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enrollment. Advisors assigned to workwith KHC students cover both lower and upper division student advising.Results Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, students were asked to fill out a survey abouttheir experience as a student at Cal Poly Pomona’s civil engineering program at the end of thesenior capstone course. In this survey students were asked to respond to the followingstatements: 1) The quality of advising I received related to academic planning was: 2) The quality of advising I received related to professional career planning was: 3) The quality of advising I received related to graduate school planning was:Students responded based on the following scale: 1) Very poor; 2) Poor; 3) Satisfactory

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courses to engineering courses. Meeting women who succeeded in the engineeringcurriculum gave the students confidence that they could be engineers. Connecting the EEWIEwomen with female peers in engineering programs offered credible insights and encouragementfor the women as they could relate to peers with similar problems. This is a model program fromwhich many other colleges, universities, and students could benefit.IntroductionWomen have long been an underrepresented group in the engineering community. It isestimated that in the United States only 17.8 % of bachelor degrees were obtained by women in20091. Currently, research is being conducted throughout the United States on methods to retainwomen in engineering programs2. Another area of

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Development of International Mobility Program in Micro and Nanotechnology: Lessons Learned Jesús Acosta-Iriqui, Eniko T. Enikov The University of ArizonaAbstractThe Advanced International Studies in Mechanics of Micro- and Nano-systems program is afour-year student exchange program under the Atlantis Excellence in Mobility programsupported by the United States Department of Education and the European Commission ofHigher Education. The main goals of this project was to increase students’ academic aspirationsin science and engineering careers, increase students’ professional aspirations in science andengineering, and increase students’ awareness

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. During the remaining sessions, weintroduced the concepts of variables, conditionals (if-else statements), iteration (loops) andfunctions. We wanted to see how well each environment would work for teaching each conceptand programming in general.We assessed the students' grasp of the chosen concepts and experiences through a pre-survey anda post-survey with quantitative and qualitative questions. Both surveys also asked the studentsabout their computing background and attitudes toward computing. 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

underrepresentation ofminority groups in these fields. For instance, while comprising about 28% of the U.S.population, African Americans and Latinos make up less than 9% of the individuals who are B.S.or higher-degree holders in the science and engineering fields.5 Statistics show that these groupsof students tend to enroll in STEM majors in small numbers and have higher attrition ratescompared to other groups.6-9 Summer programs are among the most commonly employedsuccessful strategies that have been proven effective in increasing the retention and success ofminority students in science and engineering, especially those who are educationallydisadvantaged.10-16In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in Redwood City, CA, wasawarded a

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Kiran George

                                                                                     +++    Evaluating the Impact of ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program Kiran George Computer Engineering Program California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92831, USAAbstractRecent research strongly suggests that engineering education loses about 53% of undergraduatestudents of which roughly 40% switch to non-science

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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

. Engineering problems are similar everywhere in the world and they are solvedaccording to the physical and mathematical principles at the foundation of engineering science.However, each solution should reflect the unique cultural and societal environment in which it isimplemented.Ideally, young engineers should be exposed to the global issues involved in the engineeringprofession while they are still in school. Unfortunately, due to the high number of unitsnecessary for graduation compared to other programs, many engineering programs don’t havethe flexibility to accommodate additional courses that would provide students with the globalengineering perspective necessary to advance their careers. Furthermore, financial constraintsmay prevent many

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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

accomplishments related to teaching and enhancing student success. He also received the 2010 NSF Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).3. Dr. Wenshen Pong joined the engineering faculty of SFSU in 1998. As a committee chair of over 40 graduate students’ culminating experience, Dr. Pong works closely with his students to ensure that they successfully produce and complete quality research work. He was named Faculty of the Year by the engineering societies of the School of Engineering at SFSU in 2000. He also served as Graduate Coordinator from 2001 to 2007. He has been civil engineering program head since 2007 and currently serves as Director of the School of Engineering at

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R. Radharamanan

Project-Based Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Engineering R. Radharamanan Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractThis paper highlights project-based innovation and entrepreneurship education activitiesdeveloped and implemented at Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE). MUSEpromotes entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students through curriculum development,extracurricular activities, and involvement of students in the entrepreneurship program. It hasdeveloped and implemented a course sequence to integrate elements of entrepreneurship inengineering courses; develop an entrepreneurial mindset in

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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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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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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

added a field-based project to a Geotechnical Engineering course and found the projectenhanced student learning. In the same study, a student survey was conducted separate of theclass and asked students to choose the top five reasons they picked Civil Engineering as a major.One of the most common answers was “to be in the field”7.In addition, science majors, such as environmental sciences, ecology, and geology, include fieldexperiences in undergraduate curriculums throughout the United States8,9,10 and Europe11. Theimportance of field work was recognized in many Environmental science programs from theconception of the program (based on programs started in the 1970s and 1980s)8. Field workimmerses the students into the complexity of the real

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students in any aircraft project. The described approach could easily besuccessfully applied to projects in any engineering discipline.IntroductionMany airplane design capstone courses in aeronautical and aerospace engineering programs inuniversities around the globe have adopted a purely theoretical approach to teaching design.This approach is characterized by assigning senior design students the task of re-designing a partof an existing airplane. Often this re-design requires utilizing a computer code or routine thestudents may or may not have written. The students may not be completely familiar with theboundary conditions or restrictive assumptions of the given routine. While this approach maymirror the tasking assigned a beginning engineer in

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish; Ali Nejat

fostered and supported byfamily and teachersMentoring programs for female students in K-12 programsEncourage students to have more flexible grown mindset about intelligence.Providing role models to girls very early ageSummer SMET related fun and educational activities for girlsEducate male and female students to be self-confident to break peer pressure issues.Training school counselors and advisors in gender sensitive issues to be supportive to girlsIn Academia: recruit and retain more female studentsProvide mentoring and support to female students Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

led by trained K-8 professional developers in partnership with engineering faculty from theInstitution of Higher Education partner. While working with the K-8 teachers, engineeringfaculty members also enhanced their pedagogical methods. Positive changes in teaching ofengineering courses by the university faculty members were observed, including increasedstudent-led inquiry, use of pre-assessment techniques, student-learning assessment, enhancedstudent probing, development of a university study-group to explore teaching of experimentaldesign, and development of pedagogical content knowledge for basic engineering courses.Findings include identifying key elements of successful professional development programs,examples of the enhanced teaching

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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

for Engineering Education 39 Figure 2- Top view of buildingStructural Design Project OutcomeDuring the 10-week internship program, the four students were expected to acquire necessaryknowledge on structural design and evaluation of a steel moment-resisting frame. Toaccommodate their different educational backgrounds, the CiPair Program set up a two-levelinstructional team that includes a faculty advisor and a graduate student. Fundamental conceptsin steel design were explained to the intern students by the graduate student and then reinforcedby relating the concepts to the equations in the design

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

is essential to maintain US competitiveness in the world. Accordingly, theNational Science Foundation has embarked an initiative to increase the BS graduates in thesedisciplines by 10,000. However, engineering and computer science majors share the dubioushonor of not retaining most of the students entering the programs as freshmen. The problem ismuch more severe among underrepresented students that make up an increasing fraction ofentering freshmen at California State University Fullerton (CSUF). Studies such as the recentwork by ASEE (2012) document over 60 strategies and practices to increase retention during thefirst two years of the undergraduate program. The strategies were divided into three categories:student-focused strategies and

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a three-week time frame in Franceand Australia. While each of these courses, Topics in Fluid Mechanics and Advanced ElectronicCircuit Design, focused on its technical content, the desire for student understanding of thecultural environment and the impact of engineering solutions from a global and societalviewpoint were strong driving factors for each. The development of the two courses wasundertaken with the hypothesis that CIE courses can successfully be taught in an intersessionformat while providing an international experience to the students. In the second offering ofeach course, increased interaction with local industry was a goal. Assessment of the program wascarried out through typical course evaluations, student surveys, student

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at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo to educate civil andconstruction engineering students.Introduction and BackgroundExperiential learning is learning through reflection on doing, which is often contrasted withdidactic learning. Experiential learning is related to, but not synonymous with, experientialeducation, action learning, adventure learning, free choice learning, cooperative learning, andservice learning. While there are relationships and connections between all these theories ofeducation, importantly they are also separate terms with separate meanings.Experiential learning focuses on the learning process for the individual (unlike experientialeducation, which focuses on the transactive process between teacher

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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

The Middle East Initiative – Expanding Education in a Global Context Liang Li Wu, Anis Hammoudeh and Gregory Washington The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, IrvineAbstractStrengthening education in a global context is the future in an increasingly interconnected world.Programs that can teach students valuable skills in an environment where they can also expandtheir language skills and worldview will be instrumental in creating the leaders of tomorrow.Research collaborations and international education programs were orchestrated as part of theMiddle East Initiative at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California

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Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

students initially in the classroom and laterin an afterschool program. Exercises will give the elementary school students the experience ofacting as the architect, engineer and contractor. The culmination of the project will be asandcastle competition. Students will design and plan the construction of their sandcastles andwill build them at a local beach on a Saturday morning. The paper will describe the goals of theSandcastle Project, the method of its implementation, assessment methods and future steps.IntroductionStudies by the National Academy of Engineering1 and President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST)2 among others have identified the need to enhance thepathways to careers in science, technology, engineering and math

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

, faculty, students, andemployers are assured that the graduates are proficient in analytical, technical and criticalthinking skills. They have a sense of professionalism that is instilled with a strong set of values Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 295    essential for success in the wireless communications field. This program reflects current andfuture industry needs, and graduates from the MSWC program are trained and prepared toassume a leadership role in the field. The MSWC program

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Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

Washington TacomaThe Institute of Technology1 at the University of Washington2, Tacoma, provides focus for therapid development of high-technology academic programs that serve the needs of the state ofWashington.Launched in 2001, the Institute has supported the South Puget Sound community by buildingfacilities, classrooms and labs to support STEM education. Through innovative partnerships witharea companies, internships and funded research projects, Institute students gain real worldexperience to tackle the challenges of a continually evolving industry.Degrees offered by the Institute of Technology are:  Computer Science and Systems (BS/BA/MS)  Computer Engineering and Systems (BS)  Information Technology and Systems (BS

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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

most sophisticated computers. ICperformance has dramatically improved since their first creation. However, with scaling of ICs toNano-scale, an ideal integrated circuit delivering reliable performance over its lifetime is almostimpossible. All ICs experience degradation over time due to the aging of underlying transistors.Working on latest technology issues is typically an opportunity available only to graduate levelstudents working on related research projects. To address this gap, using a NASA CurriculumImprovements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant, we havecreated a summer internship program that engages community college students in researchprojects on the latest challenges of circuit design in nano-scale

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

biology majors with a CS minor).An attempt to develop a computer science bioinformatics course that would bring biologystudents alongside computer science students to the same room, therefore, has, by necessity, toforego any topics that require prior computational experience. But what if both technical depthand bona fide interdisciplinary experiences are desired?In 2009, Pevzner and Shamir recognized the difficulty of offering truly cross-disciplinarybioinformatics courses, and posed an educational challenge asking for the means of developing abioinformatics course that 1. assumes few computational prerequisites; 2. assumes no knowledge of programming; Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific

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Milica Markovic

integrate knowledge of advanced vector calculus, electromagnetictheory and computer programming to visualize fields and waves and to relate electromagneticsapplications to engineering design. The intent of the class is to improve students cognitive andaffective domains, by enabling them to use industry tools to experiment and develop their ownunderstanding of concepts taught in an active learning environment.IntroductionElectromagnetics is a standard, core course in the electrical, electronics and computer engineeringcurriculum. Electromagnetics is fundamental to understanding of many practical areas of electricalengineering: from operation and design of medical, office, industrial and military equipment;through design of sensors, circuits, PC

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Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

From Step-Response to State-Space Controller-Observer Design in Twenty Minutes: A Hands-On Workshop on the Use of Matlab/Simulink to Control a Low-Cost Aerodynamic Pendulum Eniko T. Enikov, Jesus Acosta Iriqui Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department University of ArizonaAbstractThis workshop will present broad range of control systems design topics illustrated through theuse of a low-cost aeropendulum. The project is based on a USB-powered kit operated by MatlabSimulink environment in real-time. Participants will follow the activities offered to senior-levelundergraduate students from mechanical and aerospace engineering

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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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turned outto be a challenging task for students. From the instructor’s point of view, assigning such a projectrequires significant amount of time to help troubleshoot problems as well as for hardwaredemonstration of the project. More data still needs to be gathered to assess the effectiveness ofthe project and whether learning objectives related to practical skills are being met by completingthe project. Feedbacks from companies should also be sought to verify whether students goinginto their new engineering program are prepared better when performing their work.AcknowledgmentThe author wish to thank Linear Technology for providing the full support on the boost LEDdriver project.Bibliography1. P. Thollot, “Power Electronics Today”, Proceedings