Teaching FPGA security to electrical engineering students is new at graduate level. It requires a wide field of knowledge and a lot of time. This paper describes a compact course on FPGA security that is available to electrical engineering master’s students at the Saint-Etienne Institute of Telecom, University of Lyon, France. It is intended for instructors who wish to design a new course on th...

Reforms in postgraduate medical education (PGME) exposed a gap between educational theory and clinical practice. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were introduced to assist clinicians in bridging this gap and to create better consonance between the intended and the enacted curriculum. In this viewpoint paper, we discuss the potential and the pitfalls of using EPAs in PGME. EPAs promise...

The discussion of a philosophy of engineering and/or engineering education has encouraged the community to try and bring some coherence to the field. This select and annotated bibliography is one resource intended to enhance and continue the conversation. In conjunction with a preparatory review, this bibliography introduces the 2011 FIE special workshop on the subject of exploring the philosop...

This paper describes an Electronics Manufacturing curriculum development project at Penn State. This pilot project is intended to enhance the design and practical experiences of undergraduate engineering students by combining the resources of the Electrical Engineering Department, the Industrial and Manufircturing Engineering Department, and the Center fbr Electronic Design, Communications, and...

The aim of this work was to develop the first north-east based primary dental care outreach (PDCO) course for clinical dental undergraduate students at Newcastle University. The process of course design will be described and involved review of the existing Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree course in relation to previously published learning outcomes. Areas were identified where the existi...

OBJECTIVE Assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability of Planet Health, an interdisciplinary, integrated health education curriculum implemented in six public middle schools. METHODS Workshops on Planet Health implementation were attended by 129 teachers (language arts, math, science, and social studies) over three school years (1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002). Questionna...

This paper presents evidence-based strategies for assisting patients in quitting smoking. Summaries of the effectiveness of advice alone, varying levels of behavioral counseling, nicotine replacement therapies, and bupropion either alone or in combinations are presented. We describe two web-based resources, one that offers guidance to practitioners and another that is intended as a training too...

english is an important language in hong kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the people’s republic of china that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a british colony. this paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the english language curriculum formally proposed for hong kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

Acknowledgements This resource was partially funded by a grant from Education Scotland. We are also grateful for the help and support provided by the following contributors: Some of the images used within this resource have been reproduced under Creative Commons licence. Introduction Implementation of Curriculum for Excellence and the development of new National Qualifications presented a timel...

this paper is part of a qualitative study that has surveyed the content element of curriculum in science education of iran and five other countries from a descriptive and a comparative view. therefore, all the documents about the study topics that were available in iran and the selected countries were gathered, described, interpreted, juxtaposed, and compared. the results showed that in studied...