Faculty Scholarship, Research, and Creative Workshttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1232642024-03-28T17:45:11Z2024-03-28T17:45:11ZWhose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open CollaborationVisintainer, SeanAnckle, StephanieWeischedel, Kristenhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2171922020-08-19T17:01:31Z2020-07-01T00:00:00ZWhose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration
Visintainer, Sean; Anckle, Stephanie; Weischedel, Kristen
Hoffman, Kimberly Davies; Clifton, Alexis
Texas’s Rio Grande Valley (RGV) population is predominantly Tejano (Texans of Hispanic ancestry). It is a region undergoing rapid growth, transforming from a rural farming and ranching region to a conurbation of municipalities stretching along the Rio Grande River, from Brownsville to Roma. Home to 1.2 million people, by 2050 the population of the RGV is projected to be greater than 2 million (Hoque et al., 2014).
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) is the RGV’s foremost higher education entity. Formed in 2013 from two legacy institutions, UTRGV’s 2018 enrollment was 28,644 students, with 87.8% of students identifying as Hispanic (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2018). UTRGV aims to be the nation’s first “B3” institution—bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2016, p. 15).
UTRGV’s Teaching and Learning (T&L) program is a key producer of Latinx school teachers in the RGV, Texas, and beyond. UTRGV Library’s Special Collections2 (SC) acquires, preserves, and makes rare and unique documents related to the culture and history of south Texas accessible to researchers. Whose History? project facilitators include a T&L faculty member and two librarians: the Head of Special Collections and the Digital Archivist. The T&L faculty member guides lesson plan creation using place-based education (PBE) pedagogical practices, while the librarians assist with teacher-candidate research and the online publication of select lesson plans.
2020-07-01T00:00:00ZValidation Theory and Culturally Relevant Curriculum in the Information Literacy ClassroomQuiñonez, Torie L.Olivas, Antonia P.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2164802020-06-09T23:30:04Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZValidation Theory and Culturally Relevant Curriculum in the Information Literacy Classroom
Quiñonez, Torie L.; Olivas, Antonia P.
In four separate undergraduate information literacy classes where students predominantly identified as Latinx, two instruction library faculty revamped the standard information literacy curriculum to emphasize Latinx scholarship. They affirmed student life experience as authority in order to understand how validation theory affects the student scholar identity of first year Latinx college students from a large metropolitan area in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The two librarians who designed and team-taught these information literacy sessions are also both Latinx and come from urban borderlands backgrounds. Both identify as first-generation college students and one identifies as having a mixed status family background.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZPoached Barrier Reef: Evaluating Articles on the WebOpdahl, JudyKane, Denisehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2163012020-06-03T22:34:34Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZPoached Barrier Reef: Evaluating Articles on the Web
Opdahl, Judy; Kane, Denise
First-year undergraduate students are novices at consuming web information due to a lack of critical information literacy skills. This recipe is designed to satisfy first-year students’ thirst for knowledge by demonstrating web article evaluation and allowing students to savor the experience of the internet buffet.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZVertical Expansion: A Solution for Future Container TerminalsZaerpour, NimaGharehgozli, AmirDe Koster, Renéhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2150842020-02-14T00:55:08Z2019-08-01T00:00:00ZVertical Expansion: A Solution for Future Container Terminals
Zaerpour, Nima; Gharehgozli, Amir; De Koster, René
Container terminals play a major role in the growth of international trade. They need to accommodate the increasing number of containers while their space is limited, particularly close to major cities. One approach, often used in practice, is horizontal expansion through expensive land reclamation projects. In contrast, vertical expansion uses the available land more efficiently by storing containers in high-bay warehouses. In this paper, we study a next generation container terminal consisting of container storage towers. A container tower is a cylindrical structure which consists of multiple levels of storage locations, lifts, and input and output (I/O) points (or depots). The lifts can rotate and can move containers horizontally and vertically to transport containers between the storage locations and the I/O points. We investigate several design questions: 1) What is the optimal configuration of a container tower? 2) How does a container tower compare to a traditional container block of the same storage capacity, in terms of throughput capacity? 3) Is a container tower financially feasible compared to an existing container block of the same storage capacity? 4) What are the impacts of varying design parameters on the container tower performance and its financial feasibility? Question 1 is answered by obtaining closed-form expressions for the tower travel time, formulating the problem as a nonlinear optimization model, and deriving closed-form expressions for the tower optimal configuration. Questions 2 and 3 are answered by using closed-form expressions in order to compare the performance of two systems. Question 4 is answered by a sensitivity analysis for the design parameters of the container tower. The results show that, compared to a traditional container block, the container tower can increase the annual throughput, while saving on the required footprint at competitive investment costs. In particular, the container tower can increase the annual throughput up to 120% compared to a container block of the same storage capacity.
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