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

Inc and Crossligtht Inc.Dr. Derickson has cooperated with JDS Uniphase Corporation on tunable laser projects andpublished several papers on the topic. [12] [13] Fig. 3 is a Cal Poly graduate student presentingpaper on microwave signal generation using self-heterodyning of a fast wavelength switchingSG-DBR Laser in the SPIE International Symposium on BIOS 2009, SPIE Photonic West 2009in January 2009 on the JDSU project. [13] In this paper, microwave signal generation usingsingle-chip fast wavelength-tunable SG-DBR lasers is demonstrated. Microwave signals areestablished by a self-heterodyne technique. The laser frequency is square-wave modulated backand forth between two closely spaced wavelengths. These two wavelengths are made timecoincident

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic and expected to lead to joint- ordual-degree programs among the partner institutions in the future.Index Terms ⎯ Joint degree programs, ambient computing, computer science education, student mobility1. IntroductionThe field of computer science (CS) education is in the process of a major paradigm shiftas a result of the challenges the CS community is facing in the definition, purpose,pedagogy, and curriculum drives of the field as well as declining students. On the onehand, a global market requires graduates with a broad computing education who canmaster the context and work in multidisciplinary and international settings. On the otherhand, with the marrying of CS with other disciplines such as psychology (in

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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

for different topics. According to Glickman "Effectiveteaching is not a set of generic practices, but instead is a set of context-driven decisions aboutteaching. Effective teachers do not use the same set of practices for every lesson . . . Instead,what effective teachers do is constantly reflect about their work, observe whether students arelearning or not, and, then adjust their practice accordingly (Glickman 1991). Our ability to teachis enhanced with our agility to adjust. In education, the same size does not fit all. Agility is the Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

rewarding and unique benefits centered on the followingaspects: • Develop friendships and connections with students and faculty within the College of ECS. Students are block scheduled and placed in a FYS course each semester of their first year (1 unit in the fall and 2 in the spring semester) with an instructor with a PhD in Engineering or Computer Science. • Receive specialized academic advisement for general education and major coursework under the guidance of CASECS and a graduate-student academic advisor. • Learn how to study for core math, science, engineering and computer science courses in specialized Freshmen Interest Groups lead by upperclassmen. • Receive intensive tutoring and academic

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Paul Blowers

the students, to the department, to the profession, and to our Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 60stakeholder companies, employers, and the general public. Students benefit directly from theclose communication and exposure to ideas of an "expert" in the area of academic development.The department benefits directly by smoothing the progress of students through their programswhile maintaining high standards and increasing statistical measures often used for evaluation ofprograms like retention, average student time to graduation, and student contact hours

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Gemunu Happawana; Amaranath Premasiri; Arye Rosen

photodiode output are controlled by LabVIEW virtual instrumentation. Thesequential on and off light sources and the respective reflective signals are processed withMATLAB. The latter code integrates with LabVIEW to make an automatic calculationof the corresponding light absorption by each chromophore to determine the change inoxygen level as well as the amount of blood and oxygen present in the treatment area.The designed system is capable of monitoring the change in oxygen level and the bloodflow in any part of the human body where it is possible to place the package.Key words: Photodynamic therapy, esophageal carcinoma, oxygen detection, photonicreflective oximeter Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific

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

courses is the need to satisfy some Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 140component of the college or university general education graduation requirement and to beadapted to instructor interests or other aspects of local institutional conditions [65,66].To determine the research issues regarding the broad understanding of technology by allundergraduates, a workshop on the technological literacy of undergraduates was sponsored bythe NSF and held at the NAE in April 2005. There were 42 participants included faculty whohad implemented courses on technological

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

Redesign assembly line production area Wasco Santa Maria Electronics Design of a new facility Corbett Canyon Winery San Luis Obispo Winery Re-layout of a bottling line Fountains of Living Santa Maria Wholesale Layout of a new facility Waters Students also learn first hand, topics that are difficult to teach in the classroom. Forinstance, students learn the importance of positive interactions with clients, methods of dealingwith project uncertainty, real deadlines where more than a grade is at stake, and team conflictresolution in real time. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional

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Debra Larson

master’s/30 credits level of the fulfillmentpathway. Recently, Outcomes 13 - 15 of the revised BOK1 have been incorporated into the2008-2009 ABET Criteria5 within Criterion 9 for civil engineering programs. Specifically,graduates must be able to “explain basic concepts in management, business, public policy, andleadership.” In addition, the previous “proficiency” language relating to the four recognizedmajor areas of civil engineering was softened so that programs need only to demonstrate Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 325graduates’ abilities to

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Kyle A. Watson; Ashland O. Brown

., Walker, G., Yano, M., Glozman, V., Kochersberger, K., Mathers, J., McKinney, J., Schulman, J., and Young, M., “Modernization of the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum and Guidelines for Computer-Aided Engineering Instruction,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 7, pp. 252-260, 1999. 3. Brown, A. O., Rencis, J. J., Jensen, D., Chen, C. C., Ibrahim, E., Labay, V., and Schimpf, P., “Finite Element Learning Modules for Undergraduate Engineering Topics Using Commercial Software,” Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2008. 4. Incropera, F. P., DeWitt, D. P., Bergman, T. L., and Lavine, A. S., Introduction to Heat Transfer

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Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

, they obtained knowledge about semiconductor processing during both semesters,but the increment in 2007 was much larger than that in the previous year. Furthermore, the interestin nanotechnology showed a small decrease as students’ preferences shifted from a lecture andlab/design course to a lecture-only one. The lecture/simulation-based course seems to have fallenshort of the expectations of students in 2005. On the other hand, students in 2007 showed moreinterest in nanotechnology and their feedback was positive in general. This survey result shows thata hands-on laboratory experiment is a more effective educational approach than a simple computer Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest

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David Lanning

214In fact, retention of students in engineering degree programs has received significant attentionfor quite a number of years. As an example, a search of the online ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings from 1996 to the present returned 180 papers with the word “retention’ in the title,only a few titles of which were not referring to the topic of enrollment retention. As anotherexample, in a 1997 paper Moller-Wong and Eide1 cite Pascarella and Terenzini’s2 claim thatsome 3000 studies on retention were conducted in the past 20 years (prior to the publication ofthis source, obviously). While some studies and writings have focused on minority retention3and general retention strategies4, much of this work has been focused specifically on theretention

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Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering) and six research centers. It has more than 2,100 students and approximately 55 full-time faculty. In 2007- 2008 the College received more than $2.5 million in external grants and contracts for research and program administration and graduate student support. In addition to his duties at San Diego State University, Dr. Hayhurst serves on the Workforce/Education Committee of the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, and is a member of the Board of Directors of CONNECT and of the Engineering and General Contractor Foundation. He has been active in K-12 outreach and facilitated the designation of San Diego State