Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Rebeca Gonzalez, Chapin High School; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado; Alexandria Ogrey, University of Texas, El Paso; Mary Kay Roy, University of Texas, El Paso; Alan Siegel, NYU

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

biological processes. Two other pilots are beginning in Spring 2010. A section of an introductory programming course offeredto students enrolled in Electrical Engineering will be taught using MPCT‟s pedagogical approach and willinclude projects that simulate dynamism in electrical systems. A section of a statistics course attended bystudents of psychology will also include elements from MPCT with the expectation that the process ofconstructing simulators of stochastic systems will assist in students‟ understanding of coupled andindependent random processes. We are also adapting this approach of motivating math from concrete problems to the teaching ofalgorithms. There, the objective is to use specific problems as a vehicle for teaching