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To give students studying Electrical or Mechanical Engineering at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences a smoother beginning, three weeks in the first semester are used for project-based learning and self-learning exercises. The project-based learning part is used to do short-term projects (1 to 3 days) to motivate all the different subjects (mathematics, computer sciences, microcontrollers,...
Software Engineers are often promoted to management positions, based on their engineering excellence, lacking management knowledge, which is not always part of their undergraduate SE program. Moreover, very early in their career software engineers face management issues, when they are required to meet budget and schedule, to assess potential risks, to make make/buy decisions or to maintain effective...
Engineering ethics covers the scope of engineering standards and how these standards should be applied in daily engineering practice Engineering ethics combines societal, economic and environmental factors in order to produce a set of rules that could lead an engineer to make decisions that protect the public interest regardless of any pressures that they may encounter while serving for corporate...
In the light of the anticipated and much-discussed shortage of skilled labor and university graduates in the STEM fields, attracting students for technological studies is an important strategic aim of German universities and engineering faculties. Currently, the so-called “doppelter Abiturjahrgang” (a result of reducing school years from 13 to 12) plays into their hands by releasing twice the amount...
This paper concentrates on the methodology-oriented components of remote laboratory arrangement in the field of electrical drive. An active learning approach proposed to support online experimentation on the servo-drives, step drives, and induction motor drives helps the students to employ novel online tools and devices, to face real-world situations, and to interact with peers in circumstances that...
The Polytechnic School of the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM) started during 2012/2013 its “Project Based Engineering School” (PBES). This consists on the application of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology in all its degrees. The students developed in each academic year a comprehensive project covering partially the content of several courses; different teachers were involved in each...
The recent arrival of technological devices such as smart phones or tablets has had an enormous impact on the whole society. The young generation cannot imagine their living without them anymore. All these changes undoubtedly are reflected in all spheres of human activities including learning. Therefore the purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of m-learning, the most common mobile devices...
Nowadays, thanks to internationalization and globalization, university students have an opportunity to study abroad or work in multinational companies either abroad or in their home countries. This is also true for engineering students of the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM) of the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. In order to help them succeed in their foreign studies and on...
Jigsaw is a cooperative style of learning that has been around for more than four decades. Started as a technique for bridging ethnic boundaries and including minorities gently within the crowd, Jigsaw is now seen as one of the very effective techniques of student-centered learning, team-based learning, and project-based learning. Most of the successful stories on Jigsaw come from the fields of social...
An experimental laboratory setup is presented where students can familiarize, study, set-up, tune and test the propulsion motor drive. Paper gives a brief overview about experimental setup construction and application, as well about the course, where it is used, and laboratory exercise contend. The topics covered by developed laboratory works could be interesting for interdisciplinary studies in different...
A general electronics lab bench including a digital oscilloscope, a computer and a signal generator is transformed into a complete analog communication systems bench. It can be done by employing the software developed by the author and some additional inexpensive off-the-shelf electronics. The full exploitation of the potentials of the existing instruments and their connectivity made additional investment...
This article discusses the challenges of co-operative degree programmes for the eLearning infrastructures of universities. Existing interfaces of Learning Management Systems are insufficient to support the required workflows, and the handling of the virtual identities of the students is all but trivial. Existing solutions are compared and the chosen solution, the CampusConnect infrastructure, explained...
An assignment analysis was carried out according to Bloom's taxonomy for basic and advanced Engineering Graphics courses. Assignments for the first basic course cover the first three levels of Bloom's taxonomy: remembering, understanding and applying, with some elements of creativity. Assignments for the advanced course cover the upper three levels of Bloom's taxonomy: analysing, evaluating and creating...
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