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280 Linking a Senior Civil Engineering Water Analysis Laboratory to Public Education Mónica Palomo, Civil Engineering Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractWater quality engineering requires young engineers to be able to clearly communicate complextopics to the public at a level appropriate to people’s education regarding water issues. To helpstudents acquire this skill the senior level water analysis laboratory curriculum of the WaterTreatment Engineering course was designed to include a pilot research study. The students

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John T. Tester

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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laboratory exercises are tied tospecific text books, the frequency the labs are updated, and the impact of the budget cycle uponthe introduction of new resources. This paper presents the survey results along with relevantstatistical information. The findings indicate that there exists a mixed correlation between textbook learning outcomes and laboratory exercises. The results suggest that the provisioning ofcomputer labs to deliver hands-on instruction in computer science courses varies greatly betweeninstitutions, and, particularly so, in distance learning programs. It is unfortunate that labs arefrequently an afterthought appendage to an existing textbook. Although there are a fewexceptions, the authors posit that computer lab provisioning

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Estelle M. Eke

American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 542one 2-hour 45 minute laboratory per week. The prerequisite courses are Statics and ElectricalCircuits. The class size is 30 students per section with an average of five sections per year.Typical enrollment consists of students who have transferred from various community collegesand others who have completed their sophomore coursework at our institution. For most of thestudents, ME 105 is the first programming course encountered. The design component of thecourse was implemented by

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

550 Work-In-Progress: Enhancing Students’ Learning in Advanced Power Electronic Course Using a USB Solar Charger Project Taufik, Dale Dolan California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CAAbstractIn order to improve students’ design and hands on skills in power electronics at Cal Poly San LuisObispo, a new hardware project has recently been added in the advanced power electronic course.The new project requires students to design and construct a USB solar charger as their finalhardware project in the laboratory

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system, studentswould receive a total of one-hundred eighty (180) hours of instruction10. Similar to coursesoffered through an architecture program, their concept was teach each course in a dedicatedspace equipped with models, samples, contracts, marketing documents, specifications, estimatingguides, computer references, and other tools appropriate to that construction industry sector. Inaddition, the laboratory would be furnished with work stations for twenty-six (26) students whowould have twenty-four (24) hour/seven (7) days of week access to the space1.The concept for the commercial building construction management course was to focus on thework performed by a commercial building contractor who may self-perform various work itemsrequired for

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Norali Pernalete; Shima Hajimirza

problemswhile facilitating communication with different specialists in a team. As one of the leading collegesof engineering, our mission is to link theory and practice via our learning-by-doing philosophy.To be in alignment with this mission, students in both areas of engineering technology can take atechnical elective course in robotics and applications during their senior year. In this course, theylearn the basic principles of the science of manipulation along with basic control of roboticmanipulators. In the laboratory portion of the course, they work in interdisciplinary teams andbuild a robotic manipulator with the interface to teleoperate it by using a haptic device. They applythe system for specific tasks of activities of daily living (such as

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147production rate and high cost of use. While still explaining and demonstrating the possibilities ofthe AM processes we focused on the rapid machining of patterns. We have been quite successfulin this and hopefully the descriptions of the details of the Course and the Laboratory will showthis. But, the transformation is still on-going.Details of the CourseIME 141 Netshape is a one unit hands-on laboratory course that meets once a week for threehours throughout a 10 week quarter. We have between 120 to 168 students each and everyquarter. Each laboratory section is limited to 24 students for safety reasons, so every quarter weoffer 6 to 7 lab sections. The students come mainly from Mechanical, Industrial andManufacturing Engineering with representation

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M. Mohammad Ali; Hassan Badkoobehi

< 1.0 e0 ≥ 0.82 0.67 ≤ e0 <0.82 < 0.67 γd,(kN/m3) ≤ 14.3 14.3 < γd ≤ 15.6 > 15.6For this study field and laboratory test data were collected from local consulting engineers’ officesand from the reports of previous researchers (e.g. Sabbagh, 1982). The raw data were reduced toobtain parameters in two categories: established criteria, such as Cp, R, and collapse-related soilparameters, such as, γd, w0, e0, n0, s0 and PL. Analysis performed on selected parameters arepresented in this paper.Modeling of variogram:Modelling of variogram is the first and most important step in applying the

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Dr. Mudasser Wyne, National University Dr. Lu Zheng, National University Keynote SpeakersDr. Don CzechowiczB.S. University of Southern CaliforniaM.S./Ph.D. Penn State UniversityDr. Czechowicz is currently Project Leader at General Atomics where he has worked for the last25 years on a variety of applied technology programs mainly focused on advanced energydevelopment. Previously Dr. Czechowicz was at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he didhis Ph.D. thesis research, and was involved in nuclear power programs for space applications.For the past 15 years Don has served as advisor to the UCSD Engineering Honor Society, TauBeta Pi. In this role Don has been a link between the best

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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

, Engineering, and Mathematics (HSI STEM) program.The Summer Engineering Teaching Institute and the Joint Engineering Program have contributedto strengthening California’s community college engineering programs by allowing small-to-medium programs to offer more online classes on lower-division engineering courses, many ofwhich would have been canceled due to low enrollment. As a result, the number of communitycollege engineering students who are able to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased. However, courses requiring laboratory componentsare currently not offered online at any of the partner colleges. As a result many students are notable to complete the required lab courses before transfer, and

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

additional risk to the laboratory network.This paper describes how we utilized the open source Linux distribution tool, Security Onion alongwith real malware and network traffic captures from publicly available sources to create achallenging and realistic set of hands-on cybersecurity labs. Security Onion is a Linux distributionthat is used for intrusion detection, network security monitoring, and log management. It containsa variety of network security monitoring tools and is used by many organizations to monitornetworks for intrusion. With its large number of pre-installed tools, Security Onion is an excellenttool to demonstrate network security monitoring concepts and provides students a hands-onexperience with application tools commonly used by

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

settings. Laboratory exercises offer students an immersive experience which arespecifically designed to encourage problem solving skills in a real-world environment. Wenotice that many of our freshmen students are unprepared for basic courses in circuits and C++programming. Consequently, they are very frustrated in this kind of setting and thus this situationpushes them to change their majors. We also observed that our students are very much motivated Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 219by

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Kamran Abedini

, contact material producers, carpet manufacturers, wheel manufacturers, weight of linen, strength of housekeepers,…; All such data gathering are shown in engineering laboratories (Mechanical, Material, Biomechanics, anthropometric tables),..As shown in the above steps, students get fully engaged in all aspects of a real life puzzlingsituation from ground zero, at the freshman level, where an engineered product is evaluated andredesigned and using their creativity and wisdom identify the importance of all the puzzle piecesinvolved in completing the entire picture, their course of study in engineering. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright

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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

success of these students.Among the strategies developed for this project is a ten-week summer research internshipprogram developed collaboratively with San Francisco State University, a large comprehensiveurban university in San Francisco. The goals of the program are to strengthen students' identityas engineers and researchers; increase student interest to further engage in research activities;and enhance student self-efficacy for successfully transferring to a four-year university,completing a baccalaureate degree in engineering, and pursuing a graduate degree.2. Civil Engineering ProjectShake table, quasi-static, and hybrid simulation tests are the three main experimental methodsthat are used in laboratory on the seismic performance of

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Rita Melgar; Anthony Nash; Mou Sun; Carmen Tepeu Yoc; Maral Amir; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

4.25 0.19 I understand how scientists work on real problems. 4.00 4.06 0.06 I understand that scientific assertions require supporting 4.69 4.56 -0.13 evidence. I have the ability to analyze data and other information. 4.56 4.56 0.00 I understand science. 4.44 4.44 0.00 I have learned about ethical conduct in my field. 4.25 4.44 0.19 I have learned laboratory techniques. 4.00 4.13 0.13 I have an ability to read and

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

with teachingpractices that prepare a student for lifelong learning whether in a laboratory or on the assemblyline floor.The purpose of the examples and proposed solutions that follow in this paper is to draw attentionto changes in our engineering pedagogy that have occurred over the last few years and toencourage a re-focus that may positively affect our undergraduate engineering education. Thispaper describes some changes in aerospace engineering that have both positive contributions andnegative consequences. There are also similar examples and solutions in every other engineeringdisciplines. Students learn and retain much better when the basics are understood beforeadvanced concepts are introduced, and when practical applications reinforce

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Bryan J. Mealy

emphasizes the underlying RATMCU instruction formats by having students disassemble machine code. The next threeexperiments involve the design of the RAT MCU’s program counter, memories (register file andscratch RAM), and ALU. The following three experiments incrementally assemble the RATMCU into a working computer in three stages: 1) a working computer with five instructions, 2) aworking computer with no interrupt capability, and, 3) the completed RAT MCU. The final twoexperiments involve the use of interrupts and interfacing with an external timer module. Thefinal laboratory experience requires students to use their RAT MCUs to implement a project oftheir choosing in order to learn assembly language programming practices associated withrelatively

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Baheej Nabeel James Saoud; Brian P. Self; Jim Widmann; Alexa Coburn; Jeffrey Phillip Georgette

than the word of the professor or the calculations in the students’ homework. Allowing theresults of a physical experiment to communicate information to the student tends to be moreeffective than having a professorconvey the facts. The IBLA (a) Use peer instruction and collaborative workprocedure has students make aprediction about a physical situation (b) Use activity-based guided-inquiry curricular materialsthen allows them to witness theresult and draw conclusions from (c) Use a learning cycle beginning with predictionsthat result. The IBLA allows formore independence in learning, as it (d) Emphasize conceptual understandingis not meant to be highly structuredas in a laboratory experiment. (e

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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

470 Distance Learning Requirements for Vetting Curricula Gordon W. Romney1, Baird W. Brueseke2 1School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, California,/ 2iNetwork Inc. San Diego, CaliforniaAbstractEducational objects (eObjects) such as YouTube laboratories and pod lectures deluge the internet.Additionally, MOOCs and distance learning introduce escalating challenges for higher educationand institutional educators, particularly, in the area of course content validation. How can theseeObjects be

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

faculty in the design and development of the teaching modules.Professional Development: Community college faculty participated in a research orientation,training in research protocol, laboratory safety, and scientific ethics, group meetings, andseminars on context-based pedagogical methods and online education. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 573Together, this breadth of summer experience made this a broad learning experience that took fulladvantage of the strengths of the university.Green and

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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

computing. The delivery of computing resources or services over the Internet.Collaboratory. Coined by the National Science Foundation to identify a laboratory consisting of collaborating colleagues.Cyber security. The discipline of securing computer resources and information.Hypervisor. Computer software or hardware that manages and executes virtual machines.IaaS. Infrastructure as a Service cloud resource. Azure is an example of an IaaS. The provisioning of virtual machines with Microsoft operating systems, as its first priority, is one of its services.Infrastructure. Physical computing hardware and resources that are part of a network, a cloud, or the Internet.Maestro. A SaaS cloud service provider that provisions SQL-related software