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Technical Session 5a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20655Strengthening Community College Engineering Programs through Alterna-tive Learning Strategies: Developing an Online Engineering Graphics CourseDr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20709Strengthening Community College Engineering Programs through Alterna-tive Learning Strategies: Developing an Online Engineering Circuits Labo-ratory CourseMr. Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College Tom Rebold has chaired the Engineering department at Monterey Peninsula College since 2004. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and has been teaching online engineering classes since attending the Summer Engineering Teaching Institute at Ca˜nada College in 2012.Dr. Amelito

Conference Session

Technical Session 3c

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Maria Pantoja, California Polytechnic State University san Luis Obispo; Drazen Fabris, Santa Clara University; Aaron Melman, Santa Clara University

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20689Online Matlab/Octave tutorial to help non-computer science engineering stu-dents improve programming skillsProf. Maria Pantoja, California Polytechnic State University san Luis Obispo Maria Pantoja Computer Engineering Computer Science & Software Engineering Office: 14-211 Phone Number: 805-756-1330 Email: mpanto01@calpoly.edu Homepage: https://cpe.calpoly.edu/faculty/mpanto01/ Biography B.S., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Ph.D., Santa Clara University Research Interests High Performance Computing

Conference Session

Technical Session 1c

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Alvaro Monge, California State University, Long Beach; Panadda Marayong, California State University, Long Beach; Shadnaz Asgari, California State University, Long Beach; Birgit Penzenstadler; Praveen Shankar, California State University, Long Beach

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BUILD) Program. Her primary research interests are in the areas of human-robot cooperative systems for application in rehabilitation, aviation safety, and manufac- turing. Additionally, she co-directs numerous engineering outreach programs for underrepresented K-12 students. She has been the faculty advisor of the CSULB Society of Women Engineers chapter since 2008.Dr. Shadnaz Asgari, California State University, Long BeachBirgit PenzenstadlerDr. Praveen Shankar, California State University, Long Beach c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Recruitment and Retention Efforts to Broaden Participation in Four Computing and Engineering ProgramsAbstract

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Technical Session 5b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring, Canada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20697Strengthening Community College Engineering Programs through Alterna-tive Learning Strategies: Developing Resources for Flexible Delivery of a Ma-terials Science CourseDr. Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin Erik Dunmire is a professor of engineering and chemistry at College of Marin. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Davis. His research interests include broadening access to and improving success in lower-division STEM education.Mr. Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula

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Technical Session 4a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Ruth E. Davis, Santa Clara University

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determine whetherthe impact of these factors on success (i.e., whether students graduate with an engineeringdegree) were independent of gender and race identity.The following hypotheses were posed: 1. High school preparation, the number of AP classes and exams in mathematics and science will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 2. Initial commitment to engineering will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 3. Confidence in one’s abilities will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 4. Internal motivators, such as interest in engineering activities, will be positively related to success in engineering programs. 5. A higher perceived social value of

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Technical Session 4a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Elizabeth Fife, University of Southern California

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20719Understanding the Impact of Engineering Through Engagement with the Na-tional Academy of Engineering Grand ChallengesDr. Elizabeth Fife, University of Southern California Sr. Lecturer, Engineering Writing Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern Cali- fornia. Expertise areas include: communication in collaborative environments, multidisciplinary groups, and far-flung virtual teams, communication support for open innovation inside and outside the enterprise, and finally, techniques to

Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; Jean S Larson, Arizona State University; Claudia Elena Zapata, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University; Edward Kavazanjian Jr., Arizona State University; Nasser Hamdan, Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20690Supporting Engineering Education with Instructional Design: The Case ofan Introductory Module on Biogeotechnical EngineeringMs. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal is currently a doctoral student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies program at Arizona State University. She received her master’s degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic Uni- versity, New York. Medha has been working as a research assistant at the Engineering Research Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired

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Technical Session 5a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Alexander Sebastian Furlanic, San Francisco State University; Philip A. Thomas, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Panfilo Jesus Armas, SFSU; Rene Parra Medina, San Jose State University; Jackie Lok; 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; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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have the ability to work independently. 4.25 4.25 0.00 I am part of a learning community. 4.46 4.50 0.04 I have a clear understanding of the career opportunities in science. 4.18 4.43 0.25*The change is statistically significant at p < 0.050.** The change is statistically significant at p < 0.001.ConclusionThe ASPIRES Summer Internship program has been successful in providing unique researchopportunities for students, epically those from underrepresented minority groups. There werefive research groups in the internship program. Each research group has specific ongoingresearch project related to the faculty advisor. In this Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Technical Session 2d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Andrew W Hostler, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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feel they do not know enough yet to be avaluable contributor to a club or instructionally related project team.Some schools have attempted to give lower division engineering students hands-on project instruction byintroducing freshman design courses into the required curriculum​3-7​. These courses have proven verysuccessful, but may not be possible to implement at many colleges and universities due to resourceconstraints - practical hands-on courses require a low faculty to student ratio and schools may just nothave the funds to staff enough sections.This paper describes an approach to give lower division engineering students a structured introduction tohands-on engineering skills in a resource constrained environment. The approach is a 10

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Technical Session 5b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Oskar Granados, Cañada College; Maryam I Khan; Manuel Alexis Ramirez, San Diego State University; Madoka Oyama, Cañada College; Nathan Carlson, Cañada College

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engineering from McGill University, Montreal, MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Francisco State University and the Engineering graduate program coordinator. His areas of interest are communication networks, sensor networks, and IoT. Dr. Shahnasser has been a research faculty consultant to NASA Ames Research Center projects since 1990 and has collaborated on several research grants with that organization since then. He has received grants from NASA, NSA, Department of Education, National Science Foundation and various private companies carrying out

Conference Session

Technical Session 5a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jeffrey Thomas Yan; James LeRoy Dalton, Cañada College; Kattia Chang, Engineering Student at Cañada College; Bianca Corine Villanueva Doronila, Canada College; Victor Josue Melara Alvarado, Canada College; Christopher Thomas; Ian M Donovan, San Francisco State University; Kartik Bholla; 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; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kazunori Okada, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design. He has served on technical program com- mittees of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design, and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Dr. Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences from Tsinghua University, China, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. Hao Jiang has been with San Francisco State University since

Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017

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Technical Session 5c

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Qiushi Wang, Arizona State University; DONGDONG ZHANG, Chongqing University, Arizona State University; Zhenmin Tang, Arizona State University; George G. Karady, Arizona State University

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and Doctor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Technical University of Budapest in 1952 and 1960, respectively. Dr. Karady was appointed to Salt River Project Chair Professor at Arizona State University in 1986, where he is responsible for the electrical power education and performs research in Power Elec- tronics, High Voltage Techniques and Electric Power. Previously, he was with EBASCO Services where he served as Chief Consulting Electrical Engineer, Manager of Electrical Systems and Chief Engineer of Computer Technology. He was Electrical Task supervisor for the Tokomak Fusion Test reactor project in Princeton. From 1969 to 1977 he worked for the Hydro Quebec Institute of Research as a Program

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Technical Session 2b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California

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, applications, and explorationsdone in small groups9,10.Our study was conducted on a homogeneous cohort of engineering college students enrolledin the same degree program and for whom the two flipped classes are degree requirements.The students take these courses during the last 3 semesters of their B.S. degree program. Inour study, students watched on average 68% of the course content available through onlinevideo screencasts. Few studies have examined the extent to which students access thepreparatory material in flipped classroom settings, but related issues have been investigated.Kay and Kletskin11 tracked access to short video demonstrations developed to teach problem-solving procedures for a pre-calculus class and found that about 66% of students

Conference Session

Technical Session 4a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Yongping Zhang P.E., Cal Poly Pomona; Xudong Jia, Cal Poly Pomona; Jon Bumps, Caltrans, District 8; Du Lu, Caltrans, District 8

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related to transportation emphasis of Civil Engineering. Moreimportantly, each senior project has followed the Caltrans project development process andaddressed contemporary transportation issues including technical aspects of interchangeimprovements, formulation of project purpose and need, project scheduling, team buildingstrategies, and public speaking techniques.Project teams have made multiple presentations of their results to several groups including apanel of District 8 Deputy District Directors, District 8 Design staff, local chapters of Institute ofTransportation Engineers (ITE) and the Caltrans Design Management Board, and the engineeringprofessionals. The presentations have been very impressive. Also, as one of the final products

Conference Session

Technical Session 3b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Brandon J Leung, San Jose State University; Yuting Huang, Canada College; Fernando Lorenzo, 3D Convenience; Sergio Rodriguez-Reyes, San Jose State University; Janine Criselda L. Young, University of California, Berkeley; ali attaran; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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-time faculty and over 25 part-time faculty since 2009.Prof. Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University Hamid Shahnasser received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Francisco State University and the Engineering graduate program coordinator. His areas of interest are communication networks and computer systems. Dr. Shahnasser has been a research faculty consultant to NASA Ames Research Center projects since 1990 and has collaborated on several research grants with

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Technical Session 3d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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and additive manufacturing technologies within the ten weeks duration of MercerSummer Engineering Experience (MeSEE) academic training program. A multidisciplinary teamof three students (industrial, mechanical, and production) participated in this project. They usedthe NextEngine 3D scanner and obtainedoutput STL files for printing. They useddifferent typesof plastics (ABS, PLA, and NinjaFlex) and two 3D printers, MakerBot Replicator2X andFlashforge Creator Pro) for achieving the goal of reproducing the knee jointswith accuracy andlow cost compared to the original knee prototype made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic by aGerman factory that makes this kind of scientific prototypes. In addition, visual quality,production time, and weight of

Conference Session

Technical Session 3b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Kenan William Pretzer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ali O. Shaban, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ian Hellman-Wylie, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Joey Navarro, Cal Poly SLO

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2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20665Development of Laboratory Experiments for Protection and Communicationin Radial and Bidirectional Power SystemsMr. Kenan William Pretzer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Kenan is an electrical engineering graduate student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a concentration in power systems. His thesis focuses on creating laboratory-scale power system protection experiments for students.Dr. Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Taufik received his B.S

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Technical Session 4b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jean M. Andino P.E., Arizona State University; Thonya Otsengue

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modeling activities[1],these tools are much too complicated to incorporate as a small module/homework assignment ineither a required chemical engineering Reactor Design course or an Introduction to Air Pollution/Air Quality Engineering course. Also, these models are essentially “black boxes” where onlyinputs such as the pollutant mix or the initial concentrations are added. In order to enhanceunderstanding of fundamental chemical concepts, as well as to enable the use of computationaltools that students had ready access to, students were encouraged to set up their code either inPolymath[5], a computational program that is utilized in the “Essentials of Chemical ReactionEngineering” textbook [6] that is used in many chemical engineering programs

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Technical Session 3a

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Estelle M Eke, California State University, Sacramento

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theanimations and researched other programs available to all students in the college of engineering.Civil and mechanical engineering students enrolled in the dynamics course have completed acomputer-aided design course such as autocad or Solidworks. Working Model 2D [1] wasselected as the adequate software as it builds on the students’ CAD skills. The availability ofWorking Model 2D animations complemented the app. The design of the layout was primarilythat of the author with minor suggestions provided by a graduate student assistant [2] in thecollege of computer science. The graduate student selected Visual Basic as an acceptablesoftware and developed the code. The free-body diagrams, kinetic diagrams, and the feedbackthat was to be given to the

Conference Session

Technical Session 1c

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Michael R. Caplan, Arizona State University; Courtney Michelle DuBois; Samantha Brenna, Arizona State University ; Neal Arthur Shulman, Arizona State University; Jerry Coursen

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course, which has been offered each semester since2012, is the second course in the BME curriculum that introduces students to the mathematicalroots of engineering and demonstrates the attention to detail required to successfully completeengineering calculations. Almost all students entering our BME curriculum believe that BMEgraduates conduct research, and many of these students have unrealistic notions about theamount of attention to detail required in a research career. Because of these perceptions, thecourse often comes as a shock to students in the class because of the mismatch between thestudents’ expectations and the reality of engineering. Although retention at the university ofstudents entering in our BME program is very high (~95