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Ameneh Akbari; Karla Ananias; Jeffery Bouchard; Qian Wang P.E.; George Law

New Technology and Design Methodology for Micromouse: Challenges and Solutions Ameneh Akbari, Karla Ananias, Jeffery Bouchard, Qian Wang, and George Law Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering California State University, Northridge, CA 91325AbstractThe micromouse project has been integrated in many university curricula internationally. In theproject, the students design and build an autonomous robot which explores and maps a fixed sizemaze, and races to the center of the maze in the shortest time. These mice will compete in IEEEor other engineering society sponsored competitions every year. Normally, the students will usea microcontroller or a microprocessor

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Kiran George

) ImplementationThe supplementary student resource described above, CoursePedia, was adopted in engineeringcourses to ascertain its effectiveness. In Spring 2012, students in EGCP 441 course – AdvancedElectronics for Computer Engineering (total enrollment: 11, one section) were asked to submit aresearch paper on topics in nanoelectronic technologies as part of the final exam for the course.For the paper, students were asked to conduct a thorough review of the latest publicationsutilizing resources such as the IEEE Xplore and submit the paper with relevant references. InFall 2012, students in EGCP 456 course – Introduction to Logic Design in Nanotechnology (totalenrollment: 16, one section) were provided with the papers on nanoelectronic technologiessubmitted

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continue torevise the curriculum to be more hands-on and industry focused.Members of the Strategic Corporate Alliance Initiative are asked to donate between$5,000 to $25,000 to support and enhance current programs, as well as to help launchnew and innovative programs that will help students succeed in the Engineering,Computer Science, and Technology professions upon graduation. Members will hold aseat on the Dean’s Advisory Board and become a stakeholder in the development of suchprograms.CSULA strives to be recognized as one of the leading universities for providing corporatepartners/investors with their highest return on investment for sponsored projects,research, student programs, and recruiting. In addition to becoming a strategic

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

A Novel Approach to Expose Students to Global Issues in Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management Antonella Sciortino, Lisa Star, and Tesfai Goitom Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management California State University, Long Beach.AbstractThe availability of new technologies has resulted in great achievements in the civil engineeringand construction engineering management fields worldwide. Young engineers should beequipped with the necessary knowledge to perform their jobs in any region of the world, andthey should be able to understand the unique cultural and societal environment in

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country.Introduction: Entrepreneurship is more than just the creation of business ventures. It calls forthe identification, assessment, and optimization of business ideas and opportunities tooffer goods/services and for economic gains. Innovation, substantial wealth creation, andhigh risks characterize entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurship is significant toengineers in terms of equipping them with entrepreneurial knowledge and skills to startand run successful business ventures. Entrepreneurship enables engineers to beinnovative in the creation of technology-based products/services. The modern world 376continues to witness a growing inclusion of

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manufacture andassembly and concurrent engineering concepts have been addressed in technology ventures andengineering entrepreneurship education5-7. Creation of academic ventures and businessincubation has received increased attention lately8-10. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 536With the changing role of universities, the role of academics has also changed. From being morelikely to have the role of advisors, facilitating the transfer of knowledge to the new venture, theyare today more likely to be

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Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

thestudents shows that the NASA CIPAIR is an effective method to engage URM students fromcommunity college in engineering research.IntroductionClosing the persistent ethnic and racial gap among engineering students plays a pivotal role inreaching the goal proposed in the Engage to Excel by the President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST) [1]: “producing, over the next decade, approximate 1 millionmore college graduates in STEM fields than expected under current assumptions”. In California,Hispanics make up about 37.6 percent of the total population [2], and only about 6 percent of thetotal engineers [3]. Increasing under-represented minority (URM) students in the STEM fieldwill not only answer the call of producing more STEM

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Society for Engineering Education 231a full member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Over half of theundergraduate population (53%) is underrepresented minorities, of which 45% are Latino.CSULA operates on the quarter system with three quarters, each with 10 weeks of instruction, inan academic year: fall (September-December), winter (January-March), spring (March-June).The College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology (ECST) includes theDepartments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, ComputerScience, and Technology.The curricula for the B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering and

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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education   138Engineering Education. 2005, January, 121-130.2Flora, Joseph R. V.; Cooper, Adrienne T. 2005. Incorporating Inquiry-Based Laboratory Experiment inUndergraduate Environmental Engineering Laboratory. Journal Of Professional Issues In Engineering EducationAnd Practice, 131, 19-25.3 Egemen, E.; Edwards, F.; Nirmalakhandan, N. Computer Simulation Models in Environmental EngineeringEducation. Water Science and Technology. 1998, 38 (11), 295-302.4 Kolari, Samuli; Viskari, Eeva

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Towards Gender Balance in Engineering for an Expanding Global Market Place Muge Mukaddes Darwish Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Ali Nejat Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TexasAbstractA global economy requires that engineers understand the importance of both cultural and genderdiversity to be more efficient in solving problems in our world of technology andcommunication. Nearly four decades ago, Unites States engineers led one of the greatestaccomplishments of all time by successfully landing men on the moon and returning them safelyto America. Four subsequent crews

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Experience, retrieved on January 8, 2013 from http://www.engf.canterbury.ac.nz/practical/20) ME1-HDMF-Design and Manufacture, retrieved on January 8, 2013 from http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechanicalengineering/study/subjects/year1/me1hdmf21) Techsplorers, retrieved on January 10, 2013 from http://www.techsplorers.com/index.html22) TECHTRONICS: HANDS-ON EXPLORATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE by Paul A. Klenk, Gary A. Ybarra, Rodger D. Dalton. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education23) Tech Academy Background, retrieved on January 10, 2013 from http://techacademysv.com/background.html24) Tech Academy Hands On

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of science and the means of technology. Were it not for this heritage of accumulated experience, my efforts would be feeble. As an Engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and the dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of Earth’s precious wealth. As an Engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. In the performance of duty and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost.”3This oath overtly addresses the

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Thomas M. Korman; Hal A. Johnston; Lloyd Crask

Development and Use of a Construction Engineering Gaming Simulation in the Global Environment Thomas M. Korman, Ph.D, P.E., M.ASCE, Hal A. Johnston, C.P.E. /Lloyd Crask, P.E. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California State University, FresnoAbstractSimulations and learning games use technology to create real-world experiences to provide theopportunity to engage, have fun, and truly learn. Many have been designed to meet specificlearning goals, i.e. sharing case studies to demonstrating very complex situations. Gaming is notnew to higher education but in the past was done in a very narrow vein and

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Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

Retention Strategies for Engineering and Computer Science High Impact Practices (HIP) during first year in college Raman Unnikrishnan and Victor H. Delgado College of Engineering and Computer Science Hye Sun Moon and Edward Sullivan Office of Institutional Research & Analytical Studies California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 AbstractThe High Tech Education working group of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness(Jobs Council) concluded that an increase in the number of U.S. engineering and computerscience graduates

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research is how to get more women interestedin Engineering majors. Women in junior, or 2-year colleges, are often overlooked as potentialmembers of the engineering community; however there are many women interested inengineering at junior colleges.Community colleges can be institutions of high significance in bridging students to baccalaureateinstitutions to pursue a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)disciplines. The results of a study conducted by Tsapogas3 showed that about 44 percent of Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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. Thispaper will describe the use of Arduino Microcontrollers to teach Mechatronics address thefollowing ASEE-PSW 2013 objectives: multidisciplinary - interdisciplinary projects/classes,experiential learning, project-based learning and innovative pedagogies and uses of current andemerging technologies in the classroom. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 570The Arduino based Mechatronics course taught as ME 499/L at Cal Poly Pomona utilizes acourse project and competition. The equipment used by each

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Compact International Experiences: Two-year Reflections on Short-term Study-abroad Elective Engineering Courses Frank G. Jacobitz, Thomas F. Schubert Department of Engineering, University of San DiegoAbstractIn response to an effort by the home institution to internationalize the curriculum as well asstrong student desire for engineering international studies, compact international experience(CIE) courses were developed. The efficacy of delivering such engineering electives as study-abroad, short-term courses is described through the experiences gained by repeat offerings inJanuary 2013 of two distinct three-semester-unit courses in

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, the one year persistence rate wasconsistently less than 90%. Since selective enrollment started (2009) the one year persistencerate is well above 90% and the two year persistence rate is well over 80%. There is a significantdrop in persistence in the third year for the 2009 cohort. The cause of this drop has not beendetermined. A the time of writing, data were not available to determine whether students leavingcivil engineering switched to another STEM (science technology engineering math) program,switched to a non-STEM program or left the university. There is a large drop in the persistenceof transfer students in the third year which is associated with graduation (33% of studentsgraduated). Students in the 2009 cohort did not benefit

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,Irvine (UCI) with Israeli and Saudi Arabia universities respectively. In this paper, we report ourwork in progress and results from implementing the Initiative.IntroductionThe world’s population is currently approaching seven billion people. This rapid populationgrowth will cause enormous stresses on food, water, energy and natural resources. There will bedouble the number of Asian style megacities with more than 20 million people. To tackle thesechallenges, technology has and will continue to play a crucial role to alleviate these stressors.Among all disciplines, the engineering field has experienced the most radical transformation inthe last 20 years. For example, telecommunications bandwidth has increased by 100,000 timessince the year 2000

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students initially in the classroom and laterin an afterschool program. Exercises will give the elementary school students the experience ofacting as the architect, engineer and contractor. The culmination of the project will be asandcastle competition. Students will design and plan the construction of their sandcastles andwill build them at a local beach on a Saturday morning. The paper will describe the goals of theSandcastle Project, the method of its implementation, assessment methods and future steps.IntroductionStudies by the National Academy of Engineering1 and President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST)2 among others have identified the need to enhance thepathways to careers in science, technology, engineering and math

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Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

Academic and Research Cooperation between University of Washington Tacoma and Brazilian Universities Fabrício Braga Soares de Carvalho Federal University of Paraíba – Brazil Orlando Rocha Baiocchi Institute of Technology - University of WashingtonTacoma Robert Friedman Institute of Technology - University of Washington TacomaAbstractPartnerships with foreign engineering schools and universities are important to paving the wayfor global research and cooperation efforts with American institutions. The objective of thispaper is to present how the

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Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the

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Mohammed Alani; Alaa Ayoob; Jino Raj Xavier; Sameeullah Sharief; Mohammad Amin; Marcos Turquetti; Pradip Peter Dey

. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 87 Figure-1a: Mother controls a child with a leash Figure-1b: Easy Tracking InterconnectionIn this project, short range Bluetooth radio channels and GPS technologies were used toconnect two smart phones for tracking their locations within a limited range (see Figure-1b).The functions and operational procedures of Bluetooth and GPS are described in theliteratures1-7. A Bluetooth and GPS enabled Android phone is used as the main

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of science and engineering globally. With thispresentation, we present some of the experiences that students from two universities in theUnited States –University of Arizona and University of New Mexico– gained while studying atthe two European universities – Budapest University of Technology and Economics and SlovakTechnical University – in Hungary and Slovak Republic. In addition, we address some of thechallenges that prevented some students from traveling abroad. A successful student recruitmentmodel based on utilization of the Senior Capstone Design course at the University of Arizonawas developed and tested. The methods used to evaluate the program were interviews conductedthrough phone and Skype conference calls with participants. Most

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current political and social climate relating to last mile broadbandtechnologies. It will explore the physical and reliability characteristics of the different cabletypes. It will review the economics relating to cable types from a service provider and a userperspective. The findings will note there is limited evidence suggesting that copper cables should bephased out as last mile broadband solutions. Costs, technological advances, existinginfrastructure, political climate, and macroeconomics all play a role in determining what cablesbest will serve the needs of the network owners and users. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American

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governments employedorganized resistance to the new communications networks as well by having fire departments cutdown telephone poles. The linemen in these early years resisted by sitting atop the poles in aneffort to get the fire departments to stand down4. This brash behavior is an echo of the type of Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 469reckless actions that has led to so many safety related fatalities by current cell phonecommunications workers. As the technology was new and mostly unknown to

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students in STEM.1. IntroductionA recent report prepared by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology(PCAST) report, “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates withDegrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” indicates that the UnitedStates needs to produce one million additional STEM professionals in the next decade in order toretain its historical preeminence in science and technology. The report proposes that addressingthe retention problem in the first two years of college is the most promising and cost-effectivestrategy to address this need.1 The California Community College System, with its 112community colleges and 71 off-campus centers enrolling approximately 2.6 million

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prepares students to achieveprofessional success in both theoretical and practical aspects of communication fields. Graduatesare equipped to seek employment in research organizations, computer centers, or wirelesscommunications businesses and enterprises. This program also prepares students for furthereducation in wireless communications enabling graduates to pursue doctoral studies, if theychoose to do so. It is assumed that candidates seeking admission to the program possess abaccalaureate degree in engineering, engineering technology, or physical/computational sciencefrom an accredited university. Projects have been undertaken at NU that read a single channel ofsensor data using Bluetooth into a phone and transferring that information to the

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Simple Experiments and 3-D COMSOL Simulations to Enhance the Learning of Transient Heat Transfer Sergio Mendez and Lisa AungYong Department of Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long BeachAbstract Engineers are at the cutting edge of implementing technologies to garner energy fromsustainable sources or to make processes more energy efficient. Therefore, it is imperative thatwe provide a solid education regarding the principles of heat transfer. To keep competitive on aglobal scale, it also becomes important to train students on the latest computational software. Inthe chemical engineering curriculum, students are first taught the principles of heat transport in

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batteries to several dc power levels supplyingthe proper power the many chips inside the electronics. In the electrical engineering field, PowerElectronics is an engineering discipline that deals with these types of conversion. Morespecifically, power electronics is enabling technology allowing us to convert energy from ac todc, ac to ac, dc to dc, and dc to ac. Power electronics has become increasingly importantnowadays where billions of kilo-watts of electric power are being re-processed every day toprovide the appropriate type and level of power needed by loads1. Due to the rapid growth inpower electronics technology, there has been an increasing demand from industry for electricalengineers that possess power electronic background. This has been