Teaching and Learning in STEM With Computation, Modeling, and Simulation Practices

"All disciplines need to find ways to integrate theory-based or data-driven technologies into the curriculum to help students be prepared for the workforce. Understanding how to bring that kind of thinking into existing curricula, however, is quite hard to do in practice. This book by Dr. Alejandra Magana helps solve that problem by translating strong evidence-based instructional design principles for STEM faculty via guidance and examples that can be integrated into existing courses. It is a practical, realistic, accessible approach to curriculum change that can help faculty teaching K–12 all the way up through undergraduate capstone contexts integrate computation, modeling, and simulation practices into their courses." —David Knight, Associate Professor of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech University

"Via creative and well-thought examples, Dr. Alejandra Magana sets the stage on how twenty-first-century teachers can include computational modeling and simulation in the engineering disciplines. This is of utmost importance for both academia and industry as computational modeling and simulation allows one in a faster and cheaper way to get from a design to a production stage of, for example, atomic scale semiconductor devices." —Dragica Vasileska, Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University