2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

This paper highlights major aspects of our endeavor to create a functional innovation environment at our university linking academia to the local innovation ecosystem. View full abstract»

Patents are an unused informational source in research and education. We state that patent documents are an information source opening a wide variety of usage (monitoring, strategic positioning, technical document for innovation and state of the art) for a wide variety of users (researchers, Small and medium Enterprises (SME) and start-ups). Hence, patents are a key resource in education but diffi... View full abstract»

Student engagement with academics in a classroom environment is one of the oldest and well-known pedagogical strategies while having quality teachers in the classroom is but one indicator of possible student success. In Further Education and Training colleges in South Africa, an 80% classroom attendance is usually required for students to qualify to write their final national examination at the en... View full abstract»

Learning in the workplace is crucial in higher engineering education, since it allows students to transfer knowledge and skills from university to professional engineering practice. Learning analytics endeavors in higher education have primarily focused on classroom-based learning. Recently, workplace learning analytics has become an emergent research area, with target users being workers, student... View full abstract»

This paper presents a game-based learning used to familiarize students with the climate change mitigation strategies. The main tool used in the game is a paper form, which constitutes a scaffold providing the supportive learning material. It helps the students to better structure and understand the possible human responses to climate change considering political, technological and economical dimen... View full abstract»

Academic teaching portfolios may be required by institutions of higher learning when they review the experience and skills of a prospective faculty member or when they review the application for promotion by current faculty members. Teaching portfolios are furthermore a significant contributor to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, as it provides tangible evidence of personal engagement in t... View full abstract»

A drive towards the establishment of various Scholarship of Teaching and Learning programmes at institutions of higher learning have been observed over the past decade. The primary aim of such programmes is to improve the teaching and learning process, which may be achieved by using the SoTL unicycle metaphor. The objectives of this unicycle are twofold: first, it outlines the process that academi... View full abstract»

Visualization tools provide a potentially powerful support for the learning of abstract mathematical topics in engineering courses. SimReal is a visualization tool for teaching mathematics for a wide range of engineering topics. It provides video lessons, interactive simulations and animations to enhance comprehension and engagement in abstract mathematics subjects. The aim of this paper is to exp... View full abstract»

Systematic documentation is an important aspect in order to preserve information that would otherwise be lost over time. Documentation is needed in different disciplines, but is not so common in education and especially in software engineering's education. Education is a very diverse field. Situations (e.g. education procedures and their contents) which are meaningful to document must be detected ... View full abstract»

This paper aims to present an experience report on a new pedagogical technique which applies to the teaching of interactive systems: the Living Persona technique. First, we review the well-known technique of Persona that is used in some processes of realization of interactive systems. In this technique, a Persona represents an archetype of the users interacting in the system to be produced. From t... View full abstract»

The combination of engineering education and research is an effective method to construct high performance college teachers, which is a cradle to cultivate young teachers. Teaching and research group of "circuit analysis and electronic circuits" in our university promotes experimental engineering education by scientific research through long-term practice and summary in terms of training students,... View full abstract»

Engineering students need to receive effective academic feedback on their assessments, as it reinforces appropriate student behavior or thinking, informs students of their academic progress and provides further opportunities for student engagement and learning. However, some academics are prone to just provide a final grade on student written assessments, with no specific written comments on where... View full abstract»

The challenge for engineering educators remains the ability to enable their students to bridge the seeming divide between disciplinary fundamentals and practical application. With a significant percentage of employers stating that graduates lack the required technical skills in the 21^st century workplace and the rapid proliferation of technologies, educators cannot hope to p... View full abstract»

The purpose of this paper is to develop a coherent framework of SMART indicators for assessing and monitoring the sustainability of engineering educational process that targets sustainable development of the society. The indicators address the sustainability of the process as well as its impact on the sustainable development of the society. The approach is to find ways to achieve the sustainabilit... View full abstract»

Case study teaching allows students to have contact with real life business, management or engineering situations instead of "chalk-and-talk" ex-cathedra form of academic teaching. It has already become the main teaching method in the most of business schools since the pioneer example of Harvard University. Nevertheless, case study teaching represents an important teaching method in other areas na... View full abstract»

Video-sharing websites like YouTube are very popular, their usage can particularly be seen by younger people, the so called "Digital Natives". For example, about a billion of people visits YouTube every month and about a billion of hours is spent daily to watch videos there. In principle this enthusiasm for videos offers the opportunity to use them as a didactical tool. But even though the medium ... View full abstract»

Reflective practice in teaching is an important requirement for continuous improvement in professional education. In this work, we report on an approach to reflective practice which leverages the technical domain knowledge of the teacher - specifically that of engineering control systems. The structure, elements and properties of a typical control system are appropriated as a model (Control System... View full abstract»