Introducing multidisciplinary thinking in Computer Engineering: A new way of teaching database systems

Author

Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer ; Baumann, Peter ; Jucovschi, Constantin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput., Univ. of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 April 2010

Firstpage

523

Lastpage

530

Abstract

This paper describes an experiment conducted in Brazil in teaching an undergraduate database course to Computer Engineering and Computer Science students at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The experiment has introduced advanced (graduate-level) material in this introductory course, showing students how to integrate course material into several other subjects. The ultimate goal is to engage students in a richer learning environment, enhance motivation, broadening their horizons, and showing them how to solve problems in other fields by looking at a problem from distinct angles. This work was conducted within a binational research project involving UNICAMP/Brazil and Jacobs University/Germany.

Keywords

computer science education; database management systems; educational courses; teaching; Brazil; University of Campinas; computer engineering; computer science education; database course; Biology computing; Computer science; Computer science education; Conducting materials; Data engineering; Database systems; Information retrieval; Jacobian matrices; Management training; Multidimensional systems; computer science education; multi-disciplinary teaching; non-standard databases; raster databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6568-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492532

Filename

5492532