An Experience of using B-Learning technologies to Teaching Optical Communications to Engineering Students

This paper deals with a pedagogical experience carried out with under-graduated students at the E.U.I.T. Telecommunications in Madrid, while coursing a subject of Optical Communications (OC). In this experience several B-Learning methodologies as well as technological resources have been combined, in order to get surpassing some difficulties well identified faced by the students of this subject. To find a reliable teaching strategy, the proposed methology have been introduced step by step along three academical courses, adding progressively new learning tools based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) [1,2]. The outcomes of the students assessments as well as the surveys carried out with them, have show a high improvement degree of the educative process in this specific subject of their curricula. New and more refined technologies based chiefly on remote laboratories will be tested along the next courses to overcome some issues not well surpassed ye

Virtual Teaching Approach for the Analysis and Planning of Wireless Communications Systems

One of the most important aspects in the field of engineering education is practical training. Very clear examples of this are the laboratories for training in design, development and measurement of electronic systems. However, in other areas of engineering, as for example in the case of communications, where the main objective is the systems analysis and planning, analytical solutions, if is possible, either to the simulation through approaches and algorithms are typically used. We have developed a set of tools for improving the knowledge and skills in wireless communications systems planning, for students of telecommunications engineering of the “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid”. These tools are of relatively simple use, and they are designed with the intention of a gradual process in learning through the establishment of various educational objective levels. In this paper are presented some of these tools developed and also there is realized an analysis of student assessment in the use of such solutions

ECTS and Methodological Experiences in Telecommunications Systems Engineering for the Adjustment to European Space for Higher Education

In this paper we present a summary of the actions in educational innovation perform in the subjects of 3th year of Technical Engineering in Telecommunication Systems, as well as the results and conclusions obtained. These activities has been carry out in the frame of a Educational Innovation Project granted by the “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid” in the process in implementing the European Higher Education Area, and to improve the education quality. The main activities and developed materials are around the organization and coordination of the subjects, and on the utilization of methodologies and educational tools centred on the learning. Besides the academic results and the comparison with other subjects there will be included the opinions of pupils and teachers

[Carta a Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi y Montiano]

Información adicional de autor de la carta: MAPFRE XlFotografía número: 52

NMR Study of Intramolecular Interactions between Aromatic Groups: Van der Waals, Charge-Transfer, or Quadrupolar Interactions?: Addition/Correction

14 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables.-- Printed version published Dec 2, 1998.-- Original article published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120(37): 9632-9645 (1998), http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/11375Table 2 and Figure 6 were missing in the printed issue and text was duplicated. The full paper follows.This work was funded in part by Grant PB95-0134-C02-01 of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura. A. del Campo thanks the Fundación Ramón Areces for financial support.Peer reviewe