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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

fields, both because of their critical importance in creatingjobs and because of the failure of the American education system in these areas5. The “revised”report states that the situation has worsened. This has prompted many engineering programs todevelop and use innovative strategies that integrate active learning with relevant engineering Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  171 applications. At Santa Clara University, our core curriculum includes requirements in “ExperientialLearning for Social Justice

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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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Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

way to get involved while they are students. Theproject fosters an ethic of civic engagement among the engineering students. This engagementwith the community should enhance their engagement with learning and increase their dedicationto engineering.[13] The positive effects of integrating service-learning in the curriculum includeimproved retention and graduation rates particularly among underrepresented groups andwomen, and a stronger civic ethic among students.[14,15,16]Students, particularly women and underrepresented groups, cite the ability to make a differencein society as one of the main reasons they choose careers in science and engineering.[17]However, the impact engineers have on society is more commonly viewed from a

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

two related courses in their curriculum: a theorycourse named CE/ME 303 Fluid Mechanics I and a corresponding laboratory course namedCE/ME 313 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory I. Although the theoretical course has been developedto solve certain types of real-life problems involving fluids, unless one observes what they are,the knowledge is abstract. For this reason the Fluid Mechanics laboratory CE/ME 313,introduces the students through hands-on experiments, to several mechanisms seen in the theorycourse. Recently, the college of engineering through collaboration between its Center for Energyand Sustainability and Interactive Flow Studies Corporation acquired two educational interactiveflow visualization systems, namely FLOWCOACH and ePIV. Flow

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Bradley A. Hyatt

of ASC Member Programs.” International Proceedings of the 44th AnnualConference of Associated Construction Schools.Jones S. A., et al. (2009) The Business Value of BIM: Getting Building Information Modeling tothe Bottom Line.Montoya, M. A., Kelting, S. D., Hauck, A. J. (2008). “Pilot Study of an Integrated ConstructionManagement Curriculum.” International Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conferenc ofAssociated Construction Schools.O’Brien, W., Soibelman, L., and Elvin, G. (2003). “Collaborative Design Processes: An Active-and Reflective-Learning Course in Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Journal of ConstructionEducation, 8(2), 78-93.Padmanabhan, G., and Katti, D. (2002). “Using Community-Based Projects in Civil EngineeringCapstone Courses

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

, provides service to additional students, and consolidates student/industry involvementthus providing the students with career and leadership development skills. Students in theseprograms outperform their peers and standout in job/internship interviews due to their tangibleexcellence.The SPSD student support is based on ‘standards’ identified by industry representatives ascritical for success. As a result of completing activities that are in line with these standards,students gain career development experience, workforce preparedness, and academic success.Upon achieving the standards, successful SPSD students improve their potential opportunities inSTEM careers, including the option of attending graduate school to pursue an advanced

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AJ Almaguer

 and/or engage in an active exploration. Most of our activities are completed in teams, emphasizing communication and joint problem‐solving. Lesson plans fall into three categories: module‐based, project‐based, or challenge‐based. Table 10 gives a description of each category. The curriculum team ensures that the syllabus covers concepts from all the major engineering disciplines. The list of lesson plans for Fall 2010 is given in Table 11. When developing lesson plans, we take full advantage of the fairly comprehensive collections of engineering lesson plans that already exist including but not limited to: teachengineering.org,  Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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student led k-12 outreach  David Lanning, et al., An Aerospace Engineering Summer Camp for High School 272 Students Computers in Engineering  Wayne Pilkington, Student Usage and Assessments of the Benefits of On-Line 282 Access to Lecture Recordings With Synchronized Presentation Slides  Bruno Osorno, et al., Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Classroom 291 Applications  Kiran George, Cost-Effective Integration of USB-Tablet Model into Engineering 305 Courses  A Vollstedt, et al., A Method for Adjusting Group-Based Grades 311 Pacific Southwest Regional ASEE Conference

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

active MESA students are engineering majors, and many of themare also heavily involved in campus student organizations. Additionally, the EngineeringDepartment has recently been awarded federal grant funds aimed at strengthening its programs.This includes a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) grant fromthe US Department of Education, an Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, andInfrastructure ( IEECI) grant from NSF, and a Curriculum Improvement ImprovementsPartnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant. The Cañada College NSF S- Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering

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Wayne C. Pilkington

282  Student Usage and Assessments of the Benefits of On-Line Access to Lecture Recordings with Synchronized Presentation Slides Wayne C. Pilkington California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractStudents in multiple sections of an introductory Digital Design course were provided with on-line access to recordings of every class lecture. These recordings were made using the PanoptoCoursecast tools, and included live audio recordings of the instructor along with video capture ofcompressed still image representations for each presentation slide shown. The audio and

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James Guthrie

their careersas project leaders so they can better produce efficient integrated designs and collaborateeffectively with their structural engineering consultants and therefore lead more successfulprojects. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  206 The benefits of understanding structural principles apply to both ARCH and CM students.Architects typically take a lead role in building design and so an understanding of structuralprinciples can enhance their ability to produce design concepts that are coordinated with