The course MECH625-simulation-based design in our program was mainly to conduct FEA (Finite Element Analysis) on components and assemblies to provide stress/strain information. Through our program assessment, it was found that students who performed excellently in the previous MECH625 course had some difficulties incorporating FEA simulation correctly and efficiently on their senior design proj...

If we are keen to boost the process of language learning, we need to study every aspect and component of our course. To this end, we carry out an investigation in which every detail of the course is put under microscope. Assessment of a course is an attempt in which different type of information is gathered systematically in order to study the working of a language instruction program. Certainl...

There will be four tutorial tracks on the first day of the 2003 International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design. The tutorials included in these tracks are selected among the most popular topics in today's electronics industry. The IEEE Computer Society TTTC Test Technology Educational Program continues to support ISQED with tutorials on test topics. TTTC will be organizing the tutorial t...

As courses that once regularly met face‐to‐face are increasingly offered in blended or fully online formats, questions have been raised about the comparability of instruction, teacher and student roles, and overall quality of the learning experience. The present study offers a five‐inference interpretive argument (Chapelle, Enright & Jamieson, 2008a; Kane, 2006) that may be used to guide the de...

The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problems (structural system modeling, modular design, evaluation/comparison, revelation of bottlenecks, improvement/upgrade, multistage design, modeling of system evolution); solving methods (optimization, combinatorial optimiz...

Computer-Aided Building Design is a final-year undergraduate course that has been offered for more than 20 years at Concordia University. Naturally, over that period the course has evolved as fast as the technology. It started from a programming course with matrix representation of view transformations to lately, the use of off-the-shelf commercial software packages and the Internet to support ...

Design patterns provide an overall structure for describing best practices. Design patterns originated in the field of architecture and urban design and gained popularity in programming and human-computer interaction. Instructors have recognized the value of design patterns for common course design and instructional issues. Pedagogical patterns specify a problem, provide the context, suggest re...

1 Shouling He, ECE department, Penn State Erie, 5091 Station Road, Erie, PA16563, [email protected] Abstract Nowadays, most engineering related departments offer microprocessor courses due to the broad applications of computers. However, understanding the basic concept of a microprocessor behind the physical device is a difficult task for most primary learners. Under this circumstance, laboratory e...