Teaching undergraduates data mining in engineering programs

The teaching undergraduates data mining in engineering programs project was supported by the National Science Foundation. The project was jointly executed between universities. The project objectives were to: (1) develop an undergraduate data mining course that could be taught in semester or quarter systems and within institutions of varying demographics, (2) establish vehicles and approaches to increase student retention in such a course, and (3) identify data mining skills essential to problem solving. This paper reports on the results of our research effort regarding teaching engineering undergraduates data mining techniques in two different university environments in 2003.