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New information and communication technologies (ICTs) are offering unprecedented opportunities and challenges for innovating in a collaborative way at the academic and research realm. With the purpose of taking advantage of these opportunities, a project called "Parallel Virtual Workshop (PVW)" has been set in a Master's Program to pursue academic internationalization, to provide professional...
Science, technology and engineering are constantly changing in profound ways, so STEM teachers have to keep up with providing not only the textbook basics, but also updated examples from current technologies, while using novel teaching techniques based on scientific inquiry. Professional development activities are powerful tools to increase teacher learning, and indirectly drive improved classroom...
It's our great pleasure and honour to welcome you to the 2014 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications co-organized by the IEEE Communications Society, together with the Radio-Electronics Association of Vietnam and Posts & Telecommunications Institute of Technology of Vietnam. Started in 2008, the conference has made a great tour across Vietnam, for better promoting...
The objective of this presentation is to illustrate that an electromagnetic macro modeling can properly predict the path loss exponent in a mobile cellular wireless communication. This represents the variation of the path loss with distance from the base station antenna. Specifically, we illustrate that the path loss exponent in a cellular wireless communication is three preceded by a slow fading...
This work-in-progress paper utilizes a graphic narrative format to depict findings from the first year of a multi-year project on conceptual change in faculty development. Faculty development workshops are often designed to share best practices that participants can implement at their home institutions. However, the influence of these workshops on participants is rarely studied beyond the use of short...
Open educational resources are a key instrument in the promotion of learning and social appropriation of knowledge in the digital world. Providing access to existing learning resources in a way that teachers, students and parents are able to discover, acquire, discuss and adapt them to their own learning scenarios will also promote the development of values and attitudes that play a fundamental role...
This paper describes the hands on workshop experience using a robot kit DepecaBot, as a part of a global effort of teaching robotics as a way of improving skills for students in field of computer science, electronics, and telecommunications. The Robotics Week has been taking place at the University of Alcalá since 2000. This Robotics Week comprises different activities: sumo fighting robots, autonomous...
This paper reviews a number of regional and extra-regional robotics initiatives. Each initiative was reviewed to determine different age groups of students, the goals of stakeholders involved in enabling an initiative, and the benchmarks for success of each initiative. The review has informed the design of an integrated intervention for Teacher Training initiated by the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry...
In an effort to generate and retain student interest in STEM fields, this work focused on providing middle school teachers with resources to engage students using hands-on activities and demonstrations directly related to the state science standards. The project involved generating a library of content for 8th grade physical science standards. The demonstrations and activities were specifically selected...
In 2010, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began a collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Education to develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a new engineering-oriented university in Singapore with programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a component of this collaboration, MIT staff members sought to "transfuse" MIT's cultural...
The annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference is now in its 44th year. From its earliest days, FIE has aimed to enhance engineering education through the latest advances in learning theory, pedagogy, and technology. We have also engaged in periodic reflection and self-examination to assess how well we have met the challenges of keeping up with advances in other fields and incorporating technological...
The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) is a pilot initiative from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to study whether the NSF I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps guides teams based on established strategies for business start-ups, using Blank's Lean LaunchPad and Osterwalder's Business...
This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the first robotics education workshop in which children and parents interact by experimenting with concepts of robotics. Unlike traditional robotics educational workshops that are targeted to children only, our initiative encourages children and parents to interact as a team and learn through ludic activities using a robotic kit. Therefore,...
Embedded systems and Robotics are subjects that involve multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving with an emphasis on hands-on experiments. Due to lack of infrastructure — robotics labs to execute projects, or trained teachers to mentor projects — engineering students in India do not get the benefits of hands-on experience. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative is designed as a scalable and sustainable...
In this workshop, we will explore the design of teaming experiences, and the tensions that arise as we try to address different student outcomes. We often approach teaming in course design with a very simple philosophy: if students are put on teams, they will learn teamwork skills and get the educational benefits of teaming. But the benefits of teamwork in an educational setting are multi-faceted...
During the past two years, we investigated the Louisville, Kentucky hackerspace as a venue for hosting undergraduate engineering student projects. The projects took place at LVL1.org, a collaborative workshop in downtown Louisville. There are such "makerspaces" or "hackerspaces" in most medium to large-sized US and European cities. Our nine participants developed a strong sense...
Because of the accident of falling out of the bed of inpatients / recipients of care occurs constantly in nursing /care facilities, the technique of roll-over detection / posture state estimation are required. In this paper, we developed the detection technique of roll-over with the thermographic watching system with the respect of a person's privacy The detection of roll-over is the method which...
This paper deals with the intelligent Android application system for smart cane, which helps the visually impaired person to detect an obstacle in their environment and to guide them towards their destination. In addition, it can increase a convenience to the utilization that networks with smart phone. The designed smart cane supports an application to pair it to smart phone. . It uses an ultrasonic...
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