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Broadening participation in engineering is an issue of national importance. Particularly in rural areas, otherwise capable students do not have the opportunity to envision themselves pursuing a career in engineering. To begin closing this gap, we present findings from a qualitative research study investigating the perceptions of engineering work held by rural and Appalachian youth. Fifth grade students...
The inherent geographic nature of displacement in refugee camps is requiring further use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for community-based information and asset management. Additionally, refugees have a fundamental need for livelihood development in host countries due to the protracted nature of displacement. This paper presents our work on the Refugee GIS or ‘RefuGIS’ project...
This paper describes the details of a theme-based and hands-on STEM learning program utilizing an underwater robot called GUPPIE. Glider for Underwater Problem-solving and Promotion of Interest in Engineering (GUPPIE) is an example of a robot with oceanographic and environmental monitoring application. GUPPIE helps students to learn about fundamentals of physics (buoyancy, gravity, drag and lift force),...
This paper, considering the complexity of university internal governance effect and particularity of the university itself, aims to build a indicator system to evaluate university internal governance effect, using the Grey Multilayer Comprehensive Assessment Method to evaluate this indicator system, whilst applying the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Entropy Evaluation Method to define the...
This article introduces Pilas Bloques, a scenario-based children learning platform, built to support Argentina's nation-wide Computer Science at school initiative. Besides a number of technical features like working offline and being light on resource consumption, it proposes a pedagogical strategy based on inquiry-based learning, decomposition, short and focused challenges and abstraction building.
Blockly is an open source library that makes it easy to add block based visual programming to an app. It is designed to be flexible and supports a large set of features for different applications. It has been used for programming animated characters on a screen; creating story scripts; controlling robots; and even generating legal documents. But Blockly is not itself a language; developers who use...
An apprenticeship community is an approach to linking two very hard problems: dissemination of technology-mediated learning methods and improvements to the preparation of undergraduates for a STEM workforce. A standard computer science curriculum based on knowledge and skill acquisition augmented with a project-based student community of design/builders is a significant addition to current methods...
Our lab-based small private online course (SPOC) combined online resources and technology with engagement between faculty and students based on OpenEdX platform. It worked with an auto-grading submission system which could reduce the instructors' burden of evaluation and provide better learners' experience. Different study behaviors were observed from the system tracking logs. Identifying at-risk...
Drawing inspiration from the psychological literature on social change [e.g., 1, 2], we classify approaches to development engineering into three categories based on the depth, sustainability, and scalability of the resultant change within a community. In this context, we define “first-order change” as charity or direct service, in which a donor meets the immediate needs of a beneficiary; we define...
Children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as one of the most complex neurodevelopmental disabilities, are characterized by different brain and functioning development, distinct interaction with the environment and different learning patterns, language and social skills impairments, and repetitive auto-stimulating restricting behaviors. It has been shown that computer-assisted intervention...
As the Internet of Things implies building systems of interconnected everyday objects, programming such complex devices can be a struggle. There are multiple possible programming approaches when building a smart system, each with its pros and cons. This paper presents a comparison between several existing approaches, but also our proposal of a BPMN based approach that we applied to the Internet of...
Together with the development of the Internet of Things, many universities all around the globe started introducing courses related to this area. As the IoT is a new field, professors work together in designing courses and building educational materials. Due to this, the need for a platform to centralize and allow the sharing of all the materials has risen. This paper presents a platform that allows...
Instructing human novices on complex tasks in non-standardized environments are an underexplored potential use for social co-robots, since instruction and skill transfer involving human experts can require an enormous commitment of time and resources. In this paper, we enable a humanoid Baxter robot to build a semantically accessible framework for task learning, teaching and representation via active...
Engineering education is undergoing a restructuring driven by the needs of an increasingly multidisciplinary engineering profession. At the same time, power systems are transitioning toward future smart grids that will require power engineers with skills outside of the core power engineering domain. Since including new topics in the existing curriculum while maintaining the existing requirements is...
The way research methods course has been taught across disciplines was a combination of hands-on experience and research activities. The applied activities came in different forms such as conducting literature review, applying peer review, writing papers, etc. In class activities, which are outside the silo of research methods, are not widely popular. The activity in mind is the “Marshmallow Challenge”...
The organization of the information in the knowledge economy hasbecome a priority business process. Better organization leads tofaster retrieval of relevant information. The process of searchingand sequencing didactic materials for course building is anarticulated and time-consuming process that requires considerableeffort by the user. The goal of this research is to implement aplatform for supporting...
This study proposes a mobile augmented-reality teaching system focused on historic buildings that enables users to build a deeper understanding of the building structure, features, historical references and era influence while simultaneously exploring the historic site through the interaction effect that combines the virtual and the real. This increases overall interest in architecture and history...
Teamwork is considered as an important competency in the era of information technology. Communications are predominantly doing virtually. The study aims to measure the role of instant messaging in building vitual teamwork. The study posited convenience sampling technique and quantitative method-based applying the measurement of frequency for managing and interpreting the data. The respondents involved...
Concepts of Control Systems are important as they are present in the operation of a broad set of systems in all engineering branches. Sustainability issues have led to an intensive use of these concepts on systems. However teaching / learning of Control Systems Engineering has always been a difficult subject not only for the underlying theoretical part, but also for the few examples that are traditionally...
Urban Energy Management approach of Cluj-Napoca city municipality is presented in close connection with the public utilities companies, energy action plans and mainly the impact on energy use on public building in an original approach between the City Municipality — Technical University and an NGO founded by the private energy companies.
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