Challenging the Dual System: Doing (AI) Undergraduate Research at a University of Applied Sciences

Challenging the Dual System:

Doing (AI) Undergraduate Research

at a University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett

100 SPEAKERS - 2 DAYS - 4 TRACKS

http://ai.withthebest.com/

D. Monett

AIWTB talk titles (100 most used words)

2

D. Monett

Speakers

3

Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY

¼ ¾ ■ Inspiring and future-oriented advancements in Artificial

Intelligence research!

http://www.flaticon.comis/

D. Monett

Challenge: AI future

4

■ Bright, promising, ubiquitous...

“[S]ubstantial increases in the future uses of AI technologies,

including more self-driving cars, healthcare diagnostics and

targeted treatments, and physical assistance for elder care can be

expected. AI and robotics will also be applied across the globe in

industries struggling to attract younger workers, such as agriculture,

food processing, fulfillment centers, and factories. They will facilitate

delivery of online purchases through flying drones, self-driving

trucks, or robots that can get up the stairs to the front door.”

Peter Stone et al. (2016, September). Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030. One Hundred

Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: Report of the 2015-2016 Study Panel, Stanford

University, Stanford, CA. Doc: http://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report

http://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report

D. Monett

Challenge: STEM labor gap

5

Apprenticeships

Masters and

technicians

Academics

Source: STEM Spring Report 2016 (Germany)

https://www.mintzukunftschaffen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/FINAL_MINT-Fruehjahrsreport_2016.pdf


D. Monett

Challenge: demographics

6

■ Older workers in STEM

professions

■ Proportion of age

segment, 55+ years

>19,9%

18,1% - 19,8%

16,9% - 18,0%

16,0% - 16,8%

14,6% - 15,9%

<14,5%

Source: STEM Spring Report 2016 (Germany)

https://www.mintzukunftschaffen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/FINAL_MINT-

Fruehjahrsreport_2016.pdf


D. Monett

Needed:

7

■ New, solid partnerships between academia and

industry

■ ... structural change of, rethinking the

traditional education settings

■ ... early training and education of tomorrow’s

workforce

■ ... research and tech skills strengthened

■ ... AI and beyond!

(in my opinion)

The (German)

Dual education system

D. Monett


9

David Liuzzo https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1276668

■ Founded in Baden-

Württemberg (1974)

■ Companiesclaimed for more

praxis-oriented study

programmes...

■ ...and fostered their

development!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1276668

D. Monett


10

Higher

education

instruction

Compulsory

internships in

a company+= 3 years of job integrated learning

University of Applied Sciences

D. Monett

Cooperative studies

11

■ The dual partners select their students themselves

■ They are responsible for the practice-oriented

part of the studies

■ Students are employed and paid by the

participating companies

Employment contract over 3 years

Monthly salary

Over 80% of the students receive a job offer

from the cooperating company after graduation

D. Monett

Cooperative studies

12

■ Dept. of Cooperative Studies cooperates with

more than 650 companies

■ Administration partners at federal, state, and

local authority levels

■ Integrated semesters of work experience

■ Company Advisory Boards

D. Monett

Cooperative studies

13

Students selection by the companies

Possibility of practical

phase abroad

Term 6

Possibility of study

term abroad

Academic phase

Practical phase

Term 1 Term 2

Term 3 Term 4 Term 5

Term 6

New employment

contract

And where is the connection to

Artificial Intelligence?

D. Monett

Imagine the benefits...

15



phase abroad

Term 6


term abroad

Academic phase

Practical phase

Term 1 Term 2


Term 6

New employment

contract

AI AI AI

AI AI

AI AI

D. Monett

Why?

16

■ Companies work on applied, cutting edge

research, they know better how tech is evolving

■ Academia provides the theoretical foundations

Robustly connecting

academic education and real world practices!

D. Monett

Which skills?

17

■ E.g. faster and deeper improvement...

of technical skills (at the companies)

of academic and research skills (at the

university)

as well as of other hard/soft skills (at both)

■ …inside/outside the classroom

Clear focus on applied learning,

knowledge transfer!

Student research projects (SRPs)

and practical transfers (PTs)

as learning modules

D. Monett

SRPs and PTs

19

■ 3 PTs (1st, 2nd, and 3rd semesters)

■ 2 SRPs (4th and 5th theory semesters)

■ E.g., 1 SRP = 14 ECTS-credits

■ Topics mainly proposed by BSEL academic

supervisors

■ 3-month theoretical + 3-month practical phase(ECTS: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System,

1 credit point = 30 hours of study)

D. Monett

Cooperative studies

20



phase abroad

Term 6


term abroad

Academic phase

Practical phase

Term 1 Term 2


Term 6

New employment

contract

D. Monett

SRPs

21

■ To submit/present:

■ Partial results in an oral presentation at a

“projects’ week”

■ Written report of about 4000 words or 25

pages long

■ It could include (co-)writing a research paper

D. Monett


22



phase abroad

Term 6


term abroad

Academic phase

Practical phase

Term 1 Term 2


Term 6

New employment

contract

AI AI AI

AI AI

AI AI

The Dual education system

is not perfect, however

D. Monett

Current situation

24

■ Higher teaching workload (at least 2x the ‘big universities’

teaching workload)

■ No research professorships

■ No research and assistants staff

■ No PhD students (unless co-supervision in cooperation with

‘big universities’)

■ Lower salaries (compared to professors at ‘big universities’)

■ Insufficient financial support for research projects (also fewer ‘dual’ professors on decision boards)

D. Monett

Current situation

25

Meanwhile...

Challenge:

How to change it, from inside/outside.

How to motivate undergraduate

students to be co-authors

of research papers?

D. Monett 27

■ Start with topics for student research projects!

■ Stimulate research focusing on current, applied

areas!

■ Bring together research projects and teaching!

■ Work with real customers whenever possible!

■ Supervise in close interaction with students and

companies!

■ Network students from different courses!

■ Encourage early interest in publishing scientific

results!

How to motivate

(some of my lessons learned)

Examples of conference papers

co-authored by 2nd year

undergraduate students

D. Monett

Multi-agent simulations

29

NL-Analyzer: Enhancing Simulation Tools

to Assist Multi-agent Systems’ Teaching

D. Monett, R. Janisch, S. Starroske (2010).

In W. van der Hoek, G.A. Kaminka, Y. Lesperance, M. Luck, and S. Sen (eds.),

Proceedings of the Workshop Multi-Agent Systems for Education and Interactive

Entertainment, MASEIE 2010, at the 9th International Conference on Autonomous

Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1-6, May 10-14, Toronto, Canada.

Planning experiments

with the NetLogo-

Analyzer

D. Monett

Expert system modeler

30

Research and Teaching with

Remo: Student research

projects and teaching for and

by undergraduate students

D. Monett, M. Sänger (2012).

In H.R. Arabnia, V.A. Clincy, and

L. Deligiannidis (eds.),

Proceedings of the 8th

International Conference on

Frontiers in Education:

Computer Science and

Computer Engineering, FECS

2012. CSREA Press U.S.A., Vol.

2, pp. 353-359, Las Vegas, NV.

Remo, a rule-based

expert system modeler

D. Monett

BDI, NetLogo

31

Using BDI-extended NetLogo

Agents in Undergraduate CS

Research and Teaching

J. Wiens, D. Monett (2013).

In H.R. Arabnia, A. Bahrami, V.A.

Clincy, L. Deligiannidis, and G.

Jandieri (eds.), Proceedings of

the 9th International Conference

on Frontiers in Education:

Computer Science and

Computer Engineering, FECS

2013. CSREA Press U.S.A., pp.

396-402, Las Vegas, NV.

Agent-based Computational

Economics with beliefs-

desires-intentions agents

D. Monett

STEM education

32

Joint Software Engineering to support

STEM Education: Experiences before,

during and after a Children’s University

D. Monett, J. Greifenberg, A. Krautz, M. Stöhr, R. Ulbricht (2015).

In Proceedings of the Global Conference on Learning and Technology, Global Learn

2015. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, AACE, Vol. 2015,

Nr. 1, April 2015, pp. 357-365, Berlin, Germany.

Elementary school children

testing software developed

by HWR students

D. Monett

Education, pedagogy

33

Evolving Lesson Plans to Assist

Educators: From Paper-Based to

Adaptive Lesson Planning

D. Monett, T. Weishaar (2015).

In Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Education, Teaching

and Learning 2015, MAC-ETL 2015, 1st Edition, MAC Prague Consulting Ltd.

Prague, Czech Republic.

Activities related to

lesson planning

D. Monett

Requirements Engineering

34

Teaching Students Collaborative Requirements

Engineering. Case Study Red:Wire

D. Monett, S.-E. Kujat, M. Hartmann (2016).

In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed

Systems and Software Engineering, ICPDSSE 2016, Rome, Italy, May 02-03,

2016. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 2, Nr. 5, pp.

1799-1806.

Red:Wire, a

documentation and a

requirements

management tool

Closing remarks

D. Monett

Possible? Possible!

36

■ New, solid partnerships between academia and

industry (version of Dual system? A better Dual system?)

■ ... structural change of traditional education

settings (companies: important role!)

■ ... early training and education of tomorrow’s

workforce (applied learning, knowledge transfer!)

■ ... research skills included (from the 1st semester on!)

■ ... AI and beyond (future-focused!)

A new type of Dual education system?

D. Monett

Possible? Possible!

37

Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY

+


D. Monett


38



phase abroad

Term 6


term abroad

Academic phase

Practical phase

Term 1 Term 2


Term 6

New employment

contract

AI AI AI

AI AI

AI AIIcons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY

+


D. Monett

Contact

39

[email protected]

monettdiaz