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Disability Track - Technical Session VI

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Meenakshi Manas Das, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Litany H. Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Chase Addison Barr

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had completed at least astudents and early college graduates who have benefited from bachelor’s degree [2].” “By comparison, 34.6 percent ofintervention programs. Recommendations for universities and people with no disability had completed at least a bachelor’scompanies on how they may engage and enable persons with degree. About 1 in 5 people with a disability had less than adisabilities to persist on STEM pathways will be presented. high school diploma, compared with 1 in 10 people with no Keywords—equity, computer science, disabilities, STEM disability [2]”. The 2016 Disability Statistics Annual Report

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VII

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Kasi Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

engineering courses are still transitioning from supportive high school environments in whichthey were personally known by their teachers and peers into the sink-or-swim world of highereducation. To address this, our approach has been to reverse-engineer classroom interventions thathave led to a dramatic increase in student retention in our own chemical engineering program.Nationally, retention in engineering through graduation is approximately 30-55% [1], [2]; the averageUniversity of Arizona College of Engineering retention rate through graduation over the past 5 years is46%. Through the deployment of a variety of classroom-based interventions throughout oursophomore-year courses over the past 2.5 years, we have increased the retention through

Conference Session

Gender Track - Technical Session III

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Tim John Weston, University of Colorado, Boulder; Wendy DuBow, National Center for Women & IT; Alexis Kaminsky, Kaminsky Consulting, LLC

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Diversity, Gender

making. 1 The SCCT model posits thatperson-centered variables of domain-specific self-efficacy coupled with interests and realisticoutcome expectations about the field propel individuals to pursue particular careers. Careerchoice is further influenced by a combination of supportive and inhibiting contextual factors.Supportive factors associated with pursuing computing include: early exposure, access to highquality learning experiences, supportive parents, and peer groups.2, 3 Inhibiting factors includelimited access, subtle and not-so-subtle racism and sexism, geographic location, and lower socio-economic status.3, 4 Importantly, SCCT incorporates gender and race/ethnicity explicitly in its model, whichrenders it appropriate for work with

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Session V

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Paul S. Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

studentachievement.BackgroundThe California State University is the largest four-year public university system in the U.S. and graduatesabout half of the bachelor’s degrees in California. The Los Angeles Campus (Cal State LA) service areaextends to a large part of LA county, including some areas of South LA, Pasadena, much of the San GabrielValley and the neighborhoods around East Los Angeles. The service area has the census tracts with (i) thelargest percentage of population under 18 living under poverty, ranging from 40-100% (Figure 1); (ii) thelowest level of education attainment for population 18 years and older (<9% with college degrees,compared to 18% and 20% in California and the US respectively) (Figure 2); and (iii) the highestconcentration of Hispanics (>

Conference Session

Corporate Engagement Track - Technical Session V

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Olga Maria Stavridis, Ohio State University; Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Lisa A. Barclay, The Ohio State University

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Corporate Engagement, Diversity

insurmountable during their2nd year when classes become more abstract and the impact of their grades on admission to majorlooms large. The researchers for this paper sought to understand if assisting women students indetermining how they could use engineering later in their career by understanding the paths thatother engineers took and what they do now on a regular basis would increase their self-efficacyand persistence toward their degree. According to Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is developedthrough four factors: master experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and impactmodels.1 The researchers wanted to understand if providing unique vicarious experiences tofamiliarize students with engineering careers after graduation could impact

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Elisabeth (Lisa) Stoddard, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

to perform (Meadows et al, 2015).Women and students of color can be stereotyped as less intelligent, less competent, or asunderperformers (Meadows et al, 2015; Wolfe et al, 2016). It is often assumed that these studentshave not been accepted to a STEM program based on merit, but based on policies that favorhistorically underrepresented students (Meadows et al, 2015). In a published writing piece, astudent at Worcester Polytechnic Institute explains: When the other girl gets accepted to RPI and WPI and Cal Tech and MIT, and the acceptance letters pile up….I watch the boys whisper in her ear: ‘They’re just meeting 1 their

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Tyler Jay Ashby, Utah State University; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University; Sarah E Lopez, Utah State University; Natalie L Shaheen, National Federation of the Blind; Benjamin James Call, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Diversity

has demonstrated that spatial ability canbe developed through targeted activities4. Her work centered on basic technical drawingcurriculum delivered to students including instruction on developing multi-view drawings,pictorial drawings, and patterns.The Mental Cutting Test (MCT) was initially developed in 1939 as a portion of a collegeentrance exam5. More recently, the MCT has been used as an instrument for spatial abilityresearch. The MCT consists of 25 problems to be answered in 20 minutes. As shown in Figure 1,each problem has a dimetric view of an object with a plane of interest (POI) intersecting theobject. There are five possible solutions showing cross-sections of the object, or a similar object,and the test taker must select the cross

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Austin Arron VanWormer, Eastern Washington University; John Shine, Eastern Washington University; Andrew William Phillips, Eastern Washington University ; Terry Kriss, Eastern Washington University; Colton Widell, Eastern Washington University

temperature is dictated by the mean annual ground temperature, which isdependent on its geographic location. Figure 1 shows the mean annual ground temperatures forthe United States. Figure 1 Mean Annual Ground Temperatures in the United States (Virginia Tech 2010)Consequently, during the winter months, the ground temperature is generally warmer than theoutside temperature; therefore the ground is used as a heat source. In the summer, the groundtemperature is generally colder than the outside temperature, so the ground is use as a heat sink.While installation costs for geothermal heat pumps are much higher compared to conventionalsystems, the payback period is short because it is met quickly by energy savings due to increasedefficiency.This

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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bryan james mealy, Cal Poly State University

experimentrequired students to submit a report that included solutions to a hardware and a firmware-baseddesign problem, and ten short-answer questions. Students worked in groups of two or three (amix of quiz and non-quiz students); each group submitted one lab report for each experiment aswell as a final design project.Students choosing the quiz option had to stay with that choice for the entire quarter. On quizdays, quiz-taking students migrated to one side of the laboratory, which allowed the instructor tohelp the non-quiz taking students. Table 1 shows the weightings for the two options. Thecourse’s studio format allows instructors to give two finals (on different days), which we label asthe “lab” and “lecture” finals. The two-hour lab final exam

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University; Paul Gannon, Montana Engineering Education Research Center; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

research. This paper will beof interest to faculty wishing to engage in EER, faculty already engaged in EER that wish toincrease productivity at their universities, or faculty have already established a thriving EERprogram and have advice to share with the MEERC leadership.IntroductionTo meet the grand challenges facing our society, we need more engineers, more diverseengineers, and engineers that think in a global context. Work in the area of engineeringeducation research promises to create knowledge on how to better prepare our graduates bystudying five broad areas: (1) engineering epistemologies; (2) engineering learning mechanisms;(3) engineering learning systems; (4) effectively promoting student diversity and inclusion; and(5) assessment

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Cassandra J Wright, University of Washington, Bothell; John William Bridge P.E., University of Washington, Bothell

due to only having a brief exposure to the software mainly inthe fundamental materials course. In order to give students a deeper knowledge to be able toindependently utilize it in subsequent classes, the first materials science course module wasrevised and a second module developed and implemented during the Autumn 2017 term in orderto provide students with a more hands-on and in-depth materials selection learning experience.The pair of modules served as a good foundation for the students’ mechanical design andcapstone sequences. The students indicated that they felt relatively comfortable with utilizingthe software. This cohort will be followed through graduation (2019) to determine if there is anincrease in usage of the software.1

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matt Jamison Burnett, State University of New York at Canton

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Diversity

encourages an open and non-hierarchical perspective toward nature. Through thiswork, he became acutely aware of the counter-productive polarities that are reinforced by mediasaturation (a prime example being the politicization of environmental sustainability). By 2016,he envisioned creating an art installation that would highlight a ‘convergence’ rather than adivision of peoples and ideas. Loosely based on the Asian traditions of floating lanterns, hisinitial sketches of this art installation (Figure 1) explored how he might combine disparateindividual lights into a combined new color as they floated down a stream – hence the projectConvergence was born. Figure 1: Initial concept sketch of Convergence. Illustration by Matt BurnettHe quickly

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Mark Todd Gordon, California Baptist University; Seunghyun Chun, California Baptist University; Xueyan Sarah Zhao, California Baptist University; Michael Jean-Claude Nalbandian, California Baptist University; Mi Kyung Han, California Baptist University; Mario Oyanader, California Baptist University

(twelve students) forms a team. The team’s goal during thesemester is to design a set of units (or machines) that will take objects(Acquisition Unit,Transportation Unit), shown in Figure 1, from the center of the arena to the team’s designatedend and sort(Sorting Unit) the objects into their eight different types. During the competition atthe end of the semester another team will attempt to do this simultaneously and the teams areallowed to have a limited amount of interaction to deter the opposing team. Also during thecompetition, each team is scored on a combination of the recovery (based on the quantity of eachobject sorted correctly) and the purity (based on the sorting accuracy of each object). The teamwith the highest score is declared the

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Eric Osborn, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ali O. Shaban, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

alongwith their learning outcomes and assessment methods will be presented in this paper. Initialresults of testing the experiments will also be described, along with challenges and lessonslearned in the development of the laboratory coursework.IntroductionWhile multiple definitions of microgrids exist, this paper defines them as “a locally controlledgrouping of electricity sources and loads that normally operate connected to and synchronouswith the traditional centralized grid (megagrid), but can disconnect and function as anautonomous electrical island if physical and/or economic conditions dictate” 1. Microgridsaddress many problems that a centralized grid proposes, primarily by its ability to disconnectfrom the grid in the event of a

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Jean L. Lee, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

assignment, suggesting the possibility that the presence of a reflectionprompt may help focus students’ attention and thinking.Introduction The use of reflection in assignments is well-known for stimulating positive learningachievements and professional development in students.1–4 This is typically inferred from theanalysis of students’ long-form written responses to reflection prompts in assignments andprojects.1,2 This method of analyzing the impact of reflection prompts, however, is largelyqualitative and may contain a degree of subjectivity. In this study, it is hypothesized that thepresence of a reflective prompt in an assignment will result in students spending more timethinking about the assignment. Hence the duration of an assignment

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Cassidy Elwell

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Diversity

objectives and outcomes of competitions, butthe observations apply nearly universally to all high school cyber security competitions that weattended.Observation 1: Many competitions are arranged where students are organized into teams(typically 3-6 students) and teamwork is highly encouraged. However, we observed that manyteams are really co-working by contributing to a team score rather than exhibiting high-levels ofteamwork. As a result, many competitions observed don’t show tell-tale signs of collaboration,such as having animated discussions or students working on the same problem at the same time.Observation 2: Student competitors learn much in preparation for the competition about the useand design of computer-related technologies as well as

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Ryan Yedinak, Cañada College; Oskar Granados, Canada College; Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University; Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College; Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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Diversity

Monitoring using Acoustic Sensors Ryan Yedinak1, Oskar Granados1, Vincent Tran1, Moises Vieyra1, Alec Maxwell2, Amelito Enriquez1, Wenshen Pong2, Cheng Chen2, Kwok Siong Teh2, Xiaorong Zhang2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Hao Jiang2, Zhaoshuo Jiang2*, 1 Cañada Community College, Redwood City, CA 94061 2 School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 * Corresponding Author: zsjiang@sfsu.eduAbstractIn current practice, sensors, such as accelerometers and strain gages, are attached to or embeddedinto structures to measure its response for structural health monitoring purposes. However,installation and maintenance costs

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Kattia Chang, Cañada College; Karina Abad, Cañada College; Ricardo Jesus Colin, Canada College; Charles Tolentino, University of California, Merced; Cameron Malloy, University of California, Berkeley; Alex David, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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Diversity

University. Her research interests include embedded systems, wearable technologies, neural-machine interface, and cyber-physical systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engaging Community College Students in Emerging Human- Machine Interfaces Research through Design and Implementation of a Mobile Application for Gesture RecognitionKattia Chang-Kam1, Karina Abad1, Ricardo Colin1, Charles Tolentino1, Cameron Malloy1,Alexander David2, Amelito G. Enriquez1, Wenshen Pong2, Zhaoshuo Jiang2, Cheng Chen2, Kwok-Siong Teh2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Hao Jiang2, Xiaorong Zhang2 1 Cañada College, Redwood City, CA 2

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Kevin P Pintong, Oregon Institute of Technology

ofthe workshop is to cover three activities in order to target students who might be interested inComputer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. The three activities ofconcern are:  Understanding circuits and components  Placing and soldering components  Programming the board using softwareThe following were the intended learning outcomes of the workshop. 1. Participants will learn how to read a bill of materials and schematic. 2. Participants will learn how to identify and orient circuit components such as resistors, capacitors, LEDs, and microcontrollers. 3. Participants will learn how to solder through-hole components. 4. Participants will learn how to use reference

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Ava Madeline Bellizzi; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego

future goals, only one student expressed interest in doing so,preventing reasonable comparisons among students. This led the primary investigator to conducta semi-structured interview with this student, rather than a focus group session.A summary of the number of responses received for each survey from each cohort appears inTable 1. Because the methods of data collection and range of questions differed slightly acrossthe two year span of this study, a distinction will be made between the results obtained from thefirst cohort and those obtained from the second cohort for the remainder of this paper. Table 1: Summary of Responses to Surveys by Both Cohorts Cohort 1 (Fall 2016) Cohort 2

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Majid Poshtan, Cal Poly; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Fred W DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

extensions and improvements to this system while using it in his courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Experiments in Adopting Computer-Aided Learning in EngineeringIntroductionComputer-Aided learning provides a means to enhance 3D visualizations, simulations ofphysical systems, and/or demonstrations of lengthy mathematical examples in a classroomenvironment [1-3]. This paper is about four experiments the authors conducting on adoptingcomputer-aided learning tools in four undergraduate electrical engineering courses at 100, 200and 300 levels at Cal Poly (California Polytechnic State University, SLO, USA). The goal ofsuch efforts was to provide additional resources to the students beside the

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Ann Kowalski, Colorado State University; Christopher Snow Snow

. For the past five years, the course was taught by the same instructor using examquestions drawn from a common pool; however, the students were given paper homeworkassignments in past years instead of online Canvas homework.ResultsExam scoresExam score data was collected from 2012 to 2017 (the study year). Figure 1 shows the medianexam scores from exam 1, exam 2, and the final exam for each year. Median exam 1 and 2 scoreswere the highest for the study year (2017) when compared to previous years, but the final examscore was not. As is typical in STEM courses, the final exam is cumulative in the sense that it buildsoff knowledge obtained throughout the entire semester.We used a Welch’s t-test for unequal sample sizes and unequal variances, and

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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working professionals within engineering hasbeen a longstanding goal of engineering professional societies, universities, and governmentorganizations [1] - [6]. However, progress has been slow [7] - [10]. In 2014, women comprisednearly 16% of tenure-track and tenured engineering faculty, while African Americansrepresented fewer than 3%, and Hispanics represented fewer than 4% [10]. Percentages ofAfrican American and Hispanic tenure-track and tenured faculty have increased by less than 1%in the past decade while women have increased their representation by only 4% [10]. Althoughunderrepresented in the tenure-track streams, women faculty and underrepresented minoritieshave been overrepresented among non-tenure-track faculty across disciplines [11

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Akbarali Thobhani, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Diversity

transferabilityagreement was also developed between UP and MSU Denver. The completion path for theMaster of Science degree in Architecture at UP for an MSU Denver Civil EngineeringTechnology graduate with a minor in architecture is outlined.Keywords: global learning, academic collaboration, curriculum development, engineeringeducation, architecture1. Background On one hand, in the last decade the Civil Engineering profession is facing a major revision inthe educational preparedness of its graduates [1]. The American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) took the lead in this major initiative in the early 2000. Its Committee on AcademicPrerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP3) produced the Body of Knowledge for the 21stCentury (BOK2) document [2], which could

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Yitong Zhao, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

was appreciated. They also considered that the oralexam was helpful for their understanding of the content. The results from this preliminarystudy suggest that the adoption of oral exams has the potential to positively impactstudent performance in the thermodynamics course. 1. IntroductionAn oral exam is a type of assessment in which the instructor poses questions to thestudent verbally. The student must answer the question to demonstrate sufficientknowledge of the subject to pass the exam1. Many researchers argue that oral exams,combined with other evaluations, are ideal for achieving higher levels of studentunderstanding2. The potential benefits of oral exams are better preparation for the exam,immediate

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Katherine Mavrommati, California Polytechnic State University; Eileen W. Rossman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jay Tyler Davis II

courses, little is done to connect the methods and theories being taught to practical applicationsa student may encounter in an engineering job. As a result, students are often insufficiently motivated in their study ofdynamics. Numerous authors have discussed the benefits of problem-based learning (see [1] for a review), including longerretention, increased motivation, and improved transfer. Instructors have incorporated projects involving catapults [2], Legos[3,4], and roller coasters [5] in their dynamics courses to provide engineering context and hopefully improve student learning.Previous studies have shown that contextualization, personalization, and choice produce a dramatic increase in students’motivation and engagement in the subject [6

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Jayson Paul Mercurio, Canada College; Kevin Yamada; Jose L. Guzman, Canada College; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Alexander Choi, Canada College; Ayesha R Iqbal

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Diversity

synthesis, characterization, Inspiring Community College Students in Electrical and Computer Engineering Research through Live Digit Recognition using Nvidia’s Jetson Tx1 Jayson Mercurio2, Kevin Yamada1, Alexander Choi2, Ayesha Iqbal2, Jose I. Guzman2, Amelito G. Enriquez2, Xiaorong Zhang1, Wenshen Pong1, Zhaoshuo Jiang1, Cheng Chen1, Kwok-Siong Teh1, Hamid Mahmoodi1 and Hao Jiang1, 1 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2 Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractCommunity colleges provide a beneficial foundation for undergraduate education in STEMmajors. To inspire community college students to

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Jun Jian Liang, San Francisco State University; Christopher Alexander Amaro, Cañada College; Adam Albert Davies, ASPIRES ; Priscila Joy Silva Chaix, Cañada College; Jesus Caballero, Canada College; Juvenal Marin Sanchez, San Jose State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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Diversity

parameters were derived and studied for their effect on real-world applications. This paper presents the summer intern project findings. Through theintegration of state-of-the-art structural and earthquake engineering research into the internship,this program also enables the development of project management, time management, andteamwork skills, strengthens students’ knowledge in structural and earthquake engineering, andprepares them for successful academic and professional careers. The internship programtherefore provides valuable mentorship for community college students during their transition toa four-year college.1. IntroductionThe primary goal of structural and earthquake engineering is to enhance the seismic resiliency ofcommunities through

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Ryan Carroll, Canada College; Brian Carrozza, Canada College; Yardley Ordonez, Canada College; Edgar Sanchez, Canada College; Andres Lee, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University

’ motivation to pursue a master’s degree in a STEM field. Through working closely withstudent mentors and faculty, they gained valuable insights into how scientific workers work onreal problems and the elements of the research process. Overall, the summer research internshiphas been a fulfilling and remarkable professional growth experience for all involved.1. IntroductionFor the past several years, institutions of higher education have devoted resources to increasingthe number of engineering graduates and broadening participation of students fromunderrepresented groups. One of the strategies commonly employed in improving undergraduateSTEM education is providing students access to research experiences. There are many studiesdocumenting the

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines

engineers (Simon, 1967), designers of high-quality learning environmentsand opportunities to achieve rigorous STEM learning outcomes. Engineering Learning uses aconventional engineering design model (Khandani, 2005) to scaffold faculty in a familiar contextwhile they undertake the challenging task of designing and facilitating well-designed and alignedlearning experiences (courses), as illustrated in figure 1.Figure 1: Engineering Learning model (Spiegel, 2016)Engineering Learning drives significant shifts in the ways teaching and learning are approachedin higher education: “the intent is to realign instruction with current research-based approachesto teaching and learning, changing student needs, and the practices and understandingswanted by