Gamification of physics themes to nurture engineering professional and life skills

Panthalookaran, Varghese

doi:10.1109/educon.2018.8363330

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“…The actual use of gamification processes in physics topics in education of engineering professionals has been described most recently by Panthalookaran [121]. His motivation was that due to the fast pace of technological developments' "paradigm shift in manufacturing in particular and engineering in general anticipates that the future engineers will need to equip themselves both in professional and life skills, so that their career as engineers and technologists are not critically challenged by the modern technology invasion."…”

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confidence: 99%

An Overview of Teaching Physics for Undergraduates in Engineering Environments

2019

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This paper is an overview of approaches to teaching physics courses delivered to students of engineering disciplines. It addresses, first, the history of teaching physics to engineering students starting in the early 20th century, then reviews the main issues presented and discussed over the last decade in a series of conferences on Physics Teaching in Engineering Education (PTEE). Finally, this paper discusses more contemporary views on the subject, including the latest technologies and new methodologies. It is not a critical review of teaching physics to engineering students, but rather a summary of various views and approaches over the span of the entire century. The common denominator of the study is the relevance to the competency-based approach: how the papers focus on teaching engineers the principles of physics in a manner that contributes to success in their professional careers.

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An Overview of Teaching Physics for Undergraduates in Engineering Environments

2019

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“…Soft body refers to an object that can deform its shape significantly in reaction to its context [1] or due to an external force, such as push, pull, tear, or bend forces [2]. Soft body simulation has been used in many fields such as medical applications [3], robotics [4], education [5], and games [6]. The topic is especially relevant for preschool education as young children often have incomplete and inaccurate understanding of "how things work" in the physical world, with only vague expectations about the behavior of real-world objects and materials.…”

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A Soft Body Physics Simulator with Computational Offloading to the Cloud

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We describe the gamification of a soft physics simulator. We developed a game, called Jelly Dude, that allows the player to change and modify the game engine by tinkering with various physics parameters, creating custom game levels and installing scripts. The game engine is capable of simulating soft-body physics and can display the simulation results visually in real-time. In order to ensure high quality graphics in real time, we have implemented intelligent computational offloading to the cloud using Jordan Neural Network (JNN) with a fuzzy logic scheme for short time prediction of network traffic between a client and a cloud server. The experimental results show that computation offloading allowed us to increase the speed of graphics rendering in terms of frames per second, and to improve the precision of soft body modeling in terms of the number of particles used to represent a soft body.

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“…In conditions of modern technical standards (executive functions are delegated to modern computer-aided equipment) specialist is to be ready to adapt to changes easily and to improve communicative competence (Panthalookaran, 2018;Gashkova, Berezovskaya, & Shipunova, 2017). The reason is that in case of existing production facilities and manufacturing base upgrading, small-scale enterprises establishing, the role of an engineer grows more prominent: engineer is not just a technical performer of managerial decisions, he becomes a manager himself (a person having managerial, leadership skills, using material and non-financial methods of staff recognition).…”

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“…In the light of modern tendencies of our human society economic and social development, the aim of higher education in Russia is to train and develop highly-skilled and qualified professionals, feeling competitive on a world labour market, ready for continuous professional growth, bringing the efficient and timely solutions to pending and non-standard issues and tasks under strict time constraints (Kibal'chenko, Eksakusto, & Istratova, 2017;Panthalookaran, 2018). The professionals are to be perfect in special competences (connected with professional activity) as well as in personal and social ones, helping them to adapt to any conditions, to meet the complicity challenges.…”

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“…Special (interactive and communicative) technologies such as project method (Koch et al, 2017;Adams, Simon Vena, & Ruiz-UIloa, 2002), life events game simulation (Panthalookaran, 2018), interactive methods using computer technologies (De Anna et al, 2014) are applied during the educational process taking into account the necessity of soft skills development and nowadays students' peculiarities. First of all these technologies are dynamic, effective (from the point of view of the students being involved into the process of learning) and motivational (generate students-engineers' interests in communicative processes, interaction, uptaking humanitarian subjects information).…”

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