Title Participants "Cross-Border Projects in Digital Education Ecosystems" "Peter Arras, Nargiza Mikhridinova" "Smart Innovative Engineering for Smart Agriculture Modernization" "Peter Arras" "Intelligent Data Analysis for Individual Hypertensia Patient’s State Monitoring and Prediction" "Peter Arras" "Implementation of Language Processing Tools for the University Quality System" "Peter Arras" "Development of Cross-Domain Competences for Work 4.0" "Peter Arras" "Considering the technological and the economic reality that the world is changing rapidly and is moving to a much larger degree of digitalisation than it has even been, universities also need to adapt their degree studies, in order to prepare future graduates for a digitalised, globalised and connected world. In the paper authors suggest a cross-domain core of competences which could be implemented in a variety of masters’ curricula to improve employability of HEI graduates by giving them the tools and insights to work in the future economic world. The work addresses the need for (new) educational resources in order to prepare for the future workplace (work 4.0). A cross border international and multi-disciplinary approach was put forward to make a cross-border competence center in the existing consortium of EUROMPM (European Master in Project Management)." "Monitoring system for tests of the Mg implants" "G Tabunshchyk, V Shalomeev, Peter Arras" "In the article authors are providing requirements analysis for the informational systems for medical trials. The author considered types of the experiments which could be conducted remotely with the Mg implants and designed an experiment for the in vivo tests of the Mg stem. In the paper the authors present three level architecture for the monitoring system the corrosion and solubility of Mg implants and model for data integration and transmission. Also suggested the model for the data integration and transition in to repository." "The mapping of technological texture in electrical insulators" "Peter Arras" "One of the main criteria of any technology for the production of insulators is to ensure the most homogeneous mixture of material used in their manufacture. In the case of increased heterogeneity of ceramic blanks, the fired insulators made therefrom are characterized by an increased number of cracks on their surface, lower mechanical quality, which means reduced production quality and efficiency. This represents a loss of material and financial resources for the manufacturer. In this paper is proposed a method of measuring the homogeneity of dielectrics in the manufacture of very high voltage insulators, using the voltages on the surface of the sample placed between the electrodes, together with a demonstration of their quality evaluation using geographic information systems. As an example, the results from the measurement of the homogeneity of ceramic blanks are presented. For the evaluation of the homogeneity of the measured environment was used a) expression in the form of a shape index, which expresses the deviation of the measured equipotential level of voltage from the ideal homogeneous state; b) display of functional dependence of voltage on distance; and c) 3D visualization of measured voltage in the sample. Geographic information systems have proved to be a suitable means of evaluating and visualizing the results of the measurement quality in homogeneity of blanks by the method of measuring the voltage on the sample surface. The proposed method of measurement and evaluation is also applicable to other materials and has its application in the didactics of electrotechnical materials." "Design Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Design and Education of Engineers" "Peter Arras" "With each year computerized tools for mechanical design become more comprehensive and contain a great variety of tools for engineers. Using the tools as black box solutions contains a lot of risks. In the field of CAD/CAE in mechanical design one of the hot topics is the optimization of the shape of a structure complying to certain boundary conditions to make a structure lighter and thus more economic. Although these techniques have been described a long time ago, through to recent developments in additive manufacturing and other prototyping techniques which make it possible to make the resulting structures, the tools are currently gaining a lot of importance and are being implemented. In the article we consider a case study to show the differences between topological and parametrical optimization for the same task. Based on this example the authors would like to stress the importance of the correct implementation of these two approaches and the importance of teaching the methodology and not only tools in the engineering study." "Cost Optimization Simulation for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure" "Peter Arras" "To teach engineering students the interrelations and requirements for a robust, controlled and secured system incorporating all challenges of the modern IoT-system, an engineering case was developed. A charging station for electric batteries (such as for electric cars) was studied, both from the client (user at the load station) side as from the delivery side (service provider). The energy source is selected on criteria of availability and costs as both differ during the time (depending on weather conditions and grid load). In this paper, the authors look at the optimization of the delivery cost of energy depending on the energy source and time of charging." "Dortmund International Reseach Conference 2019" "Peter Arras" "To attract more students to the engineering studies last years,itbecomes more popular to organize kids’ universities at the universities, but such activities require confident educational tools.In the paper the authors present the interactive tool for teaching Python for Raspberry Pi for Kids Universities."