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248 Service Learning in Engineering Management Mehdi Khazaeli, Camilla Saviz University of the Pacific, Stockton, CAAbstractIt’s not often that college students are able to put their coursework to use in a philanthropic way,but for Engineering Management students, that opportunity was made possible in the form of a 5Krun. The purpose of the project was to allow students an opportunity to learn decision making andproject planning while at the same time gaining exposure to the benefits of community service.Through this project, students engaged in scheduling

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

courses and Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 79multiple perspectives. Structuring these projects, especially in accelerated ITM programs,requires methodical planning and management in an agile process. At National University (NU)School of Engineering and Computing (SOEC) the Bachelor of Science in InformationTechnology Management (BS-ITM) degree is designed for professionals and IT managers toadvance their abilities and proficiencies in this field and to apply learned skills in their

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Jing Pang

students in Computer Engineering at CSUS are presented. Part 2 describes usingin class discussion to stimulate critical thinking among students. Part 3 discusses computer aideddesign to engage students on critical thinking. Part 4 presents using the group based open-endedproject to improve critical thinking. Part 5 demonstrates the outcome of the presented pedagogy,and also discusses the assessment result and future improvement plan. Finally, part 6 drawsconclusions of this work.2. In Class Discussion to Help Critical ThinkingIn order for students to develop critical thinking skills, in-class discussion can be used as onemethod to practice critical thinking.Mic-1 processor is based on Von Neumann architecture which supports Integer Java

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Thomas M. Korman

construction management course described above was designed to introduce Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 63students to the construction methods for various work items common to commercial buildingconstruction. Therefore the course was developed and delivered with the following goals: • Understanding the types of materials used in commercial buildings • Understanding how to read commercial building project plans and specifications • Knowing the different types of equipment and materials

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Lu Zhang; Mudasser F. Wyne; Alireza Farahani; Bhaskar Sinha; Mohammad Amin

toeventually utilize 3D animations to enhance students’ learning, by turning abstractions intoanimated environment and in particular to show the establishment of primary keys based on thecardinalities of involved relationship types. We also plan to analyze the effectiveness of the newapproach by performing assessment activities.The conventional approach of teaching the mapping process for converting an Entity RelationshipDiagram into its corresponding set of relations is reviewed first. Its potential obstacles hinderingstudents in mastering the mapping process is then discussed. In the later section we present thetask map outlining the overall mapping process will be proposed. the section that follows isdedicated to incorporate visual clues into both

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

258 Using Security Onion for Hands-On Cybersecurity Labs Ronald Gonzales, Alan Watkins, Chris Simpson National University, San Diego, CAAbstractHands-on learning allows students to apply and better understand the concepts they learn duringlectures and in reading assignments. Developing hands-on cybersecurity labs is challengingbecause many of the tools are proprietary and expensive. The creation of labs that simulate a realenvironment requires significant resources and planning. The use of real malware and networktraffic provides a more realistic experience but can add

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Michael Kinsler; Colin McGill; Giovanni Rodriguez; William Berrios; Jeremy Chow; Amelito Enriquez; Paul Grams; Xiaorong Zhang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Kwok-Siong Teh

(Fig 3). (a) (b) Figure 2. (a) LCD button shield by LinkSprite, (b) Max 31855 thermocouple amplifier Figure 3. Arduino Uno connected to the thermocouple, LCD screen and heating system.(B) Circuit Elements Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 422According to the original design plan, the circuit for the heating elements was to be composed ofa Power Control MOSFET. Since the heating elements require an AC current to be

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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

be able to help.Figure 1 summarizes the roadmap proposed to assist refugee engineers to plan their path togainful employment opportunities. In this paper, we will focus on one of the options available tohelp the refugee engineers obtain a nationally recognized level of competency which will allowthem to competitively seek employment in the area of their training and skills, namely obtainingan FE or PE license. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 523 Refugee Engineer

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Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

competence and confidence in the literatureprocess26, and can assist graduate students in their transition to become independent scholars27.BackgroundFour years ago, the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, LasVegas (UNLV), began to offer the graduate students a free workshop series on technical writingto improve their success rate in acceptance of papers, reports, dissertations, theses, and graduatefellowships. The planning for these workshops was based on ideas from Dr. Mohamed Trabia,Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Computing at the College of Engineering;he had been advocating for some time on the need to provide training in writing andcommunications skills to engineering students. These skills

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Kamran Abedini

appropriatelyengineering education can be planned and how the requirements suggested by the Engineer of2020 can be implemented in a “First Year Experience” type courses. An example of theapplication is provided to properly show the process of learning through re-engineering a productby showing the correlated possible scientific and engineering learning matters affiliated with theproduct design, testing , manufacturing and evaluations.IntroductionEngineering education traditionally has been much segmented consisting of many courses beingtaught as independent subjects. It is typically divided into core, electives, support courses andGeneral Education categories. In many instances a student spends the first two years takingsupport and general education courses and

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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

plan 4.69 Working as a part of a team 4.56 Writing a technical report 4.50 Creating a poster presentation 4.63 Making an oral presentation 4.50Question: Tell us how much you agree with each of the following statements. Activity 2014 The internship program was useful. 4.56 I believe that I have the academic background and skills needed

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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

undergraduate students in a team perform the task of designing a braininspired neural network for edge detection and test their design using a real live camera feed totheir system and producing a live video display showing the detected edges. The design involvesmodeling and implementation of simple and complex neural cells for edge detection along fourorientations of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees. The simple cells are modeled by Gabor filters andcomplex cells by a max pooling approach. The models are implemented in Matlab environmentand a webcam is used to obtain a live visual input for testing. The internship is planned over 10weeks and the intern students are assigned a graduate student mentor. This paper presents thedetails of the project, research and

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Elaine Gilbert

RFI process and to offer possible strategies to reducing the cycle time.The RFI process must first be defined and analysed in order to find areas whereimprovements could be pursued. One method of analysis is to apply the principles of leanconstruction, presented by Lauri Koskela, such as building continuous improvement into theprocess, reducing the amount of steps, parts, and linkages, and increasing processtransparency4. Once the lean construction principles are established, a plan can be devised inorder to apply these principles to the RFI process in an effort to increase the processefficiency.One method of applying the lean construction principles to the RFI process is to create adiscussion forum format for RFI submittals. Having the

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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

each arm), this command starts the car when the car isoff, and stops the car when the car is on. When the car is on and the user pulses their right armthis increases the speed of the car, when the left arm is pulsed it decreases the speed of the car.When the car is on and the right arm is held, the car turns right for the duration of the hold, andvice versa when a left hold is performed. Finally we plan on implementing a double pulsecommand for when the car is not moving forward that will cause the car to go in reverse. Figure 2. A representative EMG signal showing the difference between a hold and a pulse, as well as the threshold value.B. Implementation of the Motor Control ModuleThe motor control module is

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Estelle M. Eke

is executed via the NXT. Occasionally a situation arisesthat demands that both the instructor and the group of students work as a team to resolve theproblem. This allows the instructor to be included in the student’s plan and refrain frominterjecting a sophisticated solution that may be above the student’s level of comprehension.These situations benefit both the student and the instructor and can only be obtained fromexperience.IntroductionSince the Fall 2009 semester, the approach used in teaching the course Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving (ME 105) has been based on the model discussed in the paper ComputerApplications in Mechanical Engineering2. The mode of delivery is two 50-minute lectures and Proceedings of the 2015

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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

project are supervised during project time by either a graduate student, oran upper-division SFSU student who acts as the project mentor. Each project mentor worksclosely with SFSU faculty in designing the project and planning daily activities. The computerengineering project involves the design and creation an iPhone App that has an academicapplication (e.g., unit conversion, math formulas). The Civil Engineering project involves the useof computer applications and simulations to design a truss bridge and build a model of the bridgeusing available materials in the PASCO Scientific kit (http://www.pasco.com/). The ElectricalEngineering group project uses the BASIC Stamp Activity Kit from Parallax, Inc.(http://www.parallax.com/) to design, build

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

instrumental in planning the hands-on curriculum and providing theresources. All issues and possible problems in creating the hands-on experience were able to beidentified and addressed by the industry partner. For faculty who are not intimate with industry,the partner was able to eliminate any guess work on the part of the instructor. In addition, theindustry partner coordinated the delivery of materials and the availability of a professionalmasons.Four student hands-on experiences were created to enhance and underscore construction qualityon masonry properties and behavior. The four experiences were as follows:Student Hands-On Experience 1: A tour of a concrete block manufacturing plant to reinforce theindustry terminology. The tour gave the

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

-Village Project is anenvironmentally sustainable community that provides a holistic safe haven that “gives themental, emotional and physical tools necessary to escape the endless cycle of homelessness15.” Amulti-disciplinary project, CM students have taken the lead in the past to collaboratively designand build the Eco-Village sustainable modular units. Other members of the team representinterior design, real estate, anthropology, planning, and engineering. Our vision is to scale up theEco-Village project to the global level for emergency shelter applications.Global PerspectiveThe NAE states that the global dimension component of the GCSP should develop and deepen“students’ social consciousness and their motivation to bring their technical

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that students will be better prepared once they enter thework force. It is interesting to note that even at the first phase of the project, students wereobserved to have the difficulties in finding the right controller chip for their project. This furtheremphasizes the importance of this project since knowledge on various switching regulatorcontroller chips is a practical skill generally sought by companies when they are looking to hirenew graduates with power electronic background. From the instructor’s point of view, assigningsuch a project requires significant amount of time throughout the quarter. Students’ assessmenton the project is currently being planned to evaluate how effective the project is in helping toachieve the learning

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

perceptions aremeasured using assessment instruments as well as subjective observations. The study ofMirzamoghadam and Harding5 outline the success story of capstone design project thatpartners an industry sponsor with a interdisciplinary engineering student team, whereby eachindustrial participant contributes a preset budget defined thus promoting the request forproposal (RFP) means of program sponsorship. In the work of Morgan et al.6 feedback fromindustry and faculty experiences in product development led to a rigorous productdevelopment process in capstone design projects. As detailed in Morgan et al.6 the processstarts with a customer, followed by system requirements derivation, a feasibility study, acreation of test matrix and test plans

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David J. Dimas; Faryar Jabbari; John Billimek

. John Billimek is a researcher in the Health Policy Research Institute inthe School of Medicine and provides a valuable external, unbiased viewpoint.It is important to mention that the 7 students who took the online version of the Dynamics coursein this study would not have been able to take it during the summer. These 7 students were allaccepted as junior transfers from community colleges planning to begin full-time study in the fallof 2014 as engineering majors. Had they not taken this class in the summer, they would not havebeen able to take key required courses that their freshman-start counterparts would be taking.This would have put them behind and put them at risk for not being able to complete theirdegrees in 2 additional years

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Monica Palomo P.E.

(bottom left).The curriculum has been historically concentrated on the technical training to support students’engineering judgment skills, which will be applied professionally later when planning, designingand/or managing a drinking water system. In practice, successful engineering solutions shouldconsider community beliefs, and knowledge of water related issues. Such skills have not beenincluded as part of the course curriculum outcomes.The pilot public education research project was conceived to provide students with theexperience of communicating with the surrounding community. Contact with the communitysupports the achievement of the following ABET a through k student outcomes 13: understandingof ethical responsibility (f), the ability to

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-2015 Conference.We are grateful to Dr. John Cicero, Dean, School of Engineering and Computing, NationalUniversity, for his help, guidance and support during the planning, preparation and other phasesof the conference. We are also grateful to the keynote speakers: Dr. Don Czechowicz, ProjectLeader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner, KyoceraCommunications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin Opatkiewicz, Lecturer, Nano EngineeringDepartment, University of California, San Diego, CA; and Dr. J. Richard (Rich) Phillips,Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.Our special thanks to Dr. Michael R. Cunningham, Chancellor of the National University System& President of National University

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Martin Koch

freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid

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Devin D. Cook

Programming Language uses readable operators Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 164such as AND, OR, etc. This contrasts with the C Programming Language which uses moresymbolic notation such as &&, ||, etc.If students plan to transition to major language, the question arises: which family should beused? Depending on the student's learning path, one set of operators will be compatible, whilethe other will not. To make it easier for students to take either path, Flowgorithm supports bothsets

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Gregg L. Fiegel; Nephi Derbidge

and final examinations constitute the primary summative assessment approacheswe use to evaluate student learning. Examinations include multiple-choice, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false prompts and are written to address both concepts and problem solving.For a typical examination, a student will have approximately 2 hours to complete 25 to 30questions. Before the examination, as part of a short 5- to 10-minute review session embeddedwithin a scheduled lesson plan, we identify which learning outcomes will be addressed. We thendevelop the examination with the goal of evenly distributing the questions among the specifiedlearning modules and outcomes.Summary of Quiz ResultsTable 4 summarizes quiz results for twelve offerings of the

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College Textbook Cost Study Plan Proposal." Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (2006).3. Mealy, B.J., Parks, B., “Work in Progress: PLD-Based Introductory Digital Design in a Studio Setting”, Proceedings: 37th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2007, Milwaukee, WI, pp. F1C-1 – F1C-2.4. Mealy, B.J., "Work in Progress: Computer Design for Intermediate-Level Digital Systems Course”, Proceedings: 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2006, San Diego, CA, pp. 19-20. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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variable with applications to curve sketching, related ratesproblems, optimization and area of the bounded regions on the plan. 3.1 Limits and continuityA free form input dialog in Wolfram alpha allows for an easy and intuitive computation of limits. 2x  1To evaluate a limit expression such as lim we can use the basic limit notation and enter x  3 x  3the query limit as x->3 [(2x-1)/(x+3)] in wolfram’s query box. As shown in figure 8, Wolframdisplays its interpretation of the queryfollowed by the answer. The system alsoproduces a plot of the function with thevalue of the limit clearly marked on thegraph. Just below the plot is a tab

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otherunderstand concepts. The team then performs the experiment, discusses the results, and attemptsto explain what occurred and why. Once they reach a conclusion, the students are presented witha second scenario and repeat the process: predict-discuss-observe-explain. The instructor andteaching assistants move throughout the classroom during the cycle and gauge the classes’ levelof comprehension. Subsequent class discussions led by the instructor depend on how well the classunderstands the concepts. The process is repeated for a total of four scenarios. Applying thisactivity plan to the Spool IBLA, we ask questions such as, “If you pull lightly on the string wrappedaround the inner diameter of a spool, in which direction do you think the spool will

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the laboratory. Thosewho wrote explanations had similar reasons: they enjoyed being able to create the code necessary tocreate a fabricated product. It is noted here that the product-oriented CNC labs were canned codes,created by the instructor and given to the students.Anecdotal Observations and Future PlanningThe author plans to offer the vise as the laboratory focus in the next academic year (Fall 2015). Asthe laboratory becomes more elaborate, a philosophy of ‘change one thing and evaluate’ is takinghold. The major change for the next offering will be to incorporate the CNC programming into a labwhere the student-programmed, CNC-milled feature will be milled onto the back of the long jaw.This feature may be the university name, a logo, or