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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

pre-post entertainment. Each sub-team was made up of a project leader, a project manager,and a secretary. Project deliverables included the 5K Run, but also included individual Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 249homework assignments, end-of-semester peer evaluations, weekly progress reports, and a finalproject completion report from each sub-team. The 5K Run Project will be repeated in Spring2015, but with a new community partner. Lessons learned from the first iteration were identifiedand will be

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

solving skills via creatively advanced educationalenvironments. That is, what counts for the coming years is the type and robustness of education.Well-developed problem solving skills has provided critical advantage to individuals, families,groups, communities, and nations. Great nations are built by great problem solvers, andeducation is the most important system for developing and enhancing problem solving skills.Well-educated engineers, technologists and scientists are in demand due to global competition.In order to build a vigorous economy with sustainable growth, creative educated modernproblem solvers are needed in the U.S5. As the nature of the problems changes, new approachesare needed for solving them and these new approaches are

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David J. Dimas; Faryar Jabbari; John Billimek

236 Comparing an Online vs. On-ground Undergraduate Engineering Courses in Dynamics David J. Dimas, Faryar Jabbari, John Billimek The University of California, Irvine, CAAbstractNow over one trillion dollars, outstanding student loan debt has ballooned by more than 400% inthe past decade while credit card debt only grew 25%. State and Federal legislators’ scrutiny ofthis significant increase in student debt has focused attention on time-to-graduation for bothfreshman starts and transfer students, increasing the total number of graduates and

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

student is obliged to spend a minimum of20 hours community service learning in construction related jobs as part of the requirement forthe an individual “S” designated course, thus, a total of 60 hours by the time of graduation.Furthermore, an internship became compulsory for students enrolled in the new curriculum.Students are required to work in the construction industry for minimum 600 hours to fulfill theinternship requirement. A hallmark of the new curriculum is the entrepreneurship component,implemented via seminar series, capstone sequence of courses, and extra-curricular activities. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society

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Jean-Michel I. Maarek; Brittany P. Kay

applied equally well in college classes for less experiencedunderclassmen and more advanced upperclassmen [1].We adopted the flipped classroom approach in a freshman-level Introductory course and a moreadvanced medical electronics course of our Biomedical Engineering program and measuredstudents’ performance on exams as well as students’ perceptions. The data was analyzed tocompare and contrast performance and students’ feedback with the flipped classroom approachfor student cohorts at different stages of their college training.2. MethodsThe flipped classroom model was implemented in two one-semester courses of theundergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. The first course was a “Medical Electronics”course that is required within the

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Gregg L. Fiegel; Nephi Derbidge

recently beganteaching this course using a similar approach. Daily quizzes offer an excellent opportunity tocollect formative assessments of student learning, which provide helpful information to theinstructor. In the paper, we summarize quiz results and experiences associated with twelvesections of the course taught since 2010. We provide background information regarding coursedesign and format. We also discuss the criteria followed in developing well-posed andappropriate quiz problems, and we present assessment results associated with over 6,000 quizzesadministered over the past five years.BackgroundInstructors teach the subject introductory geotechnical engineering course in the third year of anundergraduate civil engineering curriculum. At

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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

licenses as well. Morethan 50% of the immigrant engineers who attended one of these training programs successfullycompleted their exams and received their Engineer-in-Training certification, which is a pass ratehigher than the national average. This paper describes the curriculum, and best practices, andstrategies adopted for this program. While this program was specifically designed for recentimmigrants in California, lessons learned can be applied to other students interested in preparingfor the FE or PE exams as part of the engineering licensing process.IntroductionNew immigrants are strongly represented in US engineering occupations, making up about one-quarter of the engineering workforce1. However, new immigrants often face special

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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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Ranjan K Sen

and coordination, fault-tolerance, scheduling andload balancing. In this paper we identify core concepts to be include in new courses. Wealso look at a typical Information Technology curriculum and present an approach ofredesigning it to address the need. It identifies ways to extend, modify or replace existingcourse components to introduce these concepts in both four-year undergraduate andgraduate programs.IntroductionThe convergences of intelligent devices, social networking, pervasive broadbandcommunication, and analytics is ushering a new economic era that is redefining relationshipsamong producers, distributors and consumers of goods and services. The key features of thedata are its very large volume, high speed processing and the

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. Project requirements are real and usually involve multiple disciplines like engineering, technology, and business. This provides the students a valuable opportunity to understand that a project involves many actors (developer, administration, customer, etc.) and all converge together with their specific requirements.B. Ensure the Project Meets all PLOs: It is imperative that the capstone project meets all the PLOs required by the program. The NU BS-ITM program is a professional curriculum based on modern Information Technologies (IT) and IT management techniques. It facilitates students to learn analysis, problem solving techniques, advanced IT design, and IT management. The mission of the program is reflected in the PLOs as

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Thomas M. Korman

construction of the Construction Innovations Center (CIC) on the Cal Poly campus. Aspart of the fundraising effort for the new $33 million, 30,000 square foot building which includesseven (7) dedicated labs, twelve (12) classrooms and lecture halls, and faculty offices, which wasdedicated in October 2008, it was the goal of the College of Architecture and Environmental Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 62Design (CAED) to create an interdisciplinary learning laboratory for the CAED where

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Paul Nissenson

67 Impact of a hybrid format on student performance and perceptions in an introductory computer programming course Paul Nissenson Department of Mechanical Engineering California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractThis study describes the development and implementation of a hybrid format with a flippedclassroom approach in an introductory computer programming course for mechanical engineers atCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Two sections of the coursewere taught during Spring

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

application of principles and concepts inreal-world context or technology implications.11 Additionally, scientific principles are typicallytaught in scientific discipline silos, without real-world application that can span more than onescientific discipline.Responding to the challenges identified in the PCAST report, UC Berkeley created a researchexperience program for community college faculty, called RET in Engineering and ComputerScience Site: UC Berkeley's Context-Based Research Experience for Community CollegeFaculty (also referenced as the UCB Context-Based RET Site in this article) that offeredcommunity college faculty a nine-week experience that integrated individual hands-on researchwith team-based curriculum development to enable new

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 372to aerodynamics. This lack of practical knowledge stimulated the author to develop aprerequisite course in aircraft flight mechanics and performance to aide student success inaircraft design. Now the capstone aircraft design courses have been modified to accommodatepractical design and wind tunnel testing methodology to develop the best solution.In the first new course mentioned above (Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance), lectureand research techniques are

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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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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

(contents and activities) of mechanism and machine theory (MMT) arepresented in Jin et al.13. The new approaches aim to develop students' abilities in engineeringdesign, including the ability to apply basic knowledge of science to engineering design, theability to design and carry out experiments, the ability to make some engineering designsunder realistic constraints, the ability to communicate effectively and function in a designteam, the ability to use modern engineering tools, and the ability to identify and formulate anengineering problem. The outcomes of the reforms are also presented in Jin et al.13. In thework of Seif14, design case studies developed through the National Science Foundation (NSF)Coalition, SYNTHESIS, to initiate systemic

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John T. Tester

lecture section. Thatsection requires both strength of materials (sophomore level) and Materials Science (junior level) asprerequisites. These requirements are not unusual for a manufacturing course or lab; for example,the University of Tennessee-Martin has had essentially those same requirements for years, and otheruniversities are undoubtedly similar.6 These requirements are understandable in an engineeringprogram, as a student should understand the basic engineering principles behind the manufacturingprocess under observation. These curriculum needs must be balanced by the advantages achievedwhen juniors and seniors can approach project-oriented design classes with basic manufacturingknowledge already in hand. However, it is unfortunate that

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Ronald P. Uhlig

 Participating in continuing education opportunities enabling them to understand and apply new ideas and technologies in the field of computing  Effective communicators and team members  Active contributors to their community and their professionConsistency of PEOs with National University Mission Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 208National University has seven Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)6

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andphysics segment lab activities into separate “credit” courses which generate fees and associatedremuneration for a faculty participation in the lab setup and instruction process. In comparison,computer science degree programs do not often take this approach, and, consequently, computerscience instructors often create and implement labs in their “free” time.Figure 11/Q16: How frequently do laboratory assignments change in order to keep up withindustry trends?Figure 12/Q25: Are the labs updated when the course curriculum/text book edition changes?Commentary: Only one school said “no” to this question. Comparison of the positive responsesto this question with the negative responses in Figure 9 provides definite proof that faculty has akeen

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VicePresident of Product Management & Engineering for the wireless terminals division of SamsungTelecommunications America. He began his career as an associate professor of electricalengineering at Lakehead University, Canada. He has authored more than 30 technicalpublications and received five patents with several patents pending.Dr. Justin P. OpatkiewiczB.S. U.C. BerkeleyPh.D. Stanford UniversityDr. Opatkiewicz joined the NanoEngineering Department at UC San Diego in 2012 to lecture in avariety of core courses in the Chemical Engineering curriculum. He has won the Teacher of theYear Award for both the NanoEngineering department and the Jacobs School of Engineering in2014. While at Berkeley, Dr. Opatkiewicz created and taught the course

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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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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

process to trackenhancements made to a course module. The outcome of this paper is to demonstrate a VICsolution to leverage the challenges presented by the openness and transparency of the internet. Theauthors posit that this approach to vetting of curricula content, whether it originates in traditionalacademia, or from the openness of the internet will promote open contribution of new material andensure the proper remuneration to the IP owner of any traditional or eObject employed by MOOCsor other distance learning services.Keywords: Accreditation, cloud, curricula, digital signature, encapsulation, peer review,provenance, vetting, Virtual Instruction CloudIntroductionThe openness, usage, growth, social nature, leading technology, and mobile

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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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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