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Volume 4 Number 1 Year 2014

12 articles in this issue 

Stefan Krebs,Sebastian Schmidt,Sven Matthiesen,Sören Hohmann

This paper presents a new mechatronics laboratory for students in the 5th semester of the mechatronics degree course at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It is the aim of this teaching event to sharpen the appreciation of synergy effects in the devel... see more

Pags. pp. 13 - 17  

Márta Erzsébet Czenky

In the teaching of database management the teaching of standardized SQL language cannot be avoided. Until the appearance of e-learning education systems we could only support the learning of SQL language with showing example queries. Using e-learning educ... see more

Pags. pp. 18 - 23  

Bill Williams,José Figueiredo

This study uses the characterization of contrasting modes of knowledge production to follow the activity of a group of engineers who migrated from an academic environment to a successful start-up firm. Qualitative data from interviews of two key members o... see more

Pags. pp. 24 - 31  

Axel Zafoschnig

Abstract â?? IGIP has been the sole provider of an internationally renowned and acknowledged curriculum for engineering education and pedagogy over the past 40 years. More than 2000 engineering educators and technical teachers at different institutional l... see more

Pags. pp. 32 - 36  

Maria Teresa Restivo

The University of Porto (U.Porto) was founded in 1911. Its Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) is the largest school of U.Porto.U.Porto and FEUP are very active in research, development and innovation with about 20% of all scientific papers in Portugal among th... see more

Pags. pp. 37 - 42  

Frank Musekamp,Georg Spöttl,Mostafa Mehrafza,Jörg-Henrik Heine,Moritz Heene

Since the implementation of the Bologna process, the quality of engineering study courses should be measured according to what extent academic courses of education facilitate and support the acquisition of engineering competences. So far it is not possibl... see more

Pags. pp. 4 - 12  

Govind Gopakumar

Despite the recent interest in diversifying engineering education there has been very little analysis regarding the nature of interventions needed to refashion engineering education. This article proposes a preliminary framework referred to here as the Pu... see more

Pags. pp. 43 - 48  

Athanasios Drigas,Alexia Petrova

Over the past decade speech and language therapy has taken an interesting turn towards the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) for diagnosis of disorders and delivery of therapy. In many cases ICTs have worked as assistive tools to thera... see more

Pags. pp. 49 - 54  

Anna Danielewicz-Betz,Tatsuki Kawaguchi

Preparing engineering students for global workplace is a growing need as engineering schools not only recognize the value of university experience, but also discover that many of their students do not demonstrate the right skills and mindsets for global s... see more

Pags. pp. 55 - 68  

Chekry Abderrahman,Oriche Aziz,Khaldi Mohamed

This paper presents a system based on intelligent agents for the semantic annotation of learning resources taking into account the context of training. Semantic annotations systems rarely treat existing semantic annotations in the field of distance educat... see more

Pags. pp. 69 - 72  

Yulia Šurinová,Martina Jakábová

Trying to develop the new sophisticated methods of teaching teachers sometimes forget to use the basic and the first principle of quality management, which is customer orientation. The study proposes the way how to involve students to education improvemen... see more

Pags. pp. 73 - 77