Management skills Educational practices designed to teach management skills such as goal setting, planning, directing, coordinating, budgeting, allocating resources, solving problems, making decisions, and so on.
Mathematics and Sciences This subject category includes all science and technology disciplines not included under engineering fundamentals.
Masters institutions These institutions typically offer a range of baccalaureate programs, and they are committed to graduate education through the masters.
MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) MATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. www.mathworks.com [11/2/06]
Mentoring (intervention) People (faculty, staff) who actively provide students with emotional and psychological support, direct assistance with career and professional development, and serve as role models.
Meta-analysis (independent category) A "yes" indicates that this article contains most of the data necessary for use in a meta-analysis.
Meta-analysis (nature of research) A meta-analysis translates results from different studies to a common metric and statistically explores relations between study characteristics and findings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis [Accessed 10/04/05]
Multidisciplinary team Multidisciplinary teams are team arrangements where members are drawn from a variety of engineering or non-engineering backgrounds.
Multimedia The use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). Because the information is presented in various formats, multimedia enhances user experience and makes it easier and faster to grasp information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia [Accessed 09/07/05]