The Caribbean Computing Center for Excellence at University of Turabo: An effective and innovative strategy to promote the study of computation and engineering

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.25.2.10963

Keywords:

Research, project-based learning, active learning, computing, engineering

Abstract

This work presents an educational experience, which is part of the activities of the project Caribbean Computing Center for Excellence, developed at the University of Turabo in Puerto Rico, from the Ana G. Mendez University System, other Puerto Rican universities and the University of the Virgin Islands. The project includes two components, one aimed at undergraduates and other to precollege students, both are complementary through the mentoring done by undergraduate students to precollege students to develop their research projects using a methodology focused on project based learning and active learning. We want to discuss that these are appropriate strategies to encourage and guide students to pursue undergraduate and graduate programs in different areas of computing and engineering, but mainly we want to show their usefulness to initiate the students in scientific research in these areas.

Author Biographies

Marlio Paredes, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey

Mathematician and magister in mathematics from Universidad del Valle, Colombia. PhD in Mathematics from the Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. Professor of the department of physical-mathematics, Universidad de Puerto Rico at Cayey. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias, Universidad de Puerto Rico at Cayey. Visiting Researcher, Simon A. Levin Center for Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences, Arizona State University, United States.

Walter F. Castro, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Graduate in Mathematics, magister in mathematics from Universidad del Valle, Colombia. PhD in Mathematics Didactics from the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Associate Professor of the faculty of education, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 70 No. 52 - 21, Medellín.

Juan F. Arratia, Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez, Puerto Rico

Electrical engineer from the Universidad Técnica del Estado, Chile. Ph.D in Electrical engineering from Washington University, USA. Executive director of the Centro para el Desarrollo de la Investigación en los Estudiantes, Ana G. Méndez University System, San Juan, PR 00926, USA.

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2017-09-29

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Paredes, M., Castro, W. F., & Arratia, J. F. (2017). The Caribbean Computing Center for Excellence at University of Turabo: An effective and innovative strategy to promote the study of computation and engineering. Investigación &Amp; Desarrollo, 25(2), 153–171. https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.25.2.10963

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Vol. 25 No. 2: Jul - Dic (2017)

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