TY - GEN
T1 - Work in progress
T2 - 5th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference, EDUNINE 2021
AU - Sotomayor-Beltran, Carlos
AU - Barriales, Alan Leoncio Fierro
AU - Lara-Herrera, Juan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/3/14
Y1 - 2021/3/14
N2 - This study shows the benefits of using the typesetting software LATEX in research courses of two engineering programs from the Sciences and Humanities University (UCH) in Lima, Peru. In several universities worldwide, this software is used to write diverse types of academic documents (e.g., theses, scientific papers and books). Some of the many advantages of LATEX is the easiness of writing mathematical equations and also dealing with different citation styles such as APA, IEEE and Vancouver. Moreover, the documents produced with this software possess an impeccable professional layout. Thus, during the second semester of the year 2019 and the first semester of the year 2020, a group of systems and electronic engineering students from research courses at the UCH were introduced to LATEX and were surveyed to find out their perspectives with regards to the use of this software. By means of a self-administered questionnaire, a general consensus could be seen among the students that LATEX is far better to write academic documents than other typesetting software. Hence, starting the second semester of 2020 we have encouraged its use in other research courses and suggested as well to the head of the engineering department at the UCH to make use of this tool a compulsory one in all such courses.
AB - This study shows the benefits of using the typesetting software LATEX in research courses of two engineering programs from the Sciences and Humanities University (UCH) in Lima, Peru. In several universities worldwide, this software is used to write diverse types of academic documents (e.g., theses, scientific papers and books). Some of the many advantages of LATEX is the easiness of writing mathematical equations and also dealing with different citation styles such as APA, IEEE and Vancouver. Moreover, the documents produced with this software possess an impeccable professional layout. Thus, during the second semester of the year 2019 and the first semester of the year 2020, a group of systems and electronic engineering students from research courses at the UCH were introduced to LATEX and were surveyed to find out their perspectives with regards to the use of this software. By means of a self-administered questionnaire, a general consensus could be seen among the students that LATEX is far better to write academic documents than other typesetting software. Hence, starting the second semester of 2020 we have encouraged its use in other research courses and suggested as well to the head of the engineering department at the UCH to make use of this tool a compulsory one in all such courses.
KW - LATEX
KW - academic documents
KW - research
KW - typesetting software
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85107079503
U2 - 10.1109/EDUNINE51952.2021.9429102
DO - 10.1109/EDUNINE51952.2021.9429102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107079503
T3 - EDUNINE 2021 - 5th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: The Future of Engineering Education: Current Challenges and Opportunities, Proceedings
BT - EDUNINE 2021 - 5th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference
A2 - Brito, Claudio da Rocha
A2 - Ciampi, Melany M.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 14 March 2021 through 17 March 2021
ER -