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Attracting more young people into science, engineering and technology (SET) careers is a challenge for many industrialized nations on the way towards the knowledge-based economy. Large-scale studies such as PISA show a severe lack of young people's interest in science and engineering-related subjects and even less motivation to pursue an SET-related career for many industrialized countries.
This work presents a study of the behavior of piezoelectric devices based on a modified Thévenin's equivalent electric circuit. It aims to characterize piezoelectric devices using electric network theory and to complement the instruction of Thévenin's Theorem in classes about electric circuits. The employed approach allows us to outline the most important concepts of operation of the piezoelectric...
This paper presents an agile aggregation and exploitation framework to provide access to remote laboratory experiments to higher engineering education students using a social media platform, namely Graaasp. The usage of this advanced social media enables educators or students to build personal learning environments that include invited peers, tutors or educators, aggregated or recommended resources,...
The author deals with e-learning at University of Hradec Králové on the Faculty of Informatics and Management in the Czech Republic. In the second and third part of the article there is the description of main tools in WebCT and ways of students' motivation in the course Business theory and the chosen elements of the constructivism. The fourth part summarizes and analyzes the evaluative questionnaire...
A learning and teaching methodology is implemented, in a Mechanical Engineering course that comprises several distributed learning and assessed activities that make use of active and collaborative learning as well as peer review and assessment. A company Learning Management System (LMS) is used to promote peer learning and continuous assessment throughout the course. Pedagogy assumes a key role although...
Recently, many educational institutions have acknowledged the importance of making laboratories available on-line, allowing their students to run experiments from a remote computer. While usage of virtual laboratories scales well, remote experiments, based on scarce and expensive rigs, i.e. physical resources, do not and typically can only be used by one person or cooperating group at a time. It is...
This paper aims to describe the perception of tutors and university teachers about quality assurance in a distance undergraduate management course in Minas Gerais Brazil. The results provided a useful amount of information to improve the quality of the course and even the platform used.
Creativity and innovation are prerequisites of a successful engineering career. It equips an engineer to contribute to the sustainable technical development of the contemporary world with globalized challenges. Hence, it is imperative to train the students of engineering in engineering creativity and technical innovation. However, the constraints of a conventional curriculum, which lay excessive emphasis...
The state of Qatar has embarked upon a novel challenging experiment of massively investing in its education and research infrastructures with the goal set on becoming a knowledge-based economy by 2030. World class institutions, such as Carnegie Mellon University, were therefore invited to offer identical versions of some of their undergraduate programs in Qatar. Numerous challenges inevitably emerged...
Making online laboratories available to the wider public requires them to be retrievable and reusable. To this end, we define a metadata set providing all required information in a machine readable form. This article presents the metadata set currently under discussion by the Global Online Lab Consortium (GOLC) as well as the issues of defining widely acceptable controlled vocabularies to describe...
The paper deals with the eLearning and its potential at the university level of education. The students' point of view is highlighted. The core of the contribution forms a quantitative-qualitative research. The research was based on a comparison of students' attitudes and evaluation of the demandingness of one selected university course. Data were gained in the traditional face-to-face lessons and...
We are developing a system that can embed algebraic manipulations, mathematical formulas and graphs in web pages without any plug-ins by using a mashup approach. The web page loaded from any web sites as a learning management system (or loaded as a local file) can embed algebraic manipulations and visualize mathematical formulas using MathML by accessing an external web application server which provides...
The Game·Tel project has arisen as a way take advantage of the possibilities of gaming in collaborative learning environments. In this paper we study the platform developed for Game·Tel on the basics of recently published specification IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability. An analysis on the functionalities of Game·Tel brings up some requirements that cannot be fulfilled by IMS Basic Learning...
This paper describes a classroom experiment in which detected cases of programming plagiarism were correlated with the classroom's social network. The results suggest that it is possible to understand the amount of similarity between artifacts as an indirect measure of the student social network. These findings imply that it is possible to uncover the classroom social network using only the source...
The aims of this paper are to analyse the perception of French students in engineering about the Charter of ethics for engineers and to propose a point of view on the problem of introducing ethics into engineers' training. For this purpose the Conference of Deans of French Engineering Schools and Universities of Technology (CDEFI) did an inquiry among students in engineering in the fall of 2009. 3,589...
There is increasing emphasis in Engineering Education to include transferable skills, such as written and presentation skills, but also critical evaluations and lifelong learning. Another challenge is the rapidly changing technical content in many engineering courses and the related struggle to provide up-to-date study materials. This paper introduces a comprehensive assessment strategy that helps...
The analysis of the scientific literature available on the types of general competences and their classification caused the authors to conclude that it is necessary to implement interdisciplinary approach in engineering education to develop competences necessary for engineers to make them competitive in the labour market. The attention should be paid to a professional foreign language, computer literacy...
This paper investigates the use of virtual teams in delivering key graduate attributes to engineering students studying via distance education. The course uses a Problem Based Learning approach where students work in teams to solve open ended, contextualised engineering problems. The team members are distributed across Australia and the world and have no face to face contact. They communicate solely...
Engineering education now demands that we quip our students with key transferable skills that will enable them to meet the demands of rapidly changing technology and societal expectations of engineers. This paper investigates the role of improved leadership in learning and teaching, through the position of the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (AD-LT), and faculty supported research in engineering...
The purpose of this paper is to explore undergraduate research skills of students from private universities in the UAE. A survey was conducted in two private universities. These are Al-Ain university of Science & Technology and Ajman University of Science and Technology. The survey questionnaire centered on the understanding of the nature of research, research process, data collection and data...
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