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This paper describes a study related to the learning of decision-making heuristics such as preference matrix, break-even point and decision tree from the perspective of using a computational tool. With their respective algorithms, a virtual learning environment through a mobile application (app) aimed at Engineering students was developed. To answer the research questions posed in this report, an empirical study was conducted to assess the effectiveness, efficiency and cost in solving decision-making problems with and without the use of the app. The results in this study suggest that the use of the app in learning decision-making skills facilitates the mathematical process for students, and that by using critical thinking competence, they can make assertive and accurate decisions considering different alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at introducing the Kalman's filter to science and engineering undergraduate students by means of a simple experiment. It consists in the free fall of an umbrella equipped with a mobile phone from a height of a few-meters. Using the data provided by the accelerometer embedded in the phone, it is shown that the use of the Kalman filter allows determining the terminal velocity without the need of performing multiple repetitions of the experiment. Three methods for finding the covariance matrix of the control vector are tested, and their results are compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between leadership and performance in teams of higher education students. For this, first, we conceptualize leadership as an influence process between team members and, second, we model this team process using social network analysis. To study the proposed relationship between leadership and performance, we conducted a study at 164 students of 41 teams of industrial engineering students of two universities in Chile. We analyzed our data using linear regression analysis, and our results showed that leadership network density is positively related to performance, and leadership network centrality is negatively related to performance. These results help teachers, and higher education institutions have a reliable statistical tool to track student leadership development throughout the curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Today's work world demands a set of competencies that are key and highly valued, among them, digital skills. Within this framework, the paper presents data about the digital skills of current students. A total of 454 students from different university degrees (engineering, economics and humanities) and from a secondary school participated in the research. They responded to a questionnaire on ICT uses and self-perceptions of their digital competencies for the performance of activities that require the use of technology. The results show different levels of mastery (high, medium and low) with respect to 18 activities consulted. In the same way, 10 of the 18 activities showed differences when groups where compared. Engineering students generally reported greater mastery. Discussion revolves around highlighting the importance of generating, from academic contexts, opportunities for the development of different digital skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with how student engineers at a Colombian private university assess their professors. They described their ideas of a "perfect" professor, and identified major challenges to be faced by the academic personnel. The study was conducted by taking into account major variables of assessing professors: performance, commitment, mastery, methodology, evaluation, and interpersonal relationships. For its design, engineering subjects were grouped over the last three years, and a survey was made by the use of a questionnaire. Binary logistic regression was used to predict whether or not professors were of the standard set up and established by the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To create methodologies for undergraduate students to carry out scientific research is essential for these to design, write, and present articles, reports, and monographs. This paper is aimed at presenting a practical and methodological guide to help Ecuadorian engineering students carry out their research. A mixed research was done in two stages: first, the guide was structured and elaborated; and second, it was used by students majoring in four engineering branches at three universities, and the results obtained were assessed. The guide itself has ten stages, including continuous feedback which facilitates the monitoring of students' scientific output even since they are freshmen. A sample of 641 students majoring in two engineering branches was surveyed over five semesters. They wrote 94 scientific articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents experiences for the development of Arduino projects of Computing Engineering students of the Viña del Mar University in Chile in a module (course) of their formative process. The computing and electronic areas usually consider different formative courses without presenting a clear hegemony in the teaching process. There exists low development of competences to produce solutions combining hardware and software for the signal processing, barriers that Arduino permits reducing in a high degree. This article highlights that in just six weeks, the students of Computing Engineering of the Viña del Mar University were able to develop competences for the use of Arduino to implement prototype systems for the acquisition of environmental variables. This is just a proof that electronics and computing are more accessible for everybody nowadays, with low barriers of cost and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this work we present the findings obtained at one stage of a research study carried out as a postdoctoral scholarship granted by CONICET. The main objective of our work is to assess the potentiality of institutional projects designed to promote student permanence in the first years of engineering careers at Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. This paper is about the study of one institutional project, which is a tutorship project. Favorable institutional contexts as well as features and conditions of these projects are identified. These projects, from the perspective of the people involved in the initiatives of changes, contribute to the permanence of students in engineering careers. The units of observation are the participants of the team coordinating the above-mentioned institutional project. As strategies for data collection, we conducted semi-structured interviews and we analyzed documents. We therefore present findings related to the following points: strengths, achievements and constructed learning, difficulties, institutional conditions that allow the project to achieve its aims, adjustments or changes made, features or conditions of the project that lead to students’ permanence at university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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the current paper is based on the study of typologies of problems on Chemistry used in the teaching-learning process of engineering majors at Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana. Its purpose is to propose a new typology of problems on Chemistry as a discipline, that may favor the elaboration of qualitative, quantitative and experimental problems that can be more interesting, varied and updated. This typology is meant to fulfill the requirements set for Syllabus E in the Engineering majors. The methods applied for this research were source analysis and criticism, the systemic-structural-functional method and modelling. Other methods used were observation, experimentation and experts' criteria. The opinion shed by professors in the implementation of this research was favorable. Better academic results were achieved during the last three school years in Civil Engineering and Automatics majors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessment is a key element of the teaching-learning process as it allows monitoring of student's progress. New regulations emanating from the Colombian Ministry of Education look for the promotion of formative, integral and qualitative assessment practices targeting the development of student's abilities rather than mere acquisition of course content. Meeting these new goals requires innovative strategies to motivate students while reducing the stress generated by assessment activities. This paper describes the results of the introduction of a videogame /computer's game as an evaluative activity in a course of the System Engineering undergraduate program at Universidad de Medellin. These results reveal that the incorporation of computer's games in assessment activities encourages teamwork and promote greater students' involvement in the learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the changes in the professional model as a starting point for curricular design of the teaching process of the hydraulic engineer in Cuba. The importance of its elaboration is highlighted, taking into account the demands of the society and the scientific-technological development achieved, which have an impact on the modes and spheres of action. Its peculiarities are analyzed as a function of four stages, which allowed identifying the qualitative leaps and the definition of its components, as well as their relationships; the cut criterion were the essential transformations that gave origin to a new curricula for the formation of this professional. Therefore the objective is to unveil the particularities in the evolution of the professional model for the teaching process of the hydraulic engineer in Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Spatial visualization and sketching are essential skills for engineers and architects during their training and career. However, successive curricula, in particular those resulting from the European Higher Education Area, have caused a marked decline in spatial skills of students pursuing technical degrees. This paper describes the methodology introduced during the academic year 2012/2013 in several technical degrees at the University of Granada (Spain), designed to enhance the spatial and sketching skills of students by means of a series of complementary activities in Graphic Expression courses. The standardized tests administered to students at the beginning and at the end of the course revealed a major improvement in those who participated in these activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivation is one of the key issues for the academic performance of university students, especially in engineering programs where their degree of difficulty leads to a low sense of self-efficacy and high rates of absenteeism and dropout in students. Since some time ago psychology has widely addressed the construct of motivation, and in recent decades psychopedagogic instruments, such as the MSLQ or the MAPE-3, have been designed in order to contribute to the motivation of university students. This paper presents a selection of theories, mainly framed on the understanding of the motivation processes and the identification of indicators that are useful to influence and evaluate the motivation of university engineering students. Based on these indicators, an instrument to diagnose students' motivation of Spanish Engineering Universities has been defined. This instrument has been used in an empirical and descriptiveexploratory study, with 92 students of the University Politécnica of Madrid. In this study theories and indicators to observe and stimulate motivation were identified. Besides, its adequacy to the target population has been evaluated, the developed instrument has been validated, issues of interest to the motivation of engineering students have been explored and particular features of motivation of these students of different Degrees and years have been identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes trends detected in first year engineering students' attitudes towards the use of technology in teaching and learning mathematics through opinions gathered in a survey about attitudes designed for this purpose. We describe the process followed to establish categories for the attitudes towards the use of technology evidenced by the students in their answers. The results indicate a trend of positive attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper outlines the principles of simulation and gaming methodology and describes the teaching strategy of telematic simulation used with Spanish engineering students in a course of English as a foreign language at advanced level. Telematic simulation creates an environment that allows multidisciplinary groups of students from all over the world to interact; their language of communication is English, with which they discuss, negotiate and reach agreements on topics of current interest which are posed in the scenario. The effectiveness of the methodology in a specific context was demonstrated in a quasi-experimental study in which the improvements in reading comprehension, listening comprehension, grammar and writing were measured. The results of the study provide the evidence to affirm that this approach to teaching and learning can guarantee significant learning of English at advanced level. The methodology encourages the experiential learning of the language and, at the same time, entails the added value of the acquisition of professional competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new Hydraulic Engineering Curriculum started in the academic year 2007 - 2008. As innovative aspects can be mentioned: the Hydrographic Basin - the knowledge invariant for the whole career -, the Integrated Principal Discipline and the Career Professional Project. Other important characteristics of the Curriculum are: a wider basic formation, the conception of the Curriculum as composed by three parts: basic (compulsory), proper and optional- elective, a wide and generalized use of informatics and ICT, etc. This paper focuses on the Integrated Principal Discipline, its main role in the process of professional formation through: the subject Introduction to Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, six Integrator Projects, Labor Practices and the Diploma Thesis as the final exercise of the whole career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper are exposed the didactic actions that were implemented in order to improve the way in which students carry out laboratory practices of Electromagnetism. For this experimental study were selected different physical processes of the great concern for Computer Engineers in formation. To support the preparation, performance, and valuation of the results in the laboratory practices a website was created with simulations that approach to the content of the real experiment to carry out, and which symbols agree favorably with the learning styles of the same ones. This study was developed during the academic period 2007-2010. The progress reached by the learners was verified concerning the tools and accessories selection, oral explanation of the theoretical referents, operation performance time spent, technological tool employment, and the communication of aftermath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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