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In this study, we have investigated the practice of an international network of companies and organizations which are engaged in the diffusion of solar home systems in Africa and Asia. This research looks into a network called, StS Network for Rural Development in Ethiopia. To investigate the details of the network, local business managers and governmental officers were interviewed. Our case study...
Collaboration is gaining importance, especially those in which there is the participation of external individuals or groups in the innovation process both in the academy and in companies. However, measuring the impact of collaboration on business performance is not a trivial task. Particularly if it is considered that business performance should be measured through not only accounting measures but...
Sustainable provision of off-grid solar electricity for Less Developed Countries (LDC) is a basic first step toward enabling a range of Beyond the Light Bulb initiatives. The off-grid electricity program of the Community Solutions Initiative (CSI), still at an early stage of development in several countries, is focused now on demonstrating sustainability and scalability. Initial steps to incubate...
This paper describes a program called ESTEEM (Expeditions in Science, Technology, and Engineering Education through Mathematics) that helps to provide high school students and teachers, a non-traditional experience in mathematics and engineering exploration and demonstrates the multi-faceted role of integrated mathematics and engineering in solving problems from real-world applications.
The primary goal of engineering education is to prepare students to work as productive engineers in society. This preparation traditionally focuses on developing students' discipline related technical and analytical knowledge, skills, and abilities. However, recent initiatives to develop a more holistic engineer have shed light on an aspect of engineering education that is largely lacking — the development...
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...
Open Source Software (OSS) becomes one of the mainstream software development methodology competing with commercial and proprietary software development. One of the distinct characteristics of OSS projects is the existence group of contributors who joined the project voluntarily called OSS Communities. In this study, the statistical analysis of 263 popular OSS Projects and their communities is performed...
Recent years have seen the popularization of model based development (MBD) using models based on block diagrams. In many mechatronics systems, including automobile engine control and the brake control, a closed loop control is used to manage controls based on feedback data from control target objects. In order to develop a closed loop control using model base, a plant model that simulates the behavior...
The article describes the obstacles that may arise during the planning phase of the project - Regional Business Spatial Community. The authors are working on a project to prepare RBSC. It involves creating a community around a selected GIS (Geographic Information System) software available in Cloud Technology. In the design of the project, the participants should be all the entities responsible for...
This article shows our research oriented towards improving doctoral theses by publications. This process is justified by John Dewey's knowledge theory and various phases of Kilpatrick's work. After a theoretical foundation, the research work set the steps in a thesis by publications, which is both validated by members of the scientific community and created from the knowledge of the experience of...
Social networking sites (SNSs) have attracted attention as network services in organizations. We evaluated what kinds of user attributes and enterprise attributes affected the advantages and disadvantages of SNS in enterprises. We developed a set of hypotheses based on our survey of the literature concerning SNS, and administered a survey using a questionnaire at enterprises. We found that respondents...
The importance of renewable energy generation is increasing with the increasing demand for energy sources that can serve as alternatives to the current major energy sources. Thus, various types of renewable energy generation, such as photovoltaics, are being introduced in many places, resulting in a sudden increase in the number of requests for connecting to the grids of an electric power company...
This paper reports a questionnaire survey which is conducted at the iUser Conference in 2011. The iUser 2011 conference is expected to be the platform to discover the usability and user experience design practitioners from both academic and industry settings in Malaysia. A survey is adopted from the literature that attempted to assess the practice of user-centered design among Human-Computer Interaction...
Identifying real-world business communities, e.g., Energy, finance, defense, in Internet traffic is a challenging problem but would be valuable for the construction of better in-trusion detection techniques, for example. Seed-based community detection identifies a community in a graph by iteratively adding the 'closest' vertices to an initial set of seed-vertices which are known to belong to the community...
One way to understand the structure of an open source community is by applying network analysis to its source code repositories. In this paper a new method for the analysis of committers' networks is proposed. The method deals with directed and weighted committers' networks. The method is then applied to the Android open source project. The analysis results show how a large, company sponsored, and...
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a common architectural practice in large enterprises. There are numerous technologies to support SOA including web services. The IT industry is moving toward REST based design for its simplicity and productivity. Apache CXF, Apache Axis, JBoss RestEasy, and Jersey frameworks support REST based services and client side implementation. Based on our observation...
Technological capabilities are a key component for competitiveness at firm levels. Organizations strive to learn and generate knowledge faster than their competitors to gain the sustainable competitive advantage essential for their survival. By the necessary absorptive capacity of its team, the firm can identify, assimilate and develop useful knowledge for the evolutionary and accumulative process...
Have you ever thought about submitting an article to CSEE&T? The process of research and article submission is fairly long and often complicated because people don't know what all the steps are and too often there really isn't much support available. In this workshop, we will examine that process and try to identify ways to improve the process to increase the number and quality of submissions...
Recent years have seen the popularization of model based development (MBD) using models based on block diagrams. In many mechatronics systems, including automobile engine control and the brake control, a closed loop control is used to manage controls based on feedback data from control target objects. In order to develop a closed loop control using model base, a plant model that simulates the behavior...
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