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Teamwork is a very important attribute for future engineers. China graduates a large number of engineering graduates every year, so it is necessary to investigate the teamwork knowledge and performance level of the Chinese engineering students, and work out a better mechanism of teamwork teaching for them. This work investigates the team knowledge and team performance of the Chinese engineering students...
The purpose of this study is to develop a device that combines exercise and entertainment. Therefore, we developed an application and the driving device to visualize the energy consumption during exercise. The first experiment utilizes the smart phone; the second experiment utilizes the action of jumping rope, handgrip, or playing a Kendama. The result of the test is that the driving devices responded...
GPS performs considerably well in the outdoor LoS conditions. However, its performance rapidly deteriorates when it is used in non-LoS indoor environments. This paper analyzes the performance of Wi-Fi based positioning in the outdoor environments. Our tests reveal that scene analysis can achieve high accuracies even in the outdoor setups. All observations reported in this work are based on experimental...
Looking for the improvement of the students' learning, the engineering school of EAFIT University is currently developing an evaluation and training system. In this system, each student has the option of doing "dynamic" exercises in a specific field of a subject. Whenever a student uses the system, an exercise is generated with different parameters and values. The mentioned system (Evaluation...
The challenge of designing an active video game that is an effective means by which to promote physical activity while at the same time is an engaging video game has been met with varied success. The key to overcoming this challenge is to approach design from the perspective that active video games are a unique combination of traditional video games and sports. By combining models of engagement —...
This paper reviews a number of regional and extra-regional robotics initiatives. Each initiative was reviewed to determine different age groups of students, the goals of stakeholders involved in enabling an initiative, and the benchmarks for success of each initiative. The review has informed the design of an integrated intervention for Teacher Training initiated by the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry...
The Automatic Process Control course is part of the Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering and Production Engineering programs, offered by EAFIT University (Medellin, Colombia). This course has had a number of reforms in recent years, from two academic spaces to one that contains all the content and features them from theoretical and practical components. With this transformation, was generated...
Embedded systems and Robotics are subjects that involve multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving with an emphasis on hands-on experiments. Due to lack of infrastructure — robotics labs to execute projects, or trained teachers to mentor projects — engineering students in India do not get the benefits of hands-on experience. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative is designed as a scalable and sustainable...
As undergraduate research has become increasingly prominent in engineering education, researchers are beginning to explore this environment in more detail to better understand both what and how students learn. While multiple factors shape student experiences, the role of mentors has emerged as a critical facet. Previous mentoring research identifies functions such as role modeling, psychosocial support...
Due to a shortage of high-school teachers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, the Ministry of Education in Israel has initiated special programs for training engineers as second-career teachers. This study aims to explore the possible contribution of education and previous career in engineering to teaching as a second-career. This longitudinal study probes engineers' perceptions and...
Learning to program computers and other devices are becoming an essential skill for students of high school and college. With this knowledge, young people can master the tools and technology that are part of everyday life. However, the traditional teaching, even in computer science courses, needs to break the barrier and use new approaches to motivate students to learn programming in an effective...
The energy sector worldwide has embarked on a transformational process to modernize the over-a-century-old power grid under an umbrella term of the Smart Grid. This vast infrastructural upgrade and operational change involves integration of a variety of advanced digital computing, communications and industrial control technologies. This brings new capabilities, but also necessitates a re-education...
Fingerprinting is the prevailing positioning method for location based service (LBS) and indoor positioning applications when compared with other methods such as cell of origin (CoO) and trilateration. It is especially more suitable for complicated indoor environments. However, higher positioning accuracy is still expected for it to match the capabilities of other mature techniques such as GPS. This...
Here we analyze and provide a description of our ongoing work that couples an online learning management system and gamification to provide an engaging and motivating learning experience for health professions students.
This study explores how teachers' attitudes and competencies influence their willingness to adopt mobile learning approaches. By mobile learning we mean teaching approaches that use mobile devices to enliven and extend traditional teaching. Of particular interest is exploring how first-order (e.g. lack of adequate access, time, training and support) and second-order (e.g. teacher's pedagogical and...
Many universities of technology offer undergraduate diplomas in engineering that includes a Work Integrated Learning component. Many academic staff members may be involved in the assessment of this component due to student numbers and field expertise. The research question which arises is "What guidelines should academics follow in assessing Work Integrated Learning to ensure a consistent quality...
Object detection has been attracting much interest due to the wide spectrum of applications that use it. Object detection technology has been driven by an increasing processing power available in software and hardware. In this work we present a developed application for multiple objects detection based on OpenCV libraries. The complexity-related aspects that were considered in the object detection...
Recently, semi-supervised sparse feature selection, which can exploit the large number unlabeled data and small number labeled data simultaneously, has placed an important role in web image annotation. However, most of the semi-supervised feature selection methods are developed for single-view data, which can not reveal and leverage the correlated and complemental information between different views...
Nowadays, online credit card transactions has become a hot spot for frauds. The amount spent by a person using his credit card can vary and there is never a particular pattern of a person's expenses. Due to this characteristic of credit card use and its fraud, traditional algorithms cannot be implemented for credit card fraud detection. We required some trial and error methods which also gained experience...
Face recognition plays a fairly vital role in human computer inter-action. Eigenface algorithm is one representative approach that projects face images onto a low dimensional feature space using principal components analysis (PCA) to choose the maximal total scatter across all classes. However, due to the linear combination of original samples, eigenfaces may be difficult to interpret and explain...
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