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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Nhut Tan Ho

courses, a freshman orientation course, astudent study center; and structured study groups. Significantly, the MEP model originated atCalifornia State University, Northridge (CSUN) and spread nationwide.While these measures have been effective, their impact has reached a diminishing point. Giventhe projected imperative need for increased minority representation in STEM professions, thereis a critical need for new methods to further improve students’ learning and retention. A highlypromising approach is to use an innovative undergraduate education initiative pioneered by theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO)18,19,20 as the basis to redesign curriculum and to implement active and

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Mohammad Amin

combined increases of productivity and flexibilitywill improve the connectivity and quality of life for users. According to British BroadcastingCorporation News (BBC News, Wednesday, 2 March, 2005), the total revenue from full-trackmusic downloads using mobile phones9 will be almost $1.8 billion in 2009. Motorola's Razr V3phone was noted in 2005 for its sleek design and especially for its ability to download audio andvideo from wireless LAN. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Impact of Wireless Technologies on USA EconomyRecently, market research conducted by Telecommunications Industry

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Justin Reginato

an effortto commercialize research projects, often culminating with a business plan competition.Introducing entrepreneurship to graduate students has its benefits. First, student experience andsophistication can affect the willingness to participate in entrepreneurship courses. Secondly,graduate curriculum guidelines are less impacted by accreditation boards, specifically theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Third, there is some generalconfusion among faculty and administrative personnel regarding the concept of entrepreneurshipand the pedagogy surrounding it. At the University of the Pacific School of Engineering andComputer Science, which does not have a graduate program, each of these problems wasencountered upon

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Patricia L. Fox; D. Jan Cowan; Stephen P. Hundley

GREEN’s success.The GO GREEN CourseThe GO GREEN course was developed specifically for engineering and technology students toteach them about sustainable development by looking at best practices in business and industryusing real world examples. (For the purposes of this paper we will use the generally accepteddefinition of “sustainable development,’ which is to meet the needs of the present generationwithout compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.1)The GO GREEN course has three distinct parts: • A portion of the course is taught at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) an urban research university with nearly 30,000 students in Indianapolis, Indiana, prior to the trip to Germany