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

268 The Design and Construction of a Tiny House: Small Is Beautiful John Murray, Erin Elder, Ryan Bingham, Glen Longhurst, and Desmond Penny Southern Utah UniversityAbstractThe Danish scientist and poet, Piet Hein said, “Art is solving problems that cannot be formulatedbefore they have been solved. The shaping of the solution is part of the answer.” Hein’sstatement sets the stage for a senior capstone project involving two Southern Utah University(SUU) students majoring in Integrated Engineering, and justifies their undaunted roving

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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

., LT-spice) to optimize the existing previously designed circuit.Then, they designed their own board and assembled the components. In the end, they thoroughlycharacterized the circuit that they put together. In the ten-week period, the students went over thecomplete board-level circuit development flow: from the design to the test. Their understandingsof electrical circuit theory was dramatically improved as manifested in their project report andfinal presentation. The feedback from the students demonstrates that the NASA CIPAIR is aneffective method to engage underrepresented minority students to learn electrical circuit theorywith the learning-by-doing method.IntroductionElectrical Circuit Analysis is a fundamental course that is of great

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

computational, theoretical, or both. This is achievedprimarily through class assignments, but also through in-class discussions and exercises. The instructorviews his role as a facilitator for this process. He designs an effective framework in which learning cantake place. He then stimulates and nurtures the students' development by giving insightful help ofknowledge, techniques, and encouragement. The instructor’s goals in teaching are not just to promotelearning of the subject matter but how best to apply it in real life scenarios and leverage the analyticalskills learned in different future challenges. Helping the students learn to think logically, learn problem-solving methods and techniques, and improve writing skills is a fundamental goal of STEM

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra; Phyllis Nelson; Jolly Kuo; Shailesh Sujanani

benefit significantly from our short videos of problem solutions.IntroductionStudent success in electrical engineering is built on mastery of fundamental network analysis conceptssuch as Kirchhoff's laws, nodal and mesh analysis, and the Thevenin and Norton theorems. However,the course in which these concepts are taught comes early in the student's post-baccalaureate career.Many students at this level have not yet understood that mastery of these concepts is essential to successin later courses. Enabling students to access these learning materials when they need them, whetherduring the first course or later in their academic career, helps them to become more active participants inthe learning process. Development of new learning materials for

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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

were selected from the Pacific EarthquakeEngineering Research Center (PEER) Ground Motion Database based on their location,intensity, and the duration5. The selected ground movements were imported into SAP2000 wherea time-history analysis of the frame will be performed in order to review the buildings response.These ground motions will act as a seismic load on the structure in the east-west direction andwill provide an accurate representation of how well the structure performs under high seismicactivity. As seen in Figure 3, the ASCE 7-10 approximate fundamental period of thestructure, .29 seconds, is 41% shorter than that of the model. This discrepancy in the ASCE 7-10calculation of the fundamental period presents a highly conservative

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Jeff Ashworth; Will Quinn

the aircraft design based upon test data. The process involves building amodel of the preliminary aircraft design, testing, evaluating, and improving upon the original design inorder to produce the best aircraft possible. The first phase of the detail design process involvesdesigning the wind tunnel model and writing a test plan that will result in an accurate assessment of thequality of the preliminary design. The preliminary design of the aircraft must be scaled to account forthe wind tunnel size and wind tunnel balance constraints.7 The majority of the model structure is printedwith a 3-D printer using CATIA, and the internal support structure is designed to give the model Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for

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Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

alongwith using the PIC training system and accessing Moodle. In the future semester, student’slearning outcomes in embedded microcontroller systems will be assessed.Assessment of the Learning ExperiencesThe following is a statistical report for the summer 2013 workshop. There were total of tenmodules; however, seven Modules (1-7) were used. However, the actual tests involved Modules1-10. The Pre-Test and Post-Test scores are reported for Modules 1-7.Participants = 56Pre-Test: Mean = 5.26, Median = 4, SD = 4.97, and Range was 0-19Post-Test: M = 15.45, Med. = 17, SD = 5.06, and Range was 6-22Opinion Survey ResultsModule Goals – I was able to (SA= 5 to SD = 1): Statistics1. Describe the fundamentals of

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Loukas Lazos; Elmer Grubbs

. Obviously the studentsare more involved in the lab since attendance is mandatory, making sure that they work directlywith TAs, ULAs and their peers, and assigning a significant portion (60%) of their overall gradeto the lab component. The individual oral grading of the students’ homework and lab work, using Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 245the professor-supplied rubric, helps to ensure that each student, at the least, understands the workthat he/she turned in and has a good understanding of the fundamental

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Mary Cardenas

. Woerner reported that the students found typing equations to betime-consuming, and noted that pre-lab work went very well using the course managementsystem.Hesser and Schwartz7 described a General Chemistry course at the University of New Haven thatused iPads in classroom and labs. Blackboard Mobile was used to post the assignments, and thestudents used iPads to record the laboratory and course content. In particular, drawing apps wereused; annotation of pdfs and photos was done; and the collected lab data was imported to theiPad for analysis. Students reported that the iPad was difficult to write with--this is consistentwith the idea that iPads are good for consuming content, but not necessarily useful for creatingcontent, or inputting larger

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

engineering education 18. Therefore, early incorporationof engineering into K-6 curriculum would facilitate discovery and development of talent in theSTEM disciplines as reported by Mann et al. (2011) 19. Locke (2009) also recognizes theelementary grades as the optimal time to introduce engineering curriculum that would beintensified and differentiated in middle and high schools, respectively17.Fundamental understanding of the engineering profession is an essential key for elementaryteachers to implement this curriculum. Lack of engineering knowledge, training opportunities,and incentives are major obstacles in teacher preparation for such implementation 6, 10. Thepresented approach is an initial effort targeted at increasing the engineering

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.................................................................................................................................................................................. 240Machine Vision, PLCs and Motion Control for Manufacturing Engineering Undergraduate Students.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 247Research and Practice Group Methodology: A Case Study in Student Success ......................................... 255The Design and Construction of a Tiny House: Small Is Beautiful ................................................................. 268An Outline for a Practical Course in Computer-Aided Design and Analysis in Civil Engineering...... 283A Service-Learning Collaborative Project in a Mechanical Engineering Technical Writing Class ..... 289Increasing