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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

District. It is one of only two federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. The College opened in1968, and is located in Redwood City, California. During the 2009-2010 academic year, theCollege enrolled 11,566 students. The student body is genuinely multi-cultural with Hispanicstudents as the largest single group at 39.2%; white students comprise 33.3%, Asians 8.6%,African-Americans 3.8%, Filipinos 3.6%, Pacific Islanders 1.7%, American Indian/AlaskaNatives 0.4%, other 9.5%.1 Like all of the California Community College System institutions,Cañada is an open-enrollment institution, designed to welcome students of all ages andbackgrounds to higher education. Cañada’s Mission is to ensure that students from

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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R. Radharamanan

organize “Innovation Chase”competition among Mercer students during March 18-20, 2011. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  245 3. Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)In 2010, Mercer’s Academic Initiatives Monetary Fund (AIM Fund) has approved the creation ofthe “Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship” at MUSE, to enhance the activities of MEEEPacross Mercer campus. The center is operating since August 2010. The CIE focuses on cross-disciplinary educational programs (teaching, collaboration, and

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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 the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  14   This application is capable of accessing contact data stored in a mobile phone and retrieving theinformation remotely by sending an SMS message.Key Words: Mobile Apps, SMS, GSM, CDMA, Internet, Symbian, Platform, and 3G NetworksIntroductionIn October, 2010, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) issued a press release andpublished statistical data on mobile phone

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lily Gossage

 Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  149 Participants were identified within a convenience sample drawn from all freshmen enrolled inENGR101 in the Fall 2010. Since a ‘captive audience’ was readily accessible, the nine itemswere incorporated into the existing ENGR101 ‘exit’ survey and deployed at the semester’s end.As race/ethnicity questions are immaterial to course curriculum, students were given the optionof completing the survey, referred to as “Family & Communal Obligations”, as extra credit (seeFigure 1 below). From a total of 527 freshmen, 416