James Oschman is one of the leading authorities on the scientific understanding of hands-on healing. His extensive background as a scientist and his experience and understanding of holistic healing place him in a unique position to bridge the gap between the academic/medical world and the healing community. His book, Energy Medicine, and his soon-to-be-released new book, Energy Medicine in Ther...

Abstract In the 1993 CCCG at Waterloo the speaker gave a talk on “Teaching Computational Geometry”. Since then textbooks have been published, the field has developed further, and extensive geometric software libraries have become available. How has this impacted teaching computational geometry? Are the issues still the same? Have the topics changed? Can the study of computational geometry be mo...

specialist microfinance institutions (MFIs). The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has traditionally pursued an active "developmental" role in the microfinance sector, although this has been changing. It should further reduce its developmental activities by diluting its ownership of regional development banks and taking a less hands-on role in project implementation. Conversely, it would be appr...

We have developed a program to connect students, as well as the general public, with glass science in the modern world through a series of hands-on activities and learning experiences using sucrose based glass (a.k.a. hard candy). The scientific content of these experiments progresses systematically, providing an environment to develop an understanding of glassy materials within a framework of ...

Laboratory practice plays a crucial role in engineering especially in thermal fluid education. The advancement of computational and computer technologies have ushered in a new horizon in learning and teaching of laboratory practices world-wide. Apart from traditional hands-on laboratory practice, the virtual/simulated laboratory practices are playing an increasingly dominant role. The virtual l...

e FLAIRS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education special track is devoted to methods of teaching AI, providing a forum where AI educators from diverse institutional settings can share resources, innovations, and insights to advance the quality of AI education worldwide. Topics include model assignments, course syllabi, soware, or other curricular resources; revision and implementation of the d...

In this paper we will present the stages of designing and building a three-link robot manipulator prototype that was built as part of a research project for establishing a prototyping environment for robot manipulators. Building this robot enabled us determine the required subsystems and interfaces to build the prototyping environment, and provided hands-on experience for the real problems and ...

A complete blueprint for planning, building, and maintaining fast, efficient, automated document management systems In Document Management for the Enterprise, Michael Sutton clearly defines and simplifies the principles of document engineering and management. He arms you with a set of proven techniques and methods for planning, building, and maintaining automated systems for fast and efficient ...

This paper reflects on the challenges that arose and the lessons learned when we used hands-on cyberoperations exercises in our courses. After exploring a range of exercises and platforms (and having discovered their limitations), we designed and built an environment for hosting such exercises called EDURange. These limitations fall into two categories: technical and pedagogical. One of the mai...

Westminster College runs a math, science, and computing summer camp for middle school girls called AWE+SUM. Core to the camp is the set of workshops that apply these domains through creative hands-on experiments and exploration. One of the most popular workshops is called “Programming with Alice” where we introduce the girls to programming concepts and basic gaming fundamentals through Carnegie...