scholarly journals Development of an Onboard Robotic Platform for Embedded Programming Education

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3916
Author(s):  
Hyun-Jae Lee ◽  
Hak Yi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
Robotic Platform ◽  
Course Quality ◽  
Programming Education ◽  
Programming Skills ◽  
High Level ◽  
Embedded Programming

Robotics has been used as an attractive tool in diverse educational fields. A variety of robotic platforms have contributed to teaching practical embedded programming to engineering students at universities. However, most platforms only support content with a low level of programming skills and are unlikely to support a high level of embedded programming. This low association negatively affects students, such as incomprehension, decreased participation, dissatisfaction with course quality, etc. Therefore, this paper proposed a new robotic platform with relevant curricula to improve their effectiveness. The developed platform provided practical content used in mechatronics classes and the capability to operate a robot with a high level of embedded programming. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed platform, participants (undergraduates) examined course evaluations for educational programs based on the developed platform compared with the previous year’s class evaluation. The results showed that the proposed platform positively affects students’ intellectual ability (performance) and satisfaction in programming education.

scholarly journals The Sound of Silence?

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 392-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hassall ◽  
J. Joyce ◽  
M.D. Bramhall ◽  
I.M. Robinson ◽  
J.L. Arquero
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Vocational Choice ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Vocational Skills ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
High Level

Employers often consider graduates to be unprepared for employment and lacking in vocational skills. A common demand from them is that the curriculum should include ‘communication skills’, as specific skills in their own right and also because of the central role that such skills can play in developing other desirable attributes. Current thinking in communication has indicated a split between communication apprehension and communication development. There are indications that techniques designed to develop communication skills will not resolve communication apprehension and that, if an individual has a high level of communication apprehension, these techniques will not result in improved communication performance. This paper compares and contrasts the levels and profiles of communication apprehension exhibited by accounting and engineering students. The implications of the findings are then discussed and the need for further research in the area of vocational choice is identified.

scholarly journals Research and Educational Programs for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles at the University of Waterloo

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (12) ◽  
pp. S21-S23
Author(s):  
Ross Mckenzie ◽  
John Mcphee
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Vehicle Systems ◽  
The University

This article presents an overview of the research and educational programs for connected and autonomous vehicles at the University of Waterloo (UWaterloo). UWaterloo is Canada’s largest engineering school, with 9,500 engineering students and 309 engineering faculty. The University of Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) for faculty, staff and students is contributing to the development of in-vehicle systems education programs for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at Waterloo. Over 130 Waterloo faculty, 110 from engineering, are engaged in WatCAR’s automotive and transportation systems research programs. The school’s CAV efforts leverage WatCAR research expertise from five areas: (1) Connected and Autonomous; (2) Software and Data; (3) Lightweighting and Fabrication; (4) Structure and Safety; and (5) Advanced Powertrain and Emissions. Foundational and operational artificial intelligence expertise from the University of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute complements the autonomous driving efforts, in disciplines that include neural networks, pattern analysis and machine learning.

TV Preference as a Technique for Selection of Reinforcers

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Striefel ◽  
Paul M. Smeets
Keyword(s):  
Educational Programs ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Simultaneous Choice ◽  
High Level ◽  
Selection Of

A technique for evaluating preference for television (TV) programs provided six low-level and six high-level retardates with a simultaneous choice of four keys, each programing a different consequence. The total time S depressed each of the four keys resulting in three different TV programs or no program (no audio or video) was recorded. Each consequence was continuously available and the consequence programmed by each key was switched every 2 min. All Ss spent most of the session responding for TV and preferred TV over no consequence. Five low-level and one high-level S showed a preference for a single program. The preference of one low-level and two high-level Ss varied from day to day and that of three high-level Ss changed one or more times during 10 sessions. One program can be repeated many times with low-level retardates before satiation occurs; whereas satiation occurs quickly with high-level retardates. TV preference might well be considered as a technique for selection of reinforcers. The technique has much to offer to those concerned with developing educational programs.

scholarly journals A Validity and Reliability Study of the Basic Electronics Skills Self-Efficacy Scale (BESS)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Özgen Korkmaz ◽  
Makbule Kübra Korkmaz
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Reliability Study ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
High Level

The aim of this study is to improve a measurement tool to evaluate the self-efficacy of Electrical-Electronics Engineering students through their basic electronics skills. The sample group is composed of 124 Electrical-Electronics engineering students. The validity of the scale is analyzed with two different methods through factor analysis and distinctiveness. To evaluate the how much each item that exists in the scale can measure the factor they belong to, item total factor correlations and corrected correlations are calculated on the data. According to the acquired values, each item and each factor in the scale are found to serve to the run-of the scale and the aim of scaling the desired facility, in a meaningful level. Moreover, analyzing the t value related to the differences between the groups of top 27% and bottom 27%, the item distinctiveness’s are researched and it is detected that the distinctiveness of both of the run-of the scale and each one of the items is high level; in other words, it is detected that each item is distinctive in the desired level. The internal consistency coefficients of the scale is calculated using two congruent halves correlations, Cronbach Alpha, Sperman-Brown formula and Guttmann split-half reliability formula. Consequently, it is concluded that the scale is a reliable and valid scale and this scale can be used to determine the basic electronics skills of the Electrical-Electronics Engineering students through their self-perceptions.

scholarly journals Developmental characteristic of primary schoolchildren: traditional educational program or developmental one?

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01150
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Ruslyakova ◽  
Leysan Slobozhankina
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Primary Schoolchildren ◽  
High Level ◽  
Developmental Characteristic ◽  
Improve Health

The following article presents a longitudinal research of mental state and intelligence of primary schoolchildren following different educational programs. Nowadays education in Russia has been undergoing lots of changes. New systems, methods and technologies for teaching children in primary school are being introduced. Therefore, children often display a high level of anxiety and school neuroses. So the problem of mental state of primary schoolchildren associated with the issues of education, upbringing, and development of junior schoolchildren becomes more urgent. Educational programs that take into account the mental state of children are able to improve health, social adaptation and their mental and personal development. Our empirical study has proved the hypothesis, which asserts that there are differences in children following different educational programs: “School of Russia” and “Perspective Primary School”, their mental state and intellect are also different.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Quality Problem of Scientific School in the Higher Russian Technical Education by the Graduates and Professors of MSTU “STANKIN”

2019 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 06003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna V. Mikhaylova ◽  
Marina A. Revina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Quality Problem ◽  
Higher Education Reforms ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
Organizational Problem ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
High Level

Higher education reforms can give Russian higher technical schools significant advantages, but at the same time they hide serious dangers. As a result of these reforms, the modern higher technical school in Russia is facing many problems. Firstly, the quality problem: technical education in Russia has always been at a fairly high level, due to its integrity and fundamental nature, so the feasibility of reforms often raises questions. Secondly, the organizational problem: the natural process for higher education in the modernization of education and the consolidation of knowledge in itself is quite complicated. The combination of the modernization process and reform is causing considerable resistance and questions, since it seems insufficiently thought out. Thirdly, the problem of training a creative engineer for the society of the future does not find a solution, because the process of training a specialist is becoming more and more mechanistic. Previously, engineering students within five and a half years had the opportunity to join the scientific community, thanks to the presence of individual work and direct communication with scientists of different generations. Modern communication between professor and student is largely carried out through the electronic environment, so they are more fragmented and mosaic. The lack of real practice in enterprises leads to the fact that students do not receive a live request from production for their creativity. In such conditions, the training of creative technicians is very difficult. It is advisable to reform higher technical education in the light of these problems, so that in the final, Russian education will benefit from them, while maintaining its identity.

THE Big Deal: An Institution's Experience with Robotic Transhiatal Esophagectomy

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (9) ◽  
pp. 1061-1065
Author(s):  
Jack Wecowski ◽  
Sharona B. Ross ◽  
Michalina F. Jadick ◽  
Ashley Justice ◽  
Iswanto Sucandy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Loss ◽  
Length Of Hospital Stay ◽  
Transhiatal Esophagectomy ◽  
Site Infection ◽  
Robotic Approach ◽  
Robotic Platform ◽  
Operative Duration ◽  
Estimated Blood Loss ◽  
High Level ◽  
Robotic Application

As minimally invasive operations evolve, it is imperative to evaluate the advantages and risks involved. The aim of our study was to evaluate our institution's experience in incorporating a robotic platform for transhiatal esophagectomy (THE). Patients undergoing robotic THE were prospectively followed. Data are presented as median (mean ± SD). Forty-five patients were of 67 (67 ± 6.9) years and BMI 26 (27 ± 5.5) kg/m2. Nine per cent of operations were converted to “open,” but none in the last 25 operations. Operative duration of robotic THE was 334 (364 ± 108.8) minutes and estimated blood loss was 200 (217 ± 144.0) mL, which decreased with time ( P = 0.017). Length of stay was 8 (12 ± 11.1) days. Twenty per cent had respiratory failure requiring intubation that resolved, 4 per cent developed pneumonia, 11 per cent developed a surgical site infection, 2 per cent developed renal insufficiency, and 2 per cent developed a UTI. Two per cent (one patient) died within 30 days postoperatively, because of cardiac arrest. Our experience with robotic THE promotes robotic application because we endeavor to achieve high-level proficiency. With experience, we improved estimated blood loss and converted fewer transhiatal esophagectomies to “open.” Our length of hospital stay seems long but reflects the ill-health of patients, as does the variety of complications. Our data support the evolving future of THE, which will integrally include a robotic approach.

Contribution of Intelligence and Cognitive-Affective Variables to University Grades among African, Indian, and White Engineering Students in South Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn Skuy ◽  
Melissa Skuy
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
First Year ◽  
African Students ◽  
Affective Variables ◽  
African Group ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Intelligence Test Scores

In previous studies significant differences in measured intelligence between African and non-African first year engineering students have been found. Intellectual ability was found to correlate with academic performance, and black studednts had higher dropout and failure rates and performed less well than did their non-African counterparts. Given the low magnitude (r = 0.3), albeit significant, of the correlation between intelligence and academic performance, the question arose of the role of non-intellective factors, relative to intelligence, in determining academic performance of engineering students at University. Accordingly, 93% (n=100) of the second year Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering class were assessed on two measures of intellectual ability, and on measures of self concept, motivation, study attitudes and strategies, anxiety, locus of control, and autonomy. Whereas the intelligence test scores of non-African students (n=36) were significantly higher than those of African students (n=64), this was not the case for any of the non-intellective measures, or for academic achievement. Moreover, although the intellectual measures did not yield significant correlations with academic achievement, certain of the non-intellective measures did, and were able to differentiate between high and low academic performers. This was particularly true for the African group, suggesting that non-intellective variables can contribute significantly to academic performance, particularly in mitigating the effects of lower IQ.

Incorporating embedded programming skills into an ECE curriculum

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Ricks ◽  
David J. Jackson ◽  
William A. Stapleton
Keyword(s):  
Programming Skills ◽  
Embedded Programming
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