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Kamran Abedini

293 Orientation to Engineering Education through applying “Puzzles Principles” Kamran Abedini California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractIn this paper a review of engineering programs was conducted in terms of curriculum building andthen application of the technique of “Puzzles Principles”, developed by the author, was proposedwhich could be incorporated in the design of curriculums for effective engineering teaching at theonset. The concept of Puzzles Principles and its application can show how

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

disciplines. Instead of devising a rational length for the engineering program,this additional material was simply inserted into a four-year, grueling, mind-numbing experience.Then unmanageable programs began systematically cutting out the classical / practical / appliedmaterial to make room for the computational addition. A solution to the sometimes over- Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 373demanding, short engineering program is to maintain the classical approach, introduce somecomputational theory

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

569 Engaging Female and Underrepresented Community College Students through Humanitarian Engineering and Context Based Learning Pedagogies Rose-Margaret Itua1, 3, Sharnnia Artis 2,3 1Engineering Department, Ohlone College, Fremont California,/ 2 The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,California/ 3 Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, University of California, Berkeley, CaliforniaAbstractIt is a known fact that female and underrepresented ethnic

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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

it did.” “Thetopics were excellent.” “The freedom to work at your own pace but keeping in mind deadlinesand the opportunity to learn while working.” “NASA CIPAIR prepares you for more researchprograms. You learn how to engineer or build things with the little you have. It helps you to learna lot of things in the short possible of thing and come out with a results and conclusion. Itprepares you for bigger scientific challenges.”In their final report for the project, they concluded their experiences as following: “As a groupwe were able to gain experience in working as a part of a long term group project. We saw whatit was like also work on an interdisciplinary project. This was a key learning experience, as themajority of technological

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

accelerate? Inwhich direction does the friction force act?” The students perform the experiment by pulling onthe string and noting the direction of the acceleration. The instructor then discusses the relationshipbetween force and linear acceleration, and between moments and angular acceleration. Results ofour initial assessment have found that the students thought the Spool IBLA helped them learndynamics (4.2/5 on a Likert scale) and that they found the activity interesting and motivating (3.9/5on a Likert scale). We will also present results from pre- and post-course scores on the DynamicsConcept Inventory and the individual and team predictions for each of the scenarios.IntroductionWhile studying to become competent engineers, students are

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“Emerging Paradigms in Engineering Education” ASEE/PSW-2015 Conference Proceedings ASEE/PSW-2015 Conference April 10-11, 2015 Host School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, California http://www.nu.edu/ Edited by Mohammad Amin, Pradip Peter Dey, & Laith Al Any ForewordI want to congratulate all those who participated in the 2015 ASEE PSW conference held atNational University this past April. This year’s theme, “Emerging Paradigms in EngineeringEducation” appropriately described the changes that have occurred and must continue to occur