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Connection of higher education programs with industrial engineering activities in order to establish practice oriented bachelor and master degrees is an old wish of education in engineering. In a trend towards more problem solving specific and laboratory intensive programs for engineers, earlier concepts and methods in computer system based higher education are revised and new possibilities by using...
Courses about various software engineering practices, e.g. testing and architecture, all ultimately relate to a process for applying the practice. We have used that process as the organizing principle for undergraduate and graduate software engineering courses. The Software Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) provides a means for engineering a process for the specific practice being studied and...
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) majors at MIT are required to take an oral communications course called “6. UAT” that teaches oral presentation skills and other professional skills that students will need to be effective in the workplace. An assessment of the oral presentation skills component of the course, consisting of a survey and an interview, was designed and conducted in...
When teaching software engineering courses it is highly important to have good text books that are well-founded, up-to-date, and easily accessible to students. However, currently available text books on the market are either very broad or highly specialized, making it hard to select appropriate books for specific software engineering courses. Moreover, due to the rapidly changing subject of software...
A discipline-specific first year introductory course has been the norm in engineering education. Most of these courses are often theme-based and use engineering design as a device to emphasize the relationship between the various components of a field like Electrical and Computer Engineering. Online learning has also been incorporated in such common courses to enhance student experiences. As an alternative...
The main objective of this research is to explore the results of the use of videos as an educational tool which helps increasing students' motivation in any discipline. The study is based on several streaming videos created as a support material for learning and used by 12 lecturers with 487 students in three different degrees of engineering (Mechanical, Industrial and Management, and Aeronautical)...
Texas A&M University at Qatar places significant influence on the use of technology-based instruction and blended-teaching approaches to augment traditional class instruction and support students' learning. This paper reports on the effectiveness of streaming video as a complementary curriculum delivery method in improving students' learning. Streaming videos were used to describe complex manufacturing...
There is increasing emphasis in Engineering Education to include transferable skills, such as written and presentation skills, but also critical evaluations and lifelong learning. Another challenge is the rapidly changing technical content in many engineering courses and the related struggle to provide up-to-date study materials. This paper introduces a comprehensive assessment strategy that helps...
Both the depth and breadth needed in engineering education today can be addressed even before students enter engineering courses. This is particularly significant for English-medium engineering programs in countries where English is a foreign language. This paper describes how, with an ecological perspective, the environment of engineering education can be incorporated in an intensive English program...
Digital Signal Processors is an optional course in the Audiovisual Engineering Degree of the University of Alicante. This year a pilot project on developing a blog for the course has been introduced (http://blogs.ua.es/pds0910). This way, students must complete - working collaboratively- a set of assigned blog entries on different extension tasks related to the concepts taught in the theory sessions...
This study describes a task-based English learning project based on the framework of WebQuest. A questionnaire was administered to collect students' perspectives on this activity. The results show students indicated positive responses to this web-based inquiry project. They improved their reading ability and viewed the task in the WebQuest as a meaningful tool for language learning. This study then...
Blended learning based on lecture videos and face-to-face teaching provides good opportunities for students for participation in education, regardless of time or place. This article examines the impacts of blended learning, as it has developed in connection with master studies in information technology, on participation in education and on learning outcomes. The solution is based on face-to-face teaching...
The field of information security (IS) has long been characterized by the challenge of approaching it in a systematic manner as it constantly evolves. Academic institutions offer specialized courses on security, however it is important to have students exposed to the basic security practices regardless of their field of interest. Thus the topic of IS as such is could be, in part, integrated into various...
Practice teaching is an important aspect of university professional building and the important way and mean of ensuring the quality of talents training. Based on analyzing the current employment status of higher education graduates and the problems that practice teaching of university computer professional are facing, we introduce the exploration of the reform ideas of university practice teaching...
In this paper, the modules for the conceptual design of an innovative e-learning platform using satellite communications for teaching control systems theory courses are presented. All necessary tools and mechanisms are provided enabling real time text, and audio/video based communication between tutors and learners. The end-user driven services include: virtual classroom, offline operation, sharing...
E-learning websites with online assessments for learners are very abundant. However, few of these websites provide learners with materials that assist them to strengthen their weak areas. Our Dynamic Generated Material for E-Learners (DGML) system, is a dynamic e-learning system that measures the learner's knowledge in a subject and generates from a database some learning materials from the sections...
The Signals and Systems Concept Inventory is an extremely useful assessment tool that has been widely used and analyzed. The authors have applied it in a variety of situations outside its typical usage. These situations include comparing international students to US students, introducing concept inventories to international faculty, supporting an ABET evaluation report, evaluating the effect of electives...
Music is an integral part of high school students' daily lives, and most use digital music devices and services. The one-week Summer Music Technology (SMT) program at Drexel University introduces underclassmen high school students to music technology to reveal the influence and importance of engineering, science, and mathematics. By engaging participants' affinity for music, we hope to motivate and...
Attempts to develop the mode of course delivery towards a more student-centred approach face several difficulties for analytically complex disciplines like digital signal processing. One of these is trading off the benefits of student-focused learning with ensuring that fundamental knowledge is acquired and that students have been exposed to the key content on which later courses are built. In this...
The work presented in this paper aims to support and promote the learning process in introductory computer science courses through the Web-based, adaptive, activity-oriented learning environment known as Supporting Collaboration and Adaptation in a Learning Environment (SCALE). The environment engages students actively in the learning process and supports them with multiple informative and tutoring...
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