{"title":"JUnit framework: An interactive approach for basic unit testing learning in Software Engineering","authors":"M. Wahid, Abdullah Almalaise","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235381","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Software Engineering discipline, unit testing play significant rule in testing procedure to determine if the source code fit for use. A unit test is the smallest testable part of an application. In basic learning of unit testing, JUnit framework with interactive GUI techniques as suitable tools in supporting students learning in higher learning institutes. In this paper, it presents the method to create unit testing code and how JUnit can give good experience in unit testing learning in software engineering. The result shows by using JUnit framework in unit testing learning can improve student interest and understanding in software engineering courses.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117275206","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":"Team-based Electronic Portfolio","authors":"A. Z. Zainal Abidin, F. Saleh","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235359","url":null,"abstract":"An important aspect of engineering undergraduate learning is the assessment techniques as they determine the extent to which the expected so desired learning outcomes of a particular program can be measured. With the growing demands of industrial needs globally, the learning outcomes of most engineering programs do not just linger on technical skills, but equally important, if not more, on the communication skills, teamwork skills and other such process skills. Educationists thus seek for alternatives to the traditional pencil and paper tests as this instrument is useful and regarded a good measuring tool, but limited to measuring thinking skills only. Amongst the examples of alternative assessment methods is the portfolio. This research attempts to show how team-based electronic learning portfolio construction in the learning of Differential Equations is integrated as an assessment method at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, a private university located in Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia was employed to encompass a more comprehensive measure of students' learning in three learning domains; cognitive, affective and psychomotor. Involving over two hundred engineering undergraduates, the researcher with the assistance of two other colleagues uses a criterion-based scoring rubric to evaluate the construction of a randomly selected sample of fifteen from a pool of fifty one electronic Differential Equations Learning Portfolio or acronym, e-DELP. It is interesting to note the various levels of learning from the three learning domains; cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains that could be related to the activities involved in the construction of the team-based e-DELP. Time consuming it may be, but with proper planning, this alternative assessment is found to be well-worth implementing in achieving the objectives of measuring more than technical skills of students.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133605931","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 an effective University, Industry and Government (UIG) Partnership Model for developing countries","authors":"Jamalul-lail Ab Manan, P. M. Arsad, N. Buniyamin","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235370","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years, University, Industry and Government (UIG) Partnership Model has been the main subject of discussions among top leaders for developing countries since late twentieth century. However, its effectiveness in driving the economies of these countries is yet to be materialized. Since its early development of the model, many researchers have been exploring new ways in assisting countries to achieve their idealism. Many universities in developing countries are preparing themselves for a long battle of staying competitive and relevant. Among the strategies adopted are by having curriculums that are designed and developed based on requirements gathered from industry representatives in their Industry Panel. In this paper, we investigate and highlight some different University-Industry-Government Partnership issues. We also discuss some of the possible strategies that can be adopted in the form of an effective UIG model that can help developing countries to be more competitive.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133712635","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}
Maryam Sulaiman, Z. Ismail, A. A. Aziz, A. Zaharim
{"title":"Lesson study: Assessing pre-service teacher's performance of teaching chemistry","authors":"Maryam Sulaiman, Z. Ismail, A. A. Aziz, A. Zaharim","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235391","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will report on an effort to integrate the simulated-teaching Lesson Study approach in the chemistry teaching method course offered to the third year students in a science teacher education program. The integrated Lesson Study has promised to be an effective teacher development strategy focusing on developing the appropriate skills of teaching and continuous improvement of student performance in the classroom. A total of 44 pre-service teachers enrolled in the course were involved in the project. They were divided into eight groups based on their major and minorscience subjects. Each group of pre-service teachers conducted three cycles of Lesson Study for one topic of form four orform five chemistry syllabus. The improvement of simulated-teaching Lesson Study performance was measured at each cycle by using the instrument “Lesson Study Teacher Performance Assessment Form” (LSTPAF) that consisted of two parts: the performance of teacher candidate and participating students; gives the to talled measurement three times (three cycle) by the teacher educator and peer group member. In this study, Rasch Model is used to analyse data on teaching performance of teaching chemistry for each of Lesson Study cycle of each group of teachers selected. The assessment conducted during the teaching observation is perceived as a valuable experience thus enable them to evaluate and revise the lesson in detail especially the teaching of teacher candidate and participating students throughout the Lesson Study process in chemistry subject for secondary syllabus.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121320633","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 web development course in information system department","authors":"M. Qadah, S. M. Al-Shomrani","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235382","url":null,"abstract":"Web development becomes one of the important factors in industries and companies in all over the world. Web applications, is very important for companies they can create another media in selling, promotes and advertisement of products or services which is called e-commerce. The focus in this paper is more on explaining in learning new programming skills rather than on research or real-world projects. The purpose of this paper is to explain how to teach web site design for IS Department students. From that, IS students are able to build a personal and business web site.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125292793","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":"Assessment of Program Educational Objectives using Alumni Survey: The UMS experience","authors":"J. Makinda, N. Bolong, L. Gungat, A. Sarman","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235351","url":null,"abstract":"Outcome Based Education (OBE) is as an educational process which is based on trying to achieve certain specified outcomes in terms of individual student learning. The OBE assessment includes three types of outcomes/objectives: the Course Outcomes (CO), the Program Outcomes (PO) and the Program Educational Objectives (PEO). The PEO is being assessed after three to five years of their graduation date and indicate the achievements of program graduates in their career and professional life after graduation. In this study, two sets of PEOs were used to survey two different groups of graduates; using the Likert's scale and achievement indicators respectively. The achievement indicators were developed by the program using stakeholders' inputs. It was found that the average Likert's point indicates a satisfactory level of achievement and the second survey showed that older batch closely matched the targeted PEO performance compared to the newer ones. In conclusion, while Likert-scale method produces favorable results, the real achievement may not be accurate due to its' dependency to the precise research question being asked, possible response bias and temporal right-censoring. On the other hand, the direct indicator-achievement method produces measurable and clear outcomes. The better performance of older batch may indicate a span of time trend where working experience plays important role in PEO achievement.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125841370","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}
S. Najid, N. Khatimin, K. Mastor, A. Zaharim, K. Osman
{"title":"Evaluation of students' perception on total learning experience using Rasch model measurement","authors":"S. Najid, N. Khatimin, K. Mastor, A. Zaharim, K. Osman","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235388","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides brief information about the total learning experience (TLE) of engineering students, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. A sample from 34 respondents who were actively taking their courses of study for their third semester was analyzed. Data from questionnaire of a five-point Likert scale was measured using Rasch model measurement, for the application in the field of students' profile, interests and satisfaction measurement. Highlighted by Item Response Theory, this model permits testing on the hypothesis of the statements which will reflect students' attitude or trait. The principle output of this study indicated classification of the students' perceptions based on preference of items being asked. It is believed that the present study could contribute for the improvement of teaching and learning process for the near future.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114540899","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}
Hayato Ogawa, B. Oguntoyinbo, Kunio Tochi, Nobuyuki Naoe
{"title":"Electric vehicle project for introduction to engineering Creation Experiment III","authors":"Hayato Ogawa, B. Oguntoyinbo, Kunio Tochi, Nobuyuki Naoe","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235354","url":null,"abstract":"A Japanese engineer in a Japanese company is expected to perform many tasks within the employed company during the lifetime of their employment. The employee is expected to perform tasks such as circuit layout, material development, programming, quality control, and management. Young engineers will have to study many fields and have a good understanding of the fundamentals of all aspects of engineering to become a well rounded employee desired by industry upon graduation. At Kanazawa Technical College students will be participating in a new project shaped to fallow there new curriculum in accordance to Massachusetts Institute of Technology CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) initiative.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114059260","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":"Data mining course in information system department- case study of King Abdulaziz University","authors":"F. Saleem, A. Malibari","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235378","url":null,"abstract":"Data mining (DM) is an essential course to be included in the curriculum of Information systems education. This paper highlights the importance of data Mining Course in the Information System (IS) department. We discussed the issues related with data mining texts books and practical tools, by using our previous experience with the students of Information System (IS) Department, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology (FCIT) in King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Jeddah. The paper focuses on importance of DM course, relation of DM course with IS department, discussion about selection of the text book, and finally discussion on different DM tools can be use in the labs. This paper provides comprehensive information on DM course, text books, and tools. This paper specially guides the DM students to select better course material in the form of text book and DM software tool for practical implementation of all data mining tasks.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116689627","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. L. Oliveira, N. Alles, L. Faria, D. Bompean, T. Curtinhas
{"title":"Proposal of a methodology to enhance the teaching of asynchronous digital systems design","authors":"D. L. Oliveira, N. Alles, L. Faria, D. Bompean, T. Curtinhas","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235361","url":null,"abstract":"Synchronous digital systems have been presenting serious problems of implementation in DSM (deep sub-micron) VLSI technology, for which the asynchronous paradigm has become an interesting alternative. Unfortunately, the topic of synthesis of asynchronous digital systems has been ignored or presents only a few numbers of teaching classes in most courses in electrical engineering, due the difficulty of different styles of asynchronous design, what requires many hours of classroom teaching. In this paper we propose a methodology for synthesis of asynchronous systems that requires just few hours of classroom teaching, being interesting to be incorporated in the subject of logic design. Starting from the RTL (Register Transfer Level) description of synchronous systems, the proposed method synthesizes the asynchronous system in the “decomposition” style, which is defined by XBM_AFSM (extended burst-mode asynchronous finite state machine) + datapath synchronous. A simple procedure is used to convert the specification of SFSM to the XBM specification, which describes the XBM_AFSM. Through a case study, it is shown the simplicity of the methodology, resulting in high-performance circuits.","PeriodicalId":417754,"journal":{"name":"2011 3rd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124408534","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}