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Monica Palomo P.E.

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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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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Baird W. Brueseke; Gordon W. Romney

International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (IEEE ITHET) 2004 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1-3, 2004, IEEE Catalog Number: 04EX898C; ISBN 0-7803-8597-712. Hill, J., Carver, Jr., C., Humphries, J., and Pooch, U. (2001, February). “Using an Isolated Network Laboratory to Teach Advanced Networks and Security,” SIGCSE’01, pp. 36-4013. Romney, G.W., Personal communication regarding “VMware Hypervisor Availability for University Research”, 2004 - 200914. Blackboard.com, Learning Management Solutions. Retrieved March 30, 2015 from http://www.blackboard.com Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference

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Estelle M. Eke

is executed via the NXT. Occasionally a situation arisesthat demands that both the instructor and the group of students work as a team to resolve theproblem. This allows the instructor to be included in the student’s plan and refrain frominterjecting a sophisticated solution that may be above the student’s level of comprehension.These situations benefit both the student and the instructor and can only be obtained fromexperience.IntroductionSince the Fall 2009 semester, the approach used in teaching the course Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving (ME 105) has been based on the model discussed in the paper ComputerApplications in Mechanical Engineering2. The mode of delivery is two 50-minute lectures and Proceedings of the 2015

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Thomas M. Korman

system, studentswould receive a total of one-hundred eighty (180) hours of instruction10. Similar to coursesoffered through an architecture program, their concept was teach each course in a dedicatedspace equipped with models, samples, contracts, marketing documents, specifications, estimatingguides, computer references, and other tools appropriate to that construction industry sector. Inaddition, the laboratory would be furnished with work stations for twenty-six (26) students whowould have twenty-four (24) hour/seven (7) days of week access to the space1.The concept for the commercial building construction management course was to focus on thework performed by a commercial building contractor who may self-perform various work itemsrequired for

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Martin Koch

freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid

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Norali Pernalete; Shima Hajimirza

problemswhile facilitating communication with different specialists in a team. As one of the leading collegesof engineering, our mission is to link theory and practice via our learning-by-doing philosophy.To be in alignment with this mission, students in both areas of engineering technology can take atechnical elective course in robotics and applications during their senior year. In this course, theylearn the basic principles of the science of manipulation along with basic control of roboticmanipulators. In the laboratory portion of the course, they work in interdisciplinary teams andbuild a robotic manipulator with the interface to teleoperate it by using a haptic device. They applythe system for specific tasks of activities of daily living (such as

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Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

solution methodbecame secondary. The students then believe all knowledge required for the solution of problemsis stored in the computer and does not need to be known or understood. Second, the engineeringeducators became fixed on research and assumed their students wished to pursue advanceddegrees. The fallacy of the assumption is most students want to seek employment after graduationand utilize the undergraduate education just received. This paper discusses the above postulatesand proposes some solutions and a system of practical courses to stress and utilize the basics forenduring engineering education.IntroductionObservations of some tenured engineering educators who teach undergraduate design coursesindicate a concern over the lack of emphasis

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faculty in the design and development of the teaching modules.Professional Development: Community college faculty participated in a research orientation,training in research protocol, laboratory safety, and scientific ethics, group meetings, andseminars on context-based pedagogical methods and online education. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 573Together, this breadth of summer experience made this a broad learning experience that took fulladvantage of the strengths of the university.Green and

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Dr. Mudasser Wyne, National University Dr. Lu Zheng, National University Keynote SpeakersDr. Don CzechowiczB.S. University of Southern CaliforniaM.S./Ph.D. Penn State UniversityDr. Czechowicz is currently Project Leader at General Atomics where he has worked for the last25 years on a variety of applied technology programs mainly focused on advanced energydevelopment. Previously Dr. Czechowicz was at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he didhis Ph.D. thesis research, and was involved in nuclear power programs for space applications.For the past 15 years Don has served as advisor to the UCSD Engineering Honor Society, TauBeta Pi. In this role Don has been a link between the best

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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

, Engineering, and Mathematics (HSI STEM) program.The Summer Engineering Teaching Institute and the Joint Engineering Program have contributedto strengthening California’s community college engineering programs by allowing small-to-medium programs to offer more online classes on lower-division engineering courses, many ofwhich would have been canceled due to low enrollment. As a result, the number of communitycollege engineering students who are able to take these courses and be prepared for upper-division courses upon transfer has increased. However, courses requiring laboratory componentsare currently not offered online at any of the partner colleges. As a result many students are notable to complete the required lab courses before transfer, and

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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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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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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

, communications, product delivery, and flexibility are important Agileconcepts.Although originally created for software development, Agile principles have been applied to anyprocess—software development, project management, and teaching. Management of the nationalMAFFS program is an example of Agile concepts in process management. The development ofMDL-System is an example of both Agile pedagogy and Agile application development.B. CollaboratoryA collaboratory is defined as being “virtual” and promoting “working together apart”5 (Kouzes,Myers, & Wulf, 1996), which has been perceived to significantly increase the output andproductivity of researchers. Collaboration is at the heart of science. NU finds satisfaction inbeing involved in community service

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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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emphasizes the underlying RATMCU instruction formats by having students disassemble machine code. The next threeexperiments involve the design of the RAT MCU’s program counter, memories (register file andscratch RAM), and ALU. The following three experiments incrementally assemble the RATMCU into a working computer in three stages: 1) a working computer with five instructions, 2) aworking computer with no interrupt capability, and, 3) the completed RAT MCU. The final twoexperiments involve the use of interrupts and interfacing with an external timer module. Thefinal laboratory experience requires students to use their RAT MCUs to implement a project oftheir choosing in order to learn assembly language programming practices associated withrelatively

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Gordon W. Romney; Baird W. Brueseke

470 Distance Learning Requirements for Vetting Curricula Gordon W. Romney1, Baird W. Brueseke2 1School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, California,/ 2iNetwork Inc. San Diego, CaliforniaAbstractEducational objects (eObjects) such as YouTube laboratories and pod lectures deluge the internet.Additionally, MOOCs and distance learning introduce escalating challenges for higher educationand institutional educators, particularly, in the area of course content validation. How can theseeObjects be