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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

Foster Entrepreneurial- Minded Engineers. Retrieved October 18, 2012 from http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/news.php?action=story&story=112785 2. Drucker, P. (2007). Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. Oxford, UK: 3. Butterworth-Heinemann, European Commission. (2008). Entrepreneurship in higher education, especially within non-business studies. Retrieved October 18, 2012 , http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/files/support_measures/training_educat ion/entr_highed_en.pdf 4. Goldberg, D. (2006). The Entrepreneurial Engineer. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley 5. Refaat, A. (2009

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R. Radharamanan

Mercer University Campus, Macon, GA during March 15-17, 2012. Theobjective of this meeting is to bring together administrators, faculty, students, and staff fromKEEN Schools on a common platform to discuss about the Innovation and EntrepreneurshipEducation at KEEN Schools as well as possible collaboration between them on topics ofcommon interest that include but not limited to: • Entrepreneurially-minded Education and Culture • Intrapreneurship Education • Entrepreneurial Project-based Education • Collaboration within and between Dense Networks • Integration of Engineering and General Education • Entrepreneurial Engineering and Enterprise • Web-based Entrepreneurial Education between KEEN Schools • KEEN/ABET

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David B. Lanning

frame of mind that the author Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 169undertook an investigation to find out how widespread are course repeats, and to use thisinformation to enable sound academic planning.Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott campusThe Prescott, Arizona campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a primarilyundergraduate institution with an enrollment of close to 1700 students. It is a private university,with an annual tuition of around $30,000. The College of

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Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 199every day. Having never been out of the US, I feel like I was close-minded about the rest of theworld. Now that I have been here for a week, I am getting a better feel for other countries, andthe rest of the world in general. It makes me wonder how different other countries are.”“I also want to continue meeting the local sydneysiders to learn more about the culturaldifferences and life “Down Under” so that I can walk away from this study abroad experience amore informed person of the world.”“This

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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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Nina Robson P.E.

throughout their lives. Education cannot give learners all the information that they need to know, but rather it must provide the tools for continuing to learn. Keeping that in mind, the main objectives of the Introduction to Mechanical Design course were the following:1. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, statistics, science and engineering2. Ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints3. Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems4. Ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary to engineering practice. The process for integrating inquiry techniques into the course, contained designing activities, assignments, and

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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; Rafiqul I. Noorani

engages students in the design and manufacturing process of a simpleconsumer product. Similar efforts have been conducted in the past in order to improve studentlearning and engagement. For example, practice-based curricula and physical facilities have beendeveloped specifically to focus on student engagement with the product realization process1.Undergraduate courses for mechanical engineering students that provide students with hands-onexperiences in design and manufacturing have proven beneficial, especially in regards totechnical communication abilities and preparation for completion of their capstone projects2.Integrative approaches to design and manufacturing are typically dealt with in senior electives,capstone projects, or graduate

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Jeffrey Georgette; Brian Self; James Widmann; Kathryn Bohn; Eric Wang

-Based Activities to Repair Student Misconceptions in EngineeringDynamics. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography1. Laws, P., D. Sokoloff, and R. Thornton, Promoting Active Learning Using the Results of Physics Education Research. UniServe Science News, 1999. 13.2. Prince, M. (2004) Does Active Learning Work: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Engineering Education, pp 223-231.3. Bransford, J., A. Brown, and R. Cocking, How People Learn: Body, Mind, Experience and School. 2000, Commission on Behavioral and Social Science and Education, National Research Council

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Alex Edgcomb; Frank Vahid

Interactive Web Activities for Online STEM Learning Materials Alex Edgcomb and Frank Vahid Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, RiversideAbstractWe are developing a repository of parameterized interactive web activities to aid in learningSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) concepts. Much web-based materialtoday, including online textbooks, online tutorials, and MOOCs (massive open online courses),include quiz-like activities to support interaction with the user. Varied customizable interactiveactivities, such as drag-and-drop definition matching, or shooting or navigation games driven byquiz-like

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Gene Fisher

Can Students Build Production-Quality Software? Gene Fisher California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractThe question posed in the title of this paper has been asked in many forms. There have beenthoughtful scholarly publications on the subject, and less than scholarly opinion pieces. Thispaper asks the question in the context of a year-long capstone course in software engineering,taught at Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo. Specifically, if product development is the over-riding goal for such a course, can a team of senior-level software engineering students deliverand deploy a genuinely

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Milica Markovic

integrate knowledge of advanced vector calculus, electromagnetictheory and computer programming to visualize fields and waves and to relate electromagneticsapplications to engineering design. The intent of the class is to improve students cognitive andaffective domains, by enabling them to use industry tools to experiment and develop their ownunderstanding of concepts taught in an active learning environment.IntroductionElectromagnetics is a standard, core course in the electrical, electronics and computer engineeringcurriculum. Electromagnetics is fundamental to understanding of many practical areas of electricalengineering: from operation and design of medical, office, industrial and military equipment;through design of sensors, circuits, PC

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Ibraheem A. Kateeb; Khaled F. AlOtaibi; Larry Burton; Michael S. Peluso; Evelyn R. Sowells

communications plant including power generation, thephysical nature of these changes has been challenged again and again. Section II gives acomparison of Overhead verses Buried plant. Section III discuses a History of Phone Poles. InSection IV, we discuss issues of Communication Aesthetics in the Modern Era. Section Vdiscusses Aesthetics of Transmission Infrastructure. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 468 II. Overhead vs. Buried PlantOver time, overhead solutions tended to be the more cost effective

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Foaad Khosmood; Phillip Nico

significant low-level programming. Although there areexceptions such as DLXOS1 where students implement an entire operating system, mostconcentrate on a few important subsystems out of necessity. There may be enough time in oneterm to cover all theory and concepts, but not enough to have programming assignments for eachof them. Instructors could therefore be more efficient if they can find assignments that exercise awide variety of OS concepts. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 251We believe file

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Tina Smilkstein

Increasing Lab Participation and Content Retention Through Supportive Laboratory Preparatory Assignments Tina Smilkstein, California State University at San Luis Obispo I. AbstractA study is done on an electrical engineering circuit lab course to assess the effect onparticipation, retention of course content and student satisfaction when prelab assignments wereexpanded to include a write up of the experiment background and goals. Reading that wascreated specifically for each lab covered background for the lab that the students should bebringing with them from previous courses but did not tell them how to do the lab. They wereasked to summarize the

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“concentricconducting system”. This invention was the core of coax. 3. It is named “coaxial” because twoconductors share the same axis: one conductor is at the center of the cable, and the second iswrapped around it. This design minimizes signal degradation from external electromagneticsources as the signal only transmits between the two conductors. The design had a specific goalin mind: to meet the need for “An enormously wide frequency range” which would facilitateboth the new television technology as well as offer a more effective solution for telephonesystems. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 147interdisciplinary nature of the field mostly off the required experience. Senior projects, capstoneexperiences and occasional project-driven software engineering courses provide the onlyopportunities to experience cross-disciplinary collaboration within CS curricula.Among the variety of possible reasons why systematic treatment of the interdisciplinary nature ofcomputer science is hard to find in college, while its very importance is well-recognized by theacademic community