Several techniques have been used to provide hands-on educational experiences to online learners, including remote labs, simulation software, and virtual labs, which offer a more structured environment, including simulations and scheduled asynchronous access to physical resources. This exploratory study investigated how these methods can be used from the learner's perspective to enhance the onl...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been implementing medical assistance programs in Ethiopia since 1994, including the rehabilitation of health structures and the supply of drugs and medical equipment. In 1995, the serious shortage of surgeons in Ethiopia prompted MSF to add a programme to train general practitioners to perform surgery in the Woldya region. The results of the relevant feasibili...

Two laboratory projects—a Doppler radar and a synthetic aperture radar (SAR)—designed to augment traditional electromagnetics education are proposed. The projects introduce students to component and system level design and expose them to modern computer-aided design (CAD) tools, microstrip and surface mount fabrication technologies, and industry standard test equipment and procedures. Additiona...

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

This article describes the educational methodology related to the ‘Software and Protocols Engineering: Software for Medical Equipment’ subject, belonging to the Engineering School of the University of Navarra (TECNUN). The integral design of embedded systems is successfully overcome through the use of techniques from Software Engineering and Systems Engineering, and the novel use of the Rhapsod...

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

This paper presents a two-dimensional multi-robot cooperative localization and mapping dataset collection for research and educational purposes. The dataset consists of nine sub-datasets, which can be used for studying problems such as robot-only cooperative localization, cooperative localization with a known map, and cooperative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The data collection...

The design and implementation of the instructional electric machine laboratory is described in this paper. The objectives of this project are to upgrade 50-year old laboratory equipment and to provide students with hands-on experience on up-to-date electric machines, drives and instruments, as well as to improve their understanding of the theory learned from lectures. Instead of the systems esp...

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

1 Matti Väänänen, HAMK – University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] Abstract HAMK University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with industry and with public funding is developing a new way to improve the know-how in the area of local metal industry. The whole “package” InnoSteel consists of a group of projects which contain support for product development of innovative companies an...