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RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND OPINIONS : A SURVEY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CANADA, ROMANIA, AND TURKEY

To explore the opinions and the level of awareness of university students on renewable energy and environment issues in the fields of engineering and economics/business in Canada, Romania, and Turkey, surveys were conducted in several universities in these three countries. The survey results that are presented and discussed here indicate that while there are differences between the three groups, they are small and can be explained by cultural and socioeconomic factors. A larger study with an expanded survey questionnaire applied to a wider spectrum of groups in a larger set of countries would be useful to identify differences and educational needs.

E-Commerce Training with Virtual Commerce Simulation

Over the last decade, commerce has experienced several major revolutions in size, structure, and competition. The importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has become more important within this market structure. Electronic Commerce, commonly known as electronic marketing or e-commerce that consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems, is more profitable and affordable than ever before. However, few SMEs have been taking advantage of e-commerce due to the lack of education and training in new technologies. This paper presents the case study of e-commerce training for SME’s with the aid of classical classroom training and “Virtual Commerce,†an online commerce game. In Virtual Commerce, every participant owns a company and a certain amount of digital money. They can act as a consumer that purchase from other participant sites and as a supplier for the others. Market conditions, discount rates, and requirements are set by the system operators. This methodology and training has applied to 30 SME’s from different sectors. The aim of the project is to lower the costs for the SME’s e-commerce training through e-learning and to improve participants’ abilities with online simulation.

An IEEE 802.11x Implementation for V2X Communications Towards IoT and Big Data

Green transportation is an integral part of green environment concept. Next generation transportation systems are desired to achieve high performances with reduced fuel consumption and carbon emission. In this regard, vehicle maintenance status along with some other critical diagnostic data should steadily be checked and tracked. It is known that vehicles that are poorly maintained or not maintained in a timely manner lead to both emissions exceeding the standards and low performance. Vehicle telematics along with some other conveniences such as infotainment systems, location–based services and applications are expected to improve safety, availability, and reliability of next generation transportation systems. From this perspective, intelligent transport systems (ITS) seems to be a promising solution candidate which encompasses all of the aforementioned topics as well as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-cloud (V2C) opportunities. Therefore, in this study, a conceptual model that links vehicle telematics to the cloud along with V2V communications facility is proposed and a prototype based on IEEE 802.11x protocol suite is implemented. Mobile data collection and measurements are obtained. Results are presented along with relevant discussions as well as the end point storage and usage of the data are introduced. In the proposed model, the mobile data are transferred to cloud computing platform to create the big data for further research opportunities for car manufacturers, policy makers, and researchers with the concern of ethics and security issues.

Blue-collar employee selection with computer aided assessment center in manufacturing

Choosing the correct employee for the correct job has been a major issue for the last decades especially for the manufacturing processes which will affect the future performance of the companies. Since most of the assessment and qualification systems paper based and moreover concentrated on oral skills, most of the physical abilities and skills could not be assessed during the job selection processes. Some companies and factories have some special assessment examiners but their decisions mostly based on observations and personal judges. This paper presents intelligent assessment and settlement of a computer controlled working environment simulation for a selecting and evaluating a right employee for the right department and right position.