ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 11, 2022
Educational Development and Evaluation: A Case Study from Nepal
Dr. Nishant B. Narnaware, Dr. A. Dinesh Kumar
Page no 513-519 |
10.36348/sjet.2022.v07i09.001
Education has been started to be stored in the computer away from our minds. : It is aimed through the paper to specify the need of University in correct context through the case study of Madan Bhandari Memorial Academy Nepal. It is conducted using content analysis through consultation. It has worked on 7 projects out of 8 projects within the year 2021-2022. Most of the projects were under Dr. A.K. Mishra who was key scientist. Excessive pressure to attain regular class. Regular absenteeism of teachers was common issue. The management found guilty for hiding weakness of MBMAN by asking to do self-library study, unit test and group study in absence of teacher. This university will be solution for developing sustainable economy focusing self-employment, employee in the nation overcoming high foreign deployment and it will also promote local technology and skills covering school drop outs at various levels. Research based performance evaluation indicator should be introduced in Teachers performance evaluation as proposed. Regularity of faculty should be assured.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 11, 2022
Determination of the Dielectric Constant of CuSO4.5H2O (%) Solutions using Visible Light
Samir A. Hamouda, Maqboula Khamis Ibrahim
Page no 520-524 |
10.36348/sjet.2022.v07i09.002
Optical constants such as refractive index, absorption coefficient, extinction coefficient and the real (εr) and imaginary (εi) components of the dielectric constant for CuSO4.5H2O (10-100%) concentrations were determined from the visible light Optical transmission data. Results of visible light transmission analysis in the solutions have shown that in dilute solutions the dielectric constant real and imaginary parts are linear. The addition of dissolved cu+2 and so4-2 ions above (80%) concentrations results in a drop in dielectric constant.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 16, 2022
Return on Investment of Building Information Modeling Adoption in the Construction Industry in Developing Countries
Amr W. Sadek
Page no 525-532 |
10.36348/sjet.2022.v07i09.003
The present paper focuses on the business value or more specifically return on investment of adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the construction industry in developing countries. The research area forms a gap in the knowledge of the research as well as practicing communities. Hence, there is a genuine need to fill the missing knowledge. It is a valid question why such concern about the ROI of adoption has not been raised as far as other tools which represented a paradigm shift in the construction industry such as AutoCAD, by which a complete and rapid switch from manual drawing to digital drawing, still in 2D format but with attributes. Such attributes have been used for material take-off and vendor lists among others. However, BIM was introduced as a revolutionary technology at least thirty years ago, the concern or doubts regarding its overall business value still hanging over, and not a single research paper or report out of the voluminous corpus of literature, has managed to resolve this issue. If we add the element of most studies talk about developed countries, while the situation and numbers are completely different in developing countries which are still struggling with the awareness or adoption of BIM in the construction industry. Among the factors commonly mentioned to adversely affect the diffusion of BIM in developing countries, lack of government support, and more closely related to the present study, concern over the business value of BIM adoption. Research methodology in the present paper has been set after reviewing the voluminous corpus of literature and finding that there exist a large number of questionnaires and/or workshops dealing with the same question in different approaches. Such existent studies processed respondents’ answers to reach some conclusions depicted statistically or graphically. Based on this, the author has decided to review such extant studies rather than perform an independent questionnaire which at the end of the day will add to questions rather than to answers. The main finding of the study is no quantitative formulation of ROI can be adopted and the only way to deal with such a question is to rely on qualitative studies asserting there exists a high potential of adopting BIM to generate direct as well as indirect revenues. All attempts found in the literature to quantify the ROI of BIM cannot be generalized due to disputed involved assumptions.