Karl S. Gudmundsson, Helgi Thorbergsson, Kristinn Andersen, Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson
{"title":"Curriculum development for adult students","authors":"Karl S. Gudmundsson, Helgi Thorbergsson, Kristinn Andersen, Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000459","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on curriculum and course structure development, a pilot program to address the needs of entry point for adult students into the tertiary studies in Iceland. With the new program structure, we seek to appeal to older students, working people who missed their opportunity to go to university as young adults for various reasons. Also, we seek to appeal to young adults that wish to attend a shorter university program, 90 ECTS with the option of continue to a full B.Sc. Degree later.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123258092","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":"Information Technology and Informatics in Biomedical Engineering Study Programs: Which Topics and what Extend is Needed?","authors":"L. Lhotská, M. Huptych","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000465","url":null,"abstract":"Although engineering has always been interdisciplinary, recently this feature has become more and more obvious and important. Technological development influences and inspires many areas outside technology and engineering. On the other hand, engineering is influenced by other disciplines as well. The greatest impact over several decades have information and communication technologies (ICTs). Since the role of ICTs is more and more stressed not only in education, but also in practice, we face frequently the problem of increasing number of ICT courses at the expense of other courses that constitute the core of the given study program. At the Czech Technical University in Prague there were developed new interdisciplinary curricula in several study programs during last decade. Since the authors participated in design of curricula in biomedical engineering and biomedical informatics they present and discuss the experience from this area.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128723010","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":"Digital Transformation: A Case Study for Providing E-services via Moodle in Universities","authors":"Y. Chernogorova, Rozalina Dimova","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000426","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of digitization reaches a new stage with a focus on the overall transformation, where the so called “Intelligent Environment” such as “Smart City”, “Smart Campus” is in the heart. Today's institutions, which have not yet started the transformation towards a Smart Campus, are capable to exploit untapped ICT resources that could potentially lead to the optimization of the processes and services. In order to verify that a new service can be offered with the available ICT resources, a method of finding a subset satisfying some condition is used. The paper reports approach where elements of the main set include own resources and their functionalities, while needed resources to provide a new service build the subset elements. This work presents examples of developed e-services by using the open source Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle. The study demonstrates that Moodle and advanced ICTs are just as so an alternative for improving personal management and information systems in the means of e-services offering. The paper analyzes the results and evaluate the benefits from the digital transformation point of view. The conclusion summarizes features of the applications will contribute the way university interacts with students and staff.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132203072","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":"Technological Support for the needs of personalized training","authors":"V. Markova, T. Ganchev","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000468","url":null,"abstract":"We present the conceptual design of an e-Learning framework that makes use of an advanced technology in support of the personalized training of young people. This concept builds on the integration of novel functionality that implements an automated objective evaluation of the cognitive effort, the degree of attention and concentration, the emotional condition, and the stress level of a trainee, based on physiological signal processing. Such an awareness helps for the automated adaptation of the training process to the personality traits and to the momentary capacity of each trainee. Such a novel technology allows the development of intelligent training applications that adapt to the momentary capacity of the trainee to comprehend and advance with the current tasks and help towards the optimization of the learning outcome. Such a concept also offers new opportunities for the development of more engaging and more efficient training process and the design of an universally accessible interfaces.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134088332","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":"Study regarding improving of full immersion for VirtuSphere system","authors":"Bazavan Lidia-Cristina, Roibu Horatiu, Resceanu Ionut-Cristian, Bîzdoacă Nicu-George","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000467","url":null,"abstract":"The VirtuSphere system is one of the most advanced immersion systems. The use of this system in military applications, games, education, is due both to its omnidirectional capabilities extremely useful in implementing virtual reality but also to the low price. The authors have proposed to improve the immersive capability of this system by coupling the VirtuSphere to a mechatronic assembly that allows immersive implementation of the soil resistance the user is stepping along with the possibility of simulating situations that may occur relative to the sensation of contact with earth: vibrations with varying intensity and variable (earthquakes), the sensation of falling. In order to develop this system and maintain the characteristics of a relatively low price, the article presents the results of studies conducted by authors on Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors. The results of the Matlab / Simulink simulations of the system model in both the open loop and the closed loop are presented, after which these results are compared with the practical results. At the end of the article, as a result of the simulations, a validated hardware-BLDC engine control strategy demonstrates the effectiveness of the system.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128934276","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":"Culture adaptive Internet of Things roaming course for non native English speaking students","authors":"Boris Tomas, N. Vrcek","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000456","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Thing (IOT) is relatively new field that is on a rise. Teaching students IOT is a challenging task because of increasing dynamics of the field itself. We present a new course that is flexible, dynamic, and mobile. It is a university level course at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. Because of the ERASMUS programme it is possible to open the course to the foreign students. Further more, thanks to bilateral agreements the same course is physically carried out in Laval, France. Course is adaptive in both terms of duration and location. Regardless of each, it has to be carefully crafted to fit both criteria. Course is roaming, meaning that all of the preparations and equipment can and should be mobile and easy to setup on any location in the world. IOT involves certain embedded software development, meaning that teaching should be carried on an appropriate equipment: hardware development and prototyping boards. Experience in selecting such hardware for the course is presented. Furthermore, IOT includes various connectivity and technologies. Internet connectivity setup for the roaming equipment should be reliable and easy to apply on site. Relying on existing network is not recommended due to many reasons, one of which might be the use of captive portals, IOT micro-controllers do not bode well with captive portals. Teaching communication aspect of IOT can be quite challenging if connection is unreliable. Course is project based and designing project assignments or project guidelines, should consider local environment. Projects guided by the concept of service learning can have significant impact on a local community. Anyhow, goal of the project in this course should be students feeling accomplished. Having dynamic course it would be advisable to remain on certain technology, however evolution of the course has discarded such technologies that became obsolete. Instead of single LMS several different tools are used, this might be an overhead but those tools are already known to the students. Student perception of the course and increasing number of enrolment shows that it has positive impact and perspective future.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114618051","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 TOST in Teaching Mutual Exclusion, Synchronization, and Deadlock","authors":"T. Golemanov, Emiliya Golemanova","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000441","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the capabilities of the integrated environment TOST in teaching some of the basic IT concepts such as Mutual exclusion, Concurrent processes synchronization, and Deadlock. The purpose of TOST is to be used in Operating systems and Parallel programming courses. It allows the student to develop and run sample programs in two simple PASCAL-style and C-style programming languages and to monitor the data in the main system tables. A set of well-known concurrent processing problems are presented in order to illustrate the TOST usage in teaching IT specialists.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127310056","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":"Training through the implementation of a web-based laboratory for Artificial Intelligence exercises","authors":"Mariya Petrova, D. Atanasova","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000417","url":null,"abstract":"Modern ways of learning require the use of innovative educational tools in all disciplines. The development of information and communication technology has provided an innovation known as the virtual laboratory. Such a type of educational tool will help students and their trainees. It will facilitate the experimental activity, which will lead to a better understanding of the subject matter by the students. This study aims to reveal the quality of the virtual laboratory integrated into blended learning the discipline artificial intelligence. It must combine all sub-area presented with their characteristic algorithms. The sub-areas will be divided into groups of tasks. Each group will task have three difficulty levels. One task can be solved with more than one kind of an algorithm area. These solutions can be compared and visualized to see where the differences are. Presented is model of work of the virtual laboratory. The work of the laboratory includes four basic modules: theoretical presentation, graphical presentation, sample tasks and individual tasks. It is divided into these basic modules to give learners a chance to catch up on a lesson if they have missed it. The laboratory should be web-based and therefore the only restriction on its use is the Internet connection. This will make it very practical and convenient for both parties - students and students. The benefits of training with this type of laboratory are also presented. The aim of the article is to showcase the work of this kind of web-based laboratory. How it will be a powerful tool for removing unnecessary assumptions and reducing the time for learning the material.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132373184","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 SPSS for Solving Engineering Problems","authors":"E. Raeva, V. Mihova, I. Nikolaev","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000473","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to help students to identify the role of statistical methods in the engineering problem-solving process. A structured methodology of applying different statistical tools in the software package SPSS is presented in details. The topics considered in the work include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, linear regression and correlation analysis, as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA). An example from engineering practice is used to illustrate the methods. The methodology could be used in the practical classes for engineers in Applied Mathematics and Higher Mathematics.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131023947","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":"Active Learning Methods Applied in the Course “Digital Electronics” on the Topic “Arithmetic Circuits Using FPGA Design”","authors":"A. Borodzhieva, I. Stoev, V. Mutkov","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000421","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents FPGA implementation of half-adders, adders and multistage combinational adders on a laboratory board and a way of presenting this topic to the students at the University of Ruse making the classes more attractive for students using active learning methods.","PeriodicalId":221469,"journal":{"name":"2019 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116128549","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}