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Present existing education system and teaching methods are not completely ideal. They are suffering from many problems. This paper mainly concentrates on one of the issues regarding decrease in number of graduated students who choose teaching as their profession. Mainly concentrating on the reasons why students are not willing to enter this profession and its relevance to existing education system...
Engineers design new products, increase productivity, and thereby increase the standard of living worldwide. Although the common wisdom is that large corporations invest the most money in new product R&D, the surprising fact is that most discontinuous innovations come from small firms, and most engineers in the US are employed by entrepreneurial firms as well. In spite of the centrality of entrepreneurial...
This article presents the Ibero-American Open-Surg project, that attempts to develop several medical robotic applications, based on open source software. This project expects that the developed software tools can be extensively used on teaching techniques about medical procedures in Ibero-America. Objectives and advances of this project are presented in this document.
This special session is organized to provide a highly interactive forum for a spirited exchange of varied ideas and teaching techniques between presenters and audience. Six presenters have been invited in advance by the session chairs with each presenter limited to 5 minutes and 3 slides followed by 3 minutes of discussion with the audience. Members of the audience are encouraged to bring a 1 paragraph...
Increasing classroom interactions between instructor and students and among students has been found to be an effective way of helping student learning. In this paper, we discuss three techniques that have been employed in circuits classes to promote student discussions and instructor-student interactions. These techniques are embedded group lab sessions, open-discussion quizzes, and student presentation...
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