<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natalia M. Mezhennaya</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oleg V. Pugachev</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ON PERCEPTION OF COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS AND MICROSOFT EXCEL BY ENGINEERING STUDENTS</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">computer algebra system</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">education statistics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mathcad</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mathematica</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mathematical education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MATLAB</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Microsoft Excel</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June/2019</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2019/457-1561382162.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">77</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Continuous</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This research presents the analysis of image of the popular program packages: CAS (Computer Algebra Systems) Matlab, Mathcad, Mathematica, and the spreadsheet ‘Microsoft Excel’ among students of engineering specializations studying in Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). The research has explored perception of program packages by all students (N=164), and by male students (N=110) and female students (N=54) separately. Image of the program packages, convenience of their interfaces, usage scenarios, and applicability for solution of tasks of certain types have been explored via questioning the students. Moreover, the students assessed likelihood of using the programs in the future. It was established that all the program packages under consideration can be successfully used in the process of education, but some of them (Matlab and Mathematica) require additional lessons to learn their interface and peculiarities. Gender differences in perception of the program packages do not determine the education outcomes. The differences of perception of the programs are mainly caused by their popularity and the students’ skills of using certain programs. The following gender differences have been detected: in the female students’ sample, the programs Mathcad and Excel are leading, Matlab is performed a little worse; Matlab is associated with the statement “difficult / inconvenient interface”. In the male students’ sample, the three programs Matlab, Mathcad, and Microsoft Excel got nearly equal grades. Female students estimate future usage of Microsoft Excel higher than male students do. The CAS Mathematica takes the lowest places for both samples; as a possible cause of such result, it has been found that Mathematica is not widespread as compared to the other programs under consideration.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">379-395</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mike   Borowczak</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">COMMUNICATION IN STEM EDUCATION: A NON-INTRUSIVE METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT &amp; K20 EDUCATOR FEEDBACK</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ABET</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">communication assessment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">communication in STEM</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">senior capstones</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June/2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2015/457-1438197091.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">65</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Discontinuous</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The current push to educate highly qualified and productive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professionals typically culminates in collegiate capstone projects. These group projects attempt to prepare STEM professionals for entry into the real world as they exemplify early career group dynamics and expose the reality that communication and other soft-skills are often just as important as technical skills. Since attitudes of STEM students and early career professions are established throughout the entire K-20 curriculum, this article also provides some feedback to educators. The research presented utilized, a free cloud based collaboration tool to observe the communication habits of three senior capstone teams (n= 13 participants) and was able to predict communication success and failures through straight-forward analysis of several key parameters, including: discussion frequency, number of responses and the distribution of work over time.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18-27</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hants  Kipper</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiia Rüütmann</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DESIGN OF THE CURRICULUM FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATORS AT TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century </style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">continuing education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">curriculum design</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">July/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/article?articleId=2594595</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curriculum development for continuing education of engineering educators has been of essential importance in Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy. The curriculum has been completed in 2010. The newly designed curriculum makes scientifically-founded and practice-oriented teacher training possible. A three-staged methodology in curriculum design has been used. The proposed methodology for the course design starts with decisions on overall goals, learning objectives and intended learning outcomes. The design followed the model: Establish Qualification Profile, Establish Admission Quality, Define Course Content, Establish the Curriculum at Macro Level, Establish the Curriculum at Micro Level, Integrate the Curriculum within the University System, the syllabus and the model is described more closely in the article. Eight possible specializations have been proposed. As the required entrance qualification of the candidate is Master degree in engineering, it is assumed that the candidate has acquired a complete knowledge in engineering speciality on high level afore. The curriculum is based on IGIP (International Society for Engineering Education) Recommendations for Studies in Engineering Pedagogy Science and described in detail, being the only and the very first one in Estonia providing continuing education in Engineering Pedagogy for engineers. The first students will be admitted to the pilot study programme in 2011. </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">87-96</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hants  Kipper</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiia Rüütmann</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES OF QUESTIONING EFFECTUATING THINKING AND DEEP UNDERSTANDING IN TEACHING ENGINEERING AT ESTONIAN CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING PEDAGOGY</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">deep understanding</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">questioning strategies</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">March/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399917156.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Questioning is one of the essential teaching strategies or basic skills of teaching engineering, ensuring that all students learn as much as possible, think critically and acquire deep and thorough understanding of the topics they study. The role of teaching is to bring the knowledge to consciousness by asking questions. In the present article research findings are cited about questioning. Reasons are listed why sufficient wait time is important, appropriate questioning behaviours are described, examples are provided of different levels of questions and questioning practices to avoid are presented. Questioning procedures are described. The basic questioning strategies and prompting techniques used at Estonian Centre for Engineering pedagogy are described in the article. It is also discussed how questioning can create a dynamic learning environment in teaching engineering, based on the practice of Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">36-45</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nitza  Davidovich</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yutri  Ribakov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">TEACHING ENGINEERING SUBJECTS USING MATLAB</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century </style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MATLAB</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">March/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399916954.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A required course on programming in MATLAB has been included in the undergraduate programs at Ariel University Center of Samaria since 2000. In the Department of Civil Engineering, students attend a one-semester course in MATLAB in the first year of the program. The course syllabus includes 26 hours of lectures and 26 hours of tutorials. The students learn elementary mathematical commands, functions for vector and matrix operations, logic operators, methods for solving systems of linear equations, graphics, symbolic operations, input-output functions, and other operations. In the MATLAB course, which is taught by a faculty member of the department, students master the methodology of using MATLAB for solving real engineering problems. Throughout their undergraduate studies, students apply their skills in programming to topics related to structural engineering subjects. MATLAB has proved itself to be a very effective tool in the educational process because it offers a simple and powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing results of numerical simulations and measurements. Its universality allows easy understanding of complicated processes in different fields of engineering, forming a basis for greater success in education.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9-14</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiia Rüütmann</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jüri Vanaveski</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES AND MODELS FOR TEACHING THINKING SKILLS AND CAPITALIZING DEEP UNDERSTANDING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">deep understanding</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">engineering education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">teaching models</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399915280.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The article introduces effective teaching strategies and models suitable for teaching engineering, implemented at Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy. Strategies are general approaches to instruction, used to meet a range of learning objectives: skilled questioning, clear communication, organizing lessons, effective feedback, starting lessons with a review and ending with closure, applicable in all teaching situations. Models are specific approaches to instruction having four characteristics: they help students acquire deep understanding and develop critical thinking abilities; they include a series of specific steps intended to reach the objectives; they are grounded in learning theory; they are supported by motivation theory. Introduced models are designed to capitalize deep understanding and critical thinking in teaching engineering. Accordingly students will be able to explain, find evidence and examples, generalise, apply, analogise and represent a topic in a new way. At least four different kinds of knowledge are essential for expert teaching: knowledge of content; pedagogical content knowledge; general pedagogical knowledge; and knowledge of learners and learning. The goal of the article is to help engineering teachers acquire knowledge in each of these areas. </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">176-187</style></section></record></records></xml>