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Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate Disney, Mission College

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AC 2009-655: INSTRUCTOR-FRIENDLY INTRODUCTORY LABORATORYPROJECTS FOR USE IN 2 OR 4 YEAR COLLEGESJohn Krupczak, Hope College Professor of EngineeringKate Disney, Mission College Engineering Instructor Page 14.746.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Instructor-Friendly Introductory Laboratory Projects for Use in 2 or 4 Year CollegesAbstractA group of educators from engineering programs at both four and two year colleges hasdeveloped laboratory modules with an emphasis on activities and perspectives shown to besuccessful in technological literacy courses for non-engineering students. To meet the needs ofcommunity

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College

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Paper ID #15868Toward a Comprehensive Online Transfer Engineering Curriculum: Assess-ing the Effectiveness of an Online Engineering Circuits Laboratory CourseMr. Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College Tom Rebold has chaired the Engineering department at Monterey Peninsula College since 2004. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and has been teaching online engineering classes since attending the Summer Engineering Teaching Institute at Ca˜nada College in 2012.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in

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Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Tremberger Jr., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Shermane Austin, Medgar Evers College, CUNY; Leon P. Johnson, Medgar Evers College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

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AC 2012-3977: APPLICATIONS OF ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLERIN STUDENT PROJECTS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGEGeorge Tremberger Jr., Queensborough Community College, CUNYRaul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNYDr. Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory Helio Takai is an Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University.Prof. Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Todd Holden is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of Queensborough Community College of CUNY. His current research interests include bioinformatics and microbial fuel cells. He also mentors student research projects.Prof. Shermane Austin, Medgar

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Innovative Partnerships

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abraham Michelen, Hudson Valley Community College; Gary Kardys, Hudson Valley Community College

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. Page 11.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Collaborative Effort between a two-year College and a State UniversityAbstractIn this paper the authors will present the outcome of a two-year effort for the establishment anew AAS program in Semiconductor Manufacturing and Nanotechnology that is beingoffered by Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) – a community college located inthe capital region of New York state – and the State University of New York University atAlbany (UAlbany). Because of the nature and the cost of the laboratories (clean rooms, andother expensive facilities) needed to support such a program that HVCC could not afford, itwas decided to seek a “partner universities

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G. Jenkins P.E., California State University, Fresno; Walter V. Loscutoff, California State University, Fresno; Thomas Nguyen

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Purdue University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He worked at PACCAR Technical Center as an R&D engineer and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a development staff member. He was also faculty and associate chair at University of Washington, Seattle, and professor and chair at University of Detroit Mercy before starting his position as faculty and dean at CSU, Fresno. His research and teaching interests include characteriza- tion of advanced materials (e.g., ceramics), experimental mechanics, data base development, cumulative damage mechanics, and probabilistic design and reliability.Dr. Walter V. Loscutoff, California State University, Fresno Walter V. Loscutoff is a professor and Former Chair

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Two-Year/Four-Year Articulation and Cooperation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christal Wade, Western Kentucky University; Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Karla Andrew, Western Kentucky University

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AC 2009-1731: WATER/WASTEWATER TECHNICIAN TRAINING INSTITUTE:THE FIRST YEAR RETROSPECTIVEChristal Wade, Western Kentucky University Ms. Wade holds a Master of Science Degree in Biology from Western Kentucky University. She began working in the WATERS Laboratory as an undergraduate in 2004 and accepted full-time employment as a laboratory analyst upon graduation in 2006. Ms. Wade currently holds certification under the Kentucky Microbiological Laboratory Certification Program and is an EPA Approved Principal Cryptosporidium Analyst under the Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. She manages both the Microbiological and Cryptosporidium programs at the WATERS Lab. Ms. Wade

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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) was established to allow sharing of engineering studentsfrom different community colleges. Developed initially through a grant from the NationalScience Foundation, and subsequently supported by a US Department of Education grant, JEPcurrently has 27 partner community colleges from all over California. As a result of JEP and theengineering courses that are offered online, the number of community college students who areable to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased.A JEP enrollment survey shows an increase of 61.3% in engineering courses over the last fiveyears even though overall enrollment at the JEP partner institutions decreased slightly. However,courses requiring laboratory components are

Conference Session

Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Tool, Die and Mold Making. The second year laboratory waslocated in a different, much newer facility than the original machining laboratory. The two yearassociate degree in Tool, Die and Mold Making was important to local industry, and therefore tothe college. Even though the need for Tool, Die and Mold Makers was a critical one, thenumbers were not large. Shortly after this program was implemented the largest employer ofprogram graduates had significant cutbacks. This did not cause the enrollment numbers to shrinkdramatically, but it did suggest that enrollment growth in this program would be limited. Inorder to best leverage available resources for the program, a complete redesign of thecombinations of course offerings, the physical

Conference Session

Enhancing Student Success in Two-Year Colleges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas P Langhoff, Skyline College; Eva Schiorring; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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of these colleges. As a result manystudents are not able to complete the required lab courses. For instance at CañadaCollege, although enrollments in lecture courses have increased 118% due to a dramaticincrease in online enrollment (508% over the first four years of JEP), enrollments in labcourses have only increased 23%3.Inspired by the success of the ONE-STEP program, Cañada College collaborated withCollege of Marin and Monterey Peninsula College to develop the Creating AlternativeLearning Strategies for Transfer Engineering Programs (CALSTEP). The primaryobjective of CALSTEP is to develop laboratory courses that are delivered eithercompletely online, or with limited face-to-face interaction. These courses, together withthe online courses

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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collegestudents interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in science and engineering. Created in 2012,this multi-disciplinary summer undergraduate research program is hosted by three centers fundedby the National Science Foundation, Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S),Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS), and Synthetic Biology EngineeringResearch Center (SynBERC) at UC Berkeley. Together, these NSF-funded centers programobjectives are to provide TTE REU participants: 1) challenging science and engineering researchprojects in leading edge research laboratories; 2) advising to prepare students to transfer tocompetitive 4-year colleges/universities in science and 
engineering majors; 3) enrichmentactivities to build

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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field.The developed learning module has been implemented in a six-week curriculum and the projecteffectiveness is evaluated for enhanced faculty-student experiences during transferring researchknowledge to a two-year college educational curriculum.  Page 25.60.2Learning Module Development: The learning module activities took place during the Summer-Fall 2011 period and included the legacy cycle and engineering design process concepts, theresearch experience and associated technical knowledge from the RETainUS program at TexasA&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) laboratory, and the module implementation in afreshman level robotics course at Del-Mar

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Two year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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developing required HEV specific courses; (3) Creating an HEV specialized laboratory; (4)Developing a two-day short course on HEV technology available for distance learning; (5)Developing and delivering seminars and workshops for different groups of audiences, includingK-12 teachers, (6) Creating internship and co-op opportunities, plant visits, and an expert lecturerseries; (7) Initiating a pilot program for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certification inhybrid vehicles; and (7) Providing transfer student advising by university faculty.The project activities, including the development of the HEV curriculum, the two-day shortcourses, the symposium and workshops, will be presented. The lesson learned through thecollege-university partnership

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Tracy D Blake, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; David Dwight Sam PhD, Utah State University

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environments.David D. Sam, Ph.D., Utah State University Dr. David Sam, Principal Lecturer in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University instructs Materials Science, Manufacturing Processes, and General College Physics courses at the Uintah Basin Regional Campus. David has been with Utah State University for 2 years. Prior to joining the faculty at USU, he was a technical staff member at The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for over 20 years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Science from Yale University. His current position involves building and improving distance education programs in the area

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul B Golter, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jeffrey Laube, Kenai Peninsula College

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Paper ID #19048Developing a working 2-year/4-year research program: experiences from thefirst year of a collaborative ATE grant.Dr. Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom. He is currently a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S

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Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia M. Wigal, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Tim MeGhee, Chattanooga State Community College

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,interdisciplinary interaction, design, and depth. Every student completes a structured set ofcourses that form a foundation in written and oral communication, mathematics, chemistry,physics, and engineering fundamentals. Special emphasis is placed on learning the basic toolsand techniques of engineering. Interdisciplinary interaction is introduced and emphasizedthrough interdisciplinary design projects, team experiences, and laboratory exercises that beginthe freshmen year. Depth is provided through theory and hands on experience (laboratories) inone of nine disciplines – chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial,mechanical and UTeach (education).Four of the engineering disciplines are structured as discipline specific programs

Conference Session

Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Wadach, Monroe Community College

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. This course has been developed and is taught by faculty from bothdepartments. The course includes the use of discrete components and FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGA). A set of custom hardware components have beendeveloped that can be interfaced to an FPGA and a microcontroller. Instructional videoshelp students prepare for laboratory exercises and the course concludes with a finaldesign-build project.The overall goal of this project is to teach students how to work in multi-disciplinaryteams and to make it easier for students to switch between AS and AAS programs. ACapstone Design course is being developed where small teams comprised of PrecisionMachining, Engineering Science, and Computer Technology students will solve asemester long

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno; S. Shelley, U.S. Air Force; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Mark K. Smith, California State University, Long Beach, College of Continuing and Professional Education

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serving as a Director on the Antelope Valley Board of Trade and is the Honorary Commander of the 412th Electronic Warfare Group at Edwards AFB. He is also a member of several professional societies and has authored and co-authored several papers pertaining to the Antelope Valley Engineering Program.J. S. Shelley, US Air Force J. S. Shelley, PhD, PE After 20 years as a researcher and project manager with the Air Force Research Laboratories, Dr Shelley has transitioned to teaching mechanical engineering, mostly mechanics, for the past 6 years.Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach Dr. Sathianathan is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Califor- nia

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Two-Year/Four-Year Articulation and Cooperation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertram Pariser, Technical Career Institute, Inc.

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Technology and the ComputerSoftware Technology Departments at Technical Career Institutes. His primary responsibility isdeveloping curriculum and teaching methodology for Physics, Thermodynamics,Electromagnetic Field Theory, Computers and Databases. Bert prepared grant proposals to theNational Science Foundation, which produced the funding for a Fiber Optics Laboratory. Heserved as faculty advisor to the IEEE and faculty advisor to Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society.Bert was instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE. In additionDr. Pariser, Co-Founded 5 venture companies, and as a management consultant successfullycatalyzed over $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. Bert led cross-functional

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Martha M. Ellis

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3 ENGR 1204 Engineering Graphics 2 ENGL 1301 Grammar and Composition I 3 ENGL 1302 Grammar and Composition II 3 MATH 2413 Calculus I 4 MATH 2414 Calculus II 4 CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I 3 PHYS 2325 University Physics I 3 CHEM 1111 General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 PHYS 2125 University Physics I Laboratory 1 ENGR 1201 Introduction to Engineering 2 GOVT 2306 Texas Politics 3 Semester Credit Hours 16

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Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring, Canada College

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Education program (NSF IUSE), three community colleges from NorthernCalifornia collaborated to increase the availability and accessibility of the engineeringcurriculum by developing resources and teaching strategies to enable small-to-medium sizedcommunity college engineering programs to support a comprehensive set of lower-divisionengineering courses. These resources were developed for use in a variety of delivery formats(e.g., fully online, online/hybrid, flipped face-to-face, etc.), providing flexibility for localcommunity colleges to leverage according to their individual needs. This paper focuses on thedevelopment and testing of the resources for an introductory Materials Science course with 3-unit lecture and 1-unit laboratory components

Conference Session

Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Page 26.1546.2a graduate student or post-doc mentor, who oversee the student’s research project. Graduatestudent mentors are offered a $1,000 stipend at the end of the summer. Mentoring occurs throughresearch group meetings and one-on-one discussions. Each student has their own hands-onindependent research project that is intended to further develop the student’s interest andknowledge in science and engineering careers.The TTE REU program consists of a 9 week summer long research internship. During the firstweek, students take part in a laboratory “boot camp” that introduces basic laboratory andresearch skills in order to acclimate the students to the university and labs. Students alsoparticipate in an orientation that covers strategies for

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Sternhagen, University of Wisconsin Center-Fox Valley; Jeff Hoerning, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Cathy Bronold, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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natural partnership,utilizing the faculty, pre-engineering curriculum and physical campus of UW-Fox Valley, andthe ABET accredited mechanical engineering curriculum, faculty, and equipment of UW-Platteville. The collaboration agreement was signed in October of 2001 and the first mechanicalengineering courses became available in the fall semester of 2002.Construction for the new engineering facility on the UW-Fox Valley campus began in June of2003. The floor plan of the new 3160 ft2 engineering facility is shown in Figure 3. It included a1595 ft2 laboratory, 500 ft2 of storage and four offices. Building construction costs totaled$375,000.Nearly an additional $250,000 was spent on test and research equipment for the laboratory,which included a

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology; John Morelli, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; James Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology

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scholars made the Dean’s list for at least one quarter during AY 2008-9. None were placedon probation or suspended. After summer, one student decided to accept a permanent job offerfrom his coop employer, and not pursue degree completion at this time.CETEMS ET2 scholars completed 11 quarters of required cooperative education during the2008/9 academic year. Employers included Jeffords Steel, Atlantic Testing Laboratories, MagdeLand Surveying, City of Rochester Water and Lighting, Bernier Car and Associates, PikeCompany and Bernier Carr & Associates PC. Job titles included Water Engineering Intern,Structural Detailer, Field Surveyor, Lab/Field Construction Technician, Civil Engineering Intern,Construction Project Management Assistant

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California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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of a university professor and a graduate student mentor. Developed through a grantfunded by the NASA Curriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program, the summer internship program integrates research with curriculumimprovements by providing the framework for students to use their research experiences todevelop instructional materials to improve the engineering curriculum. The paper highlights theresults of the research done by the mechanical engineering student group who helped develop anovel haptic apparatus and associated curriculum for teaching upper division mechanicalengineering laboratory courses in control systems, mechatronics, and haptics. Over the ten-weekprogram the group made significant

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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OpticConcentration. Both programs are supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) grantsand they are pioneer in MEMS education and training offering Associate in Applied Science(A.A.S.) degree in this field.Dakota County Technical College (DCTC):Nanoscience technology program at Dakota County Technical College prepares students forcareers in nanobiotech, nanomaterials, and nanoelectronics industry. The curriculum is a lectureand laboratory experience with hands on use of nano scale equipment. Nanoscience technologistswork in multiple business environments including research, production, testing, training andmarketing. A total program requirement is 72 hours. Table 1 shows the degree plan fornanoscience technology at Dakota County Technical College

Conference Session

Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric James Davishahl, Everett Community College; Xiaopeng Bi, Washington State University

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transferstudents not completing ENGR 216 (the prerequisite course) until the spring semester of theirjunior year. ME 306 and 311 are both lab courses that were initially moved to a summer termbetween junior and senior year as part of the initial laboratory solution described in the followingparagraph.The second major challenge in implementing this satellite program was how to provide acomparable laboratory experience to the offerings on the Pullman campus. A mechanicalengineering program requires extensive and expensive laboratory space and equipment toprovide a quality education experience and meet ABET standards. The WSU BSME curriculumincludes five mechanical engineering lab courses:  ME 220: Materials Lab  ME 306: Thermofluids Lab  ME

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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degree program. These two courses consist of both theoryand laboratory work with a heavy reliance on student projects (typically, of an interdisciplinarynature) that involve the implementation of functional, proto-type, sensor/control networks. Usingpopular low-cost PIC® microcontroller development boards and a small, self-contained, non-IT,TCP/IP data network, students are able to construct sensor/control networks that can be accessedlocally either through standard wired network connections (Ethernet) or wirelessly using eitherthe IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) or IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) wireless standards or remotely throughavailable mobile device apps. The successes and failures of the courses will be high-lighted,along with student reaction, examples of

Conference Session

Addressing Diversity Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea K Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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increasedtransfer rates to a bachelor program. As detailed by S. Artis5, TTE REU brings communitycollege students from around the state of California to the University of California, Berkeley tocomplete a 9 week summer research internship. The first week of the internship has the studentsgoing through a “laboratory bootcamp” whereby the students learn lab safety, tour labs aroundcampus, speak with graduate students and postdocs from different science and engineeringdisciplines, and learn different laboratory sampling techniques. For the remaining 8 weeks, thestudents are given a research project under the supervision of a graduate student or postdocmentor within a faculty lab. Throughout the summer, the students are engaged in weeklyseminars about

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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research that is identified as two thesis courses. The program blends the technicalskills, advanced technology, and STEM together, and can be completed in three years. The sizeof the first graduating class will be 12 students selected from area technical colleges. Instructorswill be provided the opportunity to use the faculty expertise and laboratories to improve theirtechnical skills or learn new skills related to advanced technologies.Finally instructors will be required to select a research topic related to their teaching field andwill write curriculum and design laboratory activities under supervision of graduate programadvisor and committee. The instructors will be required to share their project with theircolleagues at their institution.The

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges

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State labs and facility with STEM-oriented educational and entertainment programs.In Year 2, one SAC faculty member and seven students visited Texas State University inFebruary 2016 for a day-long tour of renewable energy demonstration/research laboratories andengineering manufacturing facilities. Texas State faculty and graduate students also provided anupdate on the Re-Energize program, including research and scholarship opportunities.Comparison of student surveys done before and after the TxState tour showed a significantincrease in students’ desire to learn more about sustainability and environmental issues, as wellas a significant increase in their knowledge of solar and wind energy technologies.Objective 3: Design and develop a