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R. Radharamanan

242  Transforming Engineering Education through Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at MUSE R. Radharamanan School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GAAbstractA self-sustaining Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) established at the MercerUniversity School of Engineering (MUSE) serves to promote and enhance cross-disciplinaryeducational programs (teaching, collaboration, and learning) as well as research and scholarlyactivities among Mercer faculty and students on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. TheSchool of Engineering

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James Guthrie

 Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  205 As restructured, the curriculum for ARCH and CM students now includes a total of five ARCEcourses giving them a solid grounding in structural engineering principles, design and systems.The five one-quarter courses, with the number of units and hours each week, are listed below: ● Structures I (3 units with 2 hours of lecture and one hour of activities per week) ● Structures II (3 units with 2 hours of lecture and one hour of activities per week) ● Structural Systems (3 units with 3 hours of lecture per week

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Fariborz M. Tehrani

understanding of the learning processand recognizing the conceptual difference between various communication methods and learningstyles, as interpreted in Situational Leadership. Cycling through various styles of leadershipfacilitates peer-to-peer learning by implementing articulate and practical applications in thecourse materials to broaden students’ perspective toward engineering education and practice.IntroductionSituational approach to leadership is widely recognized in organizational management. Thetheory of situational leadership was developed by Hersey and Blanchard (1969) based onleadership style theory by Reddin (1967). This theory has been revised and refined several timesto facilitate its implementation in various environments, such as

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Kiran George

305 Cost-Effective Integration of Tablet Technology into Engineering Courses Kiran George Computer Engineering Program California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92831, USAAbstractCurrent generations of students are part of a digital revolution in which they collaborate andlearn through digital mediums and remain connected 24/7. Educators across the board haveembraced these rapid changes and, with the aid of classroom technologies such as Tablet-PCs(TPC), have seamlessly transformed traditional

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Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

difference in society.Need for Renewable Energy EngineeringThe burning of fossil fuels and the rapid deforestation of the globe have created an increase inCO2 gases in the atmosphere and a heating up of the earth’s temperature.[1] Data shows anexponential change in CO2 in the atmosphere in the last several decades.[1] This has beencorrelated with a warming of the earth’s surface temperature.[3] Coupled with the problem of Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  135 climate change, nations are also struggling with a

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Rafael D. Alvarez; Raga M. Bakhiet; Theresa M. Garcia; Angeline V. Yang

college oruniversity with a math-based degree while developing academic and leadership skills, increasingeducational performance, and gaining confidence in their ability to compete professionally. TheSan Diego MESA programs rely on the support of an active Industry Advisory Board (IAB) forprogram and student development. Established in California in 1970, there are currently 68 MESA Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  187 Programs statewide serving K-12, community college and university students, and the

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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

science camp in the local community. The undergraduate engineeringstudents also collaborate with educators to develop age-appropriate STEM learning. In this paperwe will describe the projects and the STEM activities we developed. We will discuss how weestablished a long-term partnership with a science camp and the interdisciplinary nature of thepartnership. We also show through data collected from engineering student interviews and surveyshow this partnership helps the engineering students understand and gather requirements for areal-world project and at the same time inspire the younger generation visiting the camp to usescience and technology for the common good. Results from a survey administered to middleschool students illustrates

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work across disciplinary lines tonegotiate the most effective ways to help students refine their communication skills just beforeentering industry, team teaching can be a very valuable pedagogical approach.References1 Helbling, Jim, Lanning, David, Madler, Ron, Beck, Angela, and McElwain, Patric. "Integrating Communications into Team-taught Senior Design Courses." Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Portland, OR, June 2005.2 Beck, Angela. "Collaborative Teaching, Genre Analysis, and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Engineering a Linked Writing Course." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 31 (2004): 388-398.3 Nunan, David

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

skills, and inadequate or ineffective academicadvising and mentoring. In 2009, Cañada College, a federally designated Hispanic-servinginstitution in the San Francisco Bay Area, received a National Science Foundation Scholarshipsin Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant to develop a scholarshipprogram for financially needy community college students intending to transfer to a four-yearinstitution to pursue a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field. In collaboration with the College’sMathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program – an academic, personal,and professional support structure has been designed and implemented to maximize thelikelihood of success of these students. This support structure aims to

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Amelito Enriquez

% of the U.S. population, African Americans and Latinos make up lessthan 7% of the individuals with B.S. or higher-degrees in the science and engineering fields.2Strategies that have been proven effective in increasing the retention and success of minoritystudents in science and engineering include mentoring programs,3,4 introducing context in Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  231 introductory courses,5 alternative instructional strategies such as collaborative and interactivelearning,6 and summer bridge

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Bradley A. Hyatt

secondary approach was to create andimplement surveys that indirectly assess the industry’s participation. Both of these methodsprovided meaningful feedback for the students’ performance and ultimately for programmaticstudent outcomes.IntroductionThe benefit of involving industry members in engineering education has been well documentedover the past several decades. Specifically, contemporary academic literature supports the use ofindustry sponsorship of senior design projects, also known as “capstone” projects (Smith, 2009).Industry sponsorship can take many forms, but most of the time this primarily entails industrymembers working with and/or reviewing the work of the students (O’Brien et.al., 2003). Thisprovides an outstanding mechanism for

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Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

Communications into Team-taught Senior Design Courses." Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Portland, OR, June 2005.2 Beck, Angela. "Collaborative Teaching, Genre Analysis, and Cognitive Apprenticeship: Engineering a Linked Writing Course." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 31 (2004): 388-398.3 Nunan, David. Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.4 ABET. 2007-2008 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore, MD: ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission.5 Beck, Angela, and McElwain, Patric. "Technical Writing in Engineering Classrooms: Adventures in Team-teaching

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A. M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

their teammates and the proposedgrading scheme would lead to a competitive rather than collaborative team environment. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  312 IntroductionA method of assigning credit for group work that accurately represents individual effort within agroup has been long sought out by instructors. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at theUniversity of Nevada, Reno offers two first-year engineering courses and each contains largegroup work components. Individual grades are a reflection of a

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Ricardo Medina; MURAT OKCAY; Gustavo Menezes; Arturo Pacheco-Vega

two related courses in their curriculum: a theorycourse named CE/ME 303 Fluid Mechanics I and a corresponding laboratory course namedCE/ME 313 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory I. Although the theoretical course has been developedto solve certain types of real-life problems involving fluids, unless one observes what they are,the knowledge is abstract. For this reason the Fluid Mechanics laboratory CE/ME 313,introduces the students through hands-on experiments, to several mechanisms seen in the theorycourse. Recently, the college of engineering through collaboration between its Center for Energyand Sustainability and Interactive Flow Studies Corporation acquired two educational interactiveflow visualization systems, namely FLOWCOACH and ePIV. Flow

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Jennifer Van Donk; Justin Lekos; Sarah Baker; Kevin Yamauchi; Adam Paicely; Brian P. Self; A. Matthew Robinson

Health, a club on campus that is focused on improving publichealth through engineering. This partnership offers students design opportunities and providesthe Piernas de Vida team with continuing student support. Through this project, Cal Poly has theopportunity to impact hundreds of amputee patients throughout Central and South America whileproviding a strong educational experience for engineering students.IntroductionAt a Spring 2010 meeting for the student chapter of Engineering World Health, a localprosthetist in San Luis Obispo presented the idea of designing low-cost prostheses for clinics indeveloping countries. Mr. Matt Robinson outlined the need for such a product and expressedenthusiasm in forming a student team to undertake this

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Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

concepts.” As we become more adept at developing the MEAs, they should becomeeven better tools for improving student learning and motivation.AcknowledgmentsThis work was funded in part by NSF CCLI Grant #0717595 “Collaborative Research: Improving EngineeringStudents’ Learning Strategies Through Models and Modeling,” and by the Donald E. Bently Center for EngineeringInnovation at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.References1. Zawojewski, J., et al., Models and Modeling in Engineering Education: Designing Experiences for All Students.Sense Publishers, 20082. Collaborative Research: Improving Engineering Students' Learning Strategies through Models and Modeling.http://www.modelsandmodeling.net. Accessed 3/10/2011. 3. Diefes-Dux

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Satbir S. Sekhon; Albert Rendon; Samuel Gomez; Reza Raeisi

composed of seven maincomponents: MCU, Temperature sensor, Humidity sensor, Accelerometer, External memory,USB and Ethernet ports. An accelerometer measures shock and vibrations, which providesinformation about the handling of the device. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  75      External