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Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

includes departments inArchitectural Engineering, Architecture, City & Regional Planning, Construction Managementand Landscape Architecture and can provide students and faculty who are competent in all areasof building design and construction. Students in the School of Education are the optimal meansof introducing technical concepts and practices for the present and future education ofelementary school students.The goals of the Sandcastle Project are to stimulate elementary school students’ creativity and aninterest in building design, engineering and construction and to use real world examples of mathand science to reinforce standard curricula. Teacher candidates from the School of Educationand students from CAED will join elementary school

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

. Many faculty members had littletime to devote to advising and keep up with the number of students enrolled in their courses.Thus the typical faculty member was able to offer only reactive and prescriptive advising3. Thisapproach did not provide students with the individual attention needed to meet their specificneeds, whether it include study skills, curricular advice, career planning or referrals to a studentsupport program. Research by Pardee4 noted that most students expect a prescriptive approach to advising,however, others pointed out that simply advising student to address the current crises is toonarrow a focus and leaves the student vulnerable to future crises5,6. Other studies have shownthat quality advising can improve both

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R. Radharamanan

engineering students; fosterinnovation and creativity in engineering disciplines; help the students to develop business plansfor the entrepreneurial design projects and compete in the annual business plan competition, andpromote new ventures creation. The expansion of this program will support educationalinterdisciplinary curricula and co-curricular activities and benefit the students providing multi-and cross-disciplinary teaching, learning, and research opportunities on innovation andentrepreneurship. Selected creative student design projects with business plans involvingCAD/CAM, Robotics, and Rapid Prototyping are presented, analyzed, and discussed. Thestudents learning outcomes and their professional skills are assessed using KEEN-TTI’s surveyof

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

experience.COnstruction INdustry Simulation (COINS) – An educational gaming simulation forConstruction EngineeringConstruction Industry Simulation (COINS) is a computer simulation built to simulate thebusiness environment for a construction company. The players, participants, play the role ofcontractors, competing in a market with variable demand for construction work. The simulationimmerses students into the day-to-day operations of a construction company, requiring them tomanagement specific aspects of the company with the goal of procuring and managingconstruction work in terms of its planning, scheduling, and resource allocation. Students have achoice between commercial construction company, a heavy construction company, or a companythat does both. Players

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

Math Anxiety Financial Aid Panel Math Jam Assessment1-1:30 pm Time1:30-2 pm Management Field Trip Why an Ed Plan Ed Plan2-2:20 pm Counseling OR Counseling OR Education Plan? Learning Styles Math Anxiety Time2:20-2:30 Signups for Workshop Managementpm Work Sessions2:30-3:00 Individual Ed Individual Ed Individual Edpm

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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

-up” nation. Both schools haveshared the vision to teach and educate the best possible engineers giving them a sense of socialresponsibility.To elevate the initial relation built during the visit to a more meaningful and engaginginteraction, a group of faculty came forth from both universities to organize an internationalconference called “Communications and Information Technology 2025” (Comm 2025). Theconference mission is to present and discuss the issues involved in the higher education ofengineers and scientists in the fields of communications and information technology in the year2025. This conference was hosted jointly and planned through online weekly meetings usingSkype – another communication technology that had brought the world

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Gene Fisher

includes course teaching prefer- ences and teaching time preferences • an easy-to-use database of a department’s course offerings, including courses planned for particular quarters • the ability to define department-specific scheduling constraints to guide the scheduling process • a sophisticated scheduling algorithm that generates an optimized schedule, based on instructor preferences, planned course offerings, and departmental constraints • the ability to fine tune a generated schedule, with automated checking to ensure schedule completeness and consistencyThe tool is intended to be used at the department level, by the same people who normally per-form department scheduling. The result of a scheduling session is

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Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

. Figure 5. Implementation of Non-Linear Feeback Linearization LawsIn the third installment, students are asked to identify the dynamic characteristics of a unit-feedback system formed from around the plan (6). This task is designed to illustrate theapplication of the classical formulas describing the natural frequency and damping ratio of asecond order system. Since the feedback-linearized system (6) is of type 1, its open-loop stepresponse is unbounded. Therefore, a unit-feedback proportional controller is used to examine theresponse of the closed loop system as illustrated in Figure 6. Figure 6. Unit-Feedback Unit-Gain (Kp=1) Controller for Plant (6) (left) and student work reproduced with permissin

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

students developed a set of software requirements for acomputational biology question, provided it to the CS students on their team, and participated indesign and testing of the software as it was being built. In this paper we present the results of our pilot offering of the two courses to 24 BIO and 35CS students. We collected and evaluated a variety of student artifacts and conducted extensivesurveys in both courses. We discovered that both BIO and CS students indicate improvement inthe quality of work of their partners over the course of the quarter. The majority of studentsreported increased confidence in their ability to collaborate with colleagues outside of theirdiscipline. We discuss these and other findings and present our plans for

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Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

100% online course. This paperbriefly describes the ongoing evolution of digital course offerings including up to the currentcourse curriculum in its flipped classroom format. We then outline the current efforts to changethe flipped classroom format into an online format and then discuss how we plan to assess theefficacy of the online course. The first offering of this online format is scheduled for Summer2013.A literature search reveals that few online introductory digital design courses have beendocumented. Those that have been documented are either primarily self-paced modules that actas supplemental material for face-to-face courses1 or are fully online courses that lack alaboratory component that makes use of digital hardware2,3. A

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

needs of the company with respect to the project requirements and often servesas the domain expert for the student team. Additionally, the liaison should understandthat his/her organization is supporting students and must be aware of the educationalneeds of the students, as well as the needs of the company.The liaison should be able to commit to a conference call with the team each week.He/she should plan to meet with the team multiple times during the academic year andshould also plan to host the team for a company site visit early into the project. This is tohelp students become familiar with the context of their project and to help the teamestablish a customer relationship with their sponsor.Program Timeline: The schedule for projects is

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Kiran George

priorityregistration. The paper presents detailed evaluation and assessment of the scholarship programusing the following measures: a) Attitude and enthusiasm of students towards the ECS ACEscholarship program activities; b) Academic self-efficacy, and STEM interest and motivationbased on the assessments of ACE scholars; c) Qualitative measure of program effectivenessbased on: GPA of ACE scholars when compared to traditional students of similar backgroundnot supported by the ACE program; d) Impact of working hours on the ACE scholars’ academicperformance; e) Correlation between the scholarship amount and ACE scholars’ academicperformance.I. IntroductionStudents planning to major in science or engineering make up approximately 30% of allincoming college

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

groups work in teams to prepare a term paper and a presentation that focuses on acomparative assessment between two similar engineering projects, one in the United States andthe other in a foreign country with an emphasis on engineering and construction practices andsocietal, economical and environmental issues. The challenges that we faced during theimplementation of the plan and the proposed improvements to the courses are presented.Introduction and BackgroundIn today's rapidly changing society, the new generation of engineers and construction managersmust not only be equipped with advanced technical knowledge but also be able to understand theimpact that engineering solutions have on society, environment and economics in a globalperspective

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David B. Lanning

courses in the degree program. And,many seem to agree that a problem exists with numerous students not looking upon the prospectof failing a course and repeating it with the proper shame and horror that should accompany suchan event. Occasional glances through advisees’ transcript during times of course registration andacademic planning reveal the extent to which this has occurred. For years, the faculty hasdiscussed stiffening graduation requirements in an effort to help students understand that needingto repeat a course should not be taken lightly. However, a variety of obstacles to substantialchanges often present themselves, and the faculty wonders whether the effort of proposing andimplementing such changes is truly worthwhile. It is in this

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

to the development and design of wireless communication systems.2. Evaluate and select the appropriate kinds of coding and decoding schemes for constructing, detecting and filtering wireless communications signals.3. Build security into wireless communications systems and contrast ethical and legal issues in the global telecommunications industry.4. Plan, integrate and implement multiple types of Second (2G) and Third Generation (3G) wireless networks.5. Create strategic analysis software and tools to develop wireless, networks and service plans.6. Develop simulation models of the radio components of wireless systems using MATLAB, SIMULINK and its communication tools.7. Evaluate and forecast economic impact of continually advancing

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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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Kiran George

which made it a little more of a challenge.” Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education  403       +++ Author plans to incorporate the constructive suggestions from students and modify instructionsfor the CoursePedia assignment including:  Providing students with an exhaustive database and resources that they can use to search for the latest findings on the topics assigned to them;  Providing students strict format guidelines including

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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

experience enabled the interns to realize how trained civil engineers in the fieldwill have to collaborate with other members on their team. Trained civil engineers will need tomake weekly meetings with their supervisor to discuss their progress on their design and providefeedback on what they can improve. They will need to make a detailed, tentative plan that theymust follow until their deadline when the building must be constructed. The research projectcould not have been completed by one engineer because it takes teamwork and collaboration oneveryone’s part to get the project done.To obtain a quantitative assessment of the project and further improve the project in the future,an exit survey was conducted for all twelve student participants

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Jesus Acosta-Iriqui; Eniko T. Enikov

andassessment style encourages students to become more pro-active and accountable for their ownlearning, and inform experiences of living and traveling in a foreign country reinforce students’self-efficacy.Students from third cohort had similar experiences to the first one; they did not experiencedcultural and logistical difficulties as students in the second-year cohort described. Thesedifferences are almost certainty the result of varying individual experiences and perceptionsrather than actual differences in the program. Moreover, the difficulties described by returningstudents did not adversely affect their overall experiences in any meaningful way.Career goals and aspirationsHundred percent of students indicated plans to work in engineering. Some

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Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

of this paper and is described in detail.Links to Engineering was designed to link Citrus College female students in EEWIE to femaleengineers at 4-year colleges and in the industry. There were three main components of Links toEngineering. The first part was presentations and discussions by faculty and students at 4-yearuniversities. The second portion was field trips. The third portion was participation in researchprojects related to an engineering discipline.ResultsSeventeen (17) women students from Citrus College participated in the EEWIE program. Ten(10) of those students are still at Citrus College with plans to graduate from Citrus College andtransfer to a 4-year institution. Six (6) of the students transferred to 4-year universities

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Sergio Mendez; Lisa AungYong

appropriate to require students to perform this type of hands- 4 15 35 41 5 Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 508on/computational teaching module in a lecture course.7. I would like for the faculty to develop such teaching modules for other 33 39 11 17 0chemical engineering courses.8. I plan to learn more about COMSOL Multiphysics and try to perform

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Alex Edgcomb; Frank Vahid

modes but does not capitalize on theweb’s potential for interactivity. Supplemental interactive activities has been done but mayincrease the burden on the student if not accompanied by decreases in excessively-largetextbooks, class notes or Powerpoints, and other materials. Carefully planned interactive webactivities can potentially decrease the need for lengthy written materials and thus improvelearning.This paper describes several types of interactive web activities developed for an introduction toprogramming course, namely binary-to-decimal converter, interactive inheritance tree, equationplotter, swap sorter, and quick sorter. The eventual goal is to create many tens of such activities,parameterized so that they can be reused across STEM

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

Foundation (NSF) provided the BroadeningParticipation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE) program which intends toincrease the diversity of researchers in the engineering disciplines. The goal of the BRIGEprogram is to support innovative research and diversity plans that contribute to recruiting andretaining a broad representation of engineering researchers especially those from groups that areunderrepresented in the engineering population2. In 2012, the project titled “ReliabilityAssessment of Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Results for Performance Evaluation of Structuresunder Earthquakes” led by first author was funded by NSF to develop a probabilistic approach toassess the reliability of experimental results using the real-time hybrid

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

Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 192partnerships with UWT and the Institute of Technology, including UFPB, UFPE, PresbyterianMackenzie University.One important point of cooperation planning consisted in choosing students who share commoninterests with UWT faculty areas of expertise. In this specific case the area of interest is“Wireless Communications” due to the depth of experience and achievement of the ComputerEngineering staff from the Institute of Technology in this important topic.After selecting the

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

success, campus involvement and community engagement.Freshman Programs facilitated the following for the ECS scholars program: (1) enrollment ina Freshmen Year Seminar (FYS) Course that is vital to academic planning, orientation, andtransition to CSUF; this seminar offers further integration into areas of Engineering andComputer Science via a Service Learning component, (2) coordination of block-scheduling ofparticipants (3) professional development for FYS Course instructors; and (4) assessment ofall professional development programs as well as peer evaluations for instructors.e. Women in EngineeringIn 2012, ECS received funding from the Engineering Information Foundation to support a“Women in Engineering" learning community project. Nineteen

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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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Xiaomin Jin; Xiao-hua Yu; Xiang-Ning Kang; Guo-Yi Zhang

their fabrication facility. As for the research visits, the sending country pays theinternational airfare, while the host country pays for the expenses related to a short visit.• Low financial burden on the students from both sides: For some students, spending aperiod abroad is costly. Students also have to plan carefully to make their curriculum flexibleenough to allow them to be away long term and not fall behind in other courses. Our projectallows the students to get international experience without having to deal with interruptions intheir regular course sequence. The short international visit is only an option and enhancement ofthe collaboration, but it is not a necessary component.• Data accessibility around the world

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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

1, which extracted from the survey, clearly indicates students’enthusiasm towards the research.Table 1: Students’ responses on the results of the internship programQuestion: As a result of your participation in the program, how much did you learn about eachof the following? Activity Average Rating Performing research 4.69 Designing/performing an experiment 4.85 Creating a work plan 4.77 Working as a part of a team 4.85 Writing a technical report

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Jin-Lee Kim

tomeet future demands.19 Kelly proposed an approach to general education for civil engineers,which showed that sustainable development is a good theme for a civil engineering program.6Pocock et al. proposed a problem-oriented approach to incorporating sustainable design into aconstruction engineering curriculum.18 Wang shared the experience gained from developing andteaching a sustainability course by identifying sustainability knowledge areas, course planning,and lessons learned from the class. The study recommends that engineering educators need todevelop appropriate class content and effective teaching techniques to prepare students withsustainability knowledge and techniques.25 From the standpoint of the education situation,sustainability