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View article: Breaking the Code: Multi-level Learning in the Eurovision Song Contest
Breaking the Code: Multi-level Learning in the Eurovision Song Contest Open
Organizations learn from the market, political, and societal responses to their actions. While in some cases both the actions and responses take place in an open manner, in many others, some aspects may be hidden from external observers. T…
View article: Reflection on African Citizen Identification Systems
Reflection on African Citizen Identification Systems Open
A modern and well-structured citizen identification ecosystem contributes to accelerated development. Within the scope of ID4D or ID4Africa, actions are promoted for the development of robust identification and civil registration models. H…
View article: Towards a readiness model derived from critical success factors, for the general data protection regulation implementation in higher education institutions
Towards a readiness model derived from critical success factors, for the general data protection regulation implementation in higher education institutions Open
Background: Present the relevance of the study and highlights the key points of literature overview. Purpose: As of May 25, 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become mandatory for all organizations, public or private, that…
View article: CHALLENGING TIME FOR ENGINEERING
CHALLENGING TIME FOR ENGINEERING Open
CHALLENGING TIME FOR ENGINEERINGThe present world full of challenges and crises of deep consequences to society aswell to environment has a strong incidence in terms of decision making in any field. Itmeans that it is becoming more and mor…
View article: ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT Open
ENGINEERING IMPACTING SOCIAL, ECONOMICAL AND WORKING ENVIRONMENTEngineers create, design and build bringing solutions for problems, transforming theenvironment for betterment of life. Engineers are responsible for the development ofscience…
View article: Distance Education as a Service System
Distance Education as a Service System Open
Distance education (DE) is the teaching method that grows the most in Brazil, and as the enrolment number grows, the challenges expand with it, because the teaching organizations need to structure themselves to attend the increasing demand…
View article: Admission to Higher Education: Difficulties felt. How to fight them?
Admission to Higher Education: Difficulties felt. How to fight them? Open
The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM), aiming at improving the quality of Higher Education (HE), has been adapting to the new demands and realities. Bologna Process brought a number of challenges to higher education i…
View article: Global experiences for engineering programs
Global experiences for engineering programs Open
This paper has the goal to present and discusses the internationalization process of a university starting by the engineering programs that the engineering school offers. The objective is to make it more attractive and promote the double d…
View article: Internationalization and Its Impact in Engineering Programs
Internationalization and Its Impact in Engineering Programs Open
In this Century life experience has a strong effect when it is about getting a job. It means that to have a good high education is not enough. The so-called global work market has become challenging due to the multicultural environment and…
View article: Education of Engineers – the Requiring of Pedagogy Development
Education of Engineers – the Requiring of Pedagogy Development Open
This paper intends to show a project developed by the organization that has been implemented in an engineering school of a private university, resulted by a large experience designing and implementing pedagogical projects developed in orde…
View article: Classical Engineering Education Revisited - Why it Matters
Classical Engineering Education Revisited - Why it Matters Open
This paper shows an engineering program specially designed to a private engineering school that aims to become the best one in the region. The Engineering Education Team of COPEC – Science and Education Research Council has designed this p…
View article: TrivPlat
TrivPlat Open
This work is funded by FEDER funds through the Operational Program for Competitiveness Factors - COMPETE and National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under the Project: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674 and PEst-OE/CJP/U…
View article: Engineering, a Course of Men: Does the Inversion of this Trend Remain?
Engineering, a Course of Men: Does the Inversion of this Trend Remain? Open
Commonly, there are more men than women seeking engineering courses, even though, with some common exclusions as for health related engineering courses.Recently, Higher Education in Portugal has faced deep changes, particularly regarding t…
View article: Legal requirements for public procurement electronic platforms: The Trivplat project
Legal requirements for public procurement electronic platforms: The Trivplat project Open
Electronic public procurement (EPP) has been considered an important tool for promoting competition, simplifying procedures, and ensuring transparency in decision-making processes. In Portugal, EPP replaced paper-based pre-contractual proc…
View article: An IT Value Management Capability Model for Portuguese Universities: A Delphi Study
An IT Value Management Capability Model for Portuguese Universities: A Delphi Study Open
One of the most common dilemmas faced today by organizations and their leaders is how to guarantee value from high level IT investments, i.e. how organizations ensure expected benefits from growth in IT investments. Knowledgeable about thi…
View article: Electronic platforms and transparency in public procurement
Electronic platforms and transparency in public procurement Open
Public procurement represents the largest component of public expenditures and, for that reason, is one of the most sensitive areas of the risk of corruption. There are several governmental investments in this area to accomplish the princi…
View article: Classical Engineering Education Coping With Engineering Profession Demands
Classical Engineering Education Coping With Engineering Profession Demands Open
The present world scenario shows that without any doubt there is an increasing recognition that leadership in technological innovation is key to the nation's prosperity and security in a hypercompetitive, global, knowledge-driven economy. …
View article: DeGóis – The Portuguese National Academic CV Platform
DeGóis – The Portuguese National Academic CV Platform Open
Delivered at the CRIS2016 Conference in St Andrews; published in Procedia Computer Science 106 (Mar 2017).-- Contains conference paper (10 pages) and presentation (13 slides).
View article: Engineering Course Specially Designed to Face Retention Issue
Engineering Course Specially Designed to Face Retention Issue Open
Many engineering colleges have been facing the retention problem in engineering programs due to difficulties and lack of knowledge about what really means being an engineer. It is mainly due to the fact that the first 3 years are particula…
View article: Engineering the engineering program: The year of discovery
Engineering the engineering program: The year of discovery Open
Retention is an issue that has been faced by many engineering colleges due to the difficulties and lack of knowledge about what it really is to be an engineer. The first 3 years of the course are particularly intense and hard. A way to ove…
View article: Shift for engineering horizons
Shift for engineering horizons Open
Science, Engineering and Technology cross nearly every facet of modern life and, as problem solvers, engineers are perfectly capable of managing entrepreneurial activities, mastering innovative ways of business development, when they spend…
View article: Engineering, a Course of Men: The Inversion of That Trend
Engineering, a Course of Men: The Inversion of That Trend Open
Traditionally, engineering courses are more pursued by men than by women, although, also traditionally, there are exceptions, like for example Biological Engineering courses. In recent years Higher Education in Portugal has faced profound …
View article: Engineering Adventure for Youth Generations
Engineering Adventure for Youth Generations Open
The Education Research Team of COPEC - Science and Education Research Council - has designed and implemented the K12 School Adventure Plan for a city, with the goal of providing better and effective knowledge for young students, especially…
View article: Science, Engineering, and Technology Innovation for Global Human Challenges
Science, Engineering, and Technology Innovation for Global Human Challenges Open
Science, Engineering and Technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and as problem solvers, engineers are perfectly capable of managing entrepreneurial activities mastering innovative ways of business development once they spend…
View article: USense: A people-centric opportunistic sensing tool
USense: A people-centric opportunistic sensing tool Open
People-centric sensing has been emerging due to the integration of the most varied sensors in personal devices. The goal is to infer individual behaviour following a participatory or opportunistic, non-intrusive, sensing methods. USense is…