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

with the predictions of simulation and analysis. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 18Our suite of tools can benefit both those who are beginning their study of electrical engineering andthose who need to improve their understanding of a specific concept.Prime Motivating Factors and Design StrategyLow cost devices such as tablets and smartphones, plus the proficiency of today's students with thesedevices, suggested web-based technology for providing assistance to students who are currently

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Tina Smilkstein

374 A Graduate/Senior Level Interdisciplinary Medical Technology Design Class Tina Smilkstein California State Polytechnic University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThis paper is a report on an interdisciplinary graduate/senior level medical technology designclass offered through the electrical engineering department at California Polytechnic StateUniversity at San Luis Obispo Spring 2013. Participating students were from electricalengineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, psychology and computer science.The course had a major project component where student self

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request. Being able to fill out forms, incident reports, and daily progress reports in thefield increases efficiency and overall accuracy of such reports. These technologies also save timeby reducing the amount of trips back and forth to the job trailer to acquire needed information, Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 167allowing for more immediate decision making in the field. Ultimately, readily availableinformation allows companies and project teams to reduce risk and exposure to failure as projectteams will

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Nebojsa Jaksic

discarded,and some presented to the University administration as action items.Introduction and Previous WorkWhile talking about clean energy President Obama stated in his weekly address on October 2nd2010 that “Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21stcentury take root here in America.1” The innovation productivity and quality must increase to stopthe country's technological and manufacturing decline. While most engineering programs producesolid problem solvers, this may not be sufficient. The education of engineers must also enhancetheir inventive and entrepreneurial skills by including topics on innovation methods, disruptivetechnologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, etc. Engineering design

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theoretical and hands-on practical experience with automation technologies that areof prime importance in industry: machine vision, programmable logic controllers based on theIEC-61131 standard, motion control and the integration of these technologies. Developingapplications and integration of state of the art industrial automation technology (hardware andsoftware) has become fairly easy compared to only a few years ago. Manufacturing engineeringstudents, as well as all other engineering students who will work on design and improvement ofautomated processes should be exposed to these advanced automation technologies. This paperdescribes the methodologies and relevant concepts covered in class, laboratory equipment, andlab activities developed for

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Shervin Zoghi; Eric Liguori; Manoochehr Zoghi; Fariborz Tehrani; The Nguyen

of the modern technological society.IntroductionEvidently, the globalizations of the economy, Internet connectivity, and exploding informationtechnology have had a profound impact on modern societies.1, 2 The modern society, and oureveryday lives, are increasingly dependent on scientific and technical innovation.3 Engineering,central to innovation, is dramatically influenced by the rapid changes that are taking place on aglobal scale. There has been much debate in recent years that traditional engineering education,however, does not adequately prepare the new graduates to face the ever-changing demands oftechnological societies. In a survey of engineering employers, conducted by Todd et al.4, thefollowing frequently-cited perceptions of

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

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 400in the process. However, the poor performance of the K-12 education system in teaching STEM(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has also been a concern in recent years. Asa result, engineering graduation rates have suffered in the past decades. Thus, the development ofnew generations of engineers remains a challenge in long-term (NAE, 2002) 21. Addressing thischallenge requires development of a solid foundation of engineering literacy throughout gradesK-12.This paper outlines an approach to address this challenge and to generate a more preparedgeneration of engineering

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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

need to be replaced. The September 2013 release of the newLEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits overcame these issues. It includes a new programmablebrick with improved technology (e.g., a faster processor, more memory, a new programmingenvironment, etc.). Consequently, the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 became a possible choice forupgrading the current lab to a new platform. According to ABET Criterion 3, Student Outcomesk, engineering graduates should be able to “use the techniques, skills, and modern engineeringtools necessary for engineering practice.” We therefore decided to evaluate students' acceptanceof this new, latest technology, engineering tool. In the Fall 2013 semester, three new LEGOMindstorms EV3s were used in the Introduction to

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

scientists and engineerswho work closely with their partner teachers to engage middle and high school students inscience and engineering activities related to the fellows' research. The program goals are toenhance STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum, inform andinspire students about careers in science and engineering, and improve the graduate fellow'sability to communicate their research to a broad audience. In this paper, we present the middleschool math classroom activities developed related to one particular fellow’s research on carbonnanotube composites. Using lightweight carbon nanotube composites for a car chassis canincrease fuel efficiency, decrease emissions, and maintain the desired properties of the

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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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one of your own, then post it on theinternet for everyone to use. Students can create something real and tangible that empowerspeople on a global level. No one person knows how to fix everything, but by combining ourknowledge we can teach people how to fix anything. The average student-authored guide hasover 3,000 views after just 6 months of being published. Some have as many as 60,000 views. Inthe words of one engineering student who wrote a manual that was posted on iFixit, “Over10,000 people have seen my repair guide, and I haven’t even graduated from college yet.”8Repairing is a green technology. It is also a consumer right. “If you can’t fix it, you don’t ownit,” states iFixit’s CEO, Kyle Weins.8How the Collaboration WorksiFixit is

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

Cyberinfrastructure Tools, J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Practice.139, 301-309.13. Gomez Puente, S. M., van Eijck, M., Jochems, W., (2013), A sampled literature review of design-based learning approaches: a search for key characteristics, International Journal of Technological Design Education, 23, 717-73214. Gómez Puente, S.M., van Eijck, M., Jochems, W., (2011),Towards characterizing design-based learning in engineering education: a review of the literature, European Journal of Engineering Education, 36,137–14915. Hall, W., Palmer, S., Bennett, M., (2012), A longitudinal evaluation of a project-based learning initiative in an engineering undergraduate programme, European Journal of Engineering Education, 37, 155-165.16. Helle

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

492 Initiatives to Improve Student Success and Retention in The Lyles College of Engineering California State University, Fresno Manoochehr Zoghi, Hernan Maldonado, and Syreeta Martinez California State University, FresnoAbstractIt is widely known that the science, technology and innovation (STI) are important drivers of theeconomy, which affect nearly all aspects of our everyday lives. Engineering is in turn central tothe innovation and our modern society. Recently, however, there has been a great deal of concernregarding the future of engineering education in the U.S

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Agustin Robles; David Alvarez; Jasmine Flores; Cham Htun; Cheng Chen; James Enright; Amelito Enrique; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

334aims to strengthen community college students’ foundation in the academic fields of science,technology, engineering and mathematics. Four community college students participated in thisprogram in 2013 and were trained to perform seismic design and evaluation of a three story steelplate shear wall.Student Project DescriptionThe team of four students was asked to design a three-story SPSW structure located at 1300Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. A SPSW frame is comprised of a rectangular system ofrigidly jointed columns and beams with a thin steel infill plate which resists the lateral forcesdeveloped during earthquake ground motions. The flexural rigidity of the frame and the shearstrength of the plate is the source of lateral stiffness

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Selyna Perez Beverly

program is to encourage student successand to promote student development through intrusive learning outcomes based advising. NACADA,the National Academic Advising Association, strongly believes and supports the notion that “Advisingis Teaching” and critical to student success and retention. The College of Engineering First YearAdvising Program developed strategic ways of providing both informational and developmentaladvising to more than 700 freshmen per year across all seven engineering disciplines.Through group advising and the utilization of technology, the First Year Advising Program incorporatesa developmental advising program to meet student’s diverse learning styles and to increase therelationship between advisor and advisee. In the Fall

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and well-situated to contribute to the workforce and to stimulate the country’s economic growth.Polytechnic institutions are offering professional, career-focused programs in the arts, social andrelated behavioral sciences, engineering, education, natural sciences and technology that engagestudents in active, applied learning. Their curriculum is designed with the foundation of blendingtheory with practice to solve real world problems for the benefit of society. This in turn givesunique opportunities for students to understand how learning connects to careers or to solvingreal-world problems which are considered important to the cultivation of applied skills needed inthe workplace1. As a result, employment prospects for graduates from

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Board for Engineering and Technology, EngineeringCriteria 2000 (ABET 2000), and its call for a required multidisciplinary experience stimulatedincreased interest in developing courses in this area. Still more recently, an increased number ofpapers advocating multidisciplinary project-based curricula have appeared at conferences and injournals34, 40, 42. It has become clear that project-based learning is addressing a need in thepreparation of engineers that was not previously satisfied by standard curricula32, 34, 40.Dialogue with the construction management Industry Advisory Board (IAB) revealed thefollowing important issues and obstacles our students experience upon entering industry. First,students often have not encountered large-scale team

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underrepresented students are less likely than their white male peers to have beensocialized to do hands-on activities or encouraged to use toys, tools, or gadgets that mightpromote their interest in engineering. The research question for this study is: What is the role ofproblem-oriented pedagogical strategies in increasing the diversity of students in technicaleducation among community college students? In this paper, we argue that success intechnology and engineering education requires technical capital, which is experience with“tinkering,” manipulating tools, doing hands-on work, and knowing the process of solvingproblems that require technical solutions. Thus, to increase diversity in technology andengineering education and careers, programs should

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area.Many universities have attempted to setup and administer vLab environments thinking that it issimply a matter of outsourcing technology, when, in reality, there is an academic-administrationrequirement that must be filled because faculty want to teach and not administer. This is whereCLaaS becomes unique and stands out as it provides both a technological as well as an Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 85academic-administration solution. Courseware must be developed and maintained as the labsjust do not

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, Pomona) Panadda Marayong (California State University, Long Beach) Marilyn Dyrud (Oregon Institute of Technology) 2 A Note from the Conference Co-ChairsThe 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference—was hosted by the College ofEngineering/California State University, Long Beach. Promoting the theme, "Student Success Is Our Success,”it provided an excellent opportunity where faculty/professional staff presented and shared innovative tools,pedagogies, and best practices for addressing the challenges of engineering education. Particular emphasiswas on

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

staff to provide enhanced technology services to an underserved community. This visionwas then translated into a network infrastructure upgrade of the Cox Tech Center that met thediverse needs of its users. Problems were identified, and best practices and more effectivemethods of using newer technologies were deployed to address the deficiencies. This process ledto the implementation of an effective solution while using available resources. The organizationchart involved the Cox Tech Center lab, National University faculty, and the Capstone students.Their working relationships and the reporting structure is shown in Figure 1. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Samuel Landsberger; Artin Davidian; Juan Garibay; Richard Valenzuela; Barbara Wheeler

with a RehabilitationEngineering Research Center on Children with Orthopedic Disabilities at the Rancho LosAmigos Rehabilitation Engineering Program. The programs evolved from an early effort calledAssistive Device Venture that was created in 1995 by the first author, then Technical Director ofthe Rancho Rehabilitation Engineering Program, to involve youth from Rancho Los AmigosMedical Center injured in gang-related violence in a Rehabilitation Engineering DesignExperience. The concept was that some of these young men and women might be inspired by aconstructive, real-world challenge to develop technology for someone with even greater physicalchallenges than themselves. Assistive Design Venture comprised a team of six students recruitedfrom a

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

withall these diverse, critical areas. “Big Data” requirements and cloud technologies are challengingtraditional database techniques, and, yet, formal database techniques remain fundamental in resolvingthe challenges. Database management, by its own nature, is considered a multidisciplinary subject. It isnot surprising that this topic remains among the most sought-after and popular subjects taken bystudents in engineering, science, business and technology disciplines. At most universities, bothtechnical and non-technical graduate and undergraduate programs require at least one database course.Usually, such a course introduces the concepts of relational database design, modeling, implementationand administration. Teaching a database course to

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

operational application that included 1) a web server (such as Apache), 2) adatabase server (such as MySQL), 3) use of virtualization technology (options were VMware,Oracle’s VirtualBox, or hypervisors supplied by cloud service providers, and 4) design anormalized relational database with at least five tables. Higher grades would be achieved if cloudresources were used in the solution. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 344 Table 2. A sample of web and cloud course projectsCloud Service

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Hen-Geul Yeh; Duc Tran; Paula Quintana

energy that is produced in a manner that has less of anegative impact to the environment than energy sources like fossil fuel which often produceharmful side effects. Types of green energy that often come to mind are solar, wind, geothermaland hydro energy. In fact, it is a significant area for the investment, and the ability to developtechnology that harnesses energy from wind, solar, water and other renewable resources definesfuture generations of technology. The engineers and scientist who are solving these challengestoday are using many advanced technologies to develop and deliver tomorrow’s solutions for asustainable environment. These technologies definitely need to be widely spread and fullyunderstood by young generations so that they can

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

towards acommon goal, has become an industry trend1 . This recently adopted trajectory accurately reflects therealities of the twenty-first-century: any sustainable solution to the problems humanity is currentlyfacing requires an integrated and interactive mix of sciences, engineering, social sciences, andhumanities2. As a result, modern education needs to prepare future scientists and engineers to not onlyexplore the boundaries within their own disciplines, but to also understand the basics of other fields.The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledges the importance ofmultidisciplinary education and explicitly supports it3. In fact, the 2013-2014 criteria for accreditingEngineering programs requires the programs to

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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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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

funding, and group presentations.. Second, theresults of a survey are presented. The survey was provided to current members of the group, aswell as general members of the student body. Third, a novel assessment metric is implemented.This assessment metric uses Latent Semantic Analysis to compare passages written by students(describing their skills and professional aspirations) to a set of learning outcomes. Theseoutcomes are adapted from those of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) andAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).Qualitative Student Success. The research group was started in 2011. Since its inception,members have received support for a variety of activities, including design projects, proposal-writing

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

of Engineering enrolled nearly 6,000 students,including over 3,900 undergraduate students in 13 Bachelor’s degree programs in engineering,aviation, and technology, eight of which are ABET accredited. SJSU’s engineering programsconsistently receive top recognition among public Master’s-level institutions by U.S. News andWorld Report, with the 2014 edition of “Best Colleges” ranking the College of Engineering assecond in the nation in this category. SJSU is the number one producer of engineers andtechnical talent for Silicon Valley. Approximately half of SJSU students report they are the firstin their family to go to college. Over 66 percent of full-time undergraduates at the institutionreceive some kind of need-based financial aid. The

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Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

32 Translating Best Practices for Student Engagement to Online STEAM Courses Brian Arnold and Jodi Reeves National UniversityAbstractAs universities continue to offer more distance education through online courses, they face the challengeof translating onsite best practices into online courses in order to enhance student engagement, improvestudent persistence, and optimize student retention in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts,and Math) programs. This paper describes how we adapted face-to-face classroom engagementtechniques related