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Most traditional science and engineering instructions in universities are topic-based and authoritative, and students do not necessarily feel the teaching and its content to be personally important or useful. Students' science and engineering learning needs to be more personal, authentic, and meaningful to them. In reviewing potential technologies for achieving such learning benefit, several studies...
Because design is recognized as a critical element of engineering thinking, it is crucial for educators to discover the most effective methods to teach this problem-solving approach. Results from students' thinking process may shape future teaching methods. This paper explores the differences in design process between high school engineering students and experts. It also examines the differences between...
Our data shows that over the past 15 years over 75% of the entering first year students change their selected major between the start of classes in August and the time they need to register for the second year classes in March. This movement of students has many impacts on student retention and on students' success across 4 years of engineering education. To help improve the retention of engineering...
The Project Oriented Design Based Learning (PODBL) is a teaching and learning approach (TLA) that is based on engineering design activities undertaken during a project. PODBL encourages independent learning and a deep approach to student learning outcomes. The Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) is a new engineering building with cutting edge technology facilities at Deakin...
This paper presents the knowledge of investigating the haptic product experience among the Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) user. It is important that by providing more complete, practical and useful assessment activity for the BVI, designer may build a basis-structured user centered model approach to haptics product design for this group. The knowledge in understanding the visually impaired group...
In the present conditions of world political and economic uncertainty making predictions concerning the structure and development of a labor market becomes more and more difficult. That is why graduates need to be mobile. However, for producing mobile graduates — in terms of social, professional, or academic mobility — higher educational organization should provide high quality of education, which...
This article is focused on the forms and strategies of training evaluators for program accreditation and certification of engineers developed and implemented by the Association for Engineering Education of Russia. Current training programs are discussed as well as future proposals are mentioned. Evaluator competencies are defined and briefly described. The main principles of development and implementation...
Personalized learning is tailoring learning to meet the skill level, strengths, challenges and personal needs of individual students. Augmented reality technologies project virtual objects onto real world objects. These technologies create new levels of engagement for students while simultaneously increasing students' test performance. In this poster we describe how combining these two areas of research...
This Work in Progress paper discusses the development and implementation of the first Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Winter Abroad Program (SWAP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This is a student abroad program where SUTD students travel to MIT for three weeks during the MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) to attend courses alongside MIT students, experience...
The paper discusses the outcomes of the Tempus project QUEECA, led by the University of Florence, School of Engineering. The project, involving 4 out of 5 TEMPUS countries in Central Asia, aims at setting up and implementing a system of Quality Assurance for Engineering Education in Central Asia countries. Through the discussion of the specific project, a Capacity Building Approach for the EUR-ACE...
The Remote laboratories are flexible, distributed environments which enable a learner to perform real experiments via the web. The learner carries out the experiment and takes measurements online, but he or she can recover the real, rather than simulated, experimental results in order to utilize them. The development of remote laboratories is a promising direction for the future of engineering education...
EPICES is an Erasmus plus strategic partnership project (September 2014–August 2016) co-funded by the EU. There are seven academic partners and one association engaged in this project. The purpose of EPICES is to develop a European collaboration on at-a-distance project-based learning framework and method, based on already existing and still developing technical platforms, i.e. collaborative and engineering...
In recent years, with great development in information technology (IT), more and more ITs have been applied to learning now to break through limitation of conventional teaching environment, and improve learning willingness and effectiveness of learners. Because of popular wireless network and mobile carriers, students are never constrained to time and location nowadays, such that more attention is...
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