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

this program specified by theProgram Learning Outcomes. This study identifies criteria and determines ways to structuretechnical capstone projects to ensure development of valuable real-world learning experience bythe student that is transferable to a workplace environment. Current acceptable methodologies forstructuring capstone projects are evaluated and those which produce the best results in anaccelerated format for the Information Technology Management curriculum are identified. Thefindings suggest that structuring and designing the capstone project using these guidelines is apractical way of improving student learning, meeting the required learning outcomes of theacademic program, and completing a successful capstone project.Keywords

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

(PBL). Moreover, there will need to be more discussions andpresentations introduced at different levels within the program to highlight the Grand Challengesprojects. In the past, our case studies in construction failure, incorporated in various courses,have provided broad perspectives of the global infrastructural challenge. We intend to expand thecase studies application in other areas of grand challenges in the future.Hands-On Projects or Research ExperienceMultiple courses taught in CM are project-based, especially the capstone series. The selectedprojects have been at small scale, yet present real world challenges and sharpen students’problem solving skills, which are critical, as they take on greater scale projects in their futurecareer

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Craig V. Baltimore; James Mwangi

-traditional classroom ideas were explored and aframework for development was created where academic theory was used to introduce a topicand real world application used to apply the theory. The framework for Masonry Design coursewas as follows: o Incorporate hands-on practical student experiences where possible. o Interweave the governing building code with the theory. o Disseminate information by formatting the course for use by other universities. o Provide a mechanism for assessment in the market place. o Design curriculum with the knowledge and resources from supporting industry.The industry partnership for the Masonry Design course has shown success to date. The marketplace assessment is

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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

. Financial support from an industrialsponsor, along with regular contact between the industry representative and the student groups,presents a real-world setting for the course. Students must learn to work together to order fromoutside vendors, stay within a budget, and prepare for presentations. The Engineering Design Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 48Project gives about-to-graduate engineering students an experience which is, in an academicenvironment, as close as possible to the realities of how

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

emphasisco-op programs and find innovative ways to schedule these into the curriculum.A final concern for the aerospace engineering curriculum involves appearances of misuse of theundergrad capstone aircraft design course. Engineers know capstone is essential preparation forthat first job in the real world, since it may be one of the few opportunities, if not the onlyopportunity, an undergrad will have to integrate what they’ve learned in their coursework in thecontext of the whole system and to realistically exercise multi-disciplinary synthesis, leadership Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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Devin D. Cook

158 Flowgorithm: Principles for Teaching Introductory Programming Using Flowcharts Devin D. Cook California State University, Sacramento, CAAbstractFor students, the task of learning their first programming language can be compounded by thechallenges of syntax, semantics and superfluous code. Historically, programming languages had agentle learning curve requiring little syntactic or semantic overhead. Modern object-orientedlanguages, however, create a conceptual hurdle. Even the trivial Hello World program

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

portion of the course. This work-in-progress paper explains thedetail description of the project including design requirements, grading policy, and an example ofa completed project.IntroductionPower electronics is an enabling technology that allows us to convert energy from various typesof sources to useful electrical energy. Applications of power electronics therefore cover a widerange of appliances, tools, electronics that we use routinely in our daily lives. For example, manyappliances in our house use power electronics due to the need to convert from ac electricity to dcelectricity that operates the electronics inside these appliances. Even the latest energy savingLED light bulbs works because their ac input is converted to dc to run the LEDs

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Ranjan K Sen

304 Presenting Concepts of Big Data in Information Technology Curricula Ranjan K Sen Kapgari.Inc, Washington, D.C.AbstractIn the information technology industry today, there has been significant growth in rapid datamining and analytics applications that process very large volumes of data. This calls foradopting Big Data technology in the Information Technology curricula to prepare todaysengineer for the industry. This requires aligning existing curriculum to cover topics such asdistributed systems, parallel processing

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

settings. Laboratory exercises offer students an immersive experience which arespecifically designed to encourage problem solving skills in a real-world environment. Wenotice that many of our freshmen students are unprepared for basic courses in circuits and C++programming. Consequently, they are very frustrated in this kind of setting and thus this situationpushes them to change their majors. We also observed that our students are very much motivated Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 219by

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Thais da C. L. Alves

students get engaged with local organizations to promote energy efficiency awareness andmarket engineer careers to K-12 students.The involvement of students with student chapters also contributes for a change in theirperceptions about the engineering field and the engineering profession as observed by Litchfieldand Javernick-Will (2013)5. Students exposed to hands-on activities developed by studentchapters in real world settings realized that: they experienced how the engineering professionwould help them balance multiple interests related to application of technical knowledge andhelping communities; identified a niche that they wanted to work in, or even that they needed to Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education

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Paul Nissenson

timeand place most convenient for them. Now instructors can teach their courses with a hybridformat in which learning occurs both in class and online. These new technologies also enableinstructors to "flip" their classrooms; by moving some content online, in-class time is freed-up tofocus on the most troublesome concepts, discuss real-world applications of important topics, andincrease the hands-on nature of the curriculum.1There is growing consensus that the flipped classroom instructional model can have significantadvantages over traditional lecture-only model. Bunce et al. (2010) demonstrated that students’attention frequently wavers during lecture and they often miss important concepts.2 Flippedclassrooms help solve this problem by allowing

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Bari Ma Siddique

on questions like “Is an on-campus degree better than an online degree? Why are so many students choosing to pursue anonline education? “Below are the most common pros and cons of an online education [3]:Pros of an Online Education Flexibility– The main advantage of online learning is that it overcomes the distance, time, and pace barrier, i.e., students can participate in classes from anywhere, anytime, and at their own pace. The technology of Virtual Classroom access makes possible for students to keep up with other responsibilities while taking courses towards fulfilling their program requirement. According to U.S. News and World Report [4], online education offers excellent options for veterans because it allows them to

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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

needs and helped raise funds for adeserving organization in the community. Students were responsible for all aspects of theproject from start to end, including planning, management, marketing, fundraising, logistics, andimplementation. General objectives for the project approach used were to:  Enhance student learning, content integration and engagement by enriching the connection between classroom learning and real world applications, and  Integrate the university into the community and allow students to be on the forefront of that connection.Student learning outcomes addressed through this project and through related course topics wereas follows: 1. Develop a strategic management process 2. Identify mutually

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Wildfire Firefighting Resources.....................................................................1Emerging Paradigms in Engineering and Science Education ........................................................ 19Critical Thinking Pedagogy in Teaching Computer Hardware Design Course .............................. 28Engaging Community College Students in Earthquake Engineering Research on Real-Time HybridSimulation ..................................................................................................................................... 38Teaching Machine Design Using HILTI Machine Tools Industry/University Collaborative Project

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Ronald P. Uhlig

rolled out tousers or customers. To remain viable, businesses need to deliver real working systems, processes,components or programs and associated updates. To remain employed or to successfully continue theireducation, graduates need to know how the implementation process works and to both do it themselvesand work with those who are doing it. Therefore, SO #3 is a primary contributor to PEO #1.New ideas and new technologies can dramatically influence the implementation process. As graduatesgrow their abilities, they also grow their ability to participate successfully in continuing education as theyrecognize what new ideas and technologies can be used to improve implementation processes, to makethem faster, less expensive, or closer to meeting

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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

to this question are indicative of the diverse innovation thatcreative instructors bring to the teaching profession. A majority of the schools have identifiedthe benefits of providing students with both individual and group accessible machines. Eventhough the architectures vary significantly, it is important to note that this requirement isimportant to a majority of respondents.Figure 23/Q36: Does your current lab support assignments which require multiple vLANs?Commentary: The majority of labs did not support multiple vLANs. The primary reason for thislimitation is the additional administrative effort; required to setup and maintain complex networkenvironments. A faculty desires to teach students creative, real-world examples but is limited