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J. S. Shelley P.E.

172 Technology to the Rescue! Lessons learned from the forced on-line streaming of Dynamics class J. S. Shelley California State University, Fresno Antelope Valley Engineering Programs / USAF AFRL/RZSEAbstractFall semester 2008, an upper division undergraduate Dynamics class was streamed viaElluminateLive! to students on the main campus from a physically distant instructor. The coursehad been developed for lecture delivery through interactive broadcast television betweenequipped

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J. S. Burmeister; K. A. Watson

307 Spaghetti Bridges: Build, Load and Repeat J. S. Burmeister and K. A. Watson School of Engineering and Computer Science University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211AbstractThe construction and subsequent loading of a bridge made out of spaghetti has proven to be aneffective instructional tool in combining elements of materials science, mechanics (statics) andmanufacturing. This paper reports the advantages of requiring the students to repeat their designlayout with slightly different manufacturing criteria instead of just completing one

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Nebojsa Jaksic; Jeff Piquette; Melvin Druelinger; David Lehmpuhl; Helen Caprioglio; Juyun Cho; Paul Chacon; Michael Mincic

-income, first-generation collegestudents. Engle and Tinto8 address barriers to college success for low-income students. Theyclaim that “After six years, only 11 percent of low-income, first-generation students had earnedbachelor‟s degrees compared to 55 percent of their more advantaged peers.” Some of theirrecommendations include additional financial aid to students and cohort development. Engstromand Tinto9 show that the learning community model improves the persistence of low-incomeand/or first generation students to stay in college and graduate. Statistics for science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM), low-income, first generation college students have not Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering

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Johnnie Hancock

scope vendors don’t specify their scope’s bandwidth at the Nyquist frequency (fN) – butsome do. However, it is very common for vendors of waveform recorders/digitizers to specifythe bandwidth of their instruments at the Nyquist frequency. Let’s now see what can happenwhen a scope’s bandwidth is the same as the Nyquist frequency (fN).Figure 4 shows an example of a 500-MHzbandwidth scope sampling at just 1 GSa/s whileoperating in a three- or four-channel mode.Although the fundamental frequency (clock rate)of the input signal is well within Nyquist’s criteria,the signal’s edges contain significant frequency Aliasingcomponents well beyond the Nyquist frequency(fN). When you view them repetitively, the

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Gemunu Happawana; Arvind Gopi

paper is to motivate and integratestudent learning process through mathematical models and equations for design.The methodology is realized using a mathematical model of a 6x6 wheel drive tractor satisfyingthe off-road profile. The methodology is used to find the optimum co-ordinates for the center ofgravity and optimum arrangements of the middle axle wheels along the tractor. The optimaltractive efficiency is then achieved by optimizing the geometric coordinates.Educational value of the paperThis paper is basically an analysis-based learning approach to motivate and integrate studentlearning process. This approach will increase student‟s motivation because it introduces theengineering content early in the curriculum and helps them understand

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A.M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

utilizedteaching methods that were customized to how people learn most efficiently. Analysis ofVariance (ANOVA) and Pearson‟s correlation were used to study the relationship betweencontent knowledge, self efficacy, cognitive level, and critical thinking level.It was found that critical thinking and self efficacy scores are positively correlated with eachother, but neither is correlated with the student‟s course grade. In addition students who statedthat they believed they would earn an „A‟ in the first year course performed significantly betterin critical thinking. Critical thinking and self efficacy scores did not have a correlation withoverall course grades, which suggests that course grades may not be the best method for definingthe quality of a

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Eniko T. Enikov; Vasco Polyzoev; Joshua Gill

mg is the weight of the motor, L is the length of the pendulum, c is the viscous frictioncoefficient, and T is the thrust force from the propeller. Students are then asked to use feedbacklinearization which cancels out the non-linear term in the form T  mg sin   u . (2)The resulting linear system has a simple transfer function with two real poles  ( s) L  . (3) U ( s) mL s  cs 2 2Students are asked to use their knowledge

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Devlin Montfort; Shane Brown

revision is relatively simple, even when new knowledge is in contradiction to students’existing beliefs 14. Similarly, mental model transformation can be accomplished by directpresentation of contradictory information. Chi states that “…the accumulation of numerousbelief revisions eventually result[s] in the transformation of a student’s flawed mental model tothe correct model…by-and-large”14.The truly difficult type of learning, and the process that Chi theorizes accounts for studentdifficulty in developing conceptual understanding, is what Chi calls categorical shift15. Thecategories referred to in the phrase “categorical shift” are most easily understood in terms of thecognitive and perceptual processes they relate to. Piaget, a seminal

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Ding Yuan; Jude DePalma; Nebojsa Jaksic

in the future. The students that are enrolled inonly one of the classes will serve as a control group.References1. Smith, B. L., “The challenge of learning communities as a growing national movement,” Association of American Colleges and Universities Peer Review 4(1), 2001. Available: http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr- fa01/pr-fa01feature1.cfm (accessed 12/16/09)2. Harms, P. C., Mickelson, S. K., and Brumm, T. J., “Using learning community course links to bring meaning to the first-year engineering curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1653, 2001. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright

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Brittany Ballard; Nathan Barrett; Brandy Holmes; Jay McCormack

design work at intermediate and final stages ofdesign has been piloted in other forms5 with positive results. In courses with large student toinstructor ratios, a design repository provides the opportunity to evaluate and provide feedbackon student work in a timely and concise manner while still providing insights into their depth ofknowledge in design in general and in the context of their projects.Bibliography1. Szykman, S. and Sriram, R. D. (2006) Design and implementation of the Web-enabled NIST design repository.ACM Trans. Internet Technol. 6, 1, 85-116. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1125274.11252782. Bohm M, Stone R, Simpson T, and Steva E. (2008) Introduction of a data schema to support design repository.Elsevier Journal. Computer-Aided

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Wangping Sun

Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 869. Freeman, S., Crocker, J., and Swan, C. 2007. The role of small scale international service projects in engineering education: the students’ perspective. Proceedings of ASEE 2007 Annual Conference and Exposition.10. Abata, D. 2004. A successful path for engineering and engineering education. ASEE Prism Summer 2004: 62.11. Pinnell, M., Ranatunga, V., Bill, E., Aaron, P., and Schreier, C. 2007. International technical service immersions: model for developing global scientists and engineers in small to mid-size universities. Proceedings of ASEE 2007 Annual

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Maria C Sanchez; Nell Papavasiliou; Hernan Maldonado

. As mentioned before, the activities were designed and supervised by participatingfaculty members but female students from the Fresno State chapter of the Society of WomenEngineers (SWE) were on hand for all activities. They provided guidance and support whenneeded by the participants. Additionally, engineering students served as mentors to the highschool students. Frequently, the high school participants directed questions and comments to theengineering students in lieu of speaking to the lecturers in front of the entire group. Technicalspeakers consisting of engineers from local industry and engineering faculty, four extensivehands-on activities and three field trips formed the week‟s curriculum.Recruitment and Diversity of

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John M. Murray; Roger A. Greener; Heong-seok Kim; William T. Murray

for interior illumination, photovoltaicpanels, a solar hot water system, an on demand water heater, and a rain-capturing roof andcistern are included in the design, but not illustrated. S Figure 6. ENGR 1010 “Engineering in the 21st Century” Example Solar Home Floor PlanThe class of thirty-three students was subsequently partitioned in half, assigned to form self-directed teams, and asked to design and build two esthetically pleasing, 1/12-scale, functionalsolar home prototypes in three weeks. The homes, shown in Figure 7, include R-7.5 “blueboard”insulated walls, south-facing windows and clerestories made of plexiglass, tan stucco exteriors,white

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project based learning.(http://faculty.stritch.edu/ljloeffler/521/Week2/PBL/PBL.pdf)2. McTighe, J. & Wiggins, G. (2005). Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd ed. Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development.3. ABET. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs” Accessed 30 Jan. 10 4. Albanese,M. A., and Mitchell, S. (1993). Problem-based learning: A review of literature on its outcomes andimplementation issues. Acad. Med. 68: 52–81.5. Hmelo-Silver, C.E. (2004). Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn? EducationalPsychology Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering

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Craig Johnson

„effectiveness‟ of using video,in an education pedagogy sense. To address this a metric was created and planned for use inanother course (also using the foundry).Finally, the process of creating a video is time and equipment intensive. Some ancillary aspectsof video production included a momentarily clean foundry, an outstanding archive document,and some of those higher Bloom‟s Taxonomy (3) scenarios played out on the instructor.MethodologyThis project posits the use of video to accelerate and improve some basic foundry concepts andskills. Since safety is such a prominent constraint, it is covered soon and often. Commercialvideos (4) have been used during MET257 in conjunction with lab tours and demos. Butcommercial scenarios are typically different in

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Jim Fischer; Claude Kansaku

“crawl” phase in a “crawl-walk-run-fly”strategy of sending a student designed and built satellite to Mars. Since 2002-03, in affiliation withthe Oregon Space Grant Consortium (OSGC), the LaunchOIT student balloon program at OregonInstitute of Technology (OIT) has provided a channel for undergraduate research in the “E”, “T”, and“S” facets of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. This projectintentionally incorporates the “M” facet as a major component in a software engineering project.Software Engineering ComponentIn addition to an individual-based senior project, the Software Engineering Technology (SET)program at OIT requires a yearlong, team-based, junior project sequence (JP) that teaches andreinforces a

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Jack Sun; Youssef Chedid; Kaveh Hajimohammadreza; Efrain Mendoza; Silvestre Sanchez; Kinal Vachhani; James Flynn; Sharlene Katz

General Public License. The project software and related items are hostedon SourceForge, a website dedicated to source code repository and open source softwareprojects.Although five modulation schemes were mentioned in Section III, digital modulation wasultimately scrapped due to time constraints. The team decided it was best to have four completemodes rather than several incomplete modes at the end.AM pioneered the architecture used throughout the rest of the project for implementing thevarious modulation modes. It was also the first mode implemented into the GUI with therequired applications, such as power meter and S-meter. Because the design of the AM sectionwas very thorough, this implementation process was utilized in all subsequent modes.A

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Oenardi Lawanto

College Students,” College Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-9.3. Ames, C., 1992, “Classrooms: Goals, Structures, and Student Motivation,” Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 261-271.4. Wolters, C. A., Yu, S, Pintrich, P. R., 1996, “The Relation between Goal Orientation and Students’ Motivational Beliefs and Self-Regulated Learning,” Learning and Individual Differences, Vol. 8, pp. 211–238.5. Dweck, C., Leggett, E., 1988, “A Social Cognitive Approach to Motivation and Personality,” Psychological Review, Vol. 95, pp. 256-273.6. Elliot, A. J., 1999, “Approach and Avoidance Motivation and Achievement Goals,” Educational Psychologist, Vol. 34, pp. 169-189.7. Yang, C., Tsai, I, Kim, B, Cho, M

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Reza Raeisi; Sudhanshu Singh

course ECE 178, embedded systems, course has beendeveloped. This course will demonstrate soft-core processor embedded system which will beimplemented on a real time operating system over the FPGA’s. During this project, we have alsoshown how to add applications in the Linux kernels. The Ethernet connection application andsome other I/O and interrupt programming has been implemented. The scope of this project isvery vast and we have set the platform now for teaching this new approach for learningembedded systems concepts.Bibliography1. “Using an FPGA Processor Core and Embedded Linux for Senior Design Projects”- Tyson S. Hall, James O. Hamblen. IEEE International Conference on Volume, Issue, 3-4 June 2007 Page(s):33 – 34.2

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Debra Larson; Marissa Mourer

interesting conversations they had once they connected with a prospective student byphone.Bibliography1. McDonough, P. M. (2004). The School-to-College Transition: Challenges and Prospects. Washington, DC: American Council on Education.2. Young, L. D. (1991). Telemarkering as a vital part of enrollment management. Journal of College Admissions, 28-33.3. Wright, B. A. (1995). Admissions Recruitment: The First Step IN R. R. Dixon (ed.) Making Enrollment Management Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.4. Hossler, D. (1999). Effective Admissions Recruitment (p. 15-3). IN G. H. Gaither (Ed.) Promising Practices in Recruitment, Remediation, and Retention. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.5. Sedwick, S

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, Richard, "Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in College Science Education." Journal of College Science Teaching, 23(5), 286-290, 1993.6. Felder, R.M., Felder, G.N., Dietz E.J., The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Student Performance and attitudes. Journal of Engineering Education, 91 (1), 3-17, 2002.7. Fleming, N. D., “I’m Different; Not Dumb. Modes of Presentation (VARK) in the Tertiary Classroom,” in Zelmer, A., (ed.) Research and Development in Higher Education, Proceeding of the Annual Conference if the Higher Education and Research Development Society of Australia (HERDSA), Volume 18 pp. 308-313, 1995.8. Smith, K. A., Sheppard, S. D., Johnson, D. W., and Johnson, R. T., “Pedagogies

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Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

improvement, butevery comment included an observation similar to those below. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 216“I loved this class, and would take the class again if it was possible just to work on another project! Ireally liked that I could experience the "real world" by working on real projects. The practicepresentation[s] were VERY helpful. We got excellent feedback and let us make the final presentationsuperb. Also, you were very helpful!! Thanks for all your

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, Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Statistics.3. National Science Foundation (2004). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering: 2004, Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Statistics.4. Goodman Research Group (2002). Final report of the women’s experiences in college engineering (WECE) project, Cambridge, MA.5. Davis, C-S. & Finelli, C.J. (2007), Diversity and Retention in Engineering, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, v2007, n111, p63-7.6. Derlin, R.L. & McShannon, J.L. (2000), Faculty and Student Interaction and Learning Styles of Engineering Undergraduates, Retrieved May 10, 2008 from

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bicycle. It is very apparent how proud they are to have built theirown bicycle.Bibliography1. Thomas, J. W. (2000). A review of research on project based learning.(http://faculty.stritch.edu/ljloeffler/521/Week2/PBL/PBL.pdf)2. McTighe, J. & Wiggins, G. (2005). Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd ed. Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development.3. ABET. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs” Accessed 30 Jan. 10 4. Albanese,M. A., and Mitchell, S. (1993). Problem-based learning: A review of literature on its outcomes andimplementation issues. Acad. Med. 68: 52–81.5. Hmelo-Silver, C.E. (2004). Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn? EducationalPsychology Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 Proceedings of the

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Said Shakerin; Camilla Saviz

Oreovicz, F. S. Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, NY, 1993.2. ExCEEd Teaching Workshop Seminars, 2009. http://www.asce.org/exceed3. Mironer, A., “A Couple of Fluid Mechanics Teasers,” Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference, Session# 3268.4. Parker, P., “Significant Learning Experiences in the Fluid Mechanics Classroom,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEEAnnual Conference, Paper # 2006-1331.5. Welch, R. and Klosky, J., “An Online Database and User Community for Physical Models in the EngineeringClassroom,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference, Paper # 2006-1106.Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV ConferenceCopyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education6. Shapiro, A. H. “Bathtub

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Student Outcomes" , Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA: ASEE, 2008.2 King, Paul H., ―Capstone Design and ABET Program Outcomes in the U. S.‖, European Society for Engineering Education, TN 37235-163.3 Helbling, Jim, David Lanning, Ron Madler, Angela Beck, and Patric McElwain. ―Integrating Communications into Team-Taught Senior Design Courses‖, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Washington DC: ASEE, 2005.4 Catalano, George D.. "Senior capstone design and ethics: A bridge to the professional world.", Science and Engineering Ethics

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

efforts.Bibliography 1. Cone, C., Chadwick, S., Gally, T., Helbling, J., and Shaffer, R. (2005). "Interdisciplinary Freshman Experience," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 12-15, Portland, Oregon. 2. Helbling, J., Lanning, D., Madler, R., Beck, A., and McElwain, R. (2005). “Integrating Communications into Team-Taught Senior design Courses,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 12-15, Portland, Oregon. 3. Helbling, J., Lanning, D., Madler, R., Marriott, D., and Siebold, K. (2007). "Impact of New Facilities on Engineering Student Outcomes," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 24-27, Honolulu, Hawaii. 4. Coffin, L.F. Jr. (1954). A

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format, and previous history of taking online courses.Question Count PercentageWhat is (are) your primary reason(s) for taking this class online? Schedule conflict with regular class 12 57.1% Convenience 12 57.1% Commute (I live far from Cañada College) 8 38.1% I prefer online over face-to-face 3 14.3% Other Reasons 6 28.6