Gustavo Ribeiro Alves

Polytechnic Institute of Porto | IPP · CIETI - Centro de Inovação em Engenharia e Tecnologia Industrial

The fourth industrial revolution has had an unprecedented impact on humanity. The disruptive technologies driving the new revolution's pervasive change have the most significant impact on the younger generation. Universities should produce and promote the best use of such technologies. The next-generation university's form, function, and purpose mu...

In the coming years, every industry, whether education, services, or administration, will face the 5.0 challenges, such as real-time-based digital twins and simulation, human–machine interaction, human-centric solutions, bio-inspired technologies, smart materials, cyber-safe data transmission, virtual collaboration, technologies for energy efficien...

VISIR is a remote laboratory oriented to analogue electronics. There are several copies of VISIR around the world (Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, India, Australia, Morocco, …) that are being used by thousands of students. It is well known that VISIR allows teachers and students to create and measure real electrical and elec...

The Virtual Instrument Systems In Reality (VISIR) remote laboratory was considered the best remote laboratory in the world, by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC), in 2015. The first operational version of the VISIR remote laboratory was deployed in 2001. It was designed by Ingvar Gustavsson, with the collaboration of Kristian Nilsson an...

For educational institutions in STEM areas, the provision of practical learning scenarios is, traditionally, a major concern. In the 21st century, the explosion of ICTs, as well as the universalization of low-cost hardware, have allowed the proliferation of technical solutions for any field; in the case of experimentation, encouraging the emergence...

The 10th edition of the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2022) brings together researchers and postgraduate students interested in combining different aspects of the technology applied to knowledge society development, with particular attention to educational and learning issues. This volume includes contributions relat...

I am sharing the files used in my application for the Habilitation academic title (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitação). When preparing myself for this process, I benefitted from the help of two Colleagues, Filomena Soares and José Manuel Fonseca, from the University of Minho (Portugal) and Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal), who were kind...

I am sharing the files used in my application for the Habilitation academic title (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitação). When preparing myself for this process, I benefitted from the help of two Colleagues, Filomena Soares and José Manuel Fonseca, from the University of Minho (Portugal) and Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal), who were kind...

An online questionnaire survey form, regarding 14 motivators for and 13 barriers against adopting technology enhanced learning (TEL), was sent to over 300 Sri Lankan engineering lecturers, of which 98 responded. The main motivator was found to be personal interest in using technology, and the main barrier the lack of funding for TEL. The scores fo...

In the coming years, we will witness a change in the current car fleet sales, from traditional fuel engines towards electrical vehicles (EVs), particularly passenger light-duty vehicles. They plug into the grid and store the electricity in rechargeable batteries; therefore, the widespread adoption of EVs will bring many challenges for the distribut...

In recent years, bibliometrics has been widely used as a methodology for the analysis of scientific production, proving to be an excellent instrument for supporting scientific policy decisions. In this paper, we present a bibliometric analysis of the 12 editions of the Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Several indicators were used,...

This article proposes a roadmap for the VISIR remote laboratory based on a SWOT analysis performed by fifteen experts, with large experience on VISIR deployment, and their perceptions in three categories: Technical, Pedagogical and Educational. The resulting VISIR roadmap was obtained considering an underlying strategy based on a RAKID model. The m...

Balancing energy demand and supply will become an even greater challenge considering the ongoing transition from traditional fuel to electric vehicles (EV). The management of this task will heavily depend on the pace of the adoption of light-duty EVs. Electric vehicles have seen their market share increase worldwide; the same is happening in Portug...

Early on, students must develop competences by implementing simple or complex electronic circuits with Operational Amplifiers (OpAmps). Traditionally, these skills were mainly developed in laboratory classes, but technology allows us to explore other and complementary ways of aiding students in this achievement. This paper presents a contribution t...

The use of technology in Education helped teaching plans reach students almost anywhere during the COVID Pandemic and some positive effects regarding the planet sustainability were also reported during this phase. A questionnaire was conducted in order to assess if students felt any resource productive in their learning and would like to keep it, c...

An engineer is a professional par excellence with a multifaceted apprenticeship combining basic, engineering, specialty, and complementary sciences. The overall goal of engineering education is to prepare students to practice engineering and to deal with the forces and natural materials.

Für den Abschluss des vorliegenden Sammelbandes „Labore in der Hochschullehre“wurden sieben einschlägige internationale Expert*innen zu ihren Erfahrungen undVisionen in Bezug auf die Zukunft des Lehrens und Lernens im Labor befragt. Indiesem Beitrag kommen sie und ihre persönliche Perspektive weitgehend ungefiltertzu Wort. Daher stellen ihre konkre...

Final report of the local organising committee of the TAEE2020 Online Edition.

During the last ten years, the University of Deusto is using VISIR remote lab for analog electronics in the Faculty of Engineering. Present paper shows how we are using the VISIR with students, and its results. It is a catalog of experiments to invite other universities to join the VISIR consortium. Ongoing and future research in VISIR are also pre...

Technology-enhanced learning is utilized to support teaching and learning processes by using technology. ICT has enabled Open Online Learning to become a phenomenon and a prominent feature of higher education in developed countries because it can deliver a wide range of high-quality courses to a massive number of students and increase the collabora...

The focus of this Special Issue is aimed at enhancing the discussion of Engineering Education, particularly related to technological and professional learning. In the 21st century, students face a challenging demand: they are expected to have the best scientific expertise, but also highly developed social skills and qualities like teamwork, creativ...

The focus of this Special Issue is aimed at enhancing the discussion of Engineering Education, particularly related to technological and professional learning [...]

This research presents an international community of practice for teachers using the VISIR remote lab. Throughout the research, it was necessary to study about communities of practice and their potential use in remote laboratories; identify practices with collaborative potential in the institutions and with the participating teachers; develop the n...

Engineering profession is very demanding because of the different competences young graduates need to master. The exponential growth in technology, even though very beneficial to all, tends to worsen their needs of expertise, having to endlessly update themselves. Engineering education has been addressing these issues, hoping to contribute to bette...

Sustainability is currently a general concern in society and in particular in the use of laboratories for educational purposes. Although laboratories are unavoidable facilities for education, they often produce waste resulting from students' experiments. To contribute for sustainable solutions in education, the use of remote laboratories instead of...

Experimentation is crucial in science and engineering education, regardless the educational level. Nowadays, teachers have different ways of allowing students to develop these competences other than hands-on labs, such as simulations and remote labs. This study is focused on the combined use of the three resources, carried out by 51 teachers, in 25...

Education plays a primary role in developing countries, fostering their economy and augmenting their human potential. It is now easier to learn newest methods and techniques in many fields, particularly in engineering and science, where IT-based educational tools - such as online laboratories - have been instrumental to improve the teaching and lea...

This paper proposes a process based on learning analytics and recommender systems targeted at making suggestions to students about their remote laboratories activities and providing insights to all stakeholders taking part in the learning process. To apply the process, a log with requests and responses of remote experiments from the VISIR project w...

Engineering business is a demanding and dynamic market, which universities must understand and accompany. Being aware of the market needs is a step forward in training successful professionals. The presented works contributed to enhance the present discussion addressing different topics like emergent technologies, professional, scientific and socia...

Experimentation is crucial in science and engineering education, regardless the educational level. Nowadays experiments can be performed not only in traditional hands-on labs, but also using online resources, such as simulations and remote labs. This study was carried out, in several Higher Educational Institutions and at a minor extent some Second...

The present paper focus on the use of remote laboratories in higher education from a sustainability viewpoint. The particular case of engineering education, and, within it, the more specific subject of experiments with electrical and electronic circuits is presented first, to then discuss the benefits of using remote labs, while considering the thr...

This paper presents a process based on learning analytics and recom-mender systems to provide suggestions to students about remote laboratories activities in order to scaffold their performance. For this purpose, the records of remote experiments from the VISIR project were analyzed taking into account one of its installations. Each record is compo...

The access data to the VISIR remote lab installed at PUC-Rio was made publicly available by Ana Pavani and her team. Other researchers are invited to download the data (Excel files) through the provided links and conduct further research on the usability and accessibility of this particular remote lab, and compare with others.

Remote Laboratories have become part of current teaching and learning, particularly in engineering. Their potential to aid students beyond their hands-on lab classes has been a matter of discussion in literature. Teachers and researchers are aware that the thorough analysis of both strengths and shortcomings of remote labs in didactical implementat...

Since the engagement of Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) in the VISIR+ Project, several courses in the career of Electronic Engineering (EE) have incorporated experiments with electronic circuits based on VISIR remote lab. Three educational implementations in courses of the career of EE at UNR are introduced in this paper. Evaluation results a...

RESUMO Práticas em laboratórios são essenciais no ensino de engenharia, uma vez que permitem que estudantes aprendam de forma eficaz e desenvolvam habilidades indispensáveis para seu futuro como profissionais na área. Estes tipos de práticas têm atreladas a si uma série de fatores, como custos e infraestrutura que dificultam sua disponibilização. E...

Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alternatives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote laboratories and are sometim...

In this chapter, the results of a questionnaire are analyzed to assess engineering students’ satisfaction toward their courses, working conditions, and academic environment, as well as the flow of knowledge perception along the first three curricular years. With a sample of 654 students from four higher education institutions and two countries, the...

O presente capítulo contém uma seleção de artigos que foram apresentados na Sessão Dirigida: Laboratórios remotos no ensino da engenharia, realiza- da durante o XLIV Congresso Brasileiro de Educação em Engenharia (COBENGE), de 27 a 30 de setembro de 2016, em Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Essa Sessão Dirigida propôs mostrar trabalhos que viessem a ap...

VISIR+ is an Erasmus+ project that aims to develop educational modules for electric and electronic circuits theory and practice following an enquiry-based teaching and learning methodology. The project has installed five new VISIR remote labs in Higher Education Institutions located in Argentina and Brazil, to allow students doing more experiments...

The VISIR+ Project was launched in 2015 with the objective of spreading the use of the VISIR remote laboratory in Latin America, promoting an enquiry-based approach to teaching and learning on electric and electronic circuits. Within the scope of this project, several didactical implementations were achieved both in Argentina and in Brazil. This ar...

Laboratories are a fundamental part of engineering education due to the very nature of the engineering profession. This is a characteristic of all engineering courses, though it may vary from one curriculum to the other and even in the same curriculum. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of different applications of a remote lab in an Electrica...

En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta didáctica para facilitar el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje del tema circuitos eléctricos en la escuela media bajo la metodología por indagación. Esta metodología será implementada por el Ministerio de Educación Pública de Costa Rica a partir del año 2018. La propuesta se ha diseñado tomado en cuenta los...

The learning of technical and science disciplines requires experimental and practical training. Hands-on labs are the natural scenarios where practical skills can be developed but, thanks to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), virtual and remote labs can provide a framework where Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)...

Experimental competences allow engineering students to consolidate knowledge and skills. Remote labs are a powerful tool to aid students in those developments. The VISIR remote lab was considered the best remote lab in the world in 2015. The VISIR+ project main goal is to spread VISIR usage in Brazil and Argentina, providing technical and didactica...

In 2015, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DIEEC) of the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) in Spain started together with the Santiago del Rosario National University (UNSE, Argentina) and with the support of the Research Institute of Education Sciences of Rosario (IRICE-CONICET, Argentina) under the Coordination of the...

The book focuses on teaching knowledge and principles (Higher Education) regarding professional practice of engineering (life and lifelong learning). It covers recent developments in engineering education. This book comprises the select proceedings of the conference organised by the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education. This book goes beyon...

Laboratory experiments play a crucial role in engineering education as they strongly contribute to the development of important skills for the professional practice. This paper addresses a students’ understanding gap between simulations and remote labs. These two resources (and namely the remote laboratory VISIR - Virtual Instrument Systems in Real...

The more recent emergence of remote laboratories caused some discussions about their real educational value, when compared to traditional hands-on and virtual laboratories. This discussion is relevant because remote labs rely on computer-mediated access to real instruments and apparatus, being sometimes difficult to explain the difference between v...

The success of 21st century engineers1 depends on demanding challenges, involving a large scope of scientific and social competences. College education must help students to develop those competences in collaborative environments and better address these needs. Developing students' knowledge and skills in contextualized engineering environments, pr...