Sylvie Doré

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at École de Technologie Supérieure

This study investigates the perceptions of Canadian engineering students regarding the frequency and criticality of the 12 graduate attributes (knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors that engineering students are expected to demonstrate upon graduation) outlined by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). This study aims to assist eng...

Integrating the knowledge and experience of fabrication during the design phase can help reduce the cost and duration of steel construction projects. Building Information Modeling (BIM) are technologies and processes that reduce the cost and duration of construction projects by integrating parametric digital models as support of information. These...

There are still many questions to answer regarding the implementation and ongoing use of the CEAB graduate attributes (GAs) to guide engineering education content and student progression. How well do our students know and understand the twelve GAs? Which ones do they find most important? Do the knowledge and importance of the GAs vary over the cour...

Request for information (RFI) is a formal process used in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry to address design flaws that affect communication between designers and contractors. A large number of RFIs are a sign of a lack of precision or coordination in the design documents. However, RFIs produce rich, precise, and structured i...

This paper proposes a novel indirect assessment method to capture the voice of the students for program accreditation purposes. It consists of asking students, individually and then in teams, to draw up a list of keywords they associate with being an engineer and to write a formal definition of engineer. The raw data (list of keywords and definitio...

The goal of this pre-study was to prescribe a solution to a perceived decrease in student engagement in an elective course on additive manufacturing. The objectives were to:identify in what activities the students are engaging; identify causes for lack of engagement in their studies, if any;identify possible changes to the additive manufacturing co...

This paper will focus on the design anddevelopment of the Survey of Canadian EngineeringInstructors (SCEI), from framework to final implementedversion. The primary goal of this project was to increasethe experience and capacity for rigorous educationalresearch within the CEEA community, and to benchmarkengineering faculty attitudes towards teaching...

A new learning activity designed to raise awareness of students to lifelong learning was introduced in an elective course in mechanical engineering at École de technologie supérieure. The goal of the paper is to describe this activity and to report on its effectiveness.

The École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), as are all engineering schools and faculties in Canada, is at work adapting its programs to comply with new CEAB Accreditation Criteria and Procedures.The recently defined twelve CEAB attributes define the knowledge, skills and attitudes that all engineers must possess in order to practice their trade. The...

There are serious problems in the adoption of information technology (IT) for teaching in engineering. Professors hesitate to use IT for teaching: they are not familiar with the technologies, and know little about the theories and practices around their use. The research is part of an initiative undertaken by a group of early IT adopters to build a...

An injury risk factor (IRF), which indicates the risk of adverse health effect to lumbar rachis arising from mechanical vibrations, is developed. Experiments have been conducted that consider acceleration levels at the seat of drivers, posture, morphology, density, damping rate and body mass as independent variables. A parametric finite-element mod...

Much of traditional teaching in engineering focuses on procedural learning. However, future engineers will face a rapidly evolving and complex environment that will require reflexive learning and cognitive transfer skills which require a deep learning approach as opposed to surface or even strategic learning. Concept maps are powerful tools that en...

Contradictions exist between studies of the 3D kinematics of the knee. We hypothesize that they are in part due to differences in the gesture performed by the subjects during kinematic assessment. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of gesture variations on knee kinematics. Seventeen healthy male subjects performed 20-s series of kn...

The main objective of this research is to present a detailed method to estimate numerically the risk of adverse health effects to which professional drivers are particularly prone. A parametric finite element model of the lumbar rachis has been generated to model the dynamic stresses and the risk of fracture under harmonic excitations. A risk of in...

The literature on the 3D kinematics of the knee suggests that the gesture accomplished during kinematic assessment might play a significant role in the values measured. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that a standardized gesture leads to an increased reproducibility in 3D kinematic measurements of the knee. Seventeen healthy male subjec...

Due to vertebral densimetric and structural inhomogeneity between individuals and due to the fact that vertebral resistance varies with bone density and discontinuities within the trabecular lattice, which change with age, vertebral fatigue behaviour cannot be considered as only depending with applied stress. In this study, a nonlinear model is pro...

The objective of the paper was to validate non-linear parametric models of computerised tomography point spread function (PSF), to investigate the role of model parameters and to verify the effect of different imaging conditions on estimated parameters. These models were then to be used experimentally to estimate the variation of PSF shape within t...

The course MEC626 Prototypage rapide is centred around a learning activity called the Seminar, in which students coproduce high-quality French-language documentation that makes up a large part of the course notes. Social-constructivist in inspiration, this activity mobilizes thestudents to use tools and develop knowhow that will be useful to them i...

The use of the concept of instructional engineering (IE) in the field of education, creating a new course and a new curriculum, is discussed. Instructional engineering is a systematic, systemic and heuristic process by which one produces a learning system. Prompted by the desire to guide educators in creating more efficient learning systems, resear...

Realising that a program is much more than a series of courses, we set out to create a space, over and above the courses, where students can interact with the program’s human and material resources. We call this space the program environment. Conceptually, a program environment is closer to the notion of gateway or Learning Service Provider than to...

Knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of an imaging system is important when studying the characteristics of the blur present in the images. Published experimental PSF identification techniques adapt classical one-dimensional linear system identification strategies using impulse, step function or periodic input signals. This study proposes a...

The preferred signals for non-parametric correlation-based point spread function identification are white noise or pseudo-random binary sequences (PRBSs). Given the difficulty of building a phantom based on either of these signals, a new input is devised that corresponds to pseudo-randomly located holes. The positions of the holes correspond to zer...

Every year, a group of students from Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS) in Montreal design and build a formula-type race car and compete in the Formula SAE competition. In this paper, we examine the design and fabrication of the ir intake system, A number of constraints challenge the designers. For example, to ensure the security of amateur driv...

Every year, a group of students from Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS) in Montreal design and build a formula-type race car and compete in the Formula SAE competition. In this paper, we examine the design and fabrication of the ir intake system, A number of constraints challenge the designers. For example, to ensure the security of amateur driv...

The authors propose an experimental method to quantitatively assess the shift-variance and anisotropy of commercial CT scanners. A custom phantom consisting of 89 wires arranged in concentric circles was built for this purpose. A separable Gaussian model, expressed in a polar coordinate system, is proposed along with the corresponding estimation me...

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An approach is presented to the experimental identification of the noise power spectrum (NPS) of a computed tomography (CT) scanner, using a method based on the Weiner-Hopf equation. Simulations show that the identification process is very robust in the presence of noise but quite sensitive to subpixel misregistration. This situation can be easily...

RÉSUMÉ Le domaine de l'inspection automatisée, indispensable pour assurer la qualité de la production, demeure une tâche de l'activité manufacturière où l'automatisation présente beaucoup de retard. Nous proposons dans ce papier un exemple d'automatisation du contrôle tel qu'il peut être effectué en intégrant ensemble des technologies de l'informat...

The first goal of this study was to develop experimental tools to estimate the blur and noise characteristics of X-ray CT systems. We evaluated the noise power spectrum (NPS) using the averaged periodogram technique. As predicted by theory, varying the image reconstruction filter produced a shift in the frequency content while slice thickness only...