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This paper presents the development of a multi campus, multidisciplinary curriculum for graduated engineers. Focus is placed on the societal role of engineering and the potential added value of technology for organisations in the social profit sector and for vulnerable groups in society that are the target public of these social profit organisations. The paper first demonstrates the role engineers...
Community engagement is a pedagogy that integrates engagement with a community, local or global, with academic content. In engineering and computer science the engagement is often the design, delivery and support of projects for NGO's, human service agencies, educational institutions and governmental agencies. Community engagement has been supported in the literature for enhancing learning and motivation...
Propagation is a widespread goal of education materials development. If an educational innovation is effective in one environment, many developers want to share it with other instructors and institutions to have a larger impact and improve education more broadly. Studying the propagation process is one way to learn more about the aspects that contribute to propagation of particular educational innovations...
Content industries go through a demanding time adjusting to the digital age, revamping their business processes when sales of paper documents are not an option any more. Formal standardisation is facing the same challenges as organisations like ISO and CEN see sales of publications as their core business. This paper presents a case study from European pre-standardisation. CEN Workshop on Learning...
Mankind is facing numerous global, ecological and economic challenges that demand new, holistic approaches, and more sustainable innovations. This study identifies a multifaceted here-and-now approach of presence. Presence can be regarded as promising and little researched approach in finding fresh solutions and ideas of sustainable approaches. The qualitative data was collected through workshops,...
The spread of Living Labs across the world has been well documented in [10]. One possible reason for the popularity of Living Labs is the way in which they leverage ICT as a horizontal enabler. Both ICTs and Living Labs are at the centre of innovation in many societies. The continuous technological changes have promoted Living Labs development and countries have supported co-design and take up of...
Education shows a great impact in the life of an individual. In present time, students are expected to become 21st century learners to fulfill the demands of 21st century. Many strategies are developed and are being implemented in developed countries so that the skills acquired by students from education makes a positive impact in changing markets. But, the implementation of these methods in developing...
“Making Academic Change Happen” (MACH) is a workshop designed and conducted by faculty of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The purpose of the three-day workshop is to provide faculty, staff, and administrators with change management tools that can assist them as they enact change on their own campuses. These changes may occur at many different sites, from the classes that they teach to the campus...
This position paper reflects on recent work that sought to make positive changes to the IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE), and on twenty years of requirements engineering (REng) research. We question the values that seem to underpin RE, and offer what we believe are more appropriate values. We argue that these new values would result in better alignment between research and the needs of...
ABSTRACT We present our findings from the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book Workshops. The workshops were designed as the first in a series of collaborative design experiences that introduce small groups of faculty/students teams from particular design disciplines to the concept of electronic textile interfaces (ETIs) through the use of a textile interface “swatch book” with the support of...
On behalf of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, I welcome each participant to the 1st IEEE 2012 Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE) at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan. We are delighted you chose to join us in celebrating the 1st GCCE.
IEEE has contributed to humanitarian efforts almost from the moment of its inception [28]. IEEE's activities in the world-of-things are methodology devised to interact with the world-of-humans. The shrinking world, aided by unprecedented progress in travel and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), fuels hope for building a new, progressive social order. Thus, IEEE members start to question...
• What is the primary purpose for assessing and communicating the socioeconomic benefits of geospatial information? • What types of socio-economic information/metrics should be used? • How can we quantify the impact of value studies? • What techniques work best to communicate the socio-economic benefits to different target audiences?
Innovation according to Denning and Dunham (2010) is “the adoption of a new practice in a community.” I argue that our innovations need to be based on good learning theory and good instructional practice. The Johnson and Johnson conceptual model of cooperative learning is an excellent example of a widely adopted evidence-based practice. I identified cooperative learning as important for engineering...
The scope of this study is on stunted-centered learning activity which collaborates learning and research in an interoperative and collective way and shares the regional-national research and development (R&D) capabilities, interests and agenda in context of University of Applied Sciences. The study includes analysis of the research data regarding the R&D project, namely SATERISK (SATEllite...
Recent years witnessed an ever growing impact of trust in the decision-making process within virtual communities. The inherent decentralized and open nature of such environments produced new challenges that received, up to now, little attention. For example, the individual and collective trust co-influence remains an unexplored issue. In this paper we are considering how user-centred and community-centred...
Requirements elicitation is challenging in research oriented projects which usually focus on innovations in terms of providing boundary-pushing solutions that potentially change current work practice for the users in the domain of interest. Hence, requirements engineers need to find a way to bring together the diverse expectation and interests within the context of fast moving technologies and conservative...
Technology finds a place in almost every aspect of human life. It simplifies life and paves way to achieve targets that our fore fathers dreamt of achieving. It ignites young minds and undoubtedly makes the future their sole possession.
For the first time at an RE conference we propose a formal debate on a topic of critical importance to the RE community. The debate format is based on that of the Economist newspaper, in turn derived from the long-standing Oxford Union practices.
This paper develops a new class of algorithms for signal recovery in the distributed compressive sensing (DCS) framework. DCS exploits both intra-signal and inter-signal correlations through the concept of joint sparsity to further reduce the number of measurements required for recovery. DCS is well-suited for sensor network applications due to its universality, computational asymmetry, tolerance...
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