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Selyna Perez Beverly

more events like the one hosted through CPP WE. CPP WE also implemented analumnae speaker series, CPP WE Talks, to increase positive connections with alumnae and industrypartners. One of the factors found to cause attrition in scientific disciplines among women arestereotypes of women pursuing scientific careers14. Through the CPP WE Talks, students are able toview alumnae as positive role models for their own career pursuits. The following learning outcomeswere developed for the program.• Students will identify at least one way to overcome a challenge in the workplace related to being a female engineer.• Students will describe at least one way they can be academically successful in the College of Engineering.• Students will

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

. Similar to Algebra, for example, where concept of variables in algebraic expressionstakes some exposure time to get familiar to most 5-7th grade students, concept of variables inprogramming language also takes some time to become familiar and comfortable to collegestudents. Moreover, to develop computational thinking for programming in addition to learningcore concepts (variables, data types, conditional statements, etc.), students, whether young or not,usually need to go through many exercises and, to some degree, repetitive practice. To shortenthe learning curve and to make the iterative learning process entertaining while increasing Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

Agreement for academicexchange a few years ago which was renewed in 2013. One faculty exchange that occurredrecently was a faculty from the electrical engineering department at Polinema visiting Cal Polythrough the SAME program to conduct collaborative work with her counterpart in the electricalengineering department at Cal Poly. This paper describes the experience observed from thisexchange activity focusing more on lessons learned to enhance students’ success. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 310Research

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Lisa Wang

train a new generation of civil engineers that possesses understanding of seismic engineeringwho are qualified in design of new buildings and retrofit of the existing structures. Wang5 usedshake table to help students better understand the structural dynamic behavior in earthquakeengineering and emphasized the importance of using models in teaching structural dynamics.The reality is that, in California most of the civil engineering programs in California stateuniversities (also some of the UCs) don't yet offer any course in Earthquake Engineering forundergraduate students. In a civil engineering curriculum the structural dynamics course is thefirst opportunity for the students to be exposed to earthquake engineering subjects. Sinceundergraduate

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

of 20209, it has been noted that “the engineeringgraduates should possess strong analytical skills, exhibit practical ingenuity, be creative, havegood communication skills, be mastered in the principles of business and management,understand the principles of leadership, have a strong sense of professionalism and ethicalstandards, and be lifelong learners.”In recent years, many engineering programs have incorporated entrepreneurship as an integralcomponent of their curricula. This paper presents an overview of the development ofentrepreneurial activities within the Lyles College of Engineering (LCOE), in collaboration withthe Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LCIE), at California State University,Fresno (‘Fresno State’). The

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

helpthem, due to the overall increase of students enrolled in engineering programs. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 236In professional engineering firms, the location of the design has the potential to rarely change.Employees have desks that are assigned to them and whole areas that can be designated for aproject. Many team members sit in the same general area at work, thus making it much morelikely for members to run into each other with the ability to have short conversations relating totheir projects. Also

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

second week of thesemester. These serve as baseline information with regards to engineering literacy prior to takingthe engineering literacy course. A follow-up measure of the tagging of the movie clip wasadministered the third week of the semester in the engineering literacy course. A different clipfrom the initial documentary related to humanity was shown to students. This measure wasadministered the week immediately following the first lecture. The content of the lecture was thehistory of engineering, engineering philosophy, and engineering judgment. Homeworkperformed during the week following the first lecture consisted of viewing an episode of atelevision program that is directly related to technology and engineering. Students were asked to

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Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

486 LEGO Mindstorms: EV3 versus NXT 2.0 A Laboratory Study in an Introduction to Engineering Course Ding Yuan, Nebojsa Jaksic, and Jude DePalma Colorado State University, PuebloAbstractThe LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable robotics kit has been a successful tool for enrichingK-12 math and science education and for improving recruitment and retention in college-levelengineering programs since it was released in late July 2006. Many educational research papershave shown positive results from integrating the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kits intoappropriate

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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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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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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

388Application of Project-Based Learning (PBL) Method in a Senior Year Engineering Design Course Moe Tajvidi Utah State UniversityAbstractIn this paper, application of project based learning (PBL) methodology in teaching civilengineering courses is investigated. Project-based learning method, although closely related toproblem-based learning, has significant points of difference. While the latter addressesintroducing real life mainly ill-structured problems to students as a learning resource, the formeris known more in the

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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

science and other general education courses, thus, very littleexposure to engineering. Students are dissatisfied with the teaching and advising within theengineering disciplines. Also, the curricula may be too restrictive. Attrition is typically higheramong women and minorities.Fresno State, designated as Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), faces similar challenges. Firsttime/full time freshmen 4-year graduation rate is 14%, 6-year graduation rate is 49%,respectively. Lyles College of Engineering has launched a number of initiatives in relation tostudent success to improve retention. These entail summer enrichment workshops, articulationswith community colleges, academic success workshops, intrusive academic advising for studentsthat are

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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

others. 3.75 I am satisfied with the NASA CIPAIR Internship Program. 4.81 I would recommend this internship program to a friend. 4.88When asked the question "what do you like most about the NASA CIPAIR Internship Program?'Typical response from the civil engineering group students are: "The subject was veryinteresting. It was a very real world experience of working in a team, meeting deadlines, and nothaving control over the quality of the deliverables. It was a new experience because I have neverworked on something related with my major. It was good because I learned a lot of thing frommy other coworkers; I like the opportunity that

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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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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

) and Engineering Technology (ETAC). Each commissioncovers a specific sector of the technical disciplines and is responsible for policies, proceduresand criteria that apply to that discipline. Commission members make final decisions about allprogram accreditation actions. The CSAC has two types of criteria, the “general criteria” and“program criteria” that is specific to a particular degree program. The eight general criterionsaddress requirements related to a) Student, b) Program Educational Objectives, c) StudentOutcomes, d) Continuous Improvement, e) Curriculum, f) Faculty, g) Facilities and h)Institutional Support. The program specific criteria address a) student outcomes, b) the overallcurriculum and c) faculty profile. Among the CSAC

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

with a RehabilitationEngineering Research Center on Children with Orthopedic Disabilities at the Rancho LosAmigos Rehabilitation Engineering Program. The programs evolved from an early effort calledAssistive Device Venture that was created in 1995 by the first author, then Technical Director ofthe Rancho Rehabilitation Engineering Program, to involve youth from Rancho Los AmigosMedical Center injured in gang-related violence in a Rehabilitation Engineering DesignExperience. The concept was that some of these young men and women might be inspired by aconstructive, real-world challenge to develop technology for someone with even greater physicalchallenges than themselves. Assistive Design Venture comprised a team of six students recruitedfrom a

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 149The majority of students reported that they did not possess any prior research experience(78.9%). However, some students reported possessing a prior research experience in the summer(15.8%), and prior research experience in the summer (15.8%), and prior research experiencethroughout one academic semester (5.3%). At pre-program, students reported their future plansthat involved post-undergraduate education in a science-related field. Almost all studentsreported plans for pursuing post-graduate education (94.4%). Specifically, 55.6% reportedmaster degree, 33.3% reported doctoral

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Sukhmander Singh

involvementof constituents and the gathering of assessment data from employers may fall short of theirintended purposes. Confidence in assessment finding can be improved by minimizing thoselimitations. This would require careful formulation of the survey assessment tools. Analysis ofthe data gathered and the feedback for improvement of the program should be based on the datathat is first checked for it representativeness before an analysis is undertaken.On technical versus awareness skills. Per Criteria 3 of EC2000 there are eleven students learningattributes. There is no mention of any relative importance each carry. For example, attributes a–eand k relate to the heart of engineering in which students should be well-grounded, and should,in the

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

, but also the other students in their mentor group.There are times that we bring all of our scholars together for programs. For the second year wehave coordinated a Leadership Breakfast series that was first developed with our scholars as ourtarget audience (and has since expanded to a program for a broader set of student leaders in theCollege). These breakfasts bring together 3-4 industry professionals who serve on a panel with40-50 students in attendance. After an informal breakfast of conversation, the panel shares theirperspective on various aspects of leadership as they relate to engineering and technology. Themorning ends with additional time for networking and one-on-one or small group conversation.During the year we provide additional

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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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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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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

© 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 92methods to engage and excel underrepresented minority students in the STEM field in the 2012PCAST report3. To facilitate community college students’ learning the basics of electrical circuit,especially those from underrepresented minority groups, Cañada College, a Hispanic servingcommunity college, joined forces with San Francisco State University, a four-year university, tocreate an internship program that provides opportunities for underrepresented minority studentsto carry out circuit related projects. Supported by NASA 2013 CIPAIR program, four studentsjoined the Electrical Engineering

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

graduate studies. Thus, learning objectives should always addressboth areas with a strong emphasis on common fields, such as applied research. Experientiallearning has the capacity to include various program-level outcomes, such as technicalknowledge, communication and teamwork. Development of a research and practice groupfacilitates these outcomes by creating an environment to share the learning experience. Such agroup should replicate the working environment of civil engineers by incorporatingmultidisciplinary projects and diverse individuals, including cross-generational members. As acase study, this work examines a Research and Practice Group at California State UniversityFresno. This group consists of junior and senior undergraduates

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

examples. AWS Elastic Beanstock and Google App Engine are others. For SaaSGoogle Apps, Microsoft Office 365 and Visual Studio 2012 are examples20.Database. The relational database management system used in the project. MySQL and SQLServer are examples. Blobs are very large (Giga bytes) unstructured data such as videos. 3NFdenotes the database normalized to third normal form and the number of tables that were used inthe project.Tools, Programming Language and O/S, Operating System. Students used largely open-sourceresources as tools and languages that were free and that they had experience using. Among toolsthe following are listed: 1) O/S and web stacks such as Instant Rails, WAMPP and LAMP13,14.These facilitate the production of an operating web

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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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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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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

space.Shake-table tests allow researchers to simulate an earthquake on an entire scaled building. Thesetests require a large laboratory, very expensive equipment, and the cost to replace the yieldedmembers of the structure in between simulations could be prehibitive. Real-time hybridsimulation (RTHS) is an efficient alternative to the shake table test. Instead of testing an entirestructure in the laboratory, RTHS divides the structure into experimental and analyticalsubstructures. The experimental substructures are physically tested in the laboratory while theanalytical substructures are modeled numerically in computer programs. Figure 1 presents thegeneral concept of RTHS in relation to a full scale test. Proceedings of the 2014 American

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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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Loukas Lazos; Elmer Grubbs

lab, students submit their weekly homework assignment on theDesireToLearn (D2L) online submission system. Weekly homework consists of one to threeprogramming problems related to the main lecture material and a series of multiple-choice,true/false, and short “human-compiled” code questions taken from the online interactive coursetextbook. In the lab, each individual student is graded by a ULA for a period of 15 minutes onhis prior HW submission. Grading is based on a rubric designed to test a) the completeness,correctness, and code efficiency and b) the student’s conceptual understanding on the code thathe/she developed and related software engineering concepts. The lab also consists of one or twoadditional programming assignments, which must

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

, debugging, or alternative implementationcapabilities, all with a small investment per course.A graduated introduction and consistent use of tools and components also allows students todevelop a mastery of the technology. Students graduating from the program would be morecomfortable moving quickly into industry and becoming immediately effective. Similarly,consistent components enables students to develop a mastery of the architectures andtechnologies in use and, with the support of a solid theoretical background, prepares them toleverage their knowledge to use related technologies. The remainder of this paper presents ourguidelines on component selection, along with an example of the components used in ourprogram, and explains how the use of these