scholarly journals Learning from Problem-Based Projects in Cross-Disciplinary Student Teams

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Pål Ellingsen ◽  
Trude Tonholm ◽  
Frode Ramstad Johansen ◽  
Gunnar Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Narrative Distance ◽  
Identity Threats ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
Tools And Methods

This paper explores how engineering students and Work and Welfare students reflect upon their own engagement in a one-week cross-disciplinary project. To develop a better understanding of what unfolds during these activities we collected data through anonymous surveys two consecutive years. Data from these 141 respondents were analysed using a learning history approach and are presented as narratives. Results show major disruptions and conflicts driving the student projects, exposing inviting confrontations, social identity threats, managing diversity, and friction of ideas. Whereas this in many cases led to new and better project solutions, these real-world experiences raise awareness of the need for tools and methods for training students. The aim of the paper is to learn from students’ experiences through narrative distance, and fill a gap in the literature between problem-based learning (PBL) and the learning history method. Discussing different experiences of cross-disciplinary teamwork through the explanations of these theories, we also lay out potential questions for future research on the topic.

scholarly journals The use of technology in a model of formative assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Alfonsa García López ◽  
Francisco García Mazarío
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Mathematical Software ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
Academic Year

This work describes a formative assessment model for the Mathematical Analysis course taken by engineering students. It includes online questionnaires with feedback, a portfolio with weekly assignments, exams involving the use of mathematical software and a project to be completed in small groups of two or three students. The model has been perfected since 2009, and during the 2014-15 academic year the creation of a pilot online learning community was added. Based on Google+, it has been used for a peer assessment experiment involving student projects, among other uses. 

scholarly journals Bridging the gap between machine translation output and images in multimodal documents

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Thiago Blanch Pires ◽  
Augusto Velloso dos Santos Espindola
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Verbal Mode ◽  
Tools And Methods

The aim of this article is to report on recent findings concerning the use of Google Translate outputs in multimodal contexts. Development and evaluation of machine translation often focus on verbal mode, but accounts by the area on the exploration text-image relations in multimodal documents translated automatically are rare. Thus, this work seeks to describe just what are such relations and how to describe them, organized in two parts: firstly, by exploring the problem through an interdisciplinary interface, involving Machine Translation and Multimodality to analyze some examples from the Wikihow website; secondly, by reporting on recent investigation on suitable tools and methods to properly annotate these issues from within a long-term purpose to assemble a corpus. Finally, this article provides a discussion on the findings, including some limitations and perspectives for future research.

Digital Rights Management

2010 ◽  
pp. 2026-2045
Author(s):  
Ioannis Kostopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Digital Transactions ◽  
Tools And Methods

This chapter highlights the need for using copyright protection tools in our digital transactions. The main tools of copyright protection, such as cryptography, data hiding, and watermarking, along with the security framework where these tools can be used is also presented. However, all these tools and methods can be used only inside a specific technological and legal framework. This gap between technology and traditional human activities is bridged by developing the Digital Rights Management systems which is presented as a necessary mechanism to provide integrated e-services over the Internet. The legal framework and the current activities of organizations as WIPO (World Intellectual Property Rights Organization) is also provided in this chapter with the existing DRM technologies and the future research directions in this field

Social Networks and Terrorism

2011 ◽  
pp. 232-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Knoke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Tools And Methods

This chapter explains how international terror networks, consisting of individuals and organizations spanning countries and continents, form and evolve. It describes tools and methods used by social network analysts to study such networks; their applications by counterterrorist organizations; their limitations and problems in data collection and analysis; and directions for future research. It also discusses a few recent case studies by prominent researchers.

Engineering Innovation in Biomedical Nanotechnology

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eniko T. Enikov ◽  
Zoltán Szabó ◽  
Rein Anton ◽  
Jesse Skoch ◽  
Whitney Sheen
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Nanoscale Science And Engineering ◽  
Training Project ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Nanoscale Science ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
Institutional Challenges

The objective of this National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded undergraduate engineering training project is to introduce nanoscale science and engineering through an innovative use of a technical elective sophomore-level mechatronics course, followed by an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-mandated senior-level engineering capstone design project. A unique partnership between University of Arizona’s department of surgery, its neurosurgical division, and the College of Engineering presents a creative environment, where medical residents serve as mentors for undergraduate engineering students in developing product ideas enabled by nanotechnology. Examples include: a smart ventricular peritoneal (VP) shunt with flow-sensing; a bio-resorbable inflatable stent for drug delivery, and a hand-held non-invasive eye tonometer. Results from the first year of the student projects, as well as qualitative assessment of their experience, is presented. Several institutional challenges were also identified.

scholarly journals PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE THROUGH A CORNERSTONE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Dick ◽  
Thai Son Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Stakeholder Input ◽  
Design Proposal

Abstract – First-year engineering students at Vancouver Island University in Canada and second-year engineering students at Tra Vinh University in Vietnam have been brought together to work on a cooperative cornerstone design project as a means to introduce intercultural competencies early in the students' academic experience.  Student teams at each institution were partnered, whereby a design proposal developed by a team at one institution was constructed by their partner team at the other institution. Each team provided stakeholder input early in the design stage, and team pairs established a change management structure to respond to challenges occurring during the construction phase of the project. We explore the challenges and successes of the students experience as they navigated the linguistic, cultural, technical, and geographic barriers towards successfully completing this major design project.  

Research approval assessment: A methodology to cultivate electrical engineering students’ attention through stimulating their interesting studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 002072092090143
Author(s):  
Jinsong Tao ◽  
Muhammad Waqas ◽  
Xiaoxing Zhang ◽  
Zhe Wang ◽  
Yang Shu
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Engineering Software ◽  
Electrical Engineering Education

In the 21st century, electrical power enterprises face the flood of new technologies and an aging workforce of professional engineers. To address this shortage, heightening the competences of current electrical engineering students is essential. Although researchers have raised these issues and presented expedient methodologies, they have not enhanced graduation rates because many young students are declining the electrical engineering major due to many factors. Nevertheless, the declining percentage must be addressed in the electrical engineering education system; hence this article implemented a research approval assessment technique to engage electrical engineering students’ interest with their major, enhance academic research and professional skills, and excel at their electrical engineering degree in the School of Electrical Engineering at Wuhan University, China. The assessment process assists students in recalling and integrating their interests to fulfill degree requirements and select future research, practicing engineering software, and enhancing the collaborative skills necessary for their future engineering careers. Although many students were involved in research approval assessment process, this article focuses on a Pakistani student’s approval process, detailing their topic of Pakistan power sector challenges (ferroresonance presence as high profile challenge), and evaluation results. The results indicated that students’ interests not only engage them effectively but also motivate their success.

New Economy Careers Demand Adaptive Mental Models and Resources

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies E. M. van Vianen ◽  
Ute-Christine Klehe
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Career Transitions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Core ◽  
Identity Threats ◽  
And Coping

Volatile economic and labor market circumstances have significant effects on the development of people’s work careers; thus recent literature on careers has started to take into account the reality of increasingly unpredictable, nonlinear, and inherently uncertain careers. In this chapter we argue that careers in the new economy require, first, that people learn to cope with identity threats; second, that they need to change their mental models of careers; and third, that they must develop the resources to adapt to more frequent and unpredictable career transitions. Specifically we address three themes that we consider at the core of adaptation to nonlinear careers: people’s work-related identities, their conceptualization of career success, and their adaptability resources. We build a model called “identity and coping during career transitions” (ICCT), which integrates theories on identity, careers, and adaptability and could serve as an agenda for future research. Finally, we provide some guidelines for practitioners and organizations.

An Experiment in Design and Materials: Undergraduate Students Designing Test Machines

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Ridgely
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Test Machine ◽  
Digital Counter ◽  
Load Cells ◽  
Counter Circuit ◽  
Student Projects

An exercise has been developed for an undergraduate design laboratory. In the exercise, students design, build, and test load cells, then build computer interfaced tensile testing machines in which the load cells are integrated. Data is acquired through the use of a simple, low-cost bridge amplifier and digital counter circuit which was developed for this exercise. The circuit design and software are released as an open source project to encourage widespread use and participation by the academic community. The tensile test machine exercise has been tested on a group of 45 junior-level mechanical engineering students, with significant success in students demonstrating an understanding of the principles taught. The open source interface is being adopted by other courses and student projects at the host University; use at other institutions is encouraged.

scholarly journals Teaching Design to First-Year Engineering Students

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McGuire ◽  
Kin Fun Li ◽  
Fayez Gebali
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Product Engineering ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Integrated Communication ◽  
The University

Design is associated with the invention,planning and building a product. Engineering design, inparticular, takes considerable effort, skills, andintegration of knowledge; hence, it is difficult to teachfreshmen this subject since they have not possessed ordeveloped the proper skill set yet. The Faculty ofEngineering at the University of Victoria has beenteaching engineering design (in two successive courses)to all first-year engineering students. In addition toattending plenary lectures, student teams are working oncompetitive projects in the laboratory, while participatingin highly integrated communication modules. In thiswork, we discuss the curricula of these design courses,model of delivery and share our experience for the pastthree years.

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