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Zoe J. Wood, Cal Poly; Enrica Lovaglio Costello, CalPoly; Aaron W Keen, California Polytechnic State University; Christian Eckhardt, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

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.           Bibliography:    1. C. Alvarado  and Z. Dodds, “Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices,” in  Proceedings of  the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education , 2010, pp. 57–61.    2. W. Bares and B. Manaris and R. McCauley, “Gender equity in computer science through computing in the  arts – a six­year longitudinal study”, in  Computer Science Education , 28:3, 2018, pp. 191­210.    3. Barker, L. J., Garvin­Doxas, K., & Roberts, E. (2005), “What can computer science learn from a fine arts  approach to teaching?”, in  Proceeding of the 36th ACM technical

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Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Ricardo Jesus Colin, San Francisco State University; Alex David, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Danny Daneth Ceron Garcia

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Department of Education through the Minority Science andEngineering Improvement Program (MSEIP, Award No. P120A150014); and the NationalScience Foundation (NSF #1752255).Bibliography1. Olson S, Riordan DG: Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Report to the President. Executive Office of the President 2012.2. Gregerman SR, Lerner JS, von Hippel W, Jonides J, Nagda BA: Undergraduate student-faculty research partnerships affect student retention. The Review of Higher Education 1998, 22:55-72.3. Graham MJ, Frederick J, Byars-Winston A, Hunter A-B, Handelsman J: Increasing persistence of college students in STEM. Science

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Christine E King, University of California Irvine

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collection.We would also like to thank the students, instructors, and teaching assistants of the course fortheir participation in the study.References:[1] Mennin, S. (2007). Small-group problem based learning as a complex adaptive system. Teaching and TeacherEducation, 23, 303-313.[2] Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, F. P. (1991). Joining together: Group theory and group skills. Prentice-Hall, Inc.[3] Bhavnani, S. H., & Aldridge, M. D. (2000). Teamwork across disciplinary borders: A bridge between collegeand the work place. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(1), 13-16.[4] Bahner, B. (1996). Report: curricula need product realization. Mechanical Engineering-CIME, 118(3), S1-S1.[5] Ford, M., & Morice, J. (2003). Using micro management techniques

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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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groups.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is a Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Southern California. She conducts research on college transitions and retention of underrepresented students in engineering and also research about engineering global preparedness and engineering innovation. She also has research expertise in STEM K-12 and in STEM assessment. She chairs USC’s STEM Consortium.Dr. Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles Menezes is a Professor in Civil Engineering Department at CalStateLA. His specialization is in Environ- mental and Water Resources Engineering. Since becoming part of the faculty in 2009, Menezes has also focused on

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Xi Zhou, Northern Arizona University; Fang Lei, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Delbert D Willie, Northern Arizona University; Andrew Chrysler, Northern Arizona University; Liangbo Xie, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Phillip A Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Jie Yang, Northern Arizona University

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Chinese students is that they seldom ask anyquestions during the class, but they tend to gather around the instructor after the class and askquestions about the lecture. We believe this is related to the way students are expected to behaveduring lecture, which is to listen and not interrupt. As for NAU taught courses in China, theclassroom follows the more student-centered approach. Every NAU faculty would combine oneor several interactive class activities with traditional lectures to keep the students engaged inclass. Some typical activities include: a) Short Q & A sections: the roles are interchangeable as either the instructor or students can be the one to give questions. b) Asking students to answer short questions with a

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Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University; Camille S. Johnson, San Jose State University

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Paper ID #27845Progress on Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Growth Mindset and Be-longing Interventions in a Freshman Engineering ClassDr. Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University Dr. Jinny Rhee is the associate dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University. She oversees all aspects of the undergraduate programs in the college. Her research interests include admin- istration of programs supporting student success, in addition to thermal management of heat and power systems. Dr. Rhee received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (1995).Prof. Camille S. Johnson, San Jose State University

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Jim Kuo, California State University, Los Angeles; Justin Moon, California State University Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

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benchmark to quantify the effects of videos introduced in Fall 2018 semester. In each of thetests administered, one conceptual problem and one problem-solving problem were chosen forcomparison with previous cohorts. The scores prior to Fall 2018 (total of 98 students pre-video)were aggregated and used as a benchmark to compare to the Fall 2018 results (59 students post-video).Student performance on these assessment problems were categorized in letter grades of A, B, C,D, F. The authors are interested in whether the supplemental videos are effective in reducing theproportion of low performing students with D or F grades, as well as increasing the proportion ofhigh performing students with A or B grades. Note that a C grade is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad

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Pradip Peter Dey, National University

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, abaa, abaaa, abaaaa, abaaaaa, abaaaaaa, . . . }Assume that the Turing machine of Figure 2 has just begun to process the input by starting atthe start state (which is assigned number 1 for coding purposes). The Turing machine then takesthe first transition from the start state to state 3; this transition is marked by the triplet (a, a, R).According to this triplet, the machine reads the first symbol a from the leftmost cell of the tape,writes back a on the same cell and moves right. The result is shown in Figure 3, where themachine is scanning the second symbol, b, from the tape (after scanning the first symbol). Figure 3: A Turing machine for aba* which has just scanned the first symbolNext, the machine, from state 3, taking the transition

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James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John Chen P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Camaryn Elizabeth Chambers, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Alidod Ghazvini; Lisa Marie Kusakabe

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; all scores have been scaled to be out of 7Test Anxiety: The mean test anxiety score for Cal Poly (B=4.1) and the general SUCCESS survey(B=4.2) are nearly identical as shown in Table 5. These scores are similar to the other studiesexamined and reside in the middle of the range of scores. The other studies used for comparisonconsist of first-year engineering students at a U.S. school, STEM undergraduate students (majoritycomputer science major), and U.S. students of all different majors (attending either communitycollege, private university, or public university). The mean test anxiety scores from these studiesare 3.81-4.29. The students in the SUCCESS survey do not have significantly higher or lowerlevels of test anxiety than students from

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Michael Gee, Canada College; Anthony Akash Lal; Alex E Hercules; Tyler Sheaves, 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; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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survey confirmed that the participants formed a higher level of confidence in pursuing STEM careers after participating in this program. The scalability of this program to reach to a border student body is a challenge.9. Bibliography [1] Wicht, Bernhard, Thomas Nirschl, and Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel. "Yield and Speed Optimization of a Latch- Type Voltage Sense Amplifier." IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS , VOL.39 NO.07, JULY 2004 [2] E. R. Hsieh et al., "The demonstration of low-cost and logic process fully-compatible OTP memory on advanced HKMG CMOS with a newly found dielectric fuse breakdown," 2015 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Washington, DC, 2015, pp. 3.4.1-3.4.4. [3] M. Deloge, B. Allard, P

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

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instructor about their experiences with the course and any improvement that they believe is necessary. 5) The common goals for all projects are: (a) college students effectively learn the technical content; and (b) students learn to work with community partner(s) and provide meaningful service to the partner(s).The course taught in spring 2018 involved two separate team projects, which were independentlysupervised by two instructors, Ha Le and Zhen Yu. The first project is a solar project and thesecond project is a 3-D printing project. The projects will be described in details in followingsections.It should be noted that the prerequisite for this final capstone course includes two senior projectcourses

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Amy Huynh, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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understand thatthere exists variation in each experience and to be able to connect with the participants and theirnarratives. The following eligibility criteria will be used to identity research participants: ● Identify as female ● Have had at least one previous engineering internship experience ● Be enrolled in an engineering major ● Be currently enrolled in coursesSpecifically, the study will employ the following interview protocol to guide the interviewee:Interview Protocol 1. Walk me through your perspective on classwork and perceptions on becoming an engineer before your internship a. What made you seek an engineering internship? b. What were you expecting from your

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John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Cassidy Elwell, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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Paper ID #27796Diversifying Pathways in Cybersecurity through the Design of Holistic Com-petitionsDr. John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Oliver is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and the director of Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. His field of expertise is in computer architecture and system performance analysis with a growing interest in cybersecurity. His teaching activities focus on embedded systems and digital circuit design.Cassidy Elwell, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo c American Society for

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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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Paper ID #27838Engaging Community College Students in Cutting-Edge Research in Topol-ogy OptimizationMr. Adrian Bituin, ASPIRES Program: Canada College & San Francisco State University Adrian Bituin is currently an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Adrian obtained two Associate of Science for Transfer degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Skyline College prior to transferring to UCI in the Fall 2018 Quarter.Ms. Krystal Kyain, Skyline College Krystal Kyain is currently a student at