This paper describes the research and process involved in validating the academic relevance of a University level curriculum in Semiconductor Test. Texas A&M University Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) Program, within the Dwight Look College of Engineering, has a world class Test lab. This lab, supported by Texas Instruments and Teradyne Inc., has been teaching Mixed Signal test at the undergraduate level for over 12 years. The Lab faculty and staff were interested in the technical relevance of their curriculum and engaged an Industry standards organization to co-sponsor an industry-based survey. SEMI’s Collaboration of Automated Semiconductor Test (CAST) was chosen and agreed. This survey polled engineers, managers, and professionals within the semiconductor industry with Test Engineering questions, which revealed specific feedback on what they would like college new hires to know before reporting to work. Feedback and results from 144 mostly senior level Industry colleagues are summarized.
A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS’ NEEDS FOR TECHNICAL AND SOFT SKILLS AMONG NEW GRADUATESijcseit
ABSTRACT
Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies’ expectations. These can uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the prevalence and level of employers’ desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills. Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their qualifications.
Topic: Critical review of an ERP post-implementation Article (Grade Mark: Distinction of 79%)
Module: Research Principles and Practices
Sheffield Hallam University
A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS’ NEEDS FOR TECHNICAL AND SOFT SKILLS AMONG NEW GRADUATES ijcseit
Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently
conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies’ expectations. These can
uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon
State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper
takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the
prevalence and level of employers’ desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills
were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills.
Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored
approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and
applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that
employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning
experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their
qualifications.
EFFICIENCY OF DECISION TREES IN PREDICTING STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE cscpconf
Educational data mining is used to study the data available in the educational field and bring
out the hidden knowledge from it. Classification methods like decision trees, rule mining,
Bayesian network etc can be applied on the educational data for predicting the students
behavior, performance in examination etc. This prediction will help the tutors to identify the
weak students and help them to score better marks. The C4.5 decision tree algorithm is applied
on student’s internal assessment data to predict their performance in the final exam. The
outcome of the decision tree predicted the number of students who are likely to fail or pass. The
result is given to the tutor and steps were taken to improve the performance of the students who
were predicted to fail. After the declaration of the results in the final examination the marks
obtained by the students are fed into the system and the results were analyzed. The comparative
analysis of the results states that the prediction has helped the weaker students to improve and
brought out betterment in the result. To analyse the accuracy of the algorithm, it is compared
with ID3 algorithm and found to be more efficient in terms of the accurately predicting the
outcome of the student and time taken to derive the tree.
Predictive models are able to predict edX student grades with an accuracy error of 0.1 (10%, about one
letter grade standard deviation), based on participation data. Student background variables are not useful
for predicting grades. By using a combination of segmentation, random forest regression, linear
transformation and application beyond the segmented data, it is possible to determine the population of the
Auditors student use case, a population larger than those students completing courses with grades.
A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS’ NEEDS FOR TECHNICAL AND SOFT SKILLS AMONG NEW GRADUATESijcseit
ABSTRACT
Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies’ expectations. These can uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the prevalence and level of employers’ desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills. Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their qualifications.
Topic: Critical review of an ERP post-implementation Article (Grade Mark: Distinction of 79%)
Module: Research Principles and Practices
Sheffield Hallam University
A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS’ NEEDS FOR TECHNICAL AND SOFT SKILLS AMONG NEW GRADUATES ijcseit
Motivated by concern about the ability of graduates to succeed in the workforce, universities frequently
conduct surveys of local and regional employers, to understand those companies’ expectations. These can
uncover specific needs not being addressed. Following a similar line of inquiry, prior research at Oregon
State University interviewed employers, with the aim of identifying skills of concern. The current paper
takes this research another step further by presenting a survey-based study aimed at quantifying the
prevalence and level of employers’ desire for workers who have these identified skills. Although all skills
were rated as moderately useful or better, most soft skills scored higher than most technical skills.
Nonetheless, three technical skills (source code versioning, testing and agile methods) scored
approximately as well as the soft skills; these three technical skills, like soft skills, were cross-cutting and
applicable to more than one software development context. Further survey questions revealed that
employers preferred that, to the extent that students focus on building technical skill, these learning
experiences ideally should involve creating software that students can use as evidence of their
qualifications.
EFFICIENCY OF DECISION TREES IN PREDICTING STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE cscpconf
Educational data mining is used to study the data available in the educational field and bring
out the hidden knowledge from it. Classification methods like decision trees, rule mining,
Bayesian network etc can be applied on the educational data for predicting the students
behavior, performance in examination etc. This prediction will help the tutors to identify the
weak students and help them to score better marks. The C4.5 decision tree algorithm is applied
on student’s internal assessment data to predict their performance in the final exam. The
outcome of the decision tree predicted the number of students who are likely to fail or pass. The
result is given to the tutor and steps were taken to improve the performance of the students who
were predicted to fail. After the declaration of the results in the final examination the marks
obtained by the students are fed into the system and the results were analyzed. The comparative
analysis of the results states that the prediction has helped the weaker students to improve and
brought out betterment in the result. To analyse the accuracy of the algorithm, it is compared
with ID3 algorithm and found to be more efficient in terms of the accurately predicting the
outcome of the student and time taken to derive the tree.
Predictive models are able to predict edX student grades with an accuracy error of 0.1 (10%, about one
letter grade standard deviation), based on participation data. Student background variables are not useful
for predicting grades. By using a combination of segmentation, random forest regression, linear
transformation and application beyond the segmented data, it is possible to determine the population of the
Auditors student use case, a population larger than those students completing courses with grades.
COMPARISON INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT WITH TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR ...cseij
In education, the use of electronic (E) examination systems is not a novel idea, as E-examination systems
have been used to conduct objective assessments for the last few years. This research deals with randomly
designed E-examinations and proposes an E-assessment system that can be used for subjective questions.
This system assesses answers to subjective questions by finding a matching ratio for the keywords in
instructor and student answers.
Machine Learning Regression Analysis of EDX 2012-13 Data for Identifying the ...IJITE
Predictive models are able to predict edX student grades with an accuracy error of 0.1 (10%, about one letter grade standard deviation), based on participation data. Student background variables are not useful for predicting grades. By using a combination of segmentation, random forest regression, linear transformation and application beyond the segmented data, it is possible to determine the population of the Auditors student use case, a population larger than those students completing courses with grades.
TOWARDS AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SENTIMENTS IN CUSTOMER REVIEWSijistjournal
Opinions Play important role in the process of knowledge discovery or information retrieval and can be considered as a sub discipline of Data Mining. A major interest has been received towards the automatic extraction of human opinions from web documents. The sole purpose of Sentiment Analysis is to facilitate online consumers in decision making process of purchasing new products. Opinion Mining deals with searching of sentiments that are expressed by Individuals through on-line reviews,surveys, feedback,personal blogs etc. With the vast increase in the utilization of Internet in today's era a similar increase has been seen in the use of blog's,reviews etc. The person who actually uses these reviews or blog's is mostly a consumer or a manufacturer. As most of the customers of the world are buying & selling product on-line so it becomes company's responsibility to make their product updated. In the current scenario companies are taking product reviews from the customers and on the basis of product reviews they are able to know in which they are lacking or strong this can be accomplished with the help of sentiment analysis. Therefore Our objective of our research is to build a tool which can automatically extract opinion words and find out their polarity by using dictionary,This actually reduces the manual effort of reading these reviews and to evaluate them. The research also illustrates the benefits of using Unstructured text instead of training data which expensive . In this research effort we demonstrate a method which is based on rules where product reviews are extracted from review containing sites and analysis is done, so that a person may know whether a particular product review is positive or negative or neutral. The system will utilize a existing knowledge base for calculate positive and negative scores and on the basis of that decide whether a product is recommended or not. The system will evaluate the utility of Lexical resources over the training data.
INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT FOR SUBJECTIVE EXAMS cscpconf
In education, the use of electronic (E) examination systems is not a novel idea, as Eexamination systems have been used to conduct objective assessments for the last few years. This research deals with randomly designed E-examinations and proposes an E-assessment system that can be used for subjective questions. This system assesses answers to subjective questions by finding a matching ratio for the keywords in instructor and student answers. The matching ratio is achieved based on semantic and document similarity. The assessment system is composed of four modules: preprocessing, keyword expansion, matching, and grading. A survey and case study were used in the research design to validate the proposed system. The examination assessment system will help instructors to save time, costs, and resources, while increasing efficiency and improving the productivity of exam setting and assessments.
SOFTWARE TESTING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE ...ijaia
The history of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning dates back to 1950’s. In recent years, there has
been an increase in popularity for applications that implement AI and ML technology. As with traditional
development, software testing is a critical component of an efficient AI/ML application. However, the
approach to development methodology used in AI/ML varies significantly from traditional development.
Owing to these variations, numerous software testing challenges occur. This paper aims to recognize and
to explain some of the biggest challenges that software testers face in dealing with AI/ML applications. For
future research, this study has key implications. Each of the challenges outlined in this paper is ideal for
further investigation and has great potential to shed light on the way to more productive software testing
strategies and methodologies that can be applied to AI/ML applications.
A Federated Search Approach to Facilitate Systematic Literature Review in Sof...ijseajournal
To impact industry, researchers developing technologies in academia need to provide tangible evidence of
the advantages of using them. Nowadays, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has become a prominent
methodology in evidence-based researches. Although adopting SLR in software engineering does not go far
in practice, it has been resulted in valuable researches and is going to be more common. However, digital
libraries and scientific databases as the best research resources do not provide enough mechanism for
SLRs especially in software engineering. On the other hand, any loss of data may change the SLR results
and leads to research bias. Accordingly, the search process and evidence collection in SLR is a critical
point. This paper provides some tips to enhance the SLR process. The main contribution of this work is
presenting a federated search tool which provides an automatic integrated search mechanism in wellknown Software Engineering databases. Results of case study show that this approach not only reduces
required time to do SLR and facilitate its search process, but also improves its reliability and results in the
increasing trend to use SLRs.
Competitiveness of Top 100 U.S. Universities: A Benchmark Study Using Data En...ertekg
Download Link > https://ertekprojects.com/gurdal-ertek-publications/blog/benchmark-study-using-data-envelopment-analysis/
This study presents a comprehensive benchmarking study of the top 100 U.S. Universities. The methodologies used to come up with insights into the domain are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and information visualization. Various approaches to evaluating academic institutions have appeared in the literature, including a DEA literature dealing with the ranking of universities. Our study contributes to this literature by the extensive incorporation of information visualization and subsequently the discovery of new insights.
Examination is the process by which the ability and the quality of the examinees can be measured. It is necessary to ensure the quality of the examinees. Online examination system is the process by which the participants can appear at the examination irrespective of their locations by connecting to examination site via Internet using desktop computers, laptops or smart phones. Automated score generation is the process by which the answer scripts of the examinations are evaluated automatically to generate scores. Although, there are many existing online examination systems, the main drawback of these systems is that they cannot compute automated score accurately, especially from the text-based answers. Moreover, most of them are unilingual in nature. As a result, examinees can appear at the examination in a particular language. Considering this fact, in this paper, we present a framework that can take Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) examinations and written examinations in two different languages English and Bangla. We develop a database where the questions and answers are stored. The questions from the database are displayed in the web page with answering options for the MCQ questions and text boxes for the written questions. For generating the scores of the written questions, we performed several types of analysis of the answers of the written questions. However, for generating the scores of the MCQ questions, we simply compared between the database answers and the user’s answers. We conducted several experiments to check the accuracy of score generation by our system and found that our system can generate 100% accurate scores for MCQ questions and more than 90% accurate scores from text based questions.
The Influence of Participant Personality in Usability TestsCSCJournals
This paper presents the results of a study investigating the impact of participant personality on usability testing. Data were collected from 20 individuals who participated in a series of usability tests. The participants were grouped into 10 introverts and 10 extroverts, and were asked to complete a set of four experimental tasks related to the usability of an academic website. The results of the study revealed that extroverts were more successful than introverts in terms of finding information as well as discovering usability problems, although the types of problems found by both groups were mostly minor. It was also found that extroverts spent more time on tasks but made more mistakes than introverts. From these findings, it is evident that personality dimensions have significant impacts on usability testing outcomes, and thus should be taken into consideration as a key factor of usability testing.
Domestic Possessions and Space Adequacy in Urban Homes drboon
As economies and societies transform, housing models need to be modified accordingly to reflect the changes in demand and the shifts in living standards. This study seeks to ascertain whether the recently built private housing schemes provide adequate amount of space to meet the requirements of present-day living, considering the importance of domestic materials as instruments for domestic organization in modern homes. Data was collected by a questionnaire survey designed to elicit information on residents’ attitudes towards the adequacy of the available space in their homes with regard to their belongings. Result from 179 residents of medium cost housing in the Klang Valley area of Malaysia indicates that the available home space seems inadequate. The provision of storage and circulation is also a cause for concern. The findings may be used to enhance urban housing design by incorporating the contemporary understanding of beliefs and ideologies attached to the home.
Commuters’ Perception of Legibility and Complexity with Respect to Path Choic...drboon
The effect of environmental factors on walking behavior needs to be considered based on the purpose of walking trip; whether walking for transport or walking for recreational purposes. Since everybody walks on his/her daily transport, studying walking behavior of those who walk for transport would contribute to maintain the minimum rate of physical activity. Commuters are the major group of those who walk for transport. It was found that the path choice of pedestrians can be considered to examine the effects of environmental factors on walking behavior. Introducing two environmental factors of perceived legibility and perceived complexity, it is demonstrated that the theoretical and empirical relationship between these factors and walking behavior as well as the path choice criteria, leads to define these two factors in accordance with commuter’s specifications. Accordingly, both perceived legibility and perceived complexity are two important path choice criteria of commuters in CBD of Kuala Lumpur.
Effective Moisture Diffusivity and Activation Energy of Tomato in Thin Layer ...drboon
The aim of this paper is to report tomato slice moisture diffusivity data determined and activation energy from experimental drying kinetics. The thin-layer drying experiments were carried out under five air temperatures of 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80ºC, two air velocity 1.5, and 2 m/s and three level of relative humidity 20, 40 and 60%. It was observed that drying took place in the falling rate period. Moisture transfer from tomato slice was described by applying the Fick’s diffusion model. The effective diffusivity values changed from 9.9119×10^-10 to 6.4037×10^-9 m^2/s for the range of temperatures considered. An Arrhenius relation with an activation energy value of 33.3299 to 43.2287 kJ/mol and the diffusivity constant value of 1.7695×10^-4 to 3.09156×10^-2 m^2/s were obtained which shows the effect of drying air temperature, air velocity and relative humidity on the diffusivity.
Theoretical Investigation of Hetero–Diels–Alder Functionalizations on SWCNT a...drboon
Two–layered ONIOM method at the ONIOM(B3LYP/6–31G(d,p):AM1) theoretical level was applied to investigate the hetero Diels-Alder reaction functionalization of various nitrosoalkenes (NAs) and thionitrosoalkenes (TNAs) onto side–wall (5,5) armchair SWCNT. The results indicated that SWCNT can be functionalized with NAs and TNAs. The energy barriers of TNAs funtionalized SWCNT were lower than those of NAs. This implied that TNAs are easier to react with SWCNT than those of NAs. In addition, electronic properties and density of states of SWCNT were modified by the Diels-Alder functionalizations of NAs and TNAs.
Carbon Materials from High Ash Bio-char: A Nanostructure Similar to Activated...drboon
Problem statement: Developing high-value nanostructured carbon from bio-char, for electrical and natural gas energy storage, is critical to improving the economic viability of thermochemical bioenergy and biofuel conversion processes. Approach: Here we show that chemical activation, using potassium or sodium hydroxide as catalysts, converted the biochar of distiller’s dried grains with soluble into activated carbon with high surface area (> 1500 m2/g). Results: The development of porosity by chemical activation using alkali hydroxides depends on type and dosage of activation catalysts; activation temperature and atmosphere conditions. Activated carbon samples with high mesoporous volume ( 1 ml/g), and nanostructure similar to activated graphene were prepared at activation temperature (1050 °C) and KOH loading (0.05 or 0.075 mol/g biochar). Conclusion: This protocol offers the potential to use other protein rich feedstocks for preparing nanostructured carbon, containing nanostructure similar to activated graphene, as an advanced carbon material.
A Shorter Version of Student Accommodation Preferences Index (SAPI)drboon
The current study aims to develop a short but valid and reliable instrument for the examination of student accommodation preferences. This study draws upon the instrument developed by Khozaei et al. (2011), the student accommodation preferences index (SAPI). The construct validity of the instrument was assessed through an exploratory factor analysis using a principal components analysis with varimax rotation, by which 6 factors were extracted with 64 items. Because the questionnaire is lengthy, the current study aimed to develop a valid and reliable shorter version of the instrument to examine student accommodation preferences, thereby extending the previous work by collecting data from a subsequent sample. The confirmatory factor analysis and subsequent iterative process yielded a valid and reliable student accommodation preferences instrument (SAPI) with only 29 items. This is much shorter than the original 60-item instrument. The iterative process was performed by considering good measurement theory and retaining at least 4 items per construct. This shorter revised instrument has been shown to be both valid and reliable.
Hunting New Public Spaces in New Urban Area: A Case Study in Semarang City, I...drboon
The public space is unequivocally important for new urban planning strategies. The public space fulfills an important role in increasing the 'social cohesion' in society. The explanation of the exact significance of the public space remains an implicit one. This paper is a report of an intensive quest to establish the preconditions for the design of new public spaces at new urban area in Semarang city, Indonesia. The basic of analysis of the cultural geography of the network city finds something new about a new perspective of cultural exchange as a typical urban quality. The result of this paper based on investigation of the new collective spaces of the urban field offers and insight into the factors that facilitate the development of new public domain. The conclusion of this study shows that one of the reasons for the lack of a vision as regards the quality of the public space lies in the fact that important 'players' such as administrators, designers and developers to a large degree think along the same lines.
COMPARISON INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT WITH TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR ...cseij
In education, the use of electronic (E) examination systems is not a novel idea, as E-examination systems
have been used to conduct objective assessments for the last few years. This research deals with randomly
designed E-examinations and proposes an E-assessment system that can be used for subjective questions.
This system assesses answers to subjective questions by finding a matching ratio for the keywords in
instructor and student answers.
Machine Learning Regression Analysis of EDX 2012-13 Data for Identifying the ...IJITE
Predictive models are able to predict edX student grades with an accuracy error of 0.1 (10%, about one letter grade standard deviation), based on participation data. Student background variables are not useful for predicting grades. By using a combination of segmentation, random forest regression, linear transformation and application beyond the segmented data, it is possible to determine the population of the Auditors student use case, a population larger than those students completing courses with grades.
TOWARDS AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SENTIMENTS IN CUSTOMER REVIEWSijistjournal
Opinions Play important role in the process of knowledge discovery or information retrieval and can be considered as a sub discipline of Data Mining. A major interest has been received towards the automatic extraction of human opinions from web documents. The sole purpose of Sentiment Analysis is to facilitate online consumers in decision making process of purchasing new products. Opinion Mining deals with searching of sentiments that are expressed by Individuals through on-line reviews,surveys, feedback,personal blogs etc. With the vast increase in the utilization of Internet in today's era a similar increase has been seen in the use of blog's,reviews etc. The person who actually uses these reviews or blog's is mostly a consumer or a manufacturer. As most of the customers of the world are buying & selling product on-line so it becomes company's responsibility to make their product updated. In the current scenario companies are taking product reviews from the customers and on the basis of product reviews they are able to know in which they are lacking or strong this can be accomplished with the help of sentiment analysis. Therefore Our objective of our research is to build a tool which can automatically extract opinion words and find out their polarity by using dictionary,This actually reduces the manual effort of reading these reviews and to evaluate them. The research also illustrates the benefits of using Unstructured text instead of training data which expensive . In this research effort we demonstrate a method which is based on rules where product reviews are extracted from review containing sites and analysis is done, so that a person may know whether a particular product review is positive or negative or neutral. The system will utilize a existing knowledge base for calculate positive and negative scores and on the basis of that decide whether a product is recommended or not. The system will evaluate the utility of Lexical resources over the training data.
INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT FOR SUBJECTIVE EXAMS cscpconf
In education, the use of electronic (E) examination systems is not a novel idea, as Eexamination systems have been used to conduct objective assessments for the last few years. This research deals with randomly designed E-examinations and proposes an E-assessment system that can be used for subjective questions. This system assesses answers to subjective questions by finding a matching ratio for the keywords in instructor and student answers. The matching ratio is achieved based on semantic and document similarity. The assessment system is composed of four modules: preprocessing, keyword expansion, matching, and grading. A survey and case study were used in the research design to validate the proposed system. The examination assessment system will help instructors to save time, costs, and resources, while increasing efficiency and improving the productivity of exam setting and assessments.
SOFTWARE TESTING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE ...ijaia
The history of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning dates back to 1950’s. In recent years, there has
been an increase in popularity for applications that implement AI and ML technology. As with traditional
development, software testing is a critical component of an efficient AI/ML application. However, the
approach to development methodology used in AI/ML varies significantly from traditional development.
Owing to these variations, numerous software testing challenges occur. This paper aims to recognize and
to explain some of the biggest challenges that software testers face in dealing with AI/ML applications. For
future research, this study has key implications. Each of the challenges outlined in this paper is ideal for
further investigation and has great potential to shed light on the way to more productive software testing
strategies and methodologies that can be applied to AI/ML applications.
A Federated Search Approach to Facilitate Systematic Literature Review in Sof...ijseajournal
To impact industry, researchers developing technologies in academia need to provide tangible evidence of
the advantages of using them. Nowadays, Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has become a prominent
methodology in evidence-based researches. Although adopting SLR in software engineering does not go far
in practice, it has been resulted in valuable researches and is going to be more common. However, digital
libraries and scientific databases as the best research resources do not provide enough mechanism for
SLRs especially in software engineering. On the other hand, any loss of data may change the SLR results
and leads to research bias. Accordingly, the search process and evidence collection in SLR is a critical
point. This paper provides some tips to enhance the SLR process. The main contribution of this work is
presenting a federated search tool which provides an automatic integrated search mechanism in wellknown Software Engineering databases. Results of case study show that this approach not only reduces
required time to do SLR and facilitate its search process, but also improves its reliability and results in the
increasing trend to use SLRs.
Competitiveness of Top 100 U.S. Universities: A Benchmark Study Using Data En...ertekg
Download Link > https://ertekprojects.com/gurdal-ertek-publications/blog/benchmark-study-using-data-envelopment-analysis/
This study presents a comprehensive benchmarking study of the top 100 U.S. Universities. The methodologies used to come up with insights into the domain are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and information visualization. Various approaches to evaluating academic institutions have appeared in the literature, including a DEA literature dealing with the ranking of universities. Our study contributes to this literature by the extensive incorporation of information visualization and subsequently the discovery of new insights.
Examination is the process by which the ability and the quality of the examinees can be measured. It is necessary to ensure the quality of the examinees. Online examination system is the process by which the participants can appear at the examination irrespective of their locations by connecting to examination site via Internet using desktop computers, laptops or smart phones. Automated score generation is the process by which the answer scripts of the examinations are evaluated automatically to generate scores. Although, there are many existing online examination systems, the main drawback of these systems is that they cannot compute automated score accurately, especially from the text-based answers. Moreover, most of them are unilingual in nature. As a result, examinees can appear at the examination in a particular language. Considering this fact, in this paper, we present a framework that can take Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) examinations and written examinations in two different languages English and Bangla. We develop a database where the questions and answers are stored. The questions from the database are displayed in the web page with answering options for the MCQ questions and text boxes for the written questions. For generating the scores of the written questions, we performed several types of analysis of the answers of the written questions. However, for generating the scores of the MCQ questions, we simply compared between the database answers and the user’s answers. We conducted several experiments to check the accuracy of score generation by our system and found that our system can generate 100% accurate scores for MCQ questions and more than 90% accurate scores from text based questions.
The Influence of Participant Personality in Usability TestsCSCJournals
This paper presents the results of a study investigating the impact of participant personality on usability testing. Data were collected from 20 individuals who participated in a series of usability tests. The participants were grouped into 10 introverts and 10 extroverts, and were asked to complete a set of four experimental tasks related to the usability of an academic website. The results of the study revealed that extroverts were more successful than introverts in terms of finding information as well as discovering usability problems, although the types of problems found by both groups were mostly minor. It was also found that extroverts spent more time on tasks but made more mistakes than introverts. From these findings, it is evident that personality dimensions have significant impacts on usability testing outcomes, and thus should be taken into consideration as a key factor of usability testing.
Domestic Possessions and Space Adequacy in Urban Homes drboon
As economies and societies transform, housing models need to be modified accordingly to reflect the changes in demand and the shifts in living standards. This study seeks to ascertain whether the recently built private housing schemes provide adequate amount of space to meet the requirements of present-day living, considering the importance of domestic materials as instruments for domestic organization in modern homes. Data was collected by a questionnaire survey designed to elicit information on residents’ attitudes towards the adequacy of the available space in their homes with regard to their belongings. Result from 179 residents of medium cost housing in the Klang Valley area of Malaysia indicates that the available home space seems inadequate. The provision of storage and circulation is also a cause for concern. The findings may be used to enhance urban housing design by incorporating the contemporary understanding of beliefs and ideologies attached to the home.
Commuters’ Perception of Legibility and Complexity with Respect to Path Choic...drboon
The effect of environmental factors on walking behavior needs to be considered based on the purpose of walking trip; whether walking for transport or walking for recreational purposes. Since everybody walks on his/her daily transport, studying walking behavior of those who walk for transport would contribute to maintain the minimum rate of physical activity. Commuters are the major group of those who walk for transport. It was found that the path choice of pedestrians can be considered to examine the effects of environmental factors on walking behavior. Introducing two environmental factors of perceived legibility and perceived complexity, it is demonstrated that the theoretical and empirical relationship between these factors and walking behavior as well as the path choice criteria, leads to define these two factors in accordance with commuter’s specifications. Accordingly, both perceived legibility and perceived complexity are two important path choice criteria of commuters in CBD of Kuala Lumpur.
Effective Moisture Diffusivity and Activation Energy of Tomato in Thin Layer ...drboon
The aim of this paper is to report tomato slice moisture diffusivity data determined and activation energy from experimental drying kinetics. The thin-layer drying experiments were carried out under five air temperatures of 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80ºC, two air velocity 1.5, and 2 m/s and three level of relative humidity 20, 40 and 60%. It was observed that drying took place in the falling rate period. Moisture transfer from tomato slice was described by applying the Fick’s diffusion model. The effective diffusivity values changed from 9.9119×10^-10 to 6.4037×10^-9 m^2/s for the range of temperatures considered. An Arrhenius relation with an activation energy value of 33.3299 to 43.2287 kJ/mol and the diffusivity constant value of 1.7695×10^-4 to 3.09156×10^-2 m^2/s were obtained which shows the effect of drying air temperature, air velocity and relative humidity on the diffusivity.
Theoretical Investigation of Hetero–Diels–Alder Functionalizations on SWCNT a...drboon
Two–layered ONIOM method at the ONIOM(B3LYP/6–31G(d,p):AM1) theoretical level was applied to investigate the hetero Diels-Alder reaction functionalization of various nitrosoalkenes (NAs) and thionitrosoalkenes (TNAs) onto side–wall (5,5) armchair SWCNT. The results indicated that SWCNT can be functionalized with NAs and TNAs. The energy barriers of TNAs funtionalized SWCNT were lower than those of NAs. This implied that TNAs are easier to react with SWCNT than those of NAs. In addition, electronic properties and density of states of SWCNT were modified by the Diels-Alder functionalizations of NAs and TNAs.
Carbon Materials from High Ash Bio-char: A Nanostructure Similar to Activated...drboon
Problem statement: Developing high-value nanostructured carbon from bio-char, for electrical and natural gas energy storage, is critical to improving the economic viability of thermochemical bioenergy and biofuel conversion processes. Approach: Here we show that chemical activation, using potassium or sodium hydroxide as catalysts, converted the biochar of distiller’s dried grains with soluble into activated carbon with high surface area (> 1500 m2/g). Results: The development of porosity by chemical activation using alkali hydroxides depends on type and dosage of activation catalysts; activation temperature and atmosphere conditions. Activated carbon samples with high mesoporous volume ( 1 ml/g), and nanostructure similar to activated graphene were prepared at activation temperature (1050 °C) and KOH loading (0.05 or 0.075 mol/g biochar). Conclusion: This protocol offers the potential to use other protein rich feedstocks for preparing nanostructured carbon, containing nanostructure similar to activated graphene, as an advanced carbon material.
A Shorter Version of Student Accommodation Preferences Index (SAPI)drboon
The current study aims to develop a short but valid and reliable instrument for the examination of student accommodation preferences. This study draws upon the instrument developed by Khozaei et al. (2011), the student accommodation preferences index (SAPI). The construct validity of the instrument was assessed through an exploratory factor analysis using a principal components analysis with varimax rotation, by which 6 factors were extracted with 64 items. Because the questionnaire is lengthy, the current study aimed to develop a valid and reliable shorter version of the instrument to examine student accommodation preferences, thereby extending the previous work by collecting data from a subsequent sample. The confirmatory factor analysis and subsequent iterative process yielded a valid and reliable student accommodation preferences instrument (SAPI) with only 29 items. This is much shorter than the original 60-item instrument. The iterative process was performed by considering good measurement theory and retaining at least 4 items per construct. This shorter revised instrument has been shown to be both valid and reliable.
Hunting New Public Spaces in New Urban Area: A Case Study in Semarang City, I...drboon
The public space is unequivocally important for new urban planning strategies. The public space fulfills an important role in increasing the 'social cohesion' in society. The explanation of the exact significance of the public space remains an implicit one. This paper is a report of an intensive quest to establish the preconditions for the design of new public spaces at new urban area in Semarang city, Indonesia. The basic of analysis of the cultural geography of the network city finds something new about a new perspective of cultural exchange as a typical urban quality. The result of this paper based on investigation of the new collective spaces of the urban field offers and insight into the factors that facilitate the development of new public domain. The conclusion of this study shows that one of the reasons for the lack of a vision as regards the quality of the public space lies in the fact that important 'players' such as administrators, designers and developers to a large degree think along the same lines.
Development of FPGA based Dual Axis Solar Tracking Systemdrboon
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) meet critical timing and performance requirements with parallel processing and real-time control application performance, allowing greater system integration and lower development cost. This paper describes a dual axis solar tracking system is based on astronomical equations. The position of sun at anytime is a function of azimuth and altitude angle values. Azimuth and altitude angle values are collected off line. The prototype of dual axis solar tracking system is developed on FPGA to implement the proposed idea. The system comprises of digital clock module, rise time module and two pulses generator modules. Pulse generator modules employ Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) technique for controlling two stepper motors for tracking the azimuth and altitude angles. The functionality of various blocks of the system is described in Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL). The control logic has been successfully implemented on Spartan 3E FPGA device. Xilinx ISE 14.1 suit is used for design entry, synthesis and burning the bit stream file into FPGA device. The functional verification has been performed using Xilinx simulator.
Relevance Vector Machines for Earthquake Response Spectra drboon
This study uses Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) regression to develop a probabilistic model for the average horizontal component of 5%-damped earthquake response spectra. Unlike conventional models, the proposed approach does not require a functional form, and constructs the model based on a set predictive variables and a set of representative ground motion records. The RVM uses Bayesian inference to determine the confidence intervals, instead of estimating them from the mean squared errors on the training set. An example application using three predictive variables (magnitude, distance and fault mechanism) is presented for sites with shear wave velocities ranging from 450 m/s to 900 m/s. The predictions from the proposed model are compared to an existing parametric model. The results demonstrate the validity of the proposed model, and suggest that it can be used as an alternative to the conventional ground motion models. Future studies will investigate the effect of additional predictive variables on the predictive performance of the model.
Sustainable Design and Function of Architectural Space and its Composition of...drboon
Function should always be regarded as the most important subject before the consideration of form and space be fulfilled. The design reaches its level of aesthetic when it is able to integrate all the required relationships in the design process with clear objectives. This can be seen clearly in the case of mud clay architecture in Hadhramout region, Yemen. The issue of material durability, traditional construction techniques, beauty, and affordability becomes the crucial factors that will be able to fulfill the user’s level of satisfaction, comfort, financial, and spiritual needs. Based on the architectural knowledge gained over the years, the Hadhrami local master builders have acquired brilliant skills and expertise to shape the regional environment and architectural heritage. They always consider ‘functional spaces’ before the buildings and houses are erected. This study investigates the use of mud clay architecture in relation to the design of the building function with its specific architectural form and space in Wadi Hadhramout. It focuses on the residential and religious buildings.
Analyzing the solutions of DEA through information visualization and data min...ertekg
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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proven to be a useful tool for assessing efficiency or productivity of organizations, which is of vital practical importance in managerial decision making. DEA provides a significant amount of information from which analysts and managers derive insights and guidelines to promote their existing performances. Regarding to this fact, effective and methodologic analysis and interpretation of DEA solutions are very critical. The main objective of this study is then to develop a general decision support system (DSS) framework to analyze the solutions of basic DEA models. The paper formally shows how the solutions of DEA models should be structured so that these solutions can be examined and interpreted by analysts through information visualization and data mining techniques effectively. An innovative and convenient DEA solver, SmartDEA, is designed and developed in accordance with the pro-posed analysis framework. The developed software provides a DEA solution which is consistent with the framework and is ready-to-analyze with data mining tools, through a table-based structure. The developed framework is tested and applied in a real world project for benchmarking the vendors of a leading Turkish automotive company. The results show the effectiveness and the efficacy of the proposed framework.
Analyzing the solutions of DEA through information visualization and data min...Gurdal Ertek
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proven to be a useful tool for assessing efficiency or productivity of organizations, which is of vital practical importance in managerial decision making. DEA provides a significant amount of information from which analysts and managers derive insights and guidelines to promote their existing performances. Regarding to this fact, effective and methodologic analysis and interpretation of DEA solutions are very critical. The main objective of this study is then to develop a general decision support system (DSS) framework to analyze the solutions of basic DEA models. The paper formally shows how the solutions of DEA models should be structured so that these solutions can be examined and interpreted by analysts through information visualization and data mining techniques effectively. An innovative and convenient DEA solver, Smart DEA, is designed and developed in accordance with the proposed analysis framework. The developed software provides a DEA solution which is consistent with the framework and is ready-to-analyze with data mining tools, through a table-based structure. The developed framework is tested and applied in a real world project for bench marking the vendors of a leading Turkish automotive company. The results show the effectiveness and the efficacy of the proposed framework.
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Guidelines to Understanding Design of Experiment and Reliability Predictionijsrd.com
This paper will focus on how to plan experiments effectively and how to analyse data correctly. Practical and correct methods for analysing data from life testing will also be provided. This paper gives an extensive overview of reliability issues, definitions and prediction methods currently used in the industry. It defines different methods and correlations between these methods in order to make reliability comparison statements from different manufacturers' in easy way that may use different prediction methods and databases for failure rates. The paper finds however such comparison very difficult and risky unless the conditions for the reliability statements are scrutinized and analysed in detail.
Issues in Query Processing and OptimizationEditor IJMTER
The paper identifies the various issues in query processing and optimization while
choosing the best database plan. It is unlike preceding query optimization techniques that uses only a
single approach for identifying best query plan by extracting data from database. Our approach takes
into account various phases of query processing and optimization, heuristic estimation techniques
and cost function for identifying the best execution plan. A review report on various phases of query
processing, goals of optimizer, various rules for heuristic optimization and cost components involved
are presented in this paper.
Improving Technological Services and Its Effect on the Police’s PerformanceEditor IJCATR
The role of police department in any country is critical. It is obvious that improving the technology in police department can
be done with safety and contributes to improve its economy. This paper, first tries to recognize the existed weaknesses in used
technologies. Then, it will suggest the best approach. The proposed framework of this study points out to two different moderating
roles that can be considered as technical contributions. Moreover, the combination of this proposed framework is new for current
study. This framework is concentrated on technology improvement, knowledge management system, technology acceptance, police
performance, and ministry performance
Software Defect Prediction Using Local and Global AnalysisEditor IJMTER
The software defect factors are used to measure the quality of the software. The software
effort estimation is used to measure the effort required for the software development process. The defect
factor makes an impact on the software development effort. Software development and cost factors are
also decided with reference to the defect and effort factors. The software defects are predicted with
reference to the module information. Module link information are used in the effort estimation process.
Data mining techniques are used in the software analysis process. Clustering techniques are used
in the property grouping process. Rule mining methods are used to learn rules from clustered data
values. The “WHERE” clustering scheme and “WHICH” rule mining scheme are used in the defect
prediction and effort estimation process. The system uses the module information for the defect
prediction and effort estimation process.
The proposed system is designed to improve the defect prediction and effort estimation process.
The Single Objective Genetic Algorithm (SOGA) is used in the clustering process. The rule learning
operations are carried out sing the Apriori algorithm. The system improves the cluster accuracy levels.
The defect prediction and effort estimation accuracy is also improved by the system. The system is
developed using the Java language and Oracle relation database environment.
11(4) 2020 ITJEMAST Multidisciplinary Research Articlesdrboon
Research papers 2020 Behavioral finance; Personality traits; Behavioral factors; Overconfidence bias; Locus of control; Decision-making; Biased behavior Carbon (CO2) emissions; Economic Growth; Energy consumption; Trade; ARDL Approach; Granger Causality; Energy use Pedestrian start-up time; Street crosswalk, Pedestrian traffic signals; Pedestrians traffic lights; zebra crossings; Intersection crossings Service Attributes; Relationship quality; Relationship outcomes; Banking services; Electronic Customer Relationship Management; Virtual relationships; eBanking; eCRM College town landscape; College town character; Campus community; Urban identity; College town space; Sense of a place; Public Space; University gardens; Cultural identity; Campus identity; Businesses in college towns Emotional quotient; Self-emotional appraisal; Workplace Advice Network (WAN) Centrality; Service Sector Organizations; Sociometric matrix; Interconnectivity of nodes
11(3) 2020 ITJEMAST Multidisciplinary Research Articles drboon
Non-destructive testing method Heat loss Thermal conductivity Specific heat Know-how Psychological contract breach Employees' Workplace behaviour Workplace spirituality Human resource management (HRM) Power sector Positive classroom Male teachers Classroom management system Public primary schools Private primary school Positive motivation students Quality primary education Grout rheology Construction workings High-precision lining Tunneling complex Cement slurry Reinforcement solutions Smart building systems Green architecture Green roof Green design Sustainable environmental architecture Smart energy management Architecture technology Neo-Functionalism Trade integration CPEC agreement Economic integration Regional cooperation Pak-China relations Pak-Iran relations Central Asia Republics Sino-Pakistan Agreement
11(2)2020 International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Ap...drboon
Multidisciplinary Management, Journalism and Mass Communication Science (Information and Media Sciences), Political Sciences (International Affairs), Global Studies), Animal Sciences, Feeding Technology, Healthcare Management.
V8(3) 2017:: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & ...drboon
Research articles published in V8(3) 2017:: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies ==>
Awareness of Passive Design on Apartment Façade Designs in Putrajaya, Malaysia
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Comparative Analysis of Low-Cost Housing Policies in Malaysia and Nigeria
139
A Study on Kevin Lynch’s Urban Design Elements: Precinct 9 East Putrajaya
153
Investigating Urban Design Elements of Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur
169
A Study on Sharing Home Ownership Schemes in Malaysia
183
The Impact of Window to Wall Ratio (WWR) and Glazing Type on Energy Consumption in Air-Conditioned Office Buildings
197
Competitiveness Factors of Thai Construction Industry within the AEC Context: A Qualitative Approach
209
Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Government Construction Procurement Problems in Thailand
221
In a world of rapidly increasing urbanization, striving to develop more livable cities, the city’s streets designing and planning should be high on the agenda for policymakers, city planners and other practitioners, as well as researchers. Designing streets is not as easy as it might originally seem, however, done correctly it means that one third of the city was designed successfully with an immense impact on the rest of the city. The key challenge in developing sustainable and fulfilling streets is to develop an integrated approach in planning them, where it is necessary to consider all aspects involved. Meanwhile, efforts devoted to this topic vary considerably from place to place. Thus, this paper aims at discussing the main elements involved in designing streets for a livable city, in a comprehensive approach including pedestrians, vehicles, and parking areas.
Impact of Building Envelope Modification on Energy Performance of High-Rise A...drboon
In residential buildings, providing comfortable living environment for building occupants is a major challenge for architects, engineers and those who involved in the building industry. It is reported that considerable energy is consumed to provide and maintain acceptable indoor conditions for thermal comfort in residential buildings in hot-humid climate. The observable increase in energy consumption is chiefly resulting from the growing use of air conditioning system. There are various energy conservation measures which can be applied to reduce energy consumption and among these measures are passive envelope design measures. This paper addresses the energy performance of selected high-rise apartments in Kuala Lumpur. Energy Plus software is utilized in measuring the performance because of its availability, validity and accuracy. Possible energy savings due to passive envelope design measures integration are investigated. This includes investigating the effect of thermal insulation and glazing type on potential energy savings.
Enhancement of Space Environment Via Healing Gardendrboon
Green nature, sunlight and fresh air have been known as important component of healing in healthcare facilities. This paper presents the finding of an exploratory study on healing garden elements in healthcare facilities. The purpose of the paper is to find the elements of healing gardens and its healing factors in the existing garden design. In conducting this research study, site observation and informal interview at selected healthcare facilities have been performed. The study reveals the elements of existing garden design, the interactivity and the end users expectation on a garden. The finding shows that lacking some of the elements of garden design lead to less user friendliness and interactivity in the garden. It also shows that the visibility, accessibility, quietness and comfortable condition in the garden give impact to the utilization of the garden.
Design of Quadruped Walking Robot with Spherical Shelldrboon
We propose a new quadruped walking robot with a spherical shell, called "QRoSS." QRoSS is a transformable robot that can store its legs in the spherical shell. The shell not only absorbs external forces from all directions, but also improves mobile performance because of its round shape. In rescue operations at a disaster site, carrying robots into a site is dangerous for operators because doing so may result in a second accident. If QRoSS is used, instead of carrying robots in, they are thrown in, making the operation safe and easy. This paper reports details of the design concept and development of the prototype model. Basic experiments were conducted to verify performance, which includes landing, rising and walking through a series of movements.
Motion Analysis of Pitch Rotation Mechanism for Posture Control of Butterfly-...drboon
We developed a small flapping robot on the basis of movements made by a butterfly with a low flapping frequency of approximately 10 Hz, a few degrees of freedom of the wings, and a large flapping angle. In this study, we clarify the pitch rotation mechanism that is used to control its posture during takeoff for different initial pitch and flapping angles by the experiments of both manufactured robots and simulation models. The results indicate that the pitch angle can be controlled by altering the initial pitch angle at takeoff and the flapping angles. Furthermore, it is suggested that the initial pitch angle generates a proportional increase in the pitch angle during takeoff, and that certain flapping angles are conducive to increasing the tendency for pitch angle transition. Thus, it is shown that the direction of the flight led by periodic changing in the pitch angle can be controlled by optimizing control parameters such as initial pitch and flapping angles.
Analysis of Roll Rotation Mechanism of a Butterfly for Development of a Small...drboon
In this paper, we investigated the aerodynamic characteristics during roll rotation of a butterfly based on computational fluid dynamics using a three-dimensional high-speed camera information. This method allows to create a numerical model of a butterfly from the camera images and to analyze the flow field corresponding to the captured behavior. We photographed two behaviors different in rotational axis and analyzed the roll rotational mechanism. In a typical pitch rotational flight, the differential pressure was concentrated on the tip of fore wings. The magnitudes of reaction forces on left and right wings were roughly matched each other. On the other hands, the differential pressure of the roll rotational flight was distributed in the whole of wings. The magnitude of the right reaction force was twice greater than that of left at the first down stroke. The roll angle changed largely at the same time. These results show that a butterfly rotates about roll by changing the reaction forces on each side.
Effect of Oryzalin on Growth of Anthurium andraeanum In Vitrodrboon
Apical shoots and lateral buds of Anthurium andraeanum about 0.5 cm grew very well when cultured on MS medium supplemented with NAA, kinetin, sucrose and gelrite. When brought young plantlets (the same sized) of A. andraeanum soaked in various concentrations of oryzalin with different duration times. The A. andraeanum plantlets were subcultured into the same medium every 4 weeks for 3 times. It was found that 5.0 mg/l oryzalin with 24 and 72 hours gave the best average number of leaves per bunch, plant height and diameter of bunch. These parameters were reverse proportion, when increased concentration of oryzalin, the growth rate in each parameter was decreased with thick and pale green leaves.
Role of 2,4-D on Callus Induction and Shoot Formation to Increase Number of S...drboon
Stem node of Miniature Rose with axillary bud were used as explants. These explants cultured on MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of 2,4-D. It was found that MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/l 2,4-D gave the highest number of green callus. The callus cultured on MS medium supplemented with different combinations of NAA and BA to form new shoot and root. From the result, we are able to find the highest number of young shoots that were induced from callus when cultured callus on MS medium supplemented with NAA and BA. When subcultured all new shoots with the same size to MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of NAA and BA, and 2,4- D for six weeks. The result was significant difference (P≤0.5) when compared the average height of plant and percentage of root formation, but their duration time for flowering were not significant different.
Seismic Capacity Comparisons of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Between Standar...drboon
Earthquakes are cause of serious damage through the building. Therefore, moment resistant frame buildings are widely used as lateral resisting system. Generally three types of moment resisting frames are designed namely Special ductile frames (SDF), Intermediate ductile frames (IDF) and Gravity load designed (GLD) frames, each of which has a certain level of ductility. Comparative studies on the seismic performance of three different ductility of building are performed in this study. The analytical models are considered about failure mode of column (i.e. shear failure, flexural to shear failure and flexural failure); beam-column joint connection, infill wall and flexural foundation. Concepts of incremental dynamic analysis are practiced to assess the required data for performance based evaluations. This study found that the lateral load capacity of GLD, IDF, and SDF building was 19.25, 27.87, and 25.92 %W respectively. The average response spectrum at the collapse state for GLD, IDF, and SDF are 0.75 g, 1.19 g, and 1.33 g, respectively. The results show that SDF is more ductile than IDF and the initial strength of SDF is close to IDF. The results indicate that all of frames are able to resistant a design earthquake.
ITJEMAST5(2): Latest Research from International Transaction Journal of Engin...drboon
An After-Stay Satisfaction Survey of Residents Living in Prefabricated Concrete Structures in Thailand
Hydrothermal Assisted Microwave Pyrolysis of Water Hyacinth for Electrochemical Capacitors Electrodes
Group Technology Paves the Road for Automation
Effect of Laser Priming on accumulation of Free Proline in Spring Durum Wheat (Triticum turgidum L.) under Salinity Stress
Livable Public Open Space for Citizen’s Quality of Life in Medan, Indonesia
ITJEMAST5(1): Latest Research from International Transaction Journal of Engin...drboon
Latest Research from International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies ITJEMAST5(1):
Effects of Calcination Treatment of Diatomite on Dimethyl Ether Synthesis from Methanol
Effect of Blend Ratio on Cure Characteristics, Mechanical Properties, and Aging Resistance of Silica-filled ENR/SBR Blends
An Efficient Formulation of Off-line Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems Using Polyhedral Invariant Sets
Effect of Modeling Parameters on System Hydrodynamics of Air Reactor in Chemical Looping Combustion Using CFD Simulation
Flow Behavior of Geldart A and Geldart C Particles in a Co-current Downflow Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor
Optimization of Enzymatic Clarification from Corncob
Synthesis of Alkali Metal/CaO Sorbent for CO2 Capture at Low Temperature
Effect of Exchangeable Cations on Bentonite Swelling Characteristics of Geosy...drboon
Geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) are thin hydraulic barriers which contain the bentonite sandwiched between geotextiles or geomembrane. Bentonite swelling is a very common phenomenon observed in GCLs. It is one of the major causes for permeability reduction in hydraulic barriers. The aim of this study is to characterize the swelling behavior of bentonite in GCLs by exchangeable cations. X-ray diffraction test and scanning electron microscopy were used to quantify the swelling characteristics of this bentonite under contact with salt solutions, as in the hydraulic barriers. The results from X-ray diffraction test showed that the presence of clay minerals was swelling montmorillonite. The swell volume of bentonite decreases with increasing valence of cations. In the case of the same valence the free swell volume of bentonite increased with decreasing concentration of permeant liquids. From another test, the scanning electron microscopy, it can be seen that the bentonite appears as corn flake like crystals for air-dried bentonite. However, specimen permeated with salt solutions, the clay has become more porous and fluffy and porous size seemed to be diminished.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...
Industry Supported Semiconductor Test Engineering Academic Survey and Round-Table at Texas A&M University
1. 2011 International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies.
2011 International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies.
International Transaction Journal of Engineering,
Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies
http://www.TuEngr.com, http://go.to/Research
Industry Supported Semiconductor Test Engineering
Academic Survey and Round-Table at Texas A&M
University
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Tom Munnsa , Rainer Finkb, Ellen Onderkoc
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Consultant, Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Texas A&M University
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Faculty, Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Texas A&M University
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Program Manager, Semiconductor Test (EET), Texas A&M University
ARTICLEINFO A B S T RA C T
Article history: This paper describes the research and process involved in
Received 23 August 2011
Accepted 30 September 2011 validating the academic relevance of a University level
Available online curriculum in Semiconductor Test. Texas A&M University
25 December 2011 Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) Program, within the
Keywords:
Texas A&M,
Dwight Look College of Engineering, has a world class Test lab.
Semiconductor, This lab, supported by Texas Instruments and Teradyne Inc., has
Digital Test, been teaching Mixed Signal test at the undergraduate level for
Curriculum,
Industry-based survey.
over 12 years. The Lab faculty and staff were interested in the
technical relevance of their curriculum and engaged an Industry
standards organization to co-sponsor an industry-based survey.
SEMI’s Collaboration of Automated Semiconductor Test
(CAST) was chosen and agreed. This survey polled engineers,
managers, and professionals within the semiconductor industry
with Test Engineering questions, which revealed specific
feedback on what they would like college new hires to know
before reporting to work. Feedback and results from 144 mostly
senior level Industry colleagues are summarized.
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Applied Sciences & Technologies.
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2. 1. Introduction
A major tenet of any physical system or engineering design is to keep the system under
control with some kind of feedback or control loop. The same philosophy can be used to
monitor and improve other less physical systems in our environment. This basic engineering
principle was the driving force behind a closed loop review and monitoring of the
Semiconductor Test industry employment skill needs, and the Test Engineering curriculum
output at Texas A&M University. This closed loop review resulted in a complex and detailed
data intensive result. We decided to break the loop into two topics. This paper reflects the first
topic: the research and process involved with soliciting industry feedback and validating it.
A second paper will take the validated data from industry and correlate it with the Texas
A&M University/ETID Electronics Engineering Technology curriculum, and seek validation
of the curriculum with industry needs.
Texas A&M University chose to partner with the standards body called CAST
(Collaboration of Automated Semiconductor Test) under the organization of SEMI. The
industry based survey, created and co-sponsored by these two organizations polled engineers,
managers, and professionals within the semiconductor industry. Industry was to provide
specific feedback on what they would like Test Engineering new hires to have learned before
reporting to work.
2. Survey Commissioned
To provide the broad Industry feedback necessary for a reliable survey and study, we
needed to partner with an organization that had the infrastructure, and similar educational
interests to support our goals. We were delighted to work with Paul Roddy, chairman of
CAST, operating under the SEMI standard’s organization. Paul, with the Texas A&M Mixed
Signal Test lab staff, authored a set of five polling questions. These questions were reviewed
several times for understanding and purpose. One review cycle even included select members
of the CAST membership. Once the questions were optimized, the survey was web posted for
availability to full CAST membership. We were pleased to have 144 responses, especially
after review of the credentials of the respondents. Thirty replies came from members with
titles of either Director or VP. Thirteen were from company Presidents. Twenty-one claimed
a position of manager, twenty-nine listed Engineer within title, and three were listed with the
prestigious title of Fellow. Within the same population of 144 responders, a group of 20 were
also identified as working directly for the hardware vendors that supply the capital equipment
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3. for the ATE market. For a deeper understanding of the polled responses, statistics were
calculated separately and tallied uniquely for this subset of the responder’s population.
2.1 Survey Analysis
To help understand the significance and validity of the survey itself, the survey was
presented at the Industry and Academia Roundtable (IAR) at Texas A&M University in May
2010. The process reviewed the survey questions, discussed the raw responses, debated the
analysis and condensation of the data, and approved the final summary statements derived
from the survey. Thirty-one test professionals and test aware faculty were in attendance at the
May 2010 IAR. The Roundtable had a total attendance/representation of nine companies and
seven universities. The survey questions polled responses from the topics of programming
languages, test tools, test concepts, and repertoire of DUTs (Devices Under Test) experiences.
2.2 Survey Analysis Methodology
The questions of the survey were written in such a way as to gain a relative priority of the
reported answers. We asked for the responders to rank each answer with a priority number.
The first survey question is copied below as an example of the style and wording used in the
survey. The question opens the topic, and then a list of answers is supplied to gather the
technical significance and priority of each.
Example survey question (question number 1)
If you had a choice of the tools you would like your college new hires to already be
conversant with – what would those tools be? (Select and rank the top 5.)
__ PC board design rules and constraints
__ Software for test development (Identify type: IG-XL, etc.)
__ Software for validation and analysis
__ CAD tools overview
__ Testers and automated test methods
__ Bench tools and basic electronic measurements (Scopes, meters, signal generators)
__ Other
Survey questions 1, 2, and 5 have between seven and eight answers, but we requested the
responders to prioritize only the top five with a number between 1 and 5. Questions 3 and 4
have many polling answers, so we requested a priority of only the top ten. We expected a
value that rated that particular answer as a number between one and ten (for questions 3 and
4). This was a benefit to the understanding of the survey, but did cause some extra
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4. complication in the data condensation.
The result of each question’s data condensation is a detailed chart that summarizes
several complementing methods of data analysis. To help with explanation of these methods,
question 1’s summary chart is copied below as an example (see Figure 1). A brief description
of the calculation and analysis methods will follow.
Q1: General new hire tools,
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count totals 114 118 122 118 139 133 25
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rank avg 2.89 2.77 2.98 2.94 2.56 2.32 2.76
Figure 1: Example of Summary Chart.
The four analysis methods:
1. Chart total respondents count (respondent cared to give any vote). (population 144)
2. Chart respondent’s count that were either a 1, 2, or 3 (top priorities).
3. Chart the average score (rank or priority) of each answer. (=sum /count)
4. Chart the average score (rank or priority) of ATE vendor professionals only.
( =sum/count of ATE population 20)
We then charted the top 3 selections of each analysis method using black dropping
arrows in order to report the overall weighted score (using overlap of all 4 methods listed
above). In general, the 4 methods of summarizing the raw data were used to help validate the
data itself. In nearly every case, that is for all 5 questions, the summary trend using any one
of the analysis methods was very similar. The dropdown arrows that mark the top 3
selections from each analysis method for question #1 is shown in Figure 2 on a following
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5. page. In general this visual mapping overlap tool did help to make the IAR audience more
comfortable with the overall consensus of the data.
2.3 Detailed Methodology using Question 1 as example
The first calculation within the summarization of the polled data was to sum up the
answers that were given any vote at all, no matter the priority. If the respondent took the
trouble to give the answer any numerical vote, that answer was tallied. Looking at the
summary chart for question #1 (Figure 2), notice the top line (blue) on the chart that has a
total count of 139 for the fifth answer annotated as “ATE & test methods”. This answer was
the top selection using this analysis method. From the population of 144 respondents, 139
selected this answer with some level of priority. The second highest choice using this total
count method is answer six, “Bench Tools”, with 133 votes, and the third highest selection
was “Software for Analysis” with 122 votes. Figure 2 also has the count of answers that
were voted with a priority ranking of at least a 3, 2, or 1. The second graphed line from the
top (yellow) has a max or high point of 100 on the sixth answer annotated as “Bench Tools”.
One hundred of the 144 respondents selected answer six within their top three priorities.
Second choice using this method of only counting the vote if the priority was 3, 2, or 1 was
answer five “ATE & Test methods” with 95 votes, and third place with 82 votes was answer
2, “Software for Test Development”.
The next two graphed responses (purple and light blue) are attempts to summarize the
relative priority value of the answers that were reported on the survey. These lines are
mapped to the right axis, and are the calculation of “average” of all the values that were
reported for the element. Because there are 7 answers for the first question, the priority could
be a number between 1 and 7 (however we requested only a ranking of 1 through 5). The
calculation of “average” was accomplished with a simple sum of all numerical values entered,
divided by the count of responders that entered any value for that answer. By design the
respondent that did not annotate any response for a particular answer did not influence the
numerator or denominator of the SUM/COUNT equation. The last charted line is similar to
the average rank calculation, but uses data only from the subset of the 20 voting members that
were denoted as working for an ATE vendor company.
The survey questions will be copied into this report in a very similar format and style as
they were listed on the actual survey website. The final numeric priority given to each answer
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6. is listed in red font to speed the readability for the interested reader. Of course, the red
annotation was not available at the time of original survey posting. Following the survey
question with red font annotating overall rank order is the detailed chart with responses and
analytical summary per question.
3. Industry Survey of New Hire Test Engineering Technology
Questions and results
On the followings you will see the questions and results as returned from the survey.
Question 1:
If you had a choice of the tools you would like your college new hires to already be
conversant with – what would those tools be? (Select and rank the top 5.)
5 PC board design rules and constraints
3 Software for test development (Identify type: IG-XL, etc.)
4 Software for validation and analysis
6 CAD tools overview
1 Testers and automated test methods
1 Bench tools and basic electronic measurements (Scopes, meters, signal generators)
Other
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count totals 114 118 122 118 139 133 25
count (1,2,or 3) 72 82 77 80 95 100 18
rank avg 2.88596 2.77119 2.97541 2.94068 2.56115 2.32331 2.76
rank avg ATE 3.05882 3.26667 3.375 3.21429 2.94737 2.22222 2
Figure 2: Results of question #1, General New Hire Tool set.
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7. Question 2:
If you had a choice of the programming languages you would like your college
new hires to be conversant with – what languages would you choose? (Select and
rank the top 5)
2 C
1 C++
4 Java
5 Perl
3 Visual Basic (Identify type: VB, VBA, VBT)
6 Ruby ( open-source, multi-paradigm, interpreted programming language)
Other
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count (1,2,or 3) 68 110 68 56 58 11 12
rank avg 2.74 2.03125 3.13043 3.23762 3.08654 4.05263 2.58824
rank avg ATE 2.64286 2.05263 3.38462 3.27778 2.66667 4.8 4
Figure 3: Results of question #2, Preferred language.
Question 3:
If you had a choice of what devices you would like your new hires to have already
tested, would they include: (Select and rank the top 10).
___ Resistors ___ Capacitors
_5_ Operational amplifiers ___ Counters
___ Voltage regulators ___ FETs
___ Digital to analog converters _4_ Analog to digital converters
_2_ Microprocessors and/or general logic _3_ RF components
_1_ Mixed-signal devices ___ Other
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8. Q3: Requested Device test experience
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rank avg 6.256 6.748 5.283 6.788 5.776 5.422 4.836 4.773 4.352 4.943 4.23 4.462
rank avg ATE 5.875 7.308 5.111 6.429 5.313 5.353 4.789 5.053 4.263 4.684 4.222 6.5
Figure 4: Results of question #3, Requested Device test Experience.
Question 4:
If you had a choice of concepts you would want college new hires to already be
familiar with – what would they be: (Select and rank the top 10).
___Kelvin connections ___BIST techniques
___Coherent sampling ___Test safety
___FFT _4_Test program development process
___RF interconnections ___Test time reduction
_2_Analog measurement ___Adaptive test
_3_Instrumentation ranges and accuracies ___The economics and logistics of test
___Mechanical measurement concept and
tolerances" ___Quality assurance (AQL)
___High speed interconnection _6_Statistical process control (SPC)
___High current interconnection ___Mechanical measurement and
tolerances
___Low current interconnection _5_Project management
___Logic Scan testing _1_Problem solving techniques
___Memory Test Algorithms ___Other
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4. Industry and Academia Roundtable Review
Texas A&M wanted to create a meeting or forum for a different kind of technical
exchange between Industry and Academia. The outcome was a conference and gathering in
May of 2010 in College Station on the campus of Texas A&M University by a select group of
Test professionals from both Industry and Academia. The IAR Mission Statement seems a bit
altruistic, but is listed below:
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11. “Creating Industry and Academic cooperation, involvement, collaboration,
and understanding on a continuous basis”
The key word in the statement is “understanding”. It had become clear that Industry and
Academia were sometimes using the same words with different meanings. The best
description and overall purpose of the conference was to address the type of questions listed
in the IAR Standing Agenda and Challenge Questions (listed below):
• ALL: What engineer types (DFT, Product, & Test) can best be produced on the
undergraduate level and which require graduate level education?
• ACADEMICS: What is the difference between EE and ET Departments, goals, etc?
• INDUSTRY: What are your challenges in the next 2 to 5 years which the Universities
should know about?
• ACADEMICS: Which, if any, existing University courses could be adapted to meet
needs not covered elsewhere?
• INDUSTRY: What are the key areas of new technology/process/equipment/tools or
techniques for which education is needed?
• ACADEMICS: What University classes simply do not exist to provide a theoretical
background in these areas of new technology/process/equipment/tools or techniques?
• INDUSTRY: How can the Universities gain expertise if they don’t already have it?
• ACADEMICS: Which Universities are currently best equipped to produce which type
of engineer and why? (Test, Product, and Design)
IAR Conference SPEAKOUT SESSION: Each participant was invited to prepare
and present a short 5min presentation on one or more of the topics above, or any other
visionary topic that is expected to be an Industry challenge in the next 2-5 years.
It would seem easy to focus exclusively on the major gaps that exist between Industry
and Academia. Because of the concern that the conference could be overwhelmed with a
negative tone of only listing deficiencies, the first conference was organized with select
companies, universities, and professionals that could bring the most energy and positive
support to the needed solution space. The exit feedback forms of those attending attest to the
fact that the topics were balanced, and that they had accomplished an overall productive
outcome at addressing the agenda. The all day conference was extended with an invitation to
a casual group dinner. More evidence into the extent of positive collaboration was that 85%
of the audience continued the communication process well into the dinner activities.
5. Approved Industry Survey Analysis
A perfect topic match for the intent of the Roundtable was to challenge the audience with
*Corresponding author (Tom Munns). E-mail addresses: tgmunns@gmail.com, fink@tamu.edu,
onderko@tamu.edu. 2011. International Transaction Journal of Engineering,
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12. the detailed review of the survey. Consequently the same audience was the first benefactor of
the results of the survey on Test Engineering skills requested of new hires. Once again, the
process was to spend quality time to review the wording of each survey question. Then
debate the raw results of the poll and to come to an understanding of what the Industry
consensus was voicing in their votes.
5.1 IAR Validated Summaries of Survey Results (by specific question)
Q1: General test tool knowledge of new hire:
Specific tester language training was not a top priority, however useful. The key priority
identified was for hands on skills in debug of technical issues in a lab bench environment
(Oscilloscopes, frequency analyzers, etc…). The IAR review committee debated the survey
results as it pertained to knowledge and acquired skill in use of Automated test Equipment
(ATE), and considered use of the ATE as an extension of the lab bench environment. The
IAR review made it clear that the aptitude of students in these areas translated to skills usable
and favored in the work environment. The subsequent skills of CAD design, and in
particular PC board layout were not without relatively high interest and marks, but the top
response was for new hires to enter the work force with basic Bench-top Test and practical
debug skills.
Q2: Preferred language:
The survey confirmed that the most highly used language within the Semiconductor Test
industry is still C or C++ based. We assumed this was within a UNIX environment, but we
had no statistical means to prove this statement. The specific tester language of the current
Teradyne Mixed Signal test platform (FLEX/microFLEX) was selected in third place (Visual
Basic with VBT extensions). The committee was somewhat surprised that the scripting
language of PERL received only half as many top three votes as the C++ response. We had
assumed that PERL would be treated hand in hand with either program automation or post
tester result data manipulation. The respondents also treated the JAVA response with similar
low relevance, fourth out of six options. We assume this is possibly in deference to the
predominance of the C and C++ languages (assumed to be within the UNIX domain).
However it could be a low level vote for JAVA used in Software testing and WEB site testing
techniques. Though it was not one of the given answers to the survey question, the
respondents did write-in several references to National Instrument’s LABVIEW as a language
skill of new hires. For this chart the visual dropdown arrows were enhanced to include the
top four selections from each of the four analysis methods. This weighting helped to
illuminate the industry interest in VBT over JAVA.
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13. Q3: Requested Device Test Experience, Repertoire:
In general the survey responses point to the industry preference to have students already
trained and experienced with testing complex products. Mixed Signal devices cause an extra
level of complication and challenge. The summary chart for question #3 (Figure 4) reveals
that having only tested a resistor or counter is not enough. The industry is looking for
experience with the most complicated devices possible. The response with the term
microprocessor and general logic had a much larger top 3 response than the question that
listed a simple counter. The selection of a general Mixed Signal device had twice as many
votes as the selection of any individual device (Voltage regulators, op amps, and
DAC/ADC’s). With the combined volume of votes for all of the Mixed Signal responses, the
committee believes a true highest priority from the Industry is knowledge and skill in Mixed
Signal device Test. Memory test was logged heavily in the write-in portion of the responses.
Q4: Test Concepts:
The responses of this question continue with the strong theme of an Industry need and
want for Analog and Mixed Signal skill in the work place. Analog measurement and
instrumentation ranges and accuracies were selected as a strong second and third place
response. It may have extra merit that the top selection for this question was the last selection
in the written list. The respondents banked one of their top 3 votes for the last item in the list,
which was “problem solving techniques”. One selection that did attract more response than
the Texas A&M staff had predicted was “Project Management”. Project Management was
actually the forth priority of selection from both the total count and top-3 count methods of
data analysis.
Q5: General Knowledge and Understanding:
The summary of question five had industry feedback that was not completely expected.
The responses for basic understanding of production test and general networking and
automation were expected to be the Industry top selections, however we were interested to see
that general understanding of device packaging took a strong second place within the
feedback. From a pure Test Engineering prospective we were surprised at this outcome, but
as we looked back over the industry respondents from the CAST population, we had
extensive representation from executives and upper management, and they must be telling it
like they see it! Semiconductor Device packaging is a complex issue in the market place.
Specific data analysis and data management tools were not a strong selection of the polling
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14. community. The IAR committee assumed this was because every company has their own
software product or method for this aspect of their business. Hiring for this specific skill or
training is apparently not necessary.
6. Overall Conclusion
Academic programs need to be relevant to provide students with an education that
prepares them not just to think, but also to live and work in the real world. Academia cannot
invent relevancy in isolation. Industry is needed to provide the closing of a feedback loop to
Academia just as Academia is needed to provide the education which industry can build upon
in their new hires. It cannot be done without key people in both Industry and Academia
sitting down to understand the complex systems in which each side must work. When Texas
A&M started out to determine the relevancy of their curriculum, an entire process had to be
created. Industry had to assist in gathering data and also in validating the data that was
collected. Academia could do neither in isolation. Now with validated data, Academia is
faced with how to inject these new concepts and ideas, if needed, into existing curriculum or
generating new courses to fill the identified voids.
A Center of Excellence from the perspective of either the Academic or Industrial side has
to be an intuition where this feedback loop exists as a series of continuous processes. At
Texas A&M we have created the relationship with SEMI’s Collaboration of Automated
Semiconductor Test (CAST) to ensure the validity of our questions and to gain breadth of our
audience. We have invited major industry and academic players to come together in a new
kind of discussion, the Industry Academia Roundtable (IAR). We then asked the IAR as a
group to discuss and validate the Test Engineering Skills survey, the survey analysis, and the
summary of results. With the validated results, the Texas A&M staff will subsequently review
our curriculum and complete a knowledge and task analysis. This analysis will provide a
clear picture of what we are teaching and what areas are not being adequately covered. We
have already introduced many minor knowledge (lectures) and tasks (labs) into existing
curriculum, and are working on introducing more major changes. It is an understatement to
report that these major changes will still need to evolve through the required University
procedures. Details of this curriculum evolution are planned in a follow on paper.
7. Acknowledgements
This paper would not have the industry relevance without the interaction and support of
the SEMI CAST organization. The Texas A&M staff would like to acknowledge and thank
544 Tom Munns, Rainer Fink, and Ellen Onderko
15. Paul Roddy, and Karl Stuber for their efforts in proposing the survey questions, and
implementing the survey within the standard operation of the CAST membership.
Tom Munns is a veteran of microprocessor and large SOC debug and development having worked at
Motorola/Freescale on three generations of products namely 68k CISC, 88k RISC, and PowerPC families.
Having held positions in Product Engineering, Design, and most recently Test Engineering, Tom has
professional and technical skill and interest in how DFT and DFM can improve the time to market, product
quality, and eventual cost of test for high volume high visibility products. Notably, Tom had direct design
content into one of the first Motorola microprocessors to implement JTAG IEEE1149.1, and also nurtured the
industry away from broadside memory test and into serial BIST test of embedded memories in the early years of
PowerPC development. Tom has a BS and MS in EE from Texas A&M University, and is currently consulting
and working with the TI Mixed Signal test Lab and the Freescale Digital Systems test lab at Texas A&M.
These labs, within the department of Engineering at TAMU, have been focused on the internal academic
training and development of undergraduate students learning to use ATE and specifically Teradyne J750 and
FLEX test equipment.
Dr Rainer Fink holds PhD in biomedical engineering from Texas A&M University. After finishing his PhD, he
joined the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. Currently he is serving as the
Director of the Texas Instruments Mixed-Signal Test Laboratory at Texas A&M. He has been involved in the
steering committee of the Teradyne Users Group (TUG) for the past 7 years as the special interest group chair
for the Mixed-Signal, Digital and Product Integrations sections of the conference. Dr. Fink is an active
entrepenuer and is serving as CTO/Partner for several small startup companies, primarily in the medical device
industry. His research activities include Mixed-Signal testing, analog circuit design and biomedical electronics.
Ellen Onderko came to Academia to be the Project Manager of Semiconductor Test from 15 years in the ATE
industry in Silicon Valley. She acts as the lab manager and facilitator for the use of industry level ATE
equipment (Teradyne FLEX and J750 systems). She was a field applications training engineer at both LTX and
Teradyne Inc. Prior to that, she was a government certified Instructional Systems Designer and a contractor
instructor in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). There she trained civilian contractors and
military members on Satellite command, control, communications and Remote Tracking Station (RTS) politics,
infrastructure, hardware and software. Retired from the USAF she earned the highest peacetime medal the
USAF awards, the Meritorious Service Medal. While in the military she worked from Avionics Electronics
technician to Wing/Base level Training Manager, Helicopter Rescue. Ellen has to her credit degrees in Human
Relations (MA), Anthropology (BA), and Instructor in Technology (AS) degrees earned while on the job.
Peer Review: This article has been internationally peer-reviewed and accepted for publication
according to the guidelines given at the journal’s website. Note: This article
was accepted and presented at IAJC-ASEE International Joint Conference on
Engineering and Related Technologies sponsored by IAJC, ASEE, and IEEE,
venue at University of Hartford, USA during April 29-30, 2011.
*Corresponding author (Tom Munns). E-mail addresses: tgmunns@gmail.com, fink@tamu.edu,
onderko@tamu.edu. 2011. International Transaction Journal of Engineering,
Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies. Volume 2 No.5 (Special Issue). 545
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