Singapore Polytechnic

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Singapore Polytechnic

• Pee Suat Hoon, Senior LecturerSchool of
  Electrical Electronic Engineering

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Agenda

• Profile
• Motivation
• Plans/action

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Profile

• Our MissionOur mission is to educate our
  students and to train them to excel in work and
  in life.
• Our VisionWe aspire to be a world-class
  institution. Our graduates will be highly
  competent, innovative and versatile, imbued with
  sound values and committed to life long learning.
  

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Profile

• Established in 1954
• 34 full-time and part-time diploma courses
• 27 post diploma courses
• 2 full-time advanced diploma courses
• ranging from engineering to business, maritime
  studies, biotechnology, optometry, information
  technology, computing and e-commerce.

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Profile - courses
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Profile number of students

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Profile students by school
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Motivation

• SPs initiative towards Educational excellence
  through creativity, innovation and enterprise
  (CIE)
• Falling interest in engineering courses
• SP has started some initiatives in PBL to make
  learning more interesting
• KIT, Japan (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
  attachment to study about their education reform
  efforts
• Engineering Design courses
• Large scale projects solar car, human flight
  etc
• CDIO is a good vehicle

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YUMEKOBOFactory for dreams ideas
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Motivation

• CDIO provides a framework for systematic
  development
• Network of like-minded educators

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Plans/action taken

• Meetings with Director, EEE and Dy Director in
  charge of courses
• Design minor proposal (based on electives)
• Worked with MM department on a Design option
• proposed CDIO workspace and new design modules
• Speaking in SP conference on CDIO
• joining as collaborator

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Proposed option in design
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CDIO experiencePBL using Labview PDA

• Identify design opportunity
• Project characterisation library, web sites,
  magazines
• Generate concepts
• Overview design
• Detailed design

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Conceiving
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Discussion of ideas
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Test
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Design and Implement
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build
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Programming
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Works helmet
Case studies
Light sensor
Proximity sensor
buzzer
Temperature sensor
lamp
fan

• Helmet and jacket connected to sensors and
  actuators

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Friendly bus-stop
Case studies
Bus stop light turns on when required Bus number
indication Indication and light turns off when
passenger boards bus
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CO sensor prototype
Case studies by students
Buzzer and car alarm inside
Window made of cardboard
PPC display
SMS sent to nearby PC via wireless LAN
Simple wheel made of cardboard to simulate engine
running
Tachometer attached to wheel