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Paul Blowers

about this activity. A mediocre to poor advisor who followed a student longitudinallycould do more damage to student motivation than a short interaction with a good advisor cancompensate for.Department heads and curricular chairs can foster connections between faculty and advisors ifthey are not the same people by hosting short meetings oriented around sharing information.Advising deadlines and methods of fostering self determination within students as discussedpreviously in this work can be shared with faculty to be incorporated into courses. Facultymembers, in turn, can provide a list of concerns students have voiced about issues relevant tothem, or can help in identifying those students who may face special challenge so advisors canfollow up

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

of curriculumdevelopment (student responses to the curriculum and new courses, faculty responses tonew needs, institutional responses to the project) and student experiences withinternational mobility.4. Status of the projectThe project has completed its first year, finalising agreements between partners,developing databases of modules, examining curricula and looking at gaps which need tobe filled. These completed sets of modules wil be turned into trajectories of moduleswhich allow degrees to be awarded for study at different EU/US partners.Student mobility has so far been limited in comparison to the anticipated levels, but weexpect to see increased mobility in the second year. One major issue concerning studentmobility is the requirement

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Kurt Colvin

the issues and concerns of staff and students. Journal of Educational Media, Special Edition on Blended Learning, 28(2- 3), pp. 99-100.Biographical InformationDr. Kurt Colvin joined the faculty at Cal Poly in 2000 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department ofIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon StateUniversity. Prior to Cal Poly, Dr. Colvin had 5 years of systems engineering experience and 5 years of research andcollaboration with NASA Ames Research Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Dr.Colvin’s major research interests include systems engineering methods and education, aviation human-factors andmanufacturing technologies

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Jesa H. Kreiner; Peter W. Othmer; Timothy W. Lancey

over the two semester period which is the duration ofthe two capstone courses, the only costs of the projects are the components and fabricationas the students’ and faculty labor come free. The industry funded projects serve as anexcellent recruiting tool for new engineers where the company engineers interact with ourstudents and can evaluate their prospective contribution and subsequently decide if theyshould be hired upon graduation. Also, it is a good public policy for companies to maintainactive relationship with the biggest local University in Orange County. Interestingly enough,some projects were directly and completely funded by the students or their families. Therules for these rare projects were clearly laid out: if any funds

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

is fully encrypted by military grade cryptography. The certificate issued tothe user is only accessible out of the vault under password control as it is called up by thebrowser.4.0 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCHThe defined Problem was to design and implement a useable two-factor authentication processfor use by small enterprises and on the SOET WebPortal by less than one thousand faculty,staff, and students. The Learning Objectives of developing the solution to this problem in anagile manner in keeping with Agile Project Management were met most satisfactorily by thestudent team as workarounds to “glitches” were effectively implemented. Additionally, the teamdemonstrated a mature approach to dealing with client user modifications to the

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Thomas J. Impelluso

, the table demonstrates the order in which both topics were addressed.It is important to note that numerical algorithmic convergence and stability issues were ignored,in lieu of the most simple algorithm implementation. This table also demonstrates the horizontalscaffolding that occurred in the class. By connecting algorithm to construct, the re-designenhanced the germane load of the student learners. The instructional goal was to challenge the students to read codes as if they were a newlanguage. It was not expected that the students master the code’s nuances and reproduce them atthis stage. Rather, the goal is to immerse the students in a new language and expect them tofollow the general idea of how the language implements the logic

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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

, adjunct faculty and students.Each team created an initial Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the instructor actingas the client, regarding the scope, team organization, deliverables and delivery time-frame foreach project. The delivery of the four projects and integrated Problem was scheduled four weeksfrom initiation. As work progressed, the discovery of seemingly insurmountable obstacles thatthreatened the success of the overall project heightened team frustration levels. The successfuldelivery of the intended solution of the Problem was in jeopardy. The concern by all was notonly to deliver Project 1, 2 or 3, but the successful inter-operation of all three comprising theProblem.Specific instances of where agile project management had to

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

thenew workforce are needed: educators with an understanding of the demands of CI and materialsfor training the students. In answer to some of these needs, OCI has now established a rich sourceof educational and research materials through TeraGrid to meet the 21st Century's demand forscientific talent (Materials are freely available through CI/TeraGrid – www.teragrid.org).Additionally, OCI put forth the CI-TEAM (Cyberinfrastructure, Training, Education,Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce) program to aid educationinitiatives directed toward this new workforce. Training of a 21st Century workforce demandsstudents have a firm grounding in interdisciplinarity, especially in the sciences. Today’s young generation born in

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is a clear indication of enthusiastic cooperationand response from the community. Out of the 70+ submissions, 46 full papers were accepted based on thereviewers’ comments and recommendations. Each submission was reviewed carefully twice (abstract firstfollowed by full paper) by two to four reviewers. These reviewers not only reviewed papers, but alsoprovided their help and support to many young faculty members in order to prepare the final manuscripts.The program committee made their best efforts to accommodate all submissions with academic merit andscholarship.Many recognized speakers will present their research contributions in their respective fields. In addition, anumber of distinguished keynote speakers known both nationally and