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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Estelle M. Eke

of each group’s project, and a technical report. Every student in a group must write a portion of the report so that his/her writing skills may be assessed. Students evaluate their peers’ presentations and demonstrations. Grade distribution (MATLAB and SIMULINK 60%; project 40%).Table 1. Course Syllabus Lecture 1: Introduction to Computing Environment (SacCT, UNIX, Voyager, Windows); Review of Linear Algebra http://www.purplemath.com/modules/index.htm Lab 1: Introduction to software (MATLAB) Driver, Plots, Conditional Statements; User-defined functions;Exercises with vectors and matrices Lecture 2: Global variables; Data files: Read and Write Lecture 3: Graphical User Interface (GUI) (Instructor notes) Lab 2: Creating a GUI - Exercises with

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Paul Blowers

theseoriginated as far back as the 13th century5. However, their use has seemed to explode recentlywith a much larger number of publications appearing in the literature. Even just since 1997,there have been 500 peer-reviewed articles that have investigated their use, according to a briefsurvey of Journal Citation Index.Novak6 proposed the concept map as a way of created a knowledge network that contains pointsand verticies as concepts and links between them as the relationships among concepts. Kinchinand Cabot point out that there have now been 25 years of extended research and development ofusing concept maps to help students learn how to learn7. Essentially, concept maps are two-dimensional representations of a set of concepts and their relationships8

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

presentations and compile a list of the 10 things thatthey wish to do when abroad.On arrival students will be offered additional modern languages support by the appropriatelanguage training unit within the host institution. This will also ensure that all studentsmake contact with others, are aware of several members of staff who can offer support andhave a forum in which to discuss culture and customs. Students will be assigned both atutor for their pastoral care and a mentor from the host institution’s peer group. The tutorwill be expected to: give the student a tour of the area, offer transport to local shops,organise an opportunity to socialise, discuss matters of personal safety and health as wellas act as a resource for getting questions answered

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

called "longitudinaladvising". . One faculty/staff member is responsible for a student during their entire program ofstudy at the university, leading to long term and sustained contact over time. Faculty in thismodel get to know the students well and can provide the most relevant advice as needed becausethey know the students' abilities, their weaknesses, and what works well for them. The intimateand close contact allows the faculty member to write much stronger and more specific letters ofrecommendation for students when they apply for positions, graduate school admission, orscholarships, as well. Students get to know one faculty member well and this can enable them toknow the faculty more as a person than just an institutional representative

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Discrete-Time Convolution, Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek and Fred Harris 37042. Expanding Engineering Education through Undergraduate Research Experience in Micro-Robotic Drug Delivery, Eniko T. Enikov and Malcolm T. Gibson 38043. Towards A Joint Degree Program In Ambient Computing, Yusuf Ozturk, Emrah Orhun, and Chris Bowerman 38644. Engineering 101: Peer Teaching with LEGO NXT Robotics, Stephen Beck, Joshua Brent, Thomas Brown, Agostino Cala, Eniko T. Enikov, and Richard Lucio III 39545. Teaching