This paper discusses business games as teaching tools in Technology Management (TM). The discipline’s traditional teaching methods, while appropriate for the dissemination of foundational knowledge, do not provide the optimal platform for students to link abstract concepts and real-world problems. We suggest that business simulation games are an effective way to engage students in TM topics; th...

Teaching and learning Discrete Event Simulation (DES) at universities within the context of undergraduate studies in industrial engineering management is not thoroughly covered literature. In fact, most strategies tend to solely address commercial tools, resulting on too much focus syntax, semantics getting used interface a particular tool, rather than simulation fundamental concepts. light thi...

The paper presents different tools for distance learning that are, for example, applied for teaching a course on advanced computer networks at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Distance learning in this case comprises on-line teaching across the Internet as well as an Internet-based learning environment that provides teaching material via WWW-pages. Interactive simulation experiments an...

AbstractThis paper presents an intelligent navigation method for navigation of a mobile vehicle in unknown environments. The proposed navigator consists of three modules: Obstacle Avoidor, Environment Evaluator and Navigation Supervisor. The Obstacle Avoidor is a fuzzy controller whose rule base is learnt through reinforcement learning. A new and powerful training method is proposed to constru...

Le Châtelier’s principle and chemical equilibrium are considered two of the most difficult topics for students in high school chemistry, and despite the development of numerous simulations, software solutions have met with limited success. We present two case studies of expert teachers teaching Le Châtelier’s Principle and show how the findings of the case studies have informed the design of a ...