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Amelito Enriquez; Nicholas Langhoff; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shanasser; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Ed Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

381 Expanding the Community College Engineering Educational Pipeline through Collaborative Partnerships Amelito Enriquez1, Nicholas Langhoff1, Wenshen Pong2, Nilgun Ozer2, Hamid Shanasser2, Cheng Chen2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Ed Cheng,2 Kwok-Siong Teh2, and Xiaorong Zhang2 1Cañada College, Redwood City, CA/ 2School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractThe 2012 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report, “Engageto Excel” indicates that the United States needs to produce

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369 Flexible and Enduring Engineering Education Built on the Basics and Reinforced through Practical Problem Solution Jeffrey Ashworth, William Crisler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Prescott, AZAbstractStudents in any discipline learn and retain more when exposed to material that stimulates theirinterest. In engineering, all students must understand certain basics in mathematics, physics, orthe concepts of their chosen discipline. A student may be able to memorize or otherwise masteran advanced concept without the basic knowledge to verify the technique

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these type of endeavors involve the students, theengineering companies, the local community, as well as the faculty. Assessment tools andgrading rubrics used to quantify the student experiential learning are also discussed.IntroductionThe use of engineering capstone projects for undergraduate engineering education is commonin the literature. The study of Gannod et al.1 presents the concept that a capstone course ismeant to provide graduating seniors with a culminating experience that ties together theknowledge and skills that have been attained over the duration of a four-year curriculum. Inthe study of Conn and Sharpe2, the authors describe a year-long senior mechanical engineeringdesign course that is run in cooperation with industry

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principles.Although the exact definition of inquiry-based instruction varies somewhat between differentinvestigators, we will use the defining features offered by Laws et al.1 and highlighted by Princeand Vigeant2 (see Table 1). Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 592 Table 1. Elements of Inquiry-Based Learning Activities. (a) Use peer instruction and collaborative work (b) Use activity-based guided-inquiry curricular materials (c) Use a learning cycle

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M. Zoghi; L. Crask; B. Hyatt; V. Luo; W. Wu

engineering education paradigm that willprepare engineers who will be “world changers.” The proposed GCSP in the ConstructionManagement Program at Fresno State, a pilot program in the Lyles College of Engineering,already possesses several features of the GCSP’s five components. The CM education in LCOE, Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 380realigned with the GCSP’s vision, will move to a global context and will provide tremendousopportunities for students to collaboratively solve global grand

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

://www.cmacn.org/[2] Building Requirements for Masonry Structures (TMS 402); The Masonry Society,105 South Sunset St, Suite Q, Longmont, CO, 80501; http://www.masonrysociety.org/References1 Chinchilla, R.; Collaboration between private sector and academia: Are we compromising our engineering programs?; ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2013, 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; June 23-26, 2013 - June 26, 2013.2 Ahzar, S., et. al.; State-of-the-Art Best Construction Practices Integration into Higher Education Curricula; Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2014.3 NCEES; Lateral Forces (Wind/Earthquake) Component of the Structural Engineering DEPTH Exam

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for a UAS from composite Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 135material, procedures for purchasing material for manufacture). Rather than reduce the technicalcomplexity of these capstone projects, the faculty chose another path – they invited other expertsto form a multi-disciplinary, multi-instructor teaching team to support the students’ capstoneprojects. Faculty, staff, and members of the local community reacted positively to theseinvitations to collaborate and agreed to join these

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around a computer was also a form ofgroup collaboration. Only one school indicated that group collaboration was supported by avirtual lab accessible to both distance learners and on-site students. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 488Figure 21/Q33: Does your current lab support team assignments in which multiple students canaccess the same machine?Figure 22/Q35: Does your current lab support individual machines for each student as well as anadditional group of machines?Commentary: The responses

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Gregg L. Fiegel; Nephi Derbidge

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 431Obispo (Cal Poly), the academic year consists of four quarters, each eleven weeks long. Courseinstruction takes place over a ten-week period with final examinations administered during theeleventh week of the term. The subject course is a 4-unit lecture course, which means it meets ina classroom for four hours each week. Typically, the university adopts a two-day schedule for 4-unit course offerings, meaning the course meets

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

between science and everyday lives.13,14,15 The context selected for this RET program was technology applications that offer societalbenefits and have employment opportunity potential. The premise is that using such context will Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 572increase community college student engagement in STEM studies, thereby contributing tostudent persistence and eventually, improved retention rates of students in STEM.RET NSF-UC Berkeley Funded Collaboration on Context-Based

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Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 3advancing mobile technologies to improve timely and accurate management of the MAFFSprocess.The MDL-System is a collaborative research initiative that uses leading-edge, innovativeteaching and technological techniques: Agile project development, a collaboratory, and state-of-the-art cloud technologies. This project, completed in two months, is an example of not onlyresearch but beneficial implementation of innovative pedagogy and experiential learning tocreate a useful product.A. Agile Pedagogy, Project Development and Process

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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

Education, 27 (6), 1164-1173.10. Siniawski, M. T., J. A. Saez, J. S. Pal, and S. G. Luca, 2014. Creating Learning Through Service Opportunities for Engineering Students: Lessons Learned from a Primarily Undergraduate Liberal Arts Institution,” International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Fall 2014 Special Issue, 240-255.11. Larson, E., and C. F. Gray, 2011. Project Management and the Managerial Process, 5th ed., McGraw Hill, NY.12. Blank, L., and Tarquin, A., 2014. Basics of Engineering Economy, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, NY.13. Dixon, G., 2007. “Service-Learning and Integrated, Collaborative Project Management,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.14

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expected to learn course content,which consists of both conceptual and procedural knowledge, to collaborate, and to practiceapplying their knowledge using homework. Throughout their education, students hone theirproblem solving and teamwork skills, and ideally, build their conceptual understanding. The CalPoly Dynamics Research Team is particularly interested in how strong conceptual understanding Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 461is achieved and in developing learning activities to support

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California and one in Henderson, Nevada, and online. At National University, Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 207courses are taught in a one-course-per-month format, giving students the ability to focus onlearning one course at a time and the flexibility to pursue an academic plan at their own pace.Since the BS Computer Science degree was first awarded by National University thirty-one yearsago, the program has continually evolved to align with the improvements and innovations madein field of

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Bari Ma Siddique

Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 188 Higher education will vigorously adopt new teaching approaches, propelled by opportunity and efficiency as well as student and parent demands Economic realities will drive technological innovation forward by 2020, creating less uniformity in higher education. “Distance learning” is a divisive issue. It is viewed with disdain by many who don’t see it as effective; others anticipate great advances in knowledge-sharing tools by 2020. Bricks’ replaced by ‘clicks’? Some say universities’ influence could be

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that, theassessment of the activities must be strictly individual and pedagogical resources should beinstalled on authorized mobile devices in correctional facilities.Throughout this article, solutions are offered and examples are given on how distancelearning can be adapted to the prison context through the use of digital mobile devices andmore generally, adapted to an environment without Internet access.The Contribution of Digital Pedagogy to Distance Learning Programs in France Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 324Mechanical Engineering for undergraduate courses and has been going on for about 15 years.The program has a mission of turning students’ education hands-on as quickly and as practicallyas possible. To reach this goal all lectures are closely accompanied by computer-aided modelingand laboratory experiment. According to the statistics provided by UT Austin's website theprogram currently covers 12 classes and involves many faculty members and students3.In all the instances

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courses and Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 79multiple perspectives. Structuring these projects, especially in accelerated ITM programs,requires methodical planning and management in an agile process. At National University (NU)School of Engineering and Computing (SOEC) the Bachelor of Science in InformationTechnology Management (BS-ITM) degree is designed for professionals and IT managers toadvance their abilities and proficiencies in this field and to apply learned skills in their

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deployment of theinternet present challenges to vetting of educational content that extend far beyond peer reviewsof academic journal papers. Vetting, in this context, implies the process of examination, review, Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 471validation and authentication of instructional content relative to a standard of excellence and fact.Five identified aspects of the vetting process are: 1) the creator of the content; 2) the content; 3)the qualifications of the assessor: “vettor”, reviewer

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designedand fabricated. The structures are capable to absorb solar rays, and convert the radiation energiesinto heat and electricity. Students also learned how to make photochemical catalysis electrode.Fundamentals of oxide materials’ response to external magnetic field is studied to explore newbiomedical imaging agents with controlled nanostructures. Synthesis of superparamagnetic oxidemultilayer nanotubes with enhanced hyperthermia was performed. Evaluation on the learningoutcomes is provided. Both formative evaluation and summative evaluation results are presentedto support the collaborative learning. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015

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Eric J. White; George Jing; Sandrine Fischer

of STEM curricula,there is a lack of tools enabling instructors to efficiently gauge their representation within aspecific selection of exercises. More problematic is that taxonomic constructs are prone tosubjectivity and/or interpretation. To address these issues, we developed an online platformcalled phiMap, which is a database of physics symbols, equations, topics, and descriptors. Bysymbols, we mean physical quantities typically represented in an equation by letters, such asenergy E or wavelength λ. Equations are linked collections of symbols. We adopt the view of a Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for

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Monica Palomo P.E.

via a complex, state-of-the-art network of aqueductscomprised of miles of pipelines, channels and tunnels, pumping stations, treatment plants, dams,reservoirs, and hydroelectric plants 1. Over the past several years there has been a significantreduction in the amount of water imported from the Colorado River, the State Water Project, andthe Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens River Valley). Along the Colorado River, the two waterstorages (Lake Mead and Lake Powell) remain below half capacity 2. In addition, the watersupply from the State Water Project and the Los Angeles Aqueduct has been reduced for theprotection of endangered species and habitat restoration 4,5. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific

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conference.John Cicero, PhDDean of Engineering & ComputingNational UniversitySan Diego, CA PrefaceWelcome to the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education-Pacific Southwest (ASEE-PSW) regional conference. The theme of this conference is “Emerging Paradigms in EngineeringEducation.” We as university/college educators are responsible for and continuously striving toprepare the next-generation of engineers who will be ready to face the multi-faucet challengesrequired to move this nation forward. This conference is intended to bring together educators,researchers and practitioners from industry, academia and government to advance engineering andtechnology education and to encourage wider collaboration

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Tania Martinez; Amado Flores-Renteria; Jasmine Flores; Jolani Chun; Cheng Chen; Hezareigh Ryan; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Amelito G. Enriquez; Albert Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

studentsespecially in California. The California Community College System, with its 112 communitycolleges and 71-off campus centers enrolling approximately 2.6 million students is in a prime Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 39position to grow the future STEM workforce [1]. However, for science and engineering fields,lower success and retention rates are observed at both community college and university levelsresulting in underrepresentation of minority groups in these fields. Cañada College is a memberof

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and M. Surkes, "The development of a questionnaire for predicting online learning achievement," Distance Education, vol. 25(1), pp. 31-47, 2004.[24] R. M. Bernard and B. R. d. Rubalcava, "Collaborative online distance learning: Issues for future practice and research," Distance Education, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 260-277, 2000.[25] K. Li, J. Uvah, R. Amin and R. Hemasinha, "A study of non-traditional instruction on qualitative reasoning and problem solving in general studies mathematics courses," Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Mathematical Education, vol. 1, no. 37-49, p. 41, 2009. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015

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University. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 54018. Onwuegbuzie A.J. & Jiao Q.G. (1998). Understanding library anxious graduate students. Library Review, 47(4), 217-224. doi:10.1108/0024253981021281219. Huerta, D., & McMillan, V. E. (2000). Collaborative instruction by writing and library faculty: A two-tiered approach to the teaching of scientific writing. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 28, 1.20. Rempel, H. G., & Davidson, J. (2008). Providing

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of awearable biosensor that could be used to determine the blood pressure in people.Using a modern day data driven approach, the information complied by thisdevice such as blood pressure levels could be evaluated by health professionalsand patients to determine if one’s sleeping habits are affecting ones risk forhypertension and heart disease. Furthermore, this device could then also providereal-time feedback to the patient during their sleep to help them choose the bestsleep position for their overall health and well-being. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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different countries.IntroductionThe evaluation of student learning is undeniably a very important aspect in the educationalprocess. Student assessment methods vary from subject to subject, school to school, country tocountry6. In this paper the focus of discussion is the assessment of student learning in the Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 274university-level introductory courses in Computer Science. In these courses, student learning istypically achieved through lectures, lab assignments, and

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“D4P,”curriculum, a series of innovative undergraduate classes which involve team-oriented learningclasses for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years. The D4Pcourses engaged students to learn by actively using engineering education tools that address theissues of realizing a design: problem solving, project management, and teaming.The D4P program provided courses that emphasized team-oriented design and project management.However, traditional manufacturing knowledge and basic skills were not originally addressed,because the program, prior to the 2000’s was not sufficiently large to generate sufficient resources tosupport an ongoing manufacturing laboratory. With the advent of increased enrollments and