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Climate changes in the Polar Regions are accelerating and scientists are trying to understand both the patterns and resulting impacts. Specific regions of the Arctic and Antarctic are exhibiting greater changes than others, creating areas of interest (hot spots) for polar research. The Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (Polar ICE, see www.polar-ice.org) project, funded by the National...
Since its founding in 1989, the Studio-based Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been a trailblazer in advancing the practice of masters-level professional software engineering education. From its inception, the program was designed around a comprehensive development project, the Studio. The Studio provides students with a team-based, mentored, multi-semester...
Service-learning has been proven to be a high-impact educational pedagogy in many disciplines. It addresses human, and community needs through engaging in community activities. With professional engineering expertise, integrating engineering into service-learning not only can make particularly impactful community service, especially in developing countries where engineering expertise is not always...
Touchscreen assistive learning numeracy application (TaLNA) is a touchscreen learning based application design for Children with Autism. TaLNA has been developed based on the concept of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) called discrete trial training (DTT). This app will be used by teachers and instructors as a platform to facilitate children with autism on learning basic numeracy development in special...
The quality of technical education in training of specialists for fuel and energy complex is affected by many factors. To a greater extent, education is determined by the level of technical equipment of laboratories and by methodology of the educational process. This paper is dedicated to the professor's and lecturer's experience of modern educational technology's implementation and training methods...
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse teachers' attitudes and perceptions towards the use of digital resources in the classroom. The data of this study were collected using a qualitative method, whereby a questionnaire was distributed to 45 Life Orientation teachers. The teachers had undertaken training on how to use digital resources, to supplement their traditional approaches. The...
From 25. August until 7. September 2013 a number of 45 students and 21 lecturers from 6 universities in 6 countries met at htw saar in Saarbrücken. In the frame of an ERASMUS Intensive Program (IP) they worked in teams of 4 to 5 persons on their engineering visions for the world in 30 to 50 years. After a preparation time of two years the proposal was granted by DAAD with approx. 50,000 €. In January/February...
In this paper, a novel formalized teaching method is presented for encouraging excellence in undergraduate student performance. This approach is a modified implementation of the teaching method used at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, which was made more appropriate for civilian engineering undergraduate students. The objective of this method is to prepare students academically, creatively,...
Quality education leading to potential employment is essential for the growth of a nation. This still remains a challenge in India despite much contemporary technological advancement. It is also an evident fact that, the major hiring sectors like IT and manufacturing are facing a slow-down and hence an immediate impact on unemployment. The issue of excess of educated unemployed students must be addressed,...
The ICTWays Network focuses on the use of ICT to support Science teaching classrooms. After identifying existing hardware and software resources in European schools, existing ICT training procedures for teachers, available software for science teaching and current best practices, the partners are working on the development of a Community of Practice for Teachers, as well as providing local workshops...
Cyber security is a highly technical field requiring skilled professionals to develop and protect our digital systems. But what constitutes a well-trained and educated cybersecurity professional? Obviously, they should have a strong IT background — experienced in cutting edge new technologies. They need to understand computer monitoring, processing, system security, data loss prevention, intrusion...
The demand for green alternatives in the transportation sector is resulting in an expanding supply of electric vehicles. This triggers the need for both public and home charging infrastructure. In Flanders, five living-lab platforms were launched and funded by the government [1]. The main goal of one of these projects, i.e. the EVA-platform, is to deploy and monitor a public charging network. Nevertheless,...
Wireless Sensor Networks have a great role to play in Developing Countries. This paper reports on training work- shops jointly organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the University of Cape Town in South Africa (March 2010), Kenya (June 2011) and Ghana (December 2011) on Wireless Sensor Networks. The trainings were 4 days long and targeted 20 participants, composed...
IEEE's values and purpose have always been focused on excellence in technology, while striving to maintain highest standards of excellence in its community of practitioners and educators. In recent years, as the geographical boundaries between countries and continents have blurred, it has become increasingly clear that advances in the global sense require a thorough understanding of neighboring cultures...
The paper discusses the significance of Information and Communication Technologies in the Educational sector. With the emergence of ICT's, there has been a rapid change in the way information is exchanged and how people communicate. There has been lot of innovative tools and ways of gathering and sharing information that would have been seem impossible few years back. Digital literacy has become a...
There is an idea that engineering degrees are experiencing a decrease in number of students. This is a fact that has concerned many worldwide engineering societies. The reasons may be based in a loss of motivation among students to begin a difficult career, in spite of great expectations jobs proposed from the society. However, this paper offers some data that could change this thought, particularly...
We used the statistical sampling method to analyze the relation between the university teachers' network class upload quantity, visit quantity and university teachers' four personality characteristics: gender, age and title. Therefore universities should take the teachers' personality characteristics into account to adopt the effective measures for universities networking education building. University...
Firstly, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to analyze the factors of curriculum setting and their weights quantificational. Then the computer major curriculum system was modularized, and each module was analyzed and combined to adapt training direction. At last, mathematical method - Fuzzy evaluation was utilized to evaluate the effects of curriculum setting.
The METASCHOOL project aims to improve the training of school teachers and school ICT staff on topics related to the organisation, sharing, use and re-use of digital learning resources that can be accessed online through learning repositories.. For Web 2.0 technologies is main focus on active using Wiki based principles. For geospatial technologies there are two selected cases. First use case is focused...
This workshop will expose participants to the utility of the Java-DSP education software in multidisciplinary signal and data analysis applications. The session will be interactive and participants will use and assess an exercise that involves step-by-step online simulations using J-DSP. Examples of prepackaged online laboratory exercises that can be disseminated in certain types of courses will also...
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