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Several typical features of the science-and technology picture of that time, primarily in computer engineering, numerical methods and programming are described.
I got lucky with my teachers in science. The supervisor of my degree work was Andrey Bers. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Igor Pottosin. The informal adviser of my doctoral thesis was Andrey Ershov. In the paper I wish to commemorate my teachers that were ones of the first Russian programmers and did a lot for formation and development of computer science in Russia.
Mathematics education is an essential part of every engineering curriculum. The question of how much math should be included in an engineering curriculum is under discussion and the mathematics content has come under closer scrutiny with the aim of teaching engineers mathematical topics that have close practical relevance to their discipline at a time when those topics are most needed. This article...
Professional skills are often emphasized in a capstone engineering design course, especially in relation to addressing ABET Engineering Criteria. Learning of these skills is typically a product of the project management approach followed by design teams. The principles behind agile development and the features of the Scrum methodology match up well with the expected outcomes of a major engineering...
Problem: To manage and supervise a large number of theses at bachelor, master and PhD level, with increased quality of both processes and product. Based on 995 publications, Jones (2013) identified four main problems in PhD thesis production; attrition, supervisor relationship, supervisor quality, social isolation. These issues also apply to theses at bachelor and master level In theses applied research...
Introducing an external user in the capstone design course can be beneficial for the students, but also brings several challenges. The user, who takes on the part of a customer that wishes to take possession of and use the designed product, helps ensure that the project is relevant, usable and within budget and timeline. He or she participates in setting specifications for the product and modifying...
This paper presents a new methodology proposal and hands-on activities in the Introduction to Computer Engineering (ICE) course, based on open hardware platforms. The proposal has been adopted in the Computer Engineering undergraduate program at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) — Brazil. Most of the ICE courses from computer engineering programs around the world have put focus on...
In this paper we will present a case study and an analysis conducted to evaluate the use of lecture learning as a helpful companion to the classical teaching. This effort is done around the Opencast Matterhorn software, a system that is able to record classroom presentations and publish them on a LMS automatically, without the intervention of a technician dedicated to it. So we delivered a university-wide...
Non-traditional students older than traditional college age (18–24) face particular challenges in the demanding engineering curriculum. In this qualitative study we explore the unique aspects of their motivation for studying engineering, prior experiences, and impact of family life on these students. We find that job opportunities were the primary motivation for most of the students to pursue an engineering...
This paper explores whether engaging embedded electronic systems students in the creation of, as opposed to simply the use of, lab equipment improves their motivation to practice, and thereby their ability to acquire, discipline-specific skills. The specific piece of laboratory equipment considered is the Microchip In Circuit Debugger, inclusive of header, for PIC16F mid-range micro-controllers. A...
One challenge faced in the engineering education, is the need to imbue both technical competence and critical thinking skills within the bounds of academic program delivery. While technical competence can be built and assessed using structured and/or quantitative exercises, critical thinking is a skill that is both difficult to cultivate and to assess. Critical thinking involves the possession of...
Arizona and the United States need more engineers. It is well known that very few college freshmen choose engineering as a major. In addition, studies show that roughly 40% of students planning to study engineering and science change majors or fail to get their degrees. Students aspiring to be an engineer must take several years of mathematics courses. Mathematics is not popular. In a recent Noel-Levitz...
We present an initial investigation of the relationship between math preparedness and student status, and success in freshman electrical and computer engineering courses. We utilize prior math coursework GPA and ALEKS scores as measures of preparedness and find that, with some caveats, they work reasonably well as predictors of success. The majority of our students take freshman engineering courses...
As part of the ongoing Responsive AUV Localization and Mapping project (REALM) Memorial University has been developing an autonomous path localization and following system. This Qualitative Navigation System (QNS) localizes an AUV to a predefined path and generates control inputs to maintain the AUV along that path without the need for an absolute position estimate. QNS processes sonar data into the...
This Work-in-Progress paper describes an ongoing project for modernizing the probability and statistics program component for electrical and computer engineering majors at the University of Kansas. Traditionally in engineering curricula around the nation, this three-hour senior-level course has at most focused on the probability of overlapping events, properties and examples of discrete and continuous...
The pipeline of three introductory computer science courses at our university have low pass rates. As part of our efforts to improve the pass rates in these courses, we examine the students' mathematics preparation and their progress from one course to the next. We find that the minority of students who enter the university with good mathematics preparation are likely to succeed in our introductory...
Mathematics and physics courses are recognized as a crucial foundation for the study of engineering, and often are prerequisite courses for the basic engineering curriculum. But how does performance in these prerequisite courses affect student performance in engineering courses? This study evaluated the relationship between grades in prerequisite math and physics courses and grades in subsequent electrical...
The "Girls on the Go: The Mobile Computing College Experience" is a residential summer camp whose aim is to encourage female high school students to attend college, to consider computer science as viable major, and to pursue computing related degrees. The camp content is designed primarily around a user-centered design process, with the students gaining experience in the development of a...
Robotics, as a multi-disciplinary branch of science and technology, is concerned with a variety of computer-controlled electro-mechanical structures designed for a multitude of applications. Less than a decade ago, robotics was a graduate-level field of research in engineering & computer science offered only at a few large engineering institutions. It has now become an engineering discipline of...
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