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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

international leaders.Collaboration with Tel Aviv University (TAU) in IsraelAfter a delegation visit to Israel in 2012, conversations initiated on a wide range of possiblecollaborations such as academic exchanges, joint research initiatives, programs and projectsbetween UCI and Israeli universities. During the visit, we discovered a common ground withTel Aviv University that both universities had excelled in communications and informationtechnology education. UCI is located in Southern California, home to more than 600telecommunications companies anchored by Broadcom and Qualcomm. TAU is a technologicalpowerhouse in Israel, which has educated a large number of scientists and engineers who havelaunched companies contributing to making Israel the “start

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Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

Practical Lecture, Research, and Projects Based Engineering Education Jeffrey Ashworth, Ph.D., and Samer Shaghoury Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott CampusAbstractA lecture, research, and projects based course has stimulated student interest in aircraftaerodynamics, performance, and static stability and overwhelmingly enhanced preparation forthe practical aircraft conceptual/preliminary capstone design course. This unique elective coursetitled “Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance” uses learning methods reinforced byapplication techniques to analyze actual aircraft performance. Semester lectures cover threetopics in nearly equal segments

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Cheng Chen; Jose Valdovinos; Frank Sanchez; Nelly Avramova; Hector Santillano; Robert Hartsock

Foundation (NSF) provided the BroadeningParticipation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE) program which intends toincrease the diversity of researchers in the engineering disciplines. The goal of the BRIGEprogram is to support innovative research and diversity plans that contribute to recruiting andretaining a broad representation of engineering researchers especially those from groups that areunderrepresented in the engineering population2. In 2012, the project titled “ReliabilityAssessment of Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Results for Performance Evaluation of Structuresunder Earthquakes” led by first author was funded by NSF to develop a probabilistic approach toassess the reliability of experimental results using the real-time hybrid

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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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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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Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

practices of engineering faculty, development of a standardevaluation rubric for experimental design skills, development of educational standards forcourses, and the development of preliminary concepts of pedagogical content knowledge relatedto engineering mechanics courses.IntroductionDeveloping strong pedagogical skills in engineering faculty members is a critical component ofenhancing engineering education. During the period 2003 to 2009, a National ScienceFoundation funded Math-Science Partnership9 in the San José, California region invested time,money and effort in developing pedagogical skills in both K-8 educators and engineering faculty.The goals of the national initiative included the enhancement of educators at San José StateUniversity

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engineering students; fosterinnovation and creativity in engineering disciplines; help the students to develop business plansfor the entrepreneurial design projects and compete in the annual business plan competition, andpromote new ventures creation. The expansion of this program will support educationalinterdisciplinary curricula and co-curricular activities and benefit the students providing multi-and cross-disciplinary teaching, learning, and research opportunities on innovation andentrepreneurship. Selected creative student design projects with business plans involvingCAD/CAM, Robotics, and Rapid Prototyping are presented, analyzed, and discussed. Thestudents learning outcomes and their professional skills are assessed using KEEN-TTI’s surveyof

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

development of the Mini-Math Jam – a shorter, one-weekversion of Math Jam that is offered a week prior to the beginning of the fall semester, and duringthe winter break. Since the initial implementation of Math Jam in summer 2009 the program hasserved over 1000 students, and enrollments in transfer-level STEM courses have increasedsignificantly, with a higher rate of increase among minority students.This paper describes the evolution of Cañada College's Math Jam Program, including challengesencountered and the strategies employed to overcome those challenges. The paper will alsoprovide resources that have been developed at Cañada to assist other institutions in developing asimilar program to improve the participation and success of underprepared

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Anne Beug; Phillip L. Nico

604Platform ChoiceWe chose Arduino as our experimental platform to study becauseof its growing popularity with electronics hobbyists [14] and recentintroduction into embedded systems curricula [11] [14]. We found adearth of research on using Arduino to teach introductoryprogramming education. The Arduino platform consists of a set ofmicrocontrollers, a programming language and an IDE. Allcomponents of the platform are open source. The language isbased on the Wiring and Processing [1] languages that were createdto teach core programming and computing concepts throughelectronics and visual arts respectively. Arduino as a language is Figure 1: Arduino microcontrollersyntactically similar to C and Java

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

continue torevise the curriculum to be more hands-on and industry focused.Members of the Strategic Corporate Alliance Initiative are asked to donate between$5,000 to $25,000 to support and enhance current programs, as well as to help launchnew and innovative programs that will help students succeed in the Engineering,Computer Science, and Technology professions upon graduation. Members will hold aseat on the Dean’s Advisory Board and become a stakeholder in the development of suchprograms.CSULA strives to be recognized as one of the leading universities for providing corporatepartners/investors with their highest return on investment for sponsored projects,research, student programs, and recruiting. In addition to becoming a strategic

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

practices; faculty-focused strategies and practices anddepartment-focused strategies and practices. The College of Engineering and Computer Science(ECS) at CSUF contributed its own practices and findings to the ASEE study, was acknowledgedfor its work and was recognized nationally by the Wal-Mart Semillas grant and Excelencia’sGrowing What Works initiative. This paper examines the causes of poor retention during the firstyear as well as the successful deployment of high impact practices to improve it. The approachtaken by CSUF started with a careful and dispassionate review of student data with the help ofthe Office of Institutional Research and Analytical Studies. This data based inquiry naturally ledto the identification of numerous problems and

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Mohammed Alani; Alaa Ayoob; Jino Raj Xavier; Sameeullah Sharief; Mohammad Amin; Marcos Turquetti; Pradip Peter Dey

unit called‘parent phone’ which is programmed with a software application (Android app). The parentphone stays connected with the sensor unit, called ‘child phone’, to keep tracking the childphone’s location continuously by using SMS.The proposed system utilized the Bluetooth technology to maintain the concavity between twophones to stay in a short range (less than 10 m). A software application based on Javaprogramming was developed and installed on the parent phone to check the connectivity andposition of the child phone regularly. GPS technology was used in this project to check theexact position of the child phone. Once the child phone goes out of range (more than 10 m)then connectivity of this system gets terminated and initiates an alarm

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

selected design concept that incorporates design for manufacturing (DFM) guidelines 3. Conduct relevant failure analyses to ensure reliability, produce an initial prototype using a rapid prototyping machine, and modify the design based on analysis and testing results of the initial prototype Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 56 4. Manufacture a final revised prototype using a CNC milling machineEach student was required to participate in two individual ‘sit-and-spin’ CAD design

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

entrepreneurship,marketing, product design and development. To examine the inclusion ofentrepreneurship training in engineering education, a survey was performed at CaliforniaState University. The sample consisted of 20 respondents. They were engineeringmanagement students at the masters’ level. Through a survey questionnaire, the authorsfound that entrepreneurship training is relevant and available to undergraduate andgraduate engineering students. The entrepreneurship course was beneficial to students,particularly due to the ease of starting a business in the internet age. However, somerespondents cited the need to improve entrepreneurship training at their respectiveschools. Taking this as an initiative, the authors decided to undertake this research

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

cable location andburied plant protection was initially seen as a job that could be given to simple mindedindividuals. Operators quickly realized underground plant location and protection needed a moreprofessional mindset to avoid the costs associated with cable cuts and rework8. In the late 19th century, municipalities started introducing legislation requiring allcommunications infrastructure to be buried underground. The actual underpinnings were more ofa grab for control and revenue by local government rather than an actual desire for changing theaesthetic imprint of telephone and telegraph networks. This can be seen by the variousagreements that municipalities struck with the telephone and telegraph providers at the time. Inmost cases, the

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454 Figure.2 Distance range for different types of cables.III. A Brief History of Fiber Optic CablingComparatively speaking, of the types of telecommunication cabling, fiber optic cable has ahistory of the most disparate contributions. The invention and use of fiber optic cable occurred instages. For example, initial research involved the use of glass tubes for dental and medicalapplications including dental illumination and internal imaging. Clear tongue depressors weredeveloped for dental offices to deliver light into the mouths of patients. Additionally, theinsertion into the body of an optical tube was less invasive than an operation for seeing inside ahuman body. Further research was done throughout the 1930’s on

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Jeffrey Georgette; Brian Self; James Widmann; Kathryn Bohn; Eric Wang

translational inertia. Students often donot understand that bodies have both translational and rotational-kinetic energy. Unfortunately,students bring misconception into the learning environment and these must be worked on, tosucceed in the future. According to the National Research Council, students can “parrot” answerson a test, repeating back phrases from lecture, and conceal their misconceptions, which mayresurface weeks or months later3. These misconceptions must be addressed and corrected.Work has been done in other science disciplines concerning conceptual understanding. In a studyinvolving 6,000 students, Hake4 showed that instruction that involved active learning and thatemphasizing conceptual understanding resulted in much larger conceptual

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Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

, have field experience labs as part of the curriculumthroughout the United States. This is a useful skill for Environmental Engineers going into theconsulting or research industries.Two field sampling experiments were incorporated into an environmental engineering class heldin the Spring 2012 semester. The lecture material discussed different sampling techniques andthe lab portion had the students learn “hands-on” proper sampling methods. The remainder ofthe lab time was spent learning field equipment for water and air quality analysis. A mainlearning objective in the class was for the student to be able to determine the most appropriatesampling technique for a specified situation. To assess student learning a practical exam wastaken by all of

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Vladimir I. Prodanov

to administering the last quiz and the final exam.Table 3 also indentifies four students with unusual access-performance characteristics. The twoindividuals with heavy access but poor (initial) performance would eventually “recover” andachieve course grades of C and B. The course grades of the other two students were B+ and A- .The class average was B-. Table 1 Class Rank based upon Mid Term Exam Top 1/3 Mid 1/3 Bottom 1/3 Rank: Top 1/3 20 9 9 Access to HW Mid 1/3 9 17 12

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

. Many faculty members had littletime to devote to advising and keep up with the number of students enrolled in their courses.Thus the typical faculty member was able to offer only reactive and prescriptive advising3. Thisapproach did not provide students with the individual attention needed to meet their specificneeds, whether it include study skills, curricular advice, career planning or referrals to a studentsupport program. Research by Pardee4 noted that most students expect a prescriptive approach to advising,however, others pointed out that simply advising student to address the current crises is toonarrow a focus and leaves the student vulnerable to future crises5,6. Other studies have shownthat quality advising can improve both

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Bridget Benson; Bryan Mealy

online courses is well-known, the online formathas caught the attention of academic administrators in their effort to offer quality instruction to awider audience in an era of shrinking budgets. The notion of online engineering educationdefinitely raises questions of course quality, but initial research indicates that online educationcan reach its learning objectives as well as or even better than the face-to-face course2.Current Flipped Classroom FormatWe teach our current digital design course, CPE 133, in a flipped classroom format. In a flippedclassroom, students watch video lectures on their own time and spend classroom time solvingvarious ‘homework’ problems. CPE 133 meets in two three-hour blocks each week. Each classmeeting starts with a

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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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Alex Edgcomb; Frank Vahid

been shown by researchers to improve student outcomes inengineering25, math8, and science2. Wood25 built an interactive program for engineeringeducation that allowed a student to manipulate basic engineering math equations representingsignal filters and simultaneously see the affects on many perspectives of the equation. ALEKS8is a web-based interactive software for enhancing college algebra education that significantlyimproved the student exam performance in college algebra courses. Broschat2 developedinteractive software that allowed a student to manipulate electromagnetism equations andvisualize in 3-D the shape of the electromagnetic forces, such as electric potential and themagnitude of the electric potential. Interactive software has

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M. Cardenas

design-build-test project-based engineeringeducational experiences, having at least one car enthusiast has proven invaluable: more time canbe spent on testing and re-designing, rather than getting bogged down in the initial selection ofmeans to satisfy an engineering design function. Also, it seems that the design space can beexpanded; students are aware of more ways to satisfy design functions, and less likely toeliminate potential designs due to ignorance of building techniques. Car-enthusiast skills alsocome in handy during the building process, rather than relying on inexperienced students whomay be picking up tools for the first time. Why the decline in these do-it-yourself-ers? Evidenceshows that fewer Millennials own and drive cars. This

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Alex Dekhtyar; Anya L. Goodman; Aldrin Montana

is performed by teams formed of students from both courses using shared time, space andresources. While not a direct requirement for in-concert teaching, the concept can be aided nicelyby a number of complementary educational techniques, such as  Reverse course design: course development starts with basic concepts instructors are interested in, proceeds with determination of the joint assignments, from which, in turn, the specific theoretical course material and teaching schedules are derived [8,9,10]1.  Inverted classrooms: can be used in either or both courses to drive both discipline- specific and cross-disciplinary learning [11,12]2.  Undergraduate research: joint assignments can be part of an

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

price bids while commercial bids are lump sum.Phase 1 - Project Planning and DesignStudents begin the simulation in Phase 1 by being presented with a list of potential projects toreview. Considering market conditions, student teams proceed by selecting a project to plan andthen designing a project control system for the project. This is accomplished by selectingmethods for each project activity and balancing the schedule and cost considerations. In Phase 1,students compete against their peers as well as the simulation’s virtual companies for award ofthe project. Award of projects is based on the team’s accuracy and proximity to the simulation’sinternal estimate. Teams that are not initially awarded a project for their efforts must continuewith

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

3801 West Temple Ave, Bldg. 17-2353 Pomona, CA 91768 USAAbstractThe use of ARDUINO microprocessors allows for a very top level approach to teachingMechatronics. The focus on this paper is to motivate the use of ARDUINO microcontrollers toteach Mechatronics and Control Systems in Engineering Education. This is not a research paperper say, rather it is a detailed explanation of an example of “hands-on” pedagogy. The goal ofthis paper is to merely share the outcomes of an experiential learning environment with theacademic community. This paper will present the results of using ARDUINO microcontrollerbased projects to teach a senior level Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics/Robotics course.The use of "hands-on