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This is an overview of the IQSI Mini-track within the special track on Software Engineering Education and Training. The IQSI mini-track includes 7 accepted papers on a diverse set of topics, including industry studies, cybersecurity, social issues including remote teaching during Covid and gender, and other topics related to quality. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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To stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, educational institutions abruptly switched from in-person to online, remote mode of teaching without giving educators the necessary tools and training. In this paper, we focus on the Software Engineering Education & Training (SEET) courses at the university levels and address questions like: What tools and techniques did they adapt to handle the modality transition challenges? What lessons they learned and what would they do differently the next time? What are the students' perspective on these, etc.? We interviewed 16 SEET educators from different countries around the world;followed by surveys of more than 300 educator and student participants. Our empirical study found some common themes of challenges, as well as suggestions on tools and techniques to overcome them. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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Our world has been permanently changed by the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 starts around the end of 2019. In the first few months of 2020, the whole world was in urgent need of an effective, easy, and quick method for the identification of the infection of the new virus. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, which can test DNA samples by rapidly making millions of copies of a specific DNA sample through the PCR process, including the COVID-19 virus, can perfectly fit this demand. In this study, a design project on PCR is introduced for undergraduate education in electrical and mechanical engineering. The objective of this project is to develop a low-cost, ease-of-use, wallet-size, portable real-time PCR (RT-PCR) machine for accurate testing of various bacteria or viruses. The key function of the PT-PCR system is to precisely control and maintain the temperature of the bio-sample solution within a range between 55℃ and 95℃. The RT-PCR system is centrally controlled by a microcontroller Raspberry Pi 3. It receives temperature measurements from thermistors and operates the heating lid, the thermoelectric module, and the cooling fan to regulate the temperatures required in repetitive thermal cycles. This project provides students opportunities in studying and practicing a wide range of engineering technics and skills, including mechanical design, electronics design, microcomputer programming, system control, power electronics, sensors and actuators, data acquisition and processing, cellphone app development. Students can gain comprehensive understanding of the design of multiphysics system after they overcome various challenges emerging in the project. From the view of engineering education, the process of this project development has demonstrated the importance and benefits of adopting complex interdisciplinary engineering problems for student teams to solve, especially those involve contemporary issues. Copyright 2022. © by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. All rights reserved.
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The idea of this project is to produce a working paper on how an online training program for a future service engineer could look like. Students of engineering study programs as well as employees with relevant job roles are seen as a future target. The training program will focus on all relevant aspects such as Smart Services, Life Cycle Management, Innovation Management as well as Marketing and Sales Management. Besides an ongoing digitization of nearly all aspects of the business environment, sustainability management will be included as well. The aim is to train a new kind of solution seller. The Covid-19 pandemic showed that online training methods are needed more than ever. The idea is to offer an online or a hybrid online-onsite training program. In order to produce the training, funding is needed. Either a national or international funding opportunity should be acquired. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The paper gives examples on the importance of mastery learning, that is learning a profession to its perfection and even extending it to excellence, in engineering education and in engineering training, such as the CO-OPs, especially during the undergraduate years. In order to achieve it, only academic counselling is not enough;it needs a more intimate 'mentoring' for both incoming Freshmen and outgoing Senior undergraduates. During the present crisis of COVID-19 and in the post-COVID-19 scenario thereafter in engineering education, when online instructions are rapidly replacing in-presence lectures at the undergraduate level, mastery learning is even more important in order to avoid professional limitations, and in the long run of lifelong learning, professional obsolescence. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021