{"title":"A New Student Learning Outcome to Strengthen Entrepreneurship and Business Skills and Mindset in Engineering Curricula","authors":"B. Sababha, Esam Al-Qaralleh, Neda Al-Daher","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440489","url":null,"abstract":"The Outcome-Based Education (OBE) model is being adopted by most of the reputable academic accreditation bodies and academic institutions. The model concentrates on what the students are able to do after fulfilling their program requirements. Student Learning Outcomes usually cover the needed knowledge areas and the skillset required to be attained by students to meet market-needs. In engineering education, most of the concerned accreditation bodies require to attain a set of student learning outcomes in knowledge areas, design and problem solving related to the academic program in addition to other learning outcomes that cover a set of skills needed to develop the competencies of graduating students to be ready for the jobs of future. The learning outcomes usually do not include an explicit learning outcome that concentrates on the business and entrepreneurial skillset and mindset. Having these in engineering curriculum and its’ learning outcomes is becoming vital in the requirements of the jobs of future and job creation. In this paper, the authors propose an explicit new student learning outcome to be added to existing engineering program leaning outcomes. The proposed outcome helps developing and instilling business and entrepreneurship mindsets in engineering programs’ graduates.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127466934","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":"Usability Evaluation of Distance Education Tools Used in Jordanian Universities","authors":"Hala Abushamleh, S. Jusoh","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440491","url":null,"abstract":"During the current Covid-19 pandemic, the long-distance education mode has been the foundation stone in education around the globe and is the only method to continue the education process. Jordanian universities and schools have also fully utilized long-distance education during this hard time. Furthermore, educational experts have emphasized that it will be used even when this pandemic is over, at least by integrating it into a traditional classroom method. In Jordan, tools such as E-learning platform namely Moodle, and meeting tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams have been widely used. It is a great necessity to evaluate the usability of these tools. This study aims to evaluate and compare the usability of the mentioned tools. We conducted this study using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, which mainly focuses on ease of use, efficiency, and easy to learn. The finding of this study indicates that Zoom has better usability results compared to Microsoft Teams and E-learning platform.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122699221","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":"A Modular Wearable Technology and IoT Educational Building System Using Brain and Muscular Signals","authors":"H. Raad","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440503","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a modular educational building system intended for teaching students and hobbyists the design aspects, programming, and applications of wearable technology, virtual and augmented reality, and the internet of things (IoT). The modular building system comprises a set of electronic, electrical, mechanical, and optical components, which can be interconnected to form a variety of smart wearables (i.e.: smart glasses, watches, bracelets, etc.), in addition to IoT devices. Each component performs one or more functions, which can be interconnected to create a multicomponent wearable or IoT system. The modular system can perform a task by responding to an external event(s) such as a voice command, temperature, pressure, gestures, proximity, and more importantly brain and muscular waves.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121568031","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}
Annas Wasim Malik, Syed Junaid Ali, Syed Farooq Ali, A. Sheharyar
{"title":"How to Learn Dynamic Programming from Scratch?","authors":"Annas Wasim Malik, Syed Junaid Ali, Syed Farooq Ali, A. Sheharyar","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440505","url":null,"abstract":"For numerous decades, dynamic programming (DP) is being used as a powerful algorithmic tool similar to a divide-and-conquer approach for problem-solving. When using DP to solve larger problems, optimal solutions for sub-problems are re-used and not recomputed. Several articles and books have been written on DP, however, students of computer science all around the world still struggle to understand it. In this article, the concept of DP is explained with the help of examples in a step-by-step approach. Later in the article, a survey was conducted to compare the proposed approach with state-of-the-art Cormen’s approach based on the parameters of organization, understandability, and easiness. The proposed approach outperformed the Cormen’s approach by 75.73% on the parameters of organization, understandability, and easiness.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"5 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115686753","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}
Sarah Sheikh, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Omar Alshorman, Mahmoud Masadeh, Fahad Alkahatni
{"title":"A Review of Usability Evaluation Techniques for Augmented Reality Systems in Education","authors":"Sarah Sheikh, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Omar Alshorman, Mahmoud Masadeh, Fahad Alkahatni","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440506","url":null,"abstract":"Augmented Reality (AR) converts a gigantic amount of data and analytics into images and/or animations that are overlaid into the real scene. The emerging technology of AR has been investigated for more than forty years, yet only recently, researchers have begun to formally evaluate AR applications. This paper systematically reviews the main techniques used to evaluate AR systems in educational settings for children who are less than 18 years old. Several papers have been surveyed and labelled based on their application areas. The primary contribution of this review is to present the broad landscape of usability techniques employed in AR evaluation and to provide a high-level overview of how AR systems could be tailor-made to fit the needs of children in educational environments. It further delves deeply into exploring the benefits and challenges that were noted based on these evaluations. Identifying areas where there has been an obvious disagreement in the literature is heightened, thus some opportunities for further research directions are indicated.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451653","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":"The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Undergraduate Engineering Students in Jordanian Universities: Factors Impact Students’ Learning Satisfaction","authors":"L. Al-Tarawneh, Mais Al-Nasa’h, F. Awwad","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440500","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to the migration of traditional learning to distance learning platforms which have become the common teaching method among educational institutions. The effective implementation of this online learning method depends on various factors affecting learners’ satisfaction. The current study examines the relationship between learners' satisfaction on distance learning and factors (online learning self-efficacy, anxiety, fear of COVID-19) that impact students’ remote learning experience among undergraduate engineering students in Jordanian public and private universities. Data was collected via an online survey measuring students’ baseline of distance learning satisfaction, online learning self-efficacy, anxiety, and fear of COVID-19 which was distributed between June to August 2020. The participants in this study were 505 undergraduate engineering students (353 males, 152 females) who were mostly Jordanian (92.6%) with an average age of 21 (SD = 1.86). There were 298 participants from public universities (59%) and 207 from private universities (41%). Findings reported a significant gap between public and private universities students’ distance learning satisfaction, online learning self-efficacy, and anxiety level while the students’ scores on fear of COVID-19 was insignificant. Students in private universities were also reported to have higher baseline rates for all the constructs involved in this study. Furthermore, the online learning self-efficacy scores significantly predicted the distance learning satisfaction level among undergraduate engineering students when other constructs were treated as a constant. The findings of this study offer important implications for instructors in considering self-efficacy skills when working with undergraduate students. Limitations and recommendations for future research were also outlined.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"434 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122802087","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 Electronic Circuits Labs to Promote Community Engagement","authors":"H. Raad","doi":"10.1109/ietsec51476.2021.9440490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ietsec51476.2021.9440490","url":null,"abstract":"As technology continues to evolve and open new areas of research and academic disciplines, one must take into account the impact on society as a whole. In exploring ideas for the community engagement projects, and driven by the ideas of encouraging deeper reflection, understanding of the injustices and disparities of the world outside, and striving for the common good, we proposed incorporating a project specifically tailored to promoting those values. We thought that the laboratory experiments in PHYS 243 (Electronic Circuit Analysis Laboratory) and the required final project for the lecture part (PHYS 242) offered splendid opportunities in engaging students to grow their spirit of solidarity, compassion and service, and that they can demonstrate this by implementing projects dedicated to help those in need in the local community.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"638 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133653849","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":"On the Development of a Model-Based Embedded Systems Design Laboratory Course","authors":"B. Sababha, E. AlQaralleh, Y. Alqudah","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440487","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a model-based embedded systems design laboratory course development is presented. The course is an enhancement over an existing embedded systems laboratory course that uses conventional methods along with low-level and high-level programming languages in designing embedded systems. The proposed laboratory course introduces the concepts of model-based design, rapid prototyping, and auto-code generation to junior students of an undergraduate electrical engineering program. The students are exposed to model-based development and design through using MATLAB® Simulink®. The graphical environment of Simulink® allows students to easily design and implement embedded software and generate code without worrying about the details of conventional coding issues. Moreover, MATLAB® Simulink® allows easy auto-code generation to be executed on a variety of microcontrollers and FPGAs. The developed lab course and its experiments were implemented for two semesters at least. One of them was during the COVID-19 shutdown and thus the lab was conducted by students at home. The students’ feedback is promising and shows that the lab has helped attain more skills needed by the industry in addition to acquiring a new knowledge area that was not covered by the conventional curriculum.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125487211","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":"A Statistical Model for GPA Estimation Based on High School Grades and Standard Exams","authors":"K. Abuqaaud, Ali Bou Nassif","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440493","url":null,"abstract":"High-school grades (HSG) are often observed as unreliable measures for college admissions, and thought irrelevant to student’s college performance, because of the inconsistencies in grading standards across high schools. Many colleges and universities conduct their own admission exams along with some standard language tests such as IELTS and TOEFL, such examinations are seen more reliable in providing uniform and valid measures for assessing students’ capabilities and skills. This paper presents and tests three regression models for college Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) based on several estimators, those are: student high school grades, student IELTS test results and Common Educational Proficiency Assessment (CEPA). The three models are: multiple linear regression model (MLR), logarithmic linear regression model (LLR) and polynomial expansion followed by spectral regression model (PESR). The study comes up with the following findings: 1) the best predictors for CGPA are IELTS writing scores, IELTS reading scores, high school averages and CEPA scores respectively according to their weights in the regression models. 2) Polynomial expansion followed by spectral regression model (PESR) gives better results in comparison with linear regression and logarithmic linear regression models.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116229602","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":"Students’ Satisfaction and Service Quality in Distance Education During COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan","authors":"Hala Abushamleh, A. Qusef","doi":"10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IETSEC51476.2021.9440494","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global lock-down to ensure the social distancing, the education sector was one of the affected sectors if not the most affected one, so most of the educational institutions started distance education to keep up with their academic calendars and try to limit the losses as much as they can until the writing of this research it is not certainly known if this situation could last for more one or two semesters, and the end of this pandemic is not clear yet, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations it became a necessity to learn how to accept and coexist with this situation especially in sectors like education which has high risk of the virus spreading if the return to normal in-class education was done before the end of this pandemic.Owing to these facts the quality of distance education was investigated in this research using the SERVQUAL model, by examining the students’ satisfaction and the service quality of reliability, assurance, responsiveness, empathy, and tangibles to find the correlation and gaps between perceived and expected service, which can help in improving the distance education, which may continue for more semesters or be integrated within the traditional in-class education.","PeriodicalId":156415,"journal":{"name":"2021 Innovation and New Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology Education Conference (IETSEC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126730836","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}