Browsing by Author "Akaslan D."

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    Analysis of issues for implementing e-learning: The student perspective
    (2012) Akaslan D.; Law E.L.-C.; Taşkin S.
    Integration of e-learning into campus-based institutions is a challenging issue. A number of key issues and questions clearly need to be solved and answered before any attempt for implementing e-learning is taken. The purpose of this paper is hence to investigate how to implement e-learning in the higher education institutions (HEI) associated with the subject of electricity in Turkey, considering the student perspective. For this reason, a web-based survey has been conducted to measure the extent to which the representative students in the Turkish HEI are ready for e-learning and to investigate their perspectives on issues for implementing e-learning. Two techniques were used: an online questionnaire with close-and open-ended items and semi-structured online interviews. 704 responses were analysed. At the end of the questionnaire, respondents were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. 63 accepted the invitation, but only 33 of them actually attended the interview. Based on the findings derived from the interviews, we develop a model to illustrate what principles are needed for implementing e-learning in the respective institutions. Overall, our findings show that e-learning is perceived as a solution for resolving some issues and it brings some innovation in the respective institutions in Turkey; and that it should be integrated into campus-based education and training via the blended learning approach. © 2012 IEEE.
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    An analogy between womb and home for supporting the aspects of smart cities
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016) Akaslan D.; Taşkln S.
    A number of utilities should be delivered to householders to fulfil certain requirements via disparate infrastructures associated with production, distribution and consumption. Since the major of these utilities require enormous expenditure and bring complexity, undesired interactions and difficulty in installation, maintenance and management are always encountered. To deal with these issues, a number of models for the single-utility product have been proposed such as the blood of city and the umbilical cording vision. In this study, we propose a model by drawing an analogy between a womb and home so as to supply all services through one utility product. To form the mental picture of the analogy, the life cycle from the birth to the death are taken into consideration in four aspects: foetus as the householder, placenta as the security, umbilical cording as the networking, and amniotic fluid as the stabilizer of the indoor temperature. © 2016 IEEE.
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    Designing a real-time remote control system for undergraduate engineering and engineering technology students
    (American Society for Engineering Education, 2016) Yabanova I.; Taskin S.; Ekiz H.; Oǧuz Y.; Akaslan D.; Yumurtaci M.
    This paper explains the design of a control system intended to enhance the quality of education in engineering and engineering technology departments and considers the use of various concepts: remote-access, real-time, reconfigurable properties, and multi-user controls. Controlling the system's hardware is possible by using fuzzy logic and PID control methods to teach several engineering concepts in the field of automatic control (i.e., DC motor and temperature control). PID parameters and fuzzy logic membership rules can be modified by authorizing remote users. A Web interface was also designed as part of the system to create an opportunity for the end-users to observe real-time changes in DC motor and temperature control. Modifications to the control system's parameters also enable users to record output to their own personal computers via the Internet; this allows users from other engineering institutions to access and modify the PID and fuzzy logic membership rules for more experiences. In this way, various theoretical and practical concepts associated with the field of automatic control can be implemented without any limitations. The overall findings from this study indicate that engineering and engineering technology curricula in any institution can effectively be delivered using the Internet to overcome the limitations of distance, as remote-access experiments are becoming highly applicable anywhere and anytime.
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    The extensible analogy for supporting the aspects of smart cities: Demander and supplier
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017) Akaslan D.; Taskin S.; Oguz Y.
    The smart city is still an emerging concept due to the certain and complex requirements of individuals and community. However, there is an agreement among people that ICT will have a critical role in the sense, analysis, and integration of services in smart cities. Several models, simulations and theories have been proposed to facilitate the life of people and community in smart cities. This paper simulates a smart city to deal with the complex and certain requirements of people in smart cities in the foreseeable future. © 2017 IEEE.