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Adaptation of learning and teaching methods for the delivery of an undergraduate program in Myanmar (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Leitch, K., MacIver, A., & Smith, I. (2017). Adaptation of learning and teaching methods for the delivery of an undergraduate program in Myanmar. In L. G. Chova, A. L. Martinez, I. C. Torres, & I. Academy (Eds.), INTED2017 Proceedings (4083-4088). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2017.0988

The establishment of a democratically elected government in 2015 has facilitated the development of much of the Myanmar’s long neglected educational infrastructure. Newly formed Universities are increasingly look to established overseas Higher Educat... Read More about Adaptation of learning and teaching methods for the delivery of an undergraduate program in Myanmar.

The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., & Smith, I. (2015). The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines. . https://doi.org/10.2991/msmi-15.2015.3

Lying in a transformation period of economic development, economic prosperity, social progress and development in science and technology have to rely on strong competitiveness of a nation’s universities to a large degree. Internationalising education... Read More about The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines.

Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Kolhe, M. L., Muneer, T., Adhikari, S. K., & Smith, I. (2015). Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC-India.2015.7386939

Electric vehicles have tremendous potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the main draw-back of the electric vehicle though is the sourcing of energy for air-conditioning of its cabin space. In this work, a fully instrumented Renault... Read More about Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans.

A comparative range approach using the Real World Drive Cycles and the Battery Electric Vehicle (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Milligan, R., Muneer, T., & Smith, I. (2015). A comparative range approach using the Real World Drive Cycles and the Battery Electric Vehicle. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC-India.2015.7386934

In the UK, a quarter of all CO2 emissions come from transport and 90% of this comes from road vehicles. According to the UK Government (a) at the end of 2013 there were 35 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads of UK and during 2013, over 430... Read More about A comparative range approach using the Real World Drive Cycles and the Battery Electric Vehicle.

Electric Vehicle Ventilation Using Directly Photovoltaic Powered Fans (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Muneer, T., Kolhe, M. L., Adhikari, S. K., & Smith, I. (2015). Electric Vehicle Ventilation Using Directly Photovoltaic Powered Fans.

All over the world, transport sector is contributing heavily towards Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The electric vehicles offers an elegant solution in terms of increasing overall efficiency compared with its fossil-fuel counterpart. Furthermore, if... Read More about Electric Vehicle Ventilation Using Directly Photovoltaic Powered Fans.

A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Mohamed, A., Zhang, H., Smith, I., & Xiao, Z. (2015). A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing. https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.108.260

This paper presents the experimental studies performed to investigate the feasibility of the proposed photogrammetric system for torsion tests. In this study, two binocular stereo systems were used to measure the surface rotation of timber glulam bea... Read More about A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach.

A review of the thermal performance of electric vehicles (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Doyle, A., Muneer, T., & Smith, I. (2015). A review of the thermal performance of electric vehicles. . https://doi.org/10.1109/itec-india.2015.7386922

It is becoming widely accepted that the electric vehicle (EV) has found its place in the automobile market as a solution to many topical issues that face governments, policy makers, industrial stakeholders and even individuals in terms of energetic,... Read More about A review of the thermal performance of electric vehicles.

Evaluation of solar modelling techniques through experiment on a 627 kWp photo-voltaic solar power plant at Edinburgh College—Midlothian Campus, Scotland. (2015)
Journal Article
Jeffrey, M., Kelly, I., Muneer, T., & Smith, I. (2015). Evaluation of solar modelling techniques through experiment on a 627 kWp photo-voltaic solar power plant at Edinburgh College—Midlothian Campus, Scotland. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 7(3), Article 033128. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922450

The accuracy and applicability of existing methods of solar resource modelling and solar photovoltaic module performance are investigated in the case of a ground array installation at Edinburgh College, Midlothian Campus, the principal derived quanti... Read More about Evaluation of solar modelling techniques through experiment on a 627 kWp photo-voltaic solar power plant at Edinburgh College—Midlothian Campus, Scotland..

From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, S., Sobolewska, E., & Smith, I. (2014). From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace. In 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings (1197-1204)

In order to realize the employment ambitions of graduates we can work with students to facilitate the construction of their identity as members of a global engineering profession. Of particular interest is whether (and, if so, how) students reconstru... Read More about From employability attributes to professional identity: students transitioning to the workplace..

Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation (2014)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Milligan, R., Smith, I., Doyle, A., Pozuelo, M., & Knez, M. (2015). Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 35, 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2014.11.015

Fuelled by a rapidly rising human global population, an increasing demand for freedom to travel and the affordability made possible by modern manufacturing there has been an exponential rise in the number of automobiles – in the year 2013 there were... Read More about Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation.

Evaluation of shear constant of timber glulam composite with photogrammetric approach (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, H., Mohamed, A., & Smith, I. (2017). Evaluation of shear constant of timber glulam composite with photogrammetric approach. In Proceeding of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering

Shear constant of timber glulam materials plays an important role in structural modelling, such as lateral torsional buckling of the glulam beam, floor vibration and stabilities of long span glulam girders. In normal design approach, a fraction of th... Read More about Evaluation of shear constant of timber glulam composite with photogrammetric approach.

Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, I., Taylor, M. D., de Klerk, P. J., & Camara, J. M. (2010). Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009. In Proceedings of INTED2010 Conference (1893-1902)

Edinburgh Napier University hosted a huge gathering of European civil engineering students for one week in May 2009 for the International Project Week 2009 (IPW 2009). The week long event saw over 300 students and staff from 8 institutions across 7... Read More about Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009..

Internationalisation of undergraduate civil engineering students: a collaborative European network (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor, M. D., Smith, I., de Klerk, P. J., & Bierlaagh, G. J. (2009). Internationalisation of undergraduate civil engineering students: a collaborative European network.

Internationalisation in higher education can be defined as the process of integrating an international and intercultural dimension to teaching. The need for preparing civil engineering graduates to work in an increasingly international society comb... Read More about Internationalisation of undergraduate civil engineering students: a collaborative European network.

Winky Dink and you: determining patterns of narrative for interactive television. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, I., Stewart, F., & Turner, P. (2004). Winky Dink and you: determining patterns of narrative for interactive television. In Second European Conference on Interactive Television

We report on the identification, creation and use of narrative patterns to create an interactive cartoon. We have undertaken an analysis of an American 1950-60’s interactive television cartoon - Winky Dink and You, which gave the illusion of interact... Read More about Winky Dink and you: determining patterns of narrative for interactive television..

Automated construction in Japan (2003)
Journal Article
Taylor, M., Wamuziri, S., & Smith, I. (2003). Automated construction in Japan. Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering, 156(1), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.2003.156.1.34

Over the last 20 years the concept of automating construction and civil engineering operations has become a reality within Japan, resulting in improvements in site safety, efficiency and productivity. Examples renewed in this paper include concret... Read More about Automated construction in Japan.

Extending the unified modelling language to model complex interactive timeline-based systems (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, I., Turner, P., & McGregor, I. (2002). Extending the unified modelling language to model complex interactive timeline-based systems. In H. Sharp, P. Chalk, J. LePeuple, & J. Rosbottom (Eds.), HCI 2002 (58-61)

The increased take-up of Interactive Television, 3G and broadband networks is effecting a growth in the use of interactive, timeline-based media. This paper will describe how to facilitate the design of linear narrative systems utilising the extensib... Read More about Extending the unified modelling language to model complex interactive timeline-based systems.