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Teach Engineering: Graphing Your Social Network ActivityTeach Engineering: Graphing Your Social Network Activity
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Teach Engineering: Graphing Your Social Network

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Students analyze their social networks using graph theory. They gather data on their own social relationships, either from Facebook interactions or the interactions they have throughout the course of a day, recording it in Microsoft Excel and using Cytoscape (a free, downloadable application) to generate social network graphs that visually illustrate the key persons (nodes) and connections between them (edges). The nodes in the Cytoscape graphs are color-coded and sized according to the importance of the node (in this activity, nodes are people in students' social networks). After the analysis, the graphs are further examined to see what can be learned from the visual representation. Students gain practice with graph theory vocabulary, including node, edge, betweeness centrality and degree on interaction, and learn about a range of engineering applications of graph theory.

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electrical engineering, graph theory, facebook, stem, graphs

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mapping, social graph, software engineering, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, graph
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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0L

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