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

: Students participate in Group Projects • Mode- 3: Problem based learning mode: Targeted problem solved by the students • Mode-4: Agile teaching mode: Effective for a class where students come from different disciplines • Mode-5: Audio-Visual mode: Highly visual slides/simulations/ videos/Internet/YouTube • Mode-6: Reflective mode: Ask students to write reflective notes or make reflective presentations • Mode-7: Asynchronized virtual mode: Distant students can participate anytime from anywhere to get benefits • Mode-8: Hybrid mode: some classes meet onsite and some through online • Mode-9: Study tour mode: Field Trip/Educational Tour: Students visit relevant work sites with a tour guide • Mode-10: Practicum: Students learn by

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Debra Larson

214 Insights on Integrating the Teacher-Scholar Model into the Tenure and Promotion Processes at a Teaching-Focused Engineering College Debra Larson California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractTwo surveys were conducted to gain insights about evaluating faculty work within the context ofthe teacher-scholar model at a primarily undergraduate engineering college that is part of a largestate university system. Survey participants include college faculty and engineering deans fromthe system. The faculty results strongly reflect the baccalaureate

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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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Bruno Osorno

turned out to be as strong asexpected, the presence of a relationship and its direction are evidence for the effectiveness ofproject based learning in groups for better academic performance. One possible reason for theweakness of these relationships is the size of the class. Therefore, the instructor intends tocontinue applying this type of participation level questionnaire in the future courses to increasethe cases included in the analysis. Another reason for the grades to reflect the effort put in theteam projects only to a certain extent might be the anomalies observed in two groups. Therewere two groups where one team member put a big effort and the rest of the members did not.The consequence of this approach was that the individual that put

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

509Literature suggests that a capstone or practicum is a unique end of the program experience thatpromotes students’ capacity to implement their completed coursework and use the knowledgeand skills they have learned3,4,5. Different academic programs structure capstone projects withdistinctive objectives5. This paper analyzes community projects in the Bachelor of Science inInformation Technology Management (BS-ITM) academic program for non-profit and low-budget organizations in the technology space. Past available work describes approaches andrecommendations for designing successful capstone projects6,7 including the benefits ofpromoting reflection and critical thinking8,9. Most of these past works focus on the value ofcapstone projects to the students

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

housing is another contemporary, energy and sustainability- related issue that this project responds to. These activities satisfy ABET outcome j.9. The entire project was modeled in SolidWorks, and other engineering software used for thermal analysis.Conclusions and ExtensionsWhat thoughts did the two capstone students have regarding the conception, design, andimplementation of the Tiny House (Figures 8-13), recently renamed the ‘Vagabond House,’ byour adventuresome client? What was learned during the design/build process? What thingswould they do differently if offered the opportunity to engage in another, similar project?Selected reflections by Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, edited for clarity and compactness, areincluded below

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Sukhmander Singh

faculty.Program Educational Objectives (PEO) were acceptable in 2004 but were not acceptable in 2010.We were conscientious of the need for periodic revisions of PEO and had determined that norevision/changes were warranted for 2010. This is not to reflect upon evaluators’ capability butto point out that because of the lack of set standards for evaluations, an evaluator cannot escapesubjectivity.On employer survey and advisory board. Often, it has not been easy to make industry takeenthusiastic participation in the assessment instrument such as an employer survey. Very few Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

second year project and a first year project. This approachallowed us to understand whether, and if so, which aspects of students’ experiences in well- andill- structured problems affected students’ technical capital.The demographics of the participants reflected the program’s and the county’s demographics inwhich NWCC was situated. The students were white and from working class backgrounds. Onlyone of the participants was female; she was the only female in the entire program. Some studentshad entered the program from high school, while others entered the program after being laid offfrom work. To determine the level of structuredness of the problems that participants described,the descriptions were compared to the characteristics of well- and

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Edward Smaglik; Terry Baxter; John Tingerthal P.E.; Chun-Hsing Ho; Mark Lamer

template assignments occur earlier in the semester when languagedifficulties may have a larger influence on scores.The overall course score, as would be expected, also reflects this influence since it is an aggregateof scores throughout the entire semester. It should be noted however, that even though the ESLenrollment continues to increase, the average scores during the first semester of implementationactually tended to be better. Even the final project demonstrated a slight increasing trend inscores. One other interesting item in Figure 1Error! Reference source not found. is the see-sawmotion of the Final Project scores between the fall and spring semesters. Anecdotally, theinstructors have noted that students in the spring semester of this

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

measuring sensor and a motorized RC vehicle to create an embedded control system. The distance measuring sensor is the feedback signal, and the output is a DC motor which controls the position of the vehicle. The controller maintains the vehicle within 20cm – 30cm from a reflective surface. The setup is shown in figure 2. Figure 2. Feedback loop embedded system.3. Multi-Processor Communication using a SPI protocol: The goal of this experiment was to establish communication between processors using Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). One processor was configured as a Master, and two were configured as Slaves. The Master was programmed to send a message to the Slaves consecutively. The Slaves were programmed to

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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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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

, 1(2), 49-69.33. Nikolic, D., Messner, J.I., Lee, S., and Anumba, C. (2010) The Virtual Construction Simulator - development of an educational simulation game. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building 2010, Nottingham, UK.34. Oakley, B.A., Hanna, D.M., Kuzmyn, Z. (2007). “Best Practices Involving Teamwork in the Classroom: Results from a Survey of 6435 Engineering Student Respondents,” IEEE Transactions on Education, 50(3).35. O'Brien, W., Soibelman, L., and Elvin, G. Collaborative Design Processes; An V Active-and Reflective- Learning Course in Multidisciplinary Collaboration. Journal of Construction Education, 2003, Vol. B, pp. 78- 93.36. Prince, M. J. and Felder, R. M., 2006

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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

Structural and Earthquake Engineering.Incorporating research with the Senior Design Project helps the student researcher developsolutions to real engineering problems.AcknowledgementThis research is supported by the National Science Foundation under the award numberCMMI1227962. The authors would also like to acknowledge support from San Francisco StateUniversity ORSP Grant SP692. Any opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of thesponsors.References1. Chen, C., et al. (2009). "Real-time hybrid testing using the unconditionally stable explicit CR integration algorithm." Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 38(1): 23-44.2. Darby, A.P, et

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Jose Valdovinos; Cheng Chen; Abbyanna Davis; Amelito Enriquez; Wenshen Pong

award number CMMI-1227962. The authors would also like to acknowledge support from San Francisco StateUniversity ORSP Grant SP692 as well as the help of Cañada Community College and thecooperation of NASA Curriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch CIPAIR. Any opinions, findings conclusions and recommendations expressed in thispaper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors.References1. Chen, C. and Ricles, J. M. (2012), Large-scale real-time hybrid simulation involving multiple experimental substructures and adaptive actuator delay compensation. Earthquake Engng. Struct. Dyn., 41: 549–569. doi: 10.1002/eqe.11442. Chen, C., Sharma, R. and Pong, W.S., (2012), “Assessing

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David Dillon; Huseyin Sarper P.E.; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

. In operation, the PVCcylinder was filled with dry ice / methanol mixture (-78°C). To minimize heat exchange withthe surroundings, the PVC cylinder was enclosed within a Styrofoam-filled, reflective tapelined box (Fig. 14b). Figure 13. Water cryogenic separator with copper cooling coils. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 128Figure 14. CO2 Cryogenic Separator on PVC Base (left); styrofoam insulated housing (right).An acrylic storage tank was designed to store methane after separation of water

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