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Improving the understanding of mobility in cross-border areas using a pooled travel survey

Philippe Gerber, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

Understanding mobility behaviour in cross-border regions is a major challenge for transport policies and the wellbeing of people living near national borders. However, the available relevant information is often limited to a collection of unharmonized nati ...

Springer2024

From University to Work: Alumni Viewpoints

Patrick Jermann, Helena Kovacs, Iris Capdevila Tristan

Alumni studies are often overlooked in engineering education research, despite holding great potential for improving engineering programmes and creating the links that are missed when it comes to university-workplace transitions. Besides better understandi ...

NTNU SEED2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

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

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Natascia Petringa, Yousef Jalali

What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...

2023

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023

Engineering of Existing Structures: The Need and Place for Non-destructive Evaluation

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Thomas Schumacher

Structural engineers today are still educated mainly to design new structures. This ignores the fact that structures already exist and need to be maintained. Students are thus often ill-equipped to deal with maintenance and preservation of existing structu ...

2022

Appropriate Communal Open Spaces: Principle 6

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Principle 6 stresses that an appropriate proportion, number, organization and equitable distribution of Communal Open Spaces are essential for the sustainability of any settlement on the long-term, and should consider cultural, social and environmental asp ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

Teachers’ Reasons to Join a Community About Educational Robotics and STEAM: A Swiss Experience

Sophia Reyes Mury

Today we live in a digital society that requires the acquisition of new skills related to computer science, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. A possible ...

Springer, Cham2021

Facilitators First: Building a Tool With Facilitators to Foster a More Collaborative Makerspace Community Through Movement Traces

Bertrand Roland Schneider, Léonore Valentine Guillain

Research indicates that makerspaces equip students with the practical skills needed to build their own projects and thrive in the twenty-first-century workforce. While the appeal of makerspaces lies in their spirit of tinkering and community-driven ethos, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Promoting Critical and Design Thinking Activities to Tackle Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Since 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force, and for the first time they include higher education. Therefore, higher institutions are finding ways to incorporate them into their teachings and research activities. This paper cont ...

IEEE2021

Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

Cyril Picard

Machine intelligence greatly impacts almost all domains of our societies. It is profoundly changing the field of mechanical engineering with new technical possibilities and processes. The education of future engineers also needs to adapt in terms of techni ...

EPFL2021

Probabilistic Adaptive Control for Robust Behavior Imitation

Sylvain Calinon, Hakan Girgin, Julius Maximilian Jankowski

In the context of learning from demonstration (LfD), trajectory policy representations such as probabilistic movement primitives (ProMPs) allow for rich modeling of demonstrated skills. To reproduce a learned skill with a real robot, a feedback controller ...

IEEE2021

Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science

Jérôme Baudry

Over the past two decades, a number of digital platforms have been developed with the aim of engaging citizens in scientific research projects. The success of these platforms depends in no small part on their ability to attract and retain participants, tur ...

2022

Who Is Listening? Spokesperson Effect on Communicating Social and Physical Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Robert West, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Andreas Oliver Spitz

Effective communication during a pandemic, such as the current COVID-19 crisis, can save lives. At the present time, social and physical distancing measures are the lead strategy in combating the spread of COVID-19. In this study, a survey was administered ...

Frontiers Media2021

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Pascal Vuilliomenet, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Lucille Delisle, Mirjam Mekhaiel, Helena Kovacs

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

Gentrification, Coprésence ou Mixité? Changements et Permanences au Centre de São Paulo

Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Gian Paolo Torricelli

Peut-on parler de gentrification dans le centre de Sao Paulo (Brésil) ? Ou, plutôt, de coprésence de différentes classes sociales ? En partant d’une brève analyse du contexte latino-américain et de la situation des centres urbains dans cette région, nous a ...

Association Espaces Temps2020

Analysis and Remediation of Handwriting difficulties

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Even with correct training, up to 25% of children never master handwriting like their peers. While research shows a correlation between handwriting difficulties and school failure, these difficulties can also impact children in their self esteem and behavi ...

EPFL2020

Decoding Cognitive States under Varying Difficulty Levels

Ping-Keng Jao

Understanding cognitive states of human under different difficulty levels is useful in improving human-human and human-machine interactions. For example, a crucial factor in designing games is maintaining the engagement of players. An ideal scenario would ...

EPFL2020

Fourier movement primitives: an approach for learning rhythmic robot skills from demonstrations

Sylvain Calinon, Thibaut Antoine Kulak

Whether in factory or household scenarios, rhythmic movements play a crucial role in many daily-life tasks. In this paper we propose a Fourier movement primitive (FMP) representation to learn such type of skills from human demonstrations. Our approach take ...

2020