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The questions that are proposed as the basis for academy panel sessions are important ones to ask. In the aggregate, they cover an enormous expanse of the software engineering landscape. The reality of undergraduate computing education is that the vast majority of students do not go through software engineering curricula where there is time to address the academy questions in some depth. Instead,...
The dual-primal finite element tearing and interconnecting (FETI-DP) method is combined with the Newton-Raphson method to expand the capability and improve the efficiency of three-dimensional finite element analysis (FEA) of nonlinear electromechanical and electric machine problems. Despite its modeling capability and high degree of accuracy, FEA has high computational complexity, especially for nonlinear...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has become an important segment of the computing industry and a source of innovation in software development. The open culture of FOSS projects where all project artifacts are accessible and communication is visible provides computing educators with an array of unique opportunities for student learning. However, FOSS projects can also present hurdles to instructors...
The Symposium on VLSI Circuits is sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, in cooperation with the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.
FinFET devices have the structure of 3-D fins as channels, which are capable of being fully depleted as the gate is biased and potentially suppress the leakage currents. In this paper, one compares poly-silicon gates with fully cobalt silicide gate to see how much they are affected by the fin widths. Two channel lengths (0.1 micron and 0.12 micron) at two different fin widths (namely, 110nm, and 120nm)...
Traditional Industrial Design (TID) has been an important aspect in the NPD process within the last decades. User centered design (UCD) is a growing research field for product innovation, starting from the end of 20th century. An NPD process needs support from both design knowledge and research methodologies. Both TID and UCD focus on user's perspective when doing multi-disciplinary work together...
Information and Communication Technologies play major role in all types of day to day life activities including Government, public and social domains. The need for HCI aspects to be taken care in these activities has become a predominant one. Especially, incorporating HCI features in the academic environment is getting more attention. In the case of reading materials associated with any type of academic...
The Web of Things (WoT) refers to the extension of the Web to network-capable everyday objects, and revolves around using Web technologies to realize ubiquitous computing environments. In this vision, recent Web platforms allow developers to create ubicomp applications under the form of Web mashups triggering aforementioned objects. However, by requiring a list of such objects to be selected by a...
The idea of using intelligent products to ensure an information continuum all along the product life cycle (PLC) is more and more shared today. However, it is not that easy to identify what information should be stored on the product. To answer this question, we propose a data dissemination process to select context-sensitive information from the database, that must be stored/replicated on the product...
Considering the size of lot can directly affect the performance, when we try to solve scheduling problem in a hybrid flow-shop environment, in this paper we propose a blend search strategy and a new way to calculate the completion of produce. This search strategy combine genetic algorithm with simulated annealing algorithm, and the more important we employ the merger operation to reduce resolution...
This paper describes a new method and a set of equations for calculating the force-deflection characteristics of the catenary anchor leg. The traditional catenary equations reference horizontal deflection of the catenary top to the catenary generation point which is used to mathematically ?generate” the catenary curve shape. The catenary generation point is not stationary; its horizontal and vertical...
The Integrated Design Engineering Assessment and Learning System (IDEALS) is a set of assessment instruments that focus on aspects of professional development such as leadership, ethics, project management and communication skills within the context of capstone engineering design projects. These instruments have been piloted across a broad spectrum of diverse engineering programs and are available...
The use collaborative of pedagogies in undergraduate engineering courses are usually implemented by academics who place value on the student experience and their students achieving deep as opposed to surface learning. The professional development and understanding of appropriate theories needed to prepare materials and support student learning in these different teaching environments is often left...
In this paper, we present our experience, findings, and lessons learned from conducting a one-week Alice summer computing workshop for K-12 teachers. Our workshop focuses on using Alice, a 3D programming environment, to introduce computing concepts to K-12 teachers in all subjects so that these teachers can pass on their knowledge and inspiration to their students. During the workshop, the teachers...
We present the results of a pilot study in which twenty K-12 teachers were introduced to LEGO NXT-G robot programming through a three-day summer workshop. Our aim was to give teachers the confidence and skills to start after-school robotics programs with their students. We present details on the workshop, including the approach we used to recruit teachers and an overview of the three-day course. We...
During the last thirty or more years a number of articles about engineering education have suggested that one of the reasons why the goals of engineering have not been achieved is the lack of a proper philosophical base to provide the guidelines needed. At the same time a number of those involved in engineering course design have found it necessary to use the term philosophy when talking about the...
Advocates of requirements traceability regularly cite advantages like easier program comprehension and support for software maintenance (i.e., software change). However, despite its growing popularity, there exists no published evaluation about the usefulness of requirements traceability. It is important, if not crucial, to investigate whether the use of requirements traceability can significantly...
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