General Catalog - The School Year 1983-1984

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School-leavers' Transition to Tertiary Study: a Literature Review.

The theoretical and empirical literature relating to factors and problems in the transition of students from secondary to tertiary level education is reviewed here. Studies on persistence and attrition, and on the analysis and prediction of academic performance of students, generally and in particular discipline areas, are included.Transition to university; student performance.

Annual Report of Undergraduate Research Fellows from August 2016 to May 2017

Annual Report of Undergraduate Research Fellows from August 2016 to May 2017

1972-1973 and 1973-1974 Bulletin

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Dreaming of Big Data: a method for evaluating the use of data in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum.

This report evaluates the current undergraduate curriculum at WPI in the face of advances in data storage and processing capability. Large quantities of data are now widely accessible in nearly every industry, and we predict that all students will require data analysis skills to succeed in their future careers. In this report, we investigate the educational needs of all students concerning data. We consider the relationship between data and mathematics to determine if th

Using Social Networking Game to Teach Operations Research and Management Science Fundamental Concepts

This paper presents our experience using the popular game FarmVille by Zynga® to teach the fundamentals of linear programming and integer programming concepts to undergraduate students in an introductory operations research course. FarmVille is a popular game within the social networking website Facebook®. A month-long contest was introduced amongst the students with the goal to be the best individual farmer by striving to reach high levels of revenue, experience, and aesthetic appeal of their own unique farm. The contest is to demonstrate the concepts of problem formulation, solution methods, multiple and competing objectives, implementation of policy, and reformulation. The students were surveyed at the beginning of the semester to gain insight into their perceptions of the course. The students were also surveyed regarding the FarmVille Challenge, to gauge the effectiveness of the pedagogy and students\u27 opinions of the hand on approach. The paper demonstrates through surveyed results that the students favored this instruction. The students surveyed agree that this was an engaging and thought provoking exercise and saw the true application of multiple key fundamentals of operations research