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“Alice in London Architecture Festival.”

Jean-Denis Bourquin, Claire Hofmann Chalard

A group of 12 architecture students from EPFL returned from the London Festival of Architecture (19 June-19 July 08), where their contribution, "Overflow", a structure that reacts to tides in the Thames River, was chosen as the best overall project among a ...

EPFL2008

The Dof-Box Project: An Educational Kit for Configurable Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Aude Billard, André Guignard, Olivier Barbey, Davis Daidié

This paper describes the Dof-Box, a modular, reconfigurable robot, used in Hands-on practicals of robotics taught to miroengineering students. We present the hardware and software of the robots and describe the pedagogical approach adopted in the practical ...

2007

IP-LAB: A Tool to Teach Image Processing Programming in Java—Challenge in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Michaël Unser, Daniel Sage

Image processing is getting more and more important because of the widespread use of digital imaging devices, such as digital cameras or digital videos. While image processing is a very practical discipline, it is perceived as being rather theoretical. It ...

JSEE2005

Creating cyberworlds: experiences in computer science education

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

This article shows that the creation of cyberworlds (interactive virtual environments) can be an excellent educational tool covering a wide range of computer science and engineering disciplines. We present the experiences gathered during more than one seme ...

2004

A historically correct didactic first step in the quantum world: stressing the interplay of relativity, thermodynamics and quantum physics

Giorgio Margaritondo

Quantum physics is the backbone of modem science: therefore, a correct first step is essential for students' success in many different disciplines. Unfortunately, many didactic approaches are still complicated, potentially confusing and often historically ...

2003

Jay Bailey as mentor-the students' perspective

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Professor James E. Bailey was not only a world-renowned leader and pioneer in biochem. engineering but also a mentor to the many graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in his group. To provide non-"Bailey-ites" with an impression of Jay as a mentor ...

2002

Virtual classroom for multimedia teaching on WWW

Pierre Vandergheynst, Murat Kunt, Iva Bogdanova Vandergheynst

The specific issue addressed in this paper is tailoring specific functionality to allow a group of teachers and students to carry out the learning process in Digital Signal and Image Processing in an electronic virtual environment that is meant to replace ...

EUSIPCO2002

Intensifying the relationship between e-learning postgraduate students

Philippe Thalmann, Sandra Rihs

The postgraduate course for construction management and economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is an e-learning course for architects and civil engineers. The students are mostly fulltime employees, who put a strong emphasis on ...

2002

Transposing multimedia into a virtual course

Olivier Burdet

The present paper describes the challenges posed by transposing a successful conventional course into an – hopefully – equally successful web-based course, with the name i-Structures. This work is under way as part of the Swiss Virtual Campus project. The ...

4th International Conference on New Educational Environments2002

Gauging the Quality of Examples for Teaching Design Patterns

Shane Sendall

What constitutes a good example in the context of teaching design patterns? How can instructors judge whether one example is better than another one for teaching a design pattern to students? How might an example be presented to best connect with students, ...

2002

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