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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

identified by the lead faculty over the five year period.The Five-Year Program Review requires faculty to reflect on factors influencing student successin the program and provide comments. The program lead and the department chair are asked toanalyze student retention and graduation rates. The results from the Five-Year Program Reviewas well as the suggested action plans and resource allocations for the program are itemized in aMemorandum of Agreement that requires approval by the school Dean and Provost. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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

for grades K-6 classrooms. Fundamentalunderstanding of the engineering profession is an essential key for elementary teachers toimplement this curriculum. The presented approach is an initial effort targeted at increasing theengineering knowledge of prospective K-6 teachers. This step involves developing a course titledEngineering Literacy, taken by those undergraduates who typically plan to enter the credentialprogram for elementary teaching (i.e., Liberal Studies majors). Engineering Literacy is a three-unit combined laboratory and lecture course. Hands-on activities are coupled with lectures onengineering topics. Expected outcomes of Engineering Literacy are aligned with the generalbody-of-knowledge in both engineering and liberal studies

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

Aim and MethodologyOne of the activities planned during the visit to Cal Poly was to conduct collaborative researchon renewable energy. Under the SAME program, research was commissioned to developunderstanding of wider benefit to the faculty exchange program, to the country of faculty origin,to the host country of faculty exchange, and to investigate direct/indirect impact of the facultyexchange program. For the faculty visiting Cal Poly, the research methodologies used wereliterature study and total participation as a faculty exchange. During the 3 month visit, the facultyconducted several activities that can help her in preparing for her future research effort inrenewable energy. Examples of such activities include conducting laboratory

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

graduation, and assist our students inmoving into leadership positions.The Need for Scholarships and Financial SupportThe cost of college in the United States continues to rise. In-state tuition and fees at public four-year institutions increased 2.9% for the 2013-2014 academic year; a smaller rise compared to the4.5% and 8.5% increases of the previous years respectively. For the California State Universitysystem, tuition for a full-time undergraduate increased from just under $1,500 during the 2001-2002 academic year to over $5,400 as of fall 2011. While this figure remains affordable in thecontext of national educational costs, the extreme increase in a short period of time has been achallenge for families who did not expect or plan for such rises

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

44 Teaching Pattern Recognition: A Multidisciplinary Experience Shadnaz Asgari and Burkhard Englert California State University, Long BeachAbstractThe solution to many open problems in science and engineering requires approaches that aremultidisciplinary in nature. Therefore, state-of-the-art education needs to prepare prospective scientistsand engineers to not only explore the boundaries within their own disciplines, but to also understand thebasics of other disciplines. Accomplishing this important mission requires careful planning, selection

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

© 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 328It also contains a discussion forum for students and faculty to collaborate and discussassignments, problems, and projects.The Moodle system provides the entire embedded system curriculum as well as necessaryresources such as the PIC microcontroller datasheet and the training sheet for the PIC board.Each lesson plan was stored in individual modules that contain all of the instructional resourcesto learn and complete the lesson plan. The student has the option to complete the course in C,BASIC, or Assembly language. The first few lesson plans teach the fundamental steps for usingthe trainer board

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Jin-Lee Kim; Talal Trabolsi

construction foreman will normally have a half-set ofplans to refer to whileout on the project site; these plans will undoubtedly see much mistreated and, over time, will needto be replaced. Having such plans available electronically will give ease when referring to theplans and will confirm that the most current set of documents are beingused to make the most accurate and sound decisions. Table 2. Project documents in the field. _________________________________________________________________________________ Having project documents available in the field would be a benefit to my work Parameter Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Request for

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

students. Apartnership built through the use COINS seeks to educate civil and construction engineeringstudents at the lower division and to introduce students to core engineering fundamentals thatform a basis for the knowledge on which they can build in upper division courses and at the sametime increase interest and excitement about engineering by incorporating project-based learningearly in the curriculum. The benefits for students include better preparation of students, asdemonstrated by increasing deeper understanding of project controls and constructability issues,for upper division coursework by implementing project planning and control systemsengineering design and implementation, realize an increase of 25% in the retention of studentswho

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Tina Smilkstein

the original advanced computer architecture content. I believe in this class project so Iam planning on still offering the course to the non-EE/CPE/CSC students but then also haveeither one separate lecture per week where I split the EEs, CPEs and CSCs from the otherstudents in the course for some number of weeks so I can talk about the required computerarchitecture topics to the EE, CPE and CSC majors.Course Lecture and Lab ContentA general schedule of the course is included in Appendix A. Due to the variety of backgrounds inthe class, lecture was a challenge. Successful portions of the course included discussions thateach major could come at from their own viewpoint. For example, reading on electronic medicalrecords was assigned in the

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Nebojsa Jaksic

aggregate score ideas ( score 2 or 3). Idea Type F* I** Proposed Improvement Physical Space 1 1 Manage the resources - labs, classrooms, offices, GA's Faculty 1 2 Hire a lab coordinator 2 1 Add staff engineer for labs 1 1 Develop a strategic plan 1 1 Provide more non-book examples 1 2 Have admission standards (for engineering) Curriculum 1 2 Have labs in virtual machine design class 1 2

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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

to redmark-edit the transcripts, without needing to redo the recordings, ifstudents understand that they must read the transcript in parallel with listening to the recording.A small number of transcript-only edits are tolerable in this case, with revision of the recording(which is much harder) needed only for major changes.AssessmentWe offer approximate measures of the instructional success of this model in two forms – failurerates and surveys. Because of resource constraints, we could not offer both a traditional sectionand our high-efficiency inverted model at the same time in order to do a more formal assessmentof our inverted model. As mentioned in the future work section below, we plan to do moreassessment in the 2014-2015 academic

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

that they did not possess any prior research experience (76.2%or 16 students), while three students reported possessing a prior research experience in thesummer (14.3%), 1 student reported prior research experience during a previous academicsemester (4.8%), and another student reported having prior research experience throughoutmultiple academic semesters. At pre-program, students reported their future plans that involvedpost-undergraduate education in a science-related field. Almost all students reported plans forpursuing post-graduate education (95.2%). Specifically, 42.9% reported master degree, 33.3%reported doctoral degree, 19.0% medical degree. At post-program, there were no discerniblechanges to future plans.Table 1 displays mean and

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

445students in varying math courses including: Math 6, Math 7, Algebra 1, and Geometry. Theselessons not only demonstrate to the students the benefit of using carbon nanotube composites forcar chassis, they also teach students important math concepts based on the mathematicalcommon core standards9 as shown in Table 1.The lesson plans and supporting material for these activities, along with lesson plans from otherfellows, can be found at the IMPACT LA NSF GK-12 website10. The descriptions of theactivities below are based on the content of the lesson plans which are written for middle schoolteachers and their students. To assist the teachers and students, the lesson plans have keyworddefinitions to define important and perhaps unfamiliar terminology

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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

) (b) Figure 3. LTspice simulation, schematic and simulation results. (a) and (b) stand for opposite voltage/current polarityPhase 2: Improve the existing circuit. Once students are familiar with the circuit’s operatingprinciple, they were asked to optimize the circuit, following the flow illustrated in Fig. 4. Eaglewas used for the schematic and layout development. The schematic is redeveloped and furthersimplified. Creation of the layout necessitates careful planning. Parasitic effects are detrimentalbetween certain components and negligible between others. In this phase, a new printed circuitboard is designed. Figure 4. The flow chart of making a printed circuit board

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Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

the aircraft design based upon test data. The process involves building amodel of the preliminary aircraft design, testing, evaluating, and improving upon the original design inorder to produce the best aircraft possible. The first phase of the detail design process involvesdesigning the wind tunnel model and writing a test plan that will result in an accurate assessment of thequality of the preliminary design. The preliminary design of the aircraft must be scaled to account forthe wind tunnel size and wind tunnel balance constraints.7 The majority of the model structure is printedwith a 3-D printer using CATIA, and the internal support structure is designed to give the model Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for

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John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

assessmentmethods. We have endeavored to capture the gestalt of the project in this paper.Tiny House OriginsThe Tiny House, illustrated in Figures 1-6, emerged from several sources, including participationby the capstone students, Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, in two junior-level IntegratedEngineering courses focused on sustainable design; lively conversations between the studentsand the client; extensive exploration of the literature on creativity, low-impact architecture,regional and community planning, systems thinking, and green construction1-27; examination ofonline documentation describing the design of small, tiny, nano, eco, and indigenous housing; Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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circuits, embedded systems, VLSI testing and VLSI-CAD technology. He is currently serving as the 2013-2014 Chair of the American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Southwest section. He is a Coleman Fellow and entrepreneur with over 25 years of domestic and international experiences in both industry and academia. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering, both from the University of Cincinnati. Lily Gossage, M.Ed. (Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential, College of Engineering/ California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Gossage provides management-level oversight for development, strategic planning, promotion

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Selyna Perez Beverly

Affairs and to bring additional areas of expertise to thecourse. Faculty and teaching partners are invited and encouraged to attend professional developmentworkshops to become familiar with the goals of the course, the teaching methods used in the course, andto engage in the FYE course material to strengthen the mission of the course. Faculty that teach thecourse meet on a regular basis throughout the academic year to discuss the course, share best practices,plan joint activities, and give feedback regarding the course.First Year Advising ProgramThe changing characteristics and diverse needs of students have also affected academic advisingmethods within higher education. The current generation of students are technologically acute anddesire quick

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

integral part of this newlyrevised curriculum. The concepts are first introduced in the CM orientation course. Then,through faculty/industry professional mentorships, speaker series, student organization activities,and seminar series students are further exposed to the entrepreneurship ideas and get involved inleadership opportunities. Specific learning outcomes entail: providing students a rich learningexperience and understanding how the construction business operates. Identifying the bestpractices of companies in terms of size, specialty, and minority ownership. Understandingvarious aspects of a start up such as planning, marketing, financial, legal, and human elements,as well as, acquisition or operation of a construction business from the

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

analysis, Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 514problem solving techniques, advanced IT design, and IT management. The mission of theprogram is reflected in the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) as follows (ref: www.nu.edu):1. Demonstrate an ability to set up and integrate local and remote server and workstation computers with proper user authentication to preserve user privacy and confidentiality.2. Demonstrate the ability to plan an integrated system that involves computer applications to satisfy

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

. Problem-Based Learning is not limited to engineering education; it hasbeen long used in other areas such as medicine education, nursing education and law education.There have been many efforts to improve the quality of teaching of soil mechanics andfoundation design courses, for example, using audio response systems to develop active learningenvironment within the classroom has been investigated3. In another attempt to incorporatelearning outcomes into an introductory geotechnical engineering course9, a listing of outcomesarticulated for several foundation design course topics has been developed which demonstrateshow the outcomes were linked to lesson plans and assignments. In this regard, exampleassessment methods and results are presented with

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Stephanie Nelson; Brittany McCrigler

dumpsite to extract saleable elements5iFixit values engineering faculty and students for a number of reasons. First, faculty and studentsare potential game-changers who can be a part of a culture shift that can challenge manufacturersto become more socially responsible and reconsider the planned obsolescence of many of theirproducts. We can be voices of change, to the designers, engineers, manufacturers, as well as tothe consumers who purchase these devices. Second, we can instruct and encourage our globalcommunity to recycle and repair the products we currently have. Engineers are born tinkerers,after all. Just because your cell phone or laptop doesn’t come with a repair manual from themanufacturer doesn’t mean you can’t take it apart and write

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). Embedding design projects into multidisciplinary engineering education. Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT), 2010 International Conference on, 3, V3-398-V3-402.5. Wiki. (2012). How to Plan a Micro Hydro Power Plant, on line http://en.howtopedia.org/wiki/How_to_Plan_ a Micro_Hydro-power_Plant, accessed at 3June20126. Pokharel, S. (2003). “Promotional issues on alternative energy technologies in Nepal”, Energy Policy 31: 307– 318.7. Arismunandar, A and Kuwahara, A. (1991). Teknik Tenaga Listrik, Jilid I, Pradnya Paramita, Jakarta.8. Brown, J. (1984). Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, CBS Publisher & Distributors, London. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV

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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

Average Rating Performing research 4.94 Designing/performing an experiment 4.88 Creating a work plan 4.81 Working as a part of a team 4.81 Writing a technical report 4.63 Creating a poster presentation 4.69 Making an oral presentation 4.81Question: Tell us how much you agree with each of the following statements.Activity Average Rating The

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based attributes (f – j) to help budget the time and efforts to achieve balance.AcknowledgmentsKalen Cornelious and Paige Rogalski’s help in preparing this paper is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. Joint Task Force on Engineering Education Assessment, “A framework for the assessment of engineering education,” ASEE PRISM, May-June 1996, 19-24.2. Shaeiwitz, J.A. (1996). “Outcome assessment in engineering education,” Journal of Engineering Education, 239-246.3. Olds, B.M., & Miller, R.L. (1998). "An assessment matrix for evaluating engineering programs," Journal of Engineering Education, 87(2), 173-178.4. Rogers, G., & Sando, J.K., ‘Stepping ahead : An assessment plan development.5. Prados, J.W., Editor’s Page, Journal of

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

. Undergraduatestudents also participate in major research projects by assisting graduate students. Their trainingat this stage includes laboratory safety, literature studies, data mining, documentation, andpresentation skills. At senior level, students may choose to enroll in an independent study,implement their research skills in senior design project, or define an undergraduate thesis. At thisstage, they meet advisor at least twice a month to learn about experimental and analytical studies.A typical undergraduate research should develop and implement either an experimental or ananalytical plan using available resources in college.At graduate level, students incorporate all previous components at a higher academic level. Atypical graduate research includes

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

have a personal contact with upper classmen. The student organizationmay also profit from the management of the components by selling individual components at amarginal overhead. By buying in bulk, the student organization may sell the parts at a profit,but still less expensive than if the student had to purchase the single component and pay taxesand shipping. Students also benefit by being able to purchase replacement parts in a timelymanner and quickly continue work on their course assignments or independent projects.Temporal Resources. The benefits of these components are not entirely monetary. Use ofconsistent and planned components also provides many curricular benefits by allowing studentsand faculty to spend time on additional material

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

- 3questions. This survey form also allows students to write their comments. Survey participations in onsiteclasses are always found to be higher in number than the online classes. The university requires that thissurvey be distributed by one of the students and the instructor is requested to leave the classroom.Survey data is analyzed by the NU Office of the Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA). Asummary of the survey data with student comments are made available to the respective instructors,department chairs and school deans for review and comments. The authors of this paper always reviewtheir course survey reports from OIRA carefully and adjust their future teaching plans by improving theirpedagogical approach to teaching and adopt

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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

ofprogramming in Matlab/Simulink, performing simulations, and gathering and interpretingnumerical data. Weekly logs were to be kept in which the work, results and future plans weresummarized. The student researcher was required to submit a brief project proposal for approvaloutlining the description of the project and the approach to be taken. A more detailed proposalwas presented later in which the description, methodology, approach, constraints, tasks andtentative schedule of the project were outlined. The purpose of the proposal was to ensure thatthe student researcher remained organized and maintained the requirements of the senior designproject throughout the course of the semester. The student was required to submit written andoral presentations

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Lisa Wang

practicingengineers stated generally on the assessment forms that the projects were rigorous in thetechnical contents and that the students were passionate and confident in sharing their technicalwork. In terms of students’ grades, they were assigned on the basis of report and presentationquality, not only in terms of technical content but also in terms of knowledge integration.Limitation of the Present Study and Future WorkDue to the tremendous amount of work in the expansion of the curriculum and development ofthe learning activities and assignments, as well as the design and construction of the teststructures (specimens) , only limited assessment work was conducted. In the future, bothqualitative and quantitative assessment strategies are planned