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Using Active Learning to Increase Student Retention in Introductory Computing Courses

Conference Session
Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bruce Herring, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS); Robert St Jacques, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Division
Paper ID #27120Using Active Learning to Increase Student Retention in Introductory Com-puting CoursesBruce Herring, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS) Bruce Herring is a lecturer in the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Software Engineer- ing. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Florida State University. At RIT he teaches several introductory courses to incoming freshmen and sophomores in computer science and software engineer- ing. Prior to RIT he worked in industry for 16 years for Harris Corporation, a communications company. His work was predominantly in an embedded environment dealing with the
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Balancing Student Learning and Community Relations in Software-Based Service Learning

Conference Session
Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Division
engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Balancing Student Learning and Community Relations in Software-Based Service-LearningAbstract Service-learning is a form
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Teaching and Assessing Sustainability Based on the Karlskrona Manifesto

Conference Session
Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ivan Cabezas, Universidad de San Buenaventura; Eileen Webb, Accreditation Preparation
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Division
) and Simposium Assessment in Barranquilla, Colombia Her bach- elor of chemical engineering is from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech.) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching and assessing sustainability based on the Karlskrona ManifestoAbstractSustainability is not a new concept. Over the last few decades the Brundtland CommissionReport and the United Nations have emphasized the importance of sustainability and defined keyconcepts. Understanding and seeking sustainability is not only a must but also a challenge fortoday’s engineers. Incorporating sustainability into design helps students build their engineeringjudgement beyond the short-term, technical issues that they tend
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Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction: Students' Perception of a Project-based Approach in a Postgraduate Course

Conference Session
Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Luis Alberto Rojas Pino, Universidad Andres Bello; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Juan Felipe Calderón, Universidad Andres Bello
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Division
engineering,” IEEE software, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 104–104, 2014.[6] H. Xu, Z. Wu, T. Lin, N. Tang, and Y. Chen, “Research on Teaching Model of Project- driven HCI Course,” in International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT-16), 2016.[7] B. Bruegge, S. Krusche, and L. Alperowitz, “Software engineering project courses with industrial clients,” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), vol. 15, no. 4, p. 17, 2015.[8] J. Preece, Y. Rogers, and H. Sharp, Interaction design: beyond human-computer interaction. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.[9] A. G. D. Corrêa and V. F. Martins, “Methodology applied problem-based learning in teaching HCI: A case study in usability evaluation of an online course,” in
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Applied Knowledge Retention – Are Active Learning Tools the Solution?

Conference Session
Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Jeffrey J. Yackley, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Division
Paper ID #24771Applied Knowledge Retention – Are Active Learning Tools the Solution?Dr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Indus- try. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals
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