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Edwin Odom; Don Blackketter; Larry Stauffer; Steven Beyerlein

Less Common FunctionsRecruiting High School OutreachAdvising Career Planning/PlacementTutoring Student Organizations/Leadership DevelopmentScholarships International ProgramsAcademic Standards MentoringTransfer Articulation Honors CoursesDiversity Programs Freshman Programs/OrientationA common theme of all these engineering services centers seems to be elevation of learnerefficacy, especially among prospective and pre-engineering students. Components of learnerefficacy that need special attention are (1) realistic life

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Craig Johnson

, the use and effectiveness of video in a modified „traditional‟ introductory castingcourse is explored. First, specific video equipment is listed, and the creation and editingprocesses described. Then the videos were used in casting classes, and the students wereallowed access outside of class.A positive educational impact due to the videos was evidenced by instructor and studentfeedback. A casting operations metric was presented, with measures including time-on-taskanalysis. A more rigorous pedagogical use and assessment of educational impact is planned for aclass in the spring of 2010.IntroductionMotivation for this project was to improve both the education experience and the speed at whichstudents would acquire necessary skills and concepts

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Amelito Enriquez

resources and skills needed for college success. Many of theworkshops planned for the second week were either cancelled or made optional as a result of amid-program focus group that indicated that students wanted to devote more time to studyingmath, and less on these workshops.2.2 Profile of 2009 Summer Math Jam StudentsThe 2009 Summer Math Jam recruited 40 participants, with 34 of them successfully completingthe program. Table 4 is a summary of the demographics of the 2009 Summer Math Jam 34participants who completed the program. The gender distribution of 64.7% female and 35.3%male is very similar to the College’s overall gender distribution (63% female, 34% male, and 3%unknown). The biggest ethnic group is Hispanic representing 61.8% of Math Jam

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Kurt Colvin; Jim Kish

, manufacturing process planning, tooling, materials, and thedesign/build process. This paper gives a status report on the development of a course that teachesengineering undergraduates the process of building a bicycle frame. Learning opportunities aredescribed and methods and equipment are briefly explained. This is a work in progress.IntroductionThe intent of this course is to teach relevant engineering topics through a project-based course1 thatengages and motivates students. Each student enrolled in the course plans, designs, fabricates andinspects a custom-fit bicycle frame. The course was initiated by the authors after a discussion on thebenefits to engineering students of the process and skills required to build a bicycle frame.The course

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Allison Kipple; Dieter Otte

compensation for participating in the course. Inaddition, a course coordinator has overall responsibility for the course and tracks students’progress throughout the semester. The result has been an improvement in instructor motivationand attitudes, the quality of student products, and student preparation for successful graduatecareers.Overall Course StructureAn example overall course structure follows. Each instructor has a three-week module to discussa specific topic related to sustainability at the graduate level. The remaining weeks are devotedto an overview of sustainability, soft skill development, and project presentations. • Weeks 1-2: Introduction; Panel discussion: “What is Sustainability?”; Student project selection and planning

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J. S. Shelley P.E.

normally used for this class, the studio classroom wasvandalized and the ability to broadcast lectures compromised. The time estimate for repair of thebroadcast room was about two weeks. (Actual restoration of capability took more than a month.) Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 173Contingency plans existed for the loss of communication between sites, but not for extendedperiods without the ability to record lecture. So, a method to deliver content, temporarily, tostudents 250 miles apart in a fair and

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

25 Sustainable Design: Meeting the Thunder Beings of the West John M. Murray1, Roger A. Greener1, Heong-seok Kim1, William T. Murray2 1 Integrated Engineering Department, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, 84721, USA. 2 University of Colorado, College of Architecture and Planning, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.AbstractIn the American West, sustaining the life support system for future generations impliesacknowledgement that humanity is a part of the natural world rather than apart from it.1-10 In thiscontext, we are all related: the two-legged nations

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Debra Larson; Marissa Mourer

university students often begins as early as the middle schoolyears with admissions offices beginning dialogues about college entrance requirements andpathways to student success1. It is not until the high school years, and in particular, the juniorand senior years that telephone recruitment campaigns are used by colleges and universities. Aphone-a-thon is one such telemarketing effort. It is best described as “the planned use of thetelephone as a recruitment, follow up, and retention medium in conjunction with traditionalrecruitment programs to increase the yield rate from inquiries to admits to enrolled students inthe most cost efficient and timely manner”2. Although phone-a-thon efforts typically originateout of the institution’s admissions

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Brian Meadows; Charles Judah; Michael Berman; Derrick Jones; Ryan Rawson; David Alvarez; James Flynn; Sharlene Katz

bandwidth to identify possible interfering signalsAt the onset of the project it was necessary to develop a plan and a timeline for accomplishingthese specifications. It was decided that the project should first be broken down into threefunctional areas called the ground station, the link, and the onboard controller. These three areaswere further broken down into subtasks that could be handled by individual group members. Forexample, the onboard system was broken down into telemetry sensors, GPS, image capture,spectrum display, and the actual controller itself. Once these tasks were determined, the projectmanager assigned tasks to the group members and they in turn decided on an approach toaccomplish the tasks.Telemetry SensorsThe UAV was required

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James Helbling

pursuethe design and fabrication of a flight capable vehicle.It is important to note that every component included in the flight test article must be verifiedanalytically and documented via a ‗pre-released‘ drawing package prior to componentfabrication. A radio controlled (RC) flight control system is then incorporated into the design to 300allow for a remotely piloted flight test operation. The team is required to prepare a formal flighttest plan including a ‗go/no-go‘ list similar to what would be used for a UAV flight test inindustry.This DBF competition is unique in that it involves competing designs being devised by teamswithin the same course at the

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

American Society for Testing and Materials) standards, and to use state-of-the-artequipment to perform testing and post-failure analyses. Detailed laboratory methodology isrequired, such as taking dimensions, specimen surface preparation and cleaning, strain gageplacement, test planning, and interpretation of results. Fracture surface evaluation for variousmodes of failure, using the scanning electron microscope (SEM), is emphasized in many of thelaboratory sessions.It should be noted that laboratory experiences are critical to achieving ABET accreditation,especially for the ABET plan as written by the engineering faculty at the Prescott campus ofERAU. However, since this course is not a required course, but an elective course, it can onlyserve in

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Wangping Sun

effectiveness 21. Step 1. Identify the need or opportunity Step 2. Create a Faculty/Industry focus group Step 3. Define the initiative. Step 4. Create the Overall Assessment Design Matrix: define the goal, tasks, competencies, and outcome metrics. Step 5. Design of assessment tools. a. Pre-survey b. Formal evaluations c. Post-survey Step 6. Analysis of data and recommendationsC. Financial support from the universitySome universities provided financial support and made ambitious plan to prepare the students forglobalization. At Georgia Tech, a program was launched in the fall of 2005 with a $3 millioncommitment from the president. The goal is

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

will provide adefined action plan for obtaining a college degree. Such a program will provide a destination forstudents who cannot afford to leave the area or who do not desire to leave for various reasons.The poor University of California/California State University preparedness rate amongst theregion’s high school graduates creates a necessity for partnering with the region’s community Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 196colleges. Dr. Les Uhazy, Dean of Math, Science

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., P.E. and Jim Kish Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo / Kish FabricationAbstractThe common safety bicycle design first appeared in Brittan in the 1870s. In the 130 years since,engineers and craftsmen have created hundreds of new bicycle designs, fabrication methods,materials and components. However, the simplistic diamond frame design has survived, is stillcommercially available and fully functional. The bicycle itself provides a rich learning platform inwhich to illustrate topics such as design, manufacturing process planning, tooling, materials, and thedesign/build process. This paper gives a status report on the development of a course that teachesengineering undergraduates the process of building a bicycle frame. Learning

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Maria C Sanchez; Nell Papavasiliou; Hernan Maldonado

, Assessment, and Planning at California State University, http://csufresno.edu/irap/data_research 3. Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning at California State University, report prepared by Hongtao Yue, 12/07/09 4. Burkett, S., Small, C., Rossetti, C., Hill, B., Gattis, C., “A Day Camp for Middle School Girls to Create a STEM Pipeline”, Proceedings of the Annual Conference & Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 5. Glover, J. R., Ruchhoeft, J. L., Trenor, J. M., Long, S. A., Claydon, F. J., “Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence (GRADE) Camps: An Innovative Recruiting Strategy at the University of Houston to Increase Female Representation in Engineering

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Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

than a grade is at stake, and team conflict resolution in real time.As an example, a student team made up of six seniors worked for a local Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) manufacturer to develop a plan for their new campus. Initially, the students visited the currentlocation for a tour. This was followed by the students creating a Statement of Work as learned in theirproject management class. This was discussed with the client and then expanded to include descriptionsof tasks, deliverables, and a work breakdown structure. The students spent the remaining seven weeks ofthe quarter developing a facilities solution that took into account the company’s manufacturingprocesses, economic constraints, management needs, work flow, inventory methodology

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Marilyn A. Dyrud

documented evidence dates to 1915, and by 1920,his beliefs were sufficiently developed to announce them to the world via a series of articles inthe weekly Dearborn Independent, a Ford-owned newspaper. The 91 tracts were based on TheProtocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an acknowledged forgery that details the Jews‘ plans forworld domination.28To ensure wide dissemination, Ford employees tucked copies of the newspaper in the glove boxof each new vehicle as it rolled off the assembly line.29 Eventually, the articles wereanthologized in four volumes as The International Jew, allowing some two million readers30 aglimpse of Ford‘s peculiar view of history as driven by fanatical Zionists.28The International Jew made its way to Germany in the early

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Amelito Enriquez

5923. Zhang, D. (2005). Interactive multimedia-based e-learning: A study of effectiveness. American Journal of Distance Education 19(3):149-62.24. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning (2009). Evaluation and Policy Development. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, Washington, D.C.25. Branoff, & T., Weibe, E. (2009). Face-to-Face, Hybrid, or Online?: Issues Faculty Face Redesigning an Introductory Engineering Graphics Course, Engineering Design Graphics Journal 73(1):25-31.26. Blicblau, A.S. (2006). Online Delivery Management for Teaching and Learning (EJ831917). European Journal of Engineering Education, 31(2):237-246.27. Moore, M. G

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Amelito Enriquez; Kate Disney; Erik Dunmire

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Stuart Kellogg

the respondent left. A secondaryquestion is also planned capture information on missing majors of interest. Indeed, commentswere generally positive and are probably best summed up by one student who wrote “I loved theschool of Mines! I wish I could have stayed but I decided to switch my major to math andsecondary education.” Figure 8. Factors that Influenced Students to Discontinue EnrollmentStudent perceptions regarding curriculum and instruction and campus life are shown below inFigures 9 and 10. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education

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Said Shakerin; Camilla Saviz

complete a questionnaire on all 3 modules before the class discusses any ofthem. The class discussion will focus on two of the three modules, and the students will beasked to submit revised answers about all three modules after the class discussion. We anticipatethat the Fountain Bench will be used frequently in the fluids lab to enhance students’ learningand at events held for K-12 students and the general public to show them how beautiful andinteresting fluid flows can be!AcknowledgementsThe Committee on Academic Planning and Development at the University of the Pacificprovided funding for materials and equipment. We thank Adrian Avila for securing materialsfrom different sources and for fabricating the apparatus.References1. Wankat, P.C. and