{"title":"Bringing the everyday life into engineering education","authors":"Gert Pasman, I. Mulder","doi":"10.3991/IJAC.V4I1.1519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/IJAC.V4I1.1519","url":null,"abstract":"To successfully design and engineer solutions for today's and tomorrow's rapidly changing and expanding global contexts, in which people are confronted with new opportunities and challenges each day, engineering programs should be training their students to become broad based professionals, who are aware of the actual needs, values and behaviors of the people that use their solutions in their everyday life, work or play. This paper argues that in order to built such an awareness, engineering students should acquire direct, first-hand experiences of real people in real contexts. It presents a number of techniques that can be used to gain such experiences. Each technique is briefly described and illustrated with examples from our Industrial Design Engineering program. Knowledge, skills and attitude that are acquired through the use of the techniques are listed and reflected upon. Finally, our experiences with implementing the techniques into our program are discussed in view of their relevance for other engineering programs.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341563","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}
S. Khachadorian, H. Scheel, C. Thomsen, P. de Vries
{"title":"Deployment of remote experiments: The OnPReX course at the TU Berlin","authors":"S. Khachadorian, H. Scheel, C. Thomsen, P. de Vries","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492458","url":null,"abstract":"The development of internet technologies leads to recent trends of online based education in universities. Remote experiments give the students the possibility to experience real physical situations and compare their experimental results with those of the physical models (simulation). Online learning based on remote experiments is capable of diminishing the scantiness in practical courses in the universities. In this work we present an online practical course based on Remote Experiments (OnPReX), interactive graphics and an online tutoring system organized at the Technische Universität Berlin. Furthermore we give background information about the development of our remote experiments. The remote experiments are real-life settings, designed and engineered at the solid-state physics department of the Technische Universität Berlin. We describe the development of two online practical courses, focusing on classical and modern physics, addressed at undergraduate engineering students. We ran the online practical course based on Remote Experiments in two test phases over two semesters and conducted an evaluation from which we improved technical and pedagogical aspects of the experiments and the course.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125351790","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 freshman training of engineering students by projects and DIY activities","authors":"Li Yamin, Jinwu Qian, Xiaojing Wang","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492575","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering students begin their first year with fundamental science and pre-technology courses which give little knowledge about engineering. As a consequence, some of the freshmen have no idea about engineering, and are lack of objective and interest in engineering. This paper presents how to help the freshmen have a general idea of engineering and an overall understanding of what they are going to study. One project activity outside curriculum in a LEGO lab and two outside-classroom DIY activity cases are presented. After three years practice, students had more interest and passion in engineering and showed their talents.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126646973","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}
Jesús Martínez Mateo, David Pérez del Rey, Susana Muñoz Hernández
{"title":"Student motivation and cross-curricular development through e-learning applied to cooperation","authors":"Jesús Martínez Mateo, David Pérez del Rey, Susana Muñoz Hernández","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492481","url":null,"abstract":"Technologies and especially information and communication technologies (ICT) are barrier breaking in the current social scenario. Their use is becoming essential for any professional, and their scope of use is becoming particularly widespread in education due to the existence of communication outside the classroom through e-learning tools. Universities, which play an innovative role in education, are using ICT-based approaches to adapt their learning methodology. In this paper, we present a model where students from first-world universities prepare and adapt course contents for use in educational institutions in developing countries. The objectives of this initiative of students' participating in e-learning projects with developing countries are to improve their motivation, develop a set of cross-curricular competencies, and transfer technologies within the scope of university development cooperation.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114577924","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":"Motivating younger students by using engineering graduation projects to facilitate their work","authors":"J. Oliveira, J. Salvado","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492447","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a way to motivate freshmen students benefiting from the work of term students in graduation projects. The application of concepts from digital electronics and analog telecommunications systems can reinforce cooperation of students at different levels on a positive way and strength skills. This can also be used as demonstrative experiences to attract prospective students to electrical engineering courses. The experience of a cooperative work with graduation projects is presented and how it can facilitate younger students work and thus contribute for their motivation and skills. The graduation projects used are briefly presented and some results are shown and discussed.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116609415","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":"Consequences of the declining interest in computer science studies in Europe","authors":"K. Maillet, Marcela Porta","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492597","url":null,"abstract":"Official European statistics of education indicate that the number of students entering tertiary education have significantly increased between 2000 and 2006 [1], and indicate a trend that will continue. However, this increase is not reflected in every field of study; computer science and engineering are among those that have decreased each year, evidence of a decline of interest in following this career on the part of students. As a response to this disturbing fact, this paper aims to identify some of the possible consequences that this trend could produce in Europe. It will highlight the impacts in economic, social, political and pedagogical fields and explain how these segments will be affected if the decline in computer science persists. Supported by previous investigations and official reports, this analysis provides some examples of the problems already produced by the declining interest in computer science in Europe and proposes solutions such as teaching methods and learning strategies to attract more students to this field and therefore limit the negative effects in a near future.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116749660","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}
C. D. Kloos, A. Pardo, M. M. Organero, M. Ibáñez, Raquel M. Crespo, P. Merino, Luis de la Fuente, D. Leony, Israel Gutiérrez
{"title":"Some research questions and results of UC3M in the eMadrid excellence network","authors":"C. D. Kloos, A. Pardo, M. M. Organero, M. Ibáñez, Raquel M. Crespo, P. Merino, Luis de la Fuente, D. Leony, Israel Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492452","url":null,"abstract":"Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is one of the six main participating institutions in the eMadrid excellence network, as well as its coordinating partner. In this paper, the network is presented together with some of the main research lines carried out by UC3M. The remaining papers in this session present the work carried out by the other five universities in the consortium.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126891232","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 of low cost capacitive sensors for laboratory classes","authors":"C. Quintáns, J. Marcos, S. Perez","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492542","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an approach to the education in sensors, targeted to future engineers that relies on using educational sensors. An analysis of major issues on sensor education is carried out and two types of didactic, capacitive and low cost sensors are presented, which allow the student to easily under-stand the physical principle of the measurement, as well as to evaluate other sensor features like repeatability, sensitivity and measurement uncertainty. To this aim, some capacitive sensors have been developed to measure levels of oil and water in the laboratories. In the academic year 2006-07, the Laboratory of Sensors and Signal Conditioning of the Electronic Technology Department of the University of Vigo started using those sensors experimentally. During 2007-08 and 2008-09, a methodology based on these didactic sensors, combined with signal conditioning circuits and simulations in Pspice, has been launched. Then, a signal conditioning circuit is assembled and the information displayed on a PC monitor, connected by a data acquisition system. Furthermore, this paper includes the efficiency evaluation results of the proposed methodology, obtained from student surveys.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129295687","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":"Scientific project management course introduction in doctoral studies in Riga Technical University","authors":"L. Ribickis, N. Kunicina, A. Galkina","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492555","url":null,"abstract":"Research activity is an integral part of the study process and it is to be noted that many of the research programmes are very important for the industry and economy of Latvia.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"90 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116302235","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}
Carmen Fernández Panadero, J. V. Román, C. D. Kloos
{"title":"Impact of learning experiences using LEGO Mindstorms® in engineering courses","authors":"Carmen Fernández Panadero, J. V. Román, C. D. Kloos","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492534","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known by the educational community that active learning has a greater impact on the effectiveness of the learning process than other methods. It has long been recognized that the most effective learning techniques involve direct, purposeful learning experiences, such as hands-on or field experiences. In particular, computer-controlled models have been a useful aid in teaching programming, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics concepts. This paper describes our experience using LEGO Mindstorms® in three different scenarios: an elementary course on Programming, an advanced-level course on Artificial Intelligence and a third first-level course on Robotics. Our focus in those experiments is not on whether using LEGO kits is better than other methods to learn a programming language, AI algorithms or Robotics, but rather on introducing how this mixture of collaboration, competition and peer learning in a laboratory environment helps the students to increase their motivation and improve their professional skills such as problem solving, team work and leadership.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121665503","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}