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Ryan Yedinak, Cañada College; Oskar Granados, Canada College; Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University; Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College; Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engi- neering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low- rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engaging Community College Students in Civil Engineering Research of Structural Health

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Yitong Zhao, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

their time-intensive nature and sometimes lowdegree of objectivity in evaluation. As a result, despite a few reports on oral exams beingused in classes4, written tests are still the mainstream of assessment.In this study, the author introduced a voluntary oral exam in a junior level mechanicalengineering course--"ME 301: Thermodynamics I". The impact on the grade performanceand students’ attitudes was evaluated. Since the process involved subjectivity inperformance evaluation, the author’s feedback was also examined. It is hoped that thisstudy could serve as a blueprint for other instructors who would be interested inimplementing oral exams in a thermodynamics course.2.1 Description of courseME 301 (Thermodynamics I) is a 10-week course for

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Vladislav Valeryevich Miftakhov, ASPIRES; Cody Del Prato; Søren Anders Tornøe, Cañada College; Kwan M Lim, San Francisco State University; ali attaran, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University

level of preparation and support that may not be feasible to scale to a level accessible to a large number of students. An effective research experience for undergraduate students requires proper definition of a focused research problem, proper training and mentoring. Here we present a summer research program in which we host a selected group of students in a research lab for summer research experience and survey the impact of this experience on their educational outlook. Through a collaboration between a community college focused on education and a 4- year higher education institution offering research opportunities, we have been able to host four undergraduate students from the community college in our research laboratory in

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Jayson Paul Mercurio, Canada College; Kevin Yamada; Jose L. Guzman, Canada College; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Alexander Choi, Canada College; Ayesha R Iqbal

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Paper ID #241732018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Inspiring Community College Students in Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing Research through Live Digit Recognition using Nvidia’s Jetson Tx1Mr. Jayson Paul Mercurio, Canada College Jayson Mercurio studies computer science at UC Santa Barbara. He is a recent transfer student from Canada College in Redwood City and interned at SFSU over the summer of 2017, working on image recognition with neural networks.Kevin YamadaMr. Jose L. Guzman, Canada College Jose L. Guzman is currently an undergraduate at Canada College. He participated in a research program

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Ava Madeline Bellizzi; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego

throughout thecountry to strengthen engineering students’ professional development. Dr. Barbara Jacobydescribes service-learning as a method of “experiential education in which students engage inactivities that address human and community needs” in a fashion that encourages “studentlearning and development”1,2. In the university-level engineering programs in which it has beenincorporated, service-learning has been recognized as beneficial to engineering students’educational formation for its emphasis on “cooperative learning” and “communityengagement”3. Specifically, this method has been shown to be especially effective in teachingfirst-year engineering students the principles of engineering design. When engineering studentswork with underprivileged

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Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matt Jamison Burnett, State University of New York at Canton

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Engineering Matt Thompson Student Field testing Mechanical Idaho Engineering Brian Lawler Faculty Event photography Communications California and Print DesignThe remainder of the paper describes how Convergence became a reality – from the engineeringdesign to the system tests to the final installation on the Grasse River. We conclude bydiscussing how well the project accomplished its goals and perceptions of the project’s impactfrom those involved in its making.Engineering DesignThe engineering design of Convergence can be divided into two major

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Ryan Carroll, Canada College; Brian Carrozza, Canada College; Yardley Ordonez, Canada College; Edgar Sanchez, Canada College; Andres Lee, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University

benefits of research opportunities for undergraduate students includingincreased student engagement in their education [1-3], enhanced research and laboratory skills,improved academic performance [1-5], increased student self-efficacy [6,7], and increasedunderstanding and interest for their discipline [1-4,8]. These studies also show that early andmultiple exposures to undergraduate research experiences offer the greatest benefit. Developingsuccessful research programs is particularly challenging in community colleges, most of whichdo not have on-going research programs. Establishing collaborations between researchuniversities and community colleges is key to engaging students in research early in college.In 2015, Cañada College, a federally

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Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University; Paul Gannon, Montana Engineering Education Research Center; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

. This now allowed faculty moving into thearea of EER to have all of their accomplishments acknowledged in the PnT review process. Itshould be noted that the MEERC did not have anything to do with the changes to the PnTpolicies at MSU; however, the changes had a significant impact on the number of faculty willingto engage in EER as an area of scholarship.Conclusion and Future ChallengesThe MEERC has currently been in operation for 1.5 years and has seen impressive success inincreasing the amount of funded EER research, the number of faculty engaged in EER, and thenumber of faculty submitting abstracts to the ASEE annual conferences. Moving forward, theMEERC still faces challenges on how to engage graduate students in EER. Without a Ph.D

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Tyler Jay Ashby, Utah State University; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University; Sarah E Lopez, Utah State University; Natalie L Shaheen, National Federation of the Blind; Benjamin James Call, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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. Indeed, there are noknown spatial ability assessments available to the blind and low vision population at this time.Just as the availability of spatial ability tests and interventions can positively impact sightedindividuals, making a spatial ability test available to the BLV population has the potential toopen a door to understanding spatial ability in this population on its own and compared tosighted populations. The use of a spatial ability instrument for the BLV population can begin toinform targeted curricular interventions to help BLV students develop their spatial ability, andconsequentially increase their preparedness for an engineering-related degree and career.This work also has possibilities to study spatial ability beyond solely BLV

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Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines

positive changes in practices and outcomes.While the intent of this course was that students learn the application of calculus, not justcomputational skills, the tasks and assessments were dominantly focused on computation. Theinstructors recognized the level of cognitive demand, outcomes, and tasks did not align with theintent of the course. The instructors shared that they wanted to revise the course based on anumber of factors: 1. most importantly (per the faculty members), they wanted to move students towards higher level learning outcomes (towards application); 2. the faculty also wanted to improve student reasoning and communication skills; 3. they wanted to engage students more in the learning process; 4. there was a

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Paper ID #241422018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Finding the Rainbow Needles in the Engineering Haystack: Connecting witha Hard-to-Reach PopulationDr. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian is the Managing Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Com- munities (MCEDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder). She joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic