{"title":"An experimental study of Engineering-Science-Mathematics Approach in elementary engineering and science education","authors":"Eric Z. Ma, E. Lo, Mansun Chan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360353","url":null,"abstract":"A learning model of Engineering-Science-Mathematics Approach (ESMA) is designed and experimented for engineering pre-college outreach to K-6 students and teachers. It is evidenced that the learning efficiency and outcome are significantly higher than traditional learning approach of Mathematics-Science-Engineering at college level. This design utilizes the minimum resources of engineering and science specialists in school district and materials available on the market. The ESMA model can be applied to a wide audience with trained in-school science teachers. The study shows that K-6 is the optimal age period for engineering pre-college outreach.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128471317","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 system to assist the learning of embedded microprocessor programming","authors":"Y. Fung, Shuyun Ren, M. Ercan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360360","url":null,"abstract":"When implementing final year projects, students may need to program a microprocessor in order to achieve the project objectives. Therefore, a system is designed in order to assist students who have limited background knowledge in computer engineering to learn the basics of microprocessor programming primarily using the C programming language. In addition to the software, various hardware components are provided so that students can develop simple systems so the learning outcomes can be enhanced by practice. From feedback collected, users found that they are able to learn simple C language programming for a microprocessor with the help of the system.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125352332","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":"Unlocking the secret of 3D content for education","authors":"H. Leung, H. Lee, K. Mark, K. Lui","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360405","url":null,"abstract":"Although previous research has shown promising results on 3D in education, the standard method of viewing 3D content would not be practical in Hong Kong as many students need to wear two pairs of glasses due to nearsightedness. This paper will present our study of using the automultiscopic LCD display of Marvel Digital for 3D teaching on General Studies in a primary school in Hong Kong. Significant findings support that pupils learn science topics better in 3D than in 2D.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125542384","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":"Towards a sustainable assessment strategy for digital forensic education and training","authors":"Lei Pan, D. Hutchinson, N. Khan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360318","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we show the development and application of a sustainable assessment strategy as an implementation of effective learning for a computer crime and digital forensics unit. The unit is undertaken by undergraduate students as part of an Information Technology Security course at Deakin University. Over a five year period the teaching team has made continuous improvements to the delivery of material and content taking informal student feedback and Faculty review into careful consideration. In addition formal student evaluation of the unit has been extremely positive. As part of reflective teaching practice the teaching team derived a map of the relationship between learning objectives, learning activities, the assessment and the unit outcomes to verify what has led to the favorable student experience and its impact on learning process in order to repeat this strategy for other tertiary courses.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131370639","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":"Performance and Quality of Experience of Remote Access Laboratories","authors":"A. Kist, Andrew D. Maxwell","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360346","url":null,"abstract":"Remote Access Laboratories have become important learning and teaching tools. This research presents a performance study that targets a specific remote-access architecture in a university environment. The system provides authenticated and mediated global remote access to virtual machines as well as hardware systems, which drive physical experiments. This paper presents system performance results that have been obtained with a set of automated and user-based tests. Key aims of the study were: To gain a better understanding of traffic that is caused by experiment usage; to get an indication of expected user performance; and to develop a measure to predict Quality of Experience, based on easily measurable Quality of Service parameters. The study emulates access bandwidth, round trip times of typical usage scenarios and provides results that allow classifying expected user performance. It demonstrates that failure rate is excellent measure of usability. Thin-client and remote desktop architectures are popular to separate the location of users and the actual data processing and use similar structures. Results of this study can be applied to these applications as well.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132363576","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":"Teaching notes of MVDR in digital signal processing (DSP)","authors":"Xiansheng Guo, Q. Wan, Ying Zhang, Jintao Liang","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360341","url":null,"abstract":"The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is a classical filter to reduce the interference plus noise energy without distorting the desired signal. Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a subfield of convex optimization concerned with the optimization of a linear objective function over the intersection of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. In this paper, we will show MVDR objective function can be derived from SDP objective function and vice versa. This conclusion can help students better understand MVDR from convex optimization and bring them a new insight of MVDR theory.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115598589","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}
Ming-Che Lee, Hui Hui Chen, Yaodong Li, L. Yin, Chien Mu Liu, C. Chen
{"title":"Meta-evaluation viewpoints on curriculum evaluation of engineering education: evidence from a north university of Taiwan","authors":"Ming-Che Lee, Hui Hui Chen, Yaodong Li, L. Yin, Chien Mu Liu, C. Chen","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360305","url":null,"abstract":"According to The Program Evaluation Standards (1994) published by The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), this study performs a meta-evaluation on the teaching feedback questionnaire (Appendix I) of Ming Chuan University (MCU), Taiwan, through questionnaire analysis in terms of the appropriateness and the indication of the questionnaire items. The participants of this study were first- to third-year undergraduate students from the computer science department at MCU, Taiwan. The questionnaires were distributed to a total of 231 anonymous students in six classes and 95% valid questionnaires were returned. The conclusions are as follows: 1) the attendance is highly related to conscientiousness and certainty; 2) conscientiousness is related to certainty at the significant level; 3) the teaching feedback questionnaire of MCU are not strongly representing the appropriateness and indication; and 4) teaching method and teaching effectiveness of appropriateness and indication are highly correlated.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114445482","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":"Toward more effective strategies in teaching programming for novice students","authors":"Xiaoyuan Suo","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360379","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports two different approaches in teaching an introductory level computer programming course to first-year undergraduate students in a small liberal arts university. The first approach, task-specific design strategy, is a simplified teaching method to help students solving large problems. The second approach, teaching programming using graphical language, is a method to enhance students' understanding on programming terminologies. The overall evaluation of the course showed the teaching methods are beneficial and effective, especially for students with limited background in computing and programming. Further, students' feedback conducted at the end provide us with potential improvements for the future.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114735597","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":"How to make engineers not stumble in thinking value creation","authors":"C. Sato","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360387","url":null,"abstract":"In order to correspond engineer's tendency to stumble in thinking beyond “how to make a technology into a product in general” in their business development, and in order to counteract little focus on this point in current Technology Management education, three frameworks were developed to make them think “what could be the real values out of the proposed business” and “why the business can be probable in real world” with the stress on “who are there in practice” in a wider perspective. These frameworks are verified to serve the purpose sufficiently when tested with people of various backgrounds and nationalities.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115112400","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 proposal for engineering education through restructuring product design","authors":"A. Maeda, K. Ohizumi","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2012.6360288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2012.6360288","url":null,"abstract":"In order to contemplate the best form of engineering education, this paper provides studies on engineering education using Design Structure Matrix, and fractal analysis to deal with complicated product development management in iron-making plant engineering.","PeriodicalId":407302,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012","volume":"309 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121843757","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}