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This paper provides an overview and a comparison of several international projects which focus on research and development of international computing curricula. The projects address computer based systems in general and more specifically the area of real-time software intensive control systems. Issues related to the analysis, design, implementation and assessment of such curricula are discussed. The...
Current technology enables the development of remote laboratories to carry out real-time experiments dealing with real equipment via Internet. This distance-learning laboratory training is particularly useful in science and engineering education, where the acquisition of hands-on skills plays a key role to complete a successful education program. This paper presents the implementation of a remote...
The article considers enhancing the teaching of the subject ldquoMicroprocessor Systemsrdquo by a two-aspect study of stack memory. On one hand, the MPLAB development environment and the corresponding PICDEM PLUS2 development board of Microchip are used to examine the stack of the PIC18F452 microcontroller. On the other hand, the VHDL high level specification language and the WebPack ISE development...
In this work we present an innovative experience directed to the improvement of electrical engineering teaching at Universidad de Granada, Spain. We generated a video presentation using three-dimensional animation to show the concept of density of states in a crystal. Further, we comment on the main obtained results on the students, and we gather some results obtained after the public release of this...
The European Commission and the US Department of Education FIPSE Program have funded ATLANTIS initiative to promote collaboration in the higher education between European and American universities. The goal of the project was to create a new collaborative multinational model for interdisciplinary education in real-time software engineering. The project had not only created a framework for introducing...
An electronic Smith chart for the design and analysis of transmission line circuits is shown. To our knowledge, this is the first interactive Smith chart fully developed in Flash. The applet is free available through Internet. The successful feedback received from both students and instructors confirms that it is a powerful educational resource.
In this work, we propose a multifunctional e-learning environment with remote access for learning, getting hands-on experience, and carrying out laboratory research in developing optimized procedures for locating faults in complex electronic systems. It is a combination of a collection of software tools which simulate a system under diagnosis, emulate a pool of different strategies, methods, and algorithms...
The present paper describes the new missions and evaluation criteria that will be used for doctoral studies after harmonization following the Bologna process. A special attention is devoted to the studies in the field of Electrical and Information Engineering on the basis of experience in the direction of such a graduate school in France.
Students on the European Project Semester (EPS) carry out an interdisciplinary, industrial project in a multicultural environment, and begin to develop the cross-disciplinary language and communication skills, which are so needed in the global economy of today, as well as gaining international experience. The students participate at the beginning of the semester in preparatory courses related to design...
This paper describes the experience in teaching the basic engineering mathematics and physics as part of projects involving digital signal processing, programming, circuit theory, dynamical systems and control theory at the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering in Denmark. Modern engineering students are difficult to motivate in order...
Learning contents adaptation has been a subject of interest in the research area of the adaptive hypermedia systems. Defining which variables and which standards can be considered to model adaptive content delivery processes is one of the main challenges in pedagogical design over e-learning environments. In this paper some specifications, architectures and technologies that can be used in contents...
In France, technicians graduate after a two-years study at Technological University Institute with a French acronym IUT. After graduating, some students decide to apply for a job in industry or in service sector, others decide to carry on their studies in a Master or Bachelor Engineering curriculum. The IUT undergraduate studies are divided into four semesters, namely S1, S2, S3 and S4, each one having...
This paper describes the introduction of a problem-based learning (PBL) methodology within an undergraduate course of Telecommunication Engineering at the Universitat Autogravenoma de Barcelona (UAB). The PBL approach is in line with the convergence towards the common European Higher Education Area (EHEA), in which students will play a prominent and active role in their own learning. The selected...
In the most cases the process of assessing a quality of education level is connected with some popular procedures such as evaluation, accreditation, auditing or different ones. Certainly, their objectivity could be discussed from different points of view and many aspects could be taken into consideration in order to specify the most suitable, universal and objective criteria. Nonetheless, it could...
The design of a university curriculum is a process with multiple goals and several constraints to be taken into account. Accreditation issues are often tackled as a separate after-design process. This paper underlines the need to merge the two issues, by rigorously making internal quality assurance requirements, designed in such a way as to comply with requirements posed by possible accreditation...
The aim of this research was to evaluate and analyse alternative conceptions in students' understanding of the propagation of sound waves. The study was carried out in Barcelona (Spain) and involved first-year chemical engineering students.
This study is dedicated to the learning process to help students to deal with the complexity of a Lighting Design Project. In the Department of Electrical Engineering, preference was given to applying methods integrating technology in the learning and then evaluating the outcomes. Problem-based learning (PBL) was used as an instructional strategy of active learning, and adapted for use in Lighting...
This article describes an approach to analyze the competence profile of study programs. It introduces to the methodology and presents results of the application of this method to bachelor/master programs in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science. It shows strengths and weaknesses of the approach and suggests further developments.
European convergence towards European higher education area demands an important innovation process in the academic assessment system. In this sense, a model based of learning-centered on student, along the same lines as continuous assessment, presents some advantages which are exposed in this paper thanks to the introduction of an additional assessment in the subject of software engineering.
Modern economy is highly dependent on technology requiring engineers to excel in collaborative and communication skills at an international setting. However these competences are not addressed in the generality of engineering curricula. We believe that a set of tools and curricular activities involving students from different countries, collaborating to complete projects that generate relevant outputs...
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