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This paper describes the hands on workshop experience using a robot kit DepecaBot, as a part of a global effort of teaching robotics as a way of improving skills for students in field of computer science, electronics, and telecommunications. The Robotics Week has been taking place at the University of Alcalá since 2000. This Robotics Week comprises different activities: sumo fighting robots, autonomous...
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...
In an effort to generate and retain student interest in STEM fields, this work focused on providing middle school teachers with resources to engage students using hands-on activities and demonstrations directly related to the state science standards. The project involved generating a library of content for 8th grade physical science standards. The demonstrations and activities were specifically selected...
In 2010, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began a collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Education to develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a new engineering-oriented university in Singapore with programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a component of this collaboration, MIT staff members sought to "transfuse" MIT's cultural...
The annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference is now in its 44th year. From its earliest days, FIE has aimed to enhance engineering education through the latest advances in learning theory, pedagogy, and technology. We have also engaged in periodic reflection and self-examination to assess how well we have met the challenges of keeping up with advances in other fields and incorporating technological...
The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) is a pilot initiative from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to study whether the NSF I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps guides teams based on established strategies for business start-ups, using Blank's Lean LaunchPad and Osterwalder's Business...
This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the first robotics education workshop in which children and parents interact by experimenting with concepts of robotics. Unlike traditional robotics educational workshops that are targeted to children only, our initiative encourages children and parents to interact as a team and learn through ludic activities using a robotic kit. Therefore,...
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...
In this workshop, we will explore the design of teaming experiences, and the tensions that arise as we try to address different student outcomes. We often approach teaming in course design with a very simple philosophy: if students are put on teams, they will learn teamwork skills and get the educational benefits of teaming. But the benefits of teamwork in an educational setting are multi-faceted...
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...
Because of the accident of falling out of the bed of inpatients / recipients of care occurs constantly in nursing /care facilities, the technique of roll-over detection / posture state estimation are required. In this paper, we developed the detection technique of roll-over with the thermographic watching system with the respect of a person's privacy The detection of roll-over is the method which...
This paper deals with the intelligent Android application system for smart cane, which helps the visually impaired person to detect an obstacle in their environment and to guide them towards their destination. In addition, it can increase a convenience to the utilization that networks with smart phone. The designed smart cane supports an application to pair it to smart phone. . It uses an ultrasonic...
While innovative e-Health and m-Health technologies and solutions will eventually change the way health and social care are delivered, it raises many challenges regarding what sort of ethical concerns need to be addressed in order to provide imperative regulations and guidance to healthcare professionals and developers. This paper discusses key ethical challenges identified as part of an ongoing research...
Propagation is a widespread goal of education materials development. If an educational innovation is effective in one environment, many developers want to share it with other instructors and institutions to have a larger impact and improve education more broadly. Studying the propagation process is one way to learn more about the aspects that contribute to propagation of particular educational innovations...
I often hear faculty speak of students not taking responsibility. Students who do not read the assignments, miss or turn in incomplete homework, or do not actively participating in lab assignments and still expect a good grade! Simply put, more and more students are not taking responsibility for their own learning. But I don't believe that the reason is because students don't want to do so. My question...
This paper presents a multiple feature fusion method using topic model for social image visualization. Images in social media are represented from several aspects such as their visual information and tags. The proposed method extracts low-level features from social images and their tags and calculates their integrated high-level features. Specifically, the proposed method applies multilayer multimodal...
Due to the growth of sensor use, such as environmental sensors and street cameras, sensor data stream delivery, the delivering of sensor data through cyclic collection, is attracting considerable attention. Our research team proposed some peer-to-peer streaming methods named LCF, LLF and LLF-H for distributing communication loads when delivering sensor data streams with different data collection cycles...
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