{"title":"An Evolution Model for Remote and Virtual Labs","authors":"R. C. Correia, G. Alves, J. Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507222","url":null,"abstract":"A graphical model that describes and anticipates the evolution of remote and virtual laboratory systems and networks is proposed. eThe model was built considering the “remote past” and the “recent past”, to make a projection about the future evolution, on each of the development lines that persist today. The verification of the proposed model considers some remote and virtual labs networks and systems that have existed and/or still exist today translating their story through graphs that show the evolution of the system affected by different variables, states, flows, processes, and results defined on the dynamic model and also a specific sub-model for the kernel of the main model.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117106540","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}
Daniela Pedrosa, Mario Madureira Fontes, Tânia Araújo, Ceres Morais, T. Bettencourt, P. D. Pestana, Leonel Morgado, J. Cravino
{"title":"Metacognitive challenges to support self-reflection of students in online Software Engineering Education","authors":"Daniela Pedrosa, Mario Madureira Fontes, Tânia Araújo, Ceres Morais, T. Bettencourt, P. D. Pestana, Leonel Morgado, J. Cravino","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507230","url":null,"abstract":"Software engineering education requires students to develop technical knowledge and advanced cognitive and behavioral skills, particularly in the transition from novice to proficient. In distance learning, the hurdles are greater because students require greater autonomy, adopting strategies of self and co-regulation of learning. Facing these challenges, the SimProgramming approach has been transposed into the context of DL: e-SimProgramming. In the second iteration of e-SimProgramming implementation (2019/2020), one adaptation was inclusion of metacognitive challenges (MC) to promote students' self-reflection on their learning process. We explain the design of the two types of implemented MCs. We provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of: 1) evolution of MCs submission throughout the semester, identifying regularity and completion within deadlines and their relationship to student success; 2) students' perceptions of MCs. Results show a positive correlation between high MC submission and student success, greater interest and involvement of students in type 2 MCs and positive perceptions of students about MCs.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114859653","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":"Studying Engineering Abroad: Intersectionality and Student Support","authors":"S. Chance, Bill Williams, I. Direito","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507214","url":null,"abstract":"What is it like to study engineering in Ireland when you are female and you come from somewhere far away, in the Middle East, which has different social customs and norms? What is your lived experience? What aspects of the experience are common to Middle Eastern women across your course? As education researchers, we aim to understand the essence of the experience these foreign women have had studying engineering in Ireland-what life has been like for them and what unique challenges they have faced that may be invisible to us as instructors. This article reports preliminary analysis of 13 interviews that we conducted with eight women from Kuwait and Oman during their first three years studying engineering in Ireland. It is geared toward educators-teachers, administrative staff, and support providers-who want to better understand the experiences and perspectives of international students. The paper culminates with advice distilled from literature and our own analyses regarding how to support students working in groups, with an eye toward helping international students achieve success and feel supported and included.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129412687","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. Metzmacher, Syrina Beierle, Ina Heine, P. Letmathe, R. Schmitt
{"title":"The Predictive Model of Industrial Employability (PMIE) - Enabling employees to effectively perform future production work","authors":"A. Metzmacher, Syrina Beierle, Ina Heine, P. Letmathe, R. Schmitt","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507207","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the development and operationalization of the Predictive Model of Industrial Employability (PMIE). The overarching objective of this model is to enable both shopfloor employees and production engineers to find or maintain employment in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) industrial working world. The PMIE consists of the construct “Industrial Employability”, and incorporates dependent variables that are consolidated within the four dimensions “Occupational and Technological Expertise”, “Adaptability”, “Social Skills”, and “Self-Management”. The model also contains antecedents as independent variables that influence a person's employability. On the micro-level, these antecedents represent individual factors; on the meso-level, the antecedents are determined by the organization; and on the macro-level, they are determined by sociopolitical factors. In order to validate and quantify the qualitative model, the PMIE will be applied in the form of a questionnaire study to companies within the automotive and machine tools industries as well as to unemployed persons who have previously worked in these industries. The PMIE aims at helping both the European labor market in general and specific organizations to identify the antecedents that need to be addressed in order to improve employability.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128006191","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":"Evolution of Engineering Education Research in Portugal and Spain: a scientometric study","authors":"A. Valentine, Bill Williams","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the growing body of work that analyses the growth of engineering education research (EER) as a global field of inquiry. It uses a computer-aided process to compare the evolution of EER in Portugal and Spain. This is achieved by extracting the names of the Portuguese and Spanish authors that published in a sample of 12 different journals in the years 2018 and 2019 and then carrying out a computer-curated scientometric analysis of their complete publishing careers in both specialised engineering fields and in EER. For a sample of 50 Portuguese and 285 Spanish authors we present data taken from 14,121 publications that allow us to show the percentage of their publications that are educationally focused and how this in turn impacts their h-index. We also calculate how early in their career they published their first educational paper. Differences between researchers active in the field of EER from Portugal and Spain are identified, the most notable being the tendency for a large number of Spanish authors to publish in specific EER journals and we suggest possible explanations for the findings.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132508705","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 engineering students' project management skills in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic: an online project-based learning experience","authors":"Gonçalo Cruz, C. Dominguez, A. Cerveira","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507213","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching project management and industrial optimization to engineering students requires real-world experiences in which they can explicitly integrate, apply and develop work-ready skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and teamwork. This paper presents an exploratory case study research describing an online Project-based Learning (PjBL) experience aimed at tackling the challenge of decreasing the ecological footprint in the university campus generated by the local locomotion of students from university-home and/or home-university. The experience was implemented from February to June 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 9 participating students enrolled in the ‘Industrial Management I’ course, part of the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trás-os-Montcs and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal. We firstly describe the course in terms of the key driving question, the learning goals, the educational activities, the collaboration among students, the scaffolding technologies, and the tangible artefacts produced. We further discuss the preliminary results of the study by taking into account the main tangible learning artefact produced by the students - a carpooling model proposal for the UTAD student community - as well as the data collected from a post, self-completion questionnaire on students' perceptions about the PjBL experience. Finally, we outline implications for the teaching practice and some concerns that need to be addressed in future course editions.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131989678","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}
Ricardo Afonso, F. Soares, P. B. de Moura Oliveira
{"title":"Innovative Teaching/Learning Methodologies in Control, Automation and Robotics: a Short Review","authors":"Ricardo Afonso, F. Soares, P. B. de Moura Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507242","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative teaching-learning methodologies in the fields of Control, Automation and Robotics are of great interest to researchers, educators and students. Nowadays there is a wide range of technological options available that can be used to improve learning and motivate students in their knowledge acquisition and skills development. Concepts such as Pocket-Sized Labs, Virtual and Remote Labs, as well as Web-Based Learning, are increasingly included in the teaching-learning processes, where students are expected to acquire their knowledge as active and central elements in the entire process. This article focuses on the review of various teaching-learning methodologies in the fields of Control, Automation and Robotics, taking several aspects into account: the portability and low cost of devices and applications, the possibility of autonomous and distance learning and centering of the learning process in the student. The conclusions drawn allow us to state that it is possible to apply innovative, effective and motivating methodologies with tools, devices and applications that are both low-cost and easy to access. It can also be inferred that the future of teaching demands a radical departure from the traditional methodologies, as well as taking advantage of technologies and students' skills to use and put them into practice.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123817167","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}
Bruno Lima, Daniel Granhão, António J. Araújo, J. Ferreira
{"title":"Pedagogical Innovation in Pandemic Times: The Experience of a Microprocessor Programming Course","authors":"Bruno Lima, Daniel Granhão, António J. Araújo, J. Ferreira","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507218","url":null,"abstract":"The 2019/2020 school year will always be remembered for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in recent history, countries closed schools and forced instructors and students to quickly adjust to online classes. This sudden and forced shift to a method of teaching that was completely different from what we were used to presented several challenges and opportunities on a pedagogical level. In this paper we describe our experience as instructors in a course on microprocessor programming in the Master's Degree in Computer Science and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Our approach included changes to the assessment plan, which became more distributed, and improvements in communication between students and instructors through the use of Slack. We found that the changes introduced were not only very well received by students, but also resulted in the best exam attendance and average final grade in the last 10 years of the course's history.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123144415","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":"The students' integration in pandemic times: MIEIC.OnBoard 2020/2021","authors":"Bruno Lima, António J. Araújo","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507201","url":null,"abstract":"The 2020/2021 academic year started full of uncertainties for new students of higher education in Portugal. The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the fears of a new lockdown, all coupled with the well-known challenges that a university student faces in his first year, made this year a particularly challenging year in terms of the students' integration. In this paper, we present how the mentoring programme of the Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto was adapted to help the integration of first-year students in the university environment under the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128325712","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. Pinto, Paulo Nogueira Ramos, Carla Carvalho, Cristovão Silva
{"title":"Do future engineers trust cobots?","authors":"A. Pinto, Paulo Nogueira Ramos, Carla Carvalho, Cristovão Silva","doi":"10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507225","url":null,"abstract":"We live in a complex and uncertain reality where technology such as robotics will mostly augment its market size. This evolution will impact future engineers in their professional lives. Increasing trust in their interaction with collaborative robots also known as cobots is relevant to decrease uncertainty in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. This research aimed to analyze the extent to which different higher education courses that students attend (mechanical engineering, industrial engineering and management, and management) differ with respect to the degree of general trust and its dimensions (perceived risk, benevolence, competence, and reciprocity) in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). A sample of 290 Portuguese higher education students replied to a Human Robot Trust Scale (HRTS), that showed adequate validity and reliability. To test our hypothesis an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted. Results showed that there are significant differences between groups regarding general trust - mechanical engineering students show more trust in HRI compared to engineering and industrial management students and management students. About the dimensions of trust, there are significant differences concerning perceived risk, benevolence, and competence, but not in relation to reciprocity. Practical implications, study limitations and clues for future research will be presented.","PeriodicalId":333998,"journal":{"name":"2021 4th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)","volume":"69 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128360300","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}