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) – Indicates a Work in Progress Friday, April 1, 2011 (Morning)08:30 – 09:45 AM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning  Jim Helbling, et al., Configuration Of Senior Capstone Course Using Team- 1 Teaching To Maximize Communication Skills And Minimize Team Conflict  Mohammad Amin, et al., Investigation of a Masters Research Project for 13 Validation of Program's Goals and Student Learning Outcomes  Jennifer Van Donk, et al., Developing a low cost prosthetic foot for the Vida Nueva 30 Clinic: A multidisciplinary senior design project Instrumentation & Lab Studies  Ricardo Medina, et

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Fariborz M. Tehrani

  1 Take responsibility  31  5  6  13  3  5 Students also selected the most and the least helpful lecture components. Generally, more than40% of students chose problem solving sessions as the most helpful tool. This confirms theirresponse in acknowledging homework to be the most helpful assignment, and reinforce theirhigh perception of T2 style. However, few responses did not follow this trend. Nearly 73% ofstudents believe that class discussions were the most helpful part of the class to share ideas. Thisis considered as the key element to progress toward participating style, T3. Further, nearly 80%of students were equally divided

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Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

quality of the various design projects improvedbut also the frequency and severity of interpersonal conflicts has been minimized.The fourth and final activity is an open work session. During this activity students are free towork on their tasks, whether analyzing, manufacturing, testing, or documenting; both instructorsare available throughout the work session to help with either technical or communication tasks.If team members are having trouble working together, then this time is also used to meetprivately with the students in question in order to mediate these conflicts. This addition ofconflict mediation is one of the key improvements to this team-teaching configuration as will bediscussed in the following section.Key Alterations and

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AJ Almaguer

audience.We believe that community service builds strong, empathetic leaders. With this in mind, wetackled this design problem like engineers would and specified the user needs of students likeourselves, our k-12 mentees, and the university—our primary stakeholders. After manybrainstorming sessions, we concluded that we have three main user requirements: (1)professional development, (2) the need for practical, technical experience—a chance to put ourengineering education into practice, and (3) formal mentor training.We used results from a recent a study1 performed by the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) andour own experiences to define user requirements for our k-12 mentees including the need formore exposure to science and engineering as well as the

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Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

% MatE Civil 22% 14% EE Computer ISE 17% 3% 2% General 10%Figure 1: Majors of 59 San José State University students enrolled in Engr 102 from Fall 2008to Fall 2010. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education

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David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

has become alittle trickier, but was accomplished by staggering the various topics. Viewing Figures 1 and 2, one cansee how this staggering was accomplished. One complication is the schedules of the instructors, whomay be teaching summer courses. The other noteworthy complication is in scheduling the structuresdiscussion and the ensuing bridge design. The bridge CAD models are all fabricated using the two 3-Dprinters, and the process is somewhat time consuming. Having either of the Solid Works computermodeling sessions on Thursday would not be an option for this reason, and in case of unforeseen 3-Dprinting problems, is it perhaps necessary to have these portions of the summer program as early in the Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American

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R. Radharamanan

“entrepreneurial education through case studies.” The workshop had sessions on(1) entrepreneurial thinking/entrepreneurial mindset (2) importance of entrepreneurship inengineering education (3) role of engineering faculty and faculty development and (4) team workon entrepreneurial thinking and case study. All 28 engineering faculty participated in theworkshop.During September 16-17, 2010, KEEN Regional Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurshipwas hosted by the CIE and MEEEP at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The overallobjective of the conference was to bring together faculty and students from KEEN schools on acommon platform and discuss about the progress made in each KEEN school in the areas ofinvention, innovation and entrepreneurship

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

degree.Evaluation of the standards, implemented by means of student activities, proves that they areeffective.IntroductionSan Diego has an extensive technical and scientific base of aerospace, biotechnology,communications, and computer-related companies, as well as research institutes, universities, andmedical centers. San Diego also has a diverse ethnic and economic population. Currently there areindividual programs in San Diego, derived from the nationally-recognized Mathematics, Engineering,Science Achievement (MESA) Program, that assist underrepresented students to earn degrees inScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The MESA mission is to enableeducationally disadvantaged students to prepare for and graduate from a four-year