Developing new electrical and information engineering related curricula to respond to the actual global challenges: the renewable energy curriculum

The Erasmus Lifelong Learning ProgrammeSALEIE (Strategic Alignment of Electrical and InformationEngineering in European Higher Education Institutions) projectbrings together a group of European universities experts aimingto provide higher education models in the EIE (Electrical andInformation Engineering) disciplines that can respond to the keyglobal technical challenges. One of the outcomes of the abovementioned project is related to a new Renewable Energycurriculum. In its early stage the SALEIE project identified theglobal technical challenges the EIE higher education may facenowadays. A survey of existing EIE programmes in the keychallenge areas has been released and their results have beendiscussed during the workshops. The industry feedback related tothe required EIE technical and non-technical skills has been fedwithin the project deliverables and finally two new proposedcurricula on Renewable Energy (RE) and Information andComputer Technology (ICT) Security saw the daylight. This paperpresents the main findings and steps which have been taken inorder to propose a new Renewable Energy curriculum aiming torespond to actual global technical challenges

Course Prescription Using Ontologies

24th Annual Conference on European-Association-for-Education-in-Electrical-and-Information-Engineering (EAEEIE) -- MAY 30-31, 2013 -- Technol Educ Inst Crete, Chania, GREECEWOS: 000332827800036Information related to the same "information need", is available from many different sources widely spread on the web. This information may be differently worded or organized based on the conceptualization of the domain by different people and design autonomy. Ontologies are seen as way out for overcoming this semantic heterogeneity and bringing a common understanding for an integrated access, that is formulating a consolidated answer to a single query. In this work we propose an ontology based course prescription for individuals who are willing to enhance their competencies in certain areas.European Assoc Educ Elect & Informat Engn, Technol Educ Inst Crete, Dept Appl Informat & Multimedia, IEEE, Educ, Audiovisual & Culture Execut AgcyEuropean Commission for the grant to SALEIE (Strategic Alignment of Electrical and Information Engineering in European Higher Education Institutions) [527877-LLP-1-2012-1]The authors wish to thank the European Commission for the grant to SALEIE (Strategic Alignment of Electrical and Information Engineering in European Higher Education Institutions) Project: 527877-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-ERASMUS-EN

Investigation of Luhn's claim on information retrieval

WOS: 000295497900013In this study, we show how Luhn's claim about the degree of importance of a word in a document can be related to information retrieval. His basic idea is transformed into z -scores as the weights of terms for the purpose of modeling terra frequency (If) within documents. The Luhn-based models represented in this paper are considered as the TF component of proposed TF x IDF weighing schemes. Moreover, the final term weighting functions appropriate for the TF x IDF weighting scheme are applied to TREC-6, -7, and -8 databases. The experimental results show relevance to Luhn's claim by having high mean average precision (MAP) for the terms with frequencies around the mean frequency of terms within a document. On the other hand, the weighting, which significantly discriminates the importance between low/high frequencies and medium frequencies, degrades the retrieval performance. Therefore, any weighting scheme (TF) that is directly proportional to If has a probability of high retrieval performance, if this can optimally indicate the difference of the importance regarding tf values and also optimally eliminate the terms that have high frequencies.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [107E192]This work was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) within the scope of Project No. 107E192. The authors thank TUBITAK for supporting this project