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How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills

Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the learning process. While hands-on activities, labs and projects are moments when students are active, the learning benefits can be amplified with coaching strategies. This activity will enable studen ...

EPFL2024

How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali, Beanta Christina Elisabeth Alberink

The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

EPFL2024

Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

Silvestro Micera

This Review discusses non-invasive and invasive technologies for conveying artificial sensory feedback through bionic hands. ...

NATURE RESEARCH2023

Distributed flexibility as a cost-effective alternative to grid reinforcement

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin

The deployment of distributed photovoltaics (PV) in low-voltage networks may cause technical issues such as voltage rises, line ampacity violations, and transformer overloading for distribution system operators (DSOs). These problems may induce grid reinfo ...

ELSEVIER2023

Automated image-based generation of finite element models for masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Radhakrishna Achanta, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero

To predict the response of masonry buildings to various types of loads, engineers use finite element models, specifically solid-element and macro-element models. For predicting masonry responses to seismic events in particular, equivalent frame models-a su ...

SPRINGER2023

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

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

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

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...

2023

Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Helena Kovacs

Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...

TU Dublin2023

Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Over the past few decades, the debates have shifted from whether to how Computer Science (CS) should be introduced into formal education. Given the diverse ways to introduce CS into formal education, and the struggles many countries have faced, considerabl ...

EPFL2023

Decision-making algorithms for learning and adaptation with application to COVID-19 data

Ali H. Sayed

This work focuses on the development of a new family of decision-making algorithms for adaptation and learning, which are specifically tailored to decision problems and are constructed by building up on first principles from decision theory. A key observat ...

ELSEVIER2022

Structure analysis of beta dicalcium silicate via scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM)

Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Qiao Wang

Beta-dicalcium silicate (beta-C2S), one of the main phases in Portland cement clinker, offers some promising overviews regarding CO2 and energy savings potential compared to alite. Understanding the crystalline structure and reactive sites on beta-C2S surf ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Historical Development and Seismic Performance of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings with Vertical Extensions in the City Centre of Barcelona

Savvas Saloustros

This paper presents the historical development of the vertical extensions of unreinforced masonry buildings in the Eixample district of Barcelona and their impact on the seismic behaviour. Existing masonry buildings of Eixample present significant seismic ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2022

Graph Neural Networks With Lifting-Based Adaptive Graph Wavelets

Pascal Frossard

Spectral-based graph neural networks (SGNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in graph representation learning. However, existing SGNNs are limited in implementing graph filters with rigid transforms and cannot adapt to signals residing on graphs ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Engineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens Adhesion to Target Cells

Alix Kim Lan Pham, Alexandre Louis André Persat, Xavier Jean-Yves Pierrat, Zaïnebe Dhirani, Jeremy Pak Hei Wong

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen commonly repurposed for genetic modification of crops. Despite its versatility, it remains inefficient at transferring DNA to many hosts, including to animal cells. Like many pathogens, physical contact between ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Photochemical Production of Carbon Monoxide from Dissolved Organic Matter: Role of Lignin Methoxyarene Functional Groups

Joanna Maria Houska

Carbon monoxide (CO) is the second most abundant identified product of dissolved organic matter (DOM) photodegradation after CO2, but its formation mechanism remains unknown. Previous work showed that aqueous photodegradation of methoxy-substituted aromati ...

2022

Could building replacements significantly contribute to seismic vulnerability mitigation at urban scale? Case studies of two typical swiss cities

Pierino Lestuzzi

This paper contains an investigation on the potential decrease of seismic vulnerability related to building replacements for the cities of Sion and Martigny in Switzerland. Those two cities were identified for the present research based on the accuracy of ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Comic Based Learning for Students with Visual Impairments

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Visual impairment can affect a student's ability to learn since their concept development when interacting with educational material is being limited. Learning activities based on images and visually rich content are mainstream learning methods, where faci ...

2023

Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...

2022

Learning Analytics for Adaptive and Self-Improving Learning Environments for Inductive Teaching

Louis Pierre Faucon

The emergence of digital technology is changing education in many ways. A particularly interesting aspect of this transformation is the development of learning environments that can automatically adapt to individual students and can collect data in order t ...

EPFL2021

Promoting Computational Thinking Skills in Non-Computer Science Students Gamifying Computational Notebooks to Increase Student Engagement

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Marc Lafuente Martinez

Computational thinking (CT) skills are becoming increasingly relevant for future professionals across all domains, beyond computer science (CS). As such, an increasing number of bachelor and masters programs outside of the computer science discipline integ ...

2022