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Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University; Camille S. Johnson, San Jose State University

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school GPA, and SAT mathscores. Further details of the interventions, study, results, and the literature review conducted upto that point can be found in the paper 1. There is evidence that subtle psychological interventionscan be self-reinforcing under certain conditions, for example, in environments with chronicevaluations (such as school), performance gains can magnify and reinforce the intervention 2.There has been additional work published on fostering a growth mindset in engineering studentpopulations in the past two years. Freeman et al. described positive outcomes, includingdevelopment of a growth mindset, from engineering students being taught in a way that developsthe six engineering Habits of Mind 3. Frary examined if a growth mindset

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Michael Gee, Canada College; Anthony Akash Lal; Alex E Hercules; Tyler Sheaves, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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determined and motivated as they progress through their educational pathways.1. Introduction Background: With funding from the Department of Education, Canada community college and San Francisco Sate University have collaborated to offer research internship experience to the under-represented community college students. This program has been conducted for several yearsnow and every year it impacts close to 20 community college students. The community collegestudents are selected for this program based on criteria of diversity, technical background, and fit.The program covers four disciplines of Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering.In each discipline, there is a faculty research advisor at San Francisco State University who

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Farbod Khoshnoud; Dario Robinson; Bruno Marco Quadrelli; Clarence W De Silva

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wide monitoring coverage area. The Innovation to Flight (I2F) Student Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducedas a practical example of the service-learning paradigm, with many beneficial goals including:Enhance and develop future mission capabilities; rapid innovation, rapid and affordable access tospace for innovators; train, inspire, and motivate the next generation of aerospace engineersthrough immersion into flight by rapid design, development, and launch of new innovations.Example projects that have been considered so far with the students are weather balloons,humanmachine interfaces, solar reflectors, and origami-based mechatronic systems within 10weeks of internship. 1. Introduction Engineers are one of the most

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Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California

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, additional research isrecommended with a larger sample size, multiple classes, and multiple instructors.Background: The Evolving Use of Podcasts in Higher EducationThe body of scholarship addressing the use of podcasts in higher education is growing.Generally, articles from the early 2000’s on the use of podcasts in higher education considerstudents as consumers of podcasts that deliver course content, such as recorded lectures andsupplemental material. Research demonstrates that students view podcast content-delivery as auseful, enjoyable, and advantageous learning tool in traditional, distance learning, and m-learning (using portable, handheld devices to access content) contexts. 1, 2, 3, 4 Studentappreciation for podcast-delivered material is

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Jim Kuo, California State University, Los Angeles; Justin Moon, California State University Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

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have shown to be effective5,6,15,7–14. Hence, the objective of the authorsis to present topics in heat transfer through a platform familiar to students to improve studentlearning. In this work, YouTube videos are used to supplement existing course material, andYouTube analytics are used to study how these videos are used by students. The effectiveness ofthese videos is assessed from student performance on tests.The questions to be explored based on the video analytics and student performance assessmentdata are: 1) What is a range of video length that would retain viewership? 2) What is anappropriate number of videos to improve student performance? 3) What type of videos are mosteffective – problem-solving or conceptual videos?Course

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Greg Placencia, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Pauline Salim Muljana, Old Dominion University

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well as facilitation of faculty workshops on instructional strategies and effective technology integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Effects of Online Course Design on Student Course Satisfaction Greg Placencia1 Pauline Salim Muljana2 1 Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering — California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California2 Department of STEM Education and Professional Studies: Instructional Design and Technology — Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VirginiaThe quality of course design and

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Mohammad N Amin, National University; Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Pradip Peter Dey, National University; Bhaskar Sinha, National University; Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University

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Diego, CA 92123, U.S.A.ABSTRACTQuantum computing is one of the most interesting and demanding topics in the field of computerscience and engineering. The potential of quantum computing in many areas such as computersecurity, big data, finance, health science, and many other fields are now clear because of itsincredible capacity and high processing speed. In a traditional computing system, all data andinformation are represented with 0 and 1 bits. But quantum computers operate in a different way,using Quantum Bits, or qubits. These qubits are created and manipulated using quantumprinciples of superposition and entanglement and can perform certain types of complex and largecalculations on vast amounts of data very rapidly. A few examples of

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Durul Ulutan, California State University, Northridge

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students have more control on theirassessment can improve their self-respect and confidence in their capabilities, eventuallyincreasing their determination towards succeeding in the class and college experience as a whole,as described by the self-determination theory and its effects on self-motivation. The maindisadvantages of giving students control of their grade are (1) they may not have a correct self-assessment of their abilities, (2) grading and assigning letter grades at the end of the semesterbecomes an increased load for the instructor, particularly in larger classroom sizes, and (3)students can be inclined towards changing their grading scheme too much and ultimatelyundermining the purpose of some assessment types. In this preliminary

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Siddharth Vyas, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo; Ali Dehghan-Banadaki, California Polytechnic State Uni.; Ali O. Shaban, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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diagrams are an important graphical tool that can be used to easilysolve AC circuits that could sometimes be rather difficult to solve using mathematical equations.However, undergraduate electrical and mechanical engineering students continue to strugglewith the concepts of phasor diagrams largely because of a lack of an easy to use and freelyavailable drawing tool. Recently, Agrawal et. al developed a phasor toolbox for AC circuitanalysis using Matlab[1], however, not all students have access to Matlab as it is a paid software.Traditional lectures on phasor diagrams have relied on the use of pencil, eraser, graph paper,ruler, compass, and protractor. In addition to being difficult to use, the combined use of thesetools is rapidly getting obsolete

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Forrest Mobley, Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University; Shigeo Hayashibara, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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Hayashibara, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 VM High-Performance Computing for Undergraduate Engineering ProjectsINTRODUCTION Parallelized processing, or the process of solving multiple parts of a single problemsimultaneously through the use of many processors (see Fig. 1), is essential for many engineeringand scientific disciplines as projects and mathematical models continue to reach beyond thescope of what can be done by hand. From their inception in the 1960’s, these grid computing (orsupercomputing) systems have advanced so as to come in a variety of sizes