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Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

Cyber-Infrastructure Education Recruitment, Retention, Advancement), while STEMstands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. EOT is the roadmap forpreparing the next generation of engineers and future scientists in the global knowledgeeconomy. This paper highlights the E in STEM referencing a Team Science approach topreparing the next generation of engineers, technicians, researchers, and future scientists.CIBRED and CIERRA are used here as a way to show how this collaborative, project-centric bioinformatics initiative can contribute to the development of an educationalpipeline to prepare in/out-of-school youth with 21st century workforce skills and fosterinnovation and interdisciplinary practice. The product and the processes are

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. Accessibility of the network to the collaborators, other institutions and participating student populations 2. Outreach efforts a. What other institutions have expressed an interest b. What type of reaction have other institutions had Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 462 c. CIBRED Web site usage statistics: To disseminate the CIBRED course model, CI courses, and related materials to other participating high schools and colleges

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Eniko T. Enikov; Malcolm T. Gibson

such asenergy, materials, and information in order to provide tools and technology in service ofadvancing human civilization. Consequently, engineering activity has a global impact due to theinternational utilization of innovative discovery. For this reason, engineering education has theobjective of presenting not only the engineering sciences but also how to apply them to directapplications in a manner that is judicious and conscience of societal and environmental impact 1 .In order to meet the future challenges of an advancing engineering industry, undergraduateeducation needs to prepare students in a vast spectrum of sciences and technical skills. Thisrequires collaboration between classroom knowledge and laboratory practice. By utilizing

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

RM315 Instructor Desk Experiment B Experiment B Experiment B Research White Board Fig. 2 The layout of new experiment setup and new research benches in EE photonic lab.3. Strong faculty/students research projects:With the photonic lab expansion project, the department also doubled its photonicresearch/project area in 2008. This will support more photonic faculty/student projects. Themajor projects are:• International research collaboration [2]We established a long-term cross-three-campus international engineering education and

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Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

enabled individuals, small groups, and small countries to have an equal voice by providingas much access, visibility and opportunities as large businesses and advanced countries. One of the major impacts of computing is in the area of human learning, that is, cognitiveand logical inference activities that will inevitably change the way we learn, work and live [1].Lifelong learning will be the focus for long term and continuous economical development. In areport from the European Parliament and the Council on Key Competences for Lifelong    Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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students with an understanding of technology that cannot be replicated byclicking through an online virtual laboratory simulation. Doing this ultimately should give ourstudents a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.The Hope College – Mission College collaboration is investigating the viability of sharing labmaterials in order to make it easier for faculty to start up technological literacy courses or tointroduce these labs into their existing freshman engineering courses. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 186Lab SharingThe internet has made

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Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 14design process. Weekly meetings with the course faculty and teaching assistants as well ashaving a paired industry coach help teams progress. Course milestones are geared towardshands-on prototyping early and students are pushed to work collaboratively with their designteam counterparts globally.Documentation and Pre-Production Prototype as a FinishAssessment of work is heavily weighted on documentation produced throughout the academicyear as evidence of the students’ thinking. A final report of a couple hundred pages is generatedin

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group of two members. In extreme Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 160 circumstances the class may allow the use of one-robot but then the project has to be modified. Response9: As shown in Response7 above PWM and EEPROM are now being addressed and extra help will be provided as needed. Response10: This change was made last semester (Fall 2008) and it worked quite well. There was a lot of collaboration among groups even though each group’s project maintained the unique characteristics presented in the preliminary phase.ConclusionsThe

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Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

Professor of Engineering Tim Simpson, University of Pennsylvania Professor of EngineeringAbstractAmericans need a better understanding of the wide variety of technology used everyday. Theneed for technological literacy is great for both individuals and the nation in general. Creating apopulation with a more empowered relationship with technology will require a significant andextensive initiative in undergraduate education. Curricula and course materials that are easilyadoptable in diverse and varied institutional environments are vital in this effort. The NationalAcademy of Engineering in two reports: Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need toKnow More about Technology (2002

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Claudia Lee; Andrew Zepfel; Nina Timberlake; Larry Grill; Sean Gallagher

436 Bio-molecular Engineering Verified by High Sensitivity Detection Claudia Lee1, Andrew Zepfel2, Nina Timberlake3, Larry Grill4, Sean Gallagher1 1 UVP, LLC 2 Claremont McKenna College 3 Scripps College 4 Pitzer CollegeAbstractAn interdisciplinary, industry-academic collaboration was conducted to aid students at

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Kurt Colvin

, typically online. This paper describes the process andexperiences of the redesign of a systems engineering course into a blended course. To besuccessful, the redesign requires careful application of pedagogical concepts and continuousimprovement using an understanding of how students learn. This paper is a status report of anongoing effort.IntroductionWhile distance education programs have exploded in recent years, a new trend within the fieldhas emerged: blended or hybrid courses. A hybrid course builds on a traditional, face-to-facecourse incorporating online elements, using the same course management software thatunderpins courses taught entirely online. This model can appeal to a wide range of instructors,even those who are critical of online

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

initiatives directed toward this newworkforce. CIBRED is one of the funded collaborative projects (awarded to O. Crasta of VBIwith A. Datta as a collaborator) of this OCI initiative. Courses are now being developed in acollaborative way using multidisciplinary approach integrating scientific and technologyinformation from a variety of disciplines The focus is to teach students from diverse disciplinesfor learning some essential concepts on computer technology in the context of application ofcyberinfrastructure. These courses developed for K13 & K14 levels will be offered in aninnovative classroom setting for hands-on experimental learning with a focus on solving a Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific

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Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

established. The NSSEE specificallyassesses: (a) possible link between student success and a particular learning community, (b) self-reported gains in the college experience and (c) overall satisfaction with the college experience.After sampling over 80,000 students across 365 four-year universities they found thatparticipation in LCs is “uniformly and positively linked” with (a) academic performance, (b)engagement in worthwhile academic activities (faculty interaction, collaborative learning), (c) Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 22increase college attendance

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), all offer online courses at the graduate level. This is because only very few of the two year institutions offer Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 402graduate level courses. The increase of approximately 360,000 online students/year has exceededthe overall rate in higher education enrollment/year and keeps growing [12]The following table applies for institutions with 15000+ students enrolled [12].Level Doctoral/research Masters Bachelors Associate SpecializedCertificate 60.3

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. Fig. 9. Rating scheme.AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part by the CONACYT under Grant No. 91013.References1.T. C. Hutchinson, F. Kuester, „ Hardware Architecture for a Visualization Classroom: VizClass, 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput appl Eng Educ 12:232-241.2. Fuller D.A. and Moreno A.F. (2004). Experimenting With a Computer-Mediated Collaborative Interaction Model to Support Engineering Courses, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 12 (3), 175-187.3. Li, S. G. and Lie, Q.(2004). Interactive Groundwater (IGW): An Innovative Digital Laboratory for Groundwater Education and Research, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (4), 179-203.4. Fu, T.T. (2003). Applications of Computer Simulation in

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Teresa M. Ogletree; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

analyze their problem solutions and revise their approach to open ended problems. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 249 4) The Model Documentation Principle teaches students to create a mental model of their process in solving the problem. Documentation of their model and solution is often in the form of a memo to the client. 5) The Generalizability Principle asks students to develop models that other students (and the client) could easily use, and models that can be adapted to other similar situations. 6) The Effective Prototype

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

institutionalcontact for the ICACE project and will email an action plan to members of the group aswell as project partners. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 390The project partners will meet regularly to have oversight and management of all aspectsof the project: curriculum issues, exchanges, and finance. There will be additional monthlymeetings of the contact persons at each institution via Skype to monitor the achievementof tasks and ensure good financial budgeting.Communications, collaboration and information access is organised by means of a contentmanagement

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project with instrumentation, students will be able to quantify the dynamics ofthe physical experiment, and compare these results to their calculated predictions. This kind ofself assessment allows students to connect their solution to the outside world, instead of justchecking answers. We hope that this instrumentation will further motivate students in the yearsto come. Fire away. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 290AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by the NSF CCLI Grant #070607: Collaborative Research: ImprovingEngineering Students’ Learning Strategies

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Amelito G. Enriquez

mathematical formulas. Combined with wirelessnetworking technology, Tablet PCs have the potential to provide an ideal venue for applyingpreviously proven collaborative teaching and learning techniques commonly used in smallerengineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger, more traditional lecture setting. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 33Currently, the range of use of Tablet PCs in the classroom includes enhancing lecturepresentations8,9, digital ink and note taking10, E-Books (books in electronic format) that allowhyperlinks and annotations11

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Engineering Education, 5 (2), 93-99. 3. Quere, R., Lalande, M., Boutin, J. N., and Valente, C. (1995). An Automatic Characterization of Gaussian Noise Source for Undergraduate Electronics Laboratory, IEEE Transaction on Education, vol.38, No2, 126-130. 4. Kim A. S., Park C., and Park, S. H. (2003). Development of web-based Engineering Numerical Software (WENS) Using MATLAB: Applications to Linear Algebra, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (2), 67-75. 5. Orsak G. C., Etter D. M. (1995). Collaborative Signal Processing Education Using the Internet and MATLAB. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 12 (6), 23-32. 6. Pires V. F. and Silva J. F. A. (2002). Teaching Nonlinear Modeling, Simulation and Control of Electronic Power

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preparation as they transition tothe workplace. This paper will define these perceived gaps in student knowledge, describe theimplementation of curriculum changes, and evaluate the success of the new capstone curriculum. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 473The senior capstone Aircraft Detail Design course was selected for curricular change because itprovides timely instruction just prior to graduation. Furthermore, this course is intended to be astepping stone to professional life. Thus, curricular changes to bolster application of theory andcommunication

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Lora Goodwin; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

knowledge of kinetic energy may be familiar with the types ofkinetic energy that they have used before to solve a problem, and may only be able to apply their Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 235knowledge to problems similar to those they have previously seen, but may not be able to adapttheir techniques to new problems or scenarios. It is often difficult for teachers to succeed atproducing full conceptual understanding in students so in the interest of student development it isnecessary to research how this challenge can better be met [3].The relationship

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5. Dinner Speech: Cultivating Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Practice, Thomas MacCalla 10 6. Keynote Speech: Innovations in Undergraduate Bioengineering Education, Melissa Kurtis Micou 11 7. Concluding Speech: When Did Engineering Become so Cool? Engaging a New Generation, David Hauhurst 12 8. Classifying Student Engineering Design Project Types, Micah Lande 13 9. Learning Communities Improve Retention in Engineering and Computer Science, Raman Menon Unnikrishnan and Ricardo V. Lopez

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Richard K. Herz; Gregory E. Ogden

Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 103Students download the SimzLab application from the web site at www.SimzLab.com at no cost.A few modules are provided in the initial distribution. When a student connects SimzLab to theInternet, the student can download additional modules. Once downloaded, a module can be usedoff-line.Fig. 1 shows the opening window and the two courses available. Fig. 1. Opening window showing the sets of course modules currently available.In the Reactor Lab, many of the modules have two sections: the main entry point in which allinputs and outputs are known to the

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Paul Blowers

who did not organize their knowledge, knowing the individualreactions, but not how to link a series of reactions together1. Students in the prerequisite sciencecourses, then, may be attempting to learn more superficially than what will be required of themlater on. This view of teaching and learning fits well with an investigation of how some faculty Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 115see teaching as transmitting information and students learning as receiving this information2,without much focus on how the information really functions. The work by

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industry toward using Agile (“ease of movement”) techniques in programming andproject development has motivated the faculty at the National University (NU) School of Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 482Engineering and Technology (SOET) to introduce agility into pedagogy. Agile Problem DrivenTeaching (Dey et.al., 2009) as used in teaching IT is described in this paper.1.1 The IT Industry Evolution Toward AgilityIt has been fascinating to watch the evolution of IT project management (PM) from the rigidstructure of the 60’s through the early 90’s to the triple