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A Smart Bench Press Machine: Automatic Weight Control Sensitive to User Tiredness

  • Kim, Jihun;Jo, Han-jin;Kim, Kiyoung;Ji, Hae-geun;Kim, Jaehyo
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.209-215
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    • 2019
  • In order to provide a safe free-weight-training environment to people without workout trainers, we suggest a smart bench press machine with an automatic weight control system sensitive to user tiredness. Physical weight plates on the machine are replaced with a hydraulic cylinder as a press load and the cylinder knob is coupled with a step motor to change its tensile force automatically in-between lifting exercises. Three subjects participated to verify the usability of the smart bench press machine. They were asked to lift a 6-RM press load 10 times with 3 different lifting conditions: 1) no assistance, 2) a human assistance, and 3) the automatic weight control. All subjects were not able to complete the 10 sets without assistance due to tiredness, but they finished the full sets under the two assistive conditions. Average lifting speeds under the automatic weight control condition showed the most consistent level. Normalized quasi-tension data based on surface electromyogram signals of both Pectoralis Majors revealed that the subjects maintained the target muscle activation level above 50% but not more than 80% throughout the 10 sets. Therefore, the smart bench press machine is expected to both keep pace with the lifting exercise and reduce risk of injuries due to excessive muscle tensions.

Development of Studio Lectures to Develop Systematic Model Making Skills in Industrial Design Engineering Major (디자인공학전공에서의 체계적 모형 제작 스킬 함양을 위한 스튜디오 강의 개발)

  • Sungjoon Kim
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2023
  • The process of verifying design concepts and ideas by producing real or equivalent model is essential in the product development process. Against this background, the purpose of this study is to consider the case of developing subjects that can systematically cultivate the ability to produce model from the basic stage to a certain level or higher, focusing on design engineering majors. As a theoretical consideration for this, prior studies related to making such as modeling or prototyping in related areas and majors such as industrial design are considered, followed by Bloom's revised taxonomy model and Hioshi Ishikawa's industrial design program as a methodological consideration for curriculum development. Finally, by applying this, we propose a new course that includes a lecture plan corresponding to the 16th week of learning, which is a general semester of university education. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that producing a physical model was still essential for the development of a new design, and accordingly, it was also necessary to establish a systematic curriculum suitable for the major area. Since the scope of this study extends to the development of subjects, in subsequent studies, it is necessary to consider the contents such as verification and reflection of the utility as competency education through actual application and suggestion of improved subject design.

Variables Affecting on Learners' Satisfaction and Effects of EMI (전공 영어강의 만족도 및 학습효과 인식에 영향을 미치는 변인에 관한 연구)

  • Jin, Sung-Hee;Kim, Hakil
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.10-19
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    • 2013
  • Recently, Korean universities have increased the number of English Medium Instruction (EMI) lectures in order to allow students to gain both specialized knowledge and enhanced English ability. Previous researches on effective EMI lectures have focused on exploring the effects of learners' cognitive and affective characteristics on learning outcomes. Whereas the input variables of learning have been investigated as predicting variables of effects in EMI lectures, there has been a few research for investigating process variables to yield learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to analyze the structural relationships among variables affecting on learner satisfaction and effects. The participants are 209 engineering students from various majors. Independent variables are defined as English motivation, English competency, and English confidence, a mediated variable is Cognitive engagement, and dependent variables are Learning satisfaction and Educational effect perception. The results show that the relationships are statistically significant: learners' English competency & English confidence ${\rightarrow}$ Cognitive engagement ${\rightarrow}$ Learning satisfaction ${\rightarrow}$ Educational effect perception. Especially, the structural model confirms that the effect of learners' English confidence on Learning satisfaction and Educational effect perception is mediated by the level of learners' Cognitive engagement. Further, the implication for effective EMI lectures is discussed based on the observed research results.

Requirement of Writing in KEC2005 and Preparing the Research Paper - Focused on the Experience of 'Writing in Science & Technology' in Seoul National University (공학교육인증의 글쓰기 요구와 연구논문 작성 - 서울대 공대 '과학과 기술 글쓰기' 강좌 경험을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hoon-Gi
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.3-14
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    • 2010
  • This paper examines what kind of writing ability KEC2005 requires for upper grades of engineering college. According to KEC2005, they need writing ability in the field of majors, especially capstone design subjects as well as general communication skills. An experience on preparing a quasi-research paper has some potential to be better for these demands than other writing training forms. The contents of assignments submitted by the students taking a class 'Writing in Science & Technology' in Seoul National University in 2009 supported this point of view. This paper is about a case study discussing the detailed relationship between KEC2005 and writing, and helps engineering colleges to design their own writing programs.

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A Comparison of IT Majors' Perceptions of Employment before and after Employment (IT전공자들의 취업 전후의 취업 인식 비교)

  • You Jung Ahn;Kyong Ah Kim;Ji Sim Kim;Suk Oh;Myung Sook Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2024.01a
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    • pp.443-444
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    • 2024
  • 최근 취업에 청신호가 켜진 IT분야에서 전공자들이 취업을 준비할 때, 선 취업 후 실무 역량을 강화해야 할지 또는 실무 역량을 충분히 갖추고 난후 취업해야 할지는 직무 역량에 따라 차이가 있을 것이다. 그러나 열심히 취업을 준비해온 학생들은 좀 더 자신감을 가지고 적극적으로 취업 지원을 할 필요가 있다. 학생들에게 취업 지도를 하는 교수자로서 자신이 가진 역량에 비해 자신감이 없는 학생들을 보면 안타까울 때가 많다. 본 연구에서는 IT분야 기 취업자들에게 취업 시 필요한 역량에 대한 설문을 실시함으로써, 취업을 준비하는 학생들에게 실제 취업에 성공한 취업자들의 의견을 통해 보다 자신감을 가지고 취업 지원을 하는데 도움이 되고자 한다.

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Study on the Secondary School Students' Perception on Scientist and Woman Scientist as Career and Its Role Model (직업인으로서의 과학기술자 및 여성 과학기술자, 그리고 역할모델에 대한 중.고등학생들의 인식 조사)

  • Lee, Hei-Sook;Choi, Kyung-Hee;Lee, Jae-Kyung;Ma, Kyung-Hee;Lee, Ki-Soon
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.184-196
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to identify various issues contributing to the current issues of students not wanting to major in science and engineering. and further explore various strategies to encourage their higher education in the science and engineering area. The study administered survey on students' perception towards the science related profession including respondents' gender, grade, their attitude towards woman scientists, perception on the woman scientists, scientists as profession, their level of knowledge on the scientists, and if there is any they respect. The results indicated that overall perceptions on the scientists as career for high school students was positive, but there was more negative acceptance for the juniors since they are more concerned with their majors at the university: higher for students who are in the natural science area than the ones in the social science school since they are more directly related than others. The perception on the woman scientists and girls in the science and engineering majors was positive. However, there were some differences in the response level among the items. Among these, considering the job availability and conditions, the perception was more negative than the others. Also the result indicated that both boys and girls disagree that the science-related profession may be gender-inappropriate for girls due to physical and cognitive characteristics. Results also indicated the level of awareness among scientists, they had higher awareness for male scientists than that of the female, and also international ones than the national ones. And many girls did not have positive image of a successful woman scientists.

A Fundamental Study on the Development of the Fusion Education Curriculum in the Field of Architecture and Urban: based on Practitioner-oriented Survey (건축·도시 분야 융복합 교육과정 개발을 위한 기초연구 -실무자 중심의 설문조사를 기반으로-)

  • Hong, So-Hee;Yoo, Seung-Kyu;Yuh, Ok-Kyung;Kim, Jae-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.3491-3498
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to identify demand of fusion education in the field of architecture and urban, according to architecture and urban market changing, product changing, increasing fusion education demand. We conducted online surveys targeting construction and non construction field practitioners so that we want to identify consumer's needs about fusion education in the field of architecture and urban. Research findings can be summarized in three parts. First, practitioners need to fuse business-related majors (Frequency changing ratio : financing(716.7%), management(633.3%), planning(454.5%) etc.) and traditional majors. Second, the survey results show that 79 percent of those questioned were in favor of switching the cyber and off-line operation methods for fusion education. They require the complementary education system between off-line and cyber education based on education accessability. Third, the survey results show that 70.9 percent of those questioned were in favor of limited freestyle(Freedom of choices without required subjects). The curriculum should be arranged according to the flow of construction business process including fusion subjects.

Study of computer programming education paradigm for non-majors (비전공자 대상 컴퓨터 프로그래밍 교육 패러다임 연구)

  • Lee, Su Jin;Lee, Min Jeong
    • Proceedings of The KACE
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    • 2017.08a
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    • pp.161-164
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    • 2017
  • 컴퓨터 사고를 이해하고 컴퓨터와 소통하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구의 목적은 컴퓨터 비전공자 대상으로 하는 강의의 목적성과 실효성을 규명하고, 나아가 학생과 강의자가 수업의 목표점의 접점을 찾아 나가는데 있다. 강의 대상은 컴퓨터 비전공자 학생 중 인문, 미술, 음악, 자연 계열의 학생들로서 그들이 현시점에서 이수한 교과과목 중 수학의 비중이 상대적으로 낮은 군에 속한다. 따라서 그들이 현실적으로 컴퓨터와 소통하기 위해 어떤 교육의 패러다임을 적용해야 하는가가 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 텍스트 코딩이 가능한 파이썬을 컴퓨터 비전공생에게 학습시키는 이유와 목적에 대해 밝히고 학습의 실효성에 대해 논의한다.

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Application of the Hamiltonian circuit Latin square to a Parallel Routing Algorithm on Generalized Recursive Circulant Networks

  • Choi, Dongmin;Chung, Ilyong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.1083-1090
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    • 2015
  • A generalized recursive circulant network(GR) is widely used in the design and implementation of local area networks and parallel processing architectures. In this paper, we investigate the routing of a message on this network, that is a key to the performance of this network. We would like to transmit maximum number of packets from a source node to a destination node simultaneously along paths on this network, where the ith packet traverses along the ith path. In order for all packets to arrive at the destination node securely, the ith path must be node-disjoint from all other paths. For construction of these paths, employing the Hamiltonian Circuit Latin Square(HCLS), a special class of (n x n) matrices, we present O(n2) parallel routing algorithm on generalized recursive circulant networks.

Indirect PIN Entry Method for Mobile Banking Using Relative Location Information of Secret Code (비밀코드의 상대적 위치정보를 이용한 모바일 뱅킹용 간접 PIN 입력 기법)

  • Choi, Dongmin
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.738-746
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we propose an indirect PIN entry method that provides enhanced security against smudge, recording, and thermal attacks. Conventional mobile PIN entry methods use on-screen numeric keypad for both use of display and entry. Thus These methods are vulnerable to aforementioned attacks. In our method, passcode is same as that of the conventional PIN entry methods, and that is user-friendly way for mobile device users. Therefore, our method does not reduce user convenience which is one of the advantages of the conventional methods. In addition, our method is not a method of directly touching the on-screen numeric keypad for entering passcode like the conventional PIN methods. Unlike the conventional methods, our method uses an indirect passcode entry method that applied a passcode indicating key. According to the performance comparison result, proposed method provides user convenience similar to the conventional methods, and also provides a higher level of security and safety against recording, smudge, and thermal attacks than the conventional methods.