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

initiate a joint research project on GaN laser diodes. In thefollowing years (2007 and 2008), they continued this effort with two summer visits and furtherextended the project to include research on GaN light emitting diodes, with funding from the US(Cal Poly) and China (“ChunHui” international scholar exchange program). A graduate student,Simeon Trieu, from Cal Poly also visited PKU in the summer of 2008 and is applying NSFEAPSI (applied in Dec 2008 and got initial acceptance letter from NSF) and other support towork in PKU in the summer of 2009. Cal Poly/CSULB graduate students are grouped with Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Hassan Mohamed-Nour

109 A Conceptual Approach to Developing a Universal Remote Laboratory for Education and Research in Electrical Power Engineering Hassan Mohamed-Nour Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840, nour@csulb.eduAbstractOne crucial element of education in electrical power engineering is the laboratory component.The laboratory instruction may be delivered in physical laboratories using real equipment orthrough simulation software tools, and in many cases utilizing

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

combination of resources, TeraGrid is the world's largest, mostcomprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. Thus, CI supported byTeragrid is becoming the foundation of 21st Century’s discovery through innovative scientificresearch. Over the years, the role of CI has evolved. Initially, CI was defined by its role – a researchenvironment to support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration,data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over theInternet. Soon the definition incorporated the advances enabled by CI and CI became thetechnological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people withthe goal of enabling

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Lawrence Fong; Brian P. Self

include: angular velocity, launch distance, and cross-sectional stress as afunction of catapult arm angular position. The stress in the catapult arm is initially incompression because of the rubber band, but because of the centripetal acceleration, the stress Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 286becomes tensile. By bringing in stress analysis, students can see the blended application of theirstrength of materials courses and dynamics courses

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

student’s points of view. Areas of future research will also be discussed.Review of Literature Most engineering schools use team based projects, or laboratory assignments to helpstudents develop skills necessary for their professional careers. Teamwork skills havetraditionally been developed by assigning students to teams. To some extent, this approach doesproduce results, but a better approach was undertaken at the University of Dayton[4] wherestudent teams were instructed on teambuilding and leadership. One of their suggestions was notonly to instruct, but to give students opportunities to work on teams where students refine theirskills as they mature though the engineering program. Many researchers have struggled with thedifficult task of

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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

role of the instructor inthis approach is elevated to periodic coaching in order to accelerate the PBL strategy. Inparticular the instructor plays a key role contextualizing the problem and actively participating inthe research, analysis, and information gathering component of PBL. The instructor becomes afacilitator once the initial body of knowledge to solve the problem is gathered. This givesstudents an opportunity to put together the final solution. In the APDT method the open problemalong with student inquiries and the collective information gathering process derives the lecture,and this is where the agility in instruction becomes apparent and critical. The instructor musthave extensive knowledge of the subject to efficiently process

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

304 The Role of Computing in Education: The Next RevolutionFrederick Harris Gordon Lee Stuart H. RubinDept. of Computer Science Dept. of Elect & Comp Engr SPAWAR SSC San DiegoUniversity of Nevada at Reno San Diego State University 53560 Hull StreetReno, Nevada 89512 San Diego, CA 92182 San Diego, CA 92152T.C. Ting Billy Gaston Gongzhu HuDept. of Comp Sc and Engr Research & Development Dept. of Computer Science

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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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Kyle A. Watson; Ashland O. Brown

295 Consider two-dimensional transient heat transfer in an L-shaped solid body that is initially at a uniform temperature of 90°C and whose cross section is given in the figure below. The thermal conductivity and diffusivity of the body are k = 15 W/m · °C and α = 3.2 × 10-6 m2/s, respectively, and heat is generated in the body at a rate of e = 2 × 106 W/m3. The left surface of the body is & insulated, and the bottom surface is maintained at a uniform temperature of 90°C at all times. At time t = 0, the entire top surface is subjected to convection to ambient air at T∞ = 25°C with a convection coefficient of

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Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

Americancountries. The majority of this surge has been from first-generation college students. The college,in an attempt to reverse its historical legacy for high student attrition, provides support andservices that will help its diverse student population succeed academically and socially. Theoverall retention effort centers on a number of initiatives but this paper focuses on one suchprogram, The Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) Scholars Program that is intended tocreate learning communities during the freshmen years. The ECS Scholars program is a learningcommunity established in collaboration with Title V Retention Programs, the UniversityLearning Center (ULC), the Center for Academic Support in Engineering and Computer Science(CASECS) and

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PrefaceWelcome to the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education-Pacific Southwest (ASEE-PSW)regional conference. The theme of this conference is “Educating Next Generation Engineers”. We asuniversity/college educators are responsible and continuously striving to prepare the next-generationengineers who will be ready to face the multi-faucet challenges required to move this nation forward. Thisconference is intended to bring together educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academiaand government to advance engineering and technology education and to encourage wider collaborationbetween academics and industry. The conference is held for the engineering community and hosted byNational University. The large number of submitted papers

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

manylocations (Stevenson & Romney, 2008). Three-factor authentication is used in data centers, highrisk financial operations, certification authorities and special research facilities in industry anduniversity research. In these instances, PKI and biometrics are frequently the selectedtechnologies with a characteristically much higher operational overhead.1.5 Agile Problem Driven Teaching UtilizedIn keeping with the Agile Problem Driven Teaching (APDT) pedagogy employed in the NationalUniversity (NU) School of Engineering and Technology (SOET) described by Dey (Dey et.al.,2009), and, specifically, the BS IT Management (ITM) program (Romney, 2009), the search forimproved authentication for smaller enterprises and select university settings was

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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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Reza Raeisi; Deepak Anand

, the master must return to Step 1 in the sequence. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 194All transactions on the 1-Wire bus begin with an initialization sequence. The initializationsequence consists of a reset pulse transmitted by the bus master followed by presence pulse(s)transmitted by the slave(s). The presence pulse lets the bus master know that slave devices (suchas the DS18B20) are on the bus and are ready to operate.HAC-UM96 interface with HCS12Proper connections need to be done as shown in figure 6 so that communication between masterand slave

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Donna M. Schaeffer; Patrick C. Olson

408.236.1152 polson@nu.eduAbstract One of the most amazing aspects of higher education, in nearly all cultures, is that while itis generally viewed as valid or important in at least some context, it generally derives its credibilityfrom the external milieus. Thus if intellect is popular, so is higher education – and visa versa.Importantly, this extends well beyond popularity. It includes aspects of acquiring and valuingknowledge that sometimes have the curious effect of putting higher education in the strangeposition of placating ideas and beliefs that are known (via research and scholarship) to be wrong.While in some ways this is just a political problem that any organization might encounter – itbecomes

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Thomas J. Impelluso

in 1998 [4]. It is that load devoted to the processing, construction and automation of schemata necessary to integrate knowledge into consciousness. This includes motivations to learn and how the knowledge is situated in the rest of the curriculum such as reading novels, or programming mathematical algorithms. These three loads are additive in the learning process and research suggests [4] that whencourses are redesigned with due respect paid to the interaction of cognitive loads, learning isimproved. For example, while intrinsic load is generally thought to be immutable, instructionaldesigners can exercise the option to manipulate extraneous and germane load. With complexmaterial, it is best to strive to

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Paul Blowers

our program with approximately 30% of our graduates entering topten chemical engineering graduate programs, 100% student placement of graduates almost everyyear, and a host of university-based, state, and national awards going to our students.IntroductionMost faculty appointments in the United States carry the expectation that there will be a balanceamong different work activities[1-4]. The typical assumed split on a time percentage basis is40% on research, 40% on teaching, and 20% on service, although those percentages vary inreality[5]. One way of meeting service obligations is for faculty to take on the task of advisingstudents in their disciplines[4, 6, 7]. Activities in the advising area provides service to manyconstituents, including to

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Gemunu Happawana; Amaranath Premasiri; Arye Rosen

optical density ODλ , varies with time. Thisdifferential ODλ value can be written as follows:ΔODλ = ODλ , final − ODλ ,initial = d .DPFλ (ε HbO ,λ ΔC HbO2 + ε Hb ,λ ΔC Hb + ε PS ,λ ΔC PS ) (6)Thereafter the effect of scattering is not influential to the model. Each chromophore has aspecific extinction coefficient and a differential pathlength factor. Therefore, measurements withthe three wavelengths giveΔODλ1 = d .DPFλ1 (ε HbO2 ,λ1 ΔC HbO2 + ε Hb,λ1 ΔC Hb + ε PS ,λ1 ΔC PS ) (7)ΔODλ2 = d .DPFλ2 (ε HbO2 ,λ2 ΔC HbO2 + ε Hb,λ2 ΔC Hb + ε PS ,λ2 ΔC PS ) (8)ΔODλ3 = d .DPFλ3 (ε HbO2 ,λ3 ΔC HbO2 + ε Hb ,λ3 ΔC Hb + ε PS ,λ3 ΔC PS )Solving Eq.(7), Eq.(8

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initially first restore a system to a useableconfiguration.A student particularly appreciates the fact that she can receive a VM from her instructor, install iton her USB drive and execute it from her laptop without interfering with the resident build onher laptop or desktop at home, or the classroom workstation that is constantly used bysequentially scheduled classes. In Windows environments this means her registry does not getmodified in order to check out this new VM the instructor wants her to work with. If she messesthings up, only the VM space and not her entire laptop is affected. The ability to work with aVM outside of class is significant for experiential learning. HOL is restored to all students.Virtualization is a powerful tool that

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Kurt Colvin

understanding in mind, it is nowthe time to select and fully develop the most appropriate instructional activities.MethodIn the fall of 2008, I enrolled in a CTL Technology Initiative-Phase I course. The intent of thiscourse was to help faculty (the “students” in the course) understand and develop a blendedcourse. The objective was accomplished by providing a blended course to the enrolled students(A blended course to teach how to develop a blended course, if you will). The students andinstructors met F2F each week, followed by asynchronous assignments to complete bothindividually and in collaboration with fellow classmates, completed online using Blackboard.The instructors of the Phase I course used backward design and other pedagogical

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Ranjan K. Sen; Pradip Peter Dey

  is  the  Cilk++  compiler which is an extension of industry standard compiler, the native extensions and optimization of the base compiler is fully supported. The underlying model is the shared memory model in all of these except for MPI and PVM which are based on distributed memory model.  4. Extending concepts to include parallel processing Although  considerable  research  and  development  has  taken  place  in  the  area  of  parallel  processing during  the last several decades the idea of a novel parallel processing language never succeeded.  The approach that worked has been that taken up by Open MP and MPI/PVM. One concern is though that both avoids calling out a concept of “computation” as a distributable object as a first class

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Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

ghengineeri students to succeed. The two da competitio as well as in-class tes ing ay on s sting required thestudents to use an iteerative design process if they wanted to be succe n d essful. Betwe the first and eensecond d of the com day mpetition, m many teams d discovered fl flaws in their initial desig and corrected r gnsthese flaw before th final day o

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education coursesinstead. As of this semester, department chairs in both departments have been able to jugglefaculty and course loads to satisfy administrative requirements so that HU/COM may continue tosupport the AE students’ professional development. And many administrators see the value ofthe continuing collaboration between departments, for both teaching and research. Nonetheless,varying levels of administrative support for team teaching is a continuing challenge forERAU/Prescott, one that might be side-stepped by in the short term by mini-grants or adjuncthires, but one that must be addressed each semester that this curricular redesign continues.SuccessesAlthough a quantitative assessment of the success of the capstone curriculum change is

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Estelle M. Eke

of motion for a robot arm Importing/Exporting MATLAB data to/from Excel Lab 5: Microcontroller Basics with the Basic Stamp Lecture 9: Least-squares Fitting of Curve to Data Lab 6: Curve Fitting Lecture 10: Additional examples in curve-fitting; Extracting equations using best-fit Lecture 11: Interpolation Lab 7: Fit curve and obtain equation for best-fit Lecture 12: Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations ; Runge-Kutta Methods Lecture 13: Analyzing non-stiff systems ODE45 Lab 8: Solving Initial Value Problems using ODE45 Lecture 14: Introduction to SIMULINK for solving Ordinary Differential Equations Lecture 15: Application to Vibrations: Mass-Spring-Damper System using SIMULINK Lab 9: Solving IVPs

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theseoriginated as far back as the 13th century5. However, their use has seemed to explode recentlywith a much larger number of publications appearing in the literature. Even just since 1997,there have been 500 peer-reviewed articles that have investigated their use, according to a briefsurvey of Journal Citation Index.Novak6 proposed the concept map as a way of created a knowledge network that contains pointsand verticies as concepts and links between them as the relationships among concepts. Kinchinand Cabot point out that there have now been 25 years of extended research and development ofusing concept maps to help students learn how to learn7. Essentially, concept maps are two-dimensional representations of a set of concepts and their relationships8