they had ceased to use them in the day-to-day conduct of affairs. But in March 2000 the National Archives of Australia abandoned its commitment to distributed management This paper considers some of the arguments that have been deployed in these debates and explores what happened to the expectations of those who championed distributed, rather than traditional custodial, management [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on how creativity is implemented in the educational system of engineering courses in Australia. How the educational program was implemented; Impact of the program to engineers; Factors which contributes to the formation of creative ability in students.

The article offers an overview of the journal. The journal includes six papers from different countries including Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, United States, Great Britain, and Kuwait. The paper from Hong Kong discusses the working of Chinese construction enterprises. The relation between facilities management and open-plan attributes are discussed in the U.S. paper. The Kuwait paper focuses on the act of balancing mass production with customized houses.

Research into Australian students' science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) engagement has highlighted that there are comparably fewer women enrolling in STEM programs and working in STEM industries. In Australia, males make up 84% of the total population with STEM qualifications, for example, a report in 2015 found only 13% of all engineers in Australia were women. Science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM), an approach to STEM education that encourages interdisciplinarity, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, is a strategy that has the potential to increase girls' engagement with STEM. This research investigated the impact of the STEAMpunk Girls Program, funded by the Australian Government, on high school girls' learning and their teachers' teaching experiences. The program uses project-learning and design thinking strategies to enable the girls to gain confidence in themselves as change-makers with the capacity to generate solutions to real-world problems. Using a mixed method approach, the findings indicated that teachers and students were positive about the STEAMpunk Girls' experience, with significant increases in confidence and motivation in the girls at the end of the program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]