Teaching Engineering Accountability through Physical Prototyping

d.tools: Visually Prototyping Physical UIs through Statecharts

Figure 1: Components of Physical User Interfaces ABSTRACT Processor enabled products, each with its own user interface, have pervaded everyday life. To facilitate interaction design exploration for novel devices, we have developed d.tools, a design tool for prototyping the bits and the atoms of physical user interfaces in concert. It enables designers without specialized engineering or programm...

Teaching Software Engineering through Robotics

This paper presents a newly-developed robotics programming course and reports the initial results of software engineering education in robotics context. Robotics programming, as a multidisciplinary course, puts equal emphasis on software engineering and robotics. It teaches students proper software engineering – in particular, modularity and documentation – by having them implement four core ro...

Optical Communications on Physical Engineering Teaching

In the last few years various techniques have been suggested to improve the performance of high capacity optical communication systems. In particular, the generation of optical solitons, the resolution of the limitations imposed by the chromatic dispersion and the performance of WDM systems and networks have been thoroughly discussed and investigated. In this paper it will be summarised some of...

Teaching Software Engineering through the Net

The introduction of technology in education seems promising; this is especially so for the new technologies of computer networks and hypermedia systems. However, only through experimentation the effectiveness of these technologies can be demonstrated. There is an ongoing project for this purpose, entitled EONT, partially funded by the European Union within the framework of the Socrates program....

Rapid Prototyping in Biomedical Engineering