Abstract: An educational benchmarking system and method is provided. The system is configured to: receive workforce data defining workforce characteristics and outcome data defining educational outcomes, the workforce data and the outcome data relating to a plurality of different educational institutions; determine, based upon the workforce data and the outcome data, one or more statistical relationships between workforce characteristics and educational outcomes; determine, based upon the one or more statistical relationships, one or more parameters for workforce characteristics, the one or more parameters corresponding to at least one educational outcome; and compare, one or more characteristics of an educational institution or group thereof to the one or more parameters for workforce characteristics, to enable areas for improvement to be identified for that educational institution or group of institutions.

Abstract: A break monitoring device for use with a disc coupling having an outermost disc disposed on a disc pack. There is an RFID tag mounted on the outermost disc which transmits a signal to a receiver or monitor. The RFID may be an active or passive tag. When the RFID tag is broken due to the outermost disc failing, the signal sent to the receiver is different than the signal sent during normal operation. This triggers an alert that the outermost disc has failed and the machine can be shut down in an orderly manner.