Guest Editorial Special Issue on Computing in Engineering

Abstract

With the increasing ubiquity of computing, more engineering programs now require their students to take one or more computing courses. At institutions where significant numbers of engineering students take computer courses, computing instructors and educators often assume roles that have them teaching their computing courses for non-majors as service courses, dealing with students with diverse backgrounds and varied motivations. Although teaching computing courses to non-majors is not new, the increasing importance of computing in future undergraduate engineering curricula poses new challenges. In this Special Issue, four of the papers offer insight into, and give evidence of, teaching computing to engineering students; the fifth paper investigates computational modeling abilities in conceptual understanding of electric circuits.