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Bettin, Briana; Jarvie-Eggart, Michelle; Steelman, Kelly S.; Wallace, Charles – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
In the wake of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, computer programming has become a foundational competency across engineering disciplines. Yet engineering students often resist the notion that computer programming is a skill relevant to their future profession. Here are presented two activities aimed at supporting the early development…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Programming, Coding
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Zahra Atiq; Rakhi Batra – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Emotions are a complex multi-faceted phenomenon. To assess the complexity of emotions from different facets, multi-modal approaches are necessary. However, multi-modal approaches are rarely used for assessing emotions, especially in the context of computer programming. This study adopts a multi-modal approach to understand the changes in students'…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Change, Programming, Problem Solving
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Shmallo, Ronit; Ragonis, Noa – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The paper presents research that aims to expose students' understanding of the "this" reference in object-oriented programming. The study was conducted with high school students (N = 86) and college engineering students (N = 77). Conceptualization of "this" reflects an understanding of objects in general and involves aspects of…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, High School Students, College Students
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Kidd, Jennifer; Kaipa, Krishnanand; Gutierrez, Kristie; Lee, Min Jung; Pazos, Pilar; Ringleb, Stacie I. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2022
Ed+gineering, an NSF-funded program, adapted hands-on robotics instruction for online delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative multiple case study shares the experiences of participating education students in spring 2021 as they collaborated virtually with engineering students and fifth graders to engineer bioinspired robots…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Interpersonal Relationship, Education Majors
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Abreu, Pedro Henriques; Silva, Daniel Castro; Gomes, Anabela – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Low performance of nontechnical engineering students in programming courses is a problem that remains unsolved. Over the years, many authors have tried to identify the multiple causes for that failure, but there is unanimity on the fact that motivation is a key factor for the acquisition of knowledge by students. To better understand motivation, a…
Descriptors: Programming, Engineering Education, Student Motivation, Multiple Choice Tests
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Deepamala, N.; Shobha, G. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
Final year or Capstone Project is the final and important phase of the undergraduate curriculum in a Computer Science Engineering program. Final year project is a course where all the skills learnt by the students in the course are applied and evaluated. The important aspects in the delivery of this course are (i) developing a model to train the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Holistic Approach, Learning Experience, Undergraduate Students
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Johnson, Roger W. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Percentage of body fat, age, weight, height, and 14 circumference measurements (e.g., waist) are given for 184 women aged 18-25. Body fat, one measure of health, was accurately determined by an underwater weighing technique which requires special equipment and training of the individuals conducting the process. Modeling body fat percentage using…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Age Differences
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Vieira, Camilo; Magana, Alejandra J.; Falk, Michael L.; Garcia, R. Edwin – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2017
This article presents two case studies aimed at exploring the use of self-explanations in the context of computational science and engineering (CSE) education. The self-explanations were elicited as students' in-code comments of a set of worked-examples, and the cases involved two different approaches to CSE education: glass box and black box. The…
Descriptors: Programming, Student Attitudes, Comprehension, Computer Science Education
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Secules, Stephen; Lawson, Wesley – Advances in Engineering Education, 2019
This paper compares an innovative approach to teaching a required introductory C programming course to a traditional C programming course for electrical engineering (EE) students. The novel course utilizes hardware-based projects to motivate students to master language syntax and implement key programming concepts and best practices. In a mixed…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Required Courses, Engineering Education
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Andalibi, Mehran – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
In the study herein aimed at incorporating the entrepreneurship mindset early on in the engineering curriculum of undergraduate students via a final project of an introductory programming course with MATLAB. Students were asked to find a need on campus, in the society, or in the market with a business potential and write a standalone application…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Engineering Education, Problem Solving, Entrepreneurship
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Doman, Marguerite; Besmer, Andrew; Olsen, Anne – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
In this article, we discuss the use of Pellerin's Four Dimension Leadership System (4-D) as a way to manage teams in a classroom setting. Over a 5-year period, we used a modified version of the 4-D model to manage teams within a senior level Software Engineering capstone course. We found that this approach for team management in a classroom…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Programming
Askar, Petek; Davenport, David – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors related to self-efficacy for Java programming among first year engineering students. An instrument assessing Java programming self-efficacy was developed from the computer programming self-efficacy scale of Ramalingam & Wiedenbeck. The instrument was administered at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Correlation, Computer Literacy, Investigations
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El-Zein, Abbas; Langrish, Tim; Balaam, Nigel – Advances in Engineering Education, 2009
Many engineering schools include computer programming as part of a first-year course taught to large engineering classes. This approach is effective in rationalizing resources and improving the cost-effectiveness of course delivery. In addition, it can lead to wholesale improvements in teaching and learning. However, class sizes and the variety of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Engineering Education, Web Based Instruction, Programming
Cunningham, Pearley – 1995
As part of its annual program review process, the Department of Engineering Technology at the Community College of Allegheny County, in Pennsylvania, conducted a study of computer usage in community college engineering technology programs across the nation. Specifically, the study sought to determine the types of software, Internet access, average…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Design, Computer Centers, Computer Networks