Teaching Data Analysis and Geostatistics with MATLAB
Sandra Vega, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Sandra Vega, Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico I have taught Data Analysis and Geostatistics for about 4 years and I have used MATLAB for most of the lab exercises. I found that ...

Why I decided to invest my time in teaching computational science
Oluseyi Akinola, Obafemi Awolowo University
Oluseyi Akinola, Physics and Engineering Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University There is a need for developing countries (especially the sub-Saharan African countries) to as a matter of necessity invest more funds in ...

Teaching Machine Learning using MATLAB in the Undergraduate and Graduate Student's Curriculum
Sani Abba, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Sani Abba, Department of Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (Federal University of Technology), Nigeria. Machine learning has gain tremendous attention in the research ...

Building Effective Groups for Online Computation
John Mathewson, Pasadena City College
John Mathewson, Mathematics and Computer Science, Pasadena City College Building effective groups and effective ways to monitor the progress of groups are what I imagine will be the most difficult aspects of ...

Adaptive learning with MATLAB tools for Electric Circuit
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, , California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Last couple of years, I have been focusing to teach low level electric circuit courses using flipped classroom approaches. I have ...

Step Zero is Thinking — Don't Skip Step Zero!
Eliza Richardson, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Eliza Richardson, Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus The students I have taught during my career, be they undergraduates, graduate students, mid-career high school science teachers, or my own ...

Teaching debugging and confidence to those new to programming
Alice Bradley, Williams College
Alice Bradley, Geosciences, Williams College I have not yet taught computation online (though I am starting to this coming week). I am quite fortunate to be at Williams College, and teaching upper-level students ...

Improving the Effectiveness of an Introductory Programming Course for Engineering Students
Amy Biegalski, The University of Tennessee
Amy Biegalski, Engineering Fundamentals, University of Tennnessee My course is an introductory level programming course for engineering majors at the University of Tennessee. It is one of the four core courses in ...

There must be a better way to present this material
Louis Woodhams, Washington University in St. Louis
Louis Woodhams, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis In the Spring of 2020, I taught my first Numerical Methods class for sophomores in Mechanical Engineering. I had ...

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 ...