{"title":"Study time and overload in engineering education","authors":"Katja Hoffmann, Cindy Mayas, Heidi Kromker","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773188","url":null,"abstract":"The nationwide joint research project “ZEITLast” aims to analyze the workload of students. Within this project the Ilmenau University of Technology will conduct a case study in three engineering courses of study. The focus is to identify possible temporal and teaching-based factors of stress and find methods of rearranging teaching methods and lesson plans to decrease the study workload. Particularly, the project is characterized by its method of detailed temporal data.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133382277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel Blázquez, M. Castro, E. Tovar, M. Llamas, I. Plaza, R. Meier
{"title":"Are engineering students decreasing? A Spanish case study","authors":"Manuel Blázquez, M. Castro, E. Tovar, M. Llamas, I. Plaza, R. Meier","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773144","url":null,"abstract":"There is an idea that engineering degrees are experiencing a decrease in number of students. This is a fact that has concerned many worldwide engineering societies. The reasons may be based in a loss of motivation among students to begin a difficult career, in spite of great expectations jobs proposed from the society. However, this paper offers some data that could change this thought, particularly in Spain. Figures, demographical statistics, students' opinions and university data can give an answer to the question of enrollment and provide some conclusions why engineering careers are less demanded from students. Is it real or just myth?","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133442844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using IMS basic LTI to integrate games in LMSs — Lessons from Game×Tel","authors":"Jorge Fontenla, R. Perez, M. Caeiro","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773152","url":null,"abstract":"The Game×Tel project has arisen as a way take advantage of the possibilities of gaming in collaborative learning environments. In this paper we study the platform developed for Game×Tel on the basics of recently published specification IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability. An analysis on the functionalities of Game×Tel brings up some requirements that cannot be fulfilled by IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (IMS Basic LTI) in its current form. The paper suggests some proposals of solution to the problems identified.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115226345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sadia Nawaz, P. Rajan, J. H. Yu, Yi Luo, Jea H. Choi, D. Radcliffe, Johannes Strobel
{"title":"A keyword based scheme to define engineering education research as a field and its members","authors":"Sadia Nawaz, P. Rajan, J. H. Yu, Yi Luo, Jea H. Choi, D. Radcliffe, Johannes Strobel","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773137","url":null,"abstract":"In the last three decades, engineering education research (EER) has made remarkable progress towards a field of interdisciplinary scholarship. This paper defines EER by developing a keyword-based scheme for exploring EER-related scientific publications and collaboration. The keyword-based scheme refers to a conceptual framework we have developed for generating a parsimonious list of keywords which are salient in EER. The generated keywords were used to collect bibliographic records from ISI Web of Science® (WoS), a citation index providing access to the world's leading citation databases and journals. To perform a comprehensive search for EER-related literature by employing the range of truncation rules and the advanced search options available in WoS, the project makes following contributions to the current knowledge base on interdisciplinary research in EE: (1) engineering education research is operationalized as a sophisticated and systematically derived set of keywords and (2) the method of the current study may serve as a significant step towards quantitative analysis of new scientific field.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124135047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing an interactive multimedia learning system for the children of primary schools in Jordan","authors":"S. Nusir, I. Alsmadi, M. Al-Kabi, Fatima Shardqah","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773111","url":null,"abstract":"With the introduction of the Internet, and several new inventions and technologies especially in the communication and computer systems' field, there is a need to enhance teaching and educational methods through the utilization of those technologies which may improve the abilities of educators to present information in an interactive and media enhanced formats relative to traditional methods. This may help students or learners through offering them the information in channels and methods that can be easier to understand, deal with, and retrieve.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124414090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a product driven embedded systems lab","authors":"I. AlKamal, Salah Afaghani","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773170","url":null,"abstract":"High tech development companies are extremely scarce in the Pan-Arab region and students do not get a chance to gain industry experience in embedded systems development through internships. This paper illustrates Nawatt Lab's experiment to fill that gap by transferring the role of industry internships to local universities and technology incubators. This is accomplished by providing product driven embedded systems labs and taking into account several critical concepts in engineering education.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124573810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intervention models towards more diversity in engineering education","authors":"Daniela Freitag, A. Thaler","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773185","url":null,"abstract":"Recent trends in the numbers of engineering students in education suggest that there is a need for change in engineering study programs. One attempt to gain more students is to address a more diverse students' population. This paper draws on current studies on good practice in engineering education in Europe. Based on empirical data, two major trends will be discussed: first, the role of interdisciplinary courses attracting not only more women but generally more ‘non-typical’ engineering students. Second, women only engineering degree courses as an apparently paradox intervention to reach gender equality in the long run by winning more female students will be analyzed.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117073785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering soft skills development to avoid hard knocks","authors":"R. Dravid, A. Duncan","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773160","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering and technology sectors have long recognised the importance of soft skills for successful career progression. Research suggests that soft skills are better developed when acquired and practiced than taught. The research describes initial reflections on the potential of discipline-oriented, web-based resource for Personal Development Planning (PDP) to promote and support learner's engagement with personal development and their increased employability awareness. The research further seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the PDP resource in ‘engineering - developing, fostering and practicing’ engagement with PDP processes such as skills articulation, reflection on learning, and action-planning, within students' learning experiences. Outcomes from initial evaluation are suggestive of resource's success in elucidating links between personal development and employability to learners. The future runs of the research, which is a work in progress, would clarify resource's influence on learner's engagement with personal development and ongoing employability.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124699915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdisciplinary approach in engineering education","authors":"A. Zeidmane, Sarmite Cernajeva","doi":"10.3991/ijep.v1i1.1604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v1i1.1604","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of the scientific literature available on the types of general competences and their classification caused the authors to conclude that it is necessary to implement interdisciplinary approach in engineering education to develop competences necessary for engineers to make them competitive in the labour market. The attention should be paid to a professional foreign language, computer literacy and educational psychology recommendations. To improve professional foreign language skills, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) method should be integrated in the study process of engineering education. In order to develop information literacy competence, it is important to create a single e-study environment. The academic staff, developing study subjects for engineering programmes, should focus on the study content and study methods. As regards the content, the compromise should be sought between fundamental acquisition of the knowledge of the subject matter, the know-how of the application of this knowledge as well as the use of brand new software in the calculations. The paper presents the examples of the application of the interdisciplinary approach in the universities, where the authors of the paper are affiliated: the LUA (Latvia University of Agriculture) and the RTU (Riga Technical University), respectively.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128201656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana A Vilas Boas, Gustavo Henrique Nogueira de Andrade, Thair M. Hamtini, Simone Aparecida de Sousa
{"title":"Tutors and university teachers' perception about quality assurance in distance education: The case of the undergraduate management course in Minas Gerais - Brazil","authors":"Ana A Vilas Boas, Gustavo Henrique Nogueira de Andrade, Thair M. Hamtini, Simone Aparecida de Sousa","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to describe the perception of tutors and university teachers about quality assurance in a distance undergraduate management course in Minas Gerais Brazil. The results provided a useful amount of information to improve the quality of the course and even the platform used.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128496824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}