Productieprocessen met een high mix – low volume bieden een grote uitdaging voor automatisering. Enerzijds geeft automatisering bij deze kleine aantallen een beperkte besparing in de kosten, anderzijds zijn de implementatiekosten hoog door de grote variatie en complexiteit. Juist bij deze toepassingen …

Teacher Efficacy (TE) refers to teachers’ confidence in their ability to promote student’s learning. Research shows that generalist teachers’ TE for music education is generally low, with many teachers associating music education with innate musical talents – a problem exacerbated by music education …

Getting students to reflect critically is considered hard to achieve. This should be addressed because critical reflection is crucial for students to prepare for their professional lives in a complex world. We examined the research method Photovoice to raise critical reflection in students. Traditionally, …

This contribution presents three lesson activities for lower secondary education that were developed to teach system thinking in concert with subject matter. The pedagogical approach is described, leading to a practical design philosophy for lesson activities using qualitative representations. These …

In this paper, we discuss the pedagogical approach of two lessons that are aimed at learning domain knowledge and systems thinking simultaneously using qualitative representations. Next to understanding basic cause-effect relationships, these lessons focus on the notion that systems can move through …

Systems thinking is a complex skill for learners in secondary education. We argue that qualitative representations can be valuable tools to actively engage in learning this skill. However, the effectiveness of these tools is currently hampered by complexity and the lack of instructional embedding. In …

Out of the urgent need to monitor the status of soil salinization, the Zeeland government and Waterschap Scheldestromen established a salinity monitoring project called salt watcher. This thesis presents a research on the design of an automatic switch system, which is one of the 3 sub-projects of the …

De Hanzehogeschool Groningen heeft in project 9.1 bijgedragen aan activiteit 1: “Door systeemanalyse van tenminste twee systeemconcepten van decentrale voelbare warmteopslag een concept kiezen voor nadere ontwikkeling”.

Zonde en schaamte kan bij iedereen aanwezig zijn, want iedereen is kwetsbaar en iedereen leeft uiteindelijk van genade. De pioniersplek Cross Culture Nieuwegein (CCN) ziet hierin een roeping om verantwoord (bijbels-theologisch en cultureel-antropologisch) te reageren op zonde en schaamte, zodat dit geen …

Waterschap Scheldestromen has a measurement device named Multiflexmeter. It uses the LoRaWAN technology to send the measurement data to the gateway. But sometimes, the Multiflexmeter can not connect to the gateway to send data because the line of sight is blocked. So the company is seeking a design of …