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Title- Introduction to Robotics: Experience of a Summer Camp as a Recruiting Tool

Abstract- This paper describes a robotics summer camp that was held at the University of Puerto Rico- Aguadilla Campus during the summer 2015.This camp allowed high schools students, in a college environment, the approach to technology, led to collaboration and partnership to build and program robots.The main contribution of this paper is the evaluation of the camp's impact to influence the students to enroll to the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus. This impact was evaluated by using a pre-test and a post-test surveys that included content questions and interest questions. Additionally, the pre-test and the post-test surveys included questions on whether or not the camp influenced the students to enroll to the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus. The camp survey results indicated the success of the camp to influence the students to enroll to the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus

Index Terms- STEM, student recruitment,robotics education, summer camp, algorithms, computing education.

Title- Industrial Plant at Academic Level for Teaching Industrial Informatics in an Electronic Engineering Undergraduate Degree.

Abstract- This paper presents the design of an academic level simulation for an industrial plant and the current status of practice activities proposed for an undergraduate course on Industrial Automation for Electronic Engineering students. Strongly focalized in professional processes and methods, in particular, it deals with the specific activities developed by electronic engineers at the lower lever of the automation pyramid.

Index Terms- Flexible Manufacturing Cell, GEMMA, GRAFCET, Industrial Informatics

Title- Use of a symbolic computation program to reinforce the spatial abilities of engineering students.

Abstract- This study presents an initiative that seeks to develop some skills of three-dimensional visualization by using the capabilities of programming and graphical representation of a computer algebra system, in this case Mathematica. It has been developed a specific procedure to allow engineering students represent the families of curves obtained by cutting the three-dimensional graph of a two-variable function with families of planes having different orientations. This initiative achieves an improvement over the use of the contour plots, shows a new point of view about the functions which depend of an angle, and can be extended to use non-planar surfaces.

Index Terms- Educational technology, Computer aided instruction, spatial visualization

Title- Adaptive monitoring in the Engineering Degree Final Project with Moodle support

Abstract- On current Engineering degrees it's necessary to design a monitoring process in order to supervise the subject called "degree final project". This method must be able to manage and evaluate the process and the final documentation. This paper describes the design of an adaptive method and how to put this mechanism into practice using the e-learning system Moodle. Adaptivity gives us the chance of studying different scenarios that can be produced between students and their tutors. The conclusions of this work show a high level of satisfaction whit the adaptative method used in the subject.

Index Terms- Engineering education, Educational technology, Adaptive systems, Project engineering, Collaborative tools

Title- Learning Data Structures - same difficulties in different countries?

Abstract- Data structures have been a core discipline in Computer Engineering studies. Several difficulties related to teaching and learning of these contents have been detected by the academic community. With the aim of obtaining a better knowledge about these situations we present the conclusions obtained after evaluating the results achieved by the students of the subject Programming II, in the first course of the Degree in Computer Engineering at University of A Coruña (Spain) and the students of the subject Data Structures where similar contents are taught in the Informatics Degree at Portucalense University (Portugal).

Index Terms- absenteeism, learning strategy, assessment, performance, data structures

Title- Evaluation of the use of Technology in improving Safety in the Teaching Laboratory.

Abstract- In Engineering studies classroom safety, especially in laboratories, is a frequent concern. In this work, we present the results obtained from an assessment regarding the students' use of a laboratory practice manual that incorporates different types of technology, and with the final aim to introduce good safety practices as something standard as part of the teaching process. Thereby, encouraging the students to acquire a more active role in the process of learning.

Index Terms- Engineering education, Mobile technology, Satisfaction, Prevention of risks in Teaching laboratory.

Title- Learning communities in social networks and their relationship with the MOOCs.

Abstract- This article discusses how MOOC users learn and participate in cooperative environments that promote learning communities within external hypermedia environments such as the social networks. In order to develop this study, researchers analyzed the interaction of users enrolled in a course developed under the iMOOC platform, which is based on concepts like connectivism, collaborative learning, gamification, or adaptivity, among others. Specifically, this study deal with obtaining information about the conversations that take place in external learning communities within social networks like Google+ and Twitter in parallel with the iMOOC platform itself, so that through this information is possible to establish the learning types that experience users (non-formal and informal learning usually) and providing an estimation of how users interact with content tagged in social network, and how they use these tagging facilities to continue or create new conversations that allow them to expand or strengthen their learning process developed in the MOOC. To complete the knowledge extracted from these tags and to understand how users interact with this way of metadata declaration, the study is complemented by a questionnaire that collected how users the utilize and understand of these tags based on the main usages and the age of the users of the MOOC.

Index Terms- Interaction, HCI, Analysis, E-learning, MOOCs, Collaborative learning, Social networks, Knowledge society, Software Architectures