Learning Through Industry Interface Projects
Industry interface projects are an integral part of the curriculum of the Global Masters of Business Administration GMBA program at S.P. Jain School of Global Management, which has campuses in Singapore and Dubai. The GMBA is a one-year full-time residential program, where students spend six months each in Singapore and Dubai, completing one project at each location. The first project, which is undertaken in Singapore, is called the Applied Research Project ARP and is an “inquiry based” field research project. It provides an opportunity to the students to apply their knowledge of market research, quantitative techniques, and other subjects that they learn in the first semester. This is an independent project without any involvement of a client organization. The second project, which is undertaken in Dubai, is called the Action Learning Project ALP. Fresh teams are formed to undertake this client-based project, and there is no relationship between the topics and teams of ARPs and ALPs. Over a period of the last seven years, more than 250 students have undertaken about 100 ARPs and 100 ALPs with 50 client organizations in the areas of logistics and supply chain management. In this paper I discuss the structure of these projects and learnings from undertaking these projects at two locations.
The Management of Learning Grid for Management Development
In this article the author examines the concept of experiential leaning in regards to management education. The author attempts to evaluate the method due to contradictory findings on the method's effectiveness. He examines several teaching styles that use the experiential learning method and discusses how the professors transmit their information to the classroom. The author develops a Management of Learning Grid for the evaluation process and determines that the experiential learning method can be improved through a better interpretation of the research findings accumulated during the learning process.
Mechanical behaviour and durability of high volume fly ash cementitious composites
The purpose of this research is to separate different morphological particles of ASTM class F fly ash, and study their effect on mechanical behaviour and durability of high volume cementitious mixtures. In this research wet separation of raw fly ash is carried out, which resulted in three layers of different morphological particles. The first layer of particles float, comprise of about 1-5% of fly ash, is identified as cenospheres or hollow spheres. The second layer of particles is measured to be 55-60% of raw fly ash and consisting of porous spherical and rounded particles rich in Si and Al. The third layer particles is measured to be about 35-40% of raw fly ash. High volume fly ash cementitious composites containing second or third layer particles are tested under compression and bending, highlighting a higher strength and ductility in comparison to cementitious ones containing raw fly ash particles. KEYWORDS. Cementitious matrix; Raw fly ash; Second layer particles; Third layer particles.