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John T. Tester

“D4P,”curriculum, a series of innovative undergraduate classes which involve team-oriented learningclasses for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years. The D4Pcourses engaged students to learn by actively using engineering education tools that address theissues of realizing a design: problem solving, project management, and teaming.The D4P program provided courses that emphasized team-oriented design and project management.However, traditional manufacturing knowledge and basic skills were not originally addressed,because the program, prior to the 2000’s was not sufficiently large to generate sufficient resources tosupport an ongoing manufacturing laboratory. With the advent of increased enrollments and

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

words.A third lab requires students to practice creating encrypted volumes with an ‘easy’ password anda ‘complex’ password. Once completed, each student tries to crack their partner’s encryptionusing different tools. A final lab challenges the students to practice hardening a Linux virtualmachine by setting up a local firewall and running penetration testing scans against theirpartner’s VM to observe the results. A pre-hardening scan is conducted to enable baselineresults as a comparison against their probe.Students are offered several options for a final class project. One project option is to utilizeSecurity Onion to analyze a large packet capture. Some example of potential datasets are at theNETRESEC website [9]. As part of the project

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Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

literature review as consisting of three levels. The finalworkshop of the academic year is a Technical Writing Intensive, during which the students workon their papers and reports. They are encouraged to bring their dissertations or theses as well, andare provided with one-on-one counseling from the instructors. All workshops include activelearning and lecture as instruction methods.IntroductionEngineering graduate students typically complete a research project and write a thesis ordissertation that includes a literature review. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV),engineering graduate students also are encouraged to submit papers to conferences and journalsas well as participate in writing technical reports required by federal or state

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Bryan J. Mealy

modules.FreeRange Computer Design Lab Activity Manual (FRCD LAM)The FRCD LAM primarily drives the incremental development of the RAT MCU. This manualcurrently contains eleven experiments and one “final project” description. The basic outline ofthe LAM is as follows:  Two FSM-based experiments  One disassembly experiment  Three experiments for RAT modules: program counter, memories, ALU  Three experiments incrementally assembly complete RAT MCU  Two experiment involving interruptsThe first two experiments use FSMs to control external hardware that perform relatively basicoperations involving RAMs. These experiments emphasize the notion that a computer is simply aFSM controlling standard digital modules. The next experiment

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Ranjan K Sen

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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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

518 “The H-1B nonimmigrant classification is a vehicle through which a qualified alien may seek admission to the United States on a temporary basis to work in his or her field of expertise. An H1B petition can be filed for an alien to perform services in a specialty occupation, services relating to a Department of Defense (DOD) cooperative research and development project or coproduction project, or services of distinguished merit and ability in the field of fashion modeling… In order to perform services in a specialty occupation, an alien must meet one of the following criteria: (1) hold a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree as required by the specialty occupation from an accredited

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Lelli Van Den Einde; Nathan Delson; Sean Patno; Jason Hyunjin Cha; Elizabeth Cowan; Jessica Cho

581 Design of a Spatial Visualization App for Increased Student Engagement Lelli Van Den Einde, Nathan Delson, Sean Patno, Jason Hyunjin Cha, Elizabeth Cowan, and Jessica Cho University of California, San Diego, CAAbstractHand sketching of isometrics and orthographic projections is an important skill for conceptgeneration and team brainstorming. In addition, hand sketching skills increase spatial visualizationabilities, which have been correlated with increased GPAs in math and science. In an effort toteach freehand

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

: Proper Mix Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 364 Figure 5: Buttering the Block Figure 6: Level the PrismStudent Hands-On Experience 3: The construction of a masonry wall with a professional mason.By working directly with a professional mason, the student saw how the paper design actuallytransferred to reality. Such issues as dimensions (conform to block unit dimensions) andreinforcement bar clearance can have a great negative impact on project if not

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Paul Nissenson

the two sections were not taught in the same academic term. Thomas and Philpot (2012) examined students’ final exam scores and course grades in a mechanics of materials course.6 They found that there was no significant difference between traditional lecture-only sections and "inverted" (i.e., flipped) sections, but class attendance in the inverted sections was optional and primarily devoted to homework. Redekopp and Ragusa (2013) implemented many current best practices into a flipped computer architecture course including brief online assessments following video tutorials and in-class project work.4 They found that there was no significant difference between the two groups of students on "lower order learning outcomes" but significant

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Ronald P. Uhlig

is also a primary contributor to PEO #4.The written and oral communications skills described in SO #8 are mandatory for anyone employed as apracticing, responsible professional or a graduate student. The ability to document a project, discussalternative approaches with fellow team members, and to present progress to managers are all essentialparts of being employed or pursuing graduate study. SO #8 is a primary contributor to PEO #1. Thesesame skills contribute to PEO #2, because engagement in understanding and applying new ideas andtechnologies requires interacting with team members as well as other colleagues. This includes both oralinteraction and the ability to interact in writing. SO #8 directly enables PEO #3. Active

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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

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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Bari Ma Siddique

amounts ofknowledge to the “placeless” Web. This has sparked a robust re-examination of the modernuniversity’s mission and its role within networked society [1]. The Pew Research Center’sInternet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center askeddigital stakeholders to weigh two scenarios for 2020. One posited substantial change and theother projected only modest change in higher education. Some 1,021 experts and stakeholdersresponded - 39% agreed with a scenario that articulated modest change by the end of the decade.Most universities’ assessment of learning and their requirements for graduation will be about thesame as they are now. Whereas, 60% agreed with a scenario outlining more change: By 2020,higher

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M. Mohammad Ali; Hassan Badkoobehi

35.0 100.0 n0 32.4 35.0 45.0 2 s0 102.0 30.0 148.0 w0 0.002 25.0 0.0025 e0 0.042 30 0.053The range, a, of the variogram can be interpreted as the diameter of the zone of influence whichrepresents the average maximum distance over which a soil property is spatially related. In ourstudy this distance was found to be 5.5 to 8 miles which is large relative to the distance over whichsoils are usually sampled for laboratory tests for a particular project, This suggest that

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Devin D. Cook

layouts and shapes varies between solutions, but, overall the notation is compatible.Unfortunately, these solutions do not sufficiently address the issues regarding semantics nor dothey provide a learning path for students.Future WorkCurrently the software is only available on Microsoft Windows. Since the source was written inMicrosoft C#, efforts will be made to cross-compile it to both Macintosh and Linux. Also, futureversions will feature multi-lingual support. The project website, www.flowgorithm.org, willcontinue to be enhanced with examples, documentation, and relevant information.Additional programming languages will be supported, as needed, by the Source Code Viewer.These include Perl, Objective-C, and Ada. The language itself can also be

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Eric J. White; George Jing; Sandrine Fischer

. To illustrate this, we consider the TIPP classification mentioned inthe Introduction. TIPP classifies exercises by knowledge type (information and mentalprocedures), which are further divided into six increasingly reflective processes. Homeworkexercises were selected from one chapter of an introductory physics textbook5 used at a largepolytechnic state university. Exercises were classified by two students and one instructoraffiliated with the phiMap project. Figure 6 displays the frequency of exercises per TIPPcategory for this chapter. For this sample audit, we consider only the first three cognitiveprocesses, which in the figure correspond to retrieval (1a–b), comprehension (2a–b), and analysis(3a–e). Note that higher levels (knowledge

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

are the keyingredient in the new flipped approach. With emerging computer technology such lectures canbe created and the most complex concepts in engineering can be succinctly explained byanimation and simulation, and viewed repeatedly as needed by students both before and afterthey attend the lecture. Or, in an online modality, they replace the lecture. With emerging,powerful mobile technology the class educational resources and videos can easily be accessibleby students at times and places, with miniature mobile devices, that were not previously possible.“According to Inside Higher Ed, a recent study by the Campus Computing Project showed thatmore than two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities are already, or willing to start