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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

197 Agile Problem Driven Teaching in Engineering, Science and Technology Pradip Peter Dey1, Thomas M. Gatton1, Mohammad N. Amin1, Mudasser F. Wyne1, Gordon W. Romney1, Alireza Farahani1, Arun Datta2, Hassan Badkoobehi1, Ralph Belcher1, Ogun Tigli1 and Albert P. Cruz1 1 National University, 3678 Aero Court, San Diego, CA 92123, U.S.A. 2 National University Community Research Institute, 11255 North Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA 92037ABSTRACT:In problem driven teaching, all major teaching activities are driven by a problem or a set ofproblems. Some

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Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

136 A Framework for Developing Courses on Engineering and Technology for Non-Engineers Vince Bertsch, Santa Rosa Junior College Engineering Department Chair John Krupczak, Hope College Professor of Engineering Kate Disney, Mission College Engineering Faculty Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College

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Reza Raeisi; Deepak Anand

189 Multipoint Remote Temperature Monitoring and Data Acquisition System Using RF Technology Reza Raeisi, PhD and Mr. Deepak Anand Electrical and Computer Engineering Department California State University, FresnoAbstractEmbedded system and wireless technology has entered in all aspects of life with variety of usefulfunctions. Wireless communication has changed the way data can be

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Tariq Qayyum

80 A Junior Level FPGA Course in Digital Design Using Verilog HDL and Altera DE-2 Board For Engineering Technology Students by Tariq Qayyum Associate Professor Engineering Technology Department California Polytechnic University Pomona, California tqayyum

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-and-take” lab projects that representcore technology.These technological literacy courses are often referred to as “How Stuff Works” classes, becausethe focus is how and why core technology works as it does. Students are exposed to thescientific principles underlying the technology, and with this the students build or modifydevices to work in a manner that satisfies a human desire, which is the engineering component.Lab projects are constructed primarily with common, ordinary parts typically found in local retailstores. The use of simple parts helps to reduce abstraction and clarifies the underlying science ofthe technology. Engineering is explained primarily with natural language, demonstrations,teacher modeling, and hands-on lab projects

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Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

Engineering. As part of their ABET-approved programs they experienced a capstonedesign course2 allowing them to synthesize what they learned in their programs.For researchers at the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, ME310 has long been alaboratory and test bed for design research.3 Much study has been devoted to how designersdesign, how they work in teams and tools that can help along the way. Forerunners of ME310(also labeled ME210, E210, E310) date back, in its current form, to at least 1972. CDR wasestablished in 1985 and research in ME310 has been going on near 25 years. Technology and theexpanding appreciation of what design and design thinking can tackle has changed the scope andtype of engineering design projects worked on in

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

teach students from diverse disciplines someessential concepts on computer technology in the context of applying cyberinfrastructure. Thesecourses developed for K13 & K14 levels will be offered in an innovative classroom setting forhands-on experimental learning with a focus on solving scientific problems as a team. Thesecourses will also be deployed for online learning in a virtual classroom. The effectiveness of suchan approach, introducing concepts from engineering education to the non-engineering students,will be assessed through formative and summative methods for further development anddissemination._____________________________________________________________________________*CIBRED is funded by NSF award OCI-0753375 to O

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striving to increase the competence andprestige of the engineering profession”. This particular passage especially applies to those engineerwho find themselves in a position of instructing and training young and aspiring or student engineersand is one of particular weight and importance. There is another area of this ethical dilemma to ex-plore. That is the duty of the engineering firms to educate their engineers in the newly evolving sus-tainable design technology as it becomes available. Programs such as “The Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design” (LEED) certification are often supported by employers. Many firms will footthe bill for taking the LEED exam and becoming a LEED Accredited Professional

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Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

numerouseducational programs including summer school in micro-systems design held in Udine, Italy, 2004, studentexchange programs with ETH, Zurich, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Slovak TechnicalUniversity of Bratislava. Prof Enikov is a recipient of several prestigious awards including NSF Career award(2001), US Dept. of State Fulbright Research Scholarship in Hungary (2007). Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Claudia Lee; Andrew Zepfel; Nina Timberlake; Larry Grill; Sean Gallagher

436 Bio-molecular Engineering Verified by High Sensitivity Detection Claudia Lee1, Andrew Zepfel2, Nina Timberlake3, Larry Grill4, Sean Gallagher1 1 UVP, LLC 2 Claremont McKenna College 3 Scripps College 4 Pitzer CollegeAbstractAn interdisciplinary, industry-academic collaboration was conducted to aid students at

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in California, and hewas educated at Arya-Mehr (now Sharif) University of Technology in Iran, Portland State, Oregon State,and Colorado State Universities in the USA. He served as department chairman in 1995-1998 but steppeddown due to medical condition. His interests include development of teaching tools to enhance studentslearning and design of water fountains with special effects. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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the issues and concerns of staff and students. Journal of Educational Media, Special Edition on Blended Learning, 28(2- 3), pp. 99-100.Biographical InformationDr. Kurt Colvin joined the faculty at Cal Poly in 2000 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department ofIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon StateUniversity. Prior to Cal Poly, Dr. Colvin had 5 years of systems engineering experience and 5 years of research andcollaboration with NASA Ames Research Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Dr.Colvin’s major research interests include systems engineering methods and education, aviation human-factors andmanufacturing technologies

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Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

Cyber-Infrastructure Education Recruitment, Retention, Advancement), while STEMstands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. EOT is the roadmap forpreparing the next generation of engineers and future scientists in the global knowledgeeconomy. This paper highlights the E in STEM referencing a Team Science approach topreparing the next generation of engineers, technicians, researchers, and future scientists.CIBRED and CIERRA are used here as a way to show how this collaborative, project-centric bioinformatics initiative can contribute to the development of an educationalpipeline to prepare in/out-of-school youth with 21st century workforce skills and fosterinnovation and interdisciplinary practice. The product and the processes are

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Bruno Osorno

be targeted for online teaching.Universities have been developing strategic plans to tackle the implementation of onlineteaching. The major hurdles needed to overcome are; changing the mindset of faculty, budgets,teacher training in new technologies, online student population’s new studying habits andquality of instruction.ChangeChange is never easy; perhaps it is the most difficult hurdle in online teaching. Faculty, need tobe fully aware of the linking of pedagogy, technology and learning-styles [2]. Furthermore, it hasbeen our experience that the need of “electronic textbooks availability” is a critical event thatfacilitates online teaching of electrical engineering in a very large scale. (Which by the way, it ishappening very fast

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Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

20 Learning Communities Improve Retention in Engineering and Computer Science Raman Menon Unnikrishnan and Ricardo V. Lopez College of Engineering and Computer Science California State University, FullertonAbstract As a comprehensive university, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) servesapproximately 37,000 students from a variety of cultures and backgrounds, with the recentincreases tied to the immigrant population from Mexico as well as Central and South

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. Micro-robotic drug delivery is adiverse area of research with emerging applications in intraocular surgery and cancer treatments.This research requires integration of engineering sciences such as bio-systems, fluid mechanics,thermodynamics, chemistry, material sciences, and more. This allows various engineeringdisciplines to utilize their classroom knowledge in direct research with real, innovativeapplications in technology. This method of complimenting engineering education with curricula-related research has shown improvement in engineering accomplishment and learning that isadvantageous to the future success of undergraduate engineering education.Introduction Engineering focuses on the development and discovery of important resources

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temporal (scaffolding germane learning loads).Distance technologies were used to minimize extraneous learning loads. The re-design resulted in a tremendous cost savings to the department. Studentperceptions and motivations have dramatically increased. It is noted that that author chose to useincreasingly more difficult exams to ensure equity in grading and to prevent grade inflation. Infuture work, the author will shortly revert back to exams from years past and report on theresults. It is expected, however, that the majority of the students will excel. Can this design and implementation impact other classes in mechanical engineering;specifically, in courses which teach programming interfaces such Computer Aided Designsoftware? Yes

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time or place isneeded. It also helps students whose major is not electrical engineering to become familiar withthe modern developments in implementation of real-time control systems.Acknowledgements:The authors acknowledge the financial support of the National Science Foundation under GrantNos. 0633312 and 0637052.References:[1] M. Rylee, "Low-Cost Bidirectional Brushed DC Motor Control Using the PIC16F684", AN893, Microchip Technology Inc.[2] J. Julichter, “RC Model Aircraft Motor Control”, AN847, Microchip Technology Inc.[3] C. Chandrasekara, A. Davari, “Control Experimentation for Undergraduate Students”, 2005 American ControlConference, June 8-10, 2005. Portland, OR, pp. 5156 – 5161[4] http://maeweb.ucsd.edu/~ugcl/, The

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devices…10. There are several additional interestingaspects of conducting the capstone design courses which include discussions of selectedcase studies from the ASEE Case Studies Committee Library which is currently at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, analysis of some more prominentfailures encountered in the engineering practice along with demonstration of some of themovies illustrating these11. Safety concerns were emphasized during the conduct of both ofthe courses with numerous illustrations as to how failures occurred and how the preventionof these could have been achieved9. Human Factors and Safety concepts were discussed atlength and examples of product liability cases brought to the students’ attention in order

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Hassan Mohamed-Nour

expandability tocover a wide range of topics and educational experiments. Working with a real system inaddition to advanced visual animation technologes, users are expected to gain immense dosesof practical experience. A cost analysis for a start-up practical system is yet to be performed.References[1] H. Mohamed-Nour, “Simulation and Virtual Laboratory Education in Electrical Power Engineering,” AEAS Conference Presentation, Cairo, Egypt, December 2008.[2] J. Ma and J. Nickerson, “Hands-On, Simulated, and Remote Laboratories- A Comparative Literature Review,” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 38, No. 3, Article 7, September 2006.[3] C. Gooding, J. Hinson and D. Stubblefield, “Clemson University’s Energy Systems Laboratory: A

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functions. This project also asks student to, usingcomputer aided manufacturing (CAM) technology, create an NC program, which is used to drivethe machine to move and act as desired. Using CAM to generate NC programming requiresstudents to determine a machining strategy, operation sequence and cutting tools. Students mustalso decide the cutting conditions such as cutting speed, depth of cut, feed rate, and otherparameters for each operation based on knowledge learned in classroom. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 424 Figure 2 NC

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Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

the shortcomings in the current educationalenvironment. In Section 4, one option is presented, the KASER, as a platform to assist with theeducational reform using computing and, in Section 5, we summarize how we as educators cansupport the new educational revolution using computing. 2. The Current Educational Situation Several countries have already recognized the value of education as an integralcomponent of economic growth; these countries place great emphases on education, particularlyin fields where there is a large gap between the availability of skilled workers and marketdemands (e.g., the STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).There is a large disparity in the quality of mathematics and science

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Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

information—in order to create useful toolsand technologies. Consequently, engineering education has the objective of not only presenting thescientific principles, i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these toreal problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that hands-on laboratories have been an integral part ofthe engineering curriculum since its inception [1]. Their importance has been recognized by theAccreditation Board of Engineering Education (ABET) and its predecessors by creation of criteriarequiring adequate laboratory practice for students [2-6]. Unfortunately, during the last severaldecades, engineering laboratories have become highly complex and expensive, with multiplesimulation tools and computer

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Kyle A. Watson; Ashland O. Brown

science andengineering pedagogy.Ashland O. Brown, University of the PacificAshland O. Brown is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of the Pacific inStockton, CA. He has held numerous administrative, management and research positionsincluding Program Director, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation; Dean ofEngineering at the University of the Pacific; Dean of Engineering Technology at South CarolinaState University; Engineering Group Manager at General Motors Corporation; PrincipalEngineering Supervisor, Ford Motor Company; and Research Engineer, Eastman KodakCompany. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and M.S.and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut

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Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

370 MATLAB-Based Demo Program for Discrete-Time Convolution Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek 1,2and fred harris2 1 Department of Electronics Institute INAOE, Puebla, Mexico E-mail: gordana@inaoep.mx 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, SDSU San Diego,USA E-mail: fred.harris@sdsu.edu1. Introduction Though the field of engineering has changed dramatically in the last 20 years, the teachingengineering has changed relatively little1. Many of the

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PrefaceWelcome to the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education-Pacific Southwest (ASEE-PSW)regional conference. The theme of this conference is “Educating Next Generation Engineers”. We asuniversity/college educators are responsible and continuously striving to prepare the next-generationengineers who will be ready to face the multi-faucet challenges required to move this nation forward. Thisconference is intended to bring together educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academiaand government to advance engineering and technology education and to encourage wider collaborationbetween academics and industry. The conference is held for the engineering community and hosted byNational University. The large number of submitted papers

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Amelito G. Enriquez

32 Using Tablet PCs to Enhance Student Performance in an Introductory Circuits Course Amelito G. Enriquez Cañada College Redwood City, CAAbstractTablet PCs have the potential to change the dynamics of classroom interaction through wirelesscommunication coupled with pen-based computing technology that is suited for analyzing andsolving engineering problems. This study focuses on how Tablet PCs and wireless technologycan be used during classroom instruction

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industry toward using Agile (“ease of movement”) techniques in programming andproject development has motivated the faculty at the National University (NU) School of Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 482Engineering and Technology (SOET) to introduce agility into pedagogy. Agile Problem DrivenTeaching (Dey et.al., 2009) as used in teaching IT is described in this paper.1.1 The IT Industry Evolution Toward AgilityIt has been fascinating to watch the evolution of IT project management (PM) from the rigidstructure of the 60’s through the early 90’s to the triple

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-disciplinary and multi-institutional research project. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Conference, AC 2007-1589. 4. Edmonson, C., Summers, D., (2007). Integrating teamwork across the curriculum. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Conference, AC 2007-348. 5. Hadgraft, R., Goricanec, J. (2007). Student engagement in project-based learning. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ASEE, ISBN: 0-87823-193-5. 6. Hsu, R. C.,; Liu W. (2005). Project based learning as a pedagogical tool for embedded system education. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Research and Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 7. Macias-Guarasa, J., Montero, J. M

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manylocations (Stevenson & Romney, 2008). Three-factor authentication is used in data centers, highrisk financial operations, certification authorities and special research facilities in industry anduniversity research. In these instances, PKI and biometrics are frequently the selectedtechnologies with a characteristically much higher operational overhead.1.5 Agile Problem Driven Teaching UtilizedIn keeping with the Agile Problem Driven Teaching (APDT) pedagogy employed in the NationalUniversity (NU) School of Engineering and Technology (SOET) described by Dey (Dey et.al.,2009), and, specifically, the BS IT Management (ITM) program (Romney, 2009), the search forimproved authentication for smaller enterprises and select university settings was