Learning Engineering with EPS@ISEP: Developing Projects for Smart Sustainable Cities

Malheiro, Benedita; Silva, Manuel F.; Ferreira, Paulo; Guedes, Pedro

doi:10.3991/ijep.v9i4.10259

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“…Students who learn through PBL develop better self-learning competencies, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and multidisciplinary work. Moreover, they experience increased motivation compared with students who have access to learning only through teaching-centered models [37,38]. Students are likely to have fewer theoretical problems because they are more involved in class development [39], and therefore, they get higher scores than students learning through teaching-centered models [40].…”

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Applying Project-Based Learning (PBL) for Teaching Virtual Design Construction (VDC)

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Learning-centered models, which rely on active methodologies such as Project-Based Learning (PBL), should be adopted in undergraduate programs to potentiate the development of collaboration skills within future industry professionals like civil engineers. Thus, this study reports the implementation of PBL in two successive Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) courses from an undergraduate civil engineering program: 1) VDC I, in which the VDC methodology implementation was applied theoretically in an already-built project, and 2) VDC II, in which the VDC methodology implementation was applied in a currently-under-construction project. The study's objective is to identify students' perceptions of PBL influence on their learning experience, degree of acquisition of generic competencies, and project development under the VDC methodology. To assess the PBL and VDC implementation, a survey was applied to measure students' perceptions of the three mentioned variables. Results show an increase in their perceptions about the benefits of implementing VDC and PBL for the generic competencies acquisition process by more than a third, compared to other studies which implemented Building Information Modelling (BIM) with PBL. This is due to the theoretical background of the VDC methodology in terms of collaboration, processes, and tools. Besides, VDC II students' perceptions of the generic competencies' development process, degree of learning, and project development improved by 6.13%, 7.15%, and 3.44%, respectively, compared to VDC I students' perceptions, which is owed to the natural interaction between students and stakeholders of the projects adopted.

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Section: Project-based Learningmentioning

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Applying Project-Based Learning (PBL) for Teaching Virtual Design Construction (VDC)

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“…There are some other studies conducting on the smart billboards that serve other purposes. For example, a smart billboard is designed for monitoring urban areas and displaying real-time information related with the air quality [14]. An innovative digital billboard counts the number of people that are watching their advertisements [15].…”

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A New Tool for Personalized Advertising in Shopping Malls: A Smart Billboard System

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Along with the differences in customer preferences, a strong competition has emerged among the companies. Marketing managers have begun to design their marketing plans according to the target markets' needs and expectations. At this point, value-oriented marketing activities have become even more important. Personalized marketing is one of the most effective way of creating value to consumers. It is one of the best ways to establish relationships with target markets. Personalized marketing aims at delivering individualized messages to customers. By this means, personalized marketing activities attract more consumer attention relatively. It is a fact that it can also have positive impacts on the sales of the business. In this paper, a conceptual framework on personalized advertising is proposed. In this context, a hypothetical smart billboard system is designed at a shopping mall's entrance. The camera mounted system detects the car license plates via an image segmentation-based approach, which is composed of color space conversion, noise removal, edge analysis, geometric correction and connected component analysis. For license plate recognition, a 3-step image processing method, which comprises morphological dilation, character cropping and template matching is applied. A database is associating the detected license plates with the customers. When any match is found, the screen shows relevant advertisement to the customer. The study's major contribution is to propose a smart billboard system for shopping malls that presents personalized advertisements to customers based on their previous shopping experiences.

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“…This situation causes students not to see the actual case related to engineering. Apart from gaining practical experience and new knowledge while undergoing industrial training, the students also could practice the knowledge they have learned in class [10], [20].…”

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Evaluation of Programme Outcomes Under the Psychomotor and Affective Domain for Diploma Civil Engineering Students Through Industrial Training: A Statistical Study from Employers' Perspective in Malaysia

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The psychomotor and affective are important domains in Programme Out-comes (PO) and are used to assess the achievement of learning objectives. The psychomotor domain refers to performing motor activities accurately, smoothly, and quickly. The affective components are those personality and behavioural characteristics which focuses on feelings, emotions, and attitudes. Through industrial training, students are exposed to engineering practices, the real civil engineering environments and the ethical and communication skill required. This paper identified the employer's perspective on the students’ attainment for psychomotor and affective domains while undergoing industrial training. There were 272 students are involved in this study that undergoing the Industrial Training in session II 2019/2020. The portion of marks from the industry evaluation for the psychomotor domain is 40% and for the af-fective domain is 10%. The marks were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis to measure student’s performance. The Pearson correlation (r) was used to identify the relationship between each POs with related domain and the t-test analysis was completed to evaluate any significant difference be-tween the performance evaluation of male and female students. The result shows that most of the students were excellent in the psychomotor and affective domain. The r-value for each POs shows a moderately positive correlation. Therefore, the outcomes of this study can provide input to the faculty to improve the important elements of the psychomotor and affective domain to produce good quality of future civil engineering technical personnel.

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Learning Engineering with EPS@ISEP: Developing Projects for Smart Sustainable Cities

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Applying Project-Based Learning (PBL) for Teaching Virtual Design Construction (VDC)

Applying Project-Based Learning (PBL) for Teaching Virtual Design Construction (VDC)

A New Tool for Personalized Advertising in Shopping Malls: A Smart Billboard System

Evaluation of Programme Outcomes Under the Psychomotor and Affective Domain for Diploma Civil Engineering Students Through Industrial Training: A Statistical Study from Employers' Perspective in Malaysia

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