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

attributes associated with their composite attributes of E.  Rule #2: For each multi-valued attribute A of an entity E, create a relation/table R whose attributes are composed of the attribute corresponding to A and the primary key of E.  Rules #3: For each entity A which is related to another entity B via an “ISA” relationship (i.e., A “ISA” B), include in the relation corresponding to A the primary key of B.  Rule #4: For each binary one-to-one relationship R between entities A and B with their corresponding relations S and T, include in S, the primary key of B. Further, if the relationship R has attributes, include them in S. Alternatively, choose T in the role of S.  Rule #5: For each binary one

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onset, it is the belief of the author that an orientationto engineering course should be designed based on the following criteria: a- An engineer is a creative, intelligent and wise person. Assure that the learning elements lead to improving such traits b- The curriculum review in such classes could work better once reasons for subjects studied are understood by students c- Dissection and re-engineering of product should be a necessary element in the curricula d- Puzzles Principles (defined next) is applied to design the syllabi of such coursesPuzzles PrinciplesBased on the above arguments and more, the author has developed the Puzzles Principles. Tounderstand the concept, the reader is asked to imagine a jigsaw puzzle (figure

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Klaauw, A. Haughwout, M. Brown and J. Scally, "Measuring student debt and its performance.," FRB of New York Staff Report, (668), 2014.[2] Z. Bleemer, M. Brown, D. Lee and W. Van der Klaauw, "Debt, jobs, or housing: what's keeping millennials at home?," FRB of New York Staff Report, (700), New York, 2014.[3] I. E. Allen and J. Seaman, "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States.," Sloan Consortium, PO Box 1238, Newburyport, MA 01950, 2013.[4] M. T. Cole, D. J. Shelley and L. B. Swartz, "Online instruction, e-learning, and student satisfaction: A three year study.," The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol. 15, no. 6, 2014.[5] C. Neuhauser, "Learning style and

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Figure 13(a) - Riemann sum Figure 13(b) - Riemann sum valuesThe exact value of the integrals can be obtained by the query integral of f(x) = x^2 on [0, 5]. 4. Wolfram Demonstrations projects and Problem GeneratorWolfram site has a large number of publicly available demonstration projects on variety oftopics in math and science. In these projectsthe essential parameters in the problems can bechanged while the system recalculates andupdates the graph. This clearly help studentssee the impact of individual parameter changeson the solution. Figure 14 shows a snapshot ofthe project2. The project allow students tochange the degree of a polynomial, pick thevalue of zeros from a preset range and observethe graph of the polynomial

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created on MicrosoftAzure Cloud and the same baseline software tested locally was, also, installed on Azure Cloud.Finally, SugarSync, a cloud file sharing service, was used to tie together a) all cloud platforms b)the local development environment, and c) the Azure production environment in the cloud. Onceback on-line, configuration files and web pages automatically synchronized between local,virtualized guest and cloud platforms. SugarSync is employed to provide automatic backup of thedata to ensure fault tolerance in both the local development as well as the cloud productionenvironments. Thus, an infrastructure utilizing free cloud services was created to produce a web-deployable application accessible by mobile devices. Proceedings of

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exam included 20 multiple-choiceproblem-solving questions (out of a total of 32) that had been used on the final exams for twopreceding offerings of the course with the traditional lecture format. The marks on thesequestions were added resulting in a total score out of 20.For both courses, the exam scores were compared for the flipped classroom offering and thetraditional lecture offerings using an unpaired t-test to examine if there was a significantdifference in performance between the 2 instructional approaches. The exam scores wereregrouped in categories corresponding approximately to the A, B, C, D ratings (A: 18-20, B: 15-17, C: 12-14, D: < 12). Two-way contingency analysis and a 2 test were used to examine if thescore distributions

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Hasmik Gharibyan

for the following, more advanced courses of the curriculum5,8. Insufficient knowledgeand/or skills in introductory courses represent a major hurdle for a student; the lack of necessaryfoundation causes problems in the following courses, and more often than not the student failseventually. For example, grade check of 10 lowest test-score earning students who passed DataStructures course in Fall 2013 shows, that in the following (Systems Programming) course 5 ofthese students received an F, 1 student withdrew and submitted a request for change of major, 2students received a D, and 2 students completed the course with C- and B- grades respectively.It may seem that lowering the weight of lab, project, and homework assignments in the overallgrade

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-assisted movement training compared with conventional therapy techniques for therehabilitation of upper-limb motor function after stroke." Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 83.7 (2002):952-959.11. http://biorobotics.eng.uci.edu/armrehab12. T. Nef, M. Mihelj and R. Riener “ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy”, Medical and BiologicalEngineering and Computing, Vol. 45, 2007, p.p. 887-90013. S. McAmis and K. B. Reed. “Design and Analysis of a Compliant Bimanual Rehabilitation Device” 2013 IEEEInternational Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics: June, 2013. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for

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M. Mohammad Ali; Hassan Badkoobehi

study, variograms were estimated for each collapse criterion and collapse related soilparameters (Table 1) using a discrete number of values obtained from test data at incrementaldistances corresponding to sampling locations throughout the area. These variograms (Table 3) arethen used in conjunction with ordinary kriging to estimate values of the parameters at un-sampledlocations. Indicator kriging6 was then utilized to produce contour plots of estimated probabilityand associated kriging variance for each parameter in each data set.Results and discussionResults of analyses showing probability contour of high collapse potential with estimation varianceare shown are in Fig 6 (a) and 6(b). The shaded zones show areas where there is a 60%-80

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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

model is utilized in this study. Figures 2(a) and 2(b) presents the hysteresis shape of aSDOF structure using the generalized Bouc-Wen model [7], respectively. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 41 Figure 2. Hysteretic behavior using the generalized Bouc-Wen ModelFor the CiPair program, the experimental substructure is 25% of total stiffness. The naturalfrequencies of the structure that are going to be analyzed are 0.25 Hz and 1 Hz. Both stiffnessand strength degradation are

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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

shrinking resources andcontinuing budget crises.This paper is a description of how a small Hispanic-serving community college in the SanFrancisco Bay Area developed effective partnerships with other institutions of higher educationand industry partners in order to create opportunities for underrepresented community collegestudents to excel in engineering. These partnerships led to programs that have increased theinterest, entry, retention and success in engineering fields among minority students. Among theseprograms are: a) a summer engineering institute – a two-week residential summer camp forsophomore and junior high school students; b) a ten-week summer research internship programfor community college engineering students; c) a two-day summer

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Zoulikha Mouffak

, 51-55, January 2014.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssign[5] http://webwork.maa.org/ Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 506[6] Renée S. Cole† and John B. Todd, Effects of Web-Based Multimedia Homework with Immediate Rich Feedback on Student Learning in General Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 80 No. 11, p 1338. 2003.[7] T. Buchanan, The efficacy of a world-wide web mediated formative assessment J. Comput. Assist. Learn

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Thais da C. L. Alves

Society for Engineering Education 97 Table 2: ABET (2011) student outcomes and student chapter activities ABET (2011) Student Outcomes Examples of student chapter activities supporting the outcome (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process Participation in community work and competitions. to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such

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stimulatecritical thinking.3. Critical Thinking though Computer Aided Design ToolLogisim10 is an open source free logic design tool. The author required students to design MIC-1processor described in the textbook3 by using Logisim. Computer aided design work allowsstudents to visualize the behavior of computer hardware architecture in more concrete way andengage students in critical thinking. It makes learning more interesting and meaningful tostudents.Mic-1 processor has two 32-bit data busses: B bus, and C bus. It also has a control store withmicro instructions used for sequence controls. In addition, it has Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU),shifter and multiple internal registers. This assignment has the following learning outcome.  Apply logic concepts

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, R. Bradshaw, and N. Weizenbaum. FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines. In PLDI, 2010. 12. S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S.-T. Leung. The Google File System. In SOSP, 2003. 13. S. Melnik et al. Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 3, No. 1 14. C. Olston, B. Reed, U. Srivastava, R. Kumar, and A. Tomkins. Pig Latin: a Not-so-Foreign Language for Data Processing. In SIGMOD, 2008.
 15. Hive. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive, 2009.
 16. G. DeCandia et al. Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store, SOSP 07, October 14-17, 2007, Stevenson, Washington, USA 17. Zookeeper project zookeeper.apache.org Proceedings of the 2015 American

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Estelle M. Eke

541 Introduction to Technical Problem Solving using MATLAB and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Estelle M. Eke Professor of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Sacramento. CAAbstractThe modern day engineering student is eager to combine theoretical principles with practicalaspects. This paper gives an overview of a junior level course titled “Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving,” that combines computer programming with engineering design. The use ofMATLAB and the LEGO Mindstorms NXT in

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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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Ronald P. Uhlig

available to demonstrate achievement of Student Learning Outcomes. However, theuniversity has not had Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs) for its computer science andengineering programs in the past. In preparation for seeking ABET Accreditation; a set of threePEOs were first developed for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) program in2011. The PEOs were integrated into the university’s extensive assessment review cycle, andmapped upward to the mission of the university and downward to the Student Outcomes. Thethree 2001 PEOs were expanded to four PEOs during review in 2014 by the BSCS ExternalReview Board and the computer science faculty. Seven Institutional Learning Outcomes areintegral to the National University mission. In order

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Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

258 Using Security Onion for Hands-On Cybersecurity Labs Ronald Gonzales, Alan Watkins, Chris Simpson National University, San Diego, CAAbstractHands-on learning allows students to apply and better understand the concepts they learn duringlectures and in reading assignments. Developing hands-on cybersecurity labs is challengingbecause many of the tools are proprietary and expensive. The creation of labs that simulate a realenvironment requires significant resources and planning. The use of real malware and networktraffic provides a more realistic experience but can add

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Laith Al Any; Jodi Reeves; Carl Josephson

cometo the United States from different parts of the world. A large number of these engineers chooseCalifornia as their permanent home. After arrival, most of these engineers realize that they needadditional preparation to meet the professional standards set by the state government and otheragencies. In the case of immigrant engineers, there is a tremendous amount of hard work and effortrequired by them to prepare for the FE exam, followed by the PE license exam. One of the authorsof this paper recently emigrated from the Middle East and went through this challenging processhimself to get his California PE license. He has developed a training program based on his personalexperience with the intention of helping others to obtain their engineering

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Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

132 From One to Many: Building an Effective Teaching Team for Capstone Courses Jim Helbling, Angela Beck Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, CAAbstractThis paper describes a shift from a solo instructor paradigm to a two-instructor team-teachingparadigm and then to a multi-instructor teaching team paradigm for senior-level capstone coursesat Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott campus (ERAU/Prescott). Specifically, thispaper recounts how various instructors and advisors joined a solo engineering instructor to

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145 Netshape Metal Casting, Rapid Prototyping and CAD/CAM 30 Minutes Art to Part Martin Koch Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Cal Poly, Pomona, CAAbstractThis paper will describe the evolution and transformation of a traditional foundry practices lab intoa Netshape lab which maintains the hands-on metal casting activities but integrates them withAdditive Manufacturing (AM) and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) for the rapid productionof patterns, molds, and castings. This is a one unit

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369 Flexible and Enduring Engineering Education Built on the Basics and Reinforced through Practical Problem Solution Jeffrey Ashworth, William Crisler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Prescott, AZAbstractStudents in any discipline learn and retain more when exposed to material that stimulates theirinterest. In engineering, all students must understand certain basics in mathematics, physics, orthe concepts of their chosen discipline. A student may be able to memorize or otherwise masteran advanced concept without the basic knowledge to verify the technique

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Thomas M. Korman

60 Using Mock Bid Simulations to Enhance Construction Engineering and Management Education Thomas M. Korman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CAAbstractIn the engineering and construction industry, many companies rely on competitive bidding toobtain work. Students can read about how a general contractor assembles a competitive bid andthey can listen to an instructor relay this information, but they do not understand how hectic anddemanding the process can be. Students need to understand the importance of analyzing

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platforms.Learning platforms allow the student’s work to be organized, and for digital resources to bereadily available, which can be submitted and reviewed. But also, students can communicatewith teachers and tutors.In France, except in experimental cases in a few penitentiaries, prisons are not connected tothe Internet. Therefore, educational and technical solutions for this particular setting must beprovided by instructors in higher education as well as instructional designers. The researchpresented in this paper is ongoing and it focuses on the project entitled, IDEFI (Initiativesd’Excellence pour l’enseignement et la formation innovantes) i, at the University of Paul-Valéry Montpellier.The objective of this project is to increase the success rate of

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Sandrine Fischer; Kelli Yogi; Eric J. White

knowledge (for an overview, see Hoskinson et al.1). Problem solving,whereby one applies abstract principles in an expert-like fashion in order to achieve a goal, playsa central role in this endeavor.In physics, such abstract principles are commonly embodied through equations and instantiatedthrough word problems. Problems often refer to idealized objects or events (e.g., a block slidingon an inclined lane). Yet, rather than eliciting abstract thinking, such problems reinforce roteassociation with formulas and restrict transfer toward “real-life” situations. Many scholars deemidealized problems responsible for students developing a formulaic approach toward problemsolving (i.e., “plug and chug”), and ultimately leaving introductory courses with poor

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Bari Ma Siddique

techniques to protect internet servers and provide security toonline education from such threats.1. IntroductionFor a millennium, universities have been considered the main societal hub for knowledge andlearning. However, over the last several decades, the basic structures of how universities produceand disseminate knowledge and evaluate students have shifted in a new direction due to societalchanges created by technology—computers, internet, instant messaging, e-mail, Facebook, andtweeter. The transmission of knowledge need no longer be tethered to a college campus. Thetechnical affordances of cloud-based computing, digital textbooks, mobile connectivity, high-quality streaming video, and “just-in-time” information gathering have pushed vast

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qualified to devise a practical solution to the problem. Thisprocess of sending a request for information is commonly known as the Request forInformation (RFI) process. The RFI process can occur multiple times on any given projectand for many different reasons. These requests have the potential to hinder construction and,therefore, need to be resolved promptly in order to minimize the impact they could have onthe flow of production. One option of expediting the RFI process time would be to create asubmission process that incorporates the use of instant technology through the internet, suchas the implementation of an RFI discussion forum. Having this avenue of immediatecommunication could have many benefits including increased project transparency