Helping Students to Become Researchers: What We Can Gain from Russian Experience

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Ann Q. Gates, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

5-2006

Comments

Updated version UTEP-CS-06-08b.

Shorter version published in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning, El Paso, Texas, March 3-4, 2006, http://sunconference.utep.edu/SunHome/2006/proceedings2006.html; final version published in the Proceedings of the 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference FIE'2006, San Diego, California, October 28-31, 2006, pp. M3G-26 - M3G-31.

Abstract

The fact that many internationally renowned scientists have been educated in the former Soviet Union shows that many features of its education system were good. In this session, we briefly describe the features that we believe to have been good. Some of these features have already been successfully implemented (with appropriate adjustments) in affinity research groups at the Department of Computer Science of the The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).