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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

Active Learning in Computer-Aided Engineering Courses (WIP) Tammy Yut-Ling Chan, Gustavo Borel Menezes Mechanical Engineering Department/Civil Engineering Department California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)AbstractThe field of numerical methods in engineering is broad with many established concepts, yet isstill an area of active research. With the short 10 weeks in the quarter to teach this material toundergraduate students, the instructor is faced with issues such as the number of topics, depth ofcoverage, and how to effectively teach this large amount of material. Herein, the instructors usedactive learning and project-based

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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

added a field-based project to a Geotechnical Engineering course and found the projectenhanced student learning. In the same study, a student survey was conducted separate of theclass and asked students to choose the top five reasons they picked Civil Engineering as a major.One of the most common answers was “to be in the field”7.In addition, science majors, such as environmental sciences, ecology, and geology, include fieldexperiences in undergraduate curriculums throughout the United States8,9,10 and Europe11. Theimportance of field work was recognized in many Environmental science programs from theconception of the program (based on programs started in the 1970s and 1980s)8. Field workimmerses the students into the complexity of the real

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

Washington TacomaThe Institute of Technology1 at the University of Washington2, Tacoma, provides focus for therapid development of high-technology academic programs that serve the needs of the state ofWashington.Launched in 2001, the Institute has supported the South Puget Sound community by buildingfacilities, classrooms and labs to support STEM education. Through innovative partnerships witharea companies, internships and funded research projects, Institute students gain real worldexperience to tackle the challenges of a continually evolving industry.Degrees offered by the Institute of Technology are:  Computer Science and Systems (BS/BA/MS)  Computer Engineering and Systems (BS)  Information Technology and Systems (BS

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

to identify customerneeds, generate business value, and recognize viable business opportunities in theengineering and related industries that they could explore. Entrepreneurship calls for innovation in products, services, or processes involvedin business operations. Indeed, innovation is among the key factors that enhance the 4success of entrepreneurial ventures . For engineering businesses and practitioners tosucceed in their industry, they need to create innovative engineering projects. In addition,through entrepreneurship, they learn how to create technology-based opportunities, andways of identifying, obtaining, producing, and transferring technology to generate viable

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Kiran George

fields. Similarly, the out migration fromthe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University,Fullerton (CSUF) has been profound. In 2010 with funding availed from the NSF, ECS at CSUFestablished the ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program designed toreverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. This program awards scholarships to ECSstudents over the 5-year period of the project and leverages a well-established network of ECSand University student services to support cohorts of ACE scholars (recipients of the ACEscholarship) majoring in ECS majors. The ECS ACE scholarship program provides tuitionscholarships and a myriad of support services ranging from peer mentoring to

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John Paulino; Jesús García; Joshua Lohse; Hector Prado; Atul Balani; Sridevi Lakshmipuram; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser

most sophisticated computers. ICperformance has dramatically improved since their first creation. However, with scaling of ICs toNano-scale, an ideal integrated circuit delivering reliable performance over its lifetime is almostimpossible. All ICs experience degradation over time due to the aging of underlying transistors.Working on latest technology issues is typically an opportunity available only to graduate levelstudents working on related research projects. To address this gap, using a NASA CurriculumImprovements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant, we havecreated a summer internship program that engages community college students in researchprojects on the latest challenges of circuit design in nano-scale

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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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Anne Beug; Phillip L. Nico

. Scratch, on the other hand, grew out of academic work in MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Lab, officially launching in 2007 as a new educational programming and computing platform. From its website, "Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas

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Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 197 Figure 2. Topics in Fluid Mechanics in FranceThe course met for three weeks with an average of three lecture hours per day. The lectures wereconducted in a seminar room at the university. There was one three-hour midterm focused ontheoretical material at the end of the second week and a final computational project presented bythe students on the last day of classes. The grading was based on homework (six assignments,30% of the total grade), the

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

make up 38% and31% of the population respectively. Projections show that Hispanic students will represent 20%of U.S. high school seniors by 2013, yet they make up only 13% of community collegegraduates, 10% of university graduates, and 6% of STEM graduates (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012;U.S. Department of Education, 2010c; U.S. Department of Education, 2010d; Taningco et al.,2008). Similarly, low-income students are also seriously underrepresented in higher educationand, by extension, STEM majors. For every 100 low-income students who make it to high Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Foaad Khosmood; Phillip Nico

system implementation offers a good balance between a project that canrealistically be done in a fraction of a college term, but also involve a wide variety of OSconcepts and algorithms. Common file system principles overlap with those of OS and evenbroader computing systems3. Of the five major topics in OS courses (Processes, Scheduling,Memory management, Synchronization and I/O systems) all are present to some degree in filesystem implementation. Two popular undergraduate textbooks, Tanenbaum & Woodhull4 andSilberschatz, et al.5, each dedicate several chapters to file systems. Recent OS courses at StanfordUniversity6 and University of California Berkeley7, dedicate, two weeks and one week to filesystems respectively.Perhaps the most

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in the ComputerEngineering program at California State University, Fullerton is used as an example. However,the proposed methodology for instruction development can be applied to other courses inengineering as well. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education  400       +++ (a) Implementation Process1) As and when topics are covered during the course of a semester, the instructor for EGCP 281course assigns a project that involves a literature review on

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Milica Markovic

ideal transmission lines is taught by following a similarsequence of three step set up, as shown in Figure 13. After these exercises, students easilyrecognize different configurations of impedance matching networks and make lumped element,transmission line matching circuits or a combination with ease.Initially, ideal transmission lines are used, and they are subsequently replaced by microstriptransmission lines to investigate how real-life parameters affect the circuit design, as well asdesign restrictions for specific application or implementation of impedance matching network. Atthe end of this sequence students undertake a patch antenna project, where they design, simulate,fabricate and measure a square- patch antenna. (a)Three step

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

Society for Engineering Education 450Biography:Dr. Ibraheem Kateeb is the section chair of Central NC section and a Senior Member of IEEE with over 25 yearsof experience in academia and industry. He received his Ph.D. from NCA&TSU. He is currently at NCA&TSU asAssistant Professor of Computer Systems Technology Department. His current research is on power and greenenergy, electronics and control/robotics. In the last two years, he published more than 27 journal and conferencepapers and has many projects and grants in power, renewable energy and smart grid related issues. Dr. Kateeb wasrecognized as the recipient of Academic Excellent

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

. He received his Ph.D. from NCA&TSU. He is currently at NCA&TSU asAssistant Professor of Computer Systems Technology Department. His current research is on power and green energy,electronics and control/robotics. In the last two years, he published more than 27 journal and conference papers and hasmany projects and grants in power, renewable energy and smart grid related issues. Dr. Kateeb was recognized as therecipient of Academic Excellent Award from CARTS International 2012 (Electronic Components Industry Association,ECIA) for one of his research papers.Khaled F AlOtaibi is currently a PhD candidate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University USA.He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from

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

SEEMA C. SHAH-FAIRBANK is an Assistant Professor and RBF Fellow of Civil Engineering atCalifornia State Polytechnic University Pomona. She obtained her BS in Environmental Engineering fromCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2001. Prior to attending graduate school at ColoradoState University (CSU) she spent 3 years working as a Design Engineer for RBF Consulting in Storm WaterManagement. Where, she worked on various flood control, hydrology and hydraulics projects. She is a LicensedProfessional Engineer in the State of California. She completed her graduate studies in Civil Engineering at CSUwith a MS in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009, where she specialized in sediment transport and river mechanics. She teachescourses in

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Tina Smilkstein

projects, themost informed, highest-achieving and/or strongest personality often ends up doing the majorityof the work and the other members of the group follow orders or stand mute. Observing groupsand the individuals in them that seemed to be non- or low-participants, there seemed to be acommon thread of a lack of confidence in their abilities and their knowledge. Observations oflow-confidence students making good suggestions to their lab partners and being ignored is not arare event.The third inspiration for this work was the fact that information on weaknesses of the studentswas not clear until during the actual lab itself or after the lab had been finished. Feedback is goodbut the late timing of identification of problems seemed such that it

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academia and industry. He received his Ph.D. from NCA&TSU. He is currently at NCA&TSU asAssistant Professor of Computer Systems Technology Department. His current research is on power and greenenergy, electronics and control/robotics. In the last two years, he published more than 27 journal and conferencepapers and has many projects and grants in power, renewable energy and smart grid related issues. Dr. Kateeb wasrecognized as the recipient of Academic Excellent Award from CARTS International 2012 (Electronic ComponentsIndustry Association, ECIA) for one of his research papers.Khaled F AlOtaibi is currently a PhD candidate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityUSA. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer