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Binod Tiwari

Engaging Engineering Students in Research from Early Stage of Their Student Career Binod Tiwari, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor and Acting Chair Civil and Environmental Engineering Department California State University, FullertonAbstractEngineering education in the USA has significantly been controlled by the accreditation agency.As a result, classroom education is paid much more attention compared to the hands-on orresearch activities. In this study, a select group of engineering students were involved in faculty-student collaborative research activities in different stages of their

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Jesus Acosta-Iriqui; Eniko T. Enikov

Development of International Mobility Program in Micro and Nanotechnology: Lessons Learned Jesús Acosta-Iriqui, Eniko T. Enikov The University of ArizonaAbstractThe Advanced International Studies in Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-systems program is afour-year student exchange program under the Atlantis Excellence in Mobility programsupported by the United States Department of Education and the European Commission ofHigher Education. The main goals of this project was to increase students’ academic aspirationsin science and engineering careers, increase students’ professional aspirations in science andengineering, and increase students’ awareness

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Matthew T. Siniawski; Adam R. Carberry; Nazmul Ula

Work In Progress: Stepping Back and Letting Students Take the Lead – Student-led Projects for a First-Year Introduction to Engineering Course Matthew T. Siniawski1, Adam R. Carberry2, Nazmul Ula1 1 - Loyola Marymount University / 2 - Arizona State UniversityAbstractA first-year introduction to engineering course was redesigned to encourage active learningthrough a project-based pedagogy. A major goal of this approach was to improve students’engagement, learning, and interest in pursuing an engineering career. Student teams participatedin four unique engineering projects throughout the course. Each project varied the degree towhich the instructor

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Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

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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Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

   140students who earned a bachelors or masters degree in a STEM-related field have been enrolled inclasses at one or more community colleges during their academic career at a four-year university.In addition, more women attend community colleges than four-year institutions, as indicated bythe U.S. Department of Education4. It has been shown that community colleges play animportant role in increasing the number of women in STEM disciplines and careers5.Citrus College is a 2-year college located in Glendora, CA, in Los Angeles County. The Fall2010 enrollment was 14,386 students. According to the Citrus College Fact Book6 about 54% ofthe students enrolled in classes at Citrus College are female. The percent enrollment of femalestudents in higher level

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish; Ali Nejat

followed the first crew in successful triumphs. If we recallthe picture of those engineers they were all white men in white shirts, most with plastic pocketprotectors to hold rows of pens and pencils. This picture is slowly changing, as the field ofengineering progresses and evolves. Recent studies showed that there are more women engineersjoining the workforce every year, but still not enough to fulfill the gap. Engineering classroomsremains to be dominantly consisted of male students with a national ratio of six to one. Thefemale ratio at the college of engineering in Texas Tech University is much lower than nationalstatistics.Influential factors of lower interest in women preceding engineering careers are known as"environmental" factors, such

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Kiran George

consecutivesemesters (up to $2000 per semester). The academic standing of ACE scholars is evaluated everysemester and necessary remedial steps are taken if their academic performance is not up to par.(c) ECS and University Support Systems Utilized for the ACE Program: Instead of creating newsupport systems for the program, existing and well-established network of ECS and Universitysupport systems such as Center for Academic Support in Engineering and Computer Science(CASECS), University Learning Center (ULC), Center for Internships and Service-Learning(CISL), and CSUF Career Center were leveraged to ensure the success of the ACE program.(d) ACE Scholar Support Services: In order to improve educational opportunities and increaseretention of ECS students

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Seema C. Shah-Fairbank; William Kitch; Kenneth Lamb P.E.

existing department advising program andretention data indicated the greatest short coming was in early advising of first year students.Training of all existing advisors on the specific needs of first year students proved unsuccessfulin improving first year advising. An informal survey of faculty indicated a disinterest among themajority of faculty in learning the special issues freshmen and first year transfer students face.Both budgetary and work role constraints inhibited the program from adopting techniques suchas hiring dedicated lower division advising staff. Cognizant of the existing structural constraints,a three phased approach was designed to address the advising needs of students throughout theiracademic careers. The first phase

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

which theirdesigns are implemented. Engineering courses need to provide students with the globalengineering perspective that will prove beneficial for their careers and this should be done at theearly stages of the engineering curriculum. This study proposes a novel approach to expose civilengineering and construction engineering management students to current global issues inengineering and construction practices. An additional goal is the improvement of retention ratesby increasing students' interest in the engineering field. The proposed approach consists ofencouraging mentoring and collaboration between graduate students enrolled in a researchcourse and freshmen/sophomore students enrolled in an introductory engineering course. Thetwo

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Binod Tiwari

data, and prepare scientific presentations; which would not have been possibleotherwise. The students obtained excellent information to write in their plan of study whilesubmitting their applications for admission in the universities. In addition, they could contact theauthor anytime in their career, whenever they need a reference for future use. More importantly,the community college and high school students received an exposure to university leveleducation and research, which not only motivated them to pursue higher education but alsohelped them to streamline their academic goal. The cohort group 2 students are presented inFigure 5.Figure 5: Second cohort group: 2 high school students and 3 community college students. Proceedings of

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Cheng Chen; Jose Valdovinos; Frank Sanchez; Nelly Avramova; Hector Santillano; Robert Hartsock

SFSU to provide student researchers with meaningful research experiences andprepare them for engineering careers; 2) develop learning modules on earthquake engineeringand involve student researchers into state-of-the-art earthquake engineering research so as toprepare them for their future more advanced degrees; 3) provide student researchersopportunities to participate and present at engineering conferences.Challenges for Engaging Students into Research ActivitiesLaboratory experiments play a critical role in earthquake engineering research. Devastatingstructural damages and loss of human lives in recent earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand5and Tohoku Japan6 call for advances in research on seismic resilient infrastructures

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

, the project will sharpenstudents’ practical skills required by industry which are often not being taught to students as partof the curriculum. This, in turn, will help students in pursuing their career in the powerelectronics industry due to the skills learned from the project which match current demands fromthe power electronics industry. The project will also enforce students to learn beyond circuitdesign by incorporating one modern and widely used power electronic application as the finaldeliverable of the project. Consideration was taken such that the complexity of the project shouldbe appropriate for an undergraduate level course. Detailed description of the project along withpreliminary results of student’s assessment on the project

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Cheng Chen; John DeAndreis; Peter Moala; Agustin Robles; Jose Valdovinos; Qiming Zeng; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

summer 2012 internship program,students designed a five-story steel special moment-resisting frame, and evaluated itsperformance under four selected ground motions. The students optimized the structural designthrough iterative computer-based dynamic time history analysis. Structural analysis programSAP2000 was incorporated into the design process for students to examine story drift, and thecapacity of the structural members. The ten-week program was found to be successful inengaging community college students in the civil engineering career thereby helping train futureAmerican workforce for seismic hazard mitigation.IntroductionEarthquake engineering is concerned with design and analysis of structures to withstandearthquakes at specific

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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

asked to improvethe existing device by re-designing the electronic circuitry using the printed circuit board (PCB)technology altogether. At the last week of the summer project, they have the opportunity tocharacterize the device that is designed and made by students. During the ten-week summerresearch, students from Cañada College have the opportunity to experience entire engineeringdevelopment flow: idea > design > prototyping > validation. In addition to learning theelectronics design using the state-of-art electronic design automation (EDA) tool, the studentsare exposed to the challenges in designing electronic systems for biological systems. Theinterdisciplinary thinking could benefit their future STEM careers. The feedback from

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

Week, ECST Career Fair, andCareer-Awareness Day.Career-Awareness Day presents to minority students a wide array of career possibilitiesin the engineering, computer science, and technology fields. CSULA is the onlyminority-serving institution (MSI) in the Western United States, with an ABETaccredited engineering program with Hispanics and African Americans constituting about60% of the enrollment. With that said, we believe that this event and ongoing studentactivities with partner companies are necessary because role models in the technicalfields are not readily accessible to the population of students that served. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright

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Keith Level

perspective,including opinions from both instructors and the students in their respective classes. There willalso be some short discussion on possible future uses of software applications like MasteringEngineering.Table of Contents A. The Role of Assigning Homework in my Teaching Career B. Mastering Engineering Overview C. How Mastering Engineering Works D. Grading in Mastering Engineering E. Types of Problems Available in Mastering Engineering F. Importing / Exporting Courses / Other Resources G. Customizing Mastering Engineering to include Instructor’s Course Materials H. My Recommendations for Instructors who will use Mastering Engineering I. Upsides to Mastering Engineering: Instructor and Student Perspectives

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

; andextending its reach and support within the community.The Institute offers students unique R&D opportunities and hands-on preparation for computing-related careers in information-centric industries that are fundamental to the future of the state ofWashington. In addition to its core undergraduate and graduate programs, the Institute hasdeveloped new applied computing partnerships with other academic units on the UW Tacomacampus, such as Healthcare Leadership, Criminal Justice, and Geographic Information Systems.With research strength in Big Data, Information Assurance, CyberSecurity, and Wireless SensorNetworks, the Institute of Technology’s faculty brings their expertise both into the classroom andthe community.Science Without Borders

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

students, to the extent possible by law, emphasizes participation bystudents from groups with low eligibility rates for four-year colleges. Some of the features of theprogram include: 1. Building a support community among students with similar career goals 2. Constructing the bridges necessary to establish a mentor-protégé relationship between faculty and students 3. Expecting excellent performance by studentsj. Freshmen Advising: Bucking Against the Campus Culture of General Education FirstOne of the quickest ways of discouraging an engineering or computer science student is throughadvising the student to take all general education courses first. Such advice was very commonuntil relatively recently because the campus culture

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Amelito G. Enriquez; Denise Hum; Christine Woo; Brandon Price; Danni Redding Lapuz; Anna Camacho

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, over the last four years.2. Incoming Student Interest and Level of Preparation for EngineeringCañada

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professionalswith specific training in sustainable building practices will increase significantly over the nextdecade. Thus, undergraduate students need to advance their career and maintain their competitiveedge with training in the green building areas.Sustainability in Construction EducationMany schools, with undergraduate engineering programs in many disciplines, attempt to includeenvironmental sustainability and sustainable design in their curricula.18 The challenges andopportunities are laid out in CEM disciplines as to how to incorporate sustainability into theireducational formation.6, 18, 19, 25 Russell et al. reviewed the past and present of constructionengineering and prescribed practical change to revitalize construction engineering education

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

they are not acting in a social vacuum and that there are personal and social consequences for acting with or without integrity.Using these iterative teaching practices, students are provided opportunities to not only talkabout but incorporate certain ethical practices into their professional behavior.It is one thing for students to demonstrate ethical behavior in the classroom; it is another forthem to pledge to act ethically throughout their careers. The most overt ethical practice is theinvitation to all students enrolled in Aircraft Detail Design to join the Order of the Engineer. TheOrder is an organization comprised of engineers who have taken an oath, called the Obligation ofthe Engineer, to always perform their jobs

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Milica Markovic

that propagate down the transmission line and into the antenna, and the standingwave on the resonant structure. This visualization exercise would be too complex for student toproduce themselves on a paper or programming from scratch by using Matlab or Mathematica.Second, introduction to CAD used in industry engages students because students' perceive it asvery valuable to their career. To bridge the prohibitively long time to learn the software use andstudents' desire to use the software on the other side, guided software use is introduced as alaboratory project. Momentum is a 3D planar method of moments software that is distributed aspart of ADS. Two working patch antenna simulator files are given to students, and they changesome simulation