Computational Programming as a Tool in the Teaching of Electromagnetism in Engineering Courses: Improving the Notion of Field

Nogueira, João Robert; Alves, Ricardo; Marques, Pedro Rocha

doi:10.3390/educsci9010064

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 8 publications

(11 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This allowed the avoidance of the risk of exposing pilots to flying a real plane without proper training, thus preventing accidents [35]. Since then, computer animation has been developed for entertainment, training simulators, creating objects non-existent in reality, cartography, industrial and architectural design, teaching and educational purposes [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

Section: Computer Animationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, using project-and product-based educational strategies would allow engineering students to attain the know-how crucial for their professional practice and reach their goals of selfbeing and social development, representing the broader objectives of education [22,69], highlighting the need for engineers' education to develop interactions, diversity and information searching skills [8]. Additionally, project-and product-based learning have been involved in the current discussion on how to fulfill industry needs and satisfy the requirements of knowledge of engineering fundamentals [22,39,57,63].…”

Section: Project-based Learning and Online Education Through Computer...mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Computer Animation Education Online: A Tool to Teach Control Systems Engineering throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patete

Márquez

2022

Education Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The world is changing, and university education must be able to adapt to it. New technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics are requiring tools such as simulation and process control to develop products and services. Thus, control systems engineering schools are adapting to new educational frameworks tailored to deploy promising and feasible new technologies. Herein, we have relied on computer animation-based education and its implementation as an online project-based strategy to attain the objectives and goals of the control systems engineering courses at University of Los Andes, Venezuela. The ControlAnimation library developed in Mathematica program in 2002 has been used as a tool to teach control systems engineering courses since 2008 and with greater prominence since 2020, when the stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic were enacted. Consequently, computer animation-based education has proven its feasibility as an online tool combined with project-based learning techniques, thus allowing students to interact with an animated control system by changing the mathematical model and the design parameters of control laws in a comfortable and somewhat playful way. This enabled new capabilities to study the dynamic behaviors of primordial control systems online. In addition, it allowed students to co-identify and relate in a more intuitive way to the mathematical models and control equations with the physical behavior of the real control systems.

show abstract

Section: Computer Animationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Project-based Learning and Online Education Through Computer...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer Animation Education Online: A Tool to Teach Control Systems Engineering throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patete

Márquez

2022

Education Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Practices carried out in classroom through these methodologies can be enhanced with different technological applications, resulting in a pedagogical approach known as blended learning [21]. Thus, SBETs are a suitable resource to overcome the challenges and difficulties of the learning process [19,22].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation-Based Education Tool for Understanding Thermostatically Controlled Loads

Gomez-Ruiz,

Sanchez-Herrera,

Andujar

et al. 2024

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Thermostatically controlled loads have great potential to make a significant contribution to improving energy efficiency in the building sector, which is responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. This, in addition to the environmental damage, represents a huge expense in terms of the electricity bill. Therefore, it is very important to train engineers on how to design energy management systems for TCLs. With this goal in mind, it would be very useful to have a simulation-based educational tool (SBET) to understand thermostatically controlled loads, their characteristics, and the possibilities in terms of energy efficiency. In addition, it would be very useful if this tool could be introduced in engineering curricula to help students become better trained and enter the labor market with more opportunities. Based on the shortcomings detected, this work develops an SBET specifically designed to teach on the subject of TCLs (SBET-TCLs), both about their intrinsic characteristics and their better management. To verify the developed SBET-TCLs, it was tested in a real scenario: a survey was carried out among the students of the subject ‘Alternative Energy Sources’ in the degrees of Industrial Engineering. The results show that the use of an SBET-TCLs has very positive effects on the learning process.

show abstract

“…Practices carried out in classroom through these methodologies can be enhanced with different technological applications, resulting in a pedagogical approach known as blended learning [20]. Thus, SBETs are a suitable resource to overcome the challenges and difficulties of the learning process [18,21].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation-Based Education Tool for Thermostatically Controlled Loads Understand

Gomez-Ruiz,

Sanchez-Herrera,

Andujar

et al. 2023

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Thermostatically controlled loads have great potential to make a significant contribution to improving energy efficiency in the building sector, which is responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. This, in addition to the environmental damage, represents a huge expense in the electricity bill. Therefore, it is very important to train engineers on how to design energy management systems for TCLs. With this goal in mind, it would be very useful to have a simulation-based educational tool (SBET) to understand thermostatically controlled loads, their characteristics and possibilities in energy efficiency. In addition, it would be very useful if this tool could be introduced in engineering curricula to help students to be better trained and enter the labor market with more opportunities. Based on the shortcomings detected, this work develops a SBET specifically designed to teach about TCLs (SBET-TCLs), both about their intrinsic characteristics and their better management. To verify the developed SBET-TCL, it has been tested in a real scenario: A survey was carried out among the students of the subject 'Alternative Energy Sources' of the degrees of Industrial Engineering. The results show that the use of SBET-TCL has very positive effects on the learning process.

show abstract

Computational Programming as a Tool in the Teaching of Electromagnetism in Engineering Courses: Improving the Notion of Field

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Computer Animation Education Online: A Tool to Teach Control Systems Engineering throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Computer Animation Education Online: A Tool to Teach Control Systems Engineering throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Simulation-Based Education Tool for Understanding Thermostatically Controlled Loads

Simulation-Based Education Tool for Thermostatically Controlled Loads Understand

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About