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Susan Wainscott; Julie Longo

making the transition from student to independent scholar12.Compounding the apparently common composition anxiety among graduate students in general,there is a prevalent stereotype that engineers are poor communicators. A very pervasive culturalbelief related to communication skills, particularly written communication, exists amongengineers; this is reflected in a currently popular T-shirt, as shown in Figure 1. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 532 Figure 1. A popular T-shirt reflecting a

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Pradip Peter Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Amir Rezaei; Amelito G. Enriquez; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Mohammad Amin

emerging paradigms andtheir implications.Key words: Agile, cloud, distance learning, educational paradigms, experiential learning,innovative problem solving.IntroductionCrouch1 states in a Reader’s Digest article that “research universities are no place forundergraduates. Professors at big research universities are often more interested in doingresearch with graduate students than teaching your child. . . . So, they tend to host huge lecturesand then foist undergrads off on teaching assistants who may or may not be supervised” (page Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

the survey were active instructors with direct knowledge of theirschool’s computer laboratory resources. The project objective was to gather information on a Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 484large variety of topics which affect the provisioning of computer science labs used in highereducation degree programs.This paper categorizes the survey responses into the following topical groups: Group Number Description 1 General

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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

program to another person.* The difference is statistically significant ( p  0.01 ).Follow-up Survey for 2009-2012 SEI Graduates: A follow up survey was administered tograduates of the Summer Engineering Institute. Only students who participated in the 2009,2010, 2011 and 2012 are included in the survey since most 2013 and 2014 attendees would stillhave been in high school at the time of the survey. The purpose of the survey is to determinestudents’ current educational status, the major that they are currently pursuing or are intending topursue, and whether or not attending the SEI has made any impact in their educational and careergoals. The survey notification was sent by email and completed online.Out of the101 SEI graduates targeted by the

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

accompanied by some often overlookedconsequences. If these drawbacks are not considered and addressed, the human interaction andreasoning capability may be lost. Young engineers fresh from a higher education program thatdoes not stress the basics may be able to generate solutions using purely theoretical orcomputational techniques but lack the practical knowledge to determine the validity of a result orto modify an existing solution method to meet the parameters of a different environment. Usingthe time-saving computational techniques not only encourages students to dismiss a need to learnand retain but also stimulates faculty to lose focus on teaching basics and focus on researchingand applying advanced techniques in the classroom before the

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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

specifically at thegraduate education level. While this was a short term project, elapsing approximately 3 months,it provided the students with a chance to determine whether or not they enjoyed the researchenvironment and if they felt that graduate study would be something they are interested in.Considering many people go into graduate study without previous research experience, this wasa great opportunity for the students to figure out how to proceed in their studies. By integratingvarious topics (thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics, electrical circuits, and mechanicaldesign) the student were shown that while they may intend on focusing in a specific area,broadening their horizons to topics outside their comfort can be fun and very

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Ranjan K Sen

305 Accreditation Board in Engineering and Technology (ABET). Then we identify topics in the ACM curriculum for Information Technology that are relevant to Big Data concepts and map them to a specific undergraduate program. We also present the courses in a masters level program in Information Technology and examine the relevance of these courses to Big Data education. present a short review of the curriculum of Information Technology in a typical four-year undergraduate and graduate levels today. We then identify courses that are relevant to concepts in Big Data. We present the current scope of the Big Data industry and the core concepts of Big Data technology. This is then followed by a plan for adoption of the Big Data concepts in to

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

preparation of this paper. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 88Bibliography1. 2014 National University General Catalog V77. Retrieved from www.nu.edu2. Campbell, D.A., Lambright, K.T. How valuable are capstone projects for Community Organizations? Lessons from a Program Assessment. Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE), 17(1), 61-87.3. Garris, R., Madden, J., and Rodgers, W.M. III (2008). Practitioners’ roles, internships, and practicum courses in public policy and

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

that students will be better prepared once they enter thework force. It is interesting to note that even at the first phase of the project, students wereobserved to have the difficulties in finding the right controller chip for their project. This furtheremphasizes the importance of this project since knowledge on various switching regulatorcontroller chips is a practical skill generally sought by companies when they are looking to hirenew graduates with power electronic background. From the instructor’s point of view, assigningsuch a project requires significant amount of time throughout the quarter. Students’ assessmenton the project is currently being planned to evaluate how effective the project is in helping toachieve the learning

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Thais da C. L. Alves

and start them early on life-long learning and professionalengagement. The work presented in this paper was developed as part of project funded byELECTRI International about documenting activities that can be developed to successfully startand run student chapters. While the topic of establishing student chapters is not new, the authoris not aware of comprehensive studies that discuss their role as part of the engineering education, Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 90and the mechanics of running student

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

LearningThe primary goal of the UCB Context-Based RET Site was to provide a professionaldevelopment experience for community college faculty that:  Engages community college faculty in research of current engineering topics;  Promotes literacy in applications of their research topics;  Guides faculty to develop and teach context-based science and engineering lessons that connect science and engineering concepts to practical applications;  Enables community college students to connect their STEM education to exciting careers;  Builds a vibrant network of community college faculty, faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student researchers that results in long-term collaborative partnerships; and

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

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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David F. Hosterman; Wblesther Gama; Andrew Vitaljic; Jonathan H. Poluan; Ali A. Ballout; Yong X Gan; James L. Smith; Jimmie C. Oxley

effective on enhancement of learning.Improving undergraduate student education through high impact activities in a cooperativelearning setting is a way worthy of exploring. Specifically, scalable, low cost manufacturingprocess for making high performance energy conversion nanomaterials is dealt with in ourstudies. Cooperative learning on several upper division general engineering courses includingIndependent Research and Studies, Senior Capstone Design, Special Topics on Nanotechnologygenerates the outcome of improving the graduation rate. Several scalable, low costmanufacturing research tasks are adopted to enhance the context learning through cooperativelearning approach that integrates advanced manufacturing research activities into both

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aseducators prepare the next generation of engineers.There were over 90 submissions which resulted in many excellent papers and posters. As you readthese proceedings, you will see a roadmap marked by breadth, depth and innovation that will beused to navigate engineering education. Educators constantly hear that our students are changing.These proceedings demonstrate that our educators are more than prepared for this change.This conference included educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academia andgovernment. We were fortunate to have several keynote speakers including: Dr. Don Czechowicz,Project Leader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner,Kyocera Communications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin

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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

distancelearning processes2.Ease of Access Facilitates the Internet as a Primary Information ResourceIndividuals seeking immediate answers on virtually every topic currently turn to the internet asthe primary information resource because it is so easy – especially when using mobile computingdevices that are on their persona. Studies regarding inquiries for news, government, healthcareand commerce indicate that 65% of the populace and 80% of internet users expect the Web tohave the answers and will turn to it as their first resource on these topics5. Educational Objects Deluge the InternetThe Internet is transformative, “a catalyst for innovation, communication, economic growth andsocial development”6. McKinsey reported in 2011 that the internet accounts

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Lelli Van Den Einde; Nathan Delson; Sean Patno; Jason Hyunjin Cha; Elizabeth Cowan; Jessica Cho

, computerprogramming, and science. Spatial visualization concepts are seen in geometry standards in K-12, but they are not emphasized in most K-12 and undergraduate curriculums. It has been shownthat a single course that teaches spatial visualization skills increases GPA and graduation rates inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields1. Also, improving spatial Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 582visualization skills has been identified as a priority for increasing the percentage of women

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

same time,however it can be most rewarding if we are able to explain the transformation process of conceptualmodel to implementation model in an appropriate manner. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 406Based on the authors’ experience in teaching the Database design subject in general and conceptualmodeling topic in specific, many students have difficulty in mastering the mapping process forconverting an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) into its corresponding relational schema.Specifically