T. Luna-Marín, Y. Marín-Guamán, A. Perez-Muñoz, A. Parra-Astudillo, Y. Robles-Bykbaev, V. Robles-Bykbaev, K. González-Arias
{"title":"An intelligent ecosystem based on robotic assistants, rule-based reasoning and serious games to support early stimulation activities for children from low-income families","authors":"T. Luna-Marín, Y. Marín-Guamán, A. Perez-Muñoz, A. Parra-Astudillo, Y. Robles-Bykbaev, V. Robles-Bykbaev, K. González-Arias","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149480","url":null,"abstract":"According to the UNESCO, early childhood care and education is an essential process of the children development. Early childhood is the period from birth to eight years, where the children present a remarkable growth with brain development at its peak. In developing countries such as Ecuador, currently, do not exist formal educational programs based on serious games or educational robotics. This situation is more complicated for government schools or private institutions that attend children from low-income families. For these reasons, in this paper, we present an ecosystem aimed at stimulating the early development of children from 3 to 7 years. Our proposal (named in Kiwcha “Yachasun”, learn) relies on low-cost robotic assistants (to provide kinesthetic stimuli), an expert system based on rules (to suggest educational exercises and activities for children), and serious games (to stimulate and motivate children to learn). Our ecosystem was put to the test with 60 children from low and middle-income families during real classes. The results show that children feel highly motivated to learn concepts related to language, mathematics/logic, self-awareness/autonomy, fine motor skills, and coexistence.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115766572","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":"Modeling Human Behavior with Shannon Entropy in Young Women at Emergent Universities in Lima City: The Unbalance of Gender","authors":"Hugo del Rosario Peña, Judyth Morales-Martines","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149527","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we model through an Entropy-based scheme the behavior and social interaction of those vulnerable human groups composed by young people mainly composed by women in a private University located along the North area of Lima city. Basically, we apply the well-known relation as nLog(h(x,n)) where “x” a stochastic variable that measures the negative affective processes to a data. Once a multi-parametric survey is applied the emotional states such as anxiety, depress, anguish, as well as others relevant variables are quantified. Finally, a Monte Carlo algorithm was applied in order to quantify the women population that is potentially in risk of being under the threat of psychosocial events. The resulting statistics is in accordance with the Shannon prediction by a 10% of discrepancy due to statistics errors and the Alfa de Cronbach of the sample that turned out to be of order of 78%.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122411330","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":"Software Curriculum Transformation at the University Level","authors":"Michael Dorin, Mario Chong, J. Machuca","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149562","url":null,"abstract":"Many software-related degrees exist, and a diversity of programs makes it difficult for candidates to choose where they wish to study. Selecting the wrong program costs students time, money, and considerable effort. Though several institutions have created curriculum guidelines for data science related programs, an overall consensus on program content does not exist at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. This paper examines the most common course requirements, such as data mining, machine learning, mathematics, software engineering, data analysis, and data visualization. We then compare the requirement analysis against the specifics of data science related programs offered at the Universidad de Lima, the Universidad Pacifico, and the University of St. Thomas. The results show that all three universities have active programs worth consideration and give students a model of what to look for when selecting their programs.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122599184","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}
Xuewei Zhang, Maximiliano Lainfiesta, Peichong Zhang
{"title":"Vita Builder: An Initiative to Reform Engineering Doctoral Programs for Underrepresented Groups","authors":"Xuewei Zhang, Maximiliano Lainfiesta, Peichong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149508","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, Latino/a is underrepresented in the engineering workforce and professoriate. The shortage in supply, one of the major causes of the current underrepresentation, can be relieved by expanding pathway to Ph.D. programs and strengthening the programs with professoriate preparation. Toward this goal, our work-in-progress conducts a pilot study on the strategies of transforming an existing Ph.D. program. How to stimulate and maintain student motivation and how to run the mentoring program to boost research productivity are two closely-related questions determining the success of this project. Our approach is based on the ARCS motivational model and the conceptual framework of Communities of Practice. The initiative, called Vita Builder, has been designed to attract a diverse pool of prospective students to the program that has been reformed in terms of instruction methods, mentoring mechanisms, and assessment protocols. Fundamentally, we replace the traditional milestone-based doctoral degree plan with vita-building learning experience. The students consider the scenarios of future career advancement and identify activities and products that will be helpful; then each student will work with faculty advisers to complete a master plan that specifies what to do during the program years. In this paper, we will present the background and motivation of this project, the theoretical underpinnings of the designed initiative, and a progress report of the reformed Ph.D. program. This work is a valuable reference for many higher education institutions that plan to develop or improve doctoral programs that are both competitive and inclusive.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123182849","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}
P. Sobreira, J. Abijaude, Hellan Viana, L. Santiago, K. E. Guemhioui, Omar Abdul Wahab, F. Greve
{"title":"Usability evaluation of block programming tools in IoT contexts for initial engineering courses","authors":"P. Sobreira, J. Abijaude, Hellan Viana, L. Santiago, K. E. Guemhioui, Omar Abdul Wahab, F. Greve","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149481","url":null,"abstract":"Scratch has been shown as one of the main tools for teaching Computational Thinking through the concept of(block-based) programming. In the present research, two platforms based on/inspired by Scratch were considered for the analysis of their usability characteristics through the Cognitive Walkthrough method, for later use by engineering students at the beginning of their university courses for the development of their competences of logical thinking and abstraction of complex concepts: Snap4Arduino (used in the development of solutions for Internet of Things), and; App Inventor (used in the development of Android applications). The results show a positive evaluation of these tools, generating motivation for their use by new engineering students in their teaching-learning processes.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117010458","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}
Luis F. NegliaV., Karina Silvia Chirinos Tragodara, J. Paragulla, Maritza Raquel-Cabana Cáceres
{"title":"The presence of women in the Engineering Programs of the University of Sciences and Humanities. Motivations, permanence and monitoring","authors":"Luis F. NegliaV., Karina Silvia Chirinos Tragodara, J. Paragulla, Maritza Raquel-Cabana Cáceres","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149475","url":null,"abstract":"Studying at the university is one of the objectives in a life plan that most often forms part of women; specialties such as education or nursing are the ones they choose most. The presence of women in the areas of Basic Sciences and Engineering has a low percentage. The University of Sciences and Humanities offers the programs of Systems Engineering and Computer Science and Electronic Engineering with a major in Telecommunications, careers that mostly men choose and in a smaller percentage women. The present study presents the statistics of the presence of women in these engineering programs, motivations for choosing the program, permanence index, reasons for dropping out, proposals for improvement, monitoring of graduates, and suggestions for optimizing work with students women in the engineering area.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114915385","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":"WORK IN PROGRESS: Study of student ergonomics in classrooms based on posture monitoring","authors":"Edisson Pugo-Mendez, L. Serpa-Andrade","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149473","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the review of ergonomics for monitoring the body positions related to the spine in the environment of the students in the classrooms; therefore, the main objective of this work is to obtain technological bases to develop a flexible and portable intelligent prototype; In addition, the system considers the management and diagnosis of the correct body posture in users who remain long periods in sedentary positions, thus obtaining a history of their body postures; analyze the impact that students have when there is a feedback on postural behavior during the course of the class session through student perception and the teaching staff of the institution.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133206631","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":"Linking the success in college freshmen and its correlation with high school performance: A case study on Maths skills","authors":"William-Cortez Maldonado, J. Sandoval","doi":"10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE48860.2020.9149552","url":null,"abstract":"In this work the academic performance of freshmen students belonging to the engineering programs is investigated. We focus on a university in Lima city. Our research tries to understand if the high school performance in mathematics inside of the context of basic education explains the success in the first year of university studies. The resulting statistics reveal that the better students perform at mathematics in high school, the better will be their academic performance as freshmen in mathematic courses at the university.","PeriodicalId":191471,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education (EDUNINE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129730969","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}