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One of the desirable features of quality teaching is individualized attention to students. In this work we present a teaching innovation of individualized support called Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT). We describe a pilot experience conducted in a laboratory group and two control groups of the Computer Science Fundamentals subject of bachelor's degrees in industrial engineering at the Barcelona East...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) focus on manifold subjects, ranging from social sciences over languages to technical skills, and use different means to train the respective skills. MOOCs that are teaching programming skills aim to incorporate practical exercises into the course corpus to give students the hands-on experience necessary for understanding and mastering programming. These exercises,...
Engineering is inherently an innovative profession with design at the center of its core practices. Over the last decade, its importance for engineering students has heightened with the emergence of policy efforts and the rise of collegiate programs developed to support student innovation. Yet, research on how engineering students approach and experience innovation has been limited. During this special...
By the year 2060, the elderly population will double its current size in comparison to the results presented in the last census, according to the Administration on Aging (AoA). By that time an important part of the elderly population will be involved in technology. Moreover, it should be taken into account that the technological needs of elderly people will differ from those of the rest of targets...
The guide to professional development via apprenticeship promotes the following initiatives: improved delivery of educational material and alternate methods for evaluation of the learning objectives. The research herein will focus on utilizing the industry professional based apprenticeship with case study instruments in the classroom improving student motivation, the professional development and critical...
We investigate the ability of introductory physics and mathematics courses to provide a successful pathway into the Engineering program at Victoria University of Wellington. We find that an increasing number of students require these courses, however neither course appears to adequately prepare students for the completion of an engineering degree. The introductory physics course in particular, does...
We describe a sophomore level course that is foremost a comprehensive treatment of logic design, a mandatory topic in many electrical and computer engineering curriculums, but almost equally important, because of the open ended design content, this course serves as the dress rehearsal for what students will encounter in their required senior capstone project. Course outcomes and goals include the...
The dominant mode for teaching engineers about design thinking is project-based learning. We give students things to design — individually or in teams, and then evaluate the products they produce. But another way to learn about engineering design is to study real-world examples. Case studies provide one way to do so. Cases have been used in schools of business for many years; the case study method...
Given the growing demand for skilled workers from the Computer Science field, the high attrition rate of entering Computer Science students is a serious problem at most universities. Much research exists on evaluating the reasons of failure with the introductory Computer Science curriculum referred to as the CS1, CS2 and CS3 courses. Current research has proposed methods to predict patterns and characteristics...
The goal of this paper is to provide a forum to discuss design activity from two different perspectives: industrial design and electrical engineering. We start with a general overview of design activity as defined by Larson and Dorst[1]. Next, perspectives on design are presented by two of the paper's authors, specifically in the following areas: identifying and framing design problems, design representations,...
Teaching mathematics for engineering students is very important. New undergraduate students are aware that they will need mathematical concepts in professional activities. It is still usual to observe not only the difficulty of students in mathematical disciplines, but also the lack of motivation for those disciplines. Motivate and keep motivated the engineering students to mathematical disciplines...
Program comprehension is a common task in software development. Programmers perform program comprehension at different stages of the software development life cycle. Detecting when a programmer experiences problems or confusion can be difficult. Self-reported data may be useful, but not reliable. More importantly, it is hard to use the self-reported feedback in real time. In this study, we use an...
In some CS0 settings, innovation and use of technology are not always an option due to costs, poor internet infrastructure and cultural aspects of teaching. It also happens that students are not familiar with CS since they are not educated about it at schools. These circumstances pose a more challenging situation in terms of encouraging beginners to become interested in this subject during an introductory...
This work-in-progress paper suggests that engineering recruitment messaging and engineering pedagogy send mixed messages to students. We describe the early stages of a critical discourse analysis study that shows recruitment messaging often portraying engineers as powerful agents of change, while the phrasings of pedagogical documents such as textbooks and homework assignments often position engineering...
Engineering writing and communication is increasingly required of engineering undergraduate and graduate students; yet this call is rarely met through research-based methods. This research posits that deep investigation of the cognitive processes within engineering writing requires a novel method for data time-dependent analysis. However, no such method exists. This paper details our decision-making...
Earlier studies have analyzed FIE and the community built around it, e.g. the origin, format, and future direction of the conference. We propose a new lens: that of diversity, with the motivation of identifying potential role models or the lack thereof. What is the evolution of the presence of diverse role models in FIE throughout the last decade? In this paper we analyze data containing the list...
As computer science enters the school curricula in an increasing number of countries, teachers must prepare to integrate digital competences into their teaching. This integration is a moving target where new methods, tools and applications appear and disappear at such rates that teachers must have confidence to independently and continuously explore what is new, what is relevant and how to plan their...
This paper examines the impact of departmental policy changes on the trend in DFW proportions for Calculus II at a large research university. Calculus I and II have been shown to be barrier courses for STEM majors, so increasing student success in these courses is imperative to retaining more students in STEM fields. A study was conducted to investigate how the DFW proportions for Calculus II changed...
Computational modeling is the process of programming models of machines, circuits, buildings, phenomena etc. This activity has been widely researched and used in practice at different levels of formal education for a student to learn concepts and techniques on engineering, natural sciences, economics, demography, geography etc. via model programming. Abduction is a type of reasoning that aims to formulate...
An educational incubator in Purdue University's Polytechnic Institute has been experimenting with highly integrated methods to facilitate, assess, and evaluate student learning. Comprised of transdisciplinary faculty and students, one of the basic covenants is to intentionally and repeatedly balance Humanities and STEM concepts by way of open-ended problems affecting humanity and the planet. The learning...
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