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Nebojsa Jaksic

discarded,and some presented to the University administration as action items.Introduction and Previous WorkWhile talking about clean energy President Obama stated in his weekly address on October 2nd2010 that “Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21stcentury take root here in America.1” The innovation productivity and quality must increase to stopthe country's technological and manufacturing decline. While most engineering programs producesolid problem solvers, this may not be sufficient. The education of engineers must also enhancetheir inventive and entrepreneurial skills by including topics on innovation methods, disruptivetechnologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, etc. Engineering design

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Carlye Lauff; Joanna Weilder-Lewis; Kevin O'Connor; Daria Kotys-Schwartz; Mark Rentschler

all engineering majors require a capstone design course at all.Capstone Design Course. The second undergraduate course observed in this study was acapstone engineering design course for Mechanical Engineering seniors. There are several pre-requisites for this course, including much of the technical coursework taken during thesophomore and junior years: therefore, this course is usually taken during a student’s last year inthe program. All Mechanical Engineering students are required to take this two-semester, six-credit total course in order to graduate. There are 165 students in this class, which breaks downinto 28 different teams with six people on each team. Each person on the team decides on a “leadposition” that they will take-on for the

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Selyna Perez Beverly

the Maximizing Engineering Potential Program Academic Excellence Workshops, and connect them to improving success in the College of Engineering. Students will identify important requirements and tests necessary for the College of Engineering, such as the Math Diagnostic Placement Test. Students will interpret assist.org to discover what courses transferable from community college to CPP. Students will be able to locate petitions on the registrar’s website. Students will recognize the importance of time management and visiting professor’s office hours Students will be able to identify which courses to take in the consecutive quarter. Students will locate the AP and IB

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

understanding. These cycles occur in three main phases: 1) project/problem launch, 2)guided inquiry and product/solution creation, and 3) project/problem conclusion. In a studyevaluating PBL application in an undergraduate program, it was found that the students enjoyedthe course offering with PBL and demonstrated deeper understanding of the requiredknowledge15.Practical ExampleThe course in which PBL was incorporated has been “foundation design”, a senior year course,taught in all civil engineering programs with different titles and mainly the same content. Theprimary goal of this course is to give the students the ability to design foundations for structures.The course was held taught in spring 2011. As an undergraduate course, the course

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Ilmi Yoon; Eun-Young Kang; Oh-Young Kwon

Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 473MMORPG game, “DeBugger” was designed and developed to make use of these findings toassist Introductory Computer Science course. In the game, players engage in fighting with bugs,defeat them by solving programming problems, keep track of their scores, manage theircharacters, and interact with other players to build relationships. Also, the game enables theinstructor to create a virtual community (virtual lab) where students can meet each other and playcollaboratively or competitively via educational game challenges. Mobile DeBugger game

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Samuel Landsberger; Artin Davidian; Juan Garibay; Richard Valenzuela; Barbara Wheeler

194 Hands, Mind and Hearts-on Design Experiences Samuel Landsberger, Artin Davidian, Juan Garibay, Richard Valenzuela, and Barbara Wheeler California State University, Los Angeles/ University of Southern CaliforniaAbstractThis paper presents an innovative duet of programs called HERE and HERO to introducestudents from traditionally disadvantaged backgrounds, students with disabilities, and women– groups under-represented in science and engineering - to problem-solving, socialengagement, and the field of Rehabilitation Engineering. It is the author’s experience thatstudents from all backgrounds, but particularly

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John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

InteractionsThe Integrated Engineering (IE) Program at SUU has, since its origin in 2005, included project-based, cross disciplinary, experiential learning combing elements of Electrical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering in the integrated curriculum. All IE students arerequired to complete two one-semester design courses during their junior year, plus two,advanced, one-semester courses focused on the design and implementation of a capstone projectduring their senior year. Students often develop capstone projects for regional private and publicsector organizations as well as within the university. Southern Utah University has recentlyincreased its emphasis on experiential learning on a university-wide basis. According to

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Tina Smilkstein

374 A Graduate/Senior Level Interdisciplinary Medical Technology Design Class Tina Smilkstein California State Polytechnic University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThis paper is a report on an interdisciplinary graduate/senior level medical technology designclass offered through the electrical engineering department at California Polytechnic StateUniversity at San Luis Obispo Spring 2013. Participating students were from electricalengineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, psychology and computer science.The course had a major project component where student self

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Agustin Robles; David Alvarez; Jasmine Flores; Cham Htun; Cheng Chen; James Enright; Amelito Enrique; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

,MathCAD and SAP2000 were used by the students to achieve an economical and efficientstructural design. This research internship program allows for the development of projectmanagement, time management and teamwork skills, thus helping strengthen students’knowledge of seismic design in civil engineering and prepare them for successful academic andprofessional careers. The internship program therefore provides valuable mentorship forcommunity college students during their transition to a four-year college and their decision topursue a civil engineering profession.IntroductionRecent earthquakes in California and Japan have caused significant impact on human society (20killed, $20B in direct losses during the 1994Northridge earthquake, and 5500

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

boards may have topurchase several per student to support all of the courses and projects the student willencounter. Additionally, since add-on boards come pre-assembled and designed to minimizeinterfacing issues, they do not provide students with many opportunities for designing andbuilding their own system, experiencing signal interface issues (proper grounding, voltagelevels, current capacities), or the circuit debugging that comes along with implementing acomplex system.Breadboards provide a method for quick connection of system components and are widelyused in engineering programs, but have several disadvantages for larger systems. Many of thedevelopment boards available use double row header pins, making bread boards untenable.Additionally

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Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

thisthree-course sequence. It is recommended by the authors that engineering programs adopt some scaleof practical, research and project-based program and evaluate the progress and student successcompared to a more purely theoretical approach. Increased student enrollments, retention, and jobplacement have, and may continue to be a result.Bibliography1. Ashworth, J. C., Shaghoury, S. (2013). Practical Lecture, Research, and Projects Based Engineering Education. ASEE, 2013.2. Raymer, D. P. (1999). Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach (3rd ed.). Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.3. Yechout, T. R. (2003). Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics. Reston, VA, USA: AIAA.4. Nicolai, L. M., & Carichner

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Shervin Zoghi; Eric Liguori; Manoochehr Zoghi; Fariborz Tehrani; The Nguyen

which generated “high-tech” jobs. In responseto similar preceding indicators, the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hasdeveloped the hatchery program to promote student-based ventures. Utilizing resources such asmentors, smart classrooms, and technology, hatchery students are able to learn aboutentrepreneurship through experiential methods. They have partners, clients, employees, anddeadlines, allowing them to hone their soft skills and business acumen in a semi-controlledenvironment. Engineering and construction management students benefit tremendously fromthese programs, designed to enhance their managerial and innovative skills. Furthermore, thenewly formed International Organization for Developmental Entrepreneurship’s

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Fariborz Tehrani; Nell Papavasiliou; Frederick Nelson; Carol Bohlin; Mara Brady

on the identification, formulation, and solution of engineering problems. (9) Understand the need for teachers to engage in life-long learning to further their education in engineering literacy. (10) Know how to access and use a variety of engineering information sources. (11) Develop solutions to well-defined project management problems.Other relevant engineering outcomes (Table 3) include the ability to design, plan, and managecreative endeavors with respect to principles of context-sensitive solutions. These outcomes werederived from characteristics and criteria of engineering programs at the time of coursedevelopment. Further, these outcomes are revised to shift the focus from application ofmathematics and science to the

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Mary Cardenas

and storage ofpotentially large data files (including newer types of electronic files, such as video); andincreased accessibility and collaborative functions. A number of different software solutions areavailable, usually grouped by technical field and potential application of the work. In this paper,literature on Electronic Laboratory Notebooks is summarized, with a particular focus onapplications to undergraduate laboratory work. An ELN system consisted of a learningmanagement platform (Sakai) and typical word processing and spreadsheet-based programs hasbeen adopted at Harvey Mudd College for use in a sophomore-level experimental engineeringcourse. The ELN system and the experimental engineering course are described in detail

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Nancy Warter-Perez; Sevak Ghazaryan; Jerardo Martin

443 Carbon Nanotube Composites: Using an Authentic Engineering Research Problem to Engage Middle School Students in STEM Nancy Warter-Perez, Sevak Ghazaryan, and Jerardo Martin California State University, Los Angeles/ Stevenson Middle SchoolAbstractSince 2008, the IMPACT LA NSF GK-12 Program (Improving Minority Partnerships throughCISE (Computer, Information Science & Engineering)-related Teaching) has been partneringgraduate teaching fellows with middle and high school science and math teachers within the EastLos Angeles area. The Cal State L.A. graduate fellows serve as visiting

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

College of Engineering has developed an intrusive academic advising process for at-risk students. At-risk students in the Lyles College of Engineering are students that have a termgrade point average of 2.03 or lower. Students that fall within the at-risk category are required tocomplete a four-step process that is designed to help them get back in good academic standing.There are four steps that each LCOE at-risk student must follow:1. Obtain an academic tracking card that requires signatures from the workshop facilitator, pathways director and faculty advisor;2. Attend an academic success workshop and have the card signed by the workshop facilitator;3. Meet with and obtain advising from the Pathways: Student Services program as well as

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Debra Larson

. Three questions focused on the evidence usedto support the evaluation of performance for teaching and research, one question on the meta-goals of the RPT process, another on the role of faculty consulting in RPT, and a generalcomment section. The dean’s survey included college-level questions to learn if Boyer’s fourtypes of scholarship were valued along with information on teaching workload and RPT revisionactivities. The faculty survey included additional questions about private consulting.Seventeen of the twenty-three Cal State system universities offer engineering with full and part-time undergraduate enrollment ranging - in the fall of 2012 - from a high of 5062 at Cal PolySLO to a low of 120 at CSU-Bakersfield. The deans of such programs

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Bhaskar Sinha; Pradip Dey; Gordon Romney; Mohammad Amin; Debra Bowen

service to the community, improving student learning, and at the same time,meeting all required learning outcomes of the academic program.IntroductionPrograms at National University (NU) School of Engineering and Computing (SOEC) areprofessional degrees that integrate communication methods, problem solving skills, simulationtechniques and mathematical fundamentals with hands-on experiences required to solve real-world industry problems1,2. They are designed for professionals and managers to promote thelearning and application of skills in their respective fields, and use curriculums that emphasizemultidisciplinary knowledge. These programs combine theory, lectures, hands-on work, projects,research papers and presentations. They also require

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

students. Apartnership built through the use COINS seeks to educate civil and construction engineeringstudents at the lower division and to introduce students to core engineering fundamentals thatform a basis for the knowledge on which they can build in upper division courses and at the sametime increase interest and excitement about engineering by incorporating project-based learningearly in the curriculum. The benefits for students include better preparation of students, asdemonstrated by increasing deeper understanding of project controls and constructability issues,for upper division coursework by implementing project planning and control systemsengineering design and implementation, realize an increase of 25% in the retention of studentswho

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

existing programming in otheracademic and student services divisions so that we are not squandering resources to duplicatewhat already is happening on campus. We refer students to the multitude of resources on campussuch as the Counseling Center, Peer Connections (a tutoring and supplemental instructionresource), and Writing Center.Gaining Additional Financial SupportHaving such a robust and well-managed scholarship program has allowed us to leverageadditional support from a range of donors including corporate, individual donors, and familyfoundations. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, SJSU and the College of Engineering havebeen fortunate to receive support from industry. We have designed the program so that insteadof a company being matched

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

and well-situated to contribute to the workforce and to stimulate the country’s economic growth.Polytechnic institutions are offering professional, career-focused programs in the arts, social andrelated behavioral sciences, engineering, education, natural sciences and technology that engagestudents in active, applied learning. Their curriculum is designed with the foundation of blendingtheory with practice to solve real world problems for the benefit of society. This in turn givesunique opportunities for students to understand how learning connects to careers or to solvingreal-world problems which are considered important to the cultivation of applied skills needed inthe workplace1. As a result, employment prospects for graduates from

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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

session for ourstudents. The object is to have either graduate students or our adjunct to be available to helpstudents in lower level CS classes.ConclusionThis paper provides a summary of approaches adopted by SETM from the design, developmentand implementation of assessment plans for its CS degree program to prepare the program forthe ABET CS accreditation. Steps taken to make the program compliant with ABET criteria arepresented and some factures to enhance the online program are discussed.Bibliography1. Uhlig, R., and Viswanathan, S. (2006). Effective design, instruction and assessment of an on-line engineering course. Presented at the ASEE Mid – Atlantic Conference.(28-29) New York City, New York.2. Koile, K. and Singer, D. (2006

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student outreach, recruitment, retention, and strategies that aim to increase graduation rates andreduce achievement gaps for women, under-represented minority students, and students from under-resourced communities.About ASEE Zone IV: Founded in 1893, ASEE is a non-profit multidisciplinary organization that promotesexcellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice to further engineering and technologyeducation. Zone IV, the largest of ASEE's regional groups, includes three sections: Pacific Southwest (Arizona,California, Hawaii, and Nevada), Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, andCanada-Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan), and Rocky Mountain (Colorado, South Dakota, Utah,and Wyoming).Program

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

one or two semesters with possibility of extending theproject in multiple years. Limiting each phase to one or two semesters gives students anopportunity to present their work, obtain feedback, and gain sense of accomplishment at leastonce a year. This aspect of the program was designed to motivate students to continue workingon more long-term research programs.Deliverables. Common deliverables for research projects include multiple written and oralpresentations. Written reports include project proposals, progress reports, final project reports,and articles or technical papers appropriate for engineering magazines and journals. Poster, slide,and conference presentations are also part of project deliverables. Participation in

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

towards acommon goal, has become an industry trend1 . This recently adopted trajectory accurately reflects therealities of the twenty-first-century: any sustainable solution to the problems humanity is currentlyfacing requires an integrated and interactive mix of sciences, engineering, social sciences, andhumanities2. As a result, modern education needs to prepare future scientists and engineers to not onlyexplore the boundaries within their own disciplines, but to also understand the basics of other fields.The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledges the importance ofmultidisciplinary education and explicitly supports it3. In fact, the 2013-2014 criteria for accreditingEngineering programs requires the programs to

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

in active projects in their major,providing mentorship from faculty, and enhancing their professional development by offeringspecific workshops targeted toward their research experience and to facilitate their transitioninto an existing minority program or internship. Specific objectives of the program are toincrease: Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 1421. Each student’s ability to apply content and skills learned in the classroom to research2. Their understanding of the research process3. The

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Mohammad Amin; Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Bhaskar Sinha; Debra Bowen

withall these diverse, critical areas. “Big Data” requirements and cloud technologies are challengingtraditional database techniques, and, yet, formal database techniques remain fundamental in resolvingthe challenges. Database management, by its own nature, is considered a multidisciplinary subject. It isnot surprising that this topic remains among the most sought-after and popular subjects taken bystudents in engineering, science, business and technology disciplines. At most universities, bothtechnical and non-technical graduate and undergraduate programs require at least one database course.Usually, such a course introduces the concepts of relational database design, modeling, implementationand administration. Teaching a database course to

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

have to manage themmanually. Example PaaSs are AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google App Engine, and WindowsAzure Compute.SaaS. Software-as-a-Service. With the SaaS model, the CSP installs and operates theapplication software and cloud users access the software from cloud clients. Cloud users donot manage the cloud infrastructure and platform on which the application is running.Example SaaSs are Google Apps, and Microsoft Office 365.The first task for the DAT 605 WCC student was to evaluate and compare CSPs as shown inone response given in Table 1, “Comparison of Cloud Service Providers”18. Such a comparisonfacilitates the matching of student programming skills to the services provided by CSPs and theselection of the CSP that will provide the needed

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

dissemination of an Embedded System Course through activeparticipation of students in the virtual environment.The VLES has been designed to deliver technical instruction and course materials in embeddedsystem design course through audio-video based distance learning. The supporting distancelearning curriculum and laboratory modules, using modular instructional materials along withVLES training, will be presented. The curriculum has been tested through summer workshopswhich demonstrated that VLES can be used for real-time teaching and learning hands-ontechnical subjects. A curriculum focusing on embedded system programming and utilizing thedeveloped training system, with lessons focused on Assembly Programming with peripheralsinterfacing modules, will

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

resources and information.Firewall: A hardware or software system designed to prevent unauthorized access to an infrastructure.Golden image: A deployed ‘iso’ image of a virtual machine ready for use and lab exercise.Hypervisor: Computer software or hardware that manages and executes virtual machines. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 90Infrastructure: Physical computing hardware and resources that are part of a network, a cloud or the internet.Private cloud: A cloud that is private to an