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Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

, andsystems; and (3) have an understanding of the significance and strategic impact of research andtechnological development on society.12 It is beyond the scope of this manuscript to presentdetails of curricula innovation for the aforementioned programs in LCOE. Specifics of curricularevisions aligned with CDIO initiative can be found in Sanchez et al.13 and Zoghi et al.14Another feature of LCOE that has improved the student success is in relation to the supplementalinstruction (SI) for several courses. The basis of SI is to supplement existing lecture series by theinstructor with additional SI-led sessions, typically by a senior student in an interactive recitationvenue. The SI leader works closely with the course instructor and is a facilitator

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Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 54The initial course in the sequence is titled Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance (AE 395N). Thiscourse applies research and project-based techniques from numerous sources to validate practicalsolution methods and compare results with published data for existing aircraft. The second and thirdcourses in the series are the aircraft preliminary and detail design capstone courses. In the AircraftPreliminary Design (AE 420) course, the students work in groups of 6-8 to

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Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

internshipprograms to fill this gap. In this regard, a research and practice group can effectively replicate theworking environment of civil engineers by incorporating multidisciplinary projects and diverseindividuals, including cross-generational members.Duarte et al. (2012) took a more bottom-up approach to enhance engineering education. In thisapproach, research groups were formed as student-led initiatives. Ph.D. students providedleadership, and recruited undergraduate students. The report shows that the sense of belongingand ownership in these groups facilitated acquiring personal and professional competencies.Further, the student-led characteristic of these extracurricular groups helped the faculty tomanage the time-consuming training of new students

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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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Mudasser Wyne; Alireza Farahani

policies and procedures are the requirementsthat each ABET-accredited program must publicly state the program's educational objectives aswell as student outcomes, they must also publicly post annual student enrollment and graduationdata for the program.According to ABET, programs that seek initial accreditation must submit a readiness reviewreport; this is a preliminary self-study report. The template for this self-study can be downloadedfrom the ABET site. The ABET accreditation process takes about 18 months, and it begins bythe submission of the preliminary self-study report or a Request For Evaluation depending onwhether the application is for initial accreditation or a renewal of accreditation. However, at leasta year before formal submission

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

content to engage students and preparethem in the civil and construction engineering industries. This struggle results from the desire toinvolve students in authentic activities that teach how to develop constructible designs whileretaining the delivery of core engineering fundamentals. Implementing more engaging, authenticlearning activities would increase the retention of engineering students who switch majorsbecause instruction does not link theory to practice and would attract and retain a more diversestudent population in the engineering majors. Research and the demands of the industry and thecurrent global environment compel diversity8, 19, 23, 41, thus it is imperative that CPSLO increasediversity in its engineering departments while

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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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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

College of Engineering student body reflectsthe overall diversity of the University. The ethnic breakdown of undergraduates in the collegeincludes 19% Hispanic, 3% African American, 40% Asian, 22% White, 6% Internationalstudents, and approximately 1% American Indian or Pacific Islander. Women areunderrepresented in the College, making up 14% of undergraduates. The majority of newstudents each fall in the College are first-time first-year students though a substantial number,approximately 40% of the new students, enroll as upper-division transfer students. These transferstudents come primarily from the extensive California Community College system. TheUniversity formed a formal retention and graduation initiative in 2009 and has

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

., and Y. Li. 2010. The Analysis and Research on Young Teachers' Engineering Continuing Education in the Local Engineering Colleges. Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT), 2010 International Conference no. 2: V2-332-V2-335.7. Capobianco, B.M., H.A Diefes-Dux, I. Mena, and J. Weller. 2011. What is an Engineer? Implications of Elementary School Student Conceptions for Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 100, no. 2: 304-328.8. Common Core State Standards Initiative. 2012. Standards for Mathematical Practice. Washington, DC: Common Core State Standards. (www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice).9. Culver, D.E. 2012. A Qualitative Assessment of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Formative Perceptions Regarding

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

the results of teaching evaluations, whichindicate that students value this approach to course design. The above approach is known to beimplemented in upper-division courses, helped to improve course structure and defineexpectations regarding student learning more clearly9. It gives profoundly beneficial results forengineering education as a result of the features it incorporates. Up to now, a brief literaturereview demonstrates that majority of articles on project-based learning are course descriptionsfocusing on the implementation of individual courses, whereas research studies which focus on Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society

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Selyna Perez Beverly

better equip students with skills to be successful engineering students in the college. The classincorporates not only a lecture but a lab component as well. The lecture focuses on discussingexpectations of engineering students in the college, connecting students to campus resources, increasingtheir college readiness skills, and introducing them to the opportunities within the engineering field. Thelab requires students to work on team projects and engage in experiential learning activities enhancingteamwork and communication skills.Preliminary data analysis from the initial cohort of students that took the course in the 2007-2008academic year reveals that dropout rate from college was 10 percent less than those that did not take theclass. Two

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

caused median and low cost housingstarts in the United States and elsewhere to plummet. With the exception of projects initiated bywell-capitalized or exceptionally innovative firms, only the most financially promising housingendeavors were realized. Experimental housing was rarely implemented in this extraordinarilyconservative fiscal environment, with the exception of bold endeavors such as the Department ofEnergy’s Solar Decathlon, and university-sponsored or philanthropic projects emanating fromorganizations such as The Yale Building Project, Rural Studio31, DesignBuildBLUFF, Studio804, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Habitat for Humanity, Make It Right, NeighborhoodDesign/Build Studio, and Architecture for Humanity.Fortunately, these

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Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

application ofknowledge).Siemens pioneered open Connectivist courses for over 15,000 students and educators in thirtycountries and his colleagues, in 2008, named these the first Massively Open Online Courses(MOOC)2. Siemens, Groom and Couros base their online teaching on a pedagogicalparticipatory model (Siemens, 2012; Groom, 2012; Couros, 2012) that differs from the elite andwell-funded university model (Coursera/EDx) that was initiated in 2012-13 and is morepublicized. Siemens distinguishes between the two as being Connectivist (Siemens, Couros)versus Constructivist (Coursera, EDx). The Connectivist model is an online teaching methodbased on a participatory pedagogical model. Constructivism is a learning model which is nowvying for a place in the

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

commercialization, intellectual property, business plandrafting, and microcredit financing, students are able to bridge the gap between the technicalworld and business world. Students work together in teams for growing their ventures, as well asmeet regularly with instructors and local business leaders; further giving them the ability toenhance their soft skills and develop a sense of belonging. Initial assessments have revealed thatstudents become more passionate about the subjects at hand, because they are able to establish alegacy that lasts beyond a simple classroom assignment. Furthermore, these are consistent withthe ABET requirements that the 21st century engineer needs to have, both breadth and depth, tobe prepared for challenges and complexities

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

Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 203valuable internship experience and professional discipline. For the research effort, the studentsbring in a breath of fresh air, gracing even the longest-standing projects with new energy and a“why not…” viewpoint unencumbered by expertise. Their computer skills often outdistancethose of their mentors. Students who have demonstrated initiative, motivation and commitmentduring the academic year have often received Training Fellowships to spend ten weeks in thesummer working in the Rehabilitation Engineering Program. In a number of

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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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Stephanie Nelson; Brittany McCrigler

disassembly toolkits and a class toolkit, aswell as lighting for photo shoots. Students register on the iFixit website and initially write a shortproposal of deliverables and demonstrate that they have done enough research to verify that theirproject is new or can significantly improve existing product documentation. iFixit next providesfour clearly demarcated milestones to develop the repair guides step-by-step, with checklists toensure full completion of the milestones. The milestones guide students through creating atroubleshooting document, informational pages, and repair manuals, giving students theexperience of creating a whole service manual. An important milestone is user-testing by anothergroup in the class to ensure the accuracy and

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Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

foundchallenging and rewarding. Thus, the mistakes became the problems that they ultimately solved.The mistakes made were not predictable and finding and fixing the mistakes added a less well-structured component to the well-structured problem that was initially their task in the lab.Well-structured problem with ambiguity. In the electronics project, students learned basicprinciples associated with electronics parts in the classroom, but in the lab they had to figurethings out on their own. Students described an instance where they had to test transistors to see ifthey were functional or damaged. This meant that they had to learn about tools such as multi-meters, do research to collect data on transistors, and test them with the multi-meters. Thisprocess

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Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

and rigorously keeping them focused on relevant curricula is the key.In order to successfully and consistently engage their students, educators must be armed with techniquesand strategies adapted for teaching effective online courses.6 The often missed opportunity foruniversities moving courses from onsite to online is the chance to evaluate their practices and onlytransport over the ones which show the most promise of student engagement and a robust fitness for theonline delivery environment. However, initial attempts to adapt onsite teaching methods to onlinecourses achieved little more than copying onsite practices into the digital environment. The sageremained on the stage, simply changing the performance venue. Unfortunately this does

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Tina Smilkstein

track of who was fallingbehind as well as give me time to research topic that I didn’t know enough about to make auseful comment. Unfortunately technical difficulties kept this system from working (though itworked well in a subsequent design class) and I feel I let the students down in the area of supportof their projects though the Google-doc. I plan on using this system when I teach the class again.This technique seemed to work well on getting the reports in on time in that each week they werejust filling in empty spaces in what was originally their proposal. The documents were supposedto prepare me for weekly meetings with the groups. As mentioned, this didn’t happen but theweekly meetings in lab did work and allowed me to redirect or

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David Clague; Joshua Wilbur; Elizabeth Stasiowski; Alyson Telford

foundation, students then characterize steady and pulsatileflow in cylindrical conduits representing blood vessels of various sizes. As with the two-dimensional case, students compare COMSOL Multiphysics results with exact theory.Following the fluid mechanics laboratories, the students are exposed to pure diffusion andcoupled convection-diffusion problems. More specifically, students develop models for a drug-eluting stent in an artery, transdermal drug delivery and tissue oxygenation. In the drug-elutingstent laboratory, students also learn how to perform axisymmetric analysis using COSMOLMultiphysics. Following this laboratory, students setup and study time-dependent transdermaldrug delivery problem with a fixed initial drug patch. In this

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Mary Cardenas

server, as well as linkfiles from the web. eCAT was one of the ELNs used in the Electronic Lab Notebook pilot study12at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This study involved academic researchers, mostlygraduate students, in fields of science, engineering, and medicine. A significant finding in thereport is that the users found two features of most use: the ability to add data and link files. Thesimple drawing tools in eCAT were not deemed very useful by many of the users. Although thefile structuring functions of eCAT may not be necessary for simpler undergraduate laboratories,given that practicing engineers found this useful, eCAT may be a good option for upper-levellaboratories and students involved in undergraduate research.Sophomore