2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)最新文献

Interdisciplinarity between design and engineering: Case study: The development of a classroom chair for children ages 6–10 设计与工程的跨学科:案例研究:6-10岁儿童教室座椅的开发

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-21 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777727

Ângela Gomes, B. Rangel

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引用次数: 1

Motivating first year students for an engineering degree 激励一年级学生攻读工程学学位

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777745

Pedro Fonseca, P. Pedreiras, P. Cabral, J. N. Matos, B. Cunha, F. Silva

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引用次数: 4

Include ethics education in the engineering curriculum — The students' perspective 在工程课程中纳入伦理教育——学生的视角

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777726

Fátima Monteiro

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引用次数: 4

Collaborative use of different learning styles through 3D printing 通过3D打印协作使用不同的学习方式

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777742

Susana C. F. Fernandes, R. Simoes

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引用次数: 14

Methodologies for Engineering Learning and Teaching (MELT) approach: A way to bring young people to science (and science to young people) 工程学与教的方法论(MELT)方法:一种将年轻人带入科学(以及将科学带入年轻人)的方法

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777724

B. Gabriel, R. Valente, J. Dias-de-Oliveira, V. Neto, A. Andrade-Campos

引用次数: 0

Portuguese and Brazilian students perceptions regarding the flow of knowledge in their courses: Two different realities? 葡萄牙和巴西学生对课程中知识流动的看法:两种不同的现实?

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777728

C. Leão, F. Soares, R. Hausmann, A. Guedes, M. T. Sena Esteves, G. Alves, Isabel Brás Pereira, C. Petry

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引用次数: 2

Using the finite element method to understand calculus 用有限元法来理解微积分

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777734

J. A. Rodrigues, M. A. R. Loja, J. I. Barbosa

引用次数: 0

A learning toolkit to promote creative and critical thinking in product design and development through Design Thinking 一个学习工具包，通过设计思维促进产品设计和开发中的创造性和批判性思维

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777732

Violeta Clemente, R. Vieira, K. Tschimmel

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引用次数: 15

Skyfall: Representations in probability problems in Engineering 天降:工程中概率问题的表示

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777741

M. Nascimento, Eva Morais, J. A. Martins

引用次数: 1

The ethics in cloud computing 云计算中的伦理

2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) Pub Date : 2016-10-01 DOI: 10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777739

Oktay Tontas, Jorge Bernardino

引用次数: 1