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Amelito G. Enriquez; Denise Hum; Christine Woo; Brandon Price; Danni Redding Lapuz; Anna Camacho

Creating Accelerated Educational Pathways for Underprepared STEM Students through an Intensive Math Placement Test Review ProgramAmelito Enriquez, Denise Hum, Christine Woo, Brandon Price, Danni Redding Lapuz, and Anna Camacho Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstractA majority of California community college students enter college with low levels of preparationfor college-level work, especially in math. For students interested in pursuing science orengineering degrees, this may mean up to four or five years of coursework before they areeligible to apply for transfer to a four-year institution. As a result, many of them drop out orchange

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Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

mL   c 2 n  . mL2Upon completion of the initial parameter estimation, students are able to examine the stabilitypredictions of the model by varying the gain K p . Contrary to what they would expect based onthe theory of second order systems, the plan has a critical gain K *  3 , beyond which the system ploses its stability as illustrated in Figure 7. Figure 7. Root locus of a third order system with critical gain Kp=3

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Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 3122. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), “Prepare and Inspire: K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - STEM Education for America’s Future,” Washington, D.C., 2010.3. Ellis, E.A., Jackson, H. and Wynn, K.K., “Incorporating Engineering in PreK to Grade 12 Curricula through Career Imprinting,” Proceedings of the 39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2009.4. Brady, P., and Saliklis, E., “The structure of a Story,” Proceedings of the

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Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

encouraged to work together lab partner. through posting and responding to forum posts.Students have to set Professors may spend significant Students will learn the basicup their own amounts of time troubleshooting requirements of setting up a laboratorylaboratory problems that arise with environment (purchasing hardware andenvironment downloading and installing the downloading and installing software). course software in the first week of Students will have the tools they need to class. do digital designs beyond what the

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David B. Lanning

by retaking courses many times, too many times in the eyes ofmany of the engineering faculty. These students often manage to maintain an acceptablealthough often inadvisably low GPA, and harm their chances of success beyond graduation. TheDepartment of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AE/ME) is currently considering variousalternatives to raise the bar on certain degree program requirements, such as limiting the numberof attempts a student may make at completing a required course. For the purpose of tailoring anynew degree program requirements to ensure student success both during their undergraduateengineering education and after graduation, this work focuses on identifying students who repeatcourses and provides data on the number of

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Jin-Lee Kim

construction education curriculum. The demand for specialists in these two emergingfields is increasing tremendously due to the fact that green buildings education, research, andpractice issues are becoming driving forces in academia and industry. The BIM-based teachingapproach developed in the previous study is a stepping stone for the proposed innovative virtualapproach. The BIM will provide students with building models containing integratedarchitectural information to implement sustainability that goes beyond both conventional 2Dsolutions using electronic drafting board and 3D modeling for purely visualization purposes.Therefore, it is expected that students enhance learning ability of sustainability through aninnovative virtual approach using BIM

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John Paulino; Jesús García; Joshua Lohse; Hector Prado; Atul Balani; Sridevi Lakshmipuram; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser

12we created a summer internship program to engage community college students in researchprojects on the latest challenges of circuit design in nano-scale semiconductor technology.Through this program, four community college students were mentored by two graduate studentsin a research project to analyze performance degradation of integrated circuits due to transistoraging effects in nano-scale. This paper presents the research conducted by these students onestablish how SBD affects the performance of a circuit, specifically the delay variation andpower consumption, in relation to location of the breakdown, and its severity. II. APPROACH The effects of leakage current through the transistors of

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

Engineers,” 2005 ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global WorldConference Proceedings, Portland, OR, United States, pp. 14577-14585.8. Nickels, K., 2000, “Do's And Don'ts Of Introducing Active Learning Techniques,” 2000 ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition: Engineering Education Beyond the Millennium Conference Proceedings, St. Louis,MO, United States, pp. 2209-2214.9. Demirel, Y., 2004, “Effective Teaching And Active Learning Of Engineering Courses With Workbook Strategy,”2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Engineering Education Researches New Heights ConferenceProceedings, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, pp. 4371-4384.10. Marshall, J., 2009, “Creating An Active

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Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

1009 583 (58%) 419 (42%)d. Freshman ProgramsAt CSUF “Freshman Programs” is an entity on campus that promotes college success byproviding learning communities designed to ensure first-year students' successful transition fromhigh school to higher education. Its curriculum and services create a foundation for academic Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 286achievement, campus involvement and community engagement. Freshman Programs promotesstudent retention through academic