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Edward Smaglik; Terry Baxter; John Tingerthal P.E.; Chun-Hsing Ho; Mark Lamer

using a blended approach. Motivated in part by this initiative andreports on successful course redesigns8, the current course instructors met with the facultymember who originally designed the curricula to draft a proposal to redesign these courses.Drawing on the original instructor’s experience with blended courses9,10, the team identifiedpotential advantages of a blended approach and settled on the following project objectives: 1. Improve the student-centered learning environment in these courses so that it aligns with the various learning needs and styles of students both in and out of the classroom 2. Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our faculty who are teaching these courses 3. Increase the efficiency with which

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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

the classic inverted instruction model in order to scale it up tohandling 200+ students. Before describing our model in detail, we first provide guidelines forchoosing which courses are appropriate for high-efficiency inverted instruction.Which Classes Are Suited. Like all things, pedagogical models should be used in moderation andapplied only where appropriate. MOOCs, online learning, inverted instruction, classical lecturingand others have potential uses in any curriculum if applied judiciously. In the same way, themodel we describe is suited only to certain courses. The necessary conditions a class must meetare: 1. A significant number of sections taught per term, at least enough to occupy two full-time instructors. 2

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Tina Smilkstein

. User interfacesand dangers of various systems.Assignment: Watching videos on: 1. safety of electronic devices, 2. creative healthmonitoring devices and 3. iPhone apps. Reading on security and ethics. Homework: Find onesecurity breach that you thought was interesting and present to class. Reading on future HMI(human machine interfaces).Lab: Group discussions of topics and interests. I participated in each group’s discussion andtried to brainstorm with them.Week 3Lecture: Guest lecturer on security. Presentation on security breaches from each student.Continued: User interfaces and dangers of various systems. Costs of systems. Pervasivecomputing. High-level technology for pervasive computing.Assignment: Reading of papers on: 1. pervasive

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

for Engineering Education 389the topic theory and content are relatively infrequent 21, 17, 15, 7. Furthermore, the term “project-based learning” subsumes different activities with varying purposes and is frequently replaced byproblem-based learning. Based on the literature in civil engineering education, because of thehierarchical nature of engineering education, PBL is best applied in a hybrid form known asProject Based Learning11. This hybrid project-based learning form is different form problem-based learning in the aspect of (1) time, which means that engineering projects take more timethan problems, (2) application: which means that the

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

College of Engineering student body reflectsthe overall diversity of the University. The ethnic breakdown of undergraduates in the collegeincludes 19% Hispanic, 3% African American, 40% Asian, 22% White, 6% Internationalstudents, and approximately 1% American Indian or Pacific Islander. Women areunderrepresented in the College, making up 14% of undergraduates. The majority of newstudents each fall in the College are first-time first-year students though a substantial number,approximately 40% of the new students, enroll as upper-division transfer students. These transferstudents come primarily from the extensive California Community College system. TheUniversity formed a formal retention and graduation initiative in 2009 and has

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Lisa Wang

earthquake, for example, about 12,500 structureswere moderately to severely damaged including residential homes, businesses, and freeways (seeFigure 1). Approximately 114,000 residential and commercial structures were damaged and 72deaths were attributed to the earthquake. Damage costs were estimated at $25 billion. On March11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake shook northeastern Japan. The effects of the greatearthquake were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. More than18,000 people were killed in the disaster, with severe structural damage in northeastern Japan(see Figure 2), including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering

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Jose Valdovinos; Cheng Chen; Abbyanna Davis; Amelito Enriquez; Wenshen Pong

reliable and sustainable civil engineering infrastructures. Real-timehybrid simulation seamlessly integrates physical testing with numerical simulation, thusproviding a cost-effective technique to evaluate seismic performance of large or full-scalestructures in limited size laboratories1. Figure 1 presents the schematic concept for real-timehybrid simulation. The structure is divided into experimental substructures and analyticalsubstructures, where the experimental substructures are tested in laboratories and the analyticalsubstructures are numerically modeled by computer program.Actuator delay presents great challenge for real time hybrid simulation. Various procedures havebeen developed to compensate for these delays to improve the accuracy of

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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

departmentchair and school Dean. The PAR is next submitted for approval to the Undergraduate Councilthat has its own Assessment Committee that review PARs and add comments and assign a score(Initial, Emerging, Developed or Highly Developed) based on the rubric provided for eachsection in the PAR. The chair of the committee then presents their findings to the UndergraduateCouncil and seeks Councils approval. Figure 1 show the cycle each program PAR is routedthrough. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 460

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

Successful K-12 STEM Education identified three goals for U.S. STEMeducation4”: • Goal 1: Expand the number of students who ultimately pursue advanced degrees and careers in STEM fields and broaden the participation of women and minorities in those fields. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 444 • Goal 2: Expand the STEM-capable workforce and broaden the participation of women and minorities in that workforce. • Goal 3: Increase STEM literacy for all students, including those who

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Hen-Geul Yeh; Duc Tran; Paula Quintana

a broad scope of thestrategies, procedures, and techniques required to properly integrate the various aspects ofemerging green energy technologies. Through the experiences of two graduate students whohave attended the conference, this paper describes their study, along with observations madebefore, during and after the conference, and how the conference have influenced their researchand career choices.TestimoniesElectrical Engineering Graduate Student #1, Emphasis: CommunicationsMultidisciplinary project-based learning in the classroom. I got the invitation to participate inthe IGESC 2013 during the first lecture of the class Advanced Digital Signal Processing(EE585).The professor of the class motivated us to be a part of this conference

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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

Table 1. The gradingpolicy also remained the same as before, whether the group used the EV3 or the NXT.Table 1. Tasks assigned in mini-lab. Task No. Requirement I - Required The robot is to operate as follows: 1. After placing robot at the START position the robot should be turned on. 2. Then, robot should travel forward two feet (2‟). 3. After that, robot should beep. 4. Then, robot should travel back and return to its starting position. 5. When done, robot should play a tune (your choice) indicating the program is finished. II - Required Change the program from Task I so the robot travels

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

academically at-risk, peer mentoring programs, professional speaker series, field trips,tutoring services, professional development workshops, and numerous other opportunities thatwill be elaborated herein.IntroductionIn a recent report, published by the National Science Board, entitled: “Moving Forward toImprove Engineering Education,” it is accentuated that rapid changes are taking place forengineering on a global scale, which require Federal leadership to respond quickly andinformatively.1 Following an extensive deliberation via a series of workshops, the Boardidentified three key challenges in engineering education: (1) responding to the changing globalcontext of engineering, (2) changing the public perceptions of engineering, and (3) retention

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Shervin Zoghi; Eric Liguori; Manoochehr Zoghi; Fariborz Tehrani; The Nguyen

of the modern technological society.IntroductionEvidently, the globalizations of the economy, Internet connectivity, and exploding informationtechnology have had a profound impact on modern societies.1, 2 The modern society, and oureveryday lives, are increasingly dependent on scientific and technical innovation.3 Engineering,central to innovation, is dramatically influenced by the rapid changes that are taking place on aglobal scale. There has been much debate in recent years that traditional engineering education,however, does not adequately prepare the new graduates to face the ever-changing demands oftechnological societies. In a survey of engineering employers, conducted by Todd et al.4, thefollowing frequently-cited perceptions of

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

, and enhance their understanding of racial, economic, andsocial differences and similarities in society14.This paper is an analysis of two capstone projects for the BS-ITM academic program: CoxYMCA (three students in the project group) and EazyToyz (four students in the project group). Itdetermines how the projects fulfill the BS-ITM Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) and provideuseful service to the community – especially, to the low-budget and non-profit organizations thathave limited financial resources.Capstone Project 1: Cox Tech Center Upgrade at YMCA Youth & Family Services15This project for a non-profit organization consists of upgrades and modifications to the Cox TechCenter lab at the YMCA of San Diego County – Youth & Family