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What images come to mind when you encounter the word “professor”? In many cases, our notions of a professor lead us to think of someone conducting research and teaching classes. However, our understanding of professors is in part limited by the professors we have been in contact with through our own educational experiences. Most people with PhD degrees attended a Doctoral University with Highest Research...
Today's engineers' needs are evolving rapidly as the information and technologies that compete for their attentions. At the same time, our institutions and systems are stretched to their limits to keep up with the changing demands of the times. There is, especially, a need to sustain reflective integration of social and technical knowledge into the future generations of engineering, to make engineers...
This interactive workshop uses the metaphor of a baseball team to illustrate the variety of people-roles involved in making educational improvements happen, as well as the academic ecosystem in which these changes occur. When making smaller-scale changes, the members may be more loosely structured like an informal sandlot team, though core roles still need to be fulfilled. Larger-scale changes may...
The purpose of this paper is to describe a special session intended to help instructors better understand the difference between fixed versus growth mindset and how instructional approaches can implicitly or explicitly promote one or the other. Originating with Carol Dweck, individuals with a fixed mindset believe that a specific ability or intelligence is innate and fixed. In contrast, individuals...
According to change literature, the multiplicity of levels and structures that exist within an organization makes organizational change a difficult process. Similarly, many challenges face any attempt to foster change in engineering education, due to the various layers that make up the field. Looking at the evolution of engineering education research (EER) as a field and the individual pathways of...
This paper presents the experience of RTU at development of an attractive, open-workspace laboratory for students. Various content and activity management solutions are described, as well as cooperation strategy with electrical engineering businesses. Paper presents multiple methods of both, university and high-school student involvement in electronics and prototyping and evaluates the student feedback...
Based on a workshop developed at INICTEL-UNI, this paper presents the methodology and considerations taken to improve the experiences in communication laboratory sessions in Peruvian universities with Software Defined Radio platforms, using a HackRF-One for transmission and a RTL-SDR for reception together with GNUradio Companion, an open source software. The use of these tools allows real communications...
We combined various concepts with co-design, and experience design into a creative workshop that allows the engineers to see functional and morphological differences for a better robot design. Four different types of cards were used for the designer and the engineer to co-build their common ground in designing robots, in particular, emotional cards were of a value to indicate how robots would be perceived...
In nowadays engineering, the ability to use and understand Finite-Element-Method (FEM) simulation software has become a crucial skill. If applied correctly, it can provide insight into various processes, such as forming operations, without the need to actually perform the real experiment. A novel, fully virtual FEM-Lab is currently under development at the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight...
The purpose of this paper is to present the new IEEE Education Society Conference in its Region 9, Latin America, the IEEE World Engineering Education Conference - EDUNINE2017. Its first edition is in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, an important city for its characteristics and History. It is a historical conference that has been designed to happen in the next years, in the different countries of Latin...
More we know about our learners the better are we in a position to mentor them. This is more so in engineering education as this is a professional course focusing on skills also. Prior knowledge of the learner about engineering profession and motivation level of the learner are two important factors among several others that influence learner's perception of engineering as a profession. There are...
For more than a decade the engineering education has been a point of concern and debate since there is a large gap between the skill level cultivated by education and that required for employability. Though techniques like practice based learning and activity based learning are trying to address this, ethics and culture based learning can impact the gap to a higher level. The paper shows how service...
The purpose of this paper is to provide information and in depth comprehension related to the research findings on the educational choice on TVET among Malaysian polytechnics students in terms of program enrolled and their decision making behaviour. The decision making behaviour studied consists of two variables which are satisficing and maximizing. There are 643 students from three conventional Malaysian...
In higher education globalization brings challenges as part of a reform process. An important aspect of such a reform has to do with the flexibility of the contents of a curriculum. Normally curricula offer students a whole set of possibilities to make decisions regarding optional courses recommended in an educational programme. In this work we present the design of a semi-automated Academic Tutor...
Mentoring has been increasingly used in educational enhancements and development to facilitate transfer of knowledge in higher education from one lecturer to another. However, the process is unclear and lecturers are not aware of the process itself. Therefore, studies about the awareness of mentoring in universities such as in University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) is deemed important. This paper looks...
Interactions between industry and academia are seen as one of the key elements of the quality of higher education and a key element of the system of innovation of the nations. However, there is a widely noted gap between industry needs and the education that new engineers receive. This manuscript presents an open co-working space implemented by the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia equipped with...
The purposes of this research are to develop a software application which helps people experience making discoveries by observing and/or analyzing data, and to foster people's intellectual inquiring mind using the application. The word "discovery" in this context means finding, through observation and/or analysis, a remarkable phenomenon or rule which one has not recognized before. The developed...
High School science to engineering education transition of students offers challenge for instructors to adopt distinct teaching strategies which enable holistic learning matrix and to provide conceptual framework which links their prior knowledge with the freshmen engineering curriculum. In order to achieve these two objectives, an instructional teaching strategy combining the attributes of visual...
The present study aims to explore the correlation of TUA (Teach, Use, Assess) and CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) implementation in the field of engineering education. Outcome Based Education (OBE) is adapted to identify and enhance the clarity of outcomes in a subject or course thought. To ensure that the target of OBE is well achieved, the CDIO is implemented and is analyzed through the...
Outcomes based education (OBE) has been implemented in UNITEN for 10 years since year 2006. Great efforts have been done in the formulation of the various levels of outcomes as well as the measurement of the attainments of the outcomes over the years. The process of evaluating the programme level Programme Outcomes (POs), in particular, has undergone significant changes as part of the CQI (Continual...
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