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Kiran George

305 Cost-Effective Integration of Tablet Technology into Engineering Courses Kiran George Computer Engineering Program California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92831, USAAbstractCurrent generations of students are part of a digital revolution in which they collaborate andlearn through digital mediums and remain connected 24/7. Educators across the board haveembraced these rapid changes and, with the aid of classroom technologies such as Tablet-PCs(TPC), have seamlessly transformed traditional

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Rafael D. Alvarez; Raga M. Bakhiet; Theresa M. Garcia; Angeline V. Yang

186  Work in Progress: Pathways to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Opportunities via Academic Success and Internships Rafael D. Alvarez, Dr. Raga M. Bakhiet, Theresa M. Garcia, Angeline V. Yang San Diego City College, San Diego, CA/Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA/ San Diego State University, San Diego, CA/ STEP Partnership of San DiegoAbstractThe fusion of a state funded student success program and a supporting NSF grant provide modelpathways to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) opportunities thatstudents from San Diego community colleges and university take toward

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Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

134  Service Learning Project in a Renewable Energy Engineering Course Stacy Gleixner*, Elena Klaw**, Patricia Backer****Chemical and Materials Engineering, **Center for Community Learning and Leadership, ***General Engineering, San José State UniversityOne of the most significant challenges facing this coming generation of engineers is how to fightthe complex issue of climate change. One aspect of this that is having an increasingly importantrole is alternative and renewable energy technologies. Emerging applications such as solar cells,wind energy conversion

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R. Radharamanan

”11.Observations have been made on the changing role of universities in society17. The importanceof entrepreneurship education has been emphasized in business and engineering schools. There isa growing need to enhance the entrepreneurship education in universities and colleges due toglobalization and emerging international competitions 5, 10. Entrepreneurship requires learningmethods, pedagogical processes and frames for education3. Managing innovation, integratingtechnological, market, and organizational change have been studied by several authors and arebeing taught at business school6, 21. Design for manufacture and assembly and concurrentengineering concepts have been addressed in technology ventures and engineeringentrepreneurship

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David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

a desire to provide opportunities to get high school students interested in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, which is often not done well in K-12 grades, especiallywhen many school districts have financial challenges to contend with. Embry-Riddle is a small,technically-oriented private university in central Arizona, and is interested in both raising the profile ofSTEM-related degree programs and, of course, offering attractive summer programs at our campus thathelp recruit new students. The Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department is particularly Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for

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Lily Gossage

143  On Exploring the Connection between Hispanic Engineering Students’ Educational Goals and Communal Obligations: for Project-Based Learning through Community Engagement Lily Gossage, College of Engineering California State University, Long BeachAbstractThe goal of this research was to acquire a deeper understanding of the perceptions held byLatino/Hispanic engineering students, specifically what factors students associate theireducational efforts with and the extent to which their communal goals impact their academicgoals. Blending the concurrent nested and

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Mohammad N. Amin; Pradip Peter Dey; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Gordon W. Romney

  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  22    Figure-5: Search Options12 Figure-6: Searching with ‘*’ wild character12Recommendations for Future ResearchIn an era of exponential growth of wireless technology, the ‘Smart Phone Book Search’ MobileApp is an exciting innovation that provides a breakthrough technology in mobile applicationevolution. It integrates the SMS technology with Personal Information Management (PIM). Thiscombination uses SMS technology to communicate

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Jin-Lee Kim; Tang-Hung Nguyen

90840 - U.S.A Email: thnguyen@csulb.eduAbstractThe need to integrate advanced education technology tools, such as interactive simulations andvisualizations, into the curriculum has been recognized by accrediting bodies because these toolsenhance student learning and improve the quality of an engineering education. In this paper, theauthors describe a visualization-based teaching approach to construction education in whichdifferent visualization tools, including video clips, 3D models, drawings, and pictures/photos,together with complementary texts, are used to assist students in deeper understanding andeffective mastering of materials. The proposed teaching method was used to teach a constructionmanagement course

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sponsors for making this event a reality.  US Didactic Educational Equipment & Training Systems  L.A.B Corporation  Pearson Publishing  Liberty Mutual  University of California, Riverside  College of Engineering, University of Arizona  College of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Northridge  College of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Fullerton  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo  School of Engineering and Technology, National University, San Diego Document Revision: 2 March 30, 2011 Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

214  Creating a Learning Community among Diverse Financially Needy STEM Students Amelito Enriquez, Catherine Lipe, and Tom Nguyen Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractAlthough many California Community College students from underrepresented groups entercollege with high levels of interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM), the majority of them drop out or change majors even before taking transfer-levelcourses due to a variety of reasons including financial difficulties, inadequate academicpreparation, lack of family support, poor study

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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

science camp in the local community. The undergraduate engineeringstudents also collaborate with educators to develop age-appropriate STEM learning. In this paperwe will describe the projects and the STEM activities we developed. We will discuss how weestablished a long-term partnership with a science camp and the interdisciplinary nature of thepartnership. We also show through data collected from engineering student interviews and surveyshow this partnership helps the engineering students understand and gather requirements for areal-world project and at the same time inspire the younger generation visiting the camp to usescience and technology for the common good. Results from a survey administered to middleschool students illustrates

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Michael G. Jenkins

64    A Truss By Any Other Name May Still Not Be a Truss: A ‘Do-Say’ Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise Michael G. Jenkins, PhD, PE Bothell Engineering and Science Technologies and California State University, Fresno, CAAbstractContrary to common perception, undergraduate education in engineering mechanics does notneed reform. Basic aspects of mechanics (e.g., strength of materials, mechanical behavior ofmaterials, experimental mechanics, etc

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Amelito Enriquez

communitycollege gateway does not lead to success. According to a study of community colleges inCalifornia, only one in four students wanting to transfer or earn a degree/certificate did so withinsix years.1 The completion rates for African American and Hispanic students are even lower,with only 15% of African American students and 18% of Latino students completing a degree orcertificate within six years, compared to 27% of Caucasian students, and 33% of Asian students.For Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, lower success and retentionrates for minority students are observed at both community college and university levelsresulting in underrepresentation of minority groups in these professions. For instance, whilecomprising almost 25

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Ricardo Medina; MURAT OKCAY; Gustavo Menezes; Arturo Pacheco-Vega

., and Nakiboglu, G., 2007, "Use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in teaching fluid mechanics," 114th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, 2007, June 24, 2007, American Society for Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI, United StatesTannehill, J.C., Anderson, D.A. and Pletcher, R.H., 1997, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Second Ed., Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, PA.Towers, C.E., Bryanston-Cross, P.J., and Judge, T.R., 1991, "Application of particle image velocimetry to large-scale transonic wind tunnels," Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 289-295.Wernet, M.P., and Edwards, R.V., 1990, "New space domain processing technique for pulsed laser velocimetry," Applied Optics, vol. 29, no. 23, pp

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Youngwook Kim; Jagjit Singh

51    Application of Ultra Wide Band Radar for Multiple Human Tracking with CLEAN Algorithm (Education of Radar System through Graduate Project) Youngwook Kim and Jagjit Singh Electrical and Computer Engineering California State University at Fresno, USA Email: youngkim@csufresno.edu 1. Introduction Radar systems consist of RF hardware and a signal processing unit. The RF

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Wayne C. Pilkington

recordingsIntroductionLecture capture, the recording of face-to-face classroom lectures in digital format, and makingthese recordings available for asynchronous first-time viewing or reviewing by students, is animportant and beneficial tool for engineering education that has been in use for several yearsnow; but that has experienced a slow adoption rate. In the 2010 National Survey of InformationTechnology in Higher Education[1], a survey of senior campus information technology officersfrom 523 public and private colleges and universities across the United States, more than sixtypercent of the survey participants either “agree” or “strongly agree” that lecture capture is animportant part of their plans for developing and delivering instructional materials. However

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Jennifer Van Donk; Justin Lekos; Sarah Baker; Kevin Yamauchi; Adam Paicely; Brian P. Self; A. Matthew Robinson

of the new design. At the end of five years we Figure 9: Vida Nueva technician Walter with hope to have at least six clinics using the new director Reina in front of their clinic. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  40   technology and roughly 300-400 patients using our prostheses. There are currently up to500,000 amputees worldwide. With such a large population of users the demand is high and

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Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

that can be generalized andreused in a variety of situations. More recently, MEAs have been expanded through a four-yearcollaborative research project between seven universities. The purpose of the research is theimplementation of models and modeling as a foundation for undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum and assessments within the engineeringdomain2.When developing MEAs, the original creators proposed six principles3,4 and characteristics ofMEAs: 1. The Model-Construction Principle requires that the students come up with a procedure or model for explaining a “mathematically significant” situation. 2. The Reality Principle puts the problem in context and offers a client who needs a realistic

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Peter Kinman; Daniel Murdock

BerkeleyCommunication Laboratory, was used at the University of California Berkeley in the 1970s [3]. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  58    Figure 1: Telecommunications Instructional Modeling System (TIMS), Emona InstrumentsLearning ObjectivesThere are three main learning objectives for this laboratory course. First, students usefundamental concepts of signals and systems in different situations, gaining more fluency

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Satbir S. Sekhon; Albert Rendon; Samuel Gomez; Reza Raeisi

composed of seven maincomponents: MCU, Temperature sensor, Humidity sensor, Accelerometer, External memory,USB and Ethernet ports. An accelerometer measures shock and vibrations, which providesinformation about the handling of the device. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  75      External