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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

. Active participation inthe ongoing development of this exemplar program will increasingly assure that CSULAwill provide an important cost-effective solution for each corporate partner/sponsor inachieving its recruiting goals.Executives in Residence: The Executives in Residence Program integrates professionalemployees and retirees from corporations and government into the curriculum at CSULA.Executives in Residence may work full-time or part-time teaching classes, conductingresearch, and mentoring students. Executives in Residence also mentor graduate andundergraduate Professional Practice projects.The knowledge executives have in their respective fields through their certificationprocess and their industry experiences, is an invaluable asset to

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issues should be incorporated into the construction engineering managementeducation curriculum to respond to the needs of the industry. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 100Building Information Modeling in Construction EducationBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) is an emerging tool in the design industry used for designand documentation. BIM is also used as a vehicle to enhance communication among all theproject stakeholders.11 BIM is a comprehensive, integrated graphic and alphanumeric database

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

importance of entrepreneurship toengineers, which is why entrepreneurship is increasingly being taught as a part ofengineering programs. However, the method of conveying the entrepreneurshipeducation has been writing a traditional business plan. In this paper, the coauthors willdiscuss an innovative approach to educating engineers in entrepreneurship. This wouldinclude implementing in the curriculum new online tools for creating a business planwhich have the mobility and convenience that today’s generation of engineers havegrown to know and expect. This revision of the entrepreneurship curriculum would beparticularly important for engineering managers to understand and would thus be avalued contribution for engineering management programs across the

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Milica Markovic

Computer Aided Teaching and Learning in an Undergraduate Electromagnetics Class Milica Marković California State University SacramentoAbstractIn this paper integration of commercial CAD programs in an introductory, undergraduateelectromagnetics course at California State University Sacramento is presented. Matlab, Agilent'sAdvanced Design System (ADS) and Momentum are integrated in various activities throughoutthe semester. Students write Matlab code to visualize electromagnetic fields and waves and useAgilent ADS and Momentum to master transmission lines and design a microstrip patch antenna.The course requires students to

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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

gateway to higher education for large numbers of students, especially minorityand low-income students. Preparing community college students for their future engineeringcareer and engaging them in professional development is one of the major objectives of theNASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements and Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch) program. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a collaborative NASA CIPAIR programbetween Cañada College, a federally designated Hispanic-serving community college, and SanFrancisco State University, a large urban university, has developed a summer internship programthat provides freshmen and sophomore community college students an opportunity to participatein a ten-week study of earthquake engineering. For the

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Danyang Li; Qiao Zhen; Albert Gordon; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Marcos Turquetti; Mohammad N. Amin

Wireless Communications (MSWC) program at National University(NU) is a professional degree that integrates communication techniques, problem solvingstrategies, simulation skills and mathematical foundations with hands-on training required tosolve real world problems in telecommunications29. The program is designed for professionalsand managers to facilitate the learning and application of skills in the field of wirelesscommunications, and uses a distinctive and challenging curriculum that emphasizesmultidisciplinary knowledge. The program integrates theory through applications and designconcepts. Classes combine lectures, case and hands-on studies, individual and team projects,research papers and participant presentations. With NU’s MSWC program

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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

, a Hispanic serving communitycollege, join force with San Francisco State University, a four-year university with an activemaster program, to create an internship program that integrate underrepresented minoritystudents into research. Supported by NASA 2012 CIPAIR program, five students join theElectrical Engineering research program in SFSU.The critical challenge to integrate community college students into research is to assign theactivity at an appropriate level, so that students are actually involved in the research and makecontributions. The approach here is to let students understand the research by pre-packagedcomputer simulations, and contribute to the project by hands-on tasks.Project BackgroundThe research project is to optimize an

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

faculty to learn new teaching methods, mismatch between active learningtechniques and learning styles for instructors and students, and lack of administrative support4.Nevertheless, several examples of active learning methods have been successfully implemented.MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, for example, overcame such challenges inusing active learning in the curriculum with strong institutional support, faculty team teaching,careful planning with faculty involvement, and training on active learning methods5.Careful planning also minimizes time in preparing active learning activities. Texas A&MUniversity developed a series of in-class exercises in an upper-division course in biological andagricultural engineering, which

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R. Radharamanan

Project-Based Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering R. Radharamanan Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractThis paper highlights project-based innovation and entrepreneurship education activitiesdeveloped and implemented at Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE). MUSEpromotes entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students through curriculum development,extracurricular activities, and involvement of students in the entrepreneurship program. It hasdeveloped and implemented a course sequence to integrate elements of entrepreneurship inengineering courses; develop an entrepreneurial mindset in

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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

closer.The one and a half day communications conference consisted of morning and afternoonseminars, followed by evening networking sessions. Seminars explore the traditional areas ofmobile technologies, micro and nanotechnologies for information processing, and the emergingareas of cloud technologies and embedded systems with presentations delivered by professorsfrom UCI, UCLA, TAU and Technion University. An industry panel was brought together withleaders in the field to discuss from application point of view of how to integrate frontier researchwork into industry. We had over 140 participants from the academia and industry of OrangeCounty and Greater Los Angeles communities. Since we hoped to use the event as a launchingpad for increasing

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

campus during their first year. They areoften intrusive in nature, forcing students to attend special advising sessions before beingallowed to register for courses. More importantly, the facilitators of these advising functionswere not part of the civil engineering program and thus could not provide students with coherentadvising appropriate to the curriculum. During the 2011-2012 academic year the CE departmentestablished a committee to develop a single integrated department advising program.Methodology The department advising committee developed a three part advising improvement plan.The goal of the first stage was to provide essential prescriptive advising to ensure a consistentand effective message. This was accomplished through a

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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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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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majors at the University ofArizona. The project illustrates the entire control systems design cycle from systemidentification, through analysis and design of dynamic compensators in classical (transferfunction based) and modern (state space based) control theory. Advanced topics such as systemidentification tool box of Matlab, design and testing of an observer/controller pair is alsoillustrated in an intuitive way suitable for undergraduate students. A summary of the mainlearning gains is also presented.The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session as well as individualizedexperimentation with the portable hardware.IntroductionHands-on laboratories are an essential part of the engineering curriculum since its inception.Their

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Anne Beug; Phillip L. Nico

platformoverwhelmed the novice students with the addition of the hardware element to the softwareelement. Scratch was much easier for the new programmers to pick up quickly, with theexception of the fifth lab (functions in BYOB), which proved to be overly complex.Both high schools, though, will continue to integrate more computing in to their classes. Theyintend to use Scratch in their computer applications classes and Arduino in their programmingclasses, after an introduction through Scratch. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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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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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

; the third site was aquadrangle on campus; the fourth site was near a food truck parked and in operation on campus;the fifth site was a car parking garage to simulate traffic inputs; and the sixth location was insideof a building on campus to evaluate indoor air quality.If field experiences are not practical, other forms of teaching field exercises could be evaluatedfor implementation into an existing laboratory or classroom curriculum. Virtual simulations offield labs can be used1,3,5,9,13. Ramasundaram et al.9 discuss the benefits and problems in usingan environmental virtual field laboratory developed by the authors. Virtual field experiences Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest

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Matthew T. Siniawski; Adam R. Carberry; Rafiqul I. Noorani

courses. This course and project were both created with the goal ofproviding our underclassmen undergraduates with an integrated experience of the design andmanufacturing process in order to better prepare them for their capstone project courses. Ourresearch explores students’ conceptions of and ideas associated with design and design formanufacturing guidelines. We therefore ask the following question: ‘what are students’conceptions of learning design and manufacturing principles in the context of working on anintegrated design and manufacturing project?’Course StructureOur undergraduate program, like many others, contains courses in design, manufacturing andcomputer-aided design (CAD) and concludes with a yearlong capstone project. A required