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Paper AAA001 - Shrinivas D Desai
Image Reconstruction From Its Projections
An application to MRI & CT Scanners.
A special image restoration problem is image reconstruction from projections a problem of immense importance in medical imaging and nondestructive testing of objects. This is a problem where a two dimensional (or higher) object is reconstructed from several one - dimensional projections. Reconstruction algorithms derive an image of a thin axial slice of the object, giving an inside view otherwise unobtainable without performing extensive surgery. Such techniques are important in medical imaging (C T scanners), astronomy, radar imaging, geographical exploration, and nondestructive testing of assemblies. In this dissertation work Simple Backprojection algorithm for Image reconstruction from its projections is implemented.
Paper AAA002 - Engy Mohamed Samir Foda
How to be your students' friend?
Engineering education is not only teaching basic science, it further relies on training some personal and technical skills with modifying the students' way of thinking in a more logical way to achieve the creativity at the end. The main goal is to model a creative ethical engineer. One important aspect in engineering education, is exchanging the experiences, thus the better the communication between the teacher and his students, the better their performance in acquiring all this. The teacher can play a dual role as a friend and teacher at the same time in his students' lives. This can be done after passing 3 stages: technically, personally, and ethically. In this paper, some procedures and tips are proposed for every stage.
Paper AAA003 - Milenko Adamovic
(WINNER of the "TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS" paper contest)
Reform of education system on Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka
One of most important activities on Faculty of Electrical Eng. in Banja Luka is reform of education system. This paper represents case study of all activities that have a goal to solve problems that were existing in the past. First will be discussed all the problems in old education system and in old curriculum. It will show necessary of reform. After that, new system will be described and it will be compared with specifications in Bologna declaration. Education system is just a first step towards good and quality faculty. That's why it is very important to analyze quality aspects of education activity. Beside that, methods of using new technologies (e.g. distance learning, e-learning), that can solve problems with teaching stuff on small faculties, are explained.
Paper AAA004 - Dragan Savic
Web based studying at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana
This paper introduces University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Laboratory for Telecommunications whose student collaborators are active members of EESTEC and IEEE Si Student Branch. One of the major advantages of study in the field of Telecommunications at Faculty of Electrical Engineering students have found is the Web based learning system, which effectively enables them to gain and expand their knowledge. This paper describes an alternative way of studying employed at our faculty and points-out three major components of web based learning systems. E-learning system (E-CHO) as the main platform of our web based educational system enables studying the content of a certain topic interactively by means of presentations, which are powered by the use of multimedia. The second part of web based learning system involves the usage of mathematical tools for education purposes whose aim is to help students overcoming difficulties with understanding and imagining different electro technical, physical or other phenomenons. Nevertheless a great idea, which has seen the light in the Laboratory for Telecommunications, is the ability of sharing and storing multimedia/video content by means of use of a special platform SiTV.
Paper AAA005 - Jure Forstneric
Engineering Education in Slovenia
A look at student and professor relationships
In my paper, Engineering Education in Slovenia, I take a look at the situation in Slovenia concerning the relationships between students and professors in engineering. It is very importaint to understand where engineering stands in Slovenia today. Among young people, it is mostly unheard-of, instead fields such as economics, law and social studies are very popular. Many students who do actually decide to study something like electrical engineering do so because their grades in high school are not good enough for something like law.
Grade school almost ignores anything that looks like engineering, whether it be mechanical, electrical, computer... High school is not much better. The only thing that comes close is physics, which most high-schoolers don't like, since they do not see where in life they will actually use what they learn.
In my paper, I go on to explain how this affects the relationship between students and professors. Obviously, a professor of something like economics does not care how much their students understand, after all, there are so many students that the better ones will graduate in any case. In engineering, the professors try very hard to help their students, to encourage them to try their best. The students thus have a great respect towards their professors. The faculty for electrical engineering is very student-friendly, and the relationships between students and professors are probably the best among the entire University of Ljubljana.
Paper AAA006 - Deni Hajdarpasic
Importance of the Reforms in Engineering Education
The education of engineers according to the Bologna Model is an historic chance, for all European countries to create unitary European Higher Education Area and unitary European Research Area. University of Novi Sad, along with the rest of the universities in Serbia, faced the challenge of the reforms, corresponding to European standards.
The first ones who faced the changes were students and their professors from Faculty of Technical Sciences, department of Computer Science and Automation.
This work presents a brief view of what has been done so far, steps that has been moved toward improvement of studying at department of Computer Science and Automation and toward becoming a member of a family of the European universities.
Paper AAA007 - Bogdan Cristian Vigaru & Andi Dan
E-Learning: A New Challenge for Engineering Education and not only
Information and communications technology (ICT) is changing the ways in which knowledge is being collected, processed, stored, presented and transmitted. Moreover, it is changing the ways in which course contents are presented and delivered to users. Technology today is opening new horizons for expanding the learning process. With recent advances in conferencing, network technologies, and visualization technologies we now stand at the brink of a new frontier for advancing the human learning process.
In the 21st century, the face of the college student is changing in most of the countries all around the world. No longer are the majority of the students fresh from high school and living on campus. There are more students commuting, more students combining work and study in creative part-time/full-time arrangements in order to upgrade their workplace skills. Colleges and universities are now experimenting with alternative educational delivery systems: correspondence study, audio and video or internet-based asynchronous learning. They are experimenting with the promise of e-learning.
Paper AAA008 - Svetlana Ristic & Milena Krstic
Learning System In Serbia
We have decided to write a paper for the theme Traditional systems because that is the way of learning in our country, but we hope that we'll hear on this Technical conference something interesting and find out how the people all around the Europe are learning and working, maybe one day, it never knows, we can inform students and teachers on our faculty and help them with organization of whole education and school system. As far as we are concerned, web learning is not so popular. We are only using some sites for some parts for exams and to see plan for lessons.
Paper AAA009 - Andrea Katic & Olivera Cordarov
The Need For Management Courses In Electrical Engineering Education
The great political changes and economy transition of Eastern-Europe countries, development of market economy and integration with European Community require the modernization of high-education, especially in engineering area. Traditional power industry is liberalizing, restructuring and privatizing, introducing more management skills in business and profit as the very important objective. Therefore, the management aspect, curriculum efficiency and international compatibility in engineering education become imperative.
The traditional curriculum of high-education in electrical power engineering at the University of Novi Sad comprises 5 years studies, without any course on management problems. The new pilot program curriculum has been proposed in electrical power engineering with the new Power Engineering Management major. This program is shorter (4 years), with compulsory and elected courses in power engineering and management, including credits (ECTS) for establishing international cooperation. In this way, studies should be more flexible and attractive for students. The similar ideas are emphasized by many Universities in Balkan area during recent power conferences.
Paper AAA010 - Tijana Momirov & Svetlana Kecojevic
Engineering Education - Outline of traditional system in Serbia & Montenegro
In addition to the undoubted significance of a thoughtfully designed and implemented education system, the issue of engineering education in specific is particularly essential for today's society. The reason is twofold; engineering being vital for economic and every other prosperity of a country, and innovations within the field occur rapidly, which leads to the necessity of having experts who remain up to date with new developments. That demand can only be met with well-organized engineering education system and possibility of the constant flow of knowledge, experiences and ideas. This essay deals with the case of Serbia and Montenegro, and Europe as a whole, emphasising the most important facts and showing that two processes should be considered together.
Lately, the issue of changes in SCG HE towards the Bologna Process, is being brought up at all events, meetings and conferences which include HE as a topic. This is mainly because young experts, in spite of impressive knowledge, are not in position to be recognized out of SCG, for the purpose of personal professional development or taking the next step in their career and starting working abroad. There is a large interest within the student population to meet these changes as soon as possible.
Paper AAA011 - Caslav Bozic
Learning to Design a Computer
The objective of this paper and the presentation is to guide the audience through the process of teaching hardware related subjects on Department of Computer Engineering on Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Belgrade.
The overview of curriculum is given at the beginning, stating that one half of all classes are computer related and about one third of these are hardware related.
The educational software specially developed for teaching in subjects: "Introduction to Computer Engineering", "Computer Architecture" and "Computer Architecture and Organization" is presented in addition. Interesting is option of self-testing over the Internet before taking a test in the laboratory.
The next step in education is designing a microcomputer system and designing a VLSI device using commercial software ("Protel", "VHDL").
For conclusion some personal experiences from real-life project carried out for international CSIDC competition are presented, considering it needed synthesis of all acquired knowledge.
Paper AAA012 - Dragan Stankovic & Ana Pesic
Engineering education in Serbia - an example of one traditional education system
This paper briefly describes the system of traditional engineering education in Serbia as one referent system which is more than just that. As a referent faculty we used The Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Nis as a faculty with fine lecturers and fine working conditions, and which has, as have the other faculties of Electronical Engineering in Serbia, produced a number of experts that have easily fitted at numerous positions in various companies throughout the world, and a number of graduated students continued their studies at colleges abroad, up to the PhD level. However, this traditional system has its disadvantages which are also discussed in this paper.
Paper AAA013 - Eva Stergarsek
Accessible e-learning platform
There are 37 million people with disabilities in the EU, while the number of older Europeans is steadily increasing. These groups risk severe social exclusion due to a range of barriers they face when using the internet. Yet software technologies are plastic enough to be adapted to any specific need: content can be adapted to any type of cognitive, sensorial or physical disability. The article presents modern approaches in the design of Internet applications. The main focus is set on new software architectures and technologies helping the developers building flexible Internet applications. This flexibility assures that the design-for-all principle can be applied with minimum technical limitations and thus results in single solution, which can be tailored to various requirements, including those of users with special needs. In this way following features can be provided: different graphical and non-graphical user interface layouts, personalization, multi-modality and others.
Paper AAA014 - Mojca Jenko & Marko Papic
(WINNER of the "WEB BASED SYSTEMS AND E-LEARNING" paper contest)
E-learning Service Provisioning Platform E-CHO
The importance of education and lifelong learning in the information based society is growing with light speed. With new emerging technologies, especially in engineering, the classical education is simply not good enough for a student with demanding expectations and requests. With the help of e-learning and its flexibility, appropriate engineering education can be achieved. This paper describes the technology of the Internet Based E-learning Service Provisioning Platform called E-CHO and presents the personal experiences with the environment from student, content developer, tutor and learning manager's points of view. The paper points out a possible scenario for the future development of the system, from which the biggest challenge would be to detect the skill-level of the user and adapt accordingly, by gathering the feedback information from the user. Different issues relating learning management and learning content management are also discussed and commented upon in the paper.
Paper AAA015 - Dare Zajc & Jaro Rajic
University - Labour Market Connection
This paper outlines the relationship between the university and the labour market. It particularly focuses on the situation present at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, as well as it includes a brief description of the general situation.
The interaction with the companies occurs in several ways. Some companies prefer to be present at the faculty with donations of equipment, their products and resources, the others prefer to work with students directly on projects, some of them limit themselves to awarding students they need with scolarships.
From the students' side, there are initiatives, such as job fairs, student organisations and associations, that promote themselves actively on the labour market and seeking job opportunities by promoting their members.
Paper AAA016 - Kristjan Haavik & Aive Uus
E-learning in Tallinn University of Technology - now and in the future
- General introduction about Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) - some statistics and basic info that helps to understand the following presentation better. Also some info about Estonian engineering education.
- E-learning in Estonia - how much and where it is used. Gained experiences and achievements so far.
- Thorough overview of engineering subjects and the use of e-learning in TUT right now.
E-learning experiences. Some concrete examples and thoughts from both student and teacher's point of view.
Advantages of e-learning in TUT
Disadvantages of e-learning in TUT
Thoughts and discussion what could be different and what are the future prospects.
Suggestions how to improve e-learning in TUT.
- Conclusion of the presentation and suggestions to others based on TUT's experiences.
Paper AAA017 - Gunars Grundstoks, Reinis Vasarietis
Secure E-Learning Systems
Many web sites that are based in US provide similar services that are available to security specialists. Computer Security Institute (www.gocsi.com) or SANS Institute (www.sans.org) and many others allow best practices and courses to be delivered to information security officers at the time they wish. Knowledge on demand is a necessity to be provided to information security officers in medium and large European organizations. Small organizations normally tend to outsource the information security function to their suppliers of software and hardware. The information security market is one of the fastest growing segments in technology with projected growth of 20% per year for a forecast of $4 billion in the U.S. ? were the estimates for two years ago by Information Security Magazine. The first steps of the project will include testing different e-learning options on the existing clients of all involved partners and at the same time expanding the idea further to the market by pilot groups. Events on 11th September have completely changed the information security strategy of US but also in many European countries. Most of the US information security educational standards are being imported and adjusted within the EU, which many times don?t covering the specific areas of organizational and cultural differences of European organizations. Our aim is to provide the educational knowledge base and vocational training that would work as an expert system and provide different modules of knowledge on demand specialized for European organizations.
In this paper we describe security of E-learning Systems. We also present examples of partnerships.
Paper AAA018 - Gunta Veide & Vineta Ruèevska
E-Learning Vocational Training Action Program
E-business is a growing and fast developing field. In order for enterprises to be successful in e-business, they need to have knowledgeable employees. Also that knowledge needs to be updated very frequently. Unfortunately small enterprises do not have the budget to attend to frequent employee education service. We propose a solution by introducing an e-learning portal that could offer expanded and updated ebusiness vocational training in very short amount of time ? just 15-20 minutes. Report is about introducing an idea of this kind of portal. We discuss about target publics and their gained benefits. We also introduce main aims of proposal and discuss about expected results and impact.
AAA019 - Sándor Szaszkó
(WINNER of the "TECHNOLOGY AIDED SYSTEMS" paper contest)
What Lectures Note About, Identifying Concepts by Fuzzy Pseudo-thesaurus
Many times great numbers of notes are provided for university student as lecture material. Student may also face many different documents when they start to research a new field on their own. The method presented in this paper can support the study process by identifying the main topics and concepts of a collection of documents and setting up clusters for the similar ones. The thesaurus is a special dictionary which collects the words with similar meaning, these synonyms define concepts. We are developing an automatic thesaurus generator method based on the co-occurrence of words in documents. Experimental weight factors and motivation behind their selection are given in order to identify most of the concepts. In this paper we present different results on a collection of Hungarian folkloristic belief and superstition.
Paper AAA020 - Imre Bolya & Roland Varga
Technological Colleges for Advanced Studies in Hungary:
the Károly Simonyi College for Advanced Studies
Technological Colleges for Advanced Studies (CASes) play an important role in engineering education in Hungary. This paper represents the targets of a CAS generally. We describe a CAS, the Károly Simonyi College for Advanced Studies at large. We try to guess the future of the CASes and prove why they?re so useful for students.
Nowadays many technical students receive only theoretical education in Hungary, which inhibits them to get practice while being students before getting a real job in the industry. This is a significant reason for students to look for a part-time job. A student also requires entertainment, going out, being a member of a community. This community often becomes a CAS.
The most important target of a CAS is to give some additional education, practice, knowledge for their members that they can?t get from the university. All CASes organize lectures, courses, conversations on different topics to widen the minds of their members.
The Károly Simonyi College for Advanced Studies is a student organization of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE). This CAS consists of more groups dealing with different professions of engineering: the HA5KFU, the Budavári Schönherz Stúdió, the Student Computer Society, the Professional Library and the AC Studio&Live. We are proud to that our CAS wears the name of the world-famous physicist, Károly Simonyi.
CASes don't have a long past, but they can have a promising future. They can complement a student?s education in a very efficient way. With both university education and CAS training a student can graduate as an expert of his profession.
Paper AAA021 - András Gaál & János Szabó
The role of international student associations in the European system of higher education
Today’s students are more and more looking for other activities beyond regular lectures and sessions. That’s why nowadays student associations gain on member numbers very rapidly. These organisations provide them with the benefits they are looking for and don’t find in the regular system of higher education. Undergraduates – and sometimes graduate students as well – look for a way to measure up themselves in real life, look for opportunities to try out their newly gained skills in a business environment.
Companies active in different industries also see the need of a certain medium to get in touch and to keep contact directly with students studying in their fields of interests.
Furthermore, even for universities and colleges there is an advantage in the existence of student associations. Basically the educational institutes are interested in maintaining close contact between students and industry. However, the vast majority of a university’s resources are engaged in maintaining the level of the traditional face-to-face education.
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