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The Polytechnic School of the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM) started during 2012/2013 its “Project Based Engineering School” (PBES). This consists on the application of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology in all its degrees. The students developed in each academic year a comprehensive project covering partially the content of several courses; different teachers were involved in each...
Initiatives aimed to promote best practices in company internships in the emerging EHEA are presented. They have been implemented in the new curricula of the School of Industrial and Telecommunications Engineering of the Public University of Navarre. They imply a redefinition of the way these actions were formerly designed. The most salient features of the new approach are the key role played by the...
The growing usage of electronic systems in safety- and mission-critical applications, together with the increased susceptibility of electronic devices to faults arising during the operational phase mandate for the availability of effective solutions able to face the effects of these faults. When the target system includes a processor, one possible solution is based on running suitable test programs...
With the growing need to inspire young minds in STEM areas, Science and Engineering professionals along with their employers are working to identify the best possible method to accomplish just this. Currently, many approaches are being utilized, such as summer camp programs, in school visits, large STEM events and student mentoring programs. This paper takes a focused look at how placing Science and...
The authors in this paper argue that for cities to meet their smart city goals much more is needed than just top down solutions, or open city data. The authors suggest that a city aiming for future smartness should engage the citizens, the entrepreneurs and innovators of that city, in the creation of smart solutions via the platform that is, for the sake of argument in this paper, called "The...
Analytics companies develop the ability to support their decisions through analytic reasoning using a variety of statistical and mathematical techniques. Thomas Devonport in his book titled, "Competing on analytics: The new science of winning", claims that a significant proportion of high-performance companies have high analytical skills among their personnel. On the other hand, a recent...
This paper aims to reach the core of the “innovative enterprise” concept. The concept shall be redefined and the intellectual creation thesaurus shall be at its core. Further on, there are a series of practical considerations aimed to define the “virtual innovation workshop”. “The virtual innovation workshop” is the mean the authors propose for building, updating and developing the intellectual creation...
Many power utility companies around the world are moving towards smart grid, which integrates power delivery infrastructure with information and communication technologies. Smart meter is one of the main components of smart grid. The task of a smart meter is to track energy consumption of a premise and send that information to the utility company. Although the use of smart meter has many benefits,...
Since the 1970s, marketing and innovation management communities have been investigating how to incorporate customer-desired functions into new product and service designs. These wide-ranging enquiries have shed light on the impact of lead-user engagement in new product development, demonstrated ways to examine service production and delivery, such as the use of `line of visibility' in service blueprints...
Software systems have a growing importance in how services are delivered in the present-day. New methods and technologies are constantly introduced for realizing novel services in a wide range of industries. For example, software has been integral to the delivery of financial services. In this study, stakeholder engagement in the development of software systems is examined. Two software development...
The field of strategic technology management contains a number of practical tools to help align technology investment with business objectives and so support successful innovation. However the application of such tools is often seen by organizations as being difficult to configure, combine and also resource consuming to deploy. Thus, the research question is: can a light-weighted intuitive approach...
One of the dominant approaches in coping with the intermittent connectivity of opportunistic networks is packet replication. However, the need for a distributed operation forces the nodes carrying a message copy to make replication decisions without taking into account the replication state of other nodes. This strategy can lead to the creation of an excessive number of replicas thus exhausting the...
Challenges of technical risk assessment is difficult to address, while its success can benefit software organizations appreciably. Classical definition of risk as a "combination of probability and impact of adverse event" appears not working with technical risk assessment. The main reason of this is the nature of adverse event's outcome which is rather continuous than discrete. The objective...
Companies that develop software are increasingly competitive. To learn how these firms are competitive need to measure the productivity of their software development processes (SDP). Knowing how to control productivity, the company is better able to predict various parameters and estimate their projects more closely the actual value of the projects. The project manager must monitor how the productivity...
During the past two years, we investigated the Louisville, Kentucky hackerspace as a venue for hosting undergraduate engineering student projects. The projects took place at LVL1.org, a collaborative workshop in downtown Louisville. There are such "makerspaces" or "hackerspaces" in most medium to large-sized US and European cities. Our nine participants developed a strong sense...
The new generation of R&D personnel has unique personality characteristics and work values, which brings challenge for the human resource management in enterprises. Based on the literature analysis and in-depth interviews, this paper puts forward a five-dimension model of work values for the new generation of R&D personnel and makes an empirical test through the questionnaire survey and statistical...
Based on the traditional smart card grey lock method, the card can't be traded after grey lock. The paper put forward a new method to support once pre-freezing mechanism. The terminal can pre-freeze part of the money in card according to its actual situation, used to complete the corresponding business. User can take away the card after grey lock, and operate the balance in card except pre-freezing...
This paper empirically analyzes assets assessment results in A-share listed company's assets restructuring transactions of Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2013, finding the more common phenomenon that listed companies will affect the increment rate of asset evaluation for the motivation of earnings management. Through the test and analysis this paper concludes that the main way of earnings management of...
Knowledge management as an intermediary force to study the relationship of social capital, knowledge management and performance in logistics companies. Construct theoretical model and select 157 samples for an empirical study. Structural equation analysis showed that cognitive and relational social capital have no significant positive impact on knowledge creation, and knowledge sharing has no significant...
Service-oriented architectures have emerged as a popular development paradigm for modular, extendible distributed systems, relying on interoperable components. However, their evolution is a challenging problem, due to the fact that their constituent parts typically reside outside a single entity's domain of ownership and control. In my thesis, I have developed WSDarwin, a framework to support the...
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