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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

incorporated to improve the project and quality of student learning.ABET Accreditation Criteria for Engineering programs require that accredited engineeringprograms demonstrate students have “an ability to design a system, component, or process tomeet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political,ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability,” and “an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams” 1. The integrated and collaborative learning environment provided bythe type of applied project used in this course can help prepare students to address problemsolving to meet desired needs within realistic constraints while developing their awareness ofcommunity needs.Active learning

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Thomas M. Korman

construction management course described above was designed to introduce Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 63students to the construction methods for various work items common to commercial buildingconstruction. Therefore the course was developed and delivered with the following goals: • Understanding the types of materials used in commercial buildings • Understanding how to read commercial building project plans and specifications • Knowing the different types of equipment and materials

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

students, especially underrepresented students, isanother cause for concern. Approximately, 50% of students majoring in engineering graduatewithin six years. This challenge intensifies considering that fewer incoming students, specificallyunderrepresented ones, are attracted to the field of engineering and construction management.The National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP)intends to address the preceding concerns. It will provide the framework for educating the futureengineers and construction managers who will be equipped with the necessary skills to solve theGrand Challenges of the 21st century. In 2008, NAE identified fourteen Grand Challenges for the21st century to highlight the areas of engineering

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Devin D. Cook

Visual Basic for Applications.Existing SolutionsUsing the visual paradigm of flowcharts is not an original approach. Flowcharts were created forthis very purpose, so creating a programming environment based them is merely a logicalextension of the concept. The following are the three most notable:  Visual Logic8  LARP9  RAPTOR10 Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 167Each of these solutions successfully minimalizes syntax by using flowcharts. The design of theflowchart

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Lavanya Kumari

© 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 170Figure 2: Architectural definitions give input for system design and construction203. Design of data is as important as design of processing functions.Data design is an essential element of architectural design. A well-structured data design helps tosimplify program flow, makes the design and implementation of software components easier,and makes overall processing more efficient3. With a good data design, data access is faster andeasily accepts future data enhancements.4. Interfaces (both internal and external) must be designed with care."Interface design focuses on three areas"17: The

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Bhaskar R. Sinha; Pradip P. Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Mohammad N. Amin; Debra A. Bowen

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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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

perceptions aremeasured using assessment instruments as well as subjective observations. The study ofMirzamoghadam and Harding5 outline the success story of capstone design project thatpartners an industry sponsor with a interdisciplinary engineering student team, whereby eachindustrial participant contributes a preset budget defined thus promoting the request forproposal (RFP) means of program sponsorship. In the work of Morgan et al.6 feedback fromindustry and faculty experiences in product development led to a rigorous productdevelopment process in capstone design projects. As detailed in Morgan et al.6 the processstarts with a customer, followed by system requirements derivation, a feasibility study, acreation of test matrix and test plans

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John T. Tester

“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

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toInstitutional Learning Outcomes is critical to ensuring that each of ABET’s studentcharacteristics are enabled by the program. All of these mappings are discussed, along with theoverall process for review of all aspects of the program, including Program EducationalObjectives.IntroductionNational University was founded in 1971 and is the second-largest private nonprofit institutionof higher learning in California and the 16th largest in the United States. It comprises fiveschools and one college: the schools of Business and Management, Education, Engineering andComputing, Health and Human Services, and Professional Studies, and the College of Lettersand Sciences. National University is committed to accessibility and offers programs at 27campuses in

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Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

comprehensive university. In this project, the four student interns learned concepts of CPSand the corresponding emerging technologies in electrical and computer engineering. Supervisedby an engineering faculty advisor and a senior student mentor, the student interns gained hands-on research experience by developing a biomedical CPS for myoelectric-controlled robot car,which allows users to use arm gestures to control a robot car wirelessly. The student researcherslearned valuable engineering knowledge and skills in this multidisciplinary project includingacquisition and analysis of bioelectrical signals, programming on microcontrollers, embeddedsystem design, wireless communication, and various analog and digital interfaces. In addition, theproject

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for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 361directly influenced by the partnership – course selection, content, delivery method, andavailability of resources.The mission of the architectural engineering program at Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo is to educatestudents to enter and be successful in the practice of structural engineering, with an emphasis inseismic design. The program prides itself on going beyond traditional civil engineering structureseducation and thus took advantage of the opportunity to partner with industry in setting up a non

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Kamran Abedini

293 Orientation to Engineering Education through applying “Puzzles Principles” Kamran Abedini California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractIn this paper a review of engineering programs was conducted in terms of curriculum building andthen application of the technique of “Puzzles Principles”, developed by the author, was proposedwhich could be incorporated in the design of curriculums for effective engineering teaching at theonset. The concept of Puzzles Principles and its application can show how

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college’s Technical Writer and the university’sScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Librarian, the workshops offered inthe fall semester include training in reference management systems and basic information literacy.The spring semester workshops focus on how to prepare papers for submittal to conferences andjournals and technical reports as part of the requirements for grant funding. The keystone workshopof this series, offered in the fall and spring semesters, is Literature Review for Engineers: How toSearch, How to Write. During this workshop, the STEM Librarian describes a quality searchprocess and demonstrates methods to organize and evaluate different forms of literature and theTechnical Writer describes the writing of a

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280 Linking a Senior Civil Engineering Water Analysis Laboratory to Public Education Mónica Palomo, Civil Engineering Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractWater quality engineering requires young engineers to be able to clearly communicate complextopics to the public at a level appropriate to people’s education regarding water issues. To helpstudents acquire this skill the senior level water analysis laboratory curriculum of the WaterTreatment Engineering course was designed to include a pilot research study. The students

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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

-time hybrid simulation forearthquake engineering research. The purpose of the project is to evaluate the effects of delay onreal-time hybrid simulation and to apply a probabilistic approach for reliability assessment.MATLAB and Simulink are used and probabilistic concepts are applied to account forcharacteristics of one hundred ground motions. This research internship program allows for thedevelopment of project management, time management and teamwork skills, thus helpingstrengthen students’ knowledge of seismic design in civil engineering and prepare them forsuccessful academic and professional careers. The internship program therefore provides valuablementorship for community college students during their transition to a four-year college

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Thais da C. L. Alves

/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 91readjust their expectations about the field. In other words, student chapters allow students tosafely try different fields and activities and decide on their fields of specialization.The literature on efforts to engage students with local professionals and expose students to fieldexperience suggests that these efforts might work best when the activities are somehow part ofthe students’ coursework and managed by student chapters alongside their program of origin.Opfer and Shields (2008)3 describe an undergraduate professional seminar for

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Michael Kinsler; Colin McGill; Giovanni Rodriguez; William Berrios; Jeremy Chow; Amelito Enriquez; Paul Grams; Xiaorong Zhang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Kwok-Siong Teh

generation, prototyping, and testing underguidance. To this end, a team of four community college mechanical engineering sophomores,working under a NASA Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award for Integration of Researchinto Curriculum (CiPAIR) grant, were tasked with conceptualizing, designing, and prototyping aclosed-loop temperature-controlled enclosure that encased a 3D printer using commerciallyavailable parts, as well as testing the properties of parts printed in such a controlled environment.Under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and a faculty mentor, the team learnedmechanical design using SolidWorks, material selection, hands on metal and plastics fabrication,heat transfer, as well as microcontroller programming using Arduino

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it. The photo was taken at a local RC airfield whose members include formeraerospace engineers and members with vast experience in building and flying RC aircraft. Theseflight test articles were fabricated using a combination of composite and aluminum structurewhich, again, required the assistance of the Lab Manager and Machine Shop Manager atERAU/Prescott.Within the past year, the course has evolved to be aimed solely at small unmanned air system(SUAS) design. The authors now team-teach both Aircraft Preliminary Design and thesubsequent Aircraft Detail Design course, following their students through the entire seniorcapstone design process. In Preliminary Design, the student design teams start with a request forproposal (RFP) written in

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Ranjan K Sen

existing courses in Information Technology illustrated using the typical example used earlier. In general, we believe similar approach can be used for programs in Information Technology in other academic institutions. Information Technology Curricula Academic programs in Computer Science and Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology share some core concepts. While the first focuses mainly in the design, development, maintenance and architecting digital computer systems, both hardware and software. The second deals with information systems composed of diverse information sub-systems including human operators and automatic processors such as digital computers or other devices to support business environments. They look at interfaces

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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

processes are in their infancy, andshould be more logically designed and strategically deployed in an integrated fashion withlearning outcomes and textbook content.Keywords: Distance learning, learning management systems, laboratory equipment, text books,workbooks, virtual laboratory, experiential learning, computer science, information technologyIntroductionThe survey results presented in this paper focus on the delivery of experiential, hands-onlearning resources by provisioning computer science labs. The survey data was obtained from ajoint survey project conducted by Pearson Education and iNetwork, Inc. The schools included inthe study had either undergraduate and/or graduate level cyber security degree programs. Thefaculties who responded to

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....................................................................................................................................................... 47Using Mock Bid Simulations to Enhance - Construction Engineering and Management Education....................................................................................................................................................... 60Impact of a Hybrid Format on Student Performance and Perceptions in an IntroductoryComputer Programming Course ................................................................................................... 67Best Practices Guidelines for Successful Capstone Projects in Accelerated Technology Programs....................................................................................................................................................... 78Student Chapter Development and Engagement in

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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

for its supportof this vital mission.This paper demonstrates the Agile development and production feasibility implementation of aMAFFS Drop Log database management system (DBMS) developed using free cloud services.This system is used to replace the manual process of logging, and is referred to as the MDL-System. The MDL-System is a master’s degree Capstone project developed by author Allen inthe Computer Science (MSCS) program of the School of Engineering and Computing (SOEC) ofNational University (NU). In this project, the MAFFS Drop Log is converted to digital format,providing rapid access to firefighting activity and processes, and proves the feasibility of using Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education

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Elaine Gilbert

/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 346will be accessible from any internet capable device, the RFI template will have been pre-selected by the stakeholders, and the contact information for all the pertinent professionalswill be pre-loaded and automatically grouped; therefore, when the contractor is ready tosubmit an RFI, he will simply log in to the forum, enter information being requested, andsubmit.Once an RFI is submitted, the computer program will instantly send notifications, which canbe received by any computer or any handheld mobile device, to every professional within

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Lucie Alidieres-Dumonceaud; Chantal Charnet

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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Bari Ma Siddique

work and study at unconventional times, which they’re used to in their line of work. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 189 Availability of programs –More schools are offering online programs, increasing the available options and allowing students to search until they find one that meets their needs. Synergy –The online format allows a dynamic interaction between the instructor and students and among the students themselves. Each individual can contribute to the course

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Lu Zhang; Mudasser F. Wyne; Alireza Farahani; Bhaskar Sinha; Mohammad Amin

, S., & Rob, P. (2012), Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Cengage Learning, ISBN-13: 97811119696083. Elmasri, R., & Navathe, S. (2011), Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison-Wesley, ISBN-13: 97801360862094. Mona Westhaver, M. (2011), Webspiration Classroom From Bloom’s Perspective, url: http://www.inspiration.com/blog/2011/03/webspiration-classroom-from-blooms-perspective/ Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

indications and warnings (I&W) to detect andrespond to intrusions [2]. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 259Security Onion is designed to facilitate deploying complex open source tools with an “easy-to-use Setup wizard” [3]. The Security Onion distribution includes a set of common networksecurity monitoring and intrusion detection tools including Snort, Suricata, Snorby, and the BROIDS, along with network analysis tools such as Wireshark and Network Miner [3]. It also includesthe Enterprise Log