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Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ha Thu Le, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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engineering study means more than justattending classes or taking exams. The experiences also include meaningful community andsociety involvement and contributions.Impacts on college studentsService learning is a very good way to achieve several objectives for the education ofengineering students, including: 1) Ensure what the students learned are practical and realistic, applicable to the real world. 2) Guarantee that the students have in mind of serving the community when they are in school and keep that after they graduate. 3) Help the students to start to build good and sustainable community relationships while still in school. 4) Facilitate the students’ learning actively

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Lily Xiaolei Chen, California State University, Los Angeles

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. Projects that require the application of knowledgeleaned from lectures to real-world cases/projects are planned in the curriculum.For example, • after learning about function and mechanism of fire alarm system, students work on an assignment to further research effectiveness of fire alarms in various situations, including effective alarm system for people with disability. In this project, students are encouraged to propose innovative solutions to alert all kinds of occupants in a fire emergency. Some ideas include adopting built-in shaking alarms in a wheel-chair or bed, placing pre-recorded parents’ alerting voices as alarm in young children’s bedroom, etc. • after learning about using public announcement

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Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Prince Mehandiratta, Michigan Technological University ; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

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robotics programmer. Since there are nocommercially available remotely controlled robotic arms, and because robotic platforms arecostly, students and researchers are often unable to learn the concepts of programming industrialrobots. This project applies new concepts with available virtual robot technology to make a non-destructive, remotely-controlled robotic arm to better teach students and researchers aboutprogramming and control of robotic arms. By applying the remotely-controlled robotic armconcept, existing resources can be effectively shared with other universities to teachprogramming of industrial robots. Using this centralized developed system to allow remoteaccess to the physical robot, students can test their programs with a real

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Farbod Khoshnoud; Dario Robinson; Bruno Marco Quadrelli; Clarence W De Silva

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curriculum, including: self-powered solar Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles, energyharvesting systems, biologically inspired mechanical birds and insects, bio-inspired vertical axiswind turbines, jelly-fish inspired propulsion, nature-inspired techniques such as quantumnetworks, cryptography, and entanglement for multi-robotic/vehicle systems, which can be furtherenriched by service components. Connecting University instructions to real-world applications andcutting-edge technologies, as research-informed service-learning activities, results in engaging,attractive, and rewarding experience for the students. To demonstrate the research-based service-learning activity, a case study is carried out atCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona in

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Adrian Bituin, ASPIRES Program: Canada College & San Francisco State University; Krystal Kyain, Skyline College; Yardley Ordonez, Chico State University; Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University; Wen Li Tang, San Francisco State University; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, 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; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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responded that they gained better understanding of research and science,indicating that the exposure to research with fundamental science offered by this program, at anearly stage of their educational career, provided students a better understanding on the researchprocess, where to start if given a real-world problem, and how to implement the researchoutcomes to tackle the problem. Traditional education focuses on the understanding of theory,but not necessarily applying it to real-world problems. This summer internship opportunityallowed students to relate theories to real-world problems, something that is not always offeredin the classroom. In addition, this process better prepared students to take on future research intheir field and helped

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Mohammad N Amin, National University; Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Pradip Peter Dey, National University; Bhaskar Sinha, National University; Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University

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are now involved in building quantum computing machines using differentmechanisms of quantum physics, including ions trapped in electrical fields, superconductingcircuits, quantum cloud service, spins of a single electron, etc. The computer industries areworking hard to use their existing semiconductor resources and technologies combined withquantum principles to build the desired computing systems. In parallel, there is an urgent needfor a new generation of engineers, scientists, and programmers who can use quantum computersto solve real-world problems. This paper discusses some opportunities and challenges inquantum computing and preparing college students to fulfill the workforce demand. It furtherdiscusses how complex quantum computing

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David A Trevas, Northern Arizona University; John T. Tester, Northern Arizona University

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, materials, heat treatments, etc.) and observe the effects thatthose variations have on output quantities such as factors of safety. Automating the analysisprocess will allow students to get experience designing.Using computational tools to automate these complicated, time-consuming analysis processes ismentioned in the textbook, but this suggestion takes for granted that the students have theseskills. Our experience has shown that few students entering this course possess the programmingskills required for conducting this work in a timely manner, yet such kills are very useful in real-world engineering practice. We determined that integrating machine design with programmingthe students’ growth will be enhanced by our presented approach in both

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Pejman Akbari, California State Polytechnic University in Pomona ; Brad Kevin Thomas, Electro Mechanical Systems Engineering Technology; Christopher John Tait, Cal Poly Pomona; Colby Stark

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ofEngineering. Electromechanical Engineering Technology (EMET) Department as one of theundergraduate engineering programs incorporates theory and practice in a learning-centeredenvironment. The EMET program prepares students for careers in industry and emphasis is placedon application of engineering principles in solving real world problems. Successful students aftergraduation often find various opportunities in manufacturing, design, and many other related areas.After completing core courses, the EMET students are eligible and required to take a few electivecourses during their junior and senior years. These elective courses are specifically designed tohelp the students develop skills that are of use to industry. In other words, the elective

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Jay Tyler Davis II, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Sonya Dick; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bradley Wash, California Polytechnic University, SLO; Julia Holton, California Polytechnic State University: Department of Kinesiology and Public Health

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. The dynamics students learned about numerical differentiation, and in generalappreciated touring the HMBL. All students were required to plot the kinetic energy of the armand the internal loads at the elbow versus time, which were excellent real-world applications ofrigid body kinetics. The project was too open-ended, and the students struggled with coming upwith an algorithm to determine the exact motor learning stage. This project was conducted with small class sizes and involved approximately 30students from each major. We recognize that many other institutions may not have the advantageof a three-dimensional motion capture laboratory, but our work can still be expanded at otherschools. A number of low cost or free motion capture

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Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Christian Pierce Cross, Monolithic Power Systems; Robert L Halbach, Monolithic Power Systems; Majid Poshtan, Cal Poly

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form such as those commonly found in renewableenergy applications3,4 will require power electronics. Within power electronics, dc-dc converterscomprise the majority of power electronic circuits, with the non-isolated step-down or generallyknown as the Buck converter being the most prevalent topology. The popularity of Buckconverter is largely due to its ability in stepping down a voltage from one level to anotherregulated level. This is the condition that is commonly encountered in real world. For example,charging a cell-phone from a wall outlet will require to convert from the voltage level of theoutlet which is typically larger than 100V to a low voltage around 4V. Furthermore, a portableelectronic device operates from a single battery, and

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Siddharth Vyas, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo; Ali Dehghan-Banadaki, California Polytechnic State Uni.; Ali O. Shaban, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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in the modern engineering world where simulation environmentshave almost entirely replaced the physical drawing tools. This paper presents the use ofGeoGebra an easy to use and freely available online drawing tool to teach phasor diagrams toundergraduate electrical and mechanical engineering students. The use of GeoGebra in teachingStatics and Mechanics course topics has been published and appreciated[2, 3]. This paper willpresent the use of GeoGebra in drawing phasor diagrams of AC circuits containing resistors,capacitors, and inductors. A distinct and important advantage of the use of GeoGebra in drawingphasor diagrams over hand-drawn phasor diagrams is that GeoGebra allows the student tomanipulate the phasor diagrams to test their

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Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Adel Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles; Masood Shahverdi, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Arturo Pacheco-Vega, California State University, Los Angeles

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notspecifically target the freshman-to-sophomore transition [12, 13]. We therefore created aprogram that begins in the last term of the participants’ freshman year, with a service learningEngineering Ethics and Professionalism course, and allows students to work on service learningprojects for a local community organization in the summer. The design projects, with theirinevitable need to revisit design choices, teach students to build grit and learn from mistakesthrough the iterative process of design, build, and test. It also builds their engineering identity, asthey see themselves more as real-world problem solvers. The service learning aspect enablesstudents to see the impact of their engineering abilities on their local community and motivatesthem to

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He Shen, California State University, Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles

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Engineers” is used as example to explain detailsabout the utilization of the proposed course development and implementation process. Towardsthe end, the effectiveness of the development process in improving students’ learning outcomesis discussed. I. Introduction Lower division engineering courses are critically important for preparing students with thenecessary fundamental knowledge and skills for later technologically advanced courses. Manystudents find these “core” engineering courses in their middle two years of undergraduateeducation remarkably challenging, because the highly abstracted contents are hard tocomprehend. Moreover, these course content seem to have little connection to “real”engineering1. Many of these courses are also