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Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

Pursuing a Personalized Program to Prepare for an Academic Career at an Engineering Department without a Formal Teaching Curriculum Amaka Waturuocha1, Laura Ford1, Christi Patton Luks1 1 University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAAbstractTypically, when applying to graduate school for doctoral programs, students are not 100%certain of the route their careers will take: industry, academia or both. Most times though, theylean more towards one of these options. In such a case the potential graduate student tailors theirapplications /interests to schools with the kind of curriculum that fits their particular needs. Oncein graduate school

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Michael C. Reynolds

Engineering Analysis. The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith willcontinue to refine the freshman curriculum to optimize retention and success of its engineeringstudents.Bibliography1 Knight, D.W., Carlson, L.E., Sullivan, J.F., “Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On,Team Based, First-Year Design Projects,” 31st International Conference on Research in Engineering Education,Honolulu, HI, June 22 – 24, 2007.2 Bodnar, L.J., et al, “Engaging Freshman in Team Based Engineering Projects,” Proceedings AmericanSociety for Engineering Education 2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012.3 Budny, D., Newborg, B., and Ford, M., “Combining the Freshman Introduction to Engineering and theFreshman Writing Course

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Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu; Ravi Pendse

://multicorelca.wordpress.com - accessed on June 21, 2013. 11. Zhu, Y. “Supercomputing Undergraduate Program in Maine (SuperMe),” NSF RUE Award 0754951, 2008. 12. Zhang, W. “Collaborative Proposal: Problem-Based Learning of Multithreaded Programming,” NSF CCLI Award1063644, 2011.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 13. Brown, R. “A strategy for injecting parallel computing education throughout the computer science curriculum,” NSF CCLI Award 0942190, 2010. 14. Ernst, D.J., et al, “Concurrent CS: Preparing Students for a Multicore World,” ITiCSE’08, 2008. 15. Adams, J., Nevison, C. and Schaller, N.C. “Parallel computing to start the millennium,” in Proceedings of the

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Madhulika Srikanth; Abu S. Asaduzzaman; Ramazan Asmatulu

Beware of High Tech Cheating Techniques and Their Effects on Engineering Education 1 M. Srikanth, 2A. Asaduzzaman, and 1,* R. Asmatulu 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 *Email: ramazan.asmatulu@wichita.edu; Tel: (316) 978-6368AbstractCheating is an immoral way of achieving higher graders in the schools by breaking the rules andregulations and gaining an unfair advantage in this competitive environment. This dishonestbehavior has