G. Alves, A. Fidalgo, A. Marques, Clara Viegas, M. Felgueiras, R. Costa, Natércia Lima, M. Castro, Gabriel Díaz-Orueta, E. San Cristóbal Ruiz, Félix García-Loro, J. García-Zubía, U. Hernández-Jayo, W. Kulesza, I. Gustavsson, A. Pester, D. Zutin, Luis C. M. Schlichting, G. Ferreira, Daniel D. de Bona, J. B. da Silva, J. Alves, S. Bilessimo, A. Pavani, D. Lima, G. Temporão, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, F. Lerro, Rubén Fernández, Hector Paz, Fernando Soria, N. Almeida, Vanderli de Oliveira, M. I. Pozzo, Elsa Dobboletta
{"title":"Spreading remote lab usage a system — A community — A Federation","authors":"G. Alves, A. Fidalgo, A. Marques, Clara Viegas, M. Felgueiras, R. Costa, Natércia Lima, M. Castro, Gabriel Díaz-Orueta, E. San Cristóbal Ruiz, Félix García-Loro, J. García-Zubía, U. Hernández-Jayo, W. Kulesza, I. Gustavsson, A. Pester, D. Zutin, Luis C. M. Schlichting, G. Ferreira, Daniel D. de Bona, J. B. da Silva, J. Alves, S. Bilessimo, A. Pavani, D. Lima, G. Temporão, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, F. Lerro, Rubén Fernández, Hector Paz, Fernando Soria, N. Almeida, Vanderli de Oliveira, M. I. Pozzo, Elsa Dobboletta","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777722","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments have been at the heart of scientific development and education for centuries. From the outburst of Information and Communication Technologies, virtual and remote labs have added to hands-on labs a new conception of practical experience, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education. This paper aims at describing the features of a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, embedded in a community of practice and forming the spearhead of a federation of remote labs. More particularly, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of remote labs over virtual labs as regards to scalability constraints and development and maintenance costs. Finally, it describes an actual implementation in an international community of practice of engineering schools forming the embryo of a first world wide federation of Virtual Instruments System in Reality nodes, under the framework of a project funded by the Erasmus+ Program.","PeriodicalId":309144,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132516338","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. Catarino, M. Nascimento, Eva Morais, H. Campos, P. Vasco
{"title":"Mathematical creativity's understanding in engineering students of a Portuguese university","authors":"P. Catarino, M. Nascimento, Eva Morais, H. Campos, P. Vasco","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777730","url":null,"abstract":"Among today's attributes required to engineers is creativity. From the creativity domain, this work focused in mathematical creativity, since we teach students in Mathematics courses. This paper presents the study of 61 students' understanding of mathematical creativity of four engineering degrees that were in first year of a northeastern Portuguese university and we analyzed their texts to an open question in a Google Drive Form: “What do you understand by mathematical creativity?” Data collection was done in the first semester of 2014/2015 in the Linear Algebra course. The content analysis of students' answers focused on their texts led to three main categories that were crossed with students' gender, age, degree, and their liking for Mathematics. The results showed that “problem solving” category had the majority of the references, and there were no differences between the proportions of the categories by gender, age or liking mathematics or even independency. This exploratory study leaves clues about the connection that needs to be made between mathematical creativity and solving problems, in order to foster it in Mathematics courses in engineering degrees.","PeriodicalId":309144,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122679279","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}
B. Gabriel, A. Andrade-Campos, J. Dias-de-Oliveira, R. Valente, V. Neto
{"title":"Open think-tank on engineering education: A forum of “face-to-face” debate between stakeholders","authors":"B. Gabriel, A. Andrade-Campos, J. Dias-de-Oliveira, R. Valente, V. Neto","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777744","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a model (and the respective guidelines) for the creation of a debate “think-tank” around the thematic of Engineering Education. From this initiative, a first outcome is obtained, in the form of the Engineering Education Forum 2016 (EEF 2016). The Engineering Education Forum is therefore intended to be a place of discussion and debate on this thematic. The model behind Forum encompasses different approaches and tendencies, looking at the past, analysing the present and discussing the future. From the EEF 2016, several outputs and outcomes can be obtained and used for future strategies on Engineering Education. They are presented in this work, the first one focusing on preliminary quantitative results, regarding both the profiles of involved stakeholders and the responses of participants to a number of challenges proposed to the participants of the “face-to-face” debate. The second group of outcomes is related to qualitative aspects, such as the sessions' content and debates, as well as hints for future initiatives following the EEF model.","PeriodicalId":309144,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124858171","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":"Assessment rules and student cheating: A set of concerns as guidelines","authors":"J. Barros","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777723","url":null,"abstract":"Student cheating is a well-known topic with a large number of references in literature. This paper presents and discusses the role of assessment rules as a vehicle for cheating minimization, related to delivered work, in the context of computer programming courses. As there is no single best solution, we present a classification for cheating behaviors that provides a guideline for teacher reflection when designing course assessment rules.","PeriodicalId":309144,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125542627","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. Catarino, M. Nascimento, Eva Morais, Helena Silva, R. Payan-Carreira
{"title":"Take this Waltz on creativity: The engineering students' conceptions","authors":"P. Catarino, M. Nascimento, Eva Morais, Helena Silva, R. Payan-Carreira","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE.2016.7777735","url":null,"abstract":"The definition of creativity is not simple, because there are different conceptions, which are also in constant changing. This paper presents a study on the conceptions of creativity in students of the first year of university, in the engineering area. This study considered the answers of 67 undergraduates originating from four different courses to an open question available online on Google Drive - “What is creativity?”. Data were collected in the first semester of the 2014/2015 among students at a Portuguese university in the Linear Algebra program. The analysis of the students' answers focused on the content analysis using the categories of Vernon's definition of creativity; we considered the variables gender and undergraduate courses into the analysis. The results show that gender and the undergraduate courses were independent from the analyzed group categories. However, the descriptive analysis by gender showed that the predominant group was the implicit group category (using the terms creation, imagination, and originality) while in the undergraduate course it prevailed the explicit group category (using the terms inventions, innovations and thinking). This exploratory study leaves clues on the approach to other definitions and constructs of creativity, as well as their implementation for teaching in higher education.","PeriodicalId":309144,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"71 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114051940","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}