Background and objective: Nurses who return to school obtain higher education come with varying levels of professional, educational technological competencies. Some are new graduates, others have not been in for a decade, several find technology difficult navigate. Returning can be challenging because graduate programs require complex skills order students succeed. Onboarding, the process organ...

As demand for computational modeling and simulation (M&S) engineers continues to increase, much attention has been focused recently on what constitutes proper educational preparation for a career in this area. This paper presents an integrative concept for a modeling and simulation study program in electrical engineering at the undergraduate level used in developing a program for a cadre of stu...

JHAVEPOP is a program visualization tool specialized in elementary pointer and linkedlist operations. JHAVEPOP is a web-started application pre-packaged with ready-made programming exercises in both Java and C++. The only preparation needed by instructors to use JHAVEPOP is telling their students what URL to load in their browsers. Once there, students read the problem statement, enter their pr...

MOTIVATION The current tendency in molecular population genetics is to use increasing numbers of genes in the analysis. Here I describe a program for handling and population genetic analysis of DNA polymorphism data collected from multiple genes. The program includes a sequence/alignment editor and an internal relational database that simplify the preparation and manipulation of multigenic DNA ...

The 2013 UPS George D. Smith Prize was awarded to the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Operations Research (OR) department for “effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics.” In the spirit of the prize, this paper shares details about our degree program. The program is closely linked to its military sponsor, ...