Publications related to Bachelor of Engineering

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...

EAPRIL - European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning2024

A WAY TO GET STUDENTS TO CONSIDER ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN IOT PROJECTS

Sustainability and ethical topics can be embedded and assessed in existing technical courses within an engineering curriculum. This article describes how we integrated a reflection on the importance of ethical and environmental aspects of connected objects ...

2023

Splitting probabilities and mean first-passage times across multiple thresholds of jump-and-drift transition paths

Paolo Perona, Giulio Calvani

We apply the stochastic-trajectory analysis to derive exact expressions for the mean first passage times of jump-and-drift transition paths across two or more consecutive thresholds. We perform the analysis of the crossing statistics in terms of dimensionl ...

2023

Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years

Simone Deparis, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Himanshu Verma

Background Research shows that active pedagogies could play an important role in achieving more equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Although flipped classes are a popular active met ...

American Society for Engineering Education2022

Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau

This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...

2021

Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

2019

Reinforcing Civil Engineering Curricula With Courses Including Project-Based Software Applications

Gerard Guell Bartrina

Civil engineering (CE) is one of the broadest engineering fields, if not the most, and requires undergraduate students to be exposed to a variety of topics; each can be easily recognized as a major in its own. Establishing a successful curriculum is a majo ...

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT2018

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Alexis Berne, Roland John Tormey, Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Samuel Bendahan, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Delphine Preissmann, Luca Bragazza, Antonin Danalet, Jérome Feige, Adrian Christian Holzer

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...

Tempus Publications2016

Analysis and Computation of Hyperbolic PDEs with Random Data

Fabio Nobile

Hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are mathematical models of wave phenomena, with applications in a wide range of scientific and engineering fields such as electromagnetic radiation, geosciences, fluid and solid mechanics, aeroacoustics, and ...

2015

Water retention behaviour of shales

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Valentina Favero

The involvement of shales in engineering fields such as the extraction of shale gas or the nuclear waste geological disposal is mainly driven by the low permeability and the high retention properties of these geomaterials. The high capillary forces develop ...

2014

Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers

Marc Gruber

Building on the seminal work of Thomas J. Allen, we contribute to the emerging microlevel theory of knowledge recombination by examining how individual-level characteristics of inventors affect the breadth of their technological recombinations. Our data se ...

INFORMS2013

A red/far-red light-responsive bi-stable toggle switch to control gene expression in mammalian cells

Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Martin Ehrbar

Growth and differentiation of multicellular systems is orchestrated by spatially restricted gene expression programs in specialized subpopulations. The targeted manipulation of such processes by synthetic tools with high-spatiotemporal resolution could, th ...

Oxford University Press2013

Deployment of a Pentagonal Hollow-Rope Tensegrity Module

Ian Smith, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, René Motro

Tensegrity structures are spatial reticulated structures composed of cables and struts. Tensegrity systems are good candidates for adaptive and deployable structures and thus have applications in various engineering fields. A “hollow-rope” tensegrity syste ...

2011

Tackling Engineering Education Research Challenges: Web 2.0 Social Software for Personal Learning

Denis Gillet

This paper focuses on Engineering Education Research on Technology Enhanced Learning carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and on its current focus on personal and collaborative learning. After some thoughts on the di ...

Tempus Publications2010

Comparison of velocimeter and coherent LIDAR measurements for building frequency assessment

Clotaire Michel

Over recent years there has been a growing interest in the building frequency analysis for earthquake and structural engineering fields using ambient vibrations. Simultaneously, velocity measurements with LASER remote sensing techniques have gained more in ...

Springer Verlag2010

Reduced Basis Method for Parametrized Differential Algebraic Equations

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede'

Parametrized systems of Differential Algebraic Equations (DAEs) stand at the base of several mathematical models in Microelectronics, Computational Fluid Dynamics and other Engineering fields. Since the dimension of these systems can be huge, high computat ...

2009

A Systematic Two-Layer Approach to Develop Web-based Experimentation Environments for Control Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This paper introduces the systematic approach currently used by the Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Spanish University of Distance Learning (UNED) to develop Web-based laboratories for distance learning of topics with high techn ...

2008

Active : A unified platform for building intelligent web interaction assistants

Charles Baur

Computer systems keep growing in complexity, processing power and web connectivity. To leverage this rich environment and to better assist users, a new type of intelligent assistant software is required. Building intelligent assistants is a difficult task ...

2006