PEoPLe@DEIB: Innovative Learning Initiative: Rationality and on how to collaborate
Politecnico di Milano has started an initiative to innovate PoliMi’s teaching activities and techniques. The Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) has started to work on this initiative and we are pleased to share with you the result of this, the so called “PEoPLe@DEIB: Politecnico Experiences on Passionate Learning” initiative. The PEoPLE@DEIB goal is to present several courses, competitions and events that will make focus on some aspects of the engineering world – and not only – in a way of presenting these topics that is different from the one you experienced during your academic career in Politecnico. These events will be scheduled and proposed in a way that will not impact the normal academic activities, and that is one of the reasons why we included “Passionate” in our slogan, they will be held in the late afternoon, in the evening and during the weekends. Don’t worry, it is extra work – it’s true – but it is only on a voluntary basis; you will decide what to attend to and whether to do it. You will get extra credits for the courses/activities that you decide to attend and these will be listed in your diploma supplement when you graduate. We do have the perception that a close connection between research and education has to be pursued to properly prepare our students. Research and education is perceived as a dichotomy. It has often been hard to couple them in a productive and virtuous cycle but we do believe that Research can obtain great benefits from Teaching and the other way around and this basic principle is at the basis of all the PEoPLE@DEIB activities. In particular, involving young students in research activities will heavily increase the creative and brainstorming phase of a research group. Students are not yet constrained in a research framework and they are not scared by the idea of trying and failing to see their ideas coming reality through their work. On the contrary, from an educative point of view, giving the students the chance to be involved in real projects will mean giving them the chance to experience real design and development challenges and by guiding them during the design and development we can, in a maieutic way, teach them how to approach real life projects. In such a context it is necessary to provide the students with an environment where they can work and experiment a motivating experience and this is exactly what we are doing with the PEoPLe@DEIB initiative. We strongly believe that students are terrific, they are young, but that just means that they need to be properly trained and helped in understanding that failures are part of the learning process. Without trying, you are not going to fail, but without trying you cannot learn new things, you can not achieve greatness! PEoPLE@DEIB is working towards this objectives, trying to make students more self-confident.
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PEoPLe@DEIB: Innovative Learning Initiative: Rationality and on how to collaborate
- 1. Rationality and on how to collaborate Marco D. Santambrogio, marco.santambrogio@polimi.it 0
- 2. What is PEoPLe@DEIB PEoPLe@DEIB is an initiative born in the DEIB department from the idea that a close connection between research and education has to be pursued to properly prepare our students. In particular, involving young students in research activities will heavily increase the creative and brainstorming phase of a research group. Students are not yet constrained in a research framework and they are not scared by the idea of trying and failing to see their ideas coming reality through their work. On the contrary, from an educative point of view, giving the students the chance to be involved in real projects will mean giving them the chance to experience real design and development challenges and by guiding them during the design and development we can, in a maieutic way, teach them how to approach real life projects. 1
- 3. PEoPLe@DEIB in numbers 35 Hard skills courses 1K Students involved Hackathon and Tech Challenges 8 Soft skill courses EVENTS Hand on projects 2
- 6. PEoPLE@DEIB Basic Principles • Failures as part of the learning process • we have to embrace them, being able to learn from them, trying not to repeat them, but this can only be done through experience and time! • Research && Learning • A close connection between research and education has to be pursued to properly prepare our students • We do have to couple them in a productive and virtuous cycle • Involving students in research activities will heavily increase the creative and brainstorming phase of a research group • Giving the students the chance to be involved in real projects will, by guiding them, teach them how to approach real life projects.
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- 9. PEoPLe@DEIB is… - Hard Skills Courses - Hackaton - Tech Challenges 8
- 10. PEoPLE@DEIB HARD SKILLS Courses • Experiment new teaching opportunities and execute them to enhance passions and attitudes of the students. • Training and education activities will focus on: • Short courses on transversal tools and methodologies; • Design activities on multidisciplinary areas; • Group work projects in cooperation with industry; • Hackathons and students competitions. • Extra-curricular activities will be tracked in the student's career • diploma supplement; • recognition, with or without assessment, of non-curricular credits. 29/05/18 9
- 11. 10 Activities Business Conferences HARD CS EE Bio AUT TLC ELCT CompetitionsD R I V E R LaTeX, Git, … XOHW FPGA 4° International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation to shape the future Palermo, Italy, 10-13 Sep 2018 Courses/Activities on Hard Skills
- 12. PEoPLe@DEIB is… - Public Speaking - Mnemonic - Goal Mapping - Pitch - Problem solving - Project Management - Entrepreneurial mindset - Efficient Communication 11
- 13. 12 Activities Business Conferences HARD CS EE Bio AUT TLC ELCT CompetitionsD R I V E R LaTeX, Git, … XOHW FPGA D R I V E R Open Access 2 Innovation Hackathons TechMeetings SOFT Activities Presentation (Tech Talks, Pitches) Business Plan Writing Psychology Public Speaking (Voice, stage) Debate 4° International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation to shape the future Palermo, Italy, 10-13 Sep 2018 General Chairs Guido Ala, University of Palermo Tiziana Tambosso, IEEE Italy Section Chair Steering Committee Chairs Ermanno Cardelli, IEEE Italy Section Past-Chair Dario Petri, IEEE Italy Section National Association Liaison Committee Coordinator Steering Committee Pasquale Daponte Research Association GMEE Paolo Ciancarini, Research Association GRIN Paolo Bassi, Research Association SIEM Alfredo Testa, Research Association GUSEE Maria Chiara Carrozza, Research Association GNB Alberto Tenconi, Research Association CMAEL Fabio Villone, Research Association ET Ali Hessami, UK&Ireland Session Chair Luigi Rovati, RTSI 2017 co-chair Technical Program Committee Chair Bernardo Tellini, IEEE Italy Section Vice-Chair Technical Program Committee co-Chair Gaetano Zizzo, University of Palermo Track Chairs TRACK 1: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR CITIES AND ENVIRONMENT Fabio Massaro, University of Palermo Gianbattista Gruosso, IEEE Italy Section TRACK 2: SMART EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 Mauro Mosca, University of Palermo Leopoldo Angrisani, IM Chapter chair TRACK 3: ICT FOR FUTURE NETWORKS Dajana Cassioli, COM/VT Chapter Chair Secretariat Marco Trapanese, University of Palermo Tutorial Chair Salvatore Favuzza Exhibition Chair Salvatore Favuzza, University of Palermo Fabio Montagnino, Consorzio ARCA Publicity Chair Vincenzo Di Dio, University of Palermo Publication Chair Daniela Proto, IEEE Italy Section Special meeting for innovative start-up & entrepreneurs Vincenzo Di Dio, University of Palermo Giovanni Perrone, President PNICube Pietro Erratico, IEEE Italy Section Coordinator Women in engineering affinity group meeting 4° International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation to shape the future Palermo, Italy, 10-13 Sep 2018 Organized by the IEEE Italy Section and University of Palermo http://rtsi2018.ieeesezioneitalia.it The IEEE RTSI 2018 Technical Sessions focus on challenging and emerging issues in the field of 1) Sustainable development for cities and environment, 2) Smart emerging technologies for Industry 4.0, 3) ICT for future networks. They cover new developments in theory, analytics, numerical simulation and modelling, experimentation, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests, and other related creative endeavors. The Technical program topics include, but are not limited to: • Smart Environment and smart energy • Smart Grids • Smart solutions for Cities • Geomatics and GIS Systems • Smart agriculture • Sustainable marine transportation • Smart technologies and modelling for avionics Cloud-based networking and data center networking Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures, converged networks and applications Indoor localization and navigation, location- and context-aware services Network and mobile security: device, application, data, and content Network and service virtualization, reconfigurable wireless networks and Software Defined Networking (SDN) D2D communication, LTE-U, NB-IoT, Machine-to-machine and machine type communications • Photonics for industry 4.0 • Robotics and autonoumus system for industry 4.0 • Innovative Sensors and Measurement Systems • Computational Intelligence Applications in Industry 4.0 • ICT for a more Productive and Sustainable Society • IoT and Big Data for industry 4.0 • Micro and Nano – technologyes for industry 4.0 • Human machine interface • New frontiers in advanced numerical modelling • Security and Privacy in future Scenarios • ICT for health and wellness Prospective organizers of Technical Sessions for IEEE RTSI 2018 are invited to submit their proposals by sending an email to guido.ala@unipa.it Proposals should include: title of the proposed Technical Session short description (less than 300 words) of the topic session organizer(s) name(s), affiliation(s), short biography and contact information (including email addresses). Each Technical Session proposal is limited to no more than two organizers. It will be carefully CALL FOR TECHNICAL SESSION PROPOSALS
- 14. Prof perspective on… student interaction • Professors evaluted the interatcion with the students based on the following parameters: • Registered vs Attending • Interest • Hands on projects/activities 13
- 15. • Registered vs Attending • Interest • Hands on projects/activities 14 Traction = 52% (Registered/Attending) Prof perspective on… student interaction
- 16. • Registered vs Attending • Interest • Hands on projects/activities 15 5: 11,8% 6: 17,6% 7: 17,6% 8: 11,8% 9: 17,6% 10: 23,5% 1 note at all, 5 as is, 10 way better Prof perspective on… student interaction
- 17. • Registered vs Attending • Interest • Hands on projects/activities 16 NO YES Prof perspective on… student interaction
- 18. PEoPLe@DEIB from the Instructors point of view • Overall PEoPLe@DEIB evaluation • Are you going to propose a new course • Positive aspects • Negative aspects 17
- 19. PEoPLe@DEIB from the Instructors point of view • Overall PEoPLe@DEIB evaluation • Are you going to propose a new course • Positive aspects • Negative aspects 18 4: 11,8% 5: 5,9% 6: 5,9% 8: 11,8% 9: 35,3% 10: 29,4% 1 bad, 10 awesome
- 20. PEoPLe@DEIB from the Instructors point of view • Overall PEoPLe@DEIB evaluation • Are you going to propose a new course • Positive aspects • Negative aspects 19 COND YES
- 21. PEoPLe@DEIB from the Instructors point of view • Overall PEoPLe@DEIB evaluation • Are you going to propose a new course • Positive aspects • Negative aspects 20 Hands on projects Courses variety Students engagemetn Different way of interacting Dynamic teaching activities Interdisciplinarity
- 22. PEoPLe@DEIB from the Instructors point of view • Overall PEoPLe@DEIB evaluation • Are you going to propose a new course • Positive aspects • Negative aspects 21 Low tractions Improve the communication/PR No credits How to enroll
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- 25. Contacts DEIB – Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio 34/5 – Building 20 Official Website http://peopleatdeib.polimi.it/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/peopleatdeib/ 24