{"title":"The use of animation and simulation to aid learning of electromagnetics: Electrical engineering at the University of Vaasa","authors":"M. Vesapuisto, T. Vekara, L. Korpinen","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576503","url":null,"abstract":"The courses which deal with electromagnetism, are difficult to understand for most electrical engineering students. However, almost every electrical professional needs a good understanding of electromagnetism. The aim of this paper is to present the use of animation and simulation to teach electromagnetics (EM) to the students of Electrical Engineering at the University of Vaasa. Since many students have difficulties in understanding mathematical notation used in EM, students are given a tutorial of mathematical notes during the first lecture. Subsequently, some mathematical issues are also reviewed by animations. Implications of EM formulas are visualized by animated material during lectures. Here we give an application example for Lenz law. In addition, students will do a simulation exercise at the end of the course. The goal is to familiarize students with a simulation program which they use then to solve EM problems. They are also required to document and analyse experiments and results. In recent years, students have written often master's theses from topics of real world industrial problems related to electromagnetic fields. The problems are addressed using simulation software. The students consider that the animated lecture material is illustrative and that simulation exercises are necessary to gain a deeper understanding of the essential phenomena. The students who have become deeply familiar with the electromagnetic (EM) fields, have so far gained full employment after completing their studies.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"28 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":"115090098","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}
Tatjana Druzovec, Lili Nemec Zlatolas, N. Escudeiro
{"title":"Slovenian students on projects/internships","authors":"Tatjana Druzovec, Lili Nemec Zlatolas, N. Escudeiro","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576531","url":null,"abstract":"PRAXIS is the European Network aiming to setup the European Center for Project/Internship (IP) Excellence, which is developed for needs of project oriented education and between others also support internationalization at home and mobility of students abroad. Project/Internship course units are particularly relevant to engineering degrees. It is through this type of courses that students have the chance to practice their technical skills in a real-world-like setting and experience soft skills that are a key factor for employability. Besides students and teachers also companies and HEI (Higher Education Institution) are included and integrated into PRAXIS and new connections are possible. For needs of PRAXIS project, we did a PI survey in which students, HEI and companies where involved. We decided to have analysis for Siovenian student separately on the base number of completed questionnaires/partners ratio, which was the highest between all 31 participating countries.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"82 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":"124327730","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":"Best practices applicable as a means to ensure high quality of education at the EIE area","authors":"A. Wac-Włodarczyk, P. Billewicz","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576536","url":null,"abstract":"The article outlines the most important information concerning didactic, scientific and organizational procedures that have been introduced at Electrical and Information Engineering Department of Lublin University of Technology in order to provide high quality of education level. Those tasks have been determined by both statute of the Lublin University of Technology and particular objectives of each of the scientific units that have been operating in the structure of the EIE Department. Among them, there have been discussed such topics as realizing the process of education on Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering courses, keeping curricula up to date accordingly to the newest requirements of the labour market and developing the idea of additional classes for voluntary students, particularly interested in a specific part of the knowledge. Subsequently, the paper presents crucial data connected with conducted scientific research, including information about papers submitted to Organizing Committees of many international conferences by particular authors. Finally, activities in the field of knowledge transfer and academic entrepreneurship also have been described. It has been necessary to describe such form of academic entrepreneurship activity as Business Incubator of Lublin University of Technology. The most interesting tendencies have been presented in graphs and diagrams and then discussed. In conclusion part authors try to designate the way of evolution of the University and indicate fields which will maintain an expansive tendency as well as suggest sectors which will lose their importance from the global University's aims point of view. Evaluation of realized objectives also was conducted.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"47 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":"125832683","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":"Course prescription using ontologies","authors":"B. Karaoglan, T. Kışla","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576526","url":null,"abstract":"Information related to the same “information need”, is available from many different sources widely spread on the web. This information may be differently worded or organized based on the conceptualization of the domain by different people and design autonomy. Ontologies are seen as way out for overcoming this semantic heterogeneity and bringing a common understanding for an integrated access, that is formulating a consolidated answer to a single query. In this work we propose an ontology based course prescription for individuals who are willing to enhance their competencies in certain areas.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"3 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":"126552947","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 digital technologies for university mathematics by applying participatory design methods","authors":"Evangelia Triantafyllou, O. Timcenko","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576507","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents our research efforts to develop digital technologies for undergraduate university mathematics. We employ participatory design methods in order to involve teachers and students in the design of such technologies. The results of the first round of our design are included in this paper along with future research directions.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"5 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":"115583628","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}
O. Bonnaud, Tayeb Moharnrned-Brahim, J. Floch, A. Bsiesy
{"title":"Priority of the french national network in microelectronics and nanotechnologies towards the attractiveness of young high-schoolers","authors":"O. Bonnaud, Tayeb Moharnrned-Brahim, J. Floch, A. Bsiesy","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576495","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that during the last fifteen years, a strong decrease of interest of the young pupils and high-schoolers for exact sciences was observed in the major part of Europe. A way to invert this trend consists in educating young generations in microelectronics, microtechnology and nanotechnologies, a specific topic of the electrical and information engineering. The Higher Education in these fields is organized in France through a network (GIP-CNFM) that coordinates the 12 regional interuniversity centres that have facilities as well in technological processes as in design of microelectronics devices and circuits. The main role of the GIP-CNFM is to harmonize and financially support the activities of the 12 centres essentially involved in higher education. But new objectives concern the attractiveness of young high-schoolers by the way of the organization of special sessions of for them as well for their teachers (educators), by the way of a one-day internship of training courses, scheduled on the facilities of the technological platforms. Since 2009, several experiments in this scheme have been setup through the GIP-CNFM network. Thanks to these prioneering experiments, several tens of secondary classes were brought to a better knowledge of microelectronics and nanotechnologies impact on science, technology and daily life.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"48 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":"117267457","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}
H. Debéda, I. Favre, A. Gracia, N. Labat, B. Plano, H. Frémont
{"title":"A one week-lecture in the Euro-dots course program: Microelectronic assemblies: From packaging to reliability","authors":"H. Debéda, I. Favre, A. Gracia, N. Labat, B. Plano, H. Frémont","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576514","url":null,"abstract":"The course “Microelectronic assemblies: from packaging to reliability” is a one-week-course module within the Euro-dots program proposed at the IMS Laboratory, University Bordeaux, with lectures illustrated by labs. It takes benefits from expertise of different teachers and research teams and also technological, failure analysis and characterization platforms.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"216 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":"123025067","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":"Interactive teaching system for simulation and control of electropneumatic and electrohydraulic systems","authors":"D. Sendrescu, M. Roman, D. Selișteanu","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576519","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the importance of practices in electropneumatic and electrohydraulic systems education and training, the goal of this work is to present an interactive teaching system useful in simulation and control of electropneumatic and electrohydraulic systems. The interactive system is based on applications developed for Windows operating system using LabVIEW and FluidSIM software. The teaching tools are organized in experiments with a real electropneumatic and electrohydraulic structure and in experiments with simulators, all with friendly graphical user interface. The presented interactive teaching system allows an improvement in electropneumatic and electrohydraulic education and training. The system has didactic properties such as modularity of the package, friendly graphical user interfaces and so on, helping students to understand and compare different modeling and control methods. The package can be easily extended with new experiments. Some applications of this interactive system for simulation and control of a Festo MPS (Modular Production System) Compact Workstation for Automation are presented.","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":"129290308","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}
F. Olga, H. Ioannis, Kalles Dimitris, Likothanassis Spires
{"title":"Implementing participatory design for developing a constructivist e-learning activity","authors":"F. Olga, H. Ioannis, Kalles Dimitris, Likothanassis Spires","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576520","url":null,"abstract":"European Qualification Framework in Open and Distance Education highlights issues such as content and existing concepts reusability, orchestrating tools for learning, adaptability and learner - centrics themes in curricula. This paper reports on preliminary findings and the process of the design and development of an e-learning activity, based on characteristics of the constructivist approach: Instructional Design tools have been applied in a Focus Group research context using Learning Activity Management System. The basic idea has been to engage Hellenic Open University tutoring staff in the design of distance learning activities by making use of Communities of Practice (CoPs) practices, using their educational experience as a springboard to implement effective learning activities mediated by LAMS and facilitated by an Instructional Designer. The designed activity was actually implemented in a distance education setting, on undergraduate students of HOU in a senior undergraduate course on Artificial Intelligence at the School of Science and Technology, during the first semester of 2012-3.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"22 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":"131599671","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":"A comparison of the education systems in Ireland and Malaysia in the field of electronic engineering from a faculty perspective","authors":"I. Grout, A. bin A'ain","doi":"10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EAEEIE.2013.6576512","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly, education is becoming more internationalised and this brings the need for faculty to understand and interpret the education systems in different countries. In this paper, consideration is given to the teaching and learning of electronic engineering within two universities which are located in different regions worldwide, and a comparison of the teaching and learning in both institutions is provided. The first institution, the University of Limerick (UL), is based in the Republic of Ireland and is part of the wider European Higher Education area. The second institution, the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), is based in Malaysia. Consideration is given to six chosen areas of common importance to both institutions and these areas are compared. The considerations are confined in this paper to undergraduate programmes.","PeriodicalId":326600,"journal":{"name":"2013 24th EAEEIE Annual Conference (EAEEIE 2013)","volume":"35 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":"123533037","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}