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challenging, it is believed thatstudents are less likely to solve them on their own. In fact, others recommend that context-richproblems be administered under prescriptive training and cooperative settings (i.e., worked insmall groups, see Heller and Hollabaugh3). Yet, asking instructors to teach problem solving ingroups is not an easy task. Moreover, Yerushalmi et al. identified that faculty worry thatproblems with challenging features (context-rich, multistep, etc.) will conflict with clarity ofpresentation and cause stress for students5.Background research and open questionsA better understanding of the impact that context-rich vs. qualitative problems exert on learnersmay help to resolve the above issues. Cognitive research on expert-novice

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as a teaching tool in science and mathematics courses.A broad collection of typical problems in mathematics and physical science courses are tested inthe system and the benefits as well as the shortcomings of the system as a teaching resource arediscussed.1. Introduction:Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that is implemented based on theMathematica Symbolic Algebra System. Wolfram Alpha’s built-in knowledge and computationalcapabilities and algorithms are implemented in Mathematica. The system is capable of receivinginput in a form of text, image or tabulated data then compute and display answers along withadditional information the system may consider relevant and perhaps useful. The data in thewolfram alpha is organized in

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Rita Melgar; Anthony Nash; Mou Sun; Carmen Tepeu Yoc; Maral Amir; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

117 Teaching Brain-Inspired Visual Signal Processing via Undergraduate Research ExperienceRita Melgar1, Anthony Nash1, Mou Sun1, Carmen Tepeu Yoc1, Maral Amir2, Cheng Chen2,Amelito G. Enriquez1, Hao Jiang2, Hamid Mahmoodi2, Wenshen Pong2, Hamid Shanasser2, Kwok-Siong Teh2, and Xiaorong Zhang2 1Cañada College, Redwood City, CA/ 2School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractBrain holds the mystery to future intelligent systems. The efficiency of brain in visual signalprocessing is unparalleled by any computers of

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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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the on-ground students. While the dropout rate was higher for online students,there was little other difference in course performance. The online students actually had slightlyhigher average scores of 61.9% on the final examination than the on ground students whoaveraged 60.5%. These results show promise for the use of online courses in specific situationsto help provide options for schools as they continue to focus on improving the operationalefficiency of teaching and reducing student loan debt. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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literature review as consisting of three levels. The finalworkshop of the academic year is a Technical Writing Intensive, during which the students workon their papers and reports. They are encouraged to bring their dissertations or theses as well, andare provided with one-on-one counseling from the instructors. All workshops include activelearning and lecture as instruction methods.IntroductionEngineering graduate students typically complete a research project and write a thesis ordissertation that includes a literature review. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV),engineering graduate students also are encouraged to submit papers to conferences and journalsas well as participate in writing technical reports required by federal or state

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

47 Teaching Machine Design Using HILTI Machine Tools Industry/University Collaborative Project Kevin R. Anderson, Clifford M. Stover, Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractThis paper presents the results of a case-study using a local industry sponsored research projectat an undergraduate based polytechnic university to support capstone design experientiallearning. The case study from HILTI Machine Tools demonstrates how engineeringcompanies can realize cost effective research and development by mentoring and sponsoringan engineering

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learning programs are offered by specialized services fromuniversities or through the Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance (CNED) ii. Distancelearning still remains the preferred method, “a first response adapted for this population” iii. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 266Some institutions put certain mechanisms into place in order to provide a universityeducation close to the conditions in prison. One possible solution is the Section des EtudiantsEmpêchés (SEE) from the University of Paris

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

405 Visual Learning Tool for Teaching Entity Relationship Mapping Rules Lu Zhang, Mudasser F. Wyne, Alireza Farahani, Bhaskar Sinha, Mohammad Amin School of Engineering and Computing, National University, San Diego, CAAbstractBased on the authors’ experience in teaching the subject of conceptual modeling, many studentsare unable to master the mapping process for converting an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)into its corresponding set of relations. This perhaps is surprising to many since the steps andmechanism for converting an ERD into relational tables are not overwhelmingly

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to online resources will be adjusted tosee if those factors impact student performance and perceptions about the material.5. AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank Cal Poly Pomona Mechanical Engineering Professors AngelaShih and Jaehoon Seong for helping develop the hybrid course structure.6. References[1] Definition from Flipped Learning Network website. Accessed January 2015.< http://flippedlearning.org/Page/1 >[2] Bunce, D., E. Flens, and K. Neiles (2010). How long can students pay attention in class? A study of studentattention decline using clickers. Journal of Chemical Education, 87, 1438-1443.[3] Bishop, J. and M. Verleger (2013). The Flipped Classroom: A Survey of the Research. In Proceedings of the2013 Annual Conference

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River, NJ.3. Angelo, T.A. (1993). "A Teacher's Dozen: Fourteen General Research-Based Principles for Improving Higher Learning in our Classrooms." American Assoc. for Higher Education (AAHE) Bulletin, 45(8): 3-13.4. Donnelly, R. & Fitzmaurice, M. (2005). "Designing Modules for Learning." In: Emerging Issues in the Practice of University Learning and Teaching, O’Neill, G., Moore, S., and McMullin, B. (Eds.), All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE), Dublin.5. Fiegel, G.L. (2013). "Incorporating Leaning Outcomes into an Introductory Geotechnical Engineering Course." European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 38, No. 3, Taylor & Francis, London, 238-253.6. Bloom, B.S., Engelhart, M.D

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find work. Engineers who resettled in the United States had years of experience that variedfrom entry level technician to advanced managerial work, and encompassed activities that rangedfrom design to manufacturing to field work.Next, refugee engineers have a spectrum of educational degrees: Bachelor’s, Master’s, orDoctorate degrees in engineering from different schools with different standards and academiclevels. Even though the physics and mathematical aspects of all programs are almost the same, itis difficult for employers or licensing bodies to evaluate the quality of the education programs.The strong emphasis by licensing bodies for degrees from ABET-accredited programs andinstitutions can put these refugee engineers at a disadvantage

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

skills and foundation that is needed for the two majors, but also have agreat impact on retention for later engineering courses. Research indicates that students often getoverwhelmed by these two classes and change his/her major. The goal of this paper is to describea set of course supplement tools that we have used in these classes to improve the students’ learningand retention. Our freshmen programming class is usually populated with bimodal group ofstudents- some with exceptional programming background while others are totally inexperiencedin this area. In order to best utilize the class time and to make both groups of students happy aflipped mode type of instruction is used. Of which when providing students with additionalmaterials, they

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

360 The Paradigm Shift of Coursework Development Through Industry Partnership: An Account of the Development of a Course in Structural Engineering Masonry Building Design Dr. Craig V. Baltimore, and Dr. James Mwangi California Polytechnic State University, Department of Architectural Engineering, San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaAbstractAcademic partnering with industry is a paradigm shift that has taken many forms. The more recentdiscussions in this partnering paradigm shift concern the influence on the curriculum by thepartnership. By

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programs have gradually been re-populated with research Ph.Ds. instead ofjourneymen engineers, and the apprenticeship model of teaching engineering has been replacedwith a pedagogical model. We hire and reward professors for writing research grants rather thanfor stimulating innovation in the students or creating collaboration with engineering activity inindustry. Due to lack of experience in industry, what is taught in the curriculum is often notplaced into the context of the engineering risk reduction process. Consider how many of thegreat aircraft designers of the past century -- American or otherwise -- had a Ph.D. The answer,of course, is none. How many of these, regardless of their success in industry, could get a jobteaching aircraft design

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andethnically underrepresented students in Engineering classrooms. We also discuss our NSF-UCBerkeley funded collaboration on Context-Based Learning and the IEEE Santa Clara Section’ssupport for Engineering for Humanitarian and Social Change Projects at Ohlone College.Female and Underrepresented Ethnic Group Students in EngineeringTo continue advancement in energy science and research and to thrive in a global economy, theU.S. will have to rely on scientists and engineers to develop innovative and high-value-addedproducts and services, as well as improve productivity through the use of technology-basedtools.1 This pipeline of scientists and engineers, with its under-representation of women andunderrepresented minorities (African Americans, American

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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

-week summer research internship program for community collegeengineering students; a two-day summer engineering teaching institute that assists communitycollege engineering faculty in developing technology-enhanced instruction using tabletcomputers and distance education; and alignment of engineering curriculum and development ajoint engineering program among partner community colleges. The summer engineering instituteand the summer research internship program were developed in collaboration with San FranciscoState University School of Engineering, while the summer engineering teaching institute and thejoint engineering program were developed in collaboration with Los Angeles Pierce College.2. Summer Engineering InstituteIn 2008, Cañada

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modern collaborative research projects for students5) Establishing strong partnership with industry6) Designing interdisciplinary courses and research projects that require students to self-educateon broader scales of topics and study areas.At the department of Engineering Technology at CPP, these elements are emphasized andpracticed regularly at teaching and in-class levels. As the department is leaning towardsestablishing a strong research program in addition to existing teaching infrastructure, efforts havebeen dedicated to develop more active undergraduate research projects and elevate learning-by-doing capability of the department at the research level. To that aim, it is crucial to focus onmultidisciplinary areas of research that also have

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classes, and with other non-engineering communities at on-campusevents that promoted environmental sustainability and awareness of California water challenges.Impacts beyond the piloted classroom: 1) The videos produced by the engineering students have been used to teach younger engineering students and other Cal Poly Pomona non-engineering students about different water-related topics identified as a right-to-know. 2) Motivated by this pilot laboratory project, a Kellogg Honors College engineering student decided to work on a campus wide CPP water education research project that included 600 subjects. The project was completed as an Honor’s capstone project. Results are in preparation for publication.Challenges

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Enduring Engineering Education Built on the Basics and Reinforced throughPractical Problem Solution .......................................................................................................... 369A Proposed Grand Challenges Scholars Program in the Lyles College of Engineering ............... 376Expanding the Community College Engineering Educational Pipeline through CollaborativePartnerships ................................................................................................................................ 381Engaging Community College Students in Engineering Research through Design andImplementation of a Cyber-Physical System for Myoelectric-Controlled Robot Car ................. 394Visual Learning Tool for Teaching

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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 24–26, 2014.23 Codd, E. F. (2014, October 9). Summary of normalization rules. IBM Knowledge Center. Retrieved from http://www-304.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_11.50.0/com.ibm.ddi.doc/ids_ddi_191.htm24 Allen, B.K., & Romney G.W. (2015, March). Collaborative Academic-Government Agile Development of a Cloud Prototype Fire Retardant Drop Log Application for Wildfire Management, National University Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching, 8(1), 2015About the AuthorsBryan K. AllenLt. Colonel, California Air National GuardCommander, 146th Operations GroupPilot for American AirlinesMS Computer Science, School of Engineering and ComputingNational UniversityLa Jolla, CAbryan@allenfam.netResearch

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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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Baheej Nabeel James Saoud; Brian P. Self; Jim Widmann; Alexa Coburn; Jeffrey Phillip Georgette

for students engaged in inquiry-based active learningin a physics class.Both traditional and active teaching methods can also be described as deductive or inductive. Ininductive teaching, the direction of learning goes from a specific context to a general concept.The opposite is true for deductive teaching where the learning goes from theory to specific Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 462context. Traditional teaching methods take the deductive approach where the concept isintroduced

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introductory courses in computer science3. One of theauthors, Romney, implemented, in 2004, a virtual lab for teaching information securityconcepts11 as Hill et. al. had shown that “security is learned by doing.12” In 2011, Cavanagh andAlbert defined a virtual lab as “a facility that provides a remotely accessible environment toconduct hands-on experimental work and research information security4”. However, it is obviousnot to limit the concept of virtual labs to the realm of information security, but, rather, extendsuch technology to all of computer science. In an update to their original paper, Cavanagh andAlbert reported that the provisioning of the Maine Information Security Lab (MEISLab) requiredsecure access by students enrolled in distance

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Ronald P. Uhlig

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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from the instructor/tutor/TA or a lab-partner, may make itdifficult to indisputably credit the work as a result of student’s own knowledge or skills.Of course it is a well-known fact that cheating occurs during tests as well, and as research shows,in recent years unfortunately it has increased with the advances of technology1. However, testsare supervised/proctored activities, and cheating on tests is a serious but a different issue. In this Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 278paper we

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Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 482The authors appreciate the continued involvement of National University in distance learning andthe contributions of iNetwork, Inc. in providing the testbed environment for exploration of VICprocesses and future research.Bibliography1. Alexander, B. (2006). Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?, Educause Review, 41, 32-44.2. Cisco (2014, June). Retrieved December 10, 2014 from http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/ip-ngn-ip-next-generation- network

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assignments that start simple andget more complex, 2) an intermediate option to receive a hint (animation) before peeking at thesolutions, 3) a point system (stars) to encourage students to try without getting hints or peek, and4) the use of a few test questions at the end of each lesson where the hint and peek options aredisabled to assess student learning.These innovations will be incorporated in the SVT™ App and several pilot studies will beconducted (one using the SVT™ App with undergraduate students and several using the SpatialKids® App with K-6 students around San Diego county).References[1] Sorby, S. A. (2009). “Educational Research in Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for Engineering Students”. International Journal of Science Education. (31

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South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 1861. Barker, L. J. and Aspray, W., “The State of Research on Girls and IT”, in J.M. Cohoon and W. Aspray (Eds), “Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation”, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 3-542. Gansmo, H. J., Lagesen, V. A., and Sorensen, K. H., “Forget the hacker? A critical re-appraisal of Norwegian studies of gender and ICT”, in: M. Lie (Ed) “He, She and IT Revisited: New Perspectives on Gender in the Information Society”, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2003, pp. 34-683. Gharibyan