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Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

% of white students, and 24% of Asian students. These lowsuccess and completion rates among URM students at community colleges are even more crucialsince almost three-fourths of all Latino and two-thirds of all African-American students who goon to higher education begin their postsecondary education in a community college.“Replacing standard laboratory courses with discovery research” is one of the five effectivemethods to engage and excel underrepresented minority students in the STEM field in the 2012PCAST report [1]. However, in the community college setting, students are not exposed toSTEM research. To facilitate community college students, especially whose from underrepresentminority groups, to participate STEM research, Cañada College

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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

Engaging Community College Students in Research using Summer Internship on Analysis of Performance Degradation of Integrated Circuits Due to Transistor Aging Effects in Nano-Scale John Paulino1, Jesus Garcia1, Joshua Lohse1, Hector Prado1, Atul Balani2, Sridevi Lakshmipuram2, Cheng Chen2, Amelito G. Enriquez1, Hao Jiang2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Wenshen Pong2, Hamid Shanasser2 1 Cañada College, Redwood City, CA/ 2School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractIntegrated Circuits, or ICs, work behind the scenes to make people’s lives better from commonappliances, such as refrigerators and dish-washers, to the

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Ibraheem A. Kateeb; Khaled F. AlOtaibi; Larry Burton; Michael S. Peluso; Evelyn R. Sowells

Community Attitudes Related to Telecommunications Cables Dr. Ibraheem A. Kateeb, Khaled F. AlOtaibi, Dr. Larry Burton, Michael S. Peluso, Dr. Evelyn R. Sowells North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA kateeb@ncat.edu, khaled_u2@hotmail.com, lwburton@ncat.edu, peluso72@gmail.com, es992760@ncat.edu, AbstractOne of the issues the Telecommunications industry faces is concern regarding aesthetic elementsof the networks. These aesthetic considerations impact both network performance andcommunity engagement with service providers. This paper will provide a survey and discussionof the aesthetic elements that relate to cable and

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Cheng Chen; John DeAndreis; Peter Moala; Agustin Robles; Jose Valdovinos; Qiming Zeng; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

gateway to higher education for large numbers of students, especially minorityand low-income students. Preparing community college students for their future engineeringcareer and engaging them in professional development is one of the major objectives of theNASA CIPAIR (Curriculum Improvements and Partnership Award for the Integration ofResearch) program. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a collaborative NASA CIPAIR programbetween Cañada College, a federally designated Hispanic-serving community college, and SanFrancisco State University, a large urban university, has developed a summer internship programthat provides freshmen and sophomore community college students an opportunity to participatein a ten-week study of earthquake engineering. For the

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

, the combined impact of these high impact practices continues to be substantial.a. ECS Scholars Program Title V - Integration of ServicesThe Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) Scholars program is a learning community (LC)based model that integrates interventions from four different entities at CSUF: Title V RetentionPrograms, the University Learning Center (ULC), the Center for Academic Support inEngineering and Computer Science (CASECS) and the Freshman Programs. Service allocationand delivery is coordinated by a Student Services Professional (SSP). The ECS Scholars programlaunched in the fall 2007 semester focuses on the academic success of Latino first-time freshmen(FTF) in engineering and computer science. Students participate in this

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

    Academic Analysis of an Android Based Student Project: Remote Medical Monitoring Station Danyang Li, Qiao Zhen, Albert Gordon, Bhaskar Raj Sinha, Marcos Turquetti, Mohammad N. Amin National University, San Diego, CaliforniaAbstractFirst responders provide urgent care to patients in medical emergency. Such care must beinitiated as quickly as possible in order to maximize the survivability of the patient. Since firstaid procedures are often needed, early information on the patient’s overall condition is an asset tothe responders. Advances in wireless communication data collection have occurred on severalfronts. In the healthcare field, it

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

students in STEM.1. IntroductionA recent report prepared by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology(PCAST) report, “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates withDegrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” indicates that the UnitedStates needs to produce one million additional STEM professionals in the next decade in order toretain its historical preeminence in science and technology. The report proposes that addressingthe retention problem in the first two years of college is the most promising and cost-effectivestrategy to address this need.1 The California Community College System, with its 112community colleges and 71 off-campus centers enrolling approximately 2.6 million

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

engineering programs should provide student with "the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context".While it is beneficial to expose students to engineering as soon as they enter the program, manyfreshman students often do not possess the necessary background to perform research on theirown and to fully analyze the technical aspects of engineering projects. Faculty support isindispensable to guarantee a successful outcome, but peer mentoring could also be an effectivestrategy to engage students. Peer mentoring programs that employ junior or senior undergraduatestudents as mentors for freshman/sophomore students, either in freshman courses or in extra-curricular

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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

foundseveral factors limiting the likelihood of seeing a statistical verification of the impact of thischange. First is the issue of non-uniform assessment instruments. Data could be collected in theprerequisite technical writing course on a student writing assignment evaluated on a 12-pointscale and in the subsequent course student performance on lab write-ups could be evaluated on adifferent 6-point scale, thus limiting the accuracy of evaluation. Second, the evaluatedpopulation was small, approximately 150 students taking the subsequent course annually. Third Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

are discussed in this paper.Component One: Presentations and DiscussionsWhen asked to respond to “Inauguration and Meeting Mentors (1/5/2012) contributed to mysense of community, engagement and encouragement (Or check if you did not attend____)”,seven students responded Strongly Agree and two students did not attend the event. Thisquestion was not explicitly related to Links to Engineering events, but both authors attended theevent and met with the students. The inauguration was attended by Deans and Faculty of CitrusCollege as well as outside mentors from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (peermentors) and the California State University, Fullerton (faculty).When asked to respond to “Open Forum with Dr. Harmonie Hawley (4/13

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

this process happened during the joint lab periods. The time frames for different labsvaried. Lab 2-1 was designed to be completed in a single lab period -- by the end of the labperiod, teams were expected to produce a simple but usable program computing GC percent inan input DNA fragment. Other labs usually had a two-week window, although some deadlineslippage occurred: in the second half of the course teams often worked on multiple labassignments in parallel – testing and maintaining/debugging code from an older assignment,while building requirements and design for a newer one.For Step 4, when CS students were fully engaged in activities (coding) where their BIO partnerswere largely not needed, BIO students worked on their genome annotation

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Milica Markovic

circuit setup in ADS (b) Smith Chart that results from for lumped element impedance matching the simulation shown in (a) Figure 13: Transmission-line What-if impedance matching gameApplication of Impedance Matching using MomentumGupta15 has argued that the one of the major impacts of CAD in education is in making realisticdesign examples and case studies available to students. In this class, 3D planar electromagneticsimulator Agilent's Momentum is introduced to simulate a square-patch antenna. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

from industrial representatives(employers), alumni, and faculty. These soft skills included teamwork, communication,presentation, writing, and ability and desire to engage in life-long learning. With active learningactivities, it was expected that students would have really learned these skills by demonstratingthem in later courses and in their professional careers.Background: Active Learning Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 232Active learning is a broad term that describes many activities

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R. Radharamanan

marketing function in planning and implementing objectives of the firm. Consumermarkets, industrial markets, channels of distribution, product and pricing policies, salesforecasting, promotion, and control.MGT 363: Principles of Management (3-0-3)Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.This course provides an overview of organizational behavior in business. Students are introducedto the theory and practice for individual, group, and organizational influences on human behaviorin relation to management in organizations. Specific topics include perception, personality,motivation, job satisfaction, teamwork, conflict resolution and communication processes. Thetopics are treated at the individual, group, and organization level to prepare students for