The symposia planned for MS&T ’04 have been developed to present both practical and theoretical accomplishments advancing both scientific understanding and industrial progress. The complete conference consists of ferrous and nonferrous technologies, advanced and fundamental applications, proposed and hands-on processing methodologies, and a comprehensive snapshot of the present and the future f...

Broad band spectra of total and compact–scale radio emission from blazars, used in combination with kinematic information inferred from VLBI monitoring programs, can be applied successfully to better constrain the models of compact jets. We discuss here a " hands-on " approach for tying together the kinematic and spectral properties of radio emission from blazars.

It is crucial for a teacher to take students’ learning styles into account to enhance teaching effectiveness. This study examines correlations between students’ learning styles and their performance in writing and debugging Java programs. Eighty-four college freshmen who enrolled in two introductory Java programming courses participated in this study. Students were given the Soloman-Felder Inde...

Probability plays a critical role in making sense of quantum physics, but most science and engineering undergraduates have very little experience with the topic. A probabilistic interpretation of a physical system, even at a classical level, is often completely new to them, and the relevant fundamental concepts such as probability distribution and probability density are rarely understood. To a...

Many discussions have emerged recently from the Augmented Reality industry about creating an Augmented Reality Standard. In the rather new and thus still fairly unstructured AR industry, various institutions and groups got together and analyzed the AR landscape from the ground (the analytical approach to a standard), while others started from the other end and already created proposals for an A...

Process control is a difficult subject for engineering students. It is difficult for them to understand how to apply the theoretical concepts seeing in the classroom with the control process in real time. Over the last several years, the Process Control Team of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana has developed its own prototypes in order to create a process control laboratory for undergraduate c...

ICT Security is one of the most challenging areas regarding education and training, both in academic and professional level. The requirement for hands-on practice with realistic attacks in real systems makes the training of ICT Security a complex task, demanding in time, resources, expertise, with constant demands for renewal of educational material and upgrading of systems so that the training...

This paper reports on four microcontroller-based courses developed at the University of Georgia for a broad multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate student body. The courses are Introduction to Robotics, Embedded Systems, Introduction to Microcontrollers, and Advanced Microcontrollers. These courses which are taught in a hands-on manner equip students with the necessary tools and know-how ...

Universities need to pitch in to help meet the industry need for test practitioners. This paper describes efforts to expose undergraduate students to the practice and principles of software testing. Unfortunately, testing is virtually absent from the undergraduate curriculum. The goals of this effort are threefold: (1) to give students hands-on experience in the fundamentals of testing; (2) to ...

Introduction Teaching and learning of science concepts and practice has traditionally been an interactive process. That interaction most often takes place in classrooms and includes the passive consumption of lectures, intermingled with hands-on work in laboratories or field locations. These activities are interspersed with student interaction with textbooks, computers and the completion of lea...