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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

170  Projects Integrating Sustainability and STEM Outreach Shoba Krishnan, Ruth Davis, Marco Bravo, and Melissa Gilbert Santa Clara UniversityAbstract This paper reports on a program that provides senior engineering majors with theopportunity to complete a community-based project addressing an educational need, not onlyallowing undergraduates to apply engineering knowledge, but also expanding STEM experientiallearning opportunities for diverse middle school youth. The senior projects involve designing sustainable engineering systems to solve the energyneeds of an outdoor

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

30    Developing a Low Cost Prosthetic Foot for the Vida Nueva Clinic: A Multidisciplinary Senior Design ProjectJennifer Van Donk, Justin Lekos, Sarah Baker, Kevin Yamauchi, Adam Paicely,Brian Self and A. Matthew Robinson*California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo/*Hanger Orthotics & ProstheticsAbstractIn Spring 2010, five Cal Poly students joined to form the Piernas de Vida senior project team.Our intention was to address the growing need for low-cost prostheses in developing countries.In conjunction with

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

13   Investigation of a Masters Research Project for Validation of Program Goals and Student Learning OutcomesMohammad N. Amin Pradip Peter Dey Bhaskar Raj Sinha Gordon W. Romney National University National University National University National UniversitySan Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego, California mamin@nu.edu pdey@nu.edu bsinha@nu.edu gromney@nu.eduAbstractBrowsing on the web

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Bradley A. Hyatt

104 Effectively Utilizing Industry Members to Assess Student Learning Outcomes in a Senior Project Course Bradley A. Hyatt, P.E., LEED AP California State University, Fresno Fresno, CAAbstractThe purpose of this case study was to develop methods to effectively utilize industry members inthe assessment of student performance in a senior project course. The primary approach was tocreate tools that allow industry partners to sponsor, participate, and ultimately assist inassessment of student teams in these courses. The

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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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R. Radharamanan

entrepreneurial senior design projects were funded; 50 ormore students participated in the business plan/entrepreneurial senior design projectcompetitions; one of the projects received national and state recognition; five projects receivedregional/Mercer awards; more than 30 papers were presented in regional, national, andinternational conferences by faculty and students; students and faculty applied for 3 provisionalpatents and 1 utility patent; students and faculty are in the process of forming at least two startupcompanies focusing on low cost electromechanical and biomedical devices; and more than 20students are working as intrapreneurs in major industries/corporations in Georgia andneighboring states. Students and faculty team are preparing to

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AJ Almaguer

deploy them at local k-12 schools and community partners. It is a student-run organizationand a course offered at UC Berkeley. BEAM has made great efforts to constantly evolve, assess,and redesign itself into a flexible program to achieve our mission: to impact the future ofstudents in our community through hands-on learning. It is our belief that BEAM serves as amodel for effective student-led outreach and education partnerships between universities andtheir surrounding educational institutions. Our ten-week course consists of a day-long mentortraining followed by a guest lecture series, weekly volunteer site visits, and a final project. Thecourse adheres to engineering and education principles including: ABET Criteria, engineeringdesign loop

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Jin-Lee Kim; Tang-Hung Nguyen

, video and audio tools. Implementation The proposed teaching tool, VisuaLearning, was used to teach a construction engineering management course, CEM 121 Construction Drawings, offered at the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management at California State University, Long Beach. Figure 1 shows a typical screen shot of VisuaLearning, in which texts, 3D images, video clips, and drawings are entered as illustrative visualizations for the foundations of a residential construction project to be covered in the course CEM 121. After going over the learning materials for a particular subject (e.g. Graphic Vocabulary), students are prompted to answer Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for

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Fariborz M. Tehrani

  116 Situational TeachingThe major tools accessible to an engineering faculty are lectures, presentations, problem solvingsessions, and classroom discussions. Further, certain assignments, such as homework, projects,and field studies reinforce the knowledge and skills learned in classroom. Moreover, facultieshave an opportunity to measure the outcomes using quizzes and exams. An engineering facultymight even use quizzes and exams as additional learning opportunities.Classical theories of leadership style and situational leadership suggest that faculties, as leadersof the class, should flex their style based on the readiness of students, as followers. However,managing learning environment in an engineering classroom may not be the same as

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

74    Embedded Data Logging System Satbir S. Sekhon, Albert Rendon, Samuel Gomez and Dr. Reza Raeisi California State University, FresnoIntroductionIn the work place there come many times when one needs to compete alongside others to reach agoal or complete a project. In this course by formulating a real world project a relationship wasestablished with a local company to improve existing products for them. Two groups of studentswere given the same problem statement and specifications

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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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) – Indicates a Work in Progress Friday, April 1, 2011 (Morning)08:30 – 09:45 AM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning  Jim Helbling, et al., Configuration Of Senior Capstone Course Using Team- 1 Teaching To Maximize Communication Skills And Minimize Team Conflict  Mohammad Amin, et al., Investigation of a Masters Research Project for 13 Validation of Program's Goals and Student Learning Outcomes  Jennifer Van Donk, et al., Developing a low cost prosthetic foot for the Vida Nueva 30 Clinic: A multidisciplinary senior design project Instrumentation & Lab Studies  Ricardo Medina, et

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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

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

MESA modelhas been adopted in thirteen other states. Furthermore, MESA has been named one of the mostinnovative public programs in the nation by Innovations in American Government, a project of theKennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Ford Foundation. Among countlessother awards, MESA has also earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematicsand Engineering Mentoring. Additionally, MESA was also featured in a half-hour national PBSdocumentary The Innovators: Designing the Future, as one of the solutions to developing the nextgeneration of innovative engineers and scientists.The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected San Diego MESA as a recipient of a $1.9 milliondollar STEM Talent Expansion Program

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A. M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

components. For assessment purposes,the instructors felt that the individual course grades needed to be adjusted to accommodate forthe portion of the grade that is defined by group work in these courses. Individual grades are areflection of a student’s actual work, whereas the group grade is easily confounded by the effectsof their team mates (positively and negatively).Assigning grades to individuals for a group project is important because instructors want toassign grades based on effort. Since all students in a group typically receive the same grade for agroup assignment (e.g. a group report), group grades have the undesirable effect of obscuring astudent’s true performance, especially if group work constitutes a large portion of the final

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Wayne C. Pilkington

properly during the projected presentations, most of the motions were lost inthe recorded versions. This is because a new slide image would be captured only at the end ofeach animation step. On playback then, animations would appear somewhat disjointed. Also,the recording of a new slide image with each animation step resulted in many slightly changingcopies of each Powerpoint slide appearing in the timestamp and slide preview windows of therecording. This made searching and forwarding in the captured lecture a little more cumbersomefor students.The audio stream for the recordings was captured from a USB wireless microphone worn by theinstructor. The directional microphone provided a clear recording of the instructor’s voice.However, it was unable

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Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

 Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  4   status report to the team, focusing on the tasks accomplished last week, the tasks to be completedin the coming week, and any problems or issues they are having and need help with. Becausedesign teams can be rather large and because students tend to become highly focused on theirown set of tasks, these status reports serve to keep the team connected and to ensure that anyproblems with the project are publicly voiced and publicly resolved. Both

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Amelito Enriquez

programs.7,8In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in Redwood City, CA, wasawarded a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) grant by the USDepartment of Education. The project, entitled Student On-ramp Leading to Engineering andSciences (SOLES), aims to increase the participation, retention, and success of underrepresentedand educationally disadvantaged students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. Amongthe strategies developed for this project is the Summer Math Jam – a two-week intensivemathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.This paper summarizes the results of the implementation of the Math Jam and its one-weekversion, the Mini-Math Jam

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Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

82    Accident Reconstruction: A Model-Eliciting Activity in Dynamics Collin Heller and Brian Self California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractTypical assignments in a traditional dynamics course often do little to motivate students or togive them an indication of how they would use the material in a future job situation. Manyinstructors are now attempting to provide motivational projects, hands-on demonstrations, andeven laboratory assignments to increase understanding and

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

Blast at Apple, Oct. 16  UC Berkeley Engineering Tours for MESA Students, Oct. 15  SF Society of Women Engineers – boat tour of Bay Bridge construction project, Oct 1  SHPE Day @ SF Exploratorium, Sept. 25  Inside Google: Diversity in Engineering & Technology, Sept 1  Cal Day @ UC Berkeley, April 17  SJSU Engineering Open House, April 17  Genentech Tour: The Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) club, Feb. 25Workshops/Seminars  NSF Scholars’ Orientation, Nov. 12  Guaranteed 4.0 Workshop, Nov 8 and Nov 11  Writing Personal Statements for Transfer Applications or Scholarships, Oct. 14  Transfer Application Help – UC, CSU & Private Universities, Oct. 13

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Kiran George

connected to the PC with a projection system.Single-tablet models can be used in classrooms along with interactive educational software orwith freeware such as ScreenPen alone that allows you to highlight, write and save slides withannotations using digital ink for future reference. Wireless tablets (Fig.3) are an ideal choice forthe single-tablet model classrooms. Using this model, any traditional classroom can beseamlessly converted to a digital learning environment in a cost-effective manner as only a singletablet is required. However, the single-tablet model lacks the ability to gather instant studentfeedback using digital ink.In the multi-tablet model, both the instructor and students have USB-Tablets. This model can beadopted in classrooms

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Michael G. Jenkins

, have validated the efficacy of the “do-say” activelearning conceptBibliography1. Jenkins, M. G., "Standards and Codes in Mechanical Engineering Education: Confounding Constraints or HelpfulHindrances?" Standardization News, Vol 27, No 9, pp 20-25, 1999.2. Bloom, B. S., ”The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives” in The Classification of Educational Goals: HandbookI, Cognitive Domain, by B. S. Bloomm Longman, New York, 1956.3. Sousa, D. A., “How the Brain Learns,” National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, Virginia,19954. Zachary, L. W., “Project LEA/RN Applied to an Engineering Mechanics Course,” pp 410-413 in Proceedings ofthe 1998 International Congress on Experimental Mechanics, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Bethel

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David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

-on laboratory demonstrations and projects. Topics include aerospace propulsion, astrodynamics,aerodynamics, stability and control of aircraft and spacecraft, structures and materials, and computer-aided design (CAD). Each of these topics includes either computer or traditional laboratory componentsto keep the students engaged. Some examples of the accompanying hands-on work include the designand construction of balsa wood gliders following the lecture on aerodynamics, and the designing of trussbridges using CAD tools, which are subsequently formed from ABS plastic using a rapid-prototypingprinter. These particular activities end with a friendly competition between students using both their balsaglider, flown for maximum glide distance, and

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Bruno Osorno; William Oh

learningoutcomes. It will also identify what needs to be changed to improve the delivery of the material.This process will be carried on this semester in week 10 and 11 of the power electronics andphoto-voltaic (PV) course.ConclusionsIn [1], the major modeling features of the photovoltaic modules (equivalent circuit models andPCF) are presented. As for the this project, I-V characteristic curves of Solarex MSC-83 andST10 of Shell Solar’s photovoltaic modules were simulated successfully by using PSPICE. Acomparison of the maximum power specified by the manufacturer and the one obtained bysimulation yielded no significant error. This simulation exercise is expected to add to studentlearning Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering