Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

Moderated by Dr. Tanya Hrubik-Vulanovic

Millennials’ unconventional approaches to the business world have revolutionized the workplace. As Generation Z is beginning to enter the workforce with new ideas and expectations, the workplace dynamic heavily influenced by Millennials is beginning to shift. The values first emphasized by Millennials are being redefined by Gen Zs. Many of the events and trends that made Millennials unique have also strongly impacted Gen Zs, and in some cases, even more heavily. This lends common ground to these two generations, but also holds the potential for friction in the workplace. This oral presentation supported by PowerPoint explores the dynamic between Millennials and Gen Z. The future of the business world will be driven by interactions between these two generations. Considering their motivations and expectations provides insight for better understanding and development of best practices for collaboration and reducing generational conflict in the workplace.

Moderated by Dr. Greg Blundell

With the involvement of the United States in World War One and the subsequent military service draft, American Mennonites found themselves in the same dilemma which had chased them from Europe to the Americas. The Mennonite beliefs on non-violence precluded most of them from involvement in war in any sense including non-combatant roles and the nation’s government did not grant them an exception to war-time service. When previous generations of Mennonites faced a similar challenge, the most common response was a large-scale migration to a new land where they could find a reprieve from these pressures. With the American draft in 1917, American Mennonites chose to break the historical pattern and remain in America, weathering the consequences that came from their counter cultural beliefs. Using interviews from the Mennonite men who lived through the war period in America, diaries from the Russian Mennonites, and other sources, this study brings together historical research on the Russian Mennonite migration to the United States as a case study of the historical pattern of Mennonite migrations with the context surrounding the American Mennonites’ choice to stay. The economy, the timing of the draft, the depth of the changes, and the closer ties between the American Mennonites and the American people all help explain how the American Mennonites chose to radically depart from both the cultural expectations around them and their own pattern of behavior. 

Moderated by Dr. Claudia Gomez

This presentation explores the application of artificial intelligence to software engineering. It defines the currently discovered uses that it has in the augmentation of the software engineering process, backed by current research. With these applications, artificial intelligence can not only ease the human work involved but provide extra insight and determine areas where items could be missed. It argues that artificial intelligence has the capability to change the software engineering process, to make it more efficient and reliable, but is not yet to the level to provide these advantages.

Moderated by Dr. Leslie Heaphy

Severe weather changes, including landslides and tornadoes, have wreaked havoc across a huge portion of the United States. This trend is seen widely across the world as well, especially during the hotter climate. The population of Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Colombia are not unfamiliar with Monsoon season disasters, yet there still remains a huge lack of preparedness every year. Numerous floods, heavy rains, landslides, and multiple problems related to these calamities occurred in the week of March 29th, 2021 alone. I believe Artificial intelligence can be a huge help in aiding these countries and prevent loss of life and property by calculating pre-disaster symptoms and responding to post-disaster relief as soon as it strikes. This can be done in multiple ways, such as with use of damage mapping technology, satellites, doppler radars and other AI technologies that many organizations are already working on. AI for Humanitarian Action is one such example. I wish to present my research on this topic through my presentation.