Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at

UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

5 years of study 2nd cycle: 3 years - 180 UFSIA-credits1st cycle: 2 years - 120 UFSIA-credits

based on the complete curriculum of business economics

+ technology courses

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

80 % of courses/credits: business/society

related

20% of courses/credits: technology related

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

technology related: 3 types of courses

(technical) sciences

applied sciences (engineering)

technology management courses

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

technology related: 4 (broad) engineering fields (>90 % of industrial activity) mechanics, fluid mechanics, energy,

thermodynamics, machinery, production, …

chemistry, materials, processes, …

electricity, electronics, automation, …

information/communication technology, ...

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

3 majors:

technology management

quantitative management

information management

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

business related:

5 pilars

3 majors

8 minors

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

business related: 5 pilars

philosophy, ethics, ...

economics, business and management

mathematics

sciences related to society

languages/communication skills

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

business related: 3 majors

general economics

business management

quantitative management

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

business related: 8 minors marketing

accountancy

finance

transport

informatics

international management

economic and diplomatic international relations

production management and logistics

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

LABOTHEEK©

alias

LABORARY©

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

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Set-up

* A library of lab experiments

* Continuously at the disposition of the student

* The students perform the experiments with PC based support

* Real experiments no simulations !

Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Developed experiments

* Equilibrium and pH

* The applied capacitor (in development)

* The Diode (in development)

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Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Applied methods

* The PC guides the students through their lab experiments.

* All necessary information is provided by interactive non linear HTML pages, combining:

- Text- Movies- Images- Sound

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Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Applied methods

* If necessary, LabView© is used for the communication between the experiment and the PC.

* The HTML pages are combined with LabView© in one interactive Document.

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Commercial Engineering at UFSIA

Survey

* We carried out a survey among 133 students.

* In this survey the students could assigning a score to several statements. The sore ranged from 0 to 10:

- 0 totally disagree- 5 no opinion- 10 totally agree

* The results of this survey are positive.

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SurveyThe PC offers enough information for the practical aspects of the lab.

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SurveyThe PC offers enough information for the theoretical aspects of the lab.

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SurveyThe use of the PC hardly poses any problem.

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Conclusion

* The use of the PC doesn’t pose any problem in the experimental set-up.

* The computer provides enough information for both the practical and theoretical aspects of the experiments.

* The first attempts to build experiments which can function in a LABORARY© environment are successful.

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