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Bradley A. Hyatt

Courses Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  107  b. Phase Rubric specifically designed for Fall 2010 courses b) Industry & Student Surveys to ensure continuous improvement of rubrics and the industry members participationThe case study involved several steps. The first step was to perform a literature review in orderto determine best practices of incorporating industry participation in the assessment of studentprojects. As anticipated, these courses leveraged active participation into a formal

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that a bicycle frame is not a truss and, therefore, probably cannot be analyzed assuch. Three methods are then employed to prove or disprove this hypothesis: analytical,experimental, and numerical. T ru ssMe mbe rs b ue J oin ts T 4 5mmS GB( top ) S GA

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

30    Developing a Low Cost Prosthetic Foot for the Vida Nueva Clinic: A Multidisciplinary Senior Design ProjectJennifer Van Donk, Justin Lekos, Sarah Baker, Kevin Yamauchi, Adam Paicely,Brian Self and A. Matthew Robinson*California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo/*Hanger Orthotics & ProstheticsAbstractIn Spring 2010, five Cal Poly students joined to form the Piernas de Vida senior project team.Our intention was to address the growing need for low-cost prostheses in developing countries.In conjunction with

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Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

roll should also be accounted for. Unlike the other scenarios, crush factorsmust be used to model the collision of the vehicle and cement pole. The crush factors for thisscenario were provided in a previous homework assignment. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  85   In Case B, a sedan and a cement truck collide at a controlled intersection. The collision occurs asthe cement truck is making a right turn

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Stacy Gleixner; Elena Klaw PhD; Patricia Backer

Research Institute (2000).15. L. Simons and B. Cleary, “The Influence of Service Learning on Students' Personal and Social Development”, College Teaching, 54(4), p. 307 (2006).16. P. Steinke and S. Buresh, “Cognitive Outcomes of Service-Learning: Reviewing the Past and Glimpsing the Future”, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 8(2), (2002).17. S.G. Brainard, S.S. Metz., G.M. Gilmore, "A Six-Year Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering and Science", Journal of Engineering Education, p. 369, (1998).18. San José Strong Neighborhood Initiative: http://www.strongneighborhoods.org/ Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011

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AJ Almaguer

255  Building Engineers and Mentors: A Model for Student-Led Engineering Outreach AJ AlmaguerAbstractTwo years ago it became apparent that there was high demand among engineering and sciencestudents to do outreach and community service. However, the options at the time were limitedand not well-developed. It was also difficult to train dynamic mentors capable of teachingscience and engineering concepts to a younger audience. In an effort to address this problem, wecreated Building Engineers and Mentors (BEAM) to serve as an infrastructure to train mentorsand

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A. M. Vollstedt; E. L. Wang

311  A Method for Adjusting Group-Based Grades A.M. Vollstedt Truckee Meadows Community College and E.L. Wang Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Nevada, RenoAbstractInstructors have long sought a method of assigning credit for group work equitably. TheDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno offers two first-yearengineering courses and each contains large group work

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Amelito Enriquez; Catherine Lipe; Tom Nguyen

214  Creating a Learning Community among Diverse Financially Needy STEM Students Amelito Enriquez, Catherine Lipe, and Tom Nguyen Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractAlthough many California Community College students from underrepresented groups entercollege with high levels of interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM), the majority of them drop out or change majors even before taking transfer-levelcourses due to a variety of reasons including financial difficulties, inadequate academicpreparation, lack of family support, poor study

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Mohammad N. Amin; Pradip Peter Dey; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Gordon W. Romney

13   Investigation of a Masters Research Project for Validation of Program Goals and Student Learning OutcomesMohammad N. Amin Pradip Peter Dey Bhaskar Raj Sinha Gordon W. Romney National University National University National University National UniversitySan Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego, California mamin@nu.edu pdey@nu.edu bsinha@nu.edu gromney@nu.eduAbstractBrowsing on the web

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Youngwook Kim; Jagjit Singh

cylindricalreflector. We tested two scenarios as shown in Figure 2. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  53    (a) (b) Figure 2: Two measurement scenarios In the first case, the echoes from each person cross each other in the range profilebecause one human subject moves forward and the other moves backward with respect to theradar

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Kiran George

Neutral Agree Strongly disagree agree disagree agree (a) (b) My overall experience with tablet I would like tablet technology to be included technology has been positive in other courses 40 45 35 40 30 35 25 30

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Jin-Lee Kim; Tang-Hung Nguyen

125  Effectiveness of Using Visualization in Construction Education Jin-Lee Kima and Tang-Hung Nguyenb a Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University at Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jkim52@csulb.edu b Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University at Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA

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R. Radharamanan

was the ability to have a low cost, high performance real-timecontroller that was compatible with the existing electrical components of the lathe. The EnhancedMachine Controller (EMC) Project software installed on a personal computer running a LinuxOperating System was the basis of the new controller design. Artifacts were created using G-codesfrom existing models. The retrofitted lathe is currently being used in the Intelligent ManufacturingSystems Lab at Mercer University for teaching computer aided manufacturing and providing hands-on experience to students taking manufacturing courses (Figure 1). (a) (b) Figure 1. Tabletop CNC lathe: (a) Retrofitted and functional; (b

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

for testing aerodynamics of cars, trains,ships, aircraft and buildings have been done; (b) general research: where velocity measurementsin water flows for ship hull design, rotating machinery, pipe flows, channel flows, blood flow,hydrodynamics, spray research, combustion research, wave dynamics, coastal engineering andriver hydrology have been implemented; and (c) experimental verification of CFD models.CFD (Tannehill et al., 1997) is a sub-field in fluid mechanics which attempts to solve thedetailed governing equations associated with the interaction between the fluid and the body(system), and its corresponding forces via numerical methods. Though the fluid flow can bedescribed mathematically by a set of nonlinear partial differential

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

which then can be stored onexternal memory. The maximum output voltage of the LM20 is 2.5 V, which corresponds toabout -55Cº. The output can be converted to ºC by applying equation (1). 1.8639 1481.96 2.1962 10 1 3.88 10HS1100LF by Measurement Specialties4 is a relative humidity sensor. This is also an analogsensor; the change in capacitance is proportional to the change in humidity. One way to measurethe frequency is to use the sensor as a variable capacitor with a 555 timer operating in astablemode. In this project, Timer A and Timer B were used for the frequency counting. Timer A

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sponsors for making this event a reality.  US Didactic Educational Equipment & Training Systems  L.A.B Corporation  Pearson Publishing  Liberty Mutual  University of California, Riverside  College of Engineering, University of Arizona  College of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Northridge  College of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Fullerton  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo  School of Engineering and Technology, National University, San Diego Document Revision: 2 March 30, 2011 Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

whileaddressing the following fourth, fifth, and sixth grade California science and math standards. Weaddressed a 4th grade standard as Walden West is visited by students as young as fourth graders. CA Science Content Standards, Grade 4 - Physical Sciences 1 g. Students know electrical energy can be converted into heat, light, and motion. CA Science Content Standards, Grade 6 - Focus on Earth Science, Resources 6 b. Students know different natural energy and material resources and know how to classify them as renewable or nonrenewable. CA Mathematics Content Standards, Grade 5 - Mathematical Reasoning 1.0 Students make decisions about how to approach problems 2.0 Students

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, October). ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EKF/EKF0906.pdf4. Hove, C., Corcoran, K. (2008, April). If You Post It, Will They Come? Lecture Availability in Introductory Psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 35, 91-955. Bollmeier, Suzanne G, Wenger, Philip J, Forinash, Alicia B. (2010, September 10). Impact of Online Lecture-capture on Student Outcomes in a Therapeutics Course. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 74(7), 127  Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education 

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

competition requires the design of “buoyancy shoes” to cross the length of a swimming pool in a timed event against other “pilots”. Awards are given for Fastest Shoes, Most Creative Design, and Most Resourceful Design (use of recycled materials). The MESA Pre-College students are also invited to compete. B. Engineering Design and Test: Robotics Challenge - SPSD hosts an annual Robotics Challenge. Each SPSD campus sponsors at least one robotics team. The student teams design and program multifunctional robots using LEGO Mindstorm Robotics kits. Awards are given for winners of each of the two events. The MESA Pre-College students are also invited to compete. C. Academic Development

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David Lanning; Jim Helbling; Wahyu Lestari

,performed using SurveyMonkey, included question such as: 1. Please rate your overall satisfaction with the Aerospace Engineering Program. Please provide any additional comments you may have below. This allows us to improve camp in the future. a. Overall satisfaction (1-10 satisfaction rating) b. Quality of Instruction (1-10 satisfaction rating) c. Relevance of Classes (1-10 satisfaction rating)Such questions were given on the dining and residence hall experiences, with some survey questions onspecific extra-curricular activities. Questions on the interest and satisfaction on the specific aerospacetopics were included.Regarding the academics, it was found that students showed slightly more interest in

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Lily Gossage

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for New College Students: A Summary of Research Findings of the Collaborative Learning Project. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.19. Smith, B., & MacGregor, J. (2009). Learning Communities and the Quest for Quality, Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, v17 n2 p118-139.20. Barnes, R., & Piland, W. (2010). Impact of Learning Communities in Developmental English on Community College Student Retention and Persistence, Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, v12 n1 p7-24.21. Weiss, M., Visher, M., & Wathington, H. (2010). Learning Communities for Students in Developmental

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; Carakushansky, S. (1982, June). The Impact of Situational Leadership and Classroom Structure on Learning Effectiveness. Group & Organization Studies , 7 (2), pp. 216-224. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference  Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  124 6. Johansen, B.-C. P. (1990, Spring). Situational Leadership: A Review of the Research. Human Resource Developmen Quarterly , 1 (1), pp. 73-85.7. Meyer, L. P. (2002). Athletic Training Clinical Instructors as Situational Leaders. Journal of Athletic Training , 37 (4 Supplement), pp. S261

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atmospheric conditions,” in Proc. IEEE Generation, Transmiss., Distrib., Jan. 1995, vol. 142, pp. 59-64.S. Liu and R. A. Dougal, “Dynamic multiphysics model for solar array,” IEEE Trans. Eergy Convers., vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 285-294, Jun. 2002.W. Xiao and W. G. Dunford, “A novel modeling method for photvoltaic cells,” in Proc. IEEE PESC, 2004, pp. 117-1183.A. Capel, L. M. Salamero, W. Xiao, and W. G. Dunford, “A novel approach to operate solar arrays at their MPP without tracking process,” in Proc. Annu. Seminar Autom. Control, Ind. Electron. And Instrum., 2004, pp. 229-232.K. J. Astrom and B. Wittenmark, Adaptive Control. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995, pp. 41-89.G. Rechtenwald, Numerical Methods with MATLAB: Implementations and

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concepts of signals and systems in different situations, gaining more fluency withthese concepts. Second, students rehearse the important techniques of communications,including modulation, demodulation, synchronization, and sampling. Third, students get morepractice and acquire more confidence in experimental methods.IntroductionA laboratory course was developed to complement a lecture course (“CommunicationEngineering”) that covers Fourier series and transforms, filtering, analog modulation anddemodulation, synchronization, sampling, and receiver architectures. The laboratory course usesthe Telecommunications Instructional Modeling System (TIMS) of Emona Instruments [1], seeFigure 1. This instrument incorporates a sampling oscilloscope and

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Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

Engineering/Mechanical Engineering (AE/ME)and Humanities and Communications (HU/COM) instructors in spring, 20031. By 2009,HU/COM instructors were team-teaching in all six (6) senior capstone courses. The seniorcapstone course which is considered the model for all others at this university is AE 421: AircraftDetail Design; AE 421 has been team-taught by the same AE instructor and COM instructor forthe past eight years.AE 421 requires student design teams, formed in a previous semester and each led by a designteam lead, to verify aerodynamic and stability predictions through wind tunnel testing, predictthe structural response to load of an aircraft component (e.g., a wing section) through analysisand simulation, and attempt to verify the structural

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204  Structural Engineering for Architecture and Construction Management Students James Guthrie, SE California State Polytechnic University San Luis ObispoIntroductionArchitecture and construction management students can often graduate with a weak foundationin structural engineering leaving them less than fully prepared to take on their future roles inindustry. The California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) is wellpositioned to fill this potential gap. The Architectural Engineering