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Shuping Wang

them to succeed intoday's fast paced world of electronics and communications, an existing course has beenrevised and updated to include CWDM principles and their implementation examples in thecurriculum. Challenges to include CWDM in the current curriculum include the fact that adifferent set of knowledge and skills on optical sources, photodetectors, amplifiers, etc. needto be integrated into the current one-semester course that only briefly introduces optical fibercommunications. We present in detail the challenges and the methods we use to overcomethem.KeywordsCWDM, 100Gb/s Ethernet, 40Gb/s Ethernet, Telecommunication.Introduction of DWDM and CWDMDense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a technology that expands the capacityof a

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Jun-Ing Ker

completelymissing in the current curriculum.In light of this weakness in our curriculum, this study aimed at providing an innovative way forindustrial engineering juniors to apply the process improvement skills learned in INEN 401 tohelp improve the quality of centrifuge pumps they fabricated in ENGR 120 Engineering ProblemSolving I. ENGR 120 is one of the three fundamental freshman engineering courses in LouisianaTech’s Integrated Engineering Freshmen Curriculum “Living with the Lab”. All freshmenengineering students are required to take these three fundamental engineering courses in theirfirst year of study. These include students majoring in biomedical engineering, chemicalengineering, civil engineering, cyber engineering, electrical engineering

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Diana Easton

business andindustry influencers that inform or constrain the regulated product lifecycle are essential tosuccessful innovation-to-commercialization. It is the inherent strength of this team that is oftenwhat makes a product commercially viable for clinical use, and sustainable. In industry, thesemultidisciplinary teams are often led by highly competent engineers. However, employers are inneed of engineering professionals with an interdisciplinary background, who understand how topractice their skill in the regulated environment.While engineering programs focus on instilling the technical skill in students, regulatoryknowledge and regulatory science, or the practice of regulation, has not been holisticallyintegrated into engineering curriculums

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Wei Zhan

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference WEAVEonline: An Assessment and Planning Management System for Improving Student Learning Wei Zhan and Jay Porter Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEvery degree-granting program at Texas A&M University is required to participate in theassessment of student learning outcomes using WEAVEonline system. The assessment data isthen used to identify improvement opportunities.WEAVEonline is a management system for program assessment and planning. Specific studentlearning outcomes are identified or revised at the beginning of each

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Patricia Polastri; Mojeed Awonuga

. The NSE needs to advocate for the enactment of stronger legislations againstenvironmental pollution in the country. The organization should also be a vital voice in thereview of the engineering curriculum at institutions of higher education, making environmentalsustainability an integral part in this area of study. Currently, environmental related courses atuniversities and polytechnic institutes are taught as general elective courses32. There is a needfor the prompt inclusion of sustainability topics in the curriculum of engineers and in academiain general. The NSE is the professional engineering body in Nigeria having the right acumen tolead the path setting the benchmark for environmental standards to be applied. The NSE is theorganization

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Dani Fadda P.E.

curriculum. A numerical project, which is subject of thispaper, was offered during the summer semester of 2016 as part of the lecture course (MECH 3320).Projects are often used to help clarify concepts of heat transfer that are difficult to explain in alecture style course (Cirenza et. al.1). These projects can include rigorous challenge-based learningexperiments (Cirenza et. al.1) or the use of low cost desktop-scale apparatus (Recktenwald2) ordesign and build projects (Sozen3) or other experiments. Numerical projects using Excel arepresented by Edwards and Lobaugh4. Numerical and experimental projects are also presented byHossain et. al.5. Students benefit from the projects which can help in teaching (e.g., abovereferenced papers) or to repair

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Tony McClary; Germain Degardin; John Kulpa; Patricia Sullivan; Karen Trujillo

Exploratory Activity (LCPS Challenger Center for Space Science Education) 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Reflective/Down Time 9:00 pm Lights out/ Bed TimeThe NM PREP Academy is a two-week residential, immersive engineering education programwhere students are fully immersed in an engineering curriculum from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.Beyond the engineering curriculum, the participants also engaged in exploratory activitiesdesigned to improve teamwork, leadership, and to expose the students to various experiences Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference

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Luis Martinez Medellin; Edward Pines; Patricia Sullivan; Arthur Cox; Motoko Furuhashi

demand for higher resolutionequipment created an opportunity to develop a strategic alliance with the NMSU ArtDepartment.Students are not required to pay to use the resources available at the AIS. All that is required forthem is to follow a consultation process through their interaction with the AIS and to be willingto acquire a new skill outside of their academic curriculum. Currently, the AIS has seen anincrease in non-engineering projects being consulted, which presents an invaluable opportunity Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Educationto promote

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Pranav Bhounsule; Deborah Chaney; Lorena Claeys; Randall D. Manteufel

children in elementary- and middle-schools with a high Hispanic population (greaterthan 90%) to help them prepare for the FIRST® LEGO® League tournament.Service Learning (SL) is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful communityservice with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civicresponsibility, and strengthen communities. SL is more than volunteering because it has acurriculum associated with it. SL is not an internship because it is designed to meet specificcommunity needs [3]. In the robotics course at UTSA, a part of the curriculum are the labs inwhich students use LEGO® Mindstorms® to solve and/or simulate real-world problems (e.g.,parallel parking, localization, line following). The