A Computer-Aided Approach to Undergraduate Engineering Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 474-476 ◽  
pp. 1931-1934
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Shen Jie Jia ◽  
Shu Chong Liu ◽  
Hui Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
The Status ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Education Research

Despite the quality of engineers that still universities are forming, the existing system for educating engineers must change, provides the courses for engineering educators, and a large experience developing and implementing engineering programs, the engineering education research team has decided to develop and to offer a graduation level program for engineers dedicated to education. Through the application of computer-mediated communication educators or instructional designers in the field of engineering with an opportunity to share the ideas and experience of innovating curriculum and instructional methods of engineering education. In this paper, we briefly review the status of engineering education in China. Additionally, we provide details of how these concepts can be used in an educational model, a learning system is also believed to be the stepping stone to one that generates and rewards “active, independent, self-directed learning” for students to gather and assess data rigorously and critically.

The concept of power in computer-mediated communication

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Šárka Hastrdlová
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Internet Chat ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Status ◽  
Closed Groups ◽  
Distribution Of Power

There has been a recent increase of interest in the phenomenon of power amongst linguists and also philosophers. The presented article attempts to consider power and ways in which it is exercised through language of computer-mediated communication (further CMC). This unique environment is determined by the specific conditions of an Internet chat room, such as anonymity and no audio-visual cues. In the theoretical part, Watts’s and Diamond’s investigations of power in various open and closed groups in oral communication are discussed and the notion of status is presented. The author divides the chat group corpus into individual sub-groups and tries to draw a graphical presentation, a sociogram, to show their complexity and distribution of power. However, the question remains how tight the sub-groups in CMC are or how interrelated they are with one another. In this respect, it is noteworthy to observe how a selected chat participant develops her status in various sub-groups and to analyze the means by which this possible status is achieved. The corpus was collected by the author herself. The main hypothesis is that the status of power changes quickly throughout chatting and it depends to a great extent on other cues such as address, non-verbal action displays, punctuation marks and so on. In other words, there are very few means by which to exercise power and hold it in this continuously changing and anonymous environment.

Benchmarking the Integration of Complex Systems Study in Mechanical Engineering Programs in the Southeastern United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Kellam ◽  
Michelle Maher ◽  
James Russell ◽  
Veronica Addison ◽  
Wally Peters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
University Websites ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
The University

Complex systems study, defined as an understanding of interrelationships between engineered, technical, and non-technical (e.g., social or environmental) systems, has been identified as a critical component of undergraduate engineering education. This paper assesses the extent to which complex systems study has been integrated into undergraduate mechanical engineering programs in the southeastern United States. Engineering administrators and faculty were surveyed and university websites associated with engineering education were examined. The results suggest engineering administrators and faculty believe that undergraduate engineering education remains focused on traditional engineering topics. However, the review of university websites indicates a significant level of activity in complex systems study integration at the university level, although less so at college and department levels.

scholarly journals ENGINEERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS AS A FRAMEWORK FOR INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Friesen ◽  
Nadine Ibrahim ◽  
Grant McSorley ◽  
Stephen Mattucci
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Theory ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
Industry Engagement ◽  
The University

Industry engagement in undergraduate engineering education is a community-centred approach to learning that is hands-on and links the engineering theory to practice. This paper provides a review of existing Engineer-in-Residence (EIR) programs in Canada, including the University of Manitoba, Dalhousie University, University of Calgary, Ryerson University, University of Ottawa, and the University of Waterloo, as well as a brief international scan. We consider the motivations behind the institutions’ initiative to introduce EIR programs, different types of engagements, challenges, and opportunities. Programs are also examined externally relative to professional residency programs in business schools, among others, and relative to other forms of industry engagement in undergraduate engineering education. A brief overview of the history and role of EIRs within engineering programs is also presented. The paper will be of interest to those exploring a similar industry engagement framework at their institution, and offers a forward-looking perspective on ways to leverage the skills and experience of practicing engineers in preparing students to tackle the challenges of the future.

Firepups at the Lake

2014 ◽  
pp. 206-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dona J. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Identity Creation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Blog ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines how a social community was created and developed on a left-leaning political blog, Firedoglake; in particular, it explores how readers, as commenters, engaged each other, establishing credibility, or rhetorically speaking, acquiring and enhancing their ethos and attaining the status of a respected member of the blog’s community. All excerpted threads include pseudonyms or screen names of users and all material from the designated blogs is, of course, in the public domain. In part 2, the chapter describes how the character of the blog itself, Firedoglake, changed over time as it grew to include an increasing number of front-page posters, became generally identified as hypercritical of the Obama administration, and became an umbrella site for smaller blogs under its banner. The discussion in both parts explores identity creation and the question of community in computer-mediated communication.

Engineering Education: Prospective Research Issues

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomo Waks
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Israel Institute ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Multimedia Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Engineering Education Research

There exists an increasing gap between engineering developments and research on educating engineers. There is a need to investigate and develop pedagogical means for advancing engineering education. The problem stems from the fact that most engineering educators are concerned mainly with disciplinary engineering contents, while researchers in the educational domain concentrate on educational psychology and pedagogical aspects. There is not enough cooperation between engineering and education, thus avoiding the creation of synergetic interaction between the two domains in a given engineering education system or situation. This article deals with the question: what has to be investigated in engineering education in order to advance learning activities of students and updating engineers? We will analyze some issues, as they aroused during recent years in a series of research studies on engineering education around the world and in the Department of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. After analyzing the status of engineering education and emergence of relevant R&D activities, possible research questions are presented. For example: (1) How should the contents of an engineering curriculum be determined? By whom? (2) Is there a need for a recognized educational scholarship like that of the existing disciplinary scholarship? (3) Creativity and project work – what do engineering educators and students think about? (4) What are the conditions and means for advancing the learning process in a multimedia environment? (5) What are the pitfalls in using hypermedia during the learning process? (6) What is Self-Learning Regulation (SLR) and why is it an important issue in engineering education? Accordingly possible trends in engineering education research are proposed and discussed.

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence in safety system

2018 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 00009
Author(s):  
Li-Shan Chen ◽  
Yen-Ming Tseng ◽  
Xiao-Na Lin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Remedial Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Learning System ◽  
After School ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Extensible Markup

This research aims to study learning environment, and let the learning environment become smart. Swarm intelligence, cloud computing, and active Ultra-High Frequency RFID were used on it. We built friendly human-computer-interface software for users to use as pad phone. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) and C sharp language were used in this research. If the users begin to search, the kernel safety learning system automatically communicates with other RFID readers by agents, and the agents can search the closer camera for users. This study’s result has successfully implemented to Chin-Huo educational organization, and it would be helpful for the paterfamilias to hold all situations about their children at Chin-Huo educational organization. Paterfamilias can understand their children’s learning, going to Chin-Huo and leaving Chin-Huo through personal computers, or notebooks simultaneously or asynchronously by the computer-mediated communication. That will be great help in the grip of whole after-school remedial education, teaching and learning situation.

scholarly journals A snapshot of engineering education in Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Nelson ◽  
Robert Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
The Look ◽  
Engineering Education Research

Although all accredited engineering programs in Canada are assessed by the same governing body, each institution has its own set of expectations regarding its distribution of effort, the types of research conducted by its faculty, and the way it delivers its curriculum. Individual departments and programs each have their own strengths and challenges, but collectively they share the responsibility of educating tomorrow’s engineers.This paper presents a summary of the results of a descriptive study examining three aspects of engineering education in Canada: the balance and types of research, teaching, and service that engineering educators are doing, the level to which engineering educators are engaging with engineering education research, and the look and feel of the learning environment that undergraduate engineering students experience in accredited engineering programs in Canada.

Cyber-Aztecs and Cholo-Punks: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Five-Worlds Theory

PMLA ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Foster
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
A Site

In the study of postmodern technocultures, including computer-mediated communication and popular narratives about cyberspace, the status of embodiment has emerged as a key question, especially in the context of popular rhetorics that imagine the Internet as a site of freedom from embodied particularity. But while analyses of gender bending and sexual performance on the Internet abound, the future of race in cyberspace has been relatively neglected. This essay traces recent developments in the work of the Mexican American performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, whose earlier interests in immigration, transnationalism, and border-crossing art have increasingly led him to reflect on the promises and dangers cyberspace poses for racially minoritized groups, to the extent that people who use or study the Internet fantasize cyberspace as a site of subjective border crossing and identity play. The essay looks at the theme of virtual reality in specific performances and at Gómez-Peña's incorporation of new technologies into his work.

Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-74
Author(s):  
Sandra Nekesa Barasa ◽  
Maarten Mous
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Youth Language

Youth ‘languages’ are an important topic of research in the domain of linguistic change through language contact because the change is rapid and observable and also because the social dimension of change is inevitably present. Engsh, as a youth language in Kenya expresses not only modernity and Kenyan identity but also, the status of being educated, and it differs in this respect from Sheng, the dominant Kenyan youth language. The element of Engsh that expresses this aspect most directly is the use of a grammatical system from English whereas Sheng uses Swahili. In lexicon, Engsh draws upon Sheng and urban English slang. This is a first extensive description of Engsh. The social function of Engsh is interesting in that class is expressed in it, which is not often reported in African urban youth codes. Also the fact that Engsh is a non-exclusive register, which expands through its use in (social) media and most of all in computer mediated communication.

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