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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

create a learningcommunity among the scholars through a combination of academic counseling and mentoring,personal enrichment and professional development opportunities, and strong academic supportservices. This paper describes how faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, student organizations,and partners in industry, four-year institutions, and professional organizations can be involved increating an academic infrastructure that promotes academic excellence, leadership skills, andpersonal and professional growth among the diversity of financially needy STEM students in acommunity college.1. IntroductionCañada College is a member of the California Community College System, and is one of threecolleges in the San Mateo County Community College

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Lily Gossage

sections byethnic/racial origin and provide a unique study center for URM students. These practices werefounded on two assumptions: 1) reducing isolation of URM students so that a sense ofcamaraderie can be achieved and 2) aggressively directing resources, mentors, and skills learningto ensure access for URM students [16]. Given the fact that Southern California boasts thehighest population of Latino/Hispanics in the nation, with many engineering colleges havingthriving culturally-based chapters, such as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers(SHPE) and Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES), along with increasing student Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Amelito Enriquez

Jam, enrollments inSTEM courses have increased significantly, with a higher rate of increase among minoritystudents. The success of Math Jam in improving the participation, retention, and success ofminority STEM students has led to the development of the Mini-Math Jam – a shorter, one-weekversion of Math Jam that is offered a week prior to the beginning of the fall semester, and duringthe winter break. The Mini-Math Jam has also been successful in helping students improve theirplacement scores, and preparing them for subsequent math courses they take.1. IntroductionCommunity colleges serve as the gateway to higher education for large numbers of students inthe U.S., especially minority and low-income students. Yet for many students, the

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David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

 Engineering Education  273 supportive of hands-on learning experiences, and has worked to develop extensive laboratory facilities forthe undergraduate engineering programs1.Prescott Campus Summer ProgramsDuring the 2010 summer, three summer academic programs were offered by Embry-Riddle faculty inaerospace engineering, flight, and computer engineering. Each program is intended for high schoolstudents from ages 15 to 18 (14 to 18 for the flight program), is one week in duration, and involvesstudents in classroom, laboratory, and a few evening non-academic activities. Table 1 provides a verybrief introduction to the three programs

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Bruno Osorno; William Oh

control algorithms todeliver the maximum possible power [1]. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is essentialbecause it takes full advantage of the available solar energy. Two most widely adopted trackingmethods in PV power systems are the pertubation and observation method (P&O) [2] and theincremental conductance method (IncCond) [3]. PV power systems using these tracking methodsregulate the voltage of the PV array to follow an optimal setpoint (VOOP, the voltage of optimaloperating point, or VMPOP, the voltage of maximum power operating point), satisfying the Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education

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R. Radharamanan

activities across Mercer campus, selected entrepreneurial designprojects successfully completed, and hands-on course modules developed and implemented inthe manufacturing related courses at MUSE. The results are presented and discussed.1. IntroductionIn recent years, the entrepreneurship education and research has focused a great deal of attentionon opportunity recognition as a key aspect of research and practice16. The field ofentrepreneurship has been defined as the “study of the sources of opportunities; the process ofdiscovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities”18. The entrepreneur has been describedas “an innovator or developer who recognizes and seizes opportunities, converts theseopportunities into workable and/or marketable ideas

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Kiran George

students to view information on their computer, take personal notes directlyon provided slides, and save the information for future reference and review. The numerousimplementations of TPC demonstrate the usefulness of this technology to increase interactionbetween faculty and students and it has shown improvement in learning and retention of material[1 – 4]. TPC is suited for analyzing and solving engineering problems and it provides an idealvenue for applying interactive teaching.In order to bestow a competitive advantage on their students, nations are investing heavily indigitally rich environments to boost student learning and achievement of their future workforce,which in turn will help them remain competitive in the global marketplace

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AJ Almaguer

, and bloom’s taxonomy. Leadership development also plays a center role in ourprogram and we have developed a complete leadership structure to provide longevity to BEAM.The performance of the organization is assessed by three criteria: (1) development of leadershipskills in our mentors through the final project; (2) development of our mentees through a “Drawan Engineer Test”; (3) changes in our mentees' attitudes towards engineering through self-reported competencies. Mentors particularly cited BEAM increased their ability to lead, thinkcreatively, and recognize the broader impact of engineering. Our mentees showed notablechanges in their conceptions about engineering and science through the Draw an Engineer Test.In the near future, BEAM

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Wayne C. Pilkington

recordingsIntroductionLecture capture, the recording of face-to-face classroom lectures in digital format, and makingthese recordings available for asynchronous first-time viewing or reviewing by students, is animportant and beneficial tool for engineering education that has been in use for several yearsnow; but that has experienced a slow adoption rate. In the 2010 National Survey of InformationTechnology in Higher Education[1], a survey of senior campus information technology officersfrom 523 public and private colleges and universities across the United States, more than sixtypercent of the survey participants either “agree” or “strongly agree” that lecture capture is animportant part of their plans for developing and delivering instructional materials. However

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A. M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

grade adjustment method presented in this paper was evaluated using two introductoryengineering classes (ENGR 100 and ME 151) at the University of Nevada, Reno. The College ofEngineering at the University of Nevada, Reno is comprised of five departments, four of whichparticipate in ENGR 100: Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering (CE), Electrical andBiomedical Engineering (EBME) and Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering (CME). ENGR100 is a required multi-disciplinary first-year engineering course that was developed withfunding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation1. This course is taught once per year(fall semester) and traditionally has a combined enrollment of approximately 300 students.Students attend a large 1-hour lecture

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Matthew R. Stein

(Figure 1), a classroom where students sit at work tables facing a whiteboard lecture area. The room is equipped with standard electronic equipment including power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters and soldering irons. The majority of students bring their own a laptop computer, as seen in Figure 1, and a few desktop PCs are available for students who

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

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Jerald D. Cole

classroomexperience. The bandwidth requirements for asynchronous text-based communications needed to support LMSs arecertainly lower—the opportunity cost being a loss of the sense of teacher presence. When it comes to presence, theproverb “out-of-sight; out-of-mind” seems apropos.Three issues have limited the adoption of synchronous conferencing solutions in education:(1) Many instructors are indoctrinated into prevailing models of asynchronous instruction, such as threaded discussion and email. They are not acculturated to and/or aware of the alternative.1(2) Channel capacity has proven to be a deterrent given the high cost of upgrading aging university network infrastructures to levels capable of supporting the traffic imposed by real-time dynamic

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S Claudina Vargas

curriculum revolves around creating learning environmentsthat motivate students engage themselves continuously in learning and discovering. [Thisinternalizes three fundamental truths: (1) human understanding and knowing have theirown dynamics, and students’ mental models are driven by these dynamics; they areevolving pictures and the ways in which they evolve are important. (2) Humanunderstanding and knowing grow from within the individual; knowledge-building can beguided and motivated, but it cannot be implanted or impose from outside. (3) Fuzzinessand unreliability can never be fully eliminated from the human perception of reality, fromour thinking and understanding, and from our experience of life; consequently, theseelements cannot be completely

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Kanti Prasad

the finished chip along with its real time testing. This comprises of four distinctand disparate phases namely-Phase 1: Chip design – This basically involves the design of thechip based on specifications provided by the customer, Phase 2: Mask Set – It involves theconversion of design’s layout and placement into set of masks e.g. diffusion, contact, andmetallization masks etc., Phase 3: Mask Transfer – This involves transferring the mask set onto awafer substrate such as Si or GaAs etc., Phase 4: Packaged Chip – This incorporates inscribing,dicing, bonding and encapsulating chip in a plastic or ceramic package, depending on customer’srequirement. Most of these phases require industrial involvement to a great extent.The author proposed an

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

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Michael J. Rust; Abe Kamal

AN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR K-12 TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Michael J. Rust1 and Abe Kamal2 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering 2 Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Western New England College mrust@wne.edu AbstractThis paper describes an engineering workshop developed for K-12 teachers and students. Duringthe workshop, participants compete in a design activity that enables them to role-play asengineers. As a result, the attendees develop basic engineering

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

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Tahany Fergany; Amal Abd El?Raouf

students more comfortable practicing programming during the learning phase; andhence improve the students’ retention. On the other hand, the tool provides the instructor with a way to communicatewith students, monitor their progress and know about weaknesses and learning styles.Hence, the instructor can adjust his/her teaching method to match the students’ needs.1. Introduction The object-oriented design methodology has become one of the leading techniques inproblem solving. Compared to procedural programming, object-oriented programming ismore natural and reliable [1, 2, 3]. It also has a high potential for reuse, and a relativelyquick and easy way to implement and maintain. Recently, object-oriented programminghas been widely accepted

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Tom Goulding; Durga Suresh

settings.understanding of the ENIGMA functionality as well asa software architecture for the project. Our variation of the Socratic method has been under development for ten years. The method called the4.0. How the ENIGMA works? GM-Method has been discussed extensively inThe German WWII ENIGMA system encrypts previous papers. [2 - 6] Therefore, we will discussalphabetic messages in a manner that is reminiscent the method in a very abbreviated manner and only inof the ancient, well known and rather simple Caesar so far as it informs this case study.cipher. The ENIGMA, however, is a complex electro-mechanical device (Figure 1

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Vance Poteat

. Mostof the data is in the form of surveys and all of them confirm that cheating is not a rare event.Along with this, there are also reports and articles about wide spread cheating events that are also Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Educationof interest. The following is a summary of some of the more significant surveys and articles thatwith which this author identifies.One study [1] at Midwestern State University, which was conducted in 1984, 1994, and 2004,found the following: Table 1 – Midwestern State University 2004 Survey Results Type of Cheating

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Molly Clay; William Jumper; Kavitha Chandra

MathWorksInc..1 University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1 University Ave, Lowell, MA,Molly_Clay@student.uml.edu2 Lowell High School, Physics Teacher, 50 Father Morissette Boulevard Lowell, MA, wjumper@lowell.k12.ma.us3 University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1 University Ave,Lowell, MA, Kavitha_Chandra@uml.edu

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Barbara Fleck

technology course. Current Study Abroad Student Participation RatesCollege study abroad programs are available to many college students in the UnitedStates. Many high school students believe they will participate in these programs whenthey are in college, but actually only a small percentage do. In 2000, according to DavidWheeler:“48 percent of high school students said they planned on studying abroad. But in recentyears, only about 1 percent of college students did so annually. And while enrollments in Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Educationstudy-abroad programs are at a

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Biswanath Samanta

. Several novel applications of hybrid CI techniques proposed earlierby the author in engineering, manufacturing, biomedical and health care systems are discussed. Theexperiences of offering CI as a graduate course and a summer research project involving high schoolstudents are also presented. The importance of introducing CI techniques and their multidisciplinaryapplications as a senior level interdisciplinary engineering elective course and integrating these inresearch experiences for undergraduates and STEM education is discussed.1. Introduction Recently in US universities, there is a growing emphasis on multidisciplinary education and research,especially involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) [1-8]. The

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Bruce Char

problem. We have used these techniques the past four years in engineer- ing classes including some involving 600-1000 first-year students. Over 120,000 student responses are automatically graded annually for homework assignments and proctored exams.Keywords: Symbolic mathematical computation, test management systems, computer-based training.IntroductionWeb-delivery test management systems such as Maple TA[1] can invoke programs which use scientific com-putation libraries for question generation and automatic answer-checking and grading. They facilitate eval-uation and practice on technical subjects for large classes of students. We have used Maple TA each term tobetween 500 and 900 engineering students each term in the past five years to

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Navarun Gupta; Sarosh Patel; Bhushan Dharmadhikari; Manan Joshi; Lawrence V. Hmurcik

ELECTRICAL GROUNDING – THEORY AND APPLICATION Navarun Gupta1, Sarosh Patel2, Bhushan Dharmadhikari2, Manan Joshi2, Lawrence V. Hmurcik1 1. Electrical Engineering Department, 2. Department of Computer Engineering and Science. University of Bridgeport, CT navarung@bridgeport.edu, saroshp@bridgeport.edu, bdharmad@bridgeport.edu, mjoshi@bridgeport.edu, hmurcik@bridgeport.eduABSTRACTThe concept of an electrical ground is pivotal to the application of all electrical circuits.In our teaching of this concept, we discuss grounding from both a theoretical andpractical perspective. Practical knowledge is gained from

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John Finnie; Neil Fennessey

attainment ofvarious student outcomes. The objective of this paper is to show how a Communication Rubricfor grading student design projects could be used to provide some direct measurements ofattainment of student outcomes. DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT OUTCOMESThe ABET web site (WWW.ABET.ORG) provides information about accreditation, includingthe documents entitled “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs” for specificAccreditation Cycles (school years). A comparison of these criteria reveals that “directmeasures” for assessment are not specifically mentioned until 2011-2012. The definition sectionfor the 2010-2011 criteria defines Assessment as follows [1]. “Assessment is one or more processes that identify, collect, and

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Mohammad T. Ameli; Saeid Moslehpour; Massoud Pourhassan

LoadDispatch(ELD). By further refinement of ELD calculations, fuel costs of the generating plants andlosses of the transmission systems are minimized, thereby improving the optimization of generatingand transmission costs.1 - IntroductionThe monotonically increasing global price of fuels and the inflation trend necessitate the frequent,if not continuous, monitoring and re-evaluation of the optimized dispatch in utilization of the powernetworks. Some constraints add to, and amplify the complexities of ELD calculations including the Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering

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Xingguo Xiong; Hassan Bajwa; Lawrence Hmurcik

published papers and posters in the VLSI related journals andconferences. 1. IntroductionVLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits) has been one of the most important technologiesdeveloped in 20th century. During the last decade, the VLSI industry has made continuousefforts to keep shrinking the size of the transistors, so that more and more transistors can bebuilt into a single VLSI chip to make it more and more powerful [1]. Moore's law hasgoverned the trends in VLSI industry for the past decades [2]. The transistor size has beenshrunk into deep submicron or even nanometer domain, so that more and more transistors canbe integrated into the same chip area. Nowadays a state-of-the-art Intel Xeon MicroprocessorMP X7460 based on 45nm technology

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Ying Yu

sequential circuit analysis and synthesis, medium-scaleintegrated circuits, state machine tables and charts, hazards. “DC and AC ElectricalFundamentals” has a student body that is generally composed of freshman students fromElectrical Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology and AudioEngineering Technology. Its topics include DC circuits, phasors, sinusoids applied to R,L, C series and parallel circuits, DC and AC source conversions and circuit theorems,mesh and nodal analysis, transformers.Examples and Practical Implementation Techniques: Figure 1 (below) is a sample slide from the course “Digital System Logic”. Itincludes the question on the top and three choices below. There is also the bar indicatingthe number of students

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Pushpa Kantharaju; Praveen Prasanth

pkanthar@bridgeport.edu pmanaval@bridgeport.eduAbstractIn order to evaluate the value and usefulness of information systems that guide IS managementactions and IS investments, DeLone and McLean established a universal definition of IS successthat includes different perspectives of how information systems might be evaluated. The ISsuccess taxonomy consists of six success categories (1) systems quality, (2) information quality,(3) service quality, (4) use, (5) user satisfaction, and (6) net benefit from which they created amultidimensional and interdependent measuring model that exemplifies the interdependenciesbetween the different success categories to capture the complex nature of IS success. While thecharacteristics of information

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Hassan Bajwa; Mohammad Seddik

of reaching out to students from various backgrounds and capturingtheir imagination requires a fundamental and systematic approach [1]. In this paper wepresent hands-on experimental-based pedagogical efforts to encourage critical andcreative thinking by allowing students to create relationships between mathematics andengineering.Generally, engineering students are required to declare their major within the first year ofcollege. Most engineering students come with certain interests and expectations about aparticular professional career. Pedagogical methods that work with students from non-engineering disciplines vary for students within engineering fields. Narrative materialwithout guided learning or overuse of learning aids effects students

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William L. Cleghorn; Hapreet Dhariwal

combination of delivering notes in real-time, demonstrationing mechanical models,showing computer animations and playing of video clips.The authors developed the Mutimedia Enhanced Electronic Teaching System (MEETS) toeffectively provide presentations in the lectures of MIE301, even when the class size is verylarge [1]. The signals which are seen and heard during the live lectures may be recorded.Lecture capture refers to any means by which live lectures are recorded so they may be availableat a later time. It can involve the recording of audio and/or video signals of the instructor, andmay abe extended to the capture of demonstrations of physical systems, video clips and computeranimations. The MEETS is ideally suited to be used for lecture capture