PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY The following summary outlines a combined computer and laboratory exercise conducted in “Quantitative Ecology of Marine Systems,” a class I developed at the Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University. The purpose of the laboratory exercise presented here is to familiarize students with the basic variables that drive biological encounter rates: organism speed,...

In an increasingly complex world, university education should balance teaching students the skills and intricacies of their field while enabling them to discover their authenticity and place in the world. The questions are: “How can design education respond to this challenge?” and “Where in the curriculum?” This paper supports that the conceptual design phase can be the forum in which students ...

This article provides a conceptual framework for training in professional psychology focused on the construct of competency. The authors present a 3-dimensional competency model delineating the domains of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that serve as the foundation required of all psychologists, the domains of functional competencies that broadly define what psychologists do, and the s...

In this paper we present a Colored Petri Net (CPN) for a multi-agent application. In particular we modeled the Packet-World. In our research we use the packet-world as a case to study the fundamentals of agents' social behavior. Our approach is to combine experiments with conceptual modeling. We start from a very basic model and then add social skills in a modular way. Integrating new social sk...