In this paper, we establish the need (based on literature and anecdotal evidence) for an infrastructure for CS1 courses to visually support problem solving from the initial problem statement to the code. Then, we describe how using Unified Modeling Language supported by CASE software (Rational Rose) can be used with carefully prepared course materials (selected projects, prepared databases, written lab manuals), to create this infrastructure. The advantage of this infrastructure is that it can be used throughout the student's academic career in software development to support problem solving and collaborative learning. The authors' extensive experience in developing and teaching the Software Engineering and IT courses were the major factor in implementation of the Object-Orientation with Unified Modeling Language in entry level software development courses.
Many software engineering research projects are conducted within university computer science and computing departments or colleges. Every computer or computing department has its own experiences, successes or pitfalls in software engineering and software development teaching, which would be useful to share and discuss with the education community. In this paper we discuss the international software engineering research project experiences and results from five years of teaching "Projects in Computer Science" in Computer Information Systems Diploma and "Software Engineering" in Bachelor of Computer Information Systems Degree programs at Okanagan College. The learning of software development in the Diploma as well as software engineering in the Degree programs were synchronized with the practical software development and software engineering projects with real sponsors from industry and academia in small and medium size groups of students (3-6 members in Diploma and 5-11 members in Degree projects). Additionally to industrial projects we introduced a number of software engineering research projects from academia and industry, located worldwide in the last 5 years. Instructors supervised and supported students in the role of sponsors or mediators. Many student groups were able to develop impressive, high quality final engineering and research project applications and systems. The sponsors provided very positive feedback and references for most of the projects. We offered a greater number of real projects for students to select from, including international research projects from the United States, France, Ukraine and Canada. Several student teams chose research projects (as opposed to industrial projects), which will be briefly discussed in this paper.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. Advances in wireless technology have made possible the remote monitoring of a patient's heart sensors as part of a body area network. Some of these networks use a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) component to transmit the signal between the bio sensors and a smart phone. This study investigates the impact that stray wireless transmissions from residential microwave ovens have on the BLE component of the body area network. The results of this study may lead to improvements and widespread use of body area network medical systems, which may lead to better monitoring, more data, and fewer fatalities due to misdiagnosed heart conditions.
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