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Selyna Perez Beverly

scale events focused onoutreach to females in the community. The CPP WE Ambassadors also assist with any communitybuilding events that are hosted throughout the academic year and are asked to be representatives of theprogram at events hosted for the current students in the College of Engineering. The college focuses onintegrating female first year freshmen at the beginning of the academic year. Female first year freshmenare invited to attend a lunch during the first week of school to welcome them to the College ofEngineering community. A select number of current female students in leadership positions are invitedto serve as guides, resources, and mentors to the new females. Female faculty and staff are also invitedto welcome the new students

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

, American Society for Engineering Education 501for natural resources, growing concern for biodiversity, etc. For the future engineering graduatesto successfully compete in the aforementioned challenging work environments, “they must havea world-class education, be equipped with the latest technical knowledge and tools, and haveadequate understanding of the social, economic, and political issues that affect their work,”confer Katehi et al.5In response to the aforementioned challenges, Luryi, et al.6 suggest: “We believe one of the mostpowerful answers is entrepreneurship.” According to Tryggvason and Apelian7, anentrepreneurial engineer of the 21st

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Mary Cardenas

electronic medium. Faculty experiences with the managementand grading of the student laboratory notebooks is discussed. This includes storage and access oflaboratory notebooks, as well as issues of grading and release of scores to the students. Facultyand grader access was improved when using the electronic system, but there was significantannoyance and resistance due to the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the learning managementplatform, as compared to the simplicity of paper laboratory notebooks.BackgroundThe Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) is defined as a computer-based solution for creating,storing, retrieving, and sharing electronic files. Electronic records such as ELNs are nowconsidered equivalent to paper-bound records, in terms of

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Hen-Geul Yeh; Duc Tran; Paula Quintana

465 Green Energy Conference Experience – Integration of Class Room Research Projects to IEEE Professional Presentation Hen-Geul Yeh, Duc Tran, and Paula Quintana California State University, Long BeachAbstractGreen Energy is a typical multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary topic for researchers,practitioners, faculty and students. In general, energy generated from the combustion of a limitedsupply of fossil fuels presents environmental concerns. Renewable energy, such as solar andwind, dramatically lowers CO2 pollution emissions, reduces environmental health risks

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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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Edward Smaglik; Terry Baxter; John Tingerthal P.E.; Chun-Hsing Ho; Mark Lamer

scheduled to meet twice weekly for a total of 200 minutes, while the othermet three times weekly for a total of 150 minutes. The blended course redesign effort includedrevising the weekly schedule so that it now consists of 75 minutes for faculty-led lecture that isthen succeeded by an optional 75 minute session facilitated by a student lab aide. The lecture ispreceded by the students completing tutorials, practice assignments and an assessment within anon-line learning center that intends to prepare them for the module topic before they attend thelecture. This paper discusses the details that led to the decision to redesign these courses, anddescribes the various issues that have been encountered during the inaugural delivery of thesecourses. The

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

participation and growthMore than 750 college students, primarily from minority and traditionally under-representedbackgrounds, have to date participated in the HERE Program, and over 500 middle and highschool students have been engaged in the HERO Outreach Program. Program staff andstudents, as well as faculty and staff from the Orthopedic Hospital, the UCEDD, and theUniversity, note that students have benefited greatly from active exposure to new areas of Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 195engineering endeavors. For

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Shadnaz Asgari; Burkhard Englert

fastest growing multidisciplinary fieldsat the intersection of computer science and mathematics, and concerns the construction and study ofsystems that can learn from data. A core objective of a learner is to generalize knowledge gained fromthe experience8. Generalization in this context is the ability of a learning machine to perform correctlyon new, unseen data samples or tasks9. For example, a pattern recognition system could be trained onemail messages to learn distinguishing between spam and non-spam messages. After learning, it canthen be used to classify new email messages into spam and non-spam folders10. Pattern Recognition hasa broad range of applications spanning from computational neuroscience and medical diagnosis to stockmarket

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

asin the instance of Scubamob by using Google Maps and GPS technology to identify a divelocation is absolute fun. When learning is fun knowledge retention only increases.Recommendations for Future ResearchEach new class of DAT 605 WCC offers new opportunities as the options are truly limitless.Project 5 suggests learning to remotely control a VM from a smartphone. Controlling a devicesuch as a Raspberry Pi processor running Kali Linux with its penetration testing tools from asmartphone through the cloud is a challenging, yet doable prospect.AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful to the National University administration, staff and faculty for providingsupport for the VEL virtual laboratory. As a group of SOEC faculty, the authors experience

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

task. It isnecessary for faculty in schools of engineering to collaborate with teacher education faculty, inorder to provide the subject area expertise that can result in the development of pedagogicalcontent knowledge (Shulman, 1986) relevant to engineering. The unique course described in thispaper serves as the beginning, not the end of such a collaboration. Continued work to refine thecourse, based on meaningful inquiry into preservice teacher learning of engineering conceptscoupled with active learning pedagogy, will help to realize the vision called for in the PCASTreport.Bibliography1. AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). 2000. Designs for Science Literacy. New York: Oxford University Press.2. ABET

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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

, offering remedial classes online. For these reasons, we'vefocused on the inverted model, augmenting it to modestly increase availability and thusthroughput for selected classes, while carefully maintaining instructional quality and individualstudent attention and interaction. Specifically, our augmented version of inverted instructionallows our faculty to roughly double the number of sections they can teach of a particular class inan academic quarter. We hope that augmented inverted instruction might provide a measured andconstructive response to the call for greater efficiency and cost reduction in higher education. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014