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Field Session At Colorado School Of Mines A Capstone Applied Mathematics/Computer Science Course
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bath, Barbara Blake |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Each student at the Colorado School of Mines completes “Field Session” as one of the graduation requirements. In Chemical Engineering, the students do unit operations labs, in Petroleum Engineering, they get hands on experience in petroleum extraction, in Civil Engineering, they learn to survey, and in Mining Engineering, they actually work in the school’s experimental mine. In the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, the students tackle mathematics or computer problems. This six hour course is taken at the conclusion of the junior year. The only prerequisite is the completion of a programming course. Field session is designed so that students will apply the knowledge and skills which they have learned in their three years of study to the solution of a real problem for a real client. Getting the scope of the problem is often difficult for the students as they have never dealt with a problem which took all of their time for this long a period. Students are expected to treat this course as a forty hour per week job for the six week session although many students spend more than the forty hours per week. Communication skills, both oral and written, are a major part of the course. The students must apply their knowledge, be able to work in teams, communicate, manage a project and their time, and think independently. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://peer.asee.org/field-session-at-colorado-school-of-mines-a-capstone-applied-mathematics-computer-science-course.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
