David B Knight
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 804718 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David B Knight |
| PRENOMES | David B |
| SOBRENOME | Knight |
| ASSINATURA | KNIGHT D B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4576-2490 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 166 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Agentic Actions and Agentic Perspectives Among Fellowship-Funded Engineering Doctoral Students
In the US and Europe, institutions, foundations and governments invest significant financial resources in doctoral fellowships. Unlike other graduate funding mechanisms, fellowships are typically not tied to specific projects or job responsibilities and thus may afford more agency to students. We examined how fellowship funding contributes to or undermines agency of doctoral student recipients. We interviewed 23 US engineering doctoral students p…
Synergistic organizational influences
A majority of engineering postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD) enter into jobs in industry, government, and non-profit organizations. However, most postgraduate programming is geared toward careers in academia. Our study examines how universities prepare engineering postgraduate students for careers outside of academia. We draw on interview data with administrators across 11 institutions and leverage an existing framework for organizational i…
Catalyzing Organizational Change for Equity in Graduate Education
Graduate education in engineering is an extremely challenging, complex entity that is difficult to change. The purpose of this exploratory research paper was to investigate the applicability of the Collective Impact framework, which has been used within community organizing contexts, to organize the change efforts of a center focused on advancing equitable graduate education within engineering. We sought to understand how the conditions of Collec…
Assessing learning processes rather than outcomes
There is an increasing emphasis on assessing student learning outcomes from study abroad experiences, but this assessment often focuses on a limited range of outcomes and assessment methods. We argue for shifting to assessing student learning processes in study abroad and present the critical incident technique as one approach to achieve this goal. We demonstrate this approach in interviews with 79 students across a range of global engineering pr…
Investigating student approaches to scenario-based assessments of systems thinking
The development of systems thinking is considered a critical skill set for addressing interdisciplinary problems. This skill set is particularly important in the field of engineering, where engineers are often tasked with solving socio-technical problems that often require knowledge beyond their original discipline and practice in unfamiliar contexts. However, existing assessments often fail to accurately measure teachable knowledge or skills tha…
Critically Examining the Role of Habitus for Minoritized Students in a Global Engineering Program
In study abroad programs, overall student participation and the representation of minoritized students continue to rise, but barriers to participation for minoritized students persist, especially in engineering. As we strive to broaden participation in engineering study abroad programs, we must critically examine the experiences of minoritized students who engage in these programs so we can facilitate supportive educational environments. This stu…
Effects of Large-Scale Programmatic Change on Electrical and Computer Engineering Transfer Student Pathways
Contribution: This article details the potential impacts of a curricular revision at a four-year institution on electrical and computer engineering (ECE) vertical transfer students using Heileman et al. 's curricular complexity framework. Background: The curriculum refresh was prompted by a National Science Foundation funded program called “Revolutionizing Engineering Departments”-encouraging departments to radically shift their curricula and cul…
Comparing students’ study abroad experiences and outcomes across global contexts
STEM doctoral student agency regarding funding
This study explores STEM doctoral student agency with respect to funding as it relates to degree completion and career preparation. We interviewed 39 graduate students in chemistry, physics, and engineering at two large, public, research-intensive institutions in the USA. Although STEM doctoral students have a high expectation of full funding, instability of funding and unavailability of desired funding types limit the agency of some students. Wh…
A Competitive System
Doctoral student recruitment is a dynamic, complex, and under-researched phenomenon. There is steep competition between programs for recruiting students with large amounts of resources at stake, especially within the STEM fields, and programs do not operate in isolation within such environments. In this paper, we explore how graduate programs position themselves relative to other programs as they recruit STEM doctoral students. Drawing from 47 in…
Engineering Transfer Students’ Reasons for Starting at Another Institution and Variation Across Subpopulations
Bolstering transfer pathways to a 4-year degree can help fill the country’s increasing need for innovative, diverse, skilled workers within engineering. Drawing on survey data from a sample comprised of a disproportionately large percentage of Hispanic/Latino students, this study focuses on understanding engineering transfer students’ reasons for starting at a different institution. Financial/Affordability, Nonacademic Commitments, and Academic F…
Deposit modeling for archaeological projects
This paper considers the application of deposit modeling within archaeological projects, summarizing the results of a Historic England funded project aimed at developing “good practice” for the application of these techniques within terrestrial environments. It provides an overview of what deposit modeling is, the environments where it can be used and the methods most commonly used. The paper identifies a series of issues and challenges in using …
A Tale of Two Cultures
My life has been framed by the two-cultures debate. A scientific education, good but narrow, led me into history of science just as anxiety about specialisation opened opportunities for ‘bridge’ subjects, and History and Philosophy of Science seemed just that bridge. My DPhil thesis (1964), on the reception of chemical atomic theory in the nineteenth century, led to a new lectureship at Durham that involved giving courses right across the differe…
Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK
Diverging Revenues, Cascading Expenditures, and Ensuing Subsidies
We present a three-part conceptual model that illuminates key dynamics promoting financial unsustainability within intercollegiate athletics. Revenue divergence comprises the first part as the influx of commercial athletic revenues primarily benefits a small set of universities housing prominent athletic programs. These schools then increase athletic expenditures, which promotes expenditures cascades as their spending spurs expenditure growth at …
Nationalism Self-Determination and Political Geography
Explores the place of nationalism in the modern world by looking at its relationship with politics and states, discusses the rise of minority national movements and the problems they cause
Bigram Frequency, Number of Syllables and Morphemes and Their Effects on Lexical Decision and Word Naming
The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution
Religion and Science
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
Geographies of the Orchestra
Humphry Davy, the poet
Davy was the friend of Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and wrote poetry extensively himself. The era of Erasmus Darwin, when the latest science could be communicated in verse, was passing: poetry in the Romantic period was to express feeling, while scientific language was to be exact. Davy's poetry reveals his pantheistic devotion to nature, his hopes of immortality, his attitude to younger chemists, and some use of scientific metaphors and ideas. …
Scientific lectures
In the anatomy theatres of Renaissance Europe, professors became performers; and right down into the nineteenth century, seeing corpses cut up could entertain as well as enlighten an audience. From about 1700, lectures on natural philosophy escaped from universities and attracted a public looking for polite learning, and valuing science as a momentous part of high culture. A calm eloquence, some exciting experiments, and a framework of natural th…
What Is to Be Done? And Do We Have Any Choice
Bounding whose territory? Potential conflict between a state and a province desiring statehood
Identity and Territory
Group politico-territorial identities are potent realities in our fragile world, yet geographers have all but ignored them. Elements and processes involved in recognizing such territorially bound identities are discussed, with a stress on questions of scale and perception. The “legitimacy” of a group politico-territorial identity depends upon the scale of abstraction and upon the definer's perspective. The main problem lies in defining nation. At…
Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography
Territory and People or People and Territory
The identities of large groups of people often are not really coincident with politically bounded territories in the international system of states. International law has developed to the point whereby priority of recognition is given to total populations of states and their governments rather than to sub-state groups. Self-determination is acceptable for the total population in a colonial territory—external self-determination-but self-determinat…
The British Empire at Its Zenith
Looks at the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns
Buffer States in World Politics
Living under Apartheid
Deposit modeling for archaeological projects
This paper considers the application of deposit modeling within archaeological projects, summarizing the results of a Historic England funded project aimed at developing “good practice” for the application of these techniques within terrestrial environments. It provides an overview of what deposit modeling is, the environments where it can be used and the methods most commonly used. The paper identifies a series of issues and challenges in using …
Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK
Statehood
Comparing students’ study abroad experiences and outcomes across global contexts
STEM doctoral student agency regarding funding
This study explores STEM doctoral student agency with respect to funding as it relates to degree completion and career preparation. We interviewed 39 graduate students in chemistry, physics, and engineering at two large, public, research-intensive institutions in the USA. Although STEM doctoral students have a high expectation of full funding, instability of funding and unavailability of desired funding types limit the agency of some students. Wh…
Obtaining an Understanding of Environmental Knowledge
A method for obtaining an understanding of people's environmental knowledge and values and the major findings are discussed. A participatory mental mapping exercise method was used with the Teme‐Augama Anishnabai and non‐indigenous, government‐appointed members of the Wendaban Stewardship Authority in Temagami, Ontario. Analytical categories were permitted to ‘emerge’ from the data obtained, rather than being imposed by the researchers. The findi…
A Capital for Canada
Engineering Transfer Students’ Reasons for Starting at Another Institution and Variation Across Subpopulations
Bolstering transfer pathways to a 4-year degree can help fill the country’s increasing need for innovative, diverse, skilled workers within engineering. Drawing on survey data from a sample comprised of a disproportionately large percentage of Hispanic/Latino students, this study focuses on understanding engineering transfer students’ reasons for starting at a different institution. Financial/Affordability, Nonacademic Commitments, and Academic F…
Diverging Revenues, Cascading Expenditures, and Ensuing Subsidies
We present a three-part conceptual model that illuminates key dynamics promoting financial unsustainability within intercollegiate athletics. Revenue divergence comprises the first part as the influx of commercial athletic revenues primarily benefits a small set of universities housing prominent athletic programs. These schools then increase athletic expenditures, which promotes expenditures cascades as their spending spurs expenditure growth at …
The Syllable Effect in Anagram Solution
Scientific lectures
In the anatomy theatres of Renaissance Europe, professors became performers; and right down into the nineteenth century, seeing corpses cut up could entertain as well as enlighten an audience. From about 1700, lectures on natural philosophy escaped from universities and attracted a public looking for polite learning, and valuing science as a momentous part of high culture. A calm eloquence, some exciting experiments, and a framework of natural th…
Sir Joseph Banks, PRS Mr Science 1778–1820
Role playing, decision making and perception of place
Small discussion groups for large classes generally reinforce or expand upon lecture material. Links between discussion groups and lectures are undoubtedly clear, but links between successive weekly discussion group topics may be vague. Thematic and role‐playing methods, used together, can help to overcome this problem. One discussion theme carried over several weeks can provide the needed link. Role‐playing lets students explore how contrasting …
The Effect of Negro and White Examiners on Negro Intelligence Test Performance
Centrality by Degrees / a 19th Century Canadian's Measurement for Central Location
The selection of a site for a capital city involves conflicts of interest, political considerations, and measures of centrality. The writers take the 19th century selection of Ottawa for Canada's capital as a case study. They focus attention on the contribution of Dunbar Ross, a lesser-known Canadian who developed his own unique system of measuring objectively the advantages of the various sites under consideration. His technique for measuring ce…
Political Territoriality in Canada / a Choropleth and Isopleth Analysis
Voting data from Canada's 30th Federal election are plotted using a choropleth technique for the majority political affiliation of each riding and an isopleth technique for the percentage vote cast for each of the four main parties. The latter technique brings forth patterns that otherwise would remain hidden. Questions about political territoriality are discussed. Les auteurs ont représenté les données du vote de la 30e élection fédérale du Cana…
A Capital for Canada
Role playing, decision making and perception of place
Small discussion groups for large classes generally reinforce or expand upon lecture material. Links between discussion groups and lectures are undoubtedly clear, but links between successive weekly discussion group topics may be vague. Thematic and role‐playing methods, used together, can help to overcome this problem. One discussion theme carried over several weeks can provide the needed link. Role‐playing lets students explore how contrasting …
Album of Science
The Nature of Science
The Population of New Zealand
Religion and the ‘new philosophy’
Identity and Territory
Group politico-territorial identities are potent realities in our fragile world, yet geographers have all but ignored them. Elements and processes involved in recognizing such territorially bound identities are discussed, with a stress on questions of scale and perception. The “legitimacy” of a group politico-territorial identity depends upon the scale of abstraction and upon the definer's perspective. The main problem lies in defining nation. At…
Living under Apartheid
Commentary
Territory and People or People and Territory
The identities of large groups of people often are not really coincident with politically bounded territories in the international system of states. International law has developed to the point whereby priority of recognition is given to total populations of states and their governments rather than to sub-state groups. Self-determination is acceptable for the total population in a colonial territory—external self-determination-but self-determinat…
Science Fiction of the Seventeenth Century
(1986). SCIENCE FICTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. The Seventeenth Century: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 69-79
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy . John F. W. Herschel
The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals . Margaret F. Steig
Buffer States in World Politics
Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography
Annals of Science
The British Empire at Its Zenith
Looks at the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns
Statehood
William Whewell philosopher of science
Essay Review
II. Skating on thin ice
Sir Joseph Banks, PRS Mr Science 1778–1820
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