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

Retention Strategies for Engineering and Computer Science High Impact Practices (HIP) during first year in college Raman Unnikrishnan and Victor H. Delgado College of Engineering and Computer Science Hye Sun Moon and Edward Sullivan Office of Institutional Research & Analytical Studies California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 AbstractThe High Tech Education working group of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness(Jobs Council) concluded that an increase in the number of U.S. engineering and computerscience graduates

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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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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

Award, 2005 Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design. He is a technical program committee member of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.6. Cheng Chen joined SFSU in 2009 and he is currently an assistant professor in civil engineering at the School of Engineering at SFSU. He has a strong research background in hybrid simulation and earthquake engineering, and he has published more than twenty technical papers in professional journals and conference proceedings. He has served as faculty advisor for the ASCE SFSU chapter since 2009. He is also

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R. Radharamanan

design, assistive technologies, alternate energytechnologies, and integration of engineering and general education.Mercer Engineering Entrepreneurship Education Program (MEEEP)15The purpose of Mercer University’s School of Engineering is to educate a student who isprepared to be practicing engineer, one who can responsibly contribute to a global society that isbecoming ever more dependent on technology. While the focus of the engineering school is toeducate engineers, its graduates may enter many fields of graduate studies, especially thoserequiring the disciplined problem solving methods developed in the undergraduate curriculum.The engineering graduates have entered professional graduate programs in medicine, law, andbusiness, as well as

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

required to perform testing toevaluate analytical predictions under tight schedules, thus learning to ethically report test results.The goal is for students to assimilate these lessons regarding their professional responsibilities asthey transition from student to practicing engineer.Ethics and ABET CriteriaABET criterion 3f and 3h state that students must have “an understanding of professional andethical responsibility” and “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context”, respectively1.In order to assist students in achieving these outcomes, the faculty teaching Aircraft DetailDesign at ERAU, Prescott campus, have adopted educational practices designed to

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Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

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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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

234Doing presentations is another way for students to actively learn to be better communicators.Groups of graduate students presented their numerical models using MATLAB and MicrosoftExcel for the production of a pharmaceutical-grade drug32. In a biomedical engineering designcourse, groups of students learned professional skills such as effective teamwork andpresentation (to clients) in addition to using technical engineering skills on design problems33. Inan engineering strength of materials class, students viewed lecture content outside of class on-line, so that class time was used for presentations and teamwork to solve complex problems34.Senior DesignActive learning also promotes the deep understanding of engineering and technical