Teaching Basic Problem Decomposition and Algorithm Design Skills
Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University
Mandoye Ndoye, Electrical and Computer Enngineering, Tuskegee University With the advent of the data science era, there is a great and immediate need for the training of engineers that can use principled methods ...

Student Self-Assessments in a Computational Data Analysis Course
Michelle Isenhour, Naval Postgraduate School
Michelle Isenhour, Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School I teach basic (undergraduate) statistics and data analysis to students at the graduate level. The purpose of my course is to prepare students for ...

Introducing MATLAB in freshmen Math course
Edith Aguirre, El Paso Community College
Edith Aguirre, Mathematics, El Paso Community College I currently teach at a 2-year community college where we enroll almost 30,000 predominantly Hispanic students each semester. This fall 2019 semester I will ...

MATLAB outside classroom
Henok Mawi, Howard University
Henok Mawi, Mathematics, Howard University The research topic that I work on is mostly theoretical; theorem and proof of mathematical statements that arise in modeling in geometric optics. However it also involves ...

Visualizing Mathematical Foundations of Design Optimization using MATLAB
Yong Suh, California State University-Sacramento
Yong Suh, Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Sacramento In my experience in teaching the mechanical engineering students in our university, I have learned that many students can engage in ...

The Role of Computation in 21st Century
Today, perhaps the most desired skill required is computation. We see the application of computation in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer aided drug design, financial models, earth observations, ...

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO TEACH GAS TURBINE BASED POWER CYCLES
Farshid Zabihian, California State University-Sacramento
Farshid Zabihian, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Sacramento This essay presents the new approach in teaching Thermodynamics in general and gas turbine cycles in particular to ...

Helping psychology students embrace computational thinking
Adam Steiner, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Adam Steiner, Psychology, Minnesota State University-Mankato Prior to graduate school, my experiences with programming were limited to a few problems in computational physics. Once I began graduate school in ...

Willing to Learn, Grow, and Adapt
Oscar Macedo, El Paso Community College
Oscar D. Macedo, Mathematics, El Paso Community College My name is Oscar Macedo from El Paso Community College in El Paso Texas. I am looking forward to attending this workshop to learn something completely new to ...

Teaching Computational Thinking Skills from the Student's Early Years Through College
Samuel Olatunbosun, Norfolk State University
Samuel BO Olatunbosun, Computer Science, Norfolk State University Overview Computational thinking (CT), a popular term that experienced a surge of popularity in the 2000s, refers to a broad range of psychological ...