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The Effect Of A Computing-Focused Linked-Courses Learning Community On Minority And Female Students, Amber Settle, James Doyle, Theresa Steinbach
The Effect Of A Computing-Focused Linked-Courses Learning Community On Minority And Female Students, Amber Settle, James Doyle, Theresa Steinbach
Amber Settle
While enrollments in computing degrees and courses have grown rapidly in the past decade, both female and minority male students remain underrepresented in computing programs. This makes recruitment and retention of these populations a continuing concern. Affinity for a major is connected to student retention, and learning communities have proven effective for this purpose. We present an evaluation of a three-year linked-courses learning community in which we measure pre- to post-quarter changes in student attitudes and resource utilization. We find that participants in the learning community are significantly more likely to report being a part of a group of programmers …
Icmat 2017_Mv_Ecu-Final.Pptx, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Victor Rosenberg
Icmat 2017_Mv_Ecu-Final.Pptx, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Victor Rosenberg
Mikhail Vasiliev
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Next Generation Wireless Communications: Cognitive Radio, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch
Next Generation Wireless Communications: Cognitive Radio, Adnan Quadri, Naima Kaabouch
ADNAN QUADRI
Wireless networks and information traffic have grown exponentially over the last decade. Consequently, an increase in demand of radio frequency bandwidth has resulted. Recent studies have shown that with the current fixed spectrum allocation, there are spectrum holes that are not utilized all the time by the licensed users while other frequency channels, such as Wi-Fi, are heavily used. To efficiently utilize the radio spectrum, cognitive radio stands to be a promising solution as it will be reconfigurable, self-aware and efficient. This research aims to develop techniques that will allow a cognitive radio system to enhance the radio’s decision-making capabilities …