Conference Session

Technical Session 2d

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Andrew W Hostler, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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feel they do not know enough yet to be avaluable contributor to a club or instructionally related project team.Some schools have attempted to give lower division engineering students hands-on project instruction byintroducing freshman design courses into the required curriculum​3-7​. These courses have proven verysuccessful, but may not be possible to implement at many colleges and universities due to resourceconstraints - practical hands-on courses require a low faculty to student ratio and schools may just nothave the funds to staff enough sections.This paper describes an approach to give lower division engineering students a structured introduction tohands-on engineering skills in a resource constrained environment. The approach is a 10

Conference Session

Technical Session 3a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nolan Tsuchiya PE, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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potentialimpact. In Winter 2017, the students in these key upper-division courses were split among thosewho have taken the redesigned ME100L and those who have taken the older version; within thenext couple years, almost all of the students who took the older version will have left theprogram. Surveys were administered across seven courses to assess whether or not the studentshave retained, appreciated, and/or applied the content from the updated ME 100L.2 Summary of course redesignA detailed account of the redesign has been previously documented1. Briefly, ME 100L is anintroductory freshman course that serves over 400 students per year. It is a 1-unit courseconsisting of a 3-hour lab held once per week. The following table summarizes the keydifferences

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Oskar Granados, Cañada College; Maryam I Khan; Manuel Alexis Ramirez, San Diego State University; Madoka Oyama, Cañada College; Nathan Carlson, Cañada College

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his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue Univer- sity, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design in nano-electronic technologies. He has published more than one hundred technical papers in journals and conferences and holds five U.S. patents. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on

Conference Session

Technical Session 4a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ruth E. Davis, Santa Clara University

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determine whetherthe impact of these factors on success (i.e., whether students graduate with an engineeringdegree) were independent of gender and race identity.The following hypotheses were posed: 1. High school preparation, the number of AP classes and exams in mathematics and science will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 2. Initial commitment to engineering will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 3. Confidence in one’s abilities will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 4. Internal motivators, such as interest in engineering activities, will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 5. A higher perceived social value of

Conference Session

Technical Session 3c

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Maria Pantoja, California Polytechnic State University san Luis Obispo; Drazen Fabris, Santa Clara University; Aaron Melman, Santa Clara University

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for Q&A to allow students to add pictures (so they canmeet each other) and make it easier to search.Bibliography[1] Brandao J; Carvalh V. “Game Quiz”-Implementing a serious game platform based in quizgames for the teaching of information and technology. 11th International Conference IEEEremote engineering and virtual instrumentation 2014[2] MATLAB and Statistics Toolbox Release 2012b, The MathWorks, Inc., Natick,Massachusetts, United States.[3] Pensky, M. (2001). “Digital Natives, digital immigrants.” On the Horizon. 9 (5), P. 1.[4] Bradford, M.; Muntean, C.; Pathak P. “An analysis of flip-classroom pedagogy in first yearundergraduate mathematics for computing” 2014 IEEE Frontiers in education conference.[5] Paturusi, S. ;Chisaki. Y

Conference Session

Technical Session 3b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Brandon J Leung, San Jose State University; Yuting Huang, Canada College; Fernando Lorenzo, 3D Convenience; Sergio Rodriguez-Reyes, San Jose State University; Janine Criselda L. Young, University of California, Berkeley; ali attaran; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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in conducting the research; while the faculty advisor met them on aweekly basis for the discuss the overall project progress and challenges. The research wasdivided into several milestones each with specific completion deadlines so that students couldassess their progress. At the beginning students where provided with some textbook and simplearticles covering he background needed to understand the research problem. The graduatestudent mentor also spend time tutoring the interns on the background subjects.Table 3 shows the improvements in technical skills obtained by students going through theinternship program. Most notably students’ understanding of a scientific approach to realproblems improved significantly. Students also showed

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring, Canada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College

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workforce.1,2 The California Community College (CCC) system, with its 113colleges enrolling over 2 million students, will be a major contributor to this effort.3 However, atpresent many CCC engineering students lack sufficient access to some of the lower-division(LD) engineering courses needed for successful transfer acceptance into public universityprograms in the state.4 More than half of the 113 CCCs offer few if any of the LD engineeringcourses, and among those that do sustain a reasonably comprehensive LD engineeringcurriculum, most offer only one section of each engineering course per year.In an effort to increase access to LD engineering courses by CCC students, the Joint EngineeringProgram (JEP) was created, developed initially through a

Conference Session

Technical Session 2d

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Patrick McDonnal, Indicate Technologies, Inc, Santa Clara, CA 95050; Jean L. Lee, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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." International Standard (2006): n. pag. International Organization for Standardization. Web. 18 May 2016.7. "Policy for the Use of Human Subjects in Research." - Research and Economic Development. Cal Poly Research and Economic Development, n.d. Web. http://research.calpoly.edu/HS-policy. Accessed 18 May 2016.8. Brophy, Jere. Motivating Students to Learn. 2nd ed. Mahweh: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, 2004. Web. 18 May 2016.9. Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn, Board on Children, Youth and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and National Research Council. Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn. N.p.: National Academies

Conference Session

Technical Session 3d

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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a specialized audience (technical personnel in their field). - (g)8. Please rate the overall presentation of the MeSEE project on the students’ ability to communicate with design/manufacturing oriented mindset in solving complex engineering/technical problem. - (g) For items 1 through 8 Likert scale used (1 – 5: 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest): Low =1 Fair =2 Good =3 Very Good =4 Excellent =59. From your perspective, how productive was the team overall (in completing their MeSEE Project with design/manufacturing oriented mindset in solving complex engineering/technical problem)? 1. Accomplished minimum of the MeSEE project’s