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

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 400in the process. However, the poor performance of the K-12 education system in teaching STEM(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has also been a concern in recent years. Asa result, engineering graduation rates have suffered in the past decades. Thus, the development ofnew generations of engineers remains a challenge in long-term (NAE, 2002) 21. Addressing thischallenge requires development of a solid foundation of engineering literacy throughout gradesK-12.This paper outlines an approach to address this challenge and to generate a more preparedgeneration of engineering

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Tina Smilkstein

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 375building devices based on their knowledge but their EE/CPE knowledge wasn’t in depth enoughto actually bring their ideas to fruition. From there it was a small step to come up with the ideafor an inter/multi- disciplinary course where the students could share their knowledge in order forboth to build something that they couldn’t (easily) build on their own.The course I hijacked was a graduate level course called “Computer Systems”. This may notseem an appropriate class to do interdisciplinary projects in but if you look at the newestdefinitions of a computer system, you’ll see that, now

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

mainstream educational process as a new educative practice. As Eganstated in 2004: “.. the Constructivists adopt a traditional view of knowledge and learning.Instead of distributed knowledge networks, the Constructivist courses (now, generally referred toas MOOCs) are based on a hub and spoke model with the faculty (knowledge) at the center andthe learners replicators of knowledge) as spokes.3 ” However, these diverse Connectivist andConstructivist perspectives can be combined in a hybrid model, CLaaS, which is the premise ofthis paper. The Computer Lab as a Service platform developed by the authors is a tool thatComputer Science instructors, being the focus of this paper, will find useful in their delivery ofboth educational theory and hands-on

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

. Currently,active members of the group consist of five undergraduate students, six graduate students, andfour alumni members who are actively presenting and attending meetings in addition to workingon their own projects.Procedure. An ideal research program for students begins at junior level. At this stage, studentsexplore possibilities in research under supervision of the faculty advisor. They learn keycomponents of research and proposal development through general studies, attendingpresentations, and helping senior students. Junior students meet the faculty advisor once a monthto discuss their research interests as well as academic and career goals. As students makeprogress toward senior status, they begin writing proposals on selected topics

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 393of the two major tasks required to generate desired student learning outcomes is “betteralignment of engineering curricula and the nature of academic experiences with the challengesand opportunities graduates will face in the workplace”. There is a disadvantage in developingabstract exercise problems which are completely relevant to the topic: they represent realsituations only partially. On the other hand, exposing the novices to ill-structured designproblems of real life can cause distress in them. The main objective of PBL in design is tosimulate the real

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Lisa Wang

the senior projects in the area of earthquake engineering arerigorous in the technical contents and that the students demonstrated their knowledge on thedynamic response of structures such as buildings and bridges to dynamic loads. The integrationof such components to structural engineering education promotes students’ interest in the subjectarea and motivates them to stay in the field and earn their BSCE degree.IntroductionThe importance of understanding the effects of earthquakes on structures to the civil engineeringcommunity is apparent. Recent catastrophic earthquakes (such as 2011 Japan Earthquake and1993 Northridge Earthquake) have caused severe damage to buildings, bridges, and cruciallifeline infrastructures. During the Northridge

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

ofappropriate topics, and development of realistic educational objectives to promote cooperation andintegration between students with various backgrounds.Aiming for such a goal, in the spring of 2013, a graduate level course on “pattern recognition” waspiloted in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science department of California State University,Long Beach. The course was offered under the name “CECS 590-Special Topics in Computer Science”and several graduate students from various backgrounds (Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science)were enrolled. Throughout the semester, students learned about different machine learning techniquesand algorithms, and implemented multidisciplinary projects which required the application of thosemethods in order to

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

teaching.At NU, many graduate and undergraduate programs require at least one course in database technologieswhich introduces the concepts of relational database design, and database integration andimplementation into applications. Teaching a database course to students with different majors orspecializations is an especially challenging task. The authors have taught database classes multiple timesusing multimode teaching methods and achieved remarkable responses to the methods as they have liftedstudents to a higher level of comprehension. This paper addresses a number of critical topics and shares Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014

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Hen-Geul Yeh; Duc Tran; Paula Quintana

mostvaluable experiences that I have had during my graduate studies at CSULB. By having theopportunity to participate in the IGESC with a paper, I was motivated to learn about greenenergy applications, challenges and systems; and to integrate my skills in engineering with thenew knowledge acquired to generate innovative ideas. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 467The IGESC experience and observations. The day of the conference I set up a poster for thepaper on “Power Flow Optimization”. My project was about the

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

entrepreneurship education; (2) early childhood entrepreneurship education; and (3)regional economic development. To that end the LCIE operates a plethora of programs creatingvalue in these spaces. The remainder of this section provides a brief overview of domains 2 and 3for context, and then dives in depth into domain 1 as it’s directly related to the topic of thismanuscript. The LCIE operates programs for students in the K-12 education system bothformally as part of their in-class education (via partnership with local schools) and throughextracurricular camps, events, and sessions. Annually, over 1,000 students spanning 20+ schoolsreceive formal entrepreneurship education through LCIE programs. In addition, multiplerevenue-generating summer camps, the

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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

4.75 Your group mates 4.38 Your graduate student mentor 4.88 Your faculty adviser 4.69 The Summer Internship Program as a whole 4.75 Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 338Question: As a result of your participation in the program, how much did you learn about eachof the following? Activity

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

preparing graduates to enter the workforce withthe skills necessary to make immediate contributions. Further, industry reports that students’limited preparation often delays their making contributions to integration, collaboration,productivity, and accuracy, all of which are necessary in the engineering and constructionindustries. Project-based learning, combined with simulations and multidisciplinary learningopportunities, not only significantly enhances the ability of students to successfully enter the Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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................................................................................. 537Integrating STEM into K-6 Teacher Education: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Faculty Collaboration......... 537Drones for Personal and Commercial Use: Implementing a New Design with Zero Emissions......... 538Inspiring the Next Generation of Female Scientists and Engineers .............................................................. 539Using Videos to Enhance Engineering Instruction............................................................................................... 539Faculty Participation in a Learning Community Improves STEM Student Success.................................. 540Training Mathletes Using Countdown Method ................................................................................................... 540WORKSHOP

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Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

to group discussions (both synchronous and asynchronous) and labs into onlinecourses in applied engineering and digital media design at National University.IntroductionThe past decade has witnessed more universities offering online courses and degree programs as bothtraditional and nontraditional students look for flexible undergraduate and graduate education options.Over 62% of US colleges and universities are now offering some sort of online programs with 6.7million students taking online classes in 2011, up from 6.1 million the previous year.1 One sourcepredicts that there will be more full-time online students than the onsite students in the next few years.2Those courses which are not delivered entirely online are still highly likely to

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

in a large publicuniversity in the United States, a general engineering freshman cornerstone design course and asenior Mechanical Engineering design capstone course. These were analyzed throughobservations and other ethnographic methods. The third design setting is professionalengineering companies. This setting was analyzed through the research team’s experiencesworking on design teams for multiple companies. Data suggests that engineering education andindustry organizational contexts constitute processes of design differently. These findingschallenge the typical rhetoric that undergraduate education project courses are intended toprovide students with real-world design experiences.IntroductionEngineering design has been defined as a

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Mary Cardenas

professor per 20 students. While this faculty-studentratio is considerably higher than that of most engineering programs, it is consistent with HarveyMudd College’s approach to undergraduate education. The students are placed in teams of fourstudents, and perform their laboratory work as teams. The laboratory experiments in the coursespan various engineering disciplines. Electrical engineering and electronics is emphasized, sincemodern instrumentation and data acquisition relies heavily on those disciplines. Mechanical andaerospace engineering topics are also fundamental to rocket flight; in particular, fluid mechanicsand trajectory modeling are important. The students are introduced to the National InstrumentsmyDAQ13 data acquisition system, and

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Marissa Buell; Nehad Dababo; Rene Figueroa; Peter Moala; Amelito Enriquez; Kanjun Bai; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen; Kwok-Siong Teh; Hamid Shahnasser; Wenshen Pong; Hao Jiang

getting my B.S. on electrical engineeringand go on to graduate school”. These comments show students are interested in electricalengineering.Summary and ConclusionThe summer internship supported by the NASA CIPAIR program has dramatically improved theunderrepresented minority students’ understanding of the fundamental electrical circuit theory.Students who participated in the program have indicated that the program has not only enhancedtheir circuit knowledge, but also exerted a positive influence in their future STEM learning andpracticing.AcknowledgementThis project is sponsored by NASA Office of Education through the Curriculum ImprovementPartnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR), Grant Number NNX10AU75G.References1. J

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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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David Dillon; Huseyin Sarper P.E.; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

and CO2 (Fig.15). In this demonstration unit, methane was stored in gas phase, but designs are in place toliquefy (and solidify) the CH4 by use of liquid nitrogen (-196°C). Figure 15. Acrylic methane storage tank.Educational ImpactIn this, four-year NASA Space Grant supported multidisciplinary project there were thirteenstudents (4 chemistry majors and 9 engineering majors, including two graduate students)engaged. The project encompassed a number of independent study sub-projects and one senior Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

become harder to implement as funding for higher education has declinedand student costs have increased.In an attempt to decrease the required investment of resources and leverage it for maximumeffect, we have integrated state-of-the-art low cost components into the embedded and digitalsystems design courses at California State University, Chico. We extend the value of thecomponents by selecting those that have multiple uses in many topics, courses, and potential Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 183student

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Kathryn Bohn; Jeff Georgette; Brian Self; James Widmann

station they started at. Overall, the students appear to have gained conceptualunderstanding of the topic as they progressed through the labs. In some cases the students demonstratedimprovement while others have not fully grasped the concepts. When asked how they made theirpredictions, some students replied that they used principles taught in the class to make an educated guesswhile others said that they had played with a gyroscope and knew it would behave that way. For futureactivities, we want to encourage the students to make predictions using conceptual understanding so thatby performing the activity reality will act as the teacher and support the conceptual basis.Worksheet ReviewStudents filled out worksheets in teams for the activity. The