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An aging workforce and the need to modernize the electric power system are significant challenges facing many nations, and in particular the United States. This complex problem requires a multi-faceted solution that starts with outreach to pre-university students. The aim of these outreach programs is to introduce students to power engineering concepts and to encourage them to choose power engineering...
Practice teaching is an important progress of training talent in engineering course and education. Based on the concept interpretation of CDIO model, the Electrician Theories and the Electronics Technique curriculum model with higher flexibility and location is put forward. Aiming at some problems, such as the course content are miscellaneous and numerous but class period is few , and so on, the paper...
As student satisfaction surveys are a primary method of evaluating university faculty teaching performance, it is essential to develop an understanding of the factors driving course evaluation. Here we discuss experiments conducted to investigate the value of various service actions in the classroom environment. In particular, we focus on the offering of excitement needs such as giving candy, humor,...
In this paper an approach to the use of audiovisual material (AM) is presented as an important resource for university education. Some AM has been created, which not only has been used in laboratory and master lecturing but also it has helped us in the task of increasing the efficiency of teaching. This work intends to show some examples of production and use of AM for university education.
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In this paper we present an experience we conducted at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia. Our aim was double: 1) To promote the rapprochement between mathematics and architecture; and 2) To test the incorporation of DPGraph software as a teaching tool. The results were highly satisfactory in both directions, which led us to the conclusion of the use of DPGraph as a tool in computing...
The main goal of the Project Experiment@Portugal is to produce a complete survey of Portuguese developments in remote and virtual labs. This knowledge will provide the conditions for joining forces in order to organize a well structured national website integrating a database of available remote and virtual experiments, categorized for sharing purposes, and looking for delivering valuable contents...
A learning environment based on the integration of the LMS and MediaWiki components is suggested to support knowledge sharing among generations of master course students. A case study demonstrates significant raise of motivation and learning efficiency of students with sufficient professional experience as well as communication skills enhancement for all students.
Multidisciplinary design projects that require students to travel to other countries, especially under-developed countries have the potential to provide very powerful learning experiences to students. In this paper, a PNU model of engineering service learning as a multidisciplinary design project is presented. The key features of the model are in the 1) proposition of creative ideas for a specific...
A discipline-specific first year introductory course has been the norm in engineering education. Most of these courses are often theme-based and use engineering design as a device to emphasize the relationship between the various components of a field like Electrical and Computer Engineering. Online learning has also been incorporated in such common courses to enhance student experiences. As an alternative...
This paper describes a study carried out with K-12 students. This study proposes to understand the motivation of these students in the use of robots in the Project Area curricular unit and whether they want to continue their studies in technology areas. K-12 students participated in the RoboParty® event, where the main task is to assemble and program a robot. In other words, the students, in a simple...
Web-based instructional systems implement constructive learning models, in which the user has control over the learning stages, as well as over the building stages of its own cognitive structures. This model has obvious advantages, but it may fail for closed cognitive style users. To solve this problem many solutions have been attempted: extension of surfing functions offered by the instructional...
The interactive technical electronic book, TechEBook, currently under development at the University of Central Florida (UCF), provides a useful tool for engineers and scientists through unique features compared to the most used traditional electrical circuit textbooks available in the market. TechEBook has comprised the two worlds of classical circuit books and an interactive operating platform such...
The main objective of this research is to explore the results of the use of videos as an educational tool which helps increasing students' motivation in any discipline. The study is based on several streaming videos created as a support material for learning and used by 12 lecturers with 487 students in three different degrees of engineering (Mechanical, Industrial and Management, and Aeronautical)...
Texas A&M University at Qatar places significant influence on the use of technology-based instruction and blended-teaching approaches to augment traditional class instruction and support students' learning. This paper reports on the effectiveness of streaming video as a complementary curriculum delivery method in improving students' learning. Streaming videos were used to describe complex manufacturing...
The school of Telematics at the University of Colima, Mexico educates students in computer science. It teaches compulsory English to all learners to help them develop their linguistic abilities to use them in their professional area in order to get a job with transnational companies, to collaborate with professionals of other countries, to participate in study abroad programs or to continue study...
The paper deals with the eLearning and its potential at the university level of education. The students' point of view is highlighted. The core of the contribution forms a quantitative-qualitative research. The research was based on a comparison of students' attitudes and evaluation of the demandingness of one selected university course. Data were gained in the traditional face-to-face lessons and...
The contribution of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and its initiative OpenCourseWare (OCW), gave access to free course complete material, which is used by teachers in their classes, open for whoever requires teaching, learning and research material; this fact got to end up with geographic, social and cultural barriers. Hundreds of universities have joined this initiative and opened...
The development of tele-operated experimentation and its provision to distance learners opens new dimensions of knowledge acquisition, particularly where experiments are the core elements of engineering education. The finalized EU-funded project PeTEX-Platform for e-Learning and Telemetric Experimentation has developed a prototype of an e-learning platform based on Moodle for the design and implementation...
There is increasing emphasis in Engineering Education to include transferable skills, such as written and presentation skills, but also critical evaluations and lifelong learning. Another challenge is the rapidly changing technical content in many engineering courses and the related struggle to provide up-to-date study materials. This paper introduces a comprehensive assessment strategy that helps...
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