Publications by Marc Laperrouza

Curriculum Development and Emerging Curriculum Models in Engineering

The past decade or two have seen a renewed emphasis on curriculum design and the advent of a new set of approaches to help ensure the development of a programme structure which supports student progression. In this workshop, members of the Curriculum Devel ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Analyse de l'utilisation d'un outil de visualisation dans une situation d'entretien-conseil pédagogique dans l'enseignement supérieur

Marc Laperrouza

Un nombre croissant d’études s’intéressent à la manière dont les enseignant·es universitaires approchent la conception de leur enseignement. En parallèle, de nombreuses recherches portent sur les activités, les rôles (et les postures) des personnes impliqu ...

2024

Exploring journeys from sustainable design to design for sustainability

Marc Laperrouza

During the past two decades, educating students about sustainability issues has been a concern when designing engineering schools' curricula. One could think that nowadays students are trained to take into account the multiple dimensions of sustainability ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Course Design - A Visual and Modular Approach

Marc Laperrouza

This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart ...

EPFL Press2024

The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education

Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey

Professional skills of project planning, risk analysis, ethical design, communication, and working in interprofessional teams are now recognised as core engineering skills. Frequently, they are addressed in engineering education through team projects. Howe ...

2023

Design pédagogique

Marc Laperrouza

Conçu pour les enseignant-es qui, intervenant dans l’enseignement supérieur ou dans la formation d’adultes, souhaitent élaborer de nouveaux enseignements ou en revisiter d’anciens, cet ouvrage propose une approche pratique, visuelle et modulaire fondée sur ...

EPFL Press2023

Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences

Marc Laperrouza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Eric Hoesli, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin

Short-term field study experiences are increasingly popular in engineering education. Where they include an international dimension, they can also develop skills and knowledge needed for working across cultures and in interdisciplinary teams. Such programs ...

INFONIA2020

Visualizing constructive alignment in the process of course design

Marc Laperrouza

Course design in higher education is often approached in a very linear and text-based manner. The paper presents a visual tool in the form of a canvas aimed at accompanying teachers in the design of courses. The canvas can be used in an individual or co-te ...

UNIV POLITECNICA VALENCIA2019

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Marc Laperrouza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Eric Hoesli, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

2019

Assessing transversal skills in an interdisciplinary programme

Marc Laperrouza

SEFI2018

Active Interdisciplinary Learning in a Design Thinking Course: Going to Class for a Reason

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Adrian Christian Holzer

New technologies such as MOOCs make it crucial for universities to find the added value of bringing students to campus. Designing lectures that foster more interactions could address this issue, as student engagement and interaction are harder to replicate ...

IEEE2018

Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

2018

Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space

Pierre Dillenbourg, Marc Laperrouza, Khalil Mrini

We build a conversational agent which knowledge base is an online forum for parents of autistic children. We collect about 35,000 threads totalling some 600,000 replies, and label 1% of them for usefulness using Amazon Mechanical Turk. We train a Random Fo ...

2018

Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing

Marc Laperrouza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Monique Stéphanie Bolli, Clément Luc Guillaume Renaud

This introductory paper questions how urban places emerging from the maker movement are re-assembling spatial settings in cities, with the example of the Shenzhen/Hong-Kong area. We discuss how the growing importance of assemblage in manufacturing processe ...

2017

Competition effects in a liberalzed railway market

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza

2011

Performance and Coherence in Network Industries

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand, Marc Laperrouza, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the interplay of technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. While the performance of the net ...

2010