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David F. Hosterman; Wblesther Gama; Andrew Vitaljic; Jonathan H. Poluan; Ali A. Ballout; Yong X Gan; James L. Smith; Jimmie C. Oxley

nanomaterial sensor using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) todetermine the concentration and the rate of decomposition of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) inwater is performed. Results are presented for the sensor readings for dilute solutions ofammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) in various concentrations. The participating students show a verygood correlation of concentration level with the output response of the QCM. The students alsofind that QCM is very sensitive to the scan rate of the voltage potential.Ammonium nitrate has long been used as a high nitrogen fertilizer in the agriculture industry. Inthe 1950’s it was discovered that ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil (ANFO) provided anexcellent explosive that could be used in the mining industry. Since ANFO

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attributes associated with their composite attributes of E.  Rule #2: For each multi-valued attribute A of an entity E, create a relation/table R whose attributes are composed of the attribute corresponding to A and the primary key of E.  Rules #3: For each entity A which is related to another entity B via an “ISA” relationship (i.e., A “ISA” B), include in the relation corresponding to A the primary key of B.  Rule #4: For each binary one-to-one relationship R between entities A and B with their corresponding relations S and T, include in S, the primary key of B. Further, if the relationship R has attributes, include them in S. Alternatively, choose T in the role of S.  Rule #5: For each binary one

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, that covers the topics listed above.New Course(s)The contents of one or more new courses are based on the need of covering the cores conceptspresented above. The contents are described below.Topic 1: Computer Cluster Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 310The idea of using multiple commodity computers, connected via local area network, originatedwith the work of building a cheap super-computer. The essential goal was to set up an affordablebut useful hardware/software platform for distributed

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describes our implementation of Mastery learning and how it played out inour courses. It is our hope that this paper will give others ideas of how to learn from our mistakesso that other implementations of mastery learning schemes may be more successful.IntroductionThe concept of mastery learning has been around in public schools since the 1920s, but did notgain popularity until the 1960s, with Benjamin S. Bloom’s paper on ‘learning for mastery’ in19681 and another paper on ‘mastery learning’ in 19712. The idea behind Mastery learning is tomake sure all students achieve ‘mastery’ of the course learning objectives by the end of thecourse rather than being solely concerned about assigning an A-F grade on all assignments. Thedriving force behind a

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the text book?Figure 10/Q57: Would you want pre-configured labs that map to your current textbook(s)?Commentary: A summary of Figures 7 through 10 can be stated as: Faculty has primaryresponsibility for creating lab assignments. They are creative in defining labs that reflect theirindividual viewpoint on the learning objectives which benefit from hands-on experience. Thelab assignments currently being created by a faculty are independent of text books. Text bookpublishers have an opportunity to provide pre-configured labs which map to the text. One likelyreason that faculty has this unsatisfied desire/need is that it would reduce its work load.It is interesting to note that many traditional science degree programs like biology, chemistry

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M. Zoghi; L. Crask; B. Hyatt; V. Luo; W. Wu

proposed Grand Challenges Scholars Program.OverviewThe undergraduate curriculum for the Construction Management program in the Lyles College ofEngineering at Fresno State was overhauled nearly three years ago. The unique features of therevised curriculum comprised an interdisciplinary approach with a business minor as an integralelement of the CM major. Service learning was incorporated at all levels in the form of “S”designated courses. At the freshman level, CM 1S, the orientation course; in the mid-level, CM7S, the construction materials and assembly course; and at the senior level, the capstone course,CM 180S provide the experiential learning opportunities with one or more community basedorganizations (CBOs) in the field of construction. Each

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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

for, a local non-profit helped keep students accountable over the course ofthe semester. Overall, the service-learning project context was found to be a creative and usefulway to help students learn the course topics, but assessment of outcomes revealed areas forimprovement that will be incorporated in the next iteration of this project.Bibliography1. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2010-11 Accreditation Cycle. ABET Inc., Baltimore, MD.2. Smith, K. A., S. D. Sheppard, D. W. Johnson, and R. T. Johnson, (2005) "Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices," Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), pp. 87-101 (2005)3. Sevier, C., S. Y. Chyung, J. Callahan, and C

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, Engineering, and Mathematics. Retrieved October 1, 2013, from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf.10. Bennett, J. (2005). The effects of context-based and Science-Technology-Society (STS) approaches in the teaching of secondary science on boys and girls, and on lower-ability pupils. Retrieved August 23, 2013, from http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=SqD-s-48RCY%3d&tabid=329&mid=1242.11. Hulleman, C. S., and Harackiewicz, J. M. (2009). Making Education Relevant: Increasing Interest and Performance in High School Science Classes. Science, 326, 1410-1412.12. Bennett, J., and Holman, J. (2002). Context-Based Approaches to the Teaching of Chemistry

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Pradip Peter Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Amir Rezaei; Amelito G. Enriquez; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Mohammad Amin

, University of Chicago Press.8. Skinner, B. (1957) Verbal Behavior, Copley Publishing Group.9. Skinner, B. (1969) Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis, Appleton-Century-Crofts.10. Chomsky, N. (1959). "Reviews: Verbal behavior by B. F. Skinner". Language 35 (1): 26–5811. Fosnot, C. (editor) (2005) Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives And Practice, Teachers College Press (2nd edition)12. Barrows, H. S. (1985). How to design a problem-based curriculum for the preclinical years. New York: Springer.13. Hmelo, C. E., & Evensen, D. H. (2000). Problem-based learning: Gaining insights on learning interactions through multiple methods of inquiry. In D. H. Evensen & C. E. Hmelo (Eds.), Problem-based learning: A research

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Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

the same workshop to gain additional knowledge and assistance.Future study is underway to investigate how to improve attendance and implement more formalassessment of student learning in each workshop.Bibliography1. Westbrook, L., & DeDecker, S. (1993). Supporting user needs and skills to minimize library anxiety: Considerations for academic libraries. The Reference Librarian, 18(40), 43-51.2. Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (1997). Writing a research proposal: The role of library anxiety, statistics anxiety, and composition anxiety. Library & Information Science Research, 19(1), 5-33.3. Mellon, C. A. (1986). Library anxiety: A grounded theory and its development. College & Research Libraries, 47(2), 160-165.4. Kuhlthau, C

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

their peers and they are graded by their peers and the instructor(s).At the end of the academic year, we expect to finish the following additional supplemental items: a. A customized website that provides introduction to any topics in the C++ environment with many examples to support the chosen topic. b. An online tool that will allow students to debug, run, and study the behavior of their codes. This tool will accomplish the goal by accessing a C++ compiler on a remote server or Chromebook. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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analysis of asecond packet capture (pcap) file. The pcap files are used from a previous and publicly availableNetwork Forensics contest [5]. Utilizing a pcap file, the students learn to extract a transmitted fileand locate information in a TCP connection stream. Next, students replay a TCP file from an oldhoneynet scan of the monthly contest and learn how to review and analyze alerts in Snorby andsquil [6]. Once students are familiar with these tools, they are given another task named “AnnSkips Bail” [7]. The purpose of this lab is to find some specific data in the pcap files. Onechallenge to using publicly available contests, is the easy availability of answers; especially forolder contests. In addition to answering the specific question(s

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 58Bibliography1. Gannod, G.C., K.M Bachman, D.A. Troy, S D and S.D Brockman. 2010. Increasing Alumni Engagement Through the Capstone Experience. Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE. F1C-1-F1C-6.2. Conn, A.F, and W.N Sharpe. 1993. An Industry-sponsored Capstone Design Course.Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference - FIE '93. 493-496.3. Paretti, M.C, and C.B Burgoyne. 2005. Integrating Engineering and Communication: A Study of

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Martin Koch

Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 146IntroductionHow to turn a staid foundry practices course into a NetShape course.In the late 80’s / early 90’s of the last millennium I was assigned to teach our FoundryEngineering course for the Industrial Engineering Department. Up to this point I had only beenteaching automation and computer science courses and knew nothing about the industry. Tolearn about it I began a relationship with the industry through it's professional societies andcompanies. I became, and still am, quite enamored with it’s wide range of processes andmethods. Molten metal is cool. What was not cool was the

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Inform 27(3):5–10.14) Myers, B.; Rosson, M. B. Survey on User Interface Programming. Proc. of the 10th Annual CHI Conference onHuman Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 195-202, 2000.15) Ambler, S. (2013). Modeling and Documentation 2013 Mini-Survey Results. Retrieved from Ambysoft.com:http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/modelingDocumentation2013.html16) Ramsay, A. (2009, March 1). Three Reasons to start designing iteratively. Retrieved January 11, 2015, fromAndersRamsay.com: http://www.andersramsay.com/2009/03/01/three-reasons-to-start-designing-iteratively/17) Pressman, R. S. (2009). Software Engineering: A practitioner's approach. McGraw-Hill.18) Matthias Jarke, Requirements tracing, Communications of the ACM, v.41 n.12, p.32-36, Dec. 1998[doi>

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offering undergraduateengineering programs; it is the smallest in the context of regular faculty appointments to theMechanical Engineering program (10 tenure-track and lecturers). However, the NAU MechanicalEngineering undergraduate program can nearly match any campus for on-campus undergraduateMechanical Engineering enrollment, approaching 800 students as of 2015. In this century, thefaculty at NAU has seen a swell of enrollment in Mechanical Engineering—one data point is the390% increase in enrollment since 2008. The result is both a challenge and an opportunity for thisdepartment to offer more a industrial-oriented manufacturing laboratory to the undergraduates.Since the mid-1990’s the NAU Engineering programs offer the “Design4Practice,” or

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of the American Society of Engineering Education.[4] Redekopp, M. and G. Ragusa (2013). Evaluating Flipped Classroom Strategies and Tools for ComputerEngineering. In Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education.[5] Kaw, A. and S. Garapati (2010). Development of Digital Audiovisual Lectures for an Engineering Course: AYouTube Experience. In Proceedings of the 2010 American Society of Engineering Education Southeast SectionConference.[6] Thomas, J. and T. Philpot (2012). An inverted teaching model for a mechanics of materials course. InProceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education.[7] Zappe, S., R. Leicht, J. Messner, T. Litzinger, H. Lee (2009

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successful and timely capstone project completion.Capstone Project Objectives and Process1The BS-ITM capstone project is a three-month two-course sequence in which students work onan original project that brings together concepts, principles and tools that are taught in theprogram. The deliverable is not a theoretical design but, rather, a working prototype of a real-world need that meets the requirements of an actively collaborating client. Students completetheir projects and present their work to a panel of academic and industry professionals in thisdiscipline. Grading is H (Honors), S (Satisfactory), or U (Unsatisfactory) only. Objectives of thiscourse are to: Demonstrate the importance of Project Planning and Project Management Do in-depth

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that they have theskills necessary to develop work for potential employers, and have experience in executing thetasks on the workplace. Soltani et al.’s study revealed that engineering programs that aresponsored by industry partners displayed a closer match between the requirements of employersand the interests of students. In programs where industry partners sponsored internships, studentshad a chance to develop skills required to find jobs, academics developed closer links to theindustry, and employers had a chance to develop and retain professionals in their businesses. It isworth mentioning that many of the NECA student chapters also benefit from internshipsprovided by the local NECA chapter members sponsoring the students’ activities

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., 1999.[8] J. J. Summers, A. Waigandt and T. A. Whittaker, "A comparison of student achievement and satisfaction in an online versus a traditional face-to-face statistics class," Innovative Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 233- 250, 2005.[9] D. Xu and S. Jaggars, "Adaptability to online learning: Differences across types of students and academic subject areas.," Community College Research Center, 2013.[10] N. J. Shukla, H. Hassani and R. Casleton, "A Comparison of Delivery Methods for Distance Learning Mathematics Courses.," Columbus State University, 2014.[11] U.S. Department of Education, "Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IEPDS)," National Center for Educational Statistics, Washington, D.C., 2013.[12] E. G

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involved in from start to finish.Bibliography 1. Ahn, S. H., Montero, M., Odell, D., Roundy, S., & Wright, P. K. (2002). Anisotropic material properties of fused deposition modeling ABS. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 8(4), 248-257. 2. Pham, D. T., & Gault, R. S. (1998). A comparison of rapid prototyping technologies. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 38(10), 1257-1287. 3. Boschetto, A., Giordano, V., & Veniali, F. (2013). Surface roughness prediction in fused deposition modelling by neural networks. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 67(9- 12), 2727-2742. 4. PunchTec. Connect XL 3D printer. . Accessed 2014 July 29. 5. Roberson, D. A

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”, ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, 2014.3. http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2002/proceed.html4. Melody Moore and Colin Potts, Learning by Doing: Goals and Experiences of Two Software Engineering ProjectCourses, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 750, 1994, pp 151-164.5. http://www.cpp.edu/~engineering/pdf/factsheet.pdf6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_robotics7. J. V. G Robertson, N. Jarrassé, and A. Roby-Brami. "Rehabilitation robots: a compliment to virtual reality."Schedae 6.1 (2010): 77-94.8. http://www.mobilitysystems.se/se/wp-content/uploads/Tibion_HalfPageBrochure_2-11_FINAL21.pdf9. http://interactive-motion.com/healthcarereform/upper-extremity-rehabilitiation/inmotion2-arm/10. Lum, Peter S., et al. "Robot

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eye-tracking system, which is a fiducial- andcontact-free setup integrated into the bottom of a 22-inch flat-panel monitor. The problems weredisplayed on this monitor with a resolution of 1250x1024. Their layout was such that the inter-word distance was greater than 0.5° degrees.ProcedureEach participant took part in one session lasting approximately 30 minutes. Upon signing aninformed consent form, the participant was seated at the eye-tracking workstation, about 65 cmin front of the monitor. S/he was handed an instruction sheet regarding use of a calculator,rounding of answers, role of the test moderator, and importance of staying focused on their task.The moderator calibrated the SMI to each participant using a brief nine-point calibration

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Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

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spatial visualization brain-teaser, were given a mini-lectureon the topic of the day, reviewed tutorial material using the Developing Spatial Thinking6software, a web-based software package that was developed in the 1990’s containing animationsof how to visualize spatial visualization concepts, and finally worked on sketching and multiplechoice exercises via the iPad SVT™ App.Data was recorded every time a student submitted an answer for a multiple-choice or sketchingassignment. In addition, for each sketching assignment, an image showing the submitted sketchwas recorded, as well as whether the student chose to use the peek option and what attemptnumber the submission correlated to. These detailed data were analyzed for the 52 students whotook

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) Dr. Adnan Abufara, Ummul Qura University Dr. Mohammad A. Alim, Alabama A&M University Mr. Laith Al Any, National University Dr. Saleh AlKahtani, Salman bin Abdulaziz University Dr. Abu S. Amanullah, Olympus Communications Dr. Shazzad Aslam-Mir, Senior Consultant Dr. Hassan Badkoobehi, National University Dr. Amelito Enriquez, Canada College Dr. Alireza Farahani, National University Dr. Peilin Fu, National University Dr. James Jaurez, National University Prof. Sanjida Khanam, ITT-Alabama Dr. Debra Larson, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Dr

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://www.cmacn.org/[2] Building Requirements for Masonry Structures (TMS 402); The Masonry Society,105 South Sunset St, Suite Q, Longmont, CO, 80501; http://www.masonrysociety.org/References1 Chinchilla, R.; Collaboration between private sector and academia: Are we compromising our engineering programs?; ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2013, 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; June 23-26, 2013 - June 26, 2013.2 Ahzar, S., et. al.; State-of-the-Art Best Construction Practices Integration into Higher Education Curricula; Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2014.3 NCEES; Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake) Component of the Structural Engineering DEPTH Exam

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, 51-55, January 2014.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssign[5] http://webwork.maa.org/ Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 506[6] Renée S. Cole† and John B. Todd, Effects of Web-Based Multimedia Homework with Immediate Rich Feedback on Student Learning in General Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 80 No. 11, p 1338. 2003.[7] T. Buchanan, The efficacy of a world-wide web mediated formative assessment J. Comput. Assist. Learn

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Configurations”, San Jose, California, Feb., 2009.3. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Todd Austin, “Structured Computer Organization”, Pearson publisher, 2012.4. Robert Duron, Barbara Limbach, and Wendy Waugh, “Critical Thinking Framework for Any Discipline”, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. 17, No. 2, Pages 160-166, 2006.5. James Graham, Karla Conn Welch, Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, and Shamus McNamara, “Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering,” in Proceedings of the ASEE 2012 Annual Conference, 2012.6. Robert J. Niewoehner, “Applying a Critical Thinking Model for Engineering Education,” 2006 World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, Vol.5, No.2, 2006.7. Belgin Yildirim, Sukran Ozkahraman

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received first by the instructional designers that are responsible forsetting up the support system, then by the RLE responsible for providing support and finally bythe student-inmate. This multiple responsibility challenges the instructor, who is then worriedabout certain content that may not comply with copyright laws. It is for this reason that theinstructor limits the number of images within in the instructional materials and asks for theseitems to be returned at the end of the year. This, at various levels, seems to the instructor, aconstraint. The instructor thus adopts a more conservative attitude with regards to the contenttransmitted, claiming the need for strict compliance with copyright laws, a constraint that s/hemay never have voiced