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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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M. Cardenas

The Decline of the Car Enthusiasts: Implications for Undergraduate Engineering Education M. Cardenas Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CaliforniaAbstractHands-on, project-based engineering education is alive and well. However, anecdotal evidenceindicates that we are seeing fewer undergraduate engineering students who arrive on campusalready knowing how to ‘use their hands’—having familiarity with tools and mechanicaldevices, knowing how to connect things, savvy about avoiding leaks in fluid systems, wary ofstripping a screw thread or shearing a bolt head—the kinds of things that an archetypal carenthusiast would have learned in high school. For

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

New Technology and Design Methodology for Micromouse: Challenges and Solutions Ameneh Akbari, Karla Ananias, Jeffery Bouchard, Qian Wang, and George Law Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering California State University, Northridge, CA 91325AbstractThe micromouse project has been integrated in many university curricula internationally. In theproject, the students design and build an autonomous robot which explores and maps a fixed sizemaze, and races to the center of the maze in the shortest time. These mice will compete in IEEEor other engineering society sponsored competitions every year. Normally, the students will usea microcontroller or a microprocessor

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

continue to implement and improve the program andcontribute to the strengthening of the STEM educational pipeline for students fromunderrepresented groups. Additionally, through funding from the US Department of EducationHispanic Serving Institution Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HSI STEM)program, an Evening Math Jam has also been developed for evening students who are unable toattend the day-time Math Jam. It was successfully implemented for the first time in summer2012, with results similar to the day-time program. Other similar intensive programs have alsobeen piloted at Cañada including Word Jam for students preparing to take an English or English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course, and Physics Jam for students preparing to

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

, Thomas M. and Johnston, Hal "Enhancing Construction Management Education though the use of a Virtual Construction Company Simulation System, " The 2nd International Symposium on Engineering Education and Educational Technologies: EEET 2010 in the context of The 3rd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2010, Orlando, FL, July 20109. Lacey Duckworth, Dr. Tulio Sulbaran, Dr. Andrew Strelzoff, Professor Hal Johnston, "Application of a Communication Protocol Methodology to Embed a Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment in Building Industry Game" The 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for

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R. Radharamanan

, professors must become more competent in the use ofacademic technology and also expand their pedagogies to include new and innovativeapproaches to the teaching of entrepreneurship”.Since 2006 KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network) schools are preparing moreentrepreneurial engineers in the United States14. There are more than 20 KEEN schools thatshare the same vision to instill entrepreneurial mindset into engineering undergraduates. MUSE,one of the KEEN schools, has recently established the Mercer Center for Innovation andEntrepreneurship (MCIE) to promote entrepreneurship education at Mercer campus andcollaborate with other KEEN schools in the areas of common interest that include but not limitedto: low cost rapid prototyping, smart product

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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

100kΩ to model SBD.However, their work did not include a wider range of resistance values to better understand theeffects of SBD on the performance of the circuit. As such, they were unable to see the decreasein performance up until the point that hard breakdown (HBD) occurs.Working on latest technology issues is typically an opportunity available only to graduate levelstudents working on related research projects. To address this education gap, using a NASACurriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant, Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

for students and professionals in science andengineering fields 2. In addition, efforts to offer entrepreneurial training as part ofengineering education are evident in formal institutional collaborations such as betweenthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, and joint academicresearch such as the Nottingham Conference held by the University of NottinghamInstitute for Enterprise and Innovation and the US National Academy of Sciences 4.Entrepreneurship and Engineering - How Entrepreneurship is Increasingly Taughtto Engineers: The trend towards the introduction of entrepreneurship courses in engineering andscience began in the 1990s 4. Many engineering colleges in the US have initiatedenterprise programs to

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Kiran George

in the ComputerEngineering program at California State University, Fullerton is used as an example. However,the proposed methodology for instruction development can be applied to other courses inengineering as well. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education  400       +++ (a) Implementation Process1) As and when topics are covered during the course of a semester, the instructor for EGCP 281course assigns a project that involves a literature review on

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Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

collaborations based on technological similarities in a global context, healingcan begin. Despite the ethnic and religious differences, our commonality is the challenge weconfront on diminishing recourses due to rapid population growth globally. Therefore, under theMiddle East Initiative, we have engaged with both Israeli and Saudi Arabia universities in Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 207research collaborations and undergraduate educational programs respectively in partnerships oftraining future

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

batteries to several dc power levels supplyingthe proper power the many chips inside the electronics. In the electrical engineering field, PowerElectronics is an engineering discipline that deals with these types of conversion. Morespecifically, power electronics is enabling technology allowing us to convert energy from ac todc, ac to ac, dc to dc, and dc to ac. Power electronics has become increasingly importantnowadays where billions of kilo-watts of electric power are being re-processed every day toprovide the appropriate type and level of power needed by loads1. Due to the rapid growth inpower electronics technology, there has been an increasing demand from industry for electricalengineers that possess power electronic background. This has been

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. Thispaper will describe the use of Arduino Microcontrollers to teach Mechatronics address thefollowing ASEE-PSW 2013 objectives: multidisciplinary - interdisciplinary projects/classes,experiential learning, project-based learning and innovative pedagogies and uses of current andemerging technologies in the classroom. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 570The Arduino based Mechatronics course taught as ME 499/L at Cal Poly Pomona utilizes acourse project and competition. The equipment used by each

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wireless industry II. Fixed-Lines Safety IssuesUtility poles were first used by Samuel Morse when he discovered that faulty insulation led to afailure in his telegraph. Modern utility poles can be made of wood, metal, concrete, orcomposites like fiberglass and recycled plastics. In all cases utility poles are designed to keepcommunications and electrical conductors elevated from the ground to avoid issues such asgrounding, pedestrians, plants, animals, and malicious acts. Joint use poles are usually owned byone utility, which leases space on it for other cables. In the United States, the National Electrical Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright

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shrinks. With the rapid technology development,globalization, and intensified competition, to make the business transition smooth, there is anurgent need for our engineers, engineering students, and instructors to have direct interactionwith their international counterparts. A direct solution is for us to establish collaboration amongfaculties and students between U.S. and overseas partners.We initiated and established an international collaboration with institution in China. This is oneof the international programs that emphasizes on both research and educational aspects. Thisproject started by the Prof. Jin’s summer visit to Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China in2006 which is supported by Wang Faculty Fellowship at Peking University in

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also been shown to improveeducation with adults. Shaw23 evaluated patient colonoscopy education by the overallcomprehension and satisfaction of the colonoscopy patients, comparing traditional education andtraditional education plus interactive software. Shaw found significant improvements in theoverall comprehension and satisfaction when using interactive software.Interactive web activities have been built to explain STEM-specific concepts, including datastructures7,10,13 and algorithms17 for Computer Science undergraduates. Kloss13 built a tool thatdisplays a binary tree of numbers from which a student can insert a number, delete a number, andsearch for a number. Mukundan17 built an activity that graphically and textually shows thedifference

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increasingly becoming interdependent as companies expand their operations and marketingthroughout the world. In this global corporate environment, technical professionals are requiredto work as part of international teams and devise solutions, which will be implemented acrossnational and cultural boundaries. This new environment requires that engineers understand theimportance of both cultural and gender diversity to be more efficient in solving problems in ourconnected, and technological world. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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current political and social climate relating to last mile broadbandtechnologies. It will explore the physical and reliability characteristics of the different cabletypes. It will review the economics relating to cable types from a service provider and a userperspective. The findings will note there is limited evidence suggesting that copper cables should bephased out as last mile broadband solutions. Costs, technological advances, existinginfrastructure, political climate, and macroeconomics all play a role in determining what cablesbest will serve the needs of the network owners and users. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American

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

surprisingly several remedies also. ECS first-yearretention has improved between 15 and 20% during the past five years. The approaches, analysesand results of the CSUF experience are expected to be useful to all, particularly for institutionswith large populations of first-time college goers or underrepresented minorities.1. BackgroundHigh-Impact Practices are defined as purposeful and effective educational practices whichdeepen student engagement and learning leading to college student success. 39 Through years ofanalyzing student gains Kuh found that students who participate in high-impact educationalpractices have higher student engagement gains than their peers. He recommends that students Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for

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

. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 87 Figure-1a: Mother controls a child with a leash Figure-1b: Easy Tracking InterconnectionIn this project, short range Bluetooth radio channels and GPS technologies were used toconnect two smart phones for tracking their locations within a limited range (see Figure-1b).The functions and operational procedures of Bluetooth and GPS are described in theliteratures1-7. A Bluetooth and GPS enabled Android phone is used as the main

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secondary school district. Using BYOB in the final lab alleviated our mainconcern with Scratch–that it does not have the capability to express functions. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 605Related WorksThere is a diverse and large body of research in the area of computer science education, focusedon primary, secondary and tertiary schools, starting in the 1970's [3]. One common theme inmany papers is the fact that learning and teaching programming is difficult [3][4][5]. Other

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interview findings.Interviews capture rich accounts of individuals’ experiences that can be used to make overallassessments of the program. However, as with all qualitative research, the findings from thisevaluation are not generalizable to a population. These limitations are furthered by an incomplete Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education  75  follow-up set of interviews. Nevertheless, given the consistency between interviews within eachyear and over the four years, evaluation data have achieved

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

paper presents the specific advising programimplemented and how organizational and structural constraints were overcome. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 364Introduction Higher retention rates have been linked to early advising. When students are providedwith the appropriate resources at the university they have a tendency to have a higher level ofsuccess1. As the civil engineering (CE) department at California State Polytechnic UniversityPomona (Cal Poly Pomona) was preparing for

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

prepares students to achieveprofessional success in both theoretical and practical aspects of communication fields. Graduatesare equipped to seek employment in research organizations, computer centers, or wirelesscommunications businesses and enterprises. This program also prepares students for furthereducation in wireless communications enabling graduates to pursue doctoral studies, if theychoose to do so. It is assumed that candidates seeking admission to the program possess abaccalaureate degree in engineering, engineering technology, or physical/computational sciencefrom an accredited university. Projects have been undertaken at NU that read a single channel ofsensor data using Bluetooth into a phone and transferring that information to the

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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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used the built-in “Transient HeatTransfer” module. When this is invoked, the software solves this PDE: Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 503 T  Cp    (kT)  Q Equation 1 twhere Q is a convective heat flow per area term. To model the experiment, we assumedconvective heat transfer from the hot cylinder to the cool room. This was accounted for with thefollowing equation, Q  h (Text  Ts ) Equation

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distance between two bitmaps using the Hausdorff distance, a popular bitmapdistance metric. Having a distance metric for bitmaps allows us to cluster them using the K-Means3 clustering algorithm. This algorithm identifies groupings of bitmaps that are moresimilar with one another than with the bitmaps of other groups. Each of these groups represents adistinct spatial organization type. We then manually examine the pages which comprise eachgrouping, and describe the high-level organizational habits that are present. From these habits,we gain insights into the cognitive processes employed by students as they solve homeworkproblems.Related WorkIn the present research, we apply Educational Data Mining techniques to identify correlations instudents

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includes departments inArchitectural Engineering, Architecture, City & Regional Planning, Construction Managementand Landscape Architecture and can provide students and faculty who are competent in all areasof building design and construction. Students in the School of Education are the optimal meansof introducing technical concepts and practices for the present and future education ofelementary school students.The goals of the Sandcastle Project are to stimulate elementary school students’ creativity and aninterest in building design, engineering and construction and to use real world examples of mathand science to reinforce standard curricula. Teacher candidates from the School of Educationand students from CAED will join elementary school

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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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understanding (g) Make appropriate use of technology (h) Begin with the specific and move to the general Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference  Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education    352Implementing the IBLAA hands-on experiment was used as thevehicle for implementing inquiry-basedlearning in the classroom. Students workedtowards improving their conceptualunderstanding of rolling objects, includingwork-energy and mass moment of inertia.The students rolled objects down an inclinedramp and witnessed the behavior of

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Society for Engineering Education 231a full member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Over half of theundergraduate population (53%) is underrepresented minorities, of which 45% are Latino.CSULA operates on the quarter system with three quarters, each with 10 weeks of instruction, inan academic year: fall (September-December), winter (January-March), spring (March-June).The College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology (ECST) includes theDepartments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, ComputerScience, and Technology.The curricula for the B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering and