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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

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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to use acoustic sensors for non-contact, non-destructive structural health monitoring.After learning basic theory through a series of training workshops, the students performedexperimental testing with various configurations of an array of microphone sensors on a single-degree-of-freedom structure excited by an earthquake simulator. With the acquired data, severalpost-processing algorithms are proposed to extract the useful information and eliminateunwanted signals.In addition to the surveys, the participants were invited to participate in a 30-minute conversationabout their summer internship experience to examine the internships’ impact on interviewees interms of: i) engineering self-efficacy and commitment to engineering as a career; ii