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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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Edwin Odom; Don Blackketter; Larry Stauffer; Steven Beyerlein

. The student-generated model shown inFigure 1 also includes technology enhanced spaces for team meetings and collaboration. FIGURE 1. Proposed Design of UI Engineering Student Service CenterThis project has underscored the realization that successful operation requires a coordinatedeffort of all engineering departments in the College. Furthermore, the delivery of center servicesis envisioned as a partnership between well-prepared, upper-division students from alldepartments and student-centered professional staff. In this way, service learning opportunitiesfor upper-division students coexist with institutional recruiting, academic career planning,counseling, and tutoring functions for lower-division students. This presentation will

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

concepts for both aging andcurrent aircraft. The students are introduced to a broad range of SHM techniques, e.g. vibration Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 319based, wave propagation based, acoustic based, and impedance based, as well as several sensorand actuator technologies. The course materials necessarily must remain simplified forundergraduate engineering students, who in particular may not have been yet exposed to many ofthe background prerequisite concepts. A one week laboratory on the

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Devlin Montfort; Shane Brown

331 Conceptual Change and Understanding in Engineering Education Devlin Montfort, Shane Brown Washington State UniversityIntroductionIn the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education there is a tradition ofevidence showing that students – despite their abundant procedural knowledge andcomputational skills – lack understanding of fundamental physical phenomena. Students can beacademically successful without internalizing the meaning of the problems and calculations theycomplete. For example, after an introductory physics course most students will

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Amelito Enriquez; Kate Disney; Erik Dunmire

88 The Dismantling of the Engineering Education Pipeline Amelito Enriquez, Kate Disney, Erik Dunmire Cañada College, Redwood City, CA / Mission College, Santa Clara, CA / College of Marin, Kentfield, CAAbstractCommunity colleges play a critical role in helping to produce engineers that are urgently neededin order to maintain America’s global technological competitiveness. Community colleges serveas an important pipeline for large numbers of ethnically diverse transfer students who pursueengineering degrees in four-year institutions. A few states, such as Maryland and

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Marilyn A. Dyrud

deemed undesirable and therefore unworthy of life.This paper begins with background information on teaching the Holocaust and examinesengineering professionalism during the Third Reich. It then offers snapshots of the roles ofGerman and American firms and ends with pedagogical suggestions for incorporating the contentinto engineering and technology classrooms. A note on pedagogy: this material comprises asection of ―Engineering, Business, and the Holocaust,‖ an upper-division elective at OregonInstitute of Technology. Professors who have limited time could present the firm snapshots andthe information on professionalism as individual cases. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

personnel is expensive.Replacement costs reportedly run one to one and a half times the annual salary of the individualbeing replaced5. Faced with pending retirements and the difficulty in retaining personnel recruitedfrom outside the region, industry, government organizations, local communities, and the educationcommunity have banded together to focus on math, science, engineering, and technology education,and formed (in 2002) the Math, Science, Engineering, and Technology (MSET) Consortium toincrease the college going student population and to educate and graduate engineers locally. Theinitiative is known locally as Homegrown6.The Need for Engineering Education in the Antelope ValleyThe need for engineering education in the Antelope Valley is

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Wangping Sun

76 An Overview of Engineering Education in the US under a Globalization Environment Wangping Sun Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering & Technology Oregon Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper reviews the current trends of engineering education in the US under globalizationenvironment. It summarizes the requirements for global engineers, and lists the available programs thateducate these engineers. It recapitulates the benefits, challenges and efforts to establish a sound globallearning environment for

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Maria C Sanchez; Nell Papavasiliou; Hernan Maldonado

andsurveys. The authors intend to perform further investigation to verify the effect of the summercamp on recruitment and retention.IntroductionThe GIRLS SEE summer camp was conceived in response to the latent concern for the smallnumbers of female engineering students which would translate into low numbers of females inthe labor force in technology areas. A study showed that by 2007 the percentage ofundergraduate female engineering students had decreased to only 17 percent1. At Fresno Stateonly 14.2 % of the students receiving an engineering degree during the academic year 2007-2008were female2. In addition, as seen in Figure 1, retention of first year female engineering studentsat Fresno State is at its lowest level since Fall 2002

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Amelito Enriquez

% of Latino studentscompleted a degree or certificate within six years, compared to 27% of Caucasian students, and33% of Asian students.For Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, lower success and retentionrates for minority students are observed at both community college and university levels Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 133resulting in underrepresentation of minority groups in these professions. For instance, whilecomprising almost 25% of the U.S. population, African Americans

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Jim Fischer; Claude Kansaku

74 Work in Progress: An Applied Mathematics/Software Engineering Co-Development Project to Dynamically Predict High-Altitude Balloon Position Using Quasi Real-Time Data Jim Fischer, Claude Kansaku Mathematics Department/Computer Systems Engineering Technology Department Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionThis paper describes work in progress of a software engineering/mathematics multi-disciplinarydevelopment project in support of student ballooning. The National Space Grant Student SatelliteProgram1 incorporates high-altitude balloon launches as the

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Oenardi Lawanto

355 Understanding the Correlation Between Goal Orientation and Self-Efficacy for Learning and Performance in an Engineering Design Activity in Grades 9-12 Oenardi Lawanto Department of Engineering and Technology Education Utah State UniversityAbstractThis study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between students’ goal orientation andself-efficacy for learning and performance while engaged in an engineering design activity ingrades 9-12. Goal orientation includes students’ intrinsic (IGO) and extrinsic (EGO

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

121 Maturing of a Multidisciplinary Cohort of STEM Scholars: Year Three Nebojsa Jaksic, Jeff Piquette, Melvin Druelinger, David Lehmpuhl, Helen Caprioglio, Juyun Cho, Paul Chacon, and Michael Mincic Colorado State University - PuebloAbstractThis work addresses the third-year efforts of Colorado State University-Pueblo faculty inretaining a cohort of low-income students majoring in science, technology, engineering, ormathematics (STEM). Originally, 20 in-state freshmen with demonstrated financial need andsufficiently high GPAs (3.0) were awarded

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Paul van Bloemen Waanders; Andrew Kean; Glen Thorncroft; Brian Self

218 Work In Progress: Model Eliciting Activity for an Undergraduate Thermal Measurements Laboratory Paul van Bloemen Waanders, Andrew Kean, Glen Thorncroft, Brian Self California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoAt Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo our undergraduate engineering education is designed to preparestudents for industry. The rise of technology in modern engineering demands a shift in the wayundergraduates are prepared for the modern workplace. Engineering problems should focus onthe development of analytical models that describe a system. These models, once made, can beused to

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Stuart Kellogg

157 Why Do They Come, Why Do They Not Return Stuart Kellogg South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractDeclining interest in engineering in high school students exacerbated by traditionally high studentdropout rates in engineering have led to steep enrollment decreases in many engineeringprograms. While there is substantial research evidence to the contrary, many engineering facultymembers continue to view the attrition positively, believing that most students who leaveengineering do so either because of poor academic preparation, a lack of commitment

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for Future and Current Female Engineering Students” Maria C. Sanchez, Nell Papavasilou, & Hernan Maldonado ...................................................................... 6“Use of Video in Casting Education”* Craig Johnson............................................................................................................................................ 18“Sustainable Design: Meeting the Thunder Beings of the West” John M. Murray, Roger A. Greener, Heong-seok Kim, & William T. Murray ........................................ 25Session EE: Electrical Engineering and Technology“Curricular Innovations for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course” Reza Raeisi & Sudhanshu Singh

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Amelito Enriquez

areas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others.One reason for this slow adoption of online teaching pedagogies in US engineering programs canbe attributed to the perception by some engineering faculty and administrators that onlinecourses are not equivalent in content and rigor when compared to the traditional, face-to-facecourses. This paper presents the results of a study comparing the performance of on-campus andonline students in a sophomore-level Circuits Analysis course in a public two-year institution. Inthis introductory course for all engineering majors, content is delivered simultaneously to on-campus students and online students (dual delivery mode) using a combination of Tablet PCfunctionality

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Craig Johnson

foundry operations. Many students are reticent toapproach and use the large equipment. There is also a quality issue (the quality of the sanditself) of interest.The videos were created over the spring and summer of 2009. The first opportunity to use thevideos was in a „Production Technology‟ (MET345) course in the fall of 2009. The videos wereincluded into the existing curricula.During MET345 Production Technology (5), the foundry is used to cast metal propellers for toyaircraft. About 500 toys are made each year for the holidays. Each toy is made of donated woodand metal foundry parts. The „airplane‟ has wood fuselage, wing, tail and wheels, with a castmetal propeller (advertising CWU and our Industrial and Engineering Technology Department

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

their junior year, students begin a two-year design sequence intended to integrate previouscoursework and enhance professional communication skills. The first two courses, ENGR 3045Engineering Design Lab I and ENGR 3095 Engineering Design Lab II, focus on systemsthinking, case studies, effective communication, new technologies, project management, andsmall-to-medium scale, group-focused design projects which are reviewed, simulated, built,tested, documented, and presented in class. The senior year design courses ENGR 4025Integrated Engineering Design Lab I, and ENGR 4085 Integrated Engineering Design Lab IIfocus on student-defined medium to large-scale design projects, which may involve cooperationwith industry. Projects are presented to

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Johnnie Hancock

for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 67Visual sine wave comparison testsFigure 11 shows the simplest and most intuitive comparative test – the visual sine wave test. Thewaveform shown in Figure 11a is a single-shot capture of a 1-GHz sine wave using an Agilent 1-GHz bandwidth scope sampling at 4 GSa/s. This scope has a sample-rate-to-bandwidth ratio of4:1 using non-interleaved ADC technology. The waveform shown in Figure 11b is a single-shotcapture of the same 1-GHz sine wave using a competitive 1-GHz bandwidth scope sampling at20 GSa/s. This scope has a

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Said Shakerin; Camilla Saviz

-mathematical treatment of the subject with descriptions of several home-made apparatus forexperimentation. It was published in the Amateur Scientist section of the magazine.8. Lugt, H. J., Vortex Flow in Nature and Technology, Wiley, 1983. A classic source that covers all aspects ofvortex flows. The use of mathematics is minimal and the book is written for general reader who is interested in Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 293science.9. Cope, W. “The Bathtub Vortex,” American Scientist, Vol. 71

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Gemunu Happawana; Arvind Gopi

245 Six by Six Terrain Vehicle for Optimal Mass, Geometric Configuration and Tractive Efficiency Gemunu Happawana, Arvind Gopi Associate professor/Graduate student Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Fresno, CAAbstractThis paper presents a new design methodology for determining the optimal mass, geometricconfiguration and wheel power distribution of a 6x6 terrain vehicle, in order to provide thevehicle with optimized traction. The educational aspect of this

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Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

for embedded system education. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Research and Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan.6. Hadgraft, R., Goricanec, J. (2007). Student engagement in project-based learning. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ASEE, ISBN: 0-87823-193-5.7. Wooden, J and Jamison, S. (1997). Wooden: A lifetime of observation and reflections on and off the court. McGraw-Hill New York.8. Nater, S. Gallimore, R, and Walton, B. (2005). You haven’t taught until they have learned: John Wooden’s teaching principles and practices. Fitness Information Technology, Inc9. Jackson, P. (2003). The Last Season. Hyperion. Proceedings of