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Mohammad Amin; Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Bhaskar Sinha; Debra Bowen

sensories and brain pathways.Literature reports that people can understand something better, and retain it longer in memory, when theylearn the content in different ways. In the traditional educational system, students learn only by hearing,seeing, reading, writing and doing. Figure 1 shows a histogram of memory retention rates when studentslearn in this traditional way7. With the advancement of technologies students can now learn in many newand innovative ways. The following, Table-1, lists important examples of additional modes of learning.Table 1. List of some additional popular modes of teaching and learning • Mode-1: Teaching in lecture mode: Individual students learn individually (without group work) • Mode-2: Project based teaching mode

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Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

;therefore, this course fills the void between previous theoretical courses and practical application in theaircraft design sequence.The AE 395N course is different from other courses in most curricula because it is a research andproject-based course rather than a lecture-assignment-exam-based course.1 The students work togetherin teams of 2-3 students and select an existing aircraft to research. The teams then apply basic aircraftparameters in order to calculate and verify the total aircraft performance. In the aerodynamics portion ofthe course, the teams research the airfoil that makes up the wing of their selected aircraft. Aerodynamicprinciples are applied to the airfoil to determine the total lifting capability of the wing. An example of atwo

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Selyna Perez Beverly

video recorded throughAdobe Presenter along with a quiz that students are instructed to complete. Upon completion, studentsare instructed to meet with an advisor one on one. The group advising presentations and the recordedadvising video consist of an interactive power point presentation which includes the following learningoutcomes, outlined in Table 1, that are consistent with the university outcomes and utilize the advisingdomains stipulated by the CAS Standards9. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

observers have the opportunity to monitor both instructor and student actions. Thefollowing screen shot depicts the CLaaS Main Menu: Figure 1. CLaaS main menu.Academic VariablesAs indicated in the preceding section, many individual professors and the schools they areassociated with have experimented with and implemented a variety of virtual lab (vLab)environments. CLaaS is unique because it builds on these experiences to define an approach tovLabs that incorporates both academic-administrative and technological parameters. Academic-administration is addressed as opposed to technological administration (for example systemadministration of a network infrastructure) that would be covered in the technological

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Mary Cardenas

to remind the students of best laboratory notebook practices. Figure 1 Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 99shows a screenshot of iLabber. The toolbar on the left-hand side indicates the types of files thatcan be added to the electronic experiment document. Figure 1. Screenshot from iLabber10 including a figure and Excel worksheet.eCAT11 is an ELN with similar functions to iLabber, but has additional file structuringcapabilities. In particular, a user may link records and files from their own

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David Clague; Joshua Wilbur; Elizabeth Stasiowski; Alyson Telford

by preparing a set of PowerPoint slides thatincludes a problem statement, system description, computational parameters, mesh description,results answering posed questions, conclusions and future applications. This reporting approachwas patterned after how project team members in a National Laboratory setting might reporttheir progress and findings to the project team during a project team meeting.The COMSOL Multiphysics Laboratories: Selected ExamplesTo illustrate how COMSOL Multiphysics complements the lecture, selected results from a fewof the laboratories are presented below, namely:1. Two-dimensional, steady-state, pressure-driven flow between parallel plates as compared to theory2. Two-dimensional, pulsatile flow between parallel

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Jody Hamabata

during a paradeof the completed mini-rose parade floats.1IntroductionEGR100Lab is a one-unit class that meets once a week for 2 hours and 50 minutes. It istypically taken after or concurrently with the lecture component of the class, which is 3 units.Participants in this course will learn how to develop projects or a lab congruent to a lecture tobetter prepare students for careers in engineering as well as participate in student leadership,communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills.1 Each year since 2009, Cal Poly hashosted the mini-rose parade float competition with all the sections of EGR 100 Lab during theWinter Quarter. Class size is from 20 to 25 students, with 90% of those students freshmenengineering students. The engineering

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David Dillon; Huseyin Sarper P.E.; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

novels of EdgarRice Burroughs’s Barsoom series (1912-1965), H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (1898), and JulesVerne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865) are among the more recent of the early works onspace. As a species, our first real move into space came with the launch of Sputnik (1957)ushering in the era of near-Earth space travel, followed by sub-orbital space flights by YuriGagarin (Vostok 1, 1961) and Alan Shepard (Freedom 7, 1961), and the first Earth-orbital flightby John Glenn (Friendship 7, 1962). Our first footprints on another planetary body were madeby Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the mission of Apollo 11 to Earth’s moon (1969) as a Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

increase academic performanceand retention of Latino students. While the grant has several components, this paper will presentthe two programs that engage Latino students in research: the Winter Research Experience andthe Summer Bridge to the Beach.BackgroundThe two programs described in this paper place students in an active research project with afaculty mentor and ideally other peers. Such strategy is one that has been shown to be effectivein improving students’ sense of belonging and in increasing the relevance of the knowledgeacquired in STEM courses. Hurtado et al.1 report on the significant impact that the relevance ofsuch knowledge has on a student’s life on campus. Both programs provide such relevance byimmersing the students in a

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Nebojsa Jaksic

discarded,and some presented to the University administration as action items.Introduction and Previous WorkWhile talking about clean energy President Obama stated in his weekly address on October 2nd2010 that “Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21stcentury take root here in America.1” The innovation productivity and quality must increase to stopthe country's technological and manufacturing decline. While most engineering programs producesolid problem solvers, this may not be sufficient. The education of engineers must also enhancetheir inventive and entrepreneurial skills by including topics on innovation methods, disruptivetechnologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, etc. Engineering design

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Jin-Lee Kim; Talal Trabolsi

individuals not accustomed to the use oftechnologies and advanced technologies.Analysis and FindingsEvery industry adopts new technologies as they become industry common place or whenindividuals within that industry find it beneficial to make changes necessary to adopt newstrategies or technologies. Question three in Part I of the survey proposed the statement, “The useof new advanced technologies will be costly and over complicate things unnecessary.” As shownin Table 1, of those surveyed, nearly 70% disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement, andabout 25% remained were neutral with the statement. These results signify that a very minuteamount of people would disagree with the statement. This would signify that advancedtechnologies, in the

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

constructability issues. Students often master the courseand laboratory work associated with courses in the curriculum, but they do not gain acomprehensive engineering experience that requires them to synthesize what they have learnedin their curriculum and extend their knowledge through independent learning that reaches outsidetheir field of study, specifically in the topics of constructability. This is further observed atcommunity colleges where students do not have the opportunity of being immersed in a large-scale engineering academic environment of a four-year institution and frequently lose interest inpursuing further education or an engineering career.This educational gap is systematic among engineering universities. Figure 1 illustrates howdesign

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

method for projects to beadapted to exactly what a course requires and enable students to apply their designmethodologies. Many interesting peripherals are available at moderate cost, allowing facultyto adapt and modify assignments every term to increase interest and discourage cheating. Ourprogram integrates multiple peripherals, such as a voltage regulator, temperature sensor, LCDscreen, switches, and servos.Example Component and Software Selection. The components used in most of our courses arelisted in Table 1 and represent an example of the software tools and components that maysupport embedded and digital design courses. Table 1. Summary of example components and costs. Hardware Component

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Debra Larson

216The survey was developed by borrowing heavily from a national survey previously conducted byThe Carnegie Foundation as reported on by Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff11. This nationalsurvey on faculty roles and rewards was completed in 1994 by 865 chief academic officers (e.g.Provosts) representing the full range of university types from Research to Comprehensive toLiberal Arts. Questions 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 of the national survey were adapted to better fit the CSUand Cal Poly context of today, while forming the basis of this current study. Two versions of thesurvey were developed; one for making inquiries with the deans of engineering within the CSUand the other for the engineering faculty at Cal Poly.Six questions were common to both populations

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Samuel Landsberger; Artin Davidian; Juan Garibay; Richard Valenzuela; Barbara Wheeler

consistent high expectations, mentoring and peer support.In providing mentoring to the engineering students and support for its outreach effort to studentsin at-risk communities, HERE has collaborated with community-based organizations. Theseinclude also Senior Centers in the surrounding community.Program StructureThe program comprises four basic elements:1. Overview & Fundamentals: lectures, reading and site-visits giving direct exposure to the needs of the clients, along with accomplishments and techniques of Rehabilitation Engineering.2. Hands-on Creative Design: team-based work to help a specific client with a disability. Laboratory instruction is provided in support of the design work, in accord with the large number of freshmen

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Loukas Lazos; Elmer Grubbs

review these lectures during the time they would normally be studyingat home. The second part of flipping, which is in the classroom and lab, consists of going overconcepts and working problems with the students, either on a chalkboard or a screen orindividually with each student. In ECE175, a series of PowerPoint lectures were designed to beused by the students out of class. These lectures cover the material normally lectured on by theinstructor in previous years. An on-line book from Zyante (see Figure 1) was also added to theclass. In addition to the reading, the book contains exercises that are worked by the individualstudents outside of class to help them understand the material covered by the book and inlectures. The book software keeps

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Jose Macedo; Nick Sweeney

be describedlater in this paper.Details of the LaboratoryThere are 12 workstations in the laboratory, which can accommodate up to 24 students workingin teams of two students per workstation. We have at least twelve copies of all the equipmentavailable in the laboratory. Figures 1 and 2 show views of the automation laboratory. Figure 1. Gene Haas Laboratory for robotics and automation.The equipment available in the laboratory includes twelve setups of the following:(1) Rockwell Automation, CompactLogix 5000 PLC, RSLogix 5000 Software, add-on modules for A/D, D/A, high-speed counter, and one-axis stepper motor controller, Kinetics 350 one- axis servomotor controller, FactoryTalk View software for HMI. See Figures 2 and 4

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Carlye Lauff; Joanna Weilder-Lewis; Kevin O'Connor; Daria Kotys-Schwartz; Mark Rentschler

Engineering Education 229engineering education and making empirically based assessments of student progress. It has beenurged to make design pedagogy the highest priority in new engineering education curriculumdecisions.1 “Design is what engineers do, and the intelligent and thoughtful decision of theengineering curriculum should be the community’s first allegiance.”1This evident gap in new engineers’ preparation plus the lack of research around professionalengineering are the motivation for this research, which attempts to understand differencesbetween universities and companies with greater specificity through direct observation andrecordings. Currently

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David Naish

design problems. It is important to emphasize here that not all problems are most efficientlysolved using software, so students are taught to solve problems efficiently (i.e. sometimes it isfaster and safer to solve a simple problem by hand than try to input all parameters, make allassumptions, and run the analysis correctly). Typically in the class, students look at solving threemain types of problems: 1- simple problems best solved quickly by hand; 2- problems withsimple, repetitive, but numerous calculations, best solved using either a spreadsheet oralgorithmic approach; and 3- more complicated problems that are most efficiently solved usingengineering software.To ensure uniformity and applicability to subsequent problems, students follow a

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Stephanie Nelson; Brittany McCrigler

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 290The representatives of iFixit are anxious to collaborate further with other technical writingclasses in California and around the nation to extend the company’s mission. As BrittanyMcCrigler, Director of Education Services for iFixit, states, “I believe that technical writing cantruly change the world.”1 Since ABET has identified the lack of writing skills of graduatingengineering students as an area needing significant improvement, this collaboration betweenengineering educators and iFixit’s own technical writing department shows great promise inproviding a solution to the global problem of

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John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

assessmentmethods. We have endeavored to capture the gestalt of the project in this paper.Tiny House OriginsThe Tiny House, illustrated in Figures 1-6, emerged from several sources, including participationby the capstone students, Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, in two junior-level IntegratedEngineering courses focused on sustainable design; lively conversations between the studentsand the client; extensive exploration of the literature on creativity, low-impact architecture,regional and community planning, systems thinking, and green construction1-27; examination ofonline documentation describing the design of small, tiny, nano, eco, and indigenous housing; Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

help students acquire technical capital. Tounderstand how students might acquire technical capital, this study investigated the perspectivesof students enrolled in technician level pre-engineering programs that incorporated well-structured and ill-structured problems at North-West Community College (NWCC). Thefindings suggest that scaffolding experiences – moving from very well structured problems toill-structured problems – allow students to acquire technical capital, which can help themsucceed in pre-baccalaureate engineering education.Introduction“Engineering has a diversity problem” (p.74) 1, causing national concern about the consequencesand solutions to this problem. On the one hand, creative engineering solutions are a product ofthe

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Bruno Osorno

students’ self-reportedparticipation level in the team projects and their grade in the exams was analyzed to assess theeffectiveness of team projects in this electrical power systems course. The results of theregression analysis suggest that there is a mild relationship between students’ participation levelin team projects and their final exam grades. According to Bloom’s paper the learning pyramid(Figure 1) indicates that we start we evaluation and end with knowledge, we can argue that thedevelopment of projects in tandem with exams and quizzes, induces students to go throughall the steps indicated in the pyramid, many times without realizing the learning involved duringthe process. The realization occurs at the final exam, when students perform

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

visits as shown inFigure 1, field trip to a large-scale Photovoltaic power plant, attending courses and technicalseminars on campus, and interacting with students’ clubs. Figure 1. Visiting and observing students conducting power electronic lab experiment.Indonesia Higher Education and Faculty Exchange ProgramDespite Indonesia’s population of approximately 240 million, the number of young Indonesiansattending college is relatively low. A report from the Indonesian Ministry of NationalEducation’s National Strategic Plan 2010-2014 cited the need to continue the work on increasinghigher education access, particularly in some regions of the country2. Indonesia higher educationinstitutions are mostly owned by private institutions. Out of 3,079

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Galen Pickett; Prashanth Jaikumar; Michael Peterson

teacher.ResultsThe biggest institutional evidence of success in our efforts is that the introductory physicssequence is no longer a gateway course with a low completion rate. In the last four semesters,the D, W, F rate in this course has fluctuated narrowly in the 10% range, without sacrificing therigor of the material. In a sense, introducing computational methods and modern concepts andmethods has made the course more difficult, but student performance is measured in a highlydiverse set of measures (content in exams, group skills in the social homework, laboratory work,and homework, for example). Thus, even with the more challenging curriculum, students have afair shot at learning the material, and passing these classes. Figure 1

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

-doing education whilerequiring the multidisciplinary interaction is the Microhydro power plant project conducted byPolinema with a faculty at Cal Poly as a project collaborator.Microhydro Power Plant Project Development MethodologyThe microhydro power plant (MHPP) project was conducted in 2012-2013 under the sponsorshipfrom the Indonesian Higher Education agency. The team that participated in the project consistedof faculty and students from the electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanicalengineering, and civil engineering programs. Figure 1 depicts the MHPP project developmentmethodology. The figure shows that during the first year (2012) literature study was donesimultaneously with the field study. Field study was conducted to

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Agustin Robles; David Alvarez; Jasmine Flores; Cham Htun; Cheng Chen; James Enright; Amelito Enrique; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

and strength for the entire frame system.This structure is going to be an office building designed with large open spaces in the center, andlarge windows to allow for natural light to enter. The seismic weight of each floor of the buildingis assigned as 95 psf on the roof, 90 psf on the third floor, and 92 psf on the second floor. Theheight of the building is 36 ft, with 12 ft story heights at each floor. As seen in Figure 1, the baseof the structure is shaped like a cross with a width of 150 ft and a length of 120 ft. The framessteel plates, horizontal boundary elements (HBEs), and vertical boundary elements (VBEs) are tobe designed according to AISC’s code provisions2 and ASCE 7-10 equivalent lateral forceprocedures3. Evaluation of the

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Sukhmander Singh

theengineering faculty especially for continuous improvement on an ongoing basis rather than ayear before evaluation time.Conclusions 1. ABET Assessment process has demonstrated accomplishment in improving the quality of education, yet some important attributes of education such as the creativity and the development of an ability to think have not been given due attention they deserve. 2. In the assessment process, regarding employer survey, there should be a way to check if the data collected is representative of all the areas across a discipline in engineering. 3. There is a need to assign a level of importance to the five Engineering Skills based attributes (a, b, c, e and k) with respect to the other professional skill

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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

space.Shake-table tests allow researchers to simulate an earthquake on an entire scaled building. Thesetests require a large laboratory, very expensive equipment, and the cost to replace the yieldedmembers of the structure in between simulations could be prehibitive. Real-time hybridsimulation (RTHS) is an efficient alternative to the shake table test. Instead of testing an entirestructure in the laboratory, RTHS divides the structure into experimental and analyticalsubstructures. The experimental substructures are physically tested in the laboratory while theanalytical substructures are modeled numerically in computer programs. Figure 1 presents thegeneral concept of RTHS in relation to a full scale test. Proceedings of the 2014 American

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

extremely important markettrends: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing” 1. One of the paper’s authors, Dey, asthe Lead Faculty for the Masters in Computer Science (MS-CS) program of National University(NU), facilitated the inclusion of agility through virtualization in the curriculum of the DAT 605,Web and Cloud Computing (WCC) course.National University Class-per-Month Schedule. NU offers WASC accredited onsite and onlineteaching modalities in a one semester coursedelivered in a single calendar month. This is truly accelerated, Internet-time delivery of coursematerial and becomes especially challenging to the engineering programs in the School ofEngineering and Computing (SOEC)), and the Computer Science and Information