Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 22, 2025
June 22, 2025
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Caroline Crockett is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. She received her PhD degree from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering. Her research interests include image processing and conceptual understanding.
This paper presents the design of the introduction to machine learning (ML) course at the [university name removed]. This course is targeted toward first and second-year undergraduate students and thus has no prerequisite courses beyond the basic introduction to programming course; notably, there are no linear algebra nor probability prerequisite. A key design feature of the course is that it is entry level but still emphasizes the mathematical perspective of ML and conceptual understanding behind ML algorithms. This course presents the basic principles behind ML to make ML feel less like a "black box" and covers a range of applications, focusing on applications in the electrical engineering field. Students collect and interpret data, translate between textual and mathematical descriptions of systems, gain the skills necessary to implement and test ML functions in Python, and practice presenting data in easy-to-interpret plots.
Crockett, C. (2025, June), Developing an introductory machine learning course Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56255
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