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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

program serves alarge number of international students who represent a valuable resource in term of culturalexperience and diversity. About 20-25 students per semester enroll in this course.During the spring of 2012 the course content of both CE 101 and CE 696 was modified toprovide both groups of students more exposure to current global issues in engineering and Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 126construction practices. The modifications were designed by the authors of this paper, who arealso

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Matthew T. Siniawski; Adam R. Carberry; Rafiqul I. Noorani

Least Liked Design Iterations One ‘Winning’ Design Physical Prototyping Project Management 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 % of Total Sample (N=20) Figure 2. Percentage of students from the post analysis identifying each category as something that they either most liked or least liked about the bottle opener design project. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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

Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) grant by the USDepartment of Education. The project, entitled Student On-ramp Leading to Engineering andSciences (SOLES), aims to increase the participation, retention, and success of underrepresentedand educationally disadvantaged students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. Amongthe strategies developed for this project is the Summer Math Jam – a two-week intensivemathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.This paper summarizes the results of the implementation of the Math Jam and its one-weekversion, the Mini-Math Jam, over the last four years.2. Incoming Student Interest and Level of Preparation for EngineeringCañada

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Ameneh Akbari; Karla Ananias; Jeffery Bouchard; Qian Wang P.E.; George Law

New Technology and Design Methodology for Micromouse: Challenges and Solutions Ameneh Akbari, Karla Ananias, Jeffery Bouchard, Qian Wang, and George Law Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering California State University, Northridge, CA 91325AbstractThe micromouse project has been integrated in many university curricula internationally. In theproject, the students design and build an autonomous robot which explores and maps a fixed sizemaze, and races to the center of the maze in the shortest time. These mice will compete in IEEEor other engineering society sponsored competitions every year. Normally, the students will usea microcontroller or a microprocessor

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Kiran George

fields. Similarly, the out migration fromthe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University,Fullerton (CSUF) has been profound. In 2010 with funding availed from the NSF, ECS at CSUFestablished the ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program designed toreverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. This program awards scholarships to ECSstudents over the 5-year period of the project and leverages a well-established network of ECSand University student services to support cohorts of ACE scholars (recipients of the ACEscholarship) majoring in ECS majors. The ECS ACE scholarship program provides tuitionscholarships and a myriad of support services ranging from peer mentoring to

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

Initiatives at CSULA, Arizona State Polytechnic University, and U. C. SantaCruz that feature adaptations of the Harvey Mudd (HMC) Clinic model. The goal of aprofessional practice program should be to prepare students for engineering practice in allits aspects: technical and social. Resistance to incorporating professional practice into anexisting curriculum takes many forms. This includes a natural resistance to change andinadequate rewards to faculty for teaching and advising team-based projects, especiallysponsored senior design (capstone) projects. For those institutions interested in aprofessional practice program, there are a number of other academic issues to beovercome. For example, there may be concerns about teaching credit for project

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R. Radharamanan

engineering students; fosterinnovation and creativity in engineering disciplines; help the students to develop business plansfor the entrepreneurial design projects and compete in the annual business plan competition, andpromote new ventures creation. The expansion of this program will support educationalinterdisciplinary curricula and co-curricular activities and benefit the students providing multi-and cross-disciplinary teaching, learning, and research opportunities on innovation andentrepreneurship. Selected creative student design projects with business plans involvingCAD/CAM, Robotics, and Rapid Prototyping are presented, analyzed, and discussed. Thestudents learning outcomes and their professional skills are assessed using KEEN-TTI’s surveyof

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

improve their work throughout thequarter.Key features of the courses included: 1) Dedicated class time was dedicated for students andinstructors to work together; 2) Teamwork enabled students, under time pressure, to analyzeengineering problems, formulate solutions, program, write, and prepare presentations; 3)Engineering problems were solved with widely-available software; and 4) Teams competed toproduce the best course manual for next year’s course.Preliminary results from surveys showed that students felt more confident and knowledgeablewhen presenting technical information, writing their reports, and using computer tools in theirsubsequent courses. They also used these skills later in their senior design projects. Compared totheir peers who

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

importance of entrepreneurship toengineers, which is why entrepreneurship is increasingly being taught as a part ofengineering programs. However, the method of conveying the entrepreneurshipeducation has been writing a traditional business plan. In this paper, the coauthors willdiscuss an innovative approach to educating engineers in entrepreneurship. This wouldinclude implementing in the curriculum new online tools for creating a business planwhich have the mobility and convenience that today’s generation of engineers havegrown to know and expect. This revision of the entrepreneurship curriculum would beparticularly important for engineering managers to understand and would thus be avalued contribution for engineering management programs across the

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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education   133incorporate field sampling into environmental lab courses. If an objective of the lab course is toinclude a “real-world” experience, it is important to consider what Environmental Engineers areexpected to do in the private, consulting industry. It is common for engineers to conduct fieldsampling or to oversee field sampling campaigns, thus understanding the proper techniques tocollect samples could be deemed an important lesson. Chanson5 surveyed 25 senior engineersand managers in Australia and 100% felt that field experience/work was a basic requirement forthe Civil Engineering

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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

Programs 2013-2014. Engineering Accreditation Commission. Baltimore, Md. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2012 from http://www.abet.org/accreditation-criteria- policies-documents/2. Anagnos, T., Komives, C., Mourtos, N., & McMullin, K. (2007). Evaluating Student Mastery of Design of Experiment, 37th ASEE Frontiers in Education Conf., Milwuakee, WI.3. Du, W. Y., Furman, B. J., & Mourtos, N. J. (2005). On the ability to design engineering experiments, 8th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Kingston, Jamaica.4. Gess-Newsome, J., & Lederman, N. (1999). Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Boston: Kluwer Publishing.5. Halloun, Ibrahim & Hestenes, David. (1985). The initial

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 335 1. For laboratory or design courses where the experimental object or test article is fabricated by the students, we suggest that the students be allowed to manage their own budgets and thus practice social responsibility. 2. For these same courses, we suggest that students be required to evaluate the materials used in fabrication in terms of both environmental impact and personal safety during the manufacturing process. 3. For courses offered to seniors, we suggest that the faculty contact their campus

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Thomas M. Korman; Hal A. Johnston; Lloyd Crask

2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, WORLDCOMP'12 The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, NV. July 2012.6. Korman, Thomas M., "Design and Implementation of Experiential Learning Exercises for Commercial Building Construction Education" Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE PSW Section Conference, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, CA, April 2012.7. Korman, Thomas, and Johnston, Hal, "Enhancing Construction Engineering and Management Education using a COnstruction INdustry Simulation (COINS)", 2011 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering: June 19-22, 2011, Miami, FL, USA.8. Korman

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Andrew Siefert; Jonathan Hoy; Keith Christman; Kevin R. Anderson

" learning is documented in this paper via the teaching of Mechatronicsthrough the capacity of having students design/fabricate/engineer/program robot to navigate amaze autonomously. Use of Mechatronics, i.e. a synergy of control systems, data acquisition andsensors, kinematics of machinery, and programming is detailed in this paper using studentprojects as the learning/instructional vehicle. Rubrics for assessment of such a "hands-on" coursewill also be shared in this paper.IntroductionMechatronics is defined by Bolton1 as “Electronic Control Systems in Mechanical and ElectricalEngineering”. We have been teaching a senior level technical elective as ME 499/L“Mechatronics/Lab” at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona

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Keith Level

WORK IN PROGRESS Using Mastering Engineering Software-Based Homework System in Statics and Circuits Classes Keith Level Las Positas College, Livermore, CAAbstractMastering Engineering is a web-based, homework management system, created by PearsonPublishing Company. It is currently available in 4 engineering courses and 2 science courses.Engineering Courses currently covered by the Mastering Engineering software include (1)Statics, (2) Dynamics, (3) Mechanics of Materials, and (4) Electrical Circuits. This paper willexamine the pros and cons of using this software, from a community college

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

Orange County, California,implemented an “Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) Scholars” program during 2007-10to increase the retention rates of freshman Latino students in ECS majors. The programintegrated curricular and co-curricular educational interventions designed to support students’academic, social and personal transition to college life and increase their achievement, retentionand graduation rates. Early results of this special ECS Scholars program were powerful, with anaverage of 81% one-year and 71% two-year campus wide retention rates compared to 73% one-year and 63% two-year campus wide retention rates of all ECS freshman, and serve as the basisfor this paper.The National Science Board (2004) has noted “a troubling decline in the

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Binod Tiwari

student.The community college students were funded by a STEM grant awarded to the communitycollege by the Department of Education. The group of students surveyed a part of the university,using various surveying equipment such as total station and GPS. The group prepared the 3-dimensional map of the area they surveyed using the GIS tools. Shown in Figure 1 is the mapprepared by those students. The community college students were highly motivated in thediscipline and enrolled into the bachelor’s degree program in civil engineering at two highlyrenowned universities in southern California. Both of them received highly competitive stipends.Those students completed their BS in civil engineering with excellent performance. Thefreshman at the time of

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Jin-Lee Kim

). “High performance building design process model.” 2005 Construction Research Congress, April 5-7, San Diego, CA.18. Nahmens, I. (2009). “From lean to green construction: A natural extension.” 2009 Construction Research Congress, Seattle, WA, pp. 1058-1067.19. Napal, M. P., Zhang, J., Webster, A., Staub-French, S., Pottinger, R., and Lawrence, M. (2009). “Querying IFC- based building information models to support construction management functions.” 2009 Construction Research Congress, Seattle, WA, pp. 506-515.20. Pocock, J. B., Mitchell, Z., and Bates, A. J. (2009). “One approach to incorporating sustainable design into undergraduate engineering programs.” 2009 Construction Research Congress, Seattle, WA.21. Russell, J. S., Hanna, A

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Danyang Li; Qiao Zhen; Albert Gordon; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Marcos Turquetti; Mohammad N. Amin

Wireless Communications (MSWC) program at National University(NU) is a professional degree that integrates communication techniques, problem solvingstrategies, simulation skills and mathematical foundations with hands-on training required tosolve real world problems in telecommunications29. The program is designed for professionalsand managers to facilitate the learning and application of skills in the field of wirelesscommunications, and uses a distinctive and challenging curriculum that emphasizesmultidisciplinary knowledge. The program integrates theory through applications and designconcepts. Classes combine lectures, case and hands-on studies, individual and team projects,research papers and participant presentations. With NU’s MSWC program

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Foaad Khosmood; Phillip Nico

read and write to the disk. This means that almostall the functionality of PolyFS-n can be tested by writing different client processes. A “blackbox” testing approach uses the API to interact with the system and assess its features andperformance.Separate tests can also be generated based on current state of the emulated disk. Figure 2 shows atypical block file system storage space allocation. While the status of blocks remains hiddenfrom the client programs by design, testing can be done directly on the emulated disk device tocheck for consistency and efficiency of use. Figure 2. Example block allocation Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference

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Xiaomin Jin; Xiao-hua Yu; Xiang-Ning Kang; Guo-Yi Zhang

International Research/education Collaboration on GaN LED/LDs between Cal Poly (USA) and PKU (China) Xiaomin Jin a, Xiao-hua Yu a, Xiang-Ning Kangb, and Guo-Yi Zhangb a Electrical Engineering Department, 1 Grand Avenue, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, 93407-9000; b School of Physics and State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructures and Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871.AbstractWe initiated and established an international collaboration with institution in China. This is oneof the international programs at California Polytechnic state University (Cal Poly

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

discussed. We expected the contributions ofBIO 441 students to be minimized during the design and development stages, and were hopingthat they would come back for testing. Our hopes found cautious justification in the studentresponses, as we saw the contributions of BIO 441 students increase significantly at that stage.From there on, different teams chose different paths to proceed, with some teams continuing towork tightly on the deployment and maintenance of the programs, while other teams essentiallynot having significant post-delivery interactions concerning the software. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering