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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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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

informal interactions allowed the IHE participants to discuss educational issues face-to-face, mentor individual educators, and observe successful pedagogical models.  One IHE faculty member worked one-on-one with several teachers in drafting funding proposals to collect resources for the K-8 classroom. Teachers had limited prior experience on writing successful funding proposals and working with the engineering faculty members they were given support to define need and craft a successful proposal for sponsoring agencies.  Engineering faculty partners were also involved with the overall project management, the evaluation of assessed data, the presentation of findings at various conferences, and the

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish; Ali Nejat

about 9% of engineering jobs (NationalScience Foundation, 2000). Gender balance in engineering is a hot-topic issue in the US andmany other countries. The cause of the imbalance has been extensively studied and primarilyviewed as a result of the historical patterns of institutionalized gender discrimination, whichplays a key role on issues of gender balance in Engineering 11, 12. However, there is evidence thatachievement-related beliefs are also involved13. Texas Tech University College of Engineeringshares this gender imbalance in student enrollment as well as the faculty male to female ratio. InTexas Tech University College of Engineering, as seen in Tables 3, 4 and 5 by graduation, menoutnumbered women over the last three years. The

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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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Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

in the course. Second, due to the small student enrollment in thecourses, a high level of student-faculty interaction was accomplished. This argument isparticularly applicable to the CIE courses due to the shared living arrangements.Student Reflection PapersIn that Advanced Electronic Circuit Design was presented in different cities (Sydney, Canberra,and the back to Sydney), it was decided to assign the reflection papers essentially on a city-by-city basis. Near the end of each city stay, students were asked to write “a short (~ one page)reflection paper concerning your stay in that city, the cultural differences that you noted, theengineering-related tours and lectures, and anything else that was of particular interest …”While the content

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

assessingparticipation and student learning: • Number of jobs bid • Minus the jobs rejected (i.e., not enough bonding capacity, substantially low cost estimate, etc.) • Number of times the number jobs you are the lowest cost • Number of times the company retained earnings • Company’s appraisal metricsUsing the seven principles of good practice as an evaluation metric, the COINS system performswell. It encourages contact between students and faculty by encouraging frequent student-faculty contact in and out of classes, which is an important factor in student motivation andinvolvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working.Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students' intellectual commitment

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

is almost standard now to use sensors of many types to collectinformation and to send it to a patient’s phone. Multiple instances of such data collection canoccur via the Bluetooth standard, the Healthcare Device Profile (HDP), etc. This project utilizessome of these sensors, together with Bluetooth communication standards, to create a remotemedical monitoring station. A new mobile app was developed using the Android platform tocollect, display, and store biometric data on a mobile phone, and integrate it with WiFi andcellular networks. Relevant information is forwarded to a relational database developed forstorage, or can also be directed to the first responders in case of emergency. Elderly patients,who are at home, or perhaps live far

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David B. Lanning

students whowould likely be graduated, or close to graduated, by the end of the Spring 2012 semester.Finally, this would be a group of students still well-remembered by the faculty, who could lendsome qualitative information to an analysis of the cohort.The author obtained all the data by combing through the transcripts for each student. At thetime, ERAU was transitioning to a new student data management system, Oracle’s PeopleSoftCampus Solutions, and no easy or robust method for data mining was available to the author (nor Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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M. Cardenas

may be affecting their experiences withcar maintenance. Millennial culture also includes a type of perfectionism that may be affectingtheir desire to use their hands, either in fixing things, or in traditional ways of building. Theexistence of on-board diagnostic computer interfaces is perceived to have an effect, though it isarguable. Many gadgets, especially electronic devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and gamingsystems, are designed and manufactured in ways that make them difficult to open up and repair,but new sites such as iFixit do provide teardowns and repair manuals. I will explore these issues,especially their implications on current undergraduate engineering pedagogy, present ‘practicalwork’ experiences from Canterbury 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

-longengineering design experience early in their academic career by participating in capstone designcourses for graduating seniors; (4) to strengthen existing faculty relationship with NASA Ames,and establish new collaborative relationships among two-year and four-year engineering faculty,and NASA Ames Research Center; (5) to increase the number of academically preparedcommunity college students transferring to four-year institutions as engineering majors; (6) toimprove academic success of engineering students from underrepresented groups by providingacademic support and mentoring; and (7) to increase the number of minority students pursuingadvanced degrees in STEM fields.Summer Intern Project DescriptionFor the second year of the project in summer 2012

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

first author, and BIO 441: Bioinformatics Applications taught by thesecond author. Both courses were already on the books of respective programs, which allowed usto forego new course proposals. The two courses, however, have different back stories. TheBioinformatics Algorithms course was proposed as a computer science technical elective at theturn of the century and has been taught once or twice by a different faculty member, after whichdue to personnel changes it has essentially became a dormant course. The BioinformaticsApplications course is a technical elective in Biology and Biochemistry programs and prior toSpring 2012 it has been taught on an annual basis.Both classes come with six contact hours per week: three hours for lecture and