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Theory COMSOL Theory COMSOL % Difference % Difference (cm/s) (cm/s) (Pa) (Pa)Artery 30.0 30.1 0.333 1.080 1.084 0.370Arteriole 0.780 0.782 0.256 1.080 1.082 0.185Capillary 0.096 0.096 0.000 1.080 1.080 0.000For each result presented in Table I, COMSOL Multiphysics mesh refinement was set to‘Normal’. (The students are taught the necessity of a mesh refinement, but due to

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project 1 (from 0 to 100%)?4. What was the percentage of team member 2's contribution to project 1 (from 0 to 100%)?5. What was the percentage of team member 3's contribution to project 1 (from 0 to 100%)?The last three questions of the project participation questionnaire allowed not only to include astudent’s level of participation as he/she perceived and reported it, but also to take intoconsideration the other two team members’ perception of that student’s participation level intheir team. This unique approach to assessment of participation level in teamwork was useful forthe analysis of the relationship between participation level in teamwork and academicperformance.AnalysisFor each student the average of their participation level for each

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Matthew Adle; Justin Bostwick; Kyle Graves; Synjin Hipolito; Yong Gan

, C.G.; Antonietti, M., Mesoporous materials by templating of liquid crystalline phases, Adv. Mater. 1997, 9, 431–436.10. Goltner, C.G.; Henke, S.; Weibenberger, M.C.; Antonietti, M., Mesoporous silica from lyotropic liquid crystal polymer templates, Angew. Chem. 1998, 110, 633–636.11. Kramer, E.; Forster, S.; Goltner, C.; Antonietti, M., Synthesis of nanoporous silica with new pore morphologies by templating the assemblies of ionic block copolymers, Langmuir, 1998, 14, 2027–2031.12. Goltner, C.G.; Berton, B.; Kramer, E.; Antonietti, M., Nanoporous silicas by casting the aggregates of amphiphilic block copolymers: The transition from cylinders to lamellae and vesicles, Adv. Mater. 1999, 11, 395–398.13. Han, B.H

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

insights of problem-based learningPBL 13.Problem based learning has a long background in medicine education, nursing education and laweducation, considering that problem-solving process in these fields is a routine practice andstudents should be prepared to address critical situations in which expert knowledge need to beconvoyed with creativity and ability to transfer knowledge to practical action. In these areasproblems are focused rather than projects. Problem-Based Learning as a general model wasdeveloped in medical education in the early 1970's and since that time it has been refined andimplemented in many medical schools. The most extensive application of the PBL in medicineeducation is in the first two years of medical science curricula

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

instructor’smodule for use in four-year universities and community colleges. This module will preparefaculty to successfully implement COINS in order to enhance student learning, attract minorityand non-traditional students to engineering, increase retention, and stimulate interest byproviding real-world examples that better prepare students for upper division curriculum and forthe challenges that they will face on the job.The ultimate goal of this proposal is aimed at enhancing civil and construction engineeringcurricula, using an innovative learning approach that combines simulation and project-basedlearning in order to better prepare students to meet the ABET 2000 requirements.Bibliography1. Aaron, S., Crocket, J., Morrish, D., Basualdo, C

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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

memory and a new programming environment15-17. Moreover, it offers a microSD card slot which can add up to 32GB extra storage space. A USB host port and a Linuxoperating system bring allow greater flexibility in expanding the robot‟s capabilities. Forexample, a wireless connection can be achieved through a Wi-Fi dongle instead of a Bluetoothconnection. Consequently, the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 became a possible choice forupgrading the current lab to a new platform. Currently, most of the online evaluations on the newEV3s come from either technical reviewers18-22 or customers (e.g. parents23). How collegestudents perceive this new device is still unknown. According to the well-known ABETCriterion 3, Student Outcomes k, engineering graduates

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to succeed in these fields.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE 1003589. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 304material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.Bibliography1. Chubin, D., May, G. S. & Babco, E. L. Diversifying the engineering workforce. J. Eng. Educ. 94, 73

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Nebojsa Jaksic

the ideas and decides which three ideas to recommend for further consideration.Curricular ContextAt our institution, there are two undergraduate engineering programs: industrial engineering andmechatronics. Apart from disciplinary courses emphasizing design, students from both programsare required to take a two course sequence in their senior year: the Senior Seminar (two semester-credits) and the Senior Design Project (three semester-credits). In the Senior Seminar coursestudents are introduced to some general design ideation concepts like brainstorming, brainwriting,collaborative sketching, morphological analysis, transformational design using mind-mapping,design by analogy, TRIZ, and the S-field theory. In the Senior Design Project course

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Marissa Buell; Nehad Dababo; Rene Figueroa; Peter Moala; Amelito Enriquez; Kanjun Bai; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen; Kwok-Siong Teh; Hamid Shahnasser; Wenshen Pong; Hao Jiang

. Vandewalle, in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO), 2011 7th International Conference on, 2011), p. II.2. R.A. Amarin, K. B. Sundaram, A. Weeks, and I. Batarseh, in Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2011 IEEE, 2011), p. 792.3. J.P. Holdren and E. Lander, (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Washington, DC. , 2012).4. H. Jiang, D. Lan, D. Lin, J. Zhang, S. Liou, H. Shahnasser, M. Shen, M. R. Harrison, and S. Roy, in 34 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBC2012, San Diego, 2012), p. 1675.5. H. Jiang, B. Lariviere, D. Lan, J. Zhang, J. Wang, R. Fechter, M. Harrison, and S. Roy, in Biomedical Wireless Technologies

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

CLaaS vLab configurations is the cost of anexpensive text book. The business model assumes that academic institutions will develop(setup/configure) vLabs with specific learning objectives prior to the start of a semester and thenreserve vLab space in the CLaaS portal based on expected enrollment for the course(s) to betaught during a semester. It is anticipated that institutions will have the ability to pass the cost ofvLabs on the students in the form of a lab fee.ConclusionAdvances in virtualization technology have provided academic institutions with opportunities todeliver computer science education using innovative techniques. These opportunities havebrought with them both change and conflict. Many instructors have embraced the chance

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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

and without the incorporation of actuator delay. The ground motion used inthis simulation is the 1994 Northridge earthquake recorded by USC in Beverly Hills with a peakground acceleration of 0.4158 g. The delay incorporated is 3 ms at the first story and 3 ms at thesecond story. The structure has the natural frequencies of 3.88 rad/s and 10.17 rad/s. Thestructure is assumed to have Rayleigh viscous damping of 2% for both the first and second story.Figure (2a) and Figure (2c) represent the command vs. measured displacement at the first andsecond story, respectively; and Figure (2b) and Figure (2d) represent displacement response errorat the first and second story, respectively. The maximum displacement error is 20.5% for the firststory and

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Bhaskar Sinha; Pradip Dey; Gordon Romney; Mohammad Amin; Debra Bowen

and the prevention of data loss. This ensured a safe environmentpreventing attacks that are costly to any business and cause downtime needed to restore thesystem, or hours spent contacting the credit card companies and customers to inform them of thesecurity breach. The implemented POS system and the secured wireless network are shown inFigure 5.At the beginning of this project, EazyToyz had a functioning website that supported purchases.Upon reviewing the POS process and website it was evident that it was not secure by the missing“lock” in the URL block, and the missing “s” after HTTP. Once payments via PayPal wereimplemented online sales immediately increased as customers gained confidence when makingsecure purchases. As a matter of fact

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). Student success in college: Creating conditions that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.4. Kuh, G.D., Cruce, T.M, Shoup, R., Kinzie, J., & Gonyea, R.M. (2008). Unmasking the Effects of Student Engagement on First-Year College Grades and Persistence. Journal of Higher Education, 79 (5), 540-563.5. Chickering A.W. and Gamson, A.F. Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. Racine, WI: The Johnson Foundation, Inc., 1987.6.. Tinto, V. (1990). Principles of effective retention. Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 2, 35-487. Upcraft, M. L. & Stephens, P. S. (1999). Teaching and today’s changing first-year students. In M. S. Hunter & T. Skipper (Eds.), Solid foundations: Building

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

to have an individual, dedicated“virtual” computer on which to experiment and complete a laboratory assignment withoutmodifying, if desired, the host “physical” computer and its resources11. Operating systemvirtualization has been a great facilitator at SOEC in the teaching of computer science,information technology and security courses6,10. A physical, hypervisor host machine has thecapability of running multiple operating systems concurrently, each of which is a guest machineor virtual machine (VM)12. Examples of a Hypervisor executing as an application are: 1)VMware Workstation under the Windows 8 O/S; 2) Parallels under the Mac OS X, or c) OracleVirtualBox on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Virtual Labs (VL). Lab assignments using VMshave

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Fariborz Tehrani; Nell Papavasiliou; Frederick Nelson; Carol Bohlin; Mara Brady

awareness was a movie clip viewed in aclassroom setting by a select group of student respondents. Students participating in that measurewere asked to write tag(s) for the clip. Their tags were then evaluated for technical orengineering thought process and terminology. The written survey consisted of four sections;personal information, course characteristics, plans and expectations, and engineering literacy(Table 7).The personal information section offered checkboxes to standardize student answers. Theselection options provided for ‘Year in School’ were Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior,Graduate, and Other. Grade Point Average (GPA) was broken down into multiple ranges thatcould be selected. The categories offered were; Below 2.0, 2.0-2.49, 2.5

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Course The Mini Rose Float Project," In 5th First Year Engineering Experience Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. Retrieved from http://www.fyee.org/fyee2013/papers/1046.pdf2. Landis, R.B., “Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to a Rewarding Career,” 3rd ed. Discovery Press, 2007, 38-39.3. S.A. Sorby & B.J. Baartmans, “The Development and Assessment of a Course for Enhancing 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills of First Year Engineering Students,” Journal of Engineering Education, 89(3), 301–307, 2000.4. K. Kadam, S. Sahasrabudhe, & S. Iyer, “Improvement of Mental Rotation Ability Using Blender 3-D,” in 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 2012, 60–66.5. N. Martín -Dorta, J. L. Saorín, and M

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

performance tracking, academic support resources,and professional development programming, along with program guidance and support from arange of faculty and staff members, scholarship students are retained at higher rates and earntheir degrees in fewer semesters than the college average. This paper describes our integratedscholarship program involving multiple cohorts of students funded through a variety of financialstreams including individual and corporate donors, and a National Science Foundation S-STEMgrant. From the centralized scholarship application and selection process to the tracking andmentoring processes, we will show how institutionalizing the process has allowed us to attractadditional donors, better support our scholarship students to

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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

eachyear and the courses to be used for their assessment. The assessment plan also specifies theinstrument(s) to be used for assessment. The assessment plan, its findings and recommendationsare documented and reported annually in a Program Annual Review (PAR). The PAR reports areentered and archived in a web assessable central system known as AMS (Task streamAccountability Management System). In 2008, National University acquired the AMS system tosupport the assessment process. AMS provides a mechanism for tracking recommendations,action plans, and results from year to year. The Curriculum Map, Multiyear Assessment Plan, aswell as all assessment findings and recommendations are archived in the AMS system. The PARreport is reviewed by the Chair and

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

, our pilot offering of “Pattern Recognition” has been a challenging but rewardingexperience. As our next step, we plan to leverage on our current experience in teaching suchmultidisciplinary class and develop and offer a course on “Applied Data Analysis” which is tailored fora heterogeneous Engineering student body.Bibliography1. Joachim S, Petra BS. Thinking in design teams-an analysis of team communication. Design Studies 2002;23:473-96.2. Williams R. The Challenge of Multidisciplinary Education for Undergradutes. MIT Faculty NewsLetter 2007;19.3. Hendrickson CT. Encouraging Multi-Disciplinary Education and Inter-disciplinary Research. Third National Congress on Civil Engineering Education; 2001; Houston,Texas: American Society of

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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

year.Failure rates. The first is a comparison of failure rates between a traditional pair of sections of357 taught by Dr. Staley in S '12, vs the high-efficiency sections he taught in F'12-F'13. 357 is anotoriously difficult class, and the mastery model makes it even harder. The failure rate in thetraditional sections was 30%, which is not rare for difficult CS courses. Average failure rates forthe 4 terms (14 sections) thus far taught under the inverted model were 25%. These data mayonly be taken as rough indications, as the inverted model used somewhat less challengingprojects than the in-person S'12 course, and the mastery model that was introduced in S'12tended to produce a small but significant body of repeat failing students in the following

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..................................................................................................................... 521Solar Powered Alternator .............................................................................................................................................. 521Improving Student Success in General Chemistry at CSULB ........................................................................... 522Optimizing a Wirelessly Powered AC-DC Boost Converter for Biomedical Implants .............................. 522National Science Foundation S-STEM Scholarships: Recruitment and Cohort Establishment forEngineering and Computer Science Students ........................................................................................................ 523Dynamic Plant Development for Control Systems and Mechatronics Experiments

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

)Try out new ideas or procedures on your own 3.5 (4)Feel responsible for the project 3.6 (4)Work extra hours because you were excited about the research 3.8 (4)Interact with scientists from outside your school 1.8 (1)Feel a part of a scientific community 4.0 (4)Note: None = 1, A Little = 2, Some = 3, A Fair Amount = 4, A Great Deal = 5Students’ evaluation of their supervisor(s). The majority of students reported that theirprimary supervisor was a CSULB professor (76.2%). Only 5 students reported that their primarysupervisor was a graduate student (23.8%). In

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Carlye Lauff; Joanna Weilder-Lewis; Kevin O'Connor; Daria Kotys-Schwartz; Mark Rentschler

engineer’s career builds off oftheir experiences, skills learned, and relationships made. It is common for an engineer to movepositions almost yearly so that s/he can gain valuable skill sets in his/her early years at acompany. From each new team, the engineer learns what they enjoy and whom they enjoyworking with. Each of these experiences plays an important role in where the engineer movesnext. Companies want to invest time and money in employees that are hard workers and get jobsdone efficiently and effectively. By succeeding in a certain position, a person can set themselvesup well for their next project.Figure. 3. The connected technical courses and disconnected design trajectories of undergraduate engineering students (left) and the connected

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, California, http://online.nu.edu/ (available to authorized users only).8. SOAR, (2014). National University Database, https://nus.soar.cci.nu.edu/ (available to authorized users only).9. Wang, J., Ruan, Y., Zhang, X., and Zhou, X. (2013, June), Application of Multi-mode Teaching Based on Project and Case Driven in Java Programming Course, 2013 International Conference on Education Technology and Information System (ICETIS), Sanya, China, retrieved on 1/25/2014 from http://www.atlantis- press.com/php/pub.php?publication=icetis-1310. Gilakjani, A. P., Ismail, H. N., and Ahmadi, S. M. (2011). The Effect of Multimodal Learning Models on Language Teaching and Learning, Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Academy

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phase in the preliminary design process is to research similar air vehicles. The teams researchexisting aircraft that have similar missions to the selected RFP. The teams then determine a design spacefor their aircraft based upon assumptions or constraints of the RFP and CFR. Determination of thedesign point allows the teams to begin initial sizing of the aircraft based upon takeoff thrust to weightratio (T/W)TO, takeoff wing loading (W/S)TO, stall speeds in different configurations, and certainregulations from the CFR or Military Specifications (MIL-SPECS). This process of researching similaraircraft and determining a design point gives the teams a basis upon which to begin to calculate essentialdesign parameters.6The critical design parameter

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

but not aninstructor and does not present any new course material.16 S/he is trained prior to assumingher/his tasks as a SI leader and is supervised throughout the process. Supplemental instructionwas launched for the first time for a course in the Lyles College Engineering in fall 2013. Inorder to determine what engineering courses should be targeted for supplemental instruction, theAcademic Committee of the Lyles College of Engineering examined data on the courses with thelowest passing rates. Five courses were identified, but only one SI session was offered for theDigital Logic course in the Electrical and Computer engineering program (ECE 85). The coursewas chosen because the two sections were being taught by two different faculty members

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Technical Paper Series 840936, San Diego, CA, July 16-19, 1984. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 1337. Sharma, P. K.; Rapp, D.; Rahotgi, N. K., “Methane Pyrolysis and Disposing of Resulting Carbon,” In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU 3) Technical Interchange Meeting, ISRU, Denver, CO, February 11-12, 1999.8. Hoekman, S. Kent; Broch, Amber; Robbins, Curtis; Purcell, Richard, “CO2 Recycling by Reaction with Renewably-Generated Hydrogen,” International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

, and number of pre and post surveys collected fromstudents in those classrooms.Partnership School Subject(s) Grade Fellow Research Topic # of Surveys level collected Pre PostAlliance Marc & Eva AP Biology 11-12 How Wdr68 Functions in the 59 46Stern Math and Science Craniofacial Regulatory Pathway ofSchool ZebrafishHollenbeck Middle Life Science 7 The Impact of the Introduced

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra; Phyllis Nelson; Jolly Kuo; Shailesh Sujanani

they are more confident about their mastery of circuit analysis concepts.Bibliography 1. CircuitLab, www.circuitlab.com 2. National Instrument’s myDAQ http://www.ni.com/mydaq/ 3. “Incorporation of NI MyDAQ Exercise in Electric Circuits,” Catherine Chesnutt and Mary C. Baker, Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, 2011 4. “Improving Student Learning of Basic Electronic Circuits Concepts using Web-Based Tools,” Z. Aliyazicioglu, R. M. Chandra, P. R. Nelson, J. Kuo, and S. Sujanani, ASEE 2014 ASEE Annual Conference. 5. “Recognizing Diverse Learning Styles in Teaching and Assessment of Electronic Engineering,” Ayre, Mary and Nafalski, Andrew, IEEE Frontiers in Education

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

Internationalization of Higher Education: Motivations and Realities.” Journal of Studies in International Education 11 (3-4): 290-305.4. Soejatminah, S. 2009. Internationalisation of Indonesian Higher Education: A Study from the Periphery. Online. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/viewFile/3736/33395. Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills report, 2013. The Wider Benefits of International Higher Education in the UK. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education