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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

approaches to teach students how to solve engineeringproblems with widely available computer software (MATLAB, Microsoft Excel) inundergraduate upper-division technical elective courses in the mechanical engineering and civilengineering departments. The instructors taught the most popular and useful numerical methodsin depth by engaging and assessing students with course lecture, projects, presentations,programming, and report writing. In this pilot course, students worked in teams throughout thequarter to produce the final deliverables – a course manual and a final presentation highlightingthe features of their manual (sales pitch). Every two weeks, students turned in work that formedthe basis for a chapter and received instructor feedback to

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Gene Fisher

, which have chronicled ourprogress6,7,8,9. Over its years of being offered, we have focused to varying degrees on a numberof educational objectives. From the perspective of the students in the course, the objectivesinclude: 1. apply the skills learned in introductory software engineering courses to a real-world software project 2. work with an external customer, on a project of specific interest to that customer 3. work in project teams of varying sizes, including in teams comprised of upper-class and lower-class students of software engineering 4. learn skills of project management 5. enhance technical skills of software development 6. deploy a working product of some formThe first objective is very common to

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

international studentprovides mentoring on the foreign project and on the issues that engineers in the foreign countryfaced and the solutions they proposed. The domestic student provides mentoring on the sametopics for the project in the United States. Specifically, graduate students guide the studentsduring the collection and selection of pertinent literature, provide their expertise on the designcomponent of the two projects, and help the undergraduate students to evaluate the global issuesrelated to their projects. In addition, graduate students could provide information to theundergraduate students on non-technical issues such as presentation or writing skills, work-lifeissues, career or graduate school information.LecturesTwo lectures are devoted

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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

group. Appendix A shows asummary of the schedule of activities for the 2009 Math Jam, and Appendix B the schedule from2010 to 2012. All Summer Math Jam sessions were held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Mondaythrough Thursday during a two-week period that coincided with Cañada College’s break betweenthe end of the spring semester and the beginning of the summer term. Morning and afternoonsessions were devoted to studying math either in groups or individually using MyMathTest,11 anonline system developed by Pearson Education for developing math placement tests and shortmath refresher programs. Workshops related to resources and skills needed for college successare offered in the afternoon. As a result of a 2009 mid-program focus group, which

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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

Americans is 67%,Caucasians, 60%, Hispanics, 44%, Native Americans, 39%, African Americans, 38% andfemales, 61%1-12. In California, about a third of the state’s students who intend to pursueengineering and computer science graduates degrees fail to achieve their goal, considerablyhigher than the 22% attrition rate nationally. While the state is home to more top researchuniversities and high tech industries than any other state, it is significantly under-producinggraduates with technical degrees3.In order to increase the number of engineering and computer science graduates, theunderrepresentation of Hispanic students in engineering and computer science graduates needs tobe addressed in California and particularly in Orange County where Hispanics