in STEM are disproportionally enrolled in community colleges,with almost half (44%) of African American students and over half of Hispanic and American Page 26.1576.6Indian students (52% and 55%, respectively) choosing community colleges as their institution ofhigher education. Despite this large pool of a diverse and motivated students, Hoffman et al.report that an alarmingly low number of minority and female students complete two-yearassociate’s degrees in STEM – only 11.08% of Hispanic community college students in 2006(2010).12 Clearly, it is crucial that we develop and support the talents and intentions ofcommunity college students
AC 2010-31: WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S HYBRID BUS - AMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PROJECT BASED EDUCATIONSteven Fleishman, Western Washington University STEVEN FLEISHMAN is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. He joined the Vehicle Research Institute at WWU in 2006 after spending twenty years in automotive drivetrain R&D. Steven.fleishman@wwu.edu Page 15.1362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Western Washington University’s Hybrid Bus – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Project-BasedEducationAbstract Western
AC 2011-1206: SE CAPSTONE: IMPLEMENTING A SYSTEMS ENGI-NEERING FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DE-SIGNKeith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology Keith Sheppard is a Professor of Materials Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering & Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned the B.Sc. from the University of Leeds, England and Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England, both in Metallurgy. As Associate Dean, Sheppard is primarily responsible for undergraduate programs.John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology John Nastasi is a Licensed Architect and Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Product-Architecture and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. An
Irving, Texas. His research interests are signal processing, information theory, and their applications to neuroengineer- ing and wireless communication and networks. Particular focus is on the interplay of communication systems and networks; including network coding, user cooperation, spectrum sharing, opportunistic ac- cess, and scheduling with different delay constraints as well as millimeter wave communications. In neuro-engineering, his interests are on modeling neuronal circuits connectivity and the impact of learning on connectivity, on real-time closed-loop stabilization of neuronal systems to mitigate disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson, depression, and obesity, on developing an understanding of