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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

engineering courses. At our university, the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kitswere first introduced to the Introduction to Robotics course in 2006 and since then have played akey role in the first-year Introduction to Engineering course through a robotics mini-lab. Theyalso helped to engage local K-12 students through various outreach programs. In addition, theMindstorms NXT kits were used in some higher level undergraduate engineering courses likeIndustrial Robotics and Senior Design Projects. There, students used LabVIEW to program therobots. Complex tasks, however, were not achievable due to the NXTs‟ memory size limitations.Also, since last year, more frequent hardware failures have occurred in these robotic kits andsome of the programmable bricks

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

17 Improving Student Learning of Basic Electric Circuits Concepts Using Current Technology Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Rajan Chandra, Phyllis Nelson, Jolly Kuo, and Shailesh Sujanani California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes web-based supplemental materials developed at California State PolytechnicUniversity Pomona that enable students at any time during their academic career to review and practicefundamental network analysis concepts. Students interact with these materials via a web browser,making them platform independent. The project targets improving both learning and

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

different from what it used to be even four to fiveshort years ago. There are fewer, but riskier and more complex projects. The prevailingdifficulties of last several years have made it extremely challenging to succeed in the globaleconomy. It is anticipated, however, that the global construction output will recover to grow 70percent by 2025 – to $15 trillion.10 In view of aforementioned challenges and globalization, andin light of emerging construction technologies, the Construction Management (CM) Program inthe Lyles College of Engineering at Fresno State has recently revamped its curriculum to betterprepare future leaders of the construction industry. Accordingly, the CM program hasincorporated leadership and entrepreneurship development as an

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

326 Linking Theory with Experiential Learning in Virtual Learning Environment Reza Raeisi, Max Gardner, and Ricardo Rangel California State University, FresnoAbstractThis NSF-founded project presents work on new ways of delivering technical instructions toengineering students through distance using customized Virtual Learning Environment (VLES)tools. An important aspect of this paper is to present the efforts by a group of faculty from fivedifferent institutions, hailing from three different regions in the country. The goal of the projectis to develop a curriculum for the

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

Latino students seeking a STEM degree with faculty mentors in their chosen majors. Thesummer program fills a critical need that exists in transitioning Latino students from communitycolleges to a 4-year university to complete their baccalaureate STEM degree. Among theprogram’s goals are to facilitate the transfer students’ transition to the CSULB campus, to engagethem in projects in their major, and to provide mentorship from faculty. The Winter ResearchExperience provides Latino students an opportunity to engage in research with faculty in theirmajor. This program is meant for academically strong students who have little to no experiencein research. The goals of this program are to ignite students’ interest in research which can thenincrease

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

simulation results.Past research projects, such as the work from the professors of engineering in San FranciscoState published in 2012 which develop a probabilistic approach for reliability assessment of real-time hybrid simulation results2 especially when the true structural response is not available. Alinear elastic single-degree-of-freedom structure is used to determine the statistical distributionof actuator delay values corresponding to certain accuracy3. Nonlinear structural behavior isconsidered through the Bouc-Wen model4. The Bouc-Wen model is used in modeling thehysteresis phenomenon in the dynamically excited nonlinear structures it is used to help further Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

495accredited by ACCE (American Council for Construction Education). The mission of LCOE is toprovide high quality academic programs in engineering and construction management thatsupport the infrastructure and growth of the Central California region. With regional industrypartners, these programs are linked through cooperative education opportunities, internships,projects, and course assignments. The college also offers an accelerated master’s program thatallows qualified undergraduate students to begin graduate studies at the start of the first semesterof their senior year. Nearly all LCOE programs are broad-based with substantial hands onexperiential opportunities via laboratories, optional internship, project-based learning (PBL), andsenior

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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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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

. Subject matter suitable for recorded lecture. 3. Reasonably mature student body able to work with online materials requiring good self- discipline, e.g. not fall term freshmen. 4. Subject matter that does not rapidly evolve, so that investment in recordings and perhaps automated grading is worthwhile.It is also helpful if most student homework and projects are evaluable by automated systems.Point 2 is of particular interest. Experience with online instruction of remedial students, such asthe Udacity experiment at CSU San Jose, suggest that the less structured nature of onlineteaching may be a poor fit for remedial or less mature students.Description of the Model. Our high-efficiency model follows the standard inverted

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

opportunities to our scholar cohorts, including CareerCenter workshops and presentations, often taking place shortly before job and internship fairs.Another popular activity has been various field trips to local sites. In the past two years scholarshave visited multiple construction sites, including that of our own campus’ Student Unionexpansion, the new span of the Bay Bridge, the new Levi’s Stadium (the future home of the SanFrancisco 49ers football team), and the BART extension project into Milpitas and San Jose.Students see how engineers from multiple fields interact on major construction projects, and gainaccess to areas and information not open to the general public. We are working on extending thefield trip program to local industry offices and

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

sensories and brain pathways.Literature reports that people can understand something better, and retain it longer in memory, when theylearn the content in different ways. In the traditional educational system, students learn only by hearing,seeing, reading, writing and doing. Figure 1 shows a histogram of memory retention rates when studentslearn in this traditional way7. With the advancement of technologies students can now learn in many newand innovative ways. The following, Table-1, lists important examples of additional modes of learning.Table 1. List of some additional popular modes of teaching and learning • Mode-1: Teaching in lecture mode: Individual students learn individually (without group work) • Mode-2: Project based teaching mode

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David Clague; Joshua Wilbur; Elizabeth Stasiowski; Alyson Telford

by preparing a set of PowerPoint slides thatincludes a problem statement, system description, computational parameters, mesh description,results answering posed questions, conclusions and future applications. This reporting approachwas patterned after how project team members in a National Laboratory setting might reporttheir progress and findings to the project team during a project team meeting.The COMSOL Multiphysics Laboratories: Selected ExamplesTo illustrate how COMSOL Multiphysics complements the lecture, selected results from a fewof the laboratories are presented below, namely:1. Two-dimensional, steady-state, pressure-driven flow between parallel plates as compared to theory2. Two-dimensional, pulsatile flow between parallel

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Debra Larson

activities as more important.These four activities are: traditional research; research with undergraduates; funding fromexternal sources; and creative, innovative or entrepreneurial activities. Teaching; advisingstudent clubs and projects; and service to the department, college or university were judged bythe deans to count about the same today as they did five years ago. A majority of thecomprehensive universities per the 1994 National Survey11 reported that professional activitiesand service to the institution held steady in value over time. Teaching rose in value at 58% ofthe responding comprehensive institutions. In the case of research, the responses were equallymixed between holding steady over time or counting more. In contrast, publication

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

. The work deals with manufacturing multicomponent organic/inorganiccomposite materials containing nanotubes, nanofibers and nanoparticles in electric field. One of thefundamental problems associated with the manufacturing process is how fast the thermoelectricnanoparticles move into the titanium dioxide nanotubes under the electric force. The results were usedto examine the effect of the manufacturing parameters on the production rate and the uniformity of thecomposite materials made in the casting process. The specialty of the project lies in the hands-onlearning strategy for training upper level undergraduate students in the emerging field of energyconversion. Some special learning methods such as active learning via student interactions

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

1982. At the time the country had a total of8 state polytechnic institutions which has now grown to 30 state polytechnics. Polinema has beenrecognized nationally as one of the frontier polytechnic and one of the best engineeringpolytechnic in Indonesia. Polinema’s curriculum follows the learn-by-doing philosophy whichconsists of 45% theory and 55% lab/project. The campus has 6,845 students with a student tofaculty ratio of 17. In 2013, students’ success rate in being hired right after graduation is 75.9%.Since 2008, Polinema has a memorandum of agreement with Cal Poly State University in SanLuis Obispo (Cal Poly). During the past few years, a Cal Poly faculty has been visiting Polinemaseveral to perform several academic activities including

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Sukhmander Singh

Engineering Education, 86(2) (1997), 70-71.6. Prados, John W. (2004). "Can ABET really make a difference," International Journal of Engineering Education, 20(3), 315-317.7. Shuman, L.J., Besterfield-Sacre, & McGourty, J. (2005). "The ABET Professional Skills" Can They Be Taught ? Can They Be Assessed" ; Journal of Engineering Education, 41-55.8. Singh, S., (2003). “An Interactive Approach to Improve Civil Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium of IGIP’s Annual Conference, 335-337.9. Koehn, E., (1997). “Engineering Perceptions of ABET Accreditation Criteria,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.10. Morgan, J., & Barroso, L. R. (2006). “Project Enhanced Learning in Structural

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Ilmi Yoon; Eun-Young Kang; Oh-Young Kwon

and socialinteraction which results in longer retention and active peer interaction/tutoring. The evaluationresults have shown that the impact of the game is effective and socially cooperative as a virtuallab and space for peer instruction.AcknowledgmentThis project is being partially funded by National Science Foundation NSF DBI- 0543614 andNSF TUES 1140939. CSc 631/831 Multiplayer Game Design and Development course studentsat fall 2009 contributed to majority of game concept, art work, DB, game contents, client andserver implementation.Bibliography1. T. Jenkins. On the Difficulty of Learning to Program. In Proceedings for the 3rd Annual conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences , Loughborough, UK August 27 - 29

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Mary Cardenas

Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 98solution. The authors noted that many of the student teams “took advantage of (and put to gooduse) the ability to post digital pictures of prototyping setups, provide hyperlinks to all theirdevice datasheets, post their latest schematics and software listings for evaluation, and post videoclips of their project in action (as verification of their project success criteria).”The use of course management systems (CMS) such as Blackboard5 for educational applicationsof ELNs was reported. CMS are web-based software packages with many functions

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

-theory-that-underpins-our-moocs/3. Egan, K., (2004). Getting it Wrong from the Beginning -- Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.4. Deter Project (2013). http://deter-project.org/deterlab-cyber-security-science-facility-capabilities5. Brown, C, Crabbe, R.D, Greenlaw, R., Hoffmeister, C., Monroe, J., Needham, D., Phillips, A., Pollman, A., Schall, S., Schultz, J., Simon, S., Stahl D., Standard, S. (2012). Anatomy, Dissection, and Mechanics of an Introductory Cyber-Security Class’s Curriculum at the United States Naval Academy, Computers in Education Journal, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402.6. Yue, C., Zhu, W., Williams

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Selyna Perez Beverly

better equip students with skills to be successful engineering students in the college. The classincorporates not only a lecture but a lab component as well. The lecture focuses on discussingexpectations of engineering students in the college, connecting students to campus resources, increasingtheir college readiness skills, and introducing them to the opportunities within the engineering field. Thelab requires students to work on team projects and engage in experiential learning activities enhancingteamwork and communication skills.Preliminary data analysis from the initial cohort of students that took the course in the 2007-2008academic year reveals that dropout rate from college was 10 percent less than those that did not take theclass. Two

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Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

trip the circuit breaker? What assumptions would youhave to make? What equations and data would you use? Look around your home at some commonappliances - a toaster, fan, space heater, television, computer, etc. Which appliances would you predictdraw a lot of current to operate? Which appliances would you predict take a lot of power to operate?Extra credit project: if you would like to investigate this, there is a device called Kill-A-Watt that canmeasure current, voltage, and power when electrical devices are plugged into them. Measure 10-15devices in your home and write a mini lab report describing your data and lessons learned by takingthese measurements. And finally, the examples below are for thermodynamics and fluid dynamicsthreaded

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

nanotube composites.The activities developed are tied to 6th – 8th grade California math standards and provide studentswith an opportunity to see how math can be used to solve authentic engineering researchproblems. Pre and post-surveys were conducted to measure the impact of the visitingengineer/scientist and the research-related activities on students’ perceptions towards engineersand their desire to pursue a career in engineering or science. The results related to this particularresearch will be presented as well as the results and findings for all fellows during the 2012-13school year.Carbon Nanotube Composites – An Authentic Research ProblemOverview. The main objective of this research project is to create composite materials with acarbon