Ensuring Educational Escape-Room Success: The Process of Designing, Piloting, Evaluating, Redesigning, and Re-Evaluating Educational Escape Rooms

Background. The implementation of educational escape rooms has shown great value in learner outcomes. The design of such simulations requires a thoughtful, well-defined process. Objective. The purpose of this article is to encourage educational escape room designers to use a thoughtful, methodical, iterative process to ensure quality, educational capacity, and a positive learner experience. Application. When designing an educational escape room, designers should consider implementing a cyclic design process: design, pilot, evaluate, redesign, re-evaluate, and repeat. Discussion. A methodological process for educational escape room design can promote deep learning and positive student perceptions.

Non-Cyclic Design Space Exploration for ASIPs — Compiler-Centered Microprocessor Design (CoMet)

The CoMet approach on designing application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) is targeting a non-cyclic design space exploration (DSE). The design process is driven by a step by step refinement of intermediate codes, known from compiler backends. In every step, the intermediate code can be simulated and profiled. Based on that profiling information, it can be further transformed to an optimized or refined intermediate code. The whole transformation process is implemented in a GUI-based design tool, whose main component is a configurable simulator for intermediate codes. It will be shown how the configurable intermediate code simulator is used and how the intermediate code transformation and the VHDL generation of the ASIP model will work in the CoMet tool.

Kinematic Model of Mobile-Cylinder Engine of Cyclic Design

A kinematic model of mobile-cylinder engine of cyclic design is suggested. Analysis of motion equation solutions reveals periodic pulsations of rotational frequency in the system which leads to non-uniform rotation of a crank shaft. The amplitude and pulsation phase depend essentially on geometric and kinematic parameters of the model. Possible ways of the model optimization such as to damp the amplitude of rotational frequency pulsations are discussed