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Q-learning is a one of the best model-free reinforcement learning algorithms. The goal is to find an estimate of the optimal action-value function called Q-value function. The Q-value function is defined as the expected sum of future rewards obtained by taking an action in the current state. The main drawback of Q-learning is that the learning process is expensive for the agent, specially, in the...
Today, in the 21st century, knowledge of science, technology and especially engineering are necessary to make informed decisions in most aspects of everyday life and the demand to fill jobs in these areas, especially engineering, is growing rapidly. Recent research indicates that a majority of college students who enter Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors became interested...
Numerous inquiries from K-12 educators across the state of New Jersey have indicated that defining and implementing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has become a challenge to the K-12 education sector. Many of these K-12 educators approach STEM disciplines as if each one exists in isolation from the others and they do not integrate the content and skills of the disciplines...
The technical impact on future engineering education has two main reasons. One factor is the growth rate of technical knowledge in depth and width and the second reason is the wide range of options of knowledge transfer using computer techniques. Besides, there are also many other reasons, e.g. the efficiency of knowledge transfer, greater consideration of individual learning and teaching styles,...
Blackboard network teaching platform provides teachers with convenient and handy tool modules to create, release, and manage online exams. It aims to reform the online examination methods. In this study, an exploration was made on medical information retrieval item bank based on blackboard network teaching platform. How to use the tool modules of blackboard network teaching platform to build item...
Over the past 30 years as a whole, China has become one of fastest growing countries in the field of economy at the same period with a 9% GDP growing rate, offering demand space for engineering technical talents with high international qualities. However, the engineering technical talents with high qualities cannot be supplied. In the background of “professional engineers plan” of the Ministry of...
Interview transcripts from students (grades 2–4) were examined to measure change in understanding of engineering constructs using a coding scheme that is in development. The participants were students of teachers from a large, urban school-district that participated in two summer teacher professional development (TPD) engineering education academies and received continued support from a university...
The purpose of this study is to review the main issues of the new educational standards for engineering programs in Russia, to consider the key competences of the engineering graduates and to imply the importance of the communicative competence for the future engineers. This study shows the experience of Siberian Federal University in creating the language learning environment in the university community,...
Students' progress and development in an engineering program is often left unexamined when much of the attention is placed on benchmarking students' performance against absolute standards. This study aims at tracking students' development on program learning outcomes across a two-year associate degree engineering curriculum. Nine Likert-scale items were designed to measure students' perception of...
The study described in this paper has examined whether the concept mapping strategy can be used to help students to improve their learning achievement and interest. The participants were 84 third-year undergraduate mechanical engineering students enrolled in the internal combustion engine course at a college of engineering of the University of Mumbai in India. The experimental group revealed two results...
This study investigated computer supported collaborative learning in the Web-based learning environment designed using the constructivist Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. One group of students was exposed to the constructivist PBL Web-based learning whilst another group was exposed to traditional PBL learning approach. A lecture-based teaching was given to another group. Thus, a quasi-experimental...
In modern society, to train students with higher information literacy is one of the important goals of higher education in the world. Compared with Europe and America and other developed countries, China started late in the education of college information literacy and the effect of information literacy education is not ideal. This study analyzes the content of information literacy education and development...
Enhancing the educational technology capacity for teachers is an important part of the education informatizaton. It is demanded by the professional development of teachers and instruction reform. This paper provided some strategies of enhancing the educational technology capacity for teachers according to the present educational situations of universities. The strategies provided five aspects such...
The paper is a slide presentation that discusses the topics in engineering and technology management education. The RISE implementation and development; and faculty and student support were also discussed.
The objective of this research is to evaluate 233 Web sites of vocational education institutions in Thailand through the opinions of experts who have full range of access in Web service information to gather relevant facts about the system of education associated with Web service program. The standards of evaluation were categorized in four major aspects such as: design and creativity; the content;...
This paper is concerned with the design of curricular structures and flexible teaching and learning approaches targeted at improving learning performance and enriching learning experiences. The Lehigh Valley Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (LV STEM) project is used as a case study. Findings indicate that reference curricular structures should be pre-instruction, during instruction...
The existing gender disparities in the sciences, especially in the field of engineering, underscore the need for outreach programs to engage young women in such areas. Many programs exist for high school students, but girls may be turned away from engineering at an earlier age. FEMMES (females excelling more in math, engineering, and science) is an annual free, one-day event, which provides an exciting,...
As digital resources increasingly growing and the economic benefit of digital intellectual property rights being increasingly important, people has been increasingly emphasis on information security issues brought by the data remnants in storage devices. They try their best to prevent the potential risks. In this paper, we survey comprehensively related technologies, standards and trends of erasure,...
We present features of an education system entirely based on a 7-months project, performed by a 6-students team within a virtual company and tutored by an experimented software engineer. We describe some aspects of a past project: functions of the system, technology, deliverables, and assessment. Students' outcomes are drafted in term of roles.
Current fashion systems to interconnect large software architectures are moving toward SOA based solutions. This new paradigm for designing system can be improved, in our opinion, by using semantics. Semantics can a play a main role in boosting interoperability thanks to current technologies to express knowledge and to describe semantic Web services (SWS). This paper tackles the provision of a Software...
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