Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Engineering Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 7 of 7

Full-Text Articles in Engineering

Sustainable Development Competencies For Achieving The Sdgs: Engineering Students And Industry Requirements, Klara Kövesi, Brad Tabas, Christiane Gillet, Una Beagon, Brian Bowe Sep 2020

Sustainable Development Competencies For Achieving The Sdgs: Engineering Students And Industry Requirements, Klara Kövesi, Brad Tabas, Christiane Gillet, Una Beagon, Brian Bowe

Conference Papers

This paper will provide an insight into how French engineering students and employers perceive the competencies needed to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It draws on the findings of two exploratory focus group studies carried out in the context of the A-STEP 2030 European Project. Our results indicate significant differences in the awareness of sustainability goals among respondents, but a relatively high level of convergence around the skills and competencies that appear most necessary for attaining sustainable development. The respondents considered that technical knowledge and skills were adequately included within French engineering school curricula, yet they felt that …


A Robust Lpc Filtering Method For Time-Resolved Morphology Of Eeg Activity Analysis, Jin Xu, Mark Davis, Ruairí De Fréin Jan 2020

A Robust Lpc Filtering Method For Time-Resolved Morphology Of Eeg Activity Analysis, Jin Xu, Mark Davis, Ruairí De Fréin

Conference Papers

This paper introduces a new time-resolved spectral analysis method based on Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) method that is particularly suited to the study of the dynamics of EEG (Electroencephalogram) activity. The spectral dynamic of EEG signals can be challenging to analyse as they contain multiple frequency components and are often heavily corrupted by noise. Furthermore, the temporal and spectral resolution that can be achieved is limited by the Heisenberg-Gabor uncertainty principle [1]. The method described here is based on a z-plane analysis of the poles of the LPC which allows us to identify and estimate the frequency of the dominant …


Developing An Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model, Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Susan Bergin Jan 2020

Developing An Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model, Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, Susan Bergin

Conference Papers

This paper outlines the longitudinal development of a K-12 outreachmodel, to promote Computer Science in Ireland. Over a three-yearperiod, it has been piloted to just under 9700 K-12 students fromalmost every county in Ireland. The model consists of a two-hourcamp that introduces students to a range of Computer Sciencetopics: addressing computing perceptions, introduction to codingand exploration of computational thinking. The model incorporateson-site school delivery and is available at no cost to any interestedschool across Ireland. The pilot study so far collected over 3400surveys (pre- and post-outreach delivery).Schools from all over Ireland self-selected to participate, includ-ing male only, female only and …


Named Entity Recognition In Spanish Biomedical Literature: Short Review And Bert Model, Liliya Akhtyamova Jan 2020

Named Entity Recognition In Spanish Biomedical Literature: Short Review And Bert Model, Liliya Akhtyamova

Conference Papers

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the rst step for knowledge acquisition when we deal with an unknown corpus of texts. Having received these entities, we have an opportunity to form parameters space and to solve problems of text mining as concept normalization, speech recognition, etc. The recent advances in NER are related to the technology of word embeddings, which transforms text to the form being effective for Deep Learning. In the paper, we show how NER detects pharmacological substances, compounds, and proteins in the dataset obtained from the Spanish Clinical Case Corpus (SPACCC). To achieve this goal, we use contextualized …


Lm-Based Word Embeddings Improve Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: A Detailed Analysis, Liliya Akhtyamova, John Cardiff Jan 2020

Lm-Based Word Embeddings Improve Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: A Detailed Analysis, Liliya Akhtyamova, John Cardiff

Conference Papers

Recent studies have shown that contextualized word embeddings outperform other types of embeddings on a variety of tasks. However, there is little research done to evaluate their effectiveness in the biomedical domain under multi-task settings. We derive the contextualized word embeddings from the Flair framework and apply them to the task of biomedical NER on 5 benchmark datasets, yielding major improvements over the baseline and achieving competitive results over the current best systems. We analyze the sources of these improvements, reporting model performances over different combinations of word embeddings, and fine-tuning and casing modes.


Comparison Of Rans Turbulence Models In Predicting Wake Development In A 2-Dimensional Actuator Disk Model, Chee Meng Pang, David Kennedy, Fergal O'Rourke Dr Jan 2020

Comparison Of Rans Turbulence Models In Predicting Wake Development In A 2-Dimensional Actuator Disk Model, Chee Meng Pang, David Kennedy, Fergal O'Rourke Dr

Conference Papers

One of the most popular methodologies used to predict the wake of a tidal stream turbine (TST) is the RANS turbulence models coupled with the actuator disk method. This methodology has been widely adopted in the in the wind industry, since the mid-1990s, to predict wake development of wind turbines. Moreover, the reason for its popularity is its capability to give accurate results at an affordable computational cost, and the application of 2-dimensional actuator disk approach could further reduce the computational cost. In this paper, a number of RANS turbulence models represented by a porous disk were used to simulate …


Promoting A Growth Mindset In Cs1: Does One Size Fit All? A Pilot Study, Keith Quille, Susan Bergin Jan 2020

Promoting A Growth Mindset In Cs1: Does One Size Fit All? A Pilot Study, Keith Quille, Susan Bergin

Conference Papers

This paper describes a pilot intervention conducted in CS1, in the
academic year of 2016-2017. The intervention was based on the
work of Dweck, promoting a growth Mindset in an effort to in-
crease performance in introductory programming. The study also
examined data from a previous year (as a control group) to compare
and contrast the results. Multiple factors related to programming
performance were recorded with the control and treatment group,
which were measured at multiple intervals throughout the course,
to monitor changes as the pilot intervention was implemented.
This study found a significant increase in programming perfor-
mance when …