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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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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

Professional Practice and the Engineering Curriculum Paul M. Jones, J. Richard Phillips Corporate & University Relations Group/ Harvey Mudd CollegeAbstractThere are elements of professional practice common to the engineering profession in allengineering fields. However, many, if not most, engineering academic curricula allowlittle or no room for professional practice other than minimal capstone projects. In thosethat do, the approach is widely scattered. The purpose of this paper is three-fold: (1) Tobriefly describe a professional practice program (featuring sponsored senior designprojects) as adopted by California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA); (2) Todiscuss difficulties

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Antonella Sciortino; Lisa Star; Tesfai Goitom

A Novel Approach to Expose Students to Global Issues in Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management Antonella Sciortino, Lisa Star, and Tesfai Goitom Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management California State University, Long Beach.AbstractThe availability of new technologies has resulted in great achievements in the civil engineeringand construction engineering management fields worldwide. Young engineers should beequipped with the necessary knowledge to perform their jobs in any region of the world, andthey should be able to understand the unique cultural and societal environment in

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Jin-Lee Kim

Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the

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

SUBMITTED TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION PACIFIC SOUTHWEST SECTION CONFERENCE UCR, APRIL 18-20, 2013 Using Arduino Microcontroller Based Robot Projects to Teach Mechatronics in a Hands-On Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Andrew Siefert, Jonathan Hoy, Keith Christman, Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, P.E. California State Polytechnic University at Pomona Mechanical Engineering Department Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory

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

. 274AcknowledgmentThe authors thank Dr. Ali Amini, Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, California StateUniversity, Northridge, for going out of his way to support the project. They also thank theASEE reviewers for their constructive suggestions.Bibliography1. N. Chen, H. Chung, and Y. Kwon, “Integration of Micromouse Project with Undergraduate Curriculum: A Large-scale Student Participation Approach”, IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 136-144, May 1995.2. CSUN Electrical Engineering Senior Course Electives, available: http://www.ecs.csun.edu/ece/docs/EE%20Curriculum%20Flow.pdf3. J. Peatman, “Design with Microcontrollers”, New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 1988.4. W. Wolf, “Computers as Components”, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann

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

manufacturing sothat the implicit activities of design, i.e. the process, are given as much attention as the tools orproducts of design thereby helping students to develop more sophisticated conceptions of a coreengineering skill.Bibliography1. Lamancusa, J.S., et al. (1997). The learning factory-a new approach to integrating design and manufacturinginto the engineering curriculum. Journal of Engineering Education, 86, 103-112.2. Dutta, D., et al. (2004). Introducing Hands-on Experiences in Design and Manufacturing Education.International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (5), 754-763.3. Glaser, B., and Strauss, A. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research.Chicago, IL: Aldine.4. Miles, M., and Huberman, M. (1984

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

faculty to learn new teaching methods, mismatch between active learningtechniques and learning styles for instructors and students, and lack of administrative support4.Nevertheless, several examples of active learning methods have been successfully implemented.MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, for example, overcame such challenges inusing active learning in the curriculum with strong institutional support, faculty team teaching,careful planning with faculty involvement, and training on active learning methods5.Careful planning also minimizes time in preparing active learning activities. Texas A&MUniversity developed a series of in-class exercises in an upper-division course in biological andagricultural engineering, which

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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

, a Hispanic serving communitycollege, join force with San Francisco State University, a four-year university with an activemaster program, to create an internship program that integrate underrepresented minoritystudents into research. Supported by NASA 2012 CIPAIR program, five students join theElectrical Engineering research program in SFSU.The critical challenge to integrate community college students into research is to assign theactivity at an appropriate level, so that students are actually involved in the research and makecontributions. The approach here is to let students understand the research by pre-packagedcomputer simulations, and contribute to the project by hands-on tasks.Project BackgroundThe research project is to optimize an

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

down effortusing a Semillas Award obtained in 2009, academic adjustments by reordering choke points inthe curriculum to a later, more mature, stage, improved connections and advising during newstudent orientation, creating affinity groups such as ‘Women in Engineering,’ peer mentoringprograms, and intervention approaches during probation and disqualification due to low grades.Also, efficient utilization of support services from campus forums such as Freshman Programs,the University Learning Center (ULC) and Center for Academic Support in Engineering andComputer Science (CASECS) is also part of the retention strategy. While every one of thesestrategies contributes in some meaningful way in helping a few students succeed during the firstyear

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Seema C. Shah-Fairbank; William Kitch; Kenneth Lamb P.E.

campus during their first year. They areoften intrusive in nature, forcing students to attend special advising sessions before beingallowed to register for courses. More importantly, the facilitators of these advising functionswere not part of the civil engineering program and thus could not provide students with coherentadvising appropriate to the curriculum. During the 2011-2012 academic year the CE departmentestablished a committee to develop a single integrated department advising program.Methodology The department advising committee developed a three part advising improvement plan.The goal of the first stage was to provide essential prescriptive advising to ensure a consistentand effective message. This was accomplished through a

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Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

forums make providing and submitting course materials, questions, andobtaining feedback efficient and simple. This paper describes a work-in-progress to port alaboratory intensive introductory digital design course, currently taught in a flipped classroomformat, into a 100% asynchronous online course. The paper provides an overview of the currentflipped classroom format and then describes our approach to converting this course to an onlineformat. A fully online laboratory course creates new opportunities for students around the globeto obtain access to hands-on engineering education.IntroductionOnline education has become prevalent and even popular in many fields due to its flexible,somewhat self-paced nature and relatively easy accessibility

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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

,Irvine (UCI) with Israeli and Saudi Arabia universities respectively. In this paper, we report ourwork in progress and results from implementing the Initiative.IntroductionThe world’s population is currently approaching seven billion people. This rapid populationgrowth will cause enormous stresses on food, water, energy and natural resources. There will bedouble the number of Asian style megacities with more than 20 million people. To tackle thesechallenges, technology has and will continue to play a crucial role to alleviate these stressors.Among all disciplines, the engineering field has experienced the most radical transformation inthe last 20 years. For example, telecommunications bandwidth has increased by 100,000 timessince the year 2000

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Milica Markovic

that integrates new education research with visualization and technology is thecomplete overhaul of introductory physics class at MIT22. The novel approach in this paper is thatthe students write code and directly interact with commercially available software by setting upand solving various assigned problems, instead of using pre-built modules.At CSUS, electromagnetics is a one semester, 4-unit course that students take during their junioryear. It consists of a 3-unit class and 1-unit lab. Class is offered in a hybrid format, with lecturesheld both in the classroom and online through Blackboard's ElluminateLive! software so thatstudents can attend classes remotely. Lectures are also recorded for asynchronous access to class.The class is

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

Teaching Bioinformatics in Concert: an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Project-based Experience Alex Dekhtyar, Anya L. Goodman, Aldrin Montana Department of Computer Science, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, dekhtyar@calpoly.edu/ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, agoodman@calpoly.edu/ Department of Computer Science, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, amontana@calpoly.eduAbstract In the Spring of 2012 we piloted a novel approach to interdisciplinary instruction in thearea of bioinformatics that enables undergraduate students in life sciences to work “in concert”with computer science students to solve

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Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

Compact International Experiences: Two-year Reflections on Short-term Study-abroad Elective Engineering Courses Frank G. Jacobitz, Thomas F. Schubert Department of Engineering, University of San DiegoAbstractIn response to an effort by the home institution to internationalize the curriculum as well asstrong student desire for engineering international studies, compact international experience(CIE) courses were developed. The efficacy of delivering such engineering electives as study-abroad, short-term courses is described through the experiences gained by repeat offerings inJanuary 2013 of two distinct three-semester-unit courses in

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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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Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

importance has been recognized by the Accreditation Board of Engineering Education(ABET) and its predecessors by establishing criteria requiring adequate laboratory practice forstudents1-4. During the last decade, engineering education along with many other fields is movingis experimenting with new delivery methods such as online or distance courses. At the sametime experiments have become more complex, including simulation tools and computercontrolled test and measurement equipment. This increased sophistication has also led to moreexpensive equipment5,6.The inclusion of laboratory courses in the undergraduate curriculum is challenging due to thelarge number of students and the increased demand for instruction and equipment time.Additionally

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Foaad Khosmood; Phillip Nico

Society for Engineering Education 265 ■ implement tfs_defrag() /* moves blocks such that all free blocks are contiguous at the end of the disk. This should be verifiable with the tfs_displayFraments() function */ b Directory and renaming ■ tfs_rename() /* renames a file. New name should be passed in. */ ■ tfs_dir() /* lists all the files on the disk */ c Read-only and writeByte support ■ implement the ability to designate a file as “read only”. By default all files are “read write