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Panel: Addressing the Shortage of Big Data Skills with Inter-Disciplinary Big Data Curriculum
One major challenge faced by enterprises in contemporary era is the shortage of big data and analytics (BDA) professionals. These professionals possess skills to analyze and derive intelligence from big data generated by enterprises. Currently, ...
An educational experience with PBL in capstone projects: The case of EOLO a Colombian electric vehicle with sustainable energy systems
Recently, Electric Vehicles (EVs) have gained an important research relevance as a mean of transport efficient and sustainable. In this full research to practice paper, we expose the educational experience to develop the different nodes such as lighting ...
The SYNERGY project: Emotional Intelligence to Improve Motivation and Learning
For the last decade, our university has experienced a fairly clear decrease in first-year license completion. So, the wish is to be a strong proponent to go towards the experimentation of original devices and students training policy in order to foster ...
Less is More! Preliminary Evaluation of Multi-Functional Document-Based Online Learning Environment
This work-in-progress paper in innovative practice category presents and evaluates a multi-functional document-based learning management system, TIM (The Interactive Material). This system is developed with the goal of integrating a rich set of features ...
Adaptive Multi-Agent Assisting Framework for a Personal Teaching Environment
This Research to Practice Work in Progress presents the first steps and ideas of a framework to address the problem of suggesting the most suitable recommendations for instructors (for teaching and assessing), by designing an intelligent multi-agent ...
Developing and Assessing Engineering Competencies at Experiential Learning Spaces
This Innovative Practice Work in Progress Paper presents a contemporary proposal for engineering competencies assessment research in higher education practice, geared to pedagogy scholars, engineering faculty, recruiters and accreditation institutions, ...
An Ethics Curriculum for CS with Flexibility and Continuity
This Innovative Practice Category full paper will describe the details and rationale of a progressive, integrated, ethics curriculum for a Computer Science program. Since 1991 ACM/IEEE computer science curricula guidelines have included ethics and social ...
Computational glossary in LIBRAS: an experience in undergraduate program of Information Systems
- Rafael Pinto Granada,
- Silvia Botelho,
- Regina Barwaldt,
- Maicon Douglas Lussanrriaga,
- Naraína Zerwes Gentil,
- Danúbia Espíndola
The deaf have conquered rights in the area of education and, in recent years, with the increase of the enrollment of deaf people in higher education institutions, there is a need to develop new signs in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) for specific ...
Using Personas as Curricular Design Tools: Engaging the Boundaries of Engineering Culture
- Desen Sevi Ozkan,
- Liesl Baum,
- David Reeping,
- Lisa D. McNair,
- Tom L. Martin,
- Steve Harrison,
- Luke Lester,
- Ben Knapp,
- Matthew Wisnioski,
- Annie Patrick
This innovative practice paper introduces the use of personas as a design technique to guide the large-scale curriculum reform of an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at [University X], a large Mid-Atlantic research-intensive institution. ...
Investigating Individual Engineers’ Moral Personality: Socialization and Judgment
The proposed research project investigates individual engineers’ moral personality: how it is shaped by institutional culture through both formal education and employment (socialization), and how it influences engineers’ ethical decision-...
A National INCLUDES Alliance Effort to Integrate Problem-Solving Skills into Computer Science Curriculum
This Innovative Practice Work-In-Progress paper elucidates the approach of the NSF-funded CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance for creating change in students’ competencies by an effort across eight institutions to support the delivery of one-and two-credit ...
Ubiquitous Learning: ASystematic Review
- Fetnanda P. Mota,
- Fetnando P. de Tôledo,
- Viviani Kwecko,
- Sam Devincenzi,
- Pedro Núñez,
- Silvia S. da C. Botelho
This Research Full paper presents a systematic analysis. The objective of this work is to identify the educational context in which u-Learning was applied, as well as to evaluate which technologies are used to analyze the learning process in the period ...
An REU Experience in Machine Learning and Computational Cameras
In this work in progress paper, we describe an REU summer experience on imaging sensors that involved a female junior level Electrical Engineering student, a graduate student advisor, and three faculty. A research plan was designed to embed the student in ...
Improving Students Skills to Solve Elementary Equations in K-12 Programs Using an Intelligent Tutoring System
- Arcanjo Miguel Mota Lopes,
- José Francisco de Magalhães Netto,
- Ricardo A. L. de Souza,
- Andreza Bastos Mourão,
- Thais Oliveira Almeida,
- Dhanielly P. R. de Lima
This full paper of research to practice category describes an experiment using an Intelligent Tutoring System to support teaching and learning that evolve solutions of first-degree equations. The difficulties encountered in solving algebra problems can ...
Investigating Researchers’ Motivations and Identities through Convergent Learning from Divergent Perspectives
This Research Work-in-Progress paper explores how motivation and identity can evolve when faculty from different disciplines (arts, engineering, medicine, etc.) collaborate to present on a central theme or topic (e.g. color) across multiple community ...
An Early Adaptation of Identity Trajectory to Understand the Identities of Undergraduate Engineering Students
- Brianna Benedict,
- Dina Verdín,
- Jacqueline A. Rohde,
- Harriet Brown,
- Rachel Baker,
- Aaron Thielmeyer,
- Allison Godwin
This research category work-in-progress paper describes a beginning examination of how to adapt the identity trajectory theory from its original use with graduate students and early career faculty to understand how early career undergraduate students ...
Outlining Software Project Management Education by Surveying Educators
This research full paper presents an investigation on how project management education is taught in undergraduate degree programs of higher education in computing. Projects are a key way to create value and benefits in organizations. In today’s ...
Introducing machine learning concepts using hands-on Android-based exercises
- Blaine Ayotte,
- Justin Au-Yeung,
- Mahesh K. Banavar,
- Dana Barry,
- Gowtham Muniraju,
- Sunil Rao,
- A. Spanias,
- C. Tepedelenlioglu
In this innovative practice work-in-progress paper, we discuss novel methods to teach machine learning concepts to undergraduate students. Teaching machine learning involves introducing students to complex concepts in statistics, linear algebra, and ...
Motivating Future Engineers: Building Situation Sensing Mars Rover with Elementary School Students
This innovative practice category full paper contains the outline of an upper elementary grade afterschool STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) extra-curricular activity (STEM Club) in which the students learn how to design and build a ...
Cyber Security Social Engineers An Extensible Teaching Tool for Social Engineering Education and Awareness
This Work in Progress in the Research to Practice Category paper will discuss the design and implementation of an extensible teaching tool for social engineering education and awareness. With the bulk of recent research within the field of computer and ...
Exploring Critical Consciousness in Engineering Curriculum Through an Ill-Structured Problem
This research-to-practice work-in-progress paper presents the preliminary effort to explore and actualize the third tenet of Ladson-Billing’s theory of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) into a required, sophomore-level engineering statics and ...
An Assessment System to Support Multi-Level Program Outcomes Evaluation Using Blackboard
This is an Innovative Practice Full Paper. Our department has three computing programs seeking accreditations from ABET CAC and EAC. With new ABET criteria, we adopted performance indicators (PIs) for our two levels of outcomes, devised to map to the ...
How Different are Pre and Post-Secondary STEM Educators?
This Research Work in Progress Paper presents the differences found between pre- and post-secondary educators. Pre-secondary educators are those at the K-12 level, while post-secondary educators teach at the college and university level. Educators are ...
A pilot study of a directed self-placement exam and a workshop designed to improve student learning outcomes in a junior level circuits and signals course
In this work, which is intended to be a Work in Progress Paper in the Research Category, a pilot study of a directed self-placement exam and a workshop designed to lower the DFW rate (% of students who earn a D, F, or W) is presented. Linear ...
Research and Practice of Applying Adaptive Learning in Computer Science and IT Degree Programs
In recent years, to meet the growing needs of upgrading computer-related competence of working adults, many online Bachelor of Science of Computer Science (BSCS) or Bachelor of Science of Information Technology (BSIT) degree programs have been created. ...
A Novel Visual-Privacy Themed Experiential- Learning Tool for Human-Privacy & Societal-Security Awareness in Middle-School and High-School Youth
This Full-paper in the Innovative-Practice Category introduces an innovative visual-privacy themed experiential-learning tool, and discusses how it is used for building human-privacy plus societal-security awareness in middle-school and high-school youth. ...
A Metaphorical Debugger Model to support deaf and hearing impaired in Java programming learning
- Marcos D. do Nascimento,
- Francisco C. de M. B. Oliveira,
- Anarosa A. F. Brandão,
- Lidiane C. Silva,
- Bruno Queiroz,
- Eder Furtado
This innovative practice full paper presents a Metaphorical Debugger Model (JAD) to support deaf and hearing impaired in the process of learning how to program in Java. In Brazil, 9.7 million people are deaf or hearing impaired (DHI). DHI people usually ...
When is Quality Assurance a Constructive Force in Engineering Education?
Quality assurance processes in education have been a key area of engineering education development for several decades. ABET, ENQA - The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, as well as other agencies in Europe and the Asia ...
Generating Student Interest in Quantum Computing
This Research to Practice Full Paper discusses an approach to motivating graduate computer science and electrical engineering students in the study of quantum computing. The U.S. Congress and other governmental and industrial organizations have recognized ...
Design Patterns for Sorting Algorithms
This Innovative Practice Work-in-Progress Paper presents an alternative approach to teach algorithms using design patterns. The traditional approach to teaching different algorithms is to introduce each algorithm as a stand-alone approach. For example, ...
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