Assessing Computational Thinking in Engineering Design with a Workshop Environment
Michael Thorburn, California State University-Los Angeles
Michael A Thorburn, Engineering, California State University-Los Angeles Background. My job at Cal State LA is to run the Capstone Senior Design Program for the College of Engineering, Computer Science and ...

Coding in a functional way
Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
Alexandre Martinez, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine One challenges that I faced was that the students try to code directly on the computer with first thinking about what they ...

Solving Problems You Thought Were Unsolvable
Eric Choate, Radford University
Eric Choate, Mathematics and Statistics, Radford University We require the majors in our Applied Mathematics concentration to take a two-semester sequence in Numerical Analysis. It features numerical methods for ...

Challenges with teaching computation
Babasola Ogunsanya, Montgomery College
Babasola Ogunsanya, Mathematics, Montgomery College According to Mathworld (2019) computation can be defined as an operation that begins with some initial conditions and gives an output which follows from a ...

No Thinking, No Engineer
Be Oni, Tuskegee University
Ben Oni, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tuskegee University The engineer provides solutions to problems. Usually, the engineering problem(s) requiring solution may be unique in the sense that it is probable ...

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 ...

Finding the Right Tool for the Job
Michael Ray, California State University-Sacramento
Michael Ray, Physics & Astronomy, California State University-Sacramento As an experimental physicist, most of the computational work I do comes in the form of data analysis, and this is also true in the ...

(Programming Induced) Fear and Loathing in Lost Students
Matthew Leineweber, San Jose State University
Matthew Joseph Leineweber, Biomedical Engineering, San Jose State University (Programming-Induced) Fear and Loathing in Lost Students As an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, I developed a theory: as ...

MATLAB' "easy programming" for discipline "Information Processes and Coding"
Yevgeny Gayev, National aviation university
Yevgeny Gayev, Aerospace Control Systems Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine Being familiar with MATLAB (see my Essay1) allows to educator realize pedagogical approach of "own ...

Overcoming Challenges in Teaching Computation
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, Mathematics and Statistics, California State University-Sacramento One of the biggest challenges in teaching multi-variable calculus is the visualization of 3D spaces. In single-variable ...