{"title":"A novel design of management senior project for engineering students","authors":"S. Kadry","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096065","url":null,"abstract":"The senior project course for engineering students has a vital role in enhancing the “learn by practice” education engineering students in any university. The senior project course is, usually, a two semester course. This short time frame, poses challenges for both students and faculty. Students have to achieve the outcomes of the project to a certain extent and the faculty has to manage, follow up and evaluate efficiently the work of their students individually and by group. One common problem in senior project is the missing of the control during the visit of the students to a company for project preparation purpose. In this paper, we propose a new and efficient design of follow up for faculty to manage properly and evaluate effectively the individual progress of the students during the preparation of their senior projects and to avoid “free riders” situation. Our idea is based on the mobile technology to track the students' progress, meeting, and visiting industry and so on. The proposed idea is helpful to avoid free-riding students also provides instructors with solid evidence of the student progress.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117181612","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":"Motivation in engineering education a framework supported by evaluation instruments and enhancement resources","authors":"D. López-fernández, P. Alarcón, E. Tovar","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096006","url":null,"abstract":"Motivation is a critical factor in the academic performance, especially in the EHEA context, where the active learning must be promoted. In the case of engineering education, it is particularly necessary to care the student motivation by several reasons. The difficulty of engineering degrees can hinder the motivation of students and it can affect the high levels of absenteeism and dropping out. Thus, it is important to work up frameworks to evaluate and enhance, in addition to technical competences, other competences such as motivation. This paper presents the definition of a motivational framework composed by several instruments, resources, mechanisms and technologies. It allows teachers and academic institutions to evaluate and enhance the motivation of their students. But the most innovative characteristic of the framework lies in the student side; it also allows students to self-evaluate and enhance their motivation by performing questionnaires, recommendations and complementary training activities. In order to validate the proposed solutions, a case study has been successfully performed with 152 students of the Technical University of Madrid. The empirical experience has enabled to confirm the usefulness of the provided framework and to explore motivational aspects related with the engineering education.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"96 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121013682","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":"Randomness impact in digital game-based learning","authors":"M. Al-Hammadi, Abdelrahman Abdelazim","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096064","url":null,"abstract":"This research reports the findings of experiments conducted in Kuwait to explore how randomness in educational engineering video games can assist autistic children in experiencing randomness and developing their cognitive behaviors. The experiments are based on an engineering educational application that was implemented based on random numbers and by using the Stroop effect theory. Different scenarios for implementing the experiments were carried out and comparisons were performed. Three statistical tests have been used to draw the conclusions: the t-test, Levene's F- test, and Cohen's d. The results show significant improvement in autistic children's ability of paying attention, memorizing, reacting to random processes, and managing parallel information.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"17 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131194556","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 remotely accessible photovoltaic system as didactic laboratory for electrical engineering courses","authors":"Dario Assante, Massimo Tronconi","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096013","url":null,"abstract":"With the involvement of graduating engineering students, a remotely accessible solar energy laboratory has been developed, in order to simulate a small photovoltaic system. The laboratory includes two photovoltaic cells, a charge controller, batteries and a dummy load. A Raspberry PI microcontroller enables to control the different inputs, measures the voltages and the currents in the circuit and provides a remote access through the web. The lab intends to be a prototype of remote lab for the University, in terms of realization costs, communication protocols and software interface. It will be used by graduate students in the Electrical Engineering courses, enabling them to perform some experiments at distance.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115144779","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}
Ye Tao, Guozhu Liu, J. Mottok, R. Hackenberg, Georg Hagel
{"title":"Just-in-Time-Teaching experience in a Software Design Pattern course","authors":"Ye Tao, Guozhu Liu, J. Mottok, R. Hackenberg, Georg Hagel","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096082","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching design patterns in computer science introductory sequence is more difficult than learning it. We present a Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) practice in Software Design Patterns course targeted to entry level students. We proposed a model that combines JiTT concepts with didactic considerations, preparation materials, in-class sessions and post-lecture assignments. We have effectively used this approach to teach two undergraduate classes. The paper also presents the results of a survey conducted to identify the effectiveness of the JiTT activities through warm-up questions, class-wide discussions, experiments and exercises.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115163656","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":"Students' grading control and visualisation in competence-based learning approach","authors":"K. Umbleja","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7095985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7095985","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses how students familiarize themselves and cope with novel competence-based approach to learning in online e-learning environment where the focus is on personal learning. Learners have freedom to mark their own path through the courses without deadlines by choosing themselves what, when and how much they learn. That methodology concentrates on measuring what a person can actually do as a result of learning. In order to have that kind of detailed picture of everyone's abilities, different kind of approach for assessment was developed using automatic algorithms that mimic student's answering process with small repeatable exercises. As every competence is being graded separately with high level of granularity, one definitive final grade requires a more complex aggregation function to be designed. Grades are suggested for students when enough work has been done and on their own discretion they can either accept that result or keep working to achieve a higher grade. As this kind of personalized approach to learning leaves all responsibility of planning to a learner, they have to have a proper overview of their own progress and an access to sufficient data in order to make educated learning decisions. To facilitate that problem five different student's progress visualization tools were offered to students. Their usage, benefits and drawbacks according to students' feedback have been analyzed. The conclusions drawn are that visual tools have helped majority of students to follow their process better than before and every student prefers different kinds of tools depending on their personality. While some students have benefited a lot from the freedoms offered by the system, others had hard time motivating themselves to work and therefore found it to be difficult to complete the course on time.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377746","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":"Work in progress: Mobile technology for teaching in higher education","authors":"Giorgio Poletti","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096061","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the research and application of new technologies to support classroom lessons. In particular traces the theoretical and applications that are in development and testing in some of the teachings of the degree courses in “Science and Technologies of Communication” and “Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage”. Development of applications, APP and augmented reality, are both a tool for teaching that a development tool that students use to expand their individual skills in the field of multimedia communications, interactive and distributed.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116420279","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}
Sofiene Gharbi, Hamza Bellakhdar, Salah Eddine Mrabet
{"title":"Project based learning in business intelligence with intervention of companies","authors":"Sofiene Gharbi, Hamza Bellakhdar, Salah Eddine Mrabet","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096001","url":null,"abstract":"Most active teaching approaches in higher education neglects the involvement of industry in academic projects. In this article, we will present our experience in the module of “business intelligence learning project” where we have joined a project - which was proposed and supervised by professionals- with the PBL approach “project based learning” and how we integrated this project in the curriculum of a computer engineer specialized in Business Intelligence. In this project, we worked with five companies that provided us with six projects in the area of business intelligence using new technologies in the market such as big data, data mining and text mining.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116447938","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":"Mobile devices, powerful teaching tools in the engineering classroom","authors":"I. Menchaca, M. Guenaga, S. Romero","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096027","url":null,"abstract":"The use of mobile devices in the classroom generates a continuous debate. Even if it involves some risks, there is no doubt that they are part of daily lifes of students, as well as the educational community. At higher education the use of these resources is even more relevant, as they all have at least one smart device. In this paper we show four experiences in the use of mobile devices for learning and teaching at the Faculty of Engineering (University of Deusto, Spain). We present four cases where mobile devices were used with educational purpose: generic activities for the learning management, activities in a laboratory, project management and ordinary activities in the classroom. We also provide the results of a questionnaire students answered about how they use mobile devices (in and out the classroom) and how they value their use in their learning.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122834880","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}
Roberto Centeno, M. Rodríguez-Artacho, Félix García Loro, E. S. Cristóbal, G. Díaz, M. Castro
{"title":"Towards learning resources rankings in MOOCs: A pairwise based reputation mechanism","authors":"Roberto Centeno, M. Rodríguez-Artacho, Félix García Loro, E. S. Cristóbal, G. Díaz, M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096091","url":null,"abstract":"Reputation systems have been showed as effective mechanisms for capturing and extracting the global view a society has about some entities. Traditionally, these systems are based on capturing users' opinions through quantitative evaluations given by numerical ratings. However, it has been demonstrated that mapping opinions to numerical values might entail biased problems, skewing the reputation of some entities. In this work, we present our proposal for dealing with such problems, based on capturing opinions through comparative evaluations. Besides, we state that this mechanism can be successfully applied in MOOCs, in order to estimate the reputation of learning resources, allowing us to provide students/users with better resources.","PeriodicalId":403342,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123006758","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}