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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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507 Design of an Assembly for a Manufacturing Processes Laboratory John T. Tester, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractPresented is a mechanical assembly design which is used as the core product in a manufacturingprocesses course. The product design was developed to integrate mostly machining processes that areconducted throughout the semester. The product, a bench vise, had design criteria that were imposedprimarily a result of educational needs and constraints at the institution, Northern Arizona University.These criteria included generous

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360 The Paradigm Shift of Coursework Development Through Industry Partnership: An Account of the Development of a Course in Structural Engineering Masonry Building Design Dr. Craig V. Baltimore, and Dr. James Mwangi California Polytechnic State University, Department of Architectural Engineering, San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaAbstractAcademic partnering with industry is a paradigm shift that has taken many forms. The more recentdiscussions in this partnering paradigm shift concern the influence on the curriculum by thepartnership. By

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generation, prototyping, and testing underguidance. To this end, a team of four community college mechanical engineering sophomores,working under a NASA Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for Integration of Researchinto Curriculum (CiPAIR) grant, were tasked with conceptualizing, designing, and prototyping aclosed-loop temperature-controlled enclosure that encased a 3D printer using commerciallyavailable parts, as well as testing the properties of parts printed in such a controlled environment.Under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and a faculty mentor, the team learnedmechanical design using SolidWorks, material selection, hands on metal and plastics fabrication,heat transfer, as well as microcontroller programming using Arduino

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, financial evaluation, benefit cost analysis,resource allocation, time/cost tradeoffs, team-building, progress monitoring and risk assessment.Future professional challenges involve real problems faced by real people living in realcommunities and contain both technical and non-technical elements. Integrated and collaborativeeducational experiences can help students to meet these challenges successfully. This project gavestudents an opportunity to overcome obstacles and step out of their comfort zones. Students learnedthe value of a committed team and gained confidence to lead and take risks, realizing that nothingworthwhile comes easily. Assignments, progress reports, a final report, and peer evaluations wereused to assess student learning outcomes

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

)education, according to a 2007 report2, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing andEmploying America for a Brighter Economic Future”. Additionally, other concerns about thequality and effectiveness of teaching learning environments in the U.S. are also registered.Educational paradigms that served us well in the past may not be adequate for the future. Welive in a rapidly changing world, with a global job market, global educational competition, aglobally integrated economy3, conflicting educational values, increasing multicultural trends,burdening educational cost, rising security crisis, growing ethical and moral conflicts, wideningincome gaps, and unstable financial conditions. Some strategic actions are needed for preventingfurther

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Bhaskar R. Sinha; Pradip P. Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Mohammad N. Amin; Debra A. Bowen

: Accelerated format, active learning, agile development, agile pedagogy, curricula,program learning outcomes, student learning.IntroductionInformation Technology Management (ITM) programs in most academic institutions integratefundamentals in networking, wireless, database, client-server, information security, ITmanagement techniques and tools, and hands-on experiences required to solve real-worldindustry problems1. The final capstone project, taken as the last two classes by the studentsbefore graduation, is a unique and valuable learning experience for students in many schools. Itis usually designed to expand their outlook and create an opportunity for real world problemsolving by means of integration of knowledge from multiple sources, multiple

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Curricula project [3].Also, the curriculum must reflect the relationship of IT to other computing disciplines as theydepend on materials covered in other computing disciplines. The curriculum must reflect theaspects that set IT apart from other computing disciplines. The overview report of the ComputingCurricula 2005 was augmented as necessary and organized into a form acceptable to theComputing Curricula Series, which is a guideline for four-year undergraduate degree programsin IT from ACM and IEEE in 2008.IT as an academic discipline is concerned with issues related to advocating for users and meetingtheir needs within an organizational and societal context through the selection, creation,application, integration and administration of computing

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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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Tania Martinez; Amado Flores-Renteria; Jasmine Flores; Jolani Chun; Cheng Chen; Hezareigh Ryan; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Amelito G. Enriquez; Albert Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

in the United States. Engagingcommunity college students in engineering studies especially earthquake engineering research isof significant interests for the San Francisco Bay Area and the state of California. Futureearthquake disaster prevention and preparation require that professional civil engineers are trainedand recruited into the next generation workforce for the purpose of public safety. With supportfrom NASA through the Curriculum Improvement and Partnership Awards for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program, four community college engineering students participated in a ten-week summer research internship program at San Francisco State University in summer 2014. Theproject focuses on an innovative experimental technique of real

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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

STEM andenabling them to discover their capacity to use STEM to make a difference in the world. Withsupport from the NASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements and Partnership Award for theIntegration of Research) program, in summer 2014, four sophomore engineering students fromCañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in California’s Silicon Valley participated in aten-week summer research internship project on intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) in theIntelligent Computing and Embedded Systems Lab (ICE Lab) at San Francisco State University,a public comprehensive university. CPS is an emerging technology that features a tightcombination of, and coordination between a system’s computational elements and physicalelements. It has a

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emphasisco-op programs and find innovative ways to schedule these into the curriculum.A final concern for the aerospace engineering curriculum involves appearances of misuse of theundergrad capstone aircraft design course. Engineers know capstone is essential preparation forthat first job in the real world, since it may be one of the few opportunities, if not the onlyopportunity, an undergrad will have to integrate what they’ve learned in their coursework in thecontext of the whole system and to realistically exercise multi-disciplinary synthesis, leadership Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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)According to, Humanitarian Engineering (HE) as a discipline was founded in 2003, when theWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation funded the creation of a minor program at ColoradoSchool of Mines (CSM).27 Muñoz describes the new discipline as “a wave that’s passingthrough the world among young people that are bent on trying to improve the lives of humans onthe planet in a sustainable way.”28Though Munoz describes humanitarian engineering as a discipline and established it as a fullprogram at the School of Mines, this paper showcases the integration of humanitarianengineering an existing engineering course/curriculum.27 The argument is made that wherehaving humanitarian engineering as a program may be challenging due to time and resourceconstraints

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2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 56 Morgn et al.6.The Cal Poly Pomona Mechanical Engineering department curriculum objectives and outcomes which are derived from the ABET a-k are summarized below. The Mechanical Engineering curriculum at Cal Poly Pomona objectives are designed to:1. provide a solid background in mathematics and science coupled with an applications-oriented polytechnic approach in the presentation of engineering course material which may be synthesized over the first few years of one's

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that anorientation course should also contain an element that improves the wisdom and the sense ofcreativity of a freshman engineering course.Finally engineering is a profession just like those in medical or legal fields. Television and filmshave clearly defined what such learned people do and students of such fields understand why anytopic on their curriculum helps them in becoming better professionals. Other than MacGyverthere has not been any other public visual presentation of how application of engineeringprinciples helps the everyday lives of people. An engineering student should fall in love with thefiled at the orientation course by fully learning about subjects that would lead him to have therequired skills. A typical general

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studentsacross the college would be able to design, build, and test a variety of building components. Theresult was a privately funded laboratory 5,000-square-foot lab named the Simpson Strong-Tie(SST) Materials Demonstration Lab for the donors to the laboratory which was dedicated inOctober 2010.The integrated curriculum model described by Hauck and Jackson provides tremendousopportunities to engage teaching strategies far beyond the common lecture approach typicallyutilized in many single subject courses3. They proposed that various methodologies, such ascooperative learning, could be utilized in an integrated learning lab environment. Furthermore,they proposed a teaching approach for construction management education which requiresstudents to be

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processes are in their infancy, andshould be more logically designed and strategically deployed in an integrated fashion withlearning outcomes and textbook content.Keywords: Distance learning, learning management systems, laboratory equipment, text books,workbooks, virtual laboratory, experiential learning, computer science, information technologyIntroductionThe survey results presented in this paper focus on the delivery of experiential, hands-onlearning resources by provisioning computer science labs. The survey data was obtained from ajoint survey project conducted by Pearson Education and iNetwork, Inc. The schools included inthe study had either undergraduate and/or graduate level cyber security degree programs. Thefaculties who responded to

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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

licenses as well. Morethan 50% of the immigrant engineers who attended one of these training programs successfullycompleted their exams and received their Engineer-in-Training certification, which is a pass ratehigher than the national average. This paper describes the curriculum, and best practices, andstrategies adopted for this program. While this program was specifically designed for recentimmigrants in California, lessons learned can be applied to other students interested in preparingfor the FE or PE exams as part of the engineering licensing process.IntroductionNew immigrants are strongly represented in US engineering occupations, making up about one-quarter of the engineering workforce1. However, new immigrants often face special

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Amelito Enriquez; Nicholas Langhoff; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shanasser; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Ed Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

(N=45) (N=10) (N=55) I enjoyed participating in the Summer 4.78 4.80 4.78 Engineering Institute. My participation in SEI has a significant impact on my choice of career. 4.47 4.00 4.383. Creating Opportunities for Minorities in Engineering, Technology, and ScienceIn fall 2010, Cañada College collaborated with San Francisco State University School ofEngineering to create the Creating Opportunities for Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, andScience (COMETS) program. Funded by NASA through the Curriculum ImprovementsPartnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) program, the COMETS programwas developed

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available to demonstrate achievement of Student Learning Outcomes. However, theuniversity has not had Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs) for its computer science andengineering programs in the past. In preparation for seeking ABET Accreditation; a set of threePEOs were first developed for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) program in2011. The PEOs were integrated into the university’s extensive assessment review cycle, andmapped upward to the mission of the university and downward to the Student Outcomes. Thethree 2001 PEOs were expanded to four PEOs during review in 2014 by the BSCS ExternalReview Board and the computer science faculty. Seven Institutional Learning Outcomes areintegral to the National University mission. In order

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vettors.Future Peer Review Using Internet TechnologyInternet curricula offerings, through MOOCs or other means, rely upon the accreditation andvetting by the university that offers the online course in order to establish the validity of theoffered curriculum. Articulation, the process whereby credit is given for completing a MOOCcourse is undergoing discussion and definition.Regarding publications, Akerman further states, “For the certification role, the current system of peer review has enduring value, ensuring that an article passes certain standards of scientific quality and integrity. It requires considerable knowledge and expertise, as well as a wide base of contacts within academia to be able to select appropriate reviewers. But

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too easily do to not learn as much.To encourage active learning and perseverance, but still provide the peek option so students canwork independently, several new features have been integrated into the Apps such as startingwith simple assignments that become more complex, providing a hint as an intermediate optionbefore a peek, providing a point system (stars) to encourage students to attempt the sketchwithout peeking, and including Assessment Questions at the end of each lesson where thehint/peek options are disabled. These features have been implemented initially in the SpatialKids™ App and are described in detail in the following sections.Self-Guided LearningSimple Assignments that Become More ComplexTo build student confidence and guide

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offers a Masterof Science degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (MS-CSIA). Hands-on labs are acore component of the MS-CSIA curriculum. Providing students with labs that utilize theapplication tools and techniques used by industry can be expensive. The MS-CSIA programdeveloped a set of labs utilizing the open source Network Security Monitoring tool SecurityOnion along with publicly available network traffic captures with malware to create a set ofchallenging and realistic labs.Security OnionSecurity Onion is an open source Network Security Monitoring (NSM) suite of applications usedto provide full context and visibility into network traffic[1]. Network Security Monitoring isbased on the collection, analysis, and escalation of

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an online program provided that the curriculum has been developed or converted to meet the needs of the online medium. Transferring credits – Some schools still do not acknowledge online schools in the same light as on-campus schools, making it difficult to transfer credits to an on-site college.3. Security overviewThe success of Online Learning depends on how secure is the internet system, more precisely,how secure the web-server which providing the educational services is?A secure security system has three main concepts: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.Confidentiality ensures access of information to authorized parties only, whereas integrityensures transfer of unaltered data to the receiver. Availability ensures

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VicePresident of Product Management & Engineering for the wireless terminals division of SamsungTelecommunications America. He began his career as an associate professor of electricalengineering at Lakehead University, Canada. He has authored more than 30 technicalpublications and received five patents with several patents pending.Dr. Justin P. OpatkiewiczB.S. U.C. BerkeleyPh.D. Stanford UniversityDr. Opatkiewicz joined the NanoEngineering Department at UC San Diego in 2012 to lecture in avariety of core courses in the Chemical Engineering curriculum. He has won the Teacher of theYear Award for both the NanoEngineering department and the Jacobs School of Engineering in2014. While at Berkeley, Dr. Opatkiewicz created and taught the course

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existing course content. It was a“stuck in the mud”, dry course that did give an insight into the processes but the labs were un-engaging. Probably the worst experiment that we had was one of sand control where a specimenof greensand was weighed in the wet condition, dried with an industrial hair blower and thenweighed in the dry condition producing data to be used to calculate the moisture content of thesample. It was as exciting as watching “paint dry”. Additionally the objects that were castconsisted of the standard old patterns of a large replica on an “Indian Head” coin, etc. Whateverwe had is what you were stuck with. The course was mired in the past and doomed forelimination. In order to survive, it need to morph into something more