{"title":"Work in progress: Fostering a telecommunication engineering pineline: A curriculum design","authors":"Xiaojun Hei, W. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386054","url":null,"abstract":"The engineering education in the higher education of China has been facing a number of challenges. In this work-in-progress paper, we proposed a telecommunication engineering pineline and carefully designed different modules of the curriculum for telecommunication engineering. In our program, students are required to accomplish various co-designed theory and practice modules in order to progressively develop a system perspective. We proposed 4 major streams based on the advantageous research directions of our school, including communication networks, mobile communications, future communications and space communications. Each major stream is designed systematically in a problem-oriented fashion. The courses in each stream are closely related and provide in-depth theoretical foundation and hands-on practices coherently driven by a major-oriented course project in each stream, which ensures that the students develop a comprehensive ability to design a communication system, component, or process by applying what they have learned in this telecommunication engineering pineline.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114442999","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":"Coaching in computer-mediated communication at workplace","authors":"Ray Tak-yin Hui","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386046","url":null,"abstract":"Coaching is commonly defined as a developmental practice which requires the coach to provide an informal, on-going form of goal-focused development aimed at improving and enhancing a person's performance. However, most of the previous human resource development studies examined coaching in face-to-face communication (FtFC), but fewer studies have looked at coaching in computer-mediated communication (CMC). This paper will focus on this untested concern which is how leaders appropriate the CMC to effectively coach their followers and thus regulate behavior and improve performance. More specifically, I examined the impacts of the leaders' coaching behaviors on their choice of media of coaching, thus influencing follower's work-related performances. Theoretical and managerial implications were discussed.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116752849","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":"Use of LEDs as a light receiving component and their application to demonstration experiments for educational purposes","authors":"M. Hasegawa","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386011","url":null,"abstract":"Light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be used as a light receiving component which is less likely to be saturated than photodiodes. The author has actually employed LEDs for the purpose of receiving optical signals in demonstration experiment sets of optical communication for educational purposes targeting elementary school to high school students. By using LEDs both for a light emitting component and a light receiving component, relationships among color of light (wavelengths or frequencies) and their energies as well as bandgap energies of semiconductor materials can be explained in such demonstration.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130356872","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 technoself system to improve lifelong learning engagement","authors":"Li Jin, Wei Huang, Zhigang Wen","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386024","url":null,"abstract":"Lifelong learning exists today in the context of a cultural and societal shift to a knowledge-based, technology-enhanced, and rapidly-changing economy. It has a significant impact on people's lives and has become of vital importance with the emergence of new technologies that change how people communicate, collect information, and collaborate with others. The emerging technologies, such as social networking, interactive media and game technology, have expanded a new dimension of self - 'technoself driven by socio-technical innovations and taken an important step forward in lifelong learning through the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The TEL encourages learners as producers to embed personalized knowledge and collective experience on individualized learning within professional practice. It becomes more personal and social than traditional lifelong learning, especially about the `learning as socially grounded' aspects. This paper studies the development of technoself system during lifelong learning and introduces technoself enhanced learning as a novel sociological framework of lifelong learning to couple the educational dimension with social dimension in order to enhance learner engagement by shaping personal learning focus and setting. We examine how people construct their own inquiry and learn from others, how people shift and adapt in these technoself-enhanced learning environments, and how learner engagement is improving as the involvement of learners as producers in lifelong learning. We further discuss the barriers and the positive and negative unintended consequences of using technology for lifelong learning.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128022584","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":"Some notes on the strategic teaching and practicing with CDIO scheme in engineering course","authors":"Chun-Che Lee, Chun-Te Lee","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386038","url":null,"abstract":"This paper dresses the issue of CDIO concepts on the course of Mechatronic Engineering program. Three strategies such as practicality association, technicality association and knowledge association are proposed in accordance with the CDIO framework with the aim of establishing students' critical thinking and learning ability. It is seen that teaching ideology combined with the CDIO framework is not only innovative but also effective in engineering education.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114598269","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":"Effect of language difficulties on results of engineering students","authors":"John Steele, P. Mort, Iain Skinner","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386032","url":null,"abstract":"Weak language ability has a deleterious effect on a student's academic performance. This paper reports an attempt to assess how big this effect might be for engineering students. We found that there is a measurable effect - in this case, as big a difference as 17 marks out of 100 - that could be ascribed to language skills. However, it is not clear what fraction of this mark deficit is language and what fraction is due to related issues such as culture.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129424984","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":"Education of practical engineering skills aiming for solving real problems related to local area","authors":"Hideaki Katayama, T. Takezawa, Y. Tange","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386030","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National Institute of Technology (NIT), Maizuru College offers practical engineering education that teaches how to utilize skills to contribute to local area in cooperation with local society. In the lecture, the students propose solutions to problems related to local area by fabricating prototypes using their electrical and information engineering skills based on investigation of real society. For example, the students have developed a special controller for electric wheel chair with support from Maizuru Rehabilitation Center for Crippled Children. Because the five-year course education system of NIT makes it possible for the students to develop advanced electronic devices and software for practical use, the prototypes fabricated by them actually contribute to solving the problems related to local area. The involvement of the students in activities with local institution and city government has encouraged them to learn more diligently, and taught actual development process of devices and software related to regional contribution.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132181659","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":"Collaboration leads to success: A study of the effects of using pair-programming teaching technique on student performance in a Middle Eastern society","authors":"Mamoun Nawahdah, Dima Taji, T. Inoue","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386009","url":null,"abstract":"In pair-programming, two developers share a computer to work together on developing one piece of code. To test Pair-programming effects on student performance in a Middle Eastern society where some interaction restrictions are found, we devised an experiment that was carried out over an entire academic year consists of two semesters. The experiment targeted two sections per semester of an advanced computer programming course. The students of one of the sections worked in pairs during the lab sessions, applying pair-programming rules and techniques. The other section had students who worked individually, as it is the norm in most programming labs. Through this experiment we revealed that pair-programming has the potential to increase the students' confidence, their enjoyment of the course, and improved the course's completion rate. In addition, the students in the pair-programming section showed that they were able to individually produce code of better quality than the students in the traditional section.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126231589","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: Dialectical relationship of lifelong learning and continuing education","authors":"M. Tong, Guochun Wan, Pengjin Wang","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386016","url":null,"abstract":"Lifelong learning and continuing education are the need of social development and the improvement required by society. This paper gives them a new relationship that the two is dialectical unity, namely they are different, related and mutually developed. Continuing education should be carried out throughout people's whole life via various kinds of ways to promote lifelong learning. This paper states from three aspects that are the connotation of lifelong learning and continuing education, the dialectical relationship between the two, and unity of development.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"17 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114107622","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: Research context enhanced learning experience: Reflection from a case study","authors":"Jiu-ai Sun, Pei-zhong He, Haizhou Shen","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386061","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between teaching and research in the modern higher education has been addressed worldwide and gradually reflected in many institutional strategies of delivering the mission of synergizing research and teaching through initiating the awareness of this nexus. However it appears less evidence to validate most of these long term strategies in routine teaching practice. This work presents a small case study to design personal research context into the teaching and learning practice. The productivity of this study helps to examine the pathway of developing research context into teaching practice, and reveals the complexity and feasibility of research-enhanced teaching in terms of the cost of academic's time, the benefit of learning experience, and the way research, learning and teaching inform each other.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127607022","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}