Publications associées à Bachelor of Arts

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

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

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

Boosting the performance of distributed optical fiber sensors based on adaptive decoder

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Sheng Wang, Jian Wu

An adaptive decoder is proposed to derive the fiber single-pulse response. This experimentally simple technique simultaneously improves the measurement time and the noise level, boosting to an uncommon degree the overall performance of distributed fiber se ...

Optical Society of America2018

Assessment of Topography E-Learning with Exomatic

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Hervé Gontran

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully integrated the Bologna reform process that standardizes the Bachelor and Master programmes across Europe. This reform particularly affects the curriculum offered by the EPFL scho ...

2006