Journal of STEM Education
Jul 07, 2006 Volume 7, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 14
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Student Perceptions Of Communication: Undergraduate Engineers? Views Of Writing And Speaking In The Classroom And Workplace
Julie Ford
This article presents the results of a small-scale empirical study investigating engineering students? perceptions of writing in the classroom and workplace. It asks questions regarding the types... More
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International Editorial Advisory Board Members
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JSTEM Back Cover
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Quantifying Aluminum Crystal Size Part 1: The Model-Eliciting Activity
Heidi Diefes-Dux, Margret Hjalmarson, Judith Zawojewski & Keith Bowman
Model-eliciting activities (MEA), specially designed client-drive, open-ended problems, have been implemented in a first-year engineering course and in secondary schools. The educational goals and ... More
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Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE)
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Quantifying Aluminum Crystal Size Part 2: The Model-Development Sequence
Margret Hjalmarson, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Keith Bowman & Judith Zawojewski
We have designed model-development sequences using a common context to provide authentic problem-solving experiences for first-year students. The modeldevelopment sequence takes a model-eliciting... More
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Applying a Competency- and Problem-Based Approach for Learning Compiler Design
Ahmed Khoumsi & Ruben Gonzalez-Rubio
Our department has redesigned its electrical engineering and computer engineering programs completely by adopting a learning methodology based on competence development, problem solving, and the... More
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Instructions for Authors
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Laboratory E-Notebooks: A Learning Object-Based Repository
Ilior Abari, Samuel Pierre & Hamadou Saliah-Hassane
During distributed virtual laboratory experiment sessions, a major problem is to be able to collect, store, manage and share heterogeneous data (intermediate results, analysis, annotations, etc)... More
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Design and Assessment of an ?Engineering? Course for Non-Majors
Sheryl Sorby, Douglas Oppliger & Norma Boersma
As a profession, engineering is not well understood by the general public. Engineers are perceived as "geeks" who love math and who have few interests outside of technical work. In short, the... More
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Contribution Form
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JSTEM Front Cover
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Laboratory E-Notebooks: A Learning Object-Based Repository
Ilior Abari, Samuel Pierre & Hamadou Saliah-Hassane
During distributed virtual laboratory experiment sessions, a major problem is to be able to collect, store, manage and share heterogeneous data (intermediate results, analysis, annotations, etc)... More
pp. 15-23
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Quantifying Aluminum Crystal Size Part 2: The Model-Development Sequence
Margret Hjalmarson, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Keith Bowman & Judith S. Zawojewski
We have designed model-development sequences using a common context to provide authentic problem-solving experiences for first-year students. The model-development sequence takes a model-eliciting ... More
pp. 67-73