K. Kapetanakis, Haroula Andrioti, Helen Vonorta, M. Zotos, Nikolaos Tsigkos, Ioannis Pachoulakis
{"title":"Collaboration framework in the EViE-m platform","authors":"K. Kapetanakis, Haroula Andrioti, Helen Vonorta, M. Zotos, Nikolaos Tsigkos, Ioannis Pachoulakis","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576525","url":null,"abstract":"Within the context of a 3D interactive strategy game, the EViE platform allows participants to unlock game features using their knowledge and skills in various thematic areas such as physics, mathematics, etc. By answering questions organized by Educational Objective in stratified levels of difficulty, users gather points which grant them access to desired world elements. Richer world components become increasingly more difficult to access, so that a players' individual (or cumulative if in a group) knowledge, ability and / or dexterity is directly reflected by the level of complication of their virtual world. In the present article we report on the communication architecture of the platform and focus on framework components that allow group activities such as cooperation (within the group to facilitate e.g., collaboration on more difficult problems), (inter-group) competition as well as practice and skill honing activities (in single or in multi-player mode).","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132312775","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":"Accreditation proposal for control systems in electrical engineering for 6th level in European qualification framework (EQF)","authors":"G. Tsirigotis, A. Friesel","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576510","url":null,"abstract":"The progress of science and technology emphasizes the connection between different domains and disciplines. The technology development and changing demands of the labour market require upgrading and renewing of learning outcomes in higher education, especially in engineering fields. The Life Long Learning (LLL) procedure must be the platform offering the required qualifications for the demands of companies and engineering professionals all over the world in order to support their competitiveness. In this paper we describe an improved proposal for accreditation of one important subject in engineering, namely Control Systems. The described procedure could be applied in the frame of LLL and also in classical engineering education systems, such as university and college education, in order to harmonize the recognition of engineering degrees in Europe and outside the Europe. Furthermore we state the necessary learning outcomes in the subject of Control Systems in engineering at Bachelor level (6th level of European Qualification Framework (EQF)) and propose a process to test the qualifications.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116853421","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":"Cooperation between industry and university based on the evaluation of the industrial research results in the academic environment","authors":"J. Ligus, J. Ligusova, Tomas Gazda","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576535","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the European Structural Funds it was developed the Intelligent Mobile Box, Intelligent Panel Controller with intelligent adaptive controllers within the industrial research and experimental development in the company Kybernetes, s.r.o. Within the frame of the academic-industry cooperation, the intelligent adaptive controller was tested at the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical university of Kosice, Slovakia. The tests of the mobile intelligent adaptive controller were performed on two levels of university study, on the Bachelor level on the exercises from the subject “Control of Technological Processes” and on the Engineering level the exercises from the subject “Intelligent Control Networks” and on one Diploma project. Goals of students of the Control of the technological processes course had two goals, firstly to connect the intelligent adaptive controller to pre-defined controlled system (real plant, real model or simulated model) and next to validate the control results. Students of the Diploma project on the Engineering level had more advanced goals. Tasks defined for engineering students were to connect the intelligent adaptive controller to non-defined controlled system, setup the adaptivity process of the controller regarding the learning error, parameterize the control system, observe and validate the control results. Both sides concluded this cooperation as very valuable. Main contributions for students were (U1) the challenge to apply studied theoretical knowledge on the real industrial controllers, (U2) experience with new research results and technologies deployed in industry and (U3) the implementation of the control and adaptive algorithms from abstract mathematical area to real PLC controller. On side of industry research company the main contributions were (C1) testing of designed algorithms and (C2) user feedback from students to make the application HMI interface more understandable a native.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116405465","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":"Innovative sauna lighting system as an innovation project","authors":"Ville Huhtinen, Timo Tolmunen","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576522","url":null,"abstract":"The development of LED technology has brought in large number of lighting applications and solutions for business owners. LED offers one of the most versatile, durable, economic and low power consuming solutions in the lighting arena. The innovation project described in this paper was carried out in spring 2010 for a local small size industrial company that designs and manufactures LED lights and lighting systems. The company gave a task to design a new sauna lighting system utilizing modern multi-colour LEDs. The primary goal was to create an innovative way to control LED lighting in a sauna. All final year students participated in that project and they formed four separate design groups that were formally competing against each other. All groups found many new ideas of which they selected some and made a working prototype. The company leaders selected the best prototype as the winner. As a result, the company got a lot of good ideas and is using those in many of their products today. And the students managed to reduce the gap between the studies and real life work. The working together with industry experts, creative designers, leaders and even members of board took along the students to the most challenging problems of the day with a high motivation level.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122028026","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}
A. Vairis, M. Petousis, N. Vidakis, B. Kandyla, C. Chrisoulakis, Andreas-Marios Tsainis
{"title":"Evaluating the efficacy of a numerical model of a human anatomy joint","authors":"A. Vairis, M. Petousis, N. Vidakis, B. Kandyla, C. Chrisoulakis, Andreas-Marios Tsainis","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576523","url":null,"abstract":"The human knee joint has a three dimensional geometry with multiple body articulations that produce complex mechanical responses under loads that occur in everyday life and sports activities. Numerical tools such as the finite element analysis are suitable for such modeling and can be used with success by students as well as experienced researchers alike. These tools have been used to develop an accurate human knee joint model to study its mechanical behavior, as part of an advanced undergraduate final year project in a mechanical engineering department. To evaluate the effectiveness of this articulated model, static load cases were used for comparison purposes.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129087085","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":"Interdisciplinary projects — Cooperation of students of different study programs","authors":"Jaka Polutnik, M. Druzovec, T. Welzer","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576532","url":null,"abstract":"Projects and internships in which students are involved are usually a part of their study programs and obligatory and are on that base mostly one field oriented. Even if interdisciplinary knowledge is expected, more or less, those projects cover only one course. We are aware, that real life project teams are mostly interdisciplinary, so we are trying to organise the work in similar spirit. In such a case a lot of organisational work and agreements between teachers from different disciplines and courses on preparation of projects (distribution and evaluation of workload that is demand by each discipline or course) is required. More interdisciplinary are projects that are not part of study programs and students are cooperating in them for other reasons and motivations. In our contribution we will present two case studies from the University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute of Media Communication, Institute of Informatics and Institute of Computer Science that cover nonobligatory projects, as well as some experiences from obligatory projects will be introduced. Stress will be on non-obligatory projects.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132510825","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}
D. Popescu, T. Avramescu, S. Perantonis, V. Virvilis
{"title":"A web-based e-learning platform for Orthopedics","authors":"D. Popescu, T. Avramescu, S. Perantonis, V. Virvilis","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576508","url":null,"abstract":"The project named “A Web-based E-Training Platform for Extended Human Motion Investigation in Orthopedics” addresses equally medical and biomedical engineering needs, proposing formation of specialists that will apply the principles of medical and biomedical engineering sciences in order to improve the patients' condition. The paper presents this Leonardo da Vinci project (ToI), its aims and the e-learning platform that offers to orthopedic doctors and engineers interested in the medical field, a common learning tool, with interdisciplinary approaches, trying to close the gap between engineering and medicine, by creating a new e-learning environment for human motion analysis.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131108330","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":"Enhancing undergraduate courses with internships","authors":"A. Vairis, K. Loulakakis, M. Petousis","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576496","url":null,"abstract":"In the drive to enhance undergraduate courses in various disciplines, industrial placements are becoming part of them for an increasing number, ranging from engineering to accounting and social work. The paper analyses internship practice at a large higher education technological university in the island of Crete, in the south of Greece. This work describes the different approaches that have to internships each of the three stakeholders involved, based on the long experience of academic internship supervisors of the Institute. The findings of this paper are based on an enhanced internship project that the Greek institute is running funded by European funds and reports preliminary results of this programme. In addition, suggestions based on experience are made for future development and monitoring of internship programmes to achieve beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders involved.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128188457","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":"Applying information technology in education: Two applications on the web","authors":"S. Argyropoulos, E. Petrakis","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576504","url":null,"abstract":"The development of innovative (Information and Communication Technology) ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice has become an integral part of today's educational procedure. ICT-based applications in education must be well designed but also manageable and acceptable by their users. PoTrain system and e-TRAWELSPA e-learning platform are two such applications developed at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131314484","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":"ADAM, intelligent integrated self-enhanced photovoltaic panel with Rainwater harvesting for Irrigation, unit cooling and cleaning","authors":"Gerakis George, Xristos Kanavas, D. Zissopoulos","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576524","url":null,"abstract":"Invention technical field is the areas of: Photovoltaic solar panel for electricity production, desertation ground effect through the forthcoming extensive use o solar panels, Rainwater harvesting, Irrigation and ground fertilization. The main idea of the invention is to collect rainwater on the lower edge of a photovoltaic panel and store it in a tank. With this water we subsequently can: irrigate the land for agriculture use, collect local or away the water for any other use, refrigerate the photovoltaic back or front panel, clean the glass of the panel surface. Results are soil cultivation for plant or animal production, greenhouse effect improvement, photovoltaic panel lower temperature with 30% efficiency, photovoltaic front panel glass cleaning with better efficiency. All process are handled by PLC, a programmable Logic Computer. According to the desired use there are 7 system configurations: lake reservoir fill, animal farm irrigation, back cooling, front glass cooling, dual cooling, front glass cleaning, Full feature system.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125375498","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}