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David Dillon; Huseyin Sarper P.E.; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

novels of EdgarRice Burroughs’s Barsoom series (1912-1965), H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (1898), and JulesVerne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865) are among the more recent of the early works onspace. As a species, our first real move into space came with the launch of Sputnik (1957)ushering in the era of near-Earth space travel, followed by sub-orbital space flights by YuriGagarin (Vostok 1, 1961) and Alan Shepard (Freedom 7, 1961), and the first Earth-orbital flightby John Glenn (Friendship 7, 1962). Our first footprints on another planetary body were madeby Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the mission of Apollo 11 to Earth’s moon (1969) as a Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV

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Gino Galvez; Eric Marinez; Alvaro Monge

increase academic performanceand retention of Latino students. While the grant has several components, this paper will presentthe two programs that engage Latino students in research: the Winter Research Experience andthe Summer Bridge to the Beach.BackgroundThe two programs described in this paper place students in an active research project with afaculty mentor and ideally other peers. Such strategy is one that has been shown to be effectivein improving students’ sense of belonging and in increasing the relevance of the knowledgeacquired in STEM courses. Hurtado et al.1 report on the significant impact that the relevance ofsuch knowledge has on a student’s life on campus. Both programs provide such relevance byimmersing the students in a

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Nebojsa Jaksic

discarded,and some presented to the University administration as action items.Introduction and Previous WorkWhile talking about clean energy President Obama stated in his weekly address on October 2nd2010 that “Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21stcentury take root here in America.1” The innovation productivity and quality must increase to stopthe country's technological and manufacturing decline. While most engineering programs producesolid problem solvers, this may not be sufficient. The education of engineers must also enhancetheir inventive and entrepreneurial skills by including topics on innovation methods, disruptivetechnologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, etc. Engineering design

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Jin-Lee Kim; Talal Trabolsi

individuals not accustomed to the use oftechnologies and advanced technologies.Analysis and FindingsEvery industry adopts new technologies as they become industry common place or whenindividuals within that industry find it beneficial to make changes necessary to adopt newstrategies or technologies. Question three in Part I of the survey proposed the statement, “The useof new advanced technologies will be costly and over complicate things unnecessary.” As shownin Table 1, of those surveyed, nearly 70% disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement, andabout 25% remained were neutral with the statement. These results signify that a very minuteamount of people would disagree with the statement. This would signify that advancedtechnologies, in the

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Thomas Korman; Hal Johnston; Kay Gore

constructability issues. Students often master the courseand laboratory work associated with courses in the curriculum, but they do not gain acomprehensive engineering experience that requires them to synthesize what they have learnedin their curriculum and extend their knowledge through independent learning that reaches outsidetheir field of study, specifically in the topics of constructability. This is further observed atcommunity colleges where students do not have the opportunity of being immersed in a large-scale engineering academic environment of a four-year institution and frequently lose interest inpursuing further education or an engineering career.This educational gap is systematic among engineering universities. Figure 1 illustrates howdesign

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Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

method for projects to beadapted to exactly what a course requires and enable students to apply their designmethodologies. Many interesting peripherals are available at moderate cost, allowing facultyto adapt and modify assignments every term to increase interest and discourage cheating. Ourprogram integrates multiple peripherals, such as a voltage regulator, temperature sensor, LCDscreen, switches, and servos.Example Component and Software Selection. The components used in most of our courses arelisted in Table 1 and represent an example of the software tools and components that maysupport embedded and digital design courses. Table 1. Summary of example components and costs. Hardware Component

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Debra Larson

216The survey was developed by borrowing heavily from a national survey previously conducted byThe Carnegie Foundation as reported on by Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff11. This nationalsurvey on faculty roles and rewards was completed in 1994 by 865 chief academic officers (e.g.Provosts) representing the full range of university types from Research to Comprehensive toLiberal Arts. Questions 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 of the national survey were adapted to better fit the CSUand Cal Poly context of today, while forming the basis of this current study. Two versions of thesurvey were developed; one for making inquiries with the deans of engineering within the CSUand the other for the engineering faculty at Cal Poly.Six questions were common to both populations

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Samuel Landsberger; Artin Davidian; Juan Garibay; Richard Valenzuela; Barbara Wheeler

consistent high expectations, mentoring and peer support.In providing mentoring to the engineering students and support for its outreach effort to studentsin at-risk communities, HERE has collaborated with community-based organizations. Theseinclude also Senior Centers in the surrounding community.Program StructureThe program comprises four basic elements:1. Overview & Fundamentals: lectures, reading and site-visits giving direct exposure to the needs of the clients, along with accomplishments and techniques of Rehabilitation Engineering.2. Hands-on Creative Design: team-based work to help a specific client with a disability. Laboratory instruction is provided in support of the design work, in accord with the large number of freshmen

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Loukas Lazos; Elmer Grubbs

review these lectures during the time they would normally be studyingat home. The second part of flipping, which is in the classroom and lab, consists of going overconcepts and working problems with the students, either on a chalkboard or a screen orindividually with each student. In ECE175, a series of PowerPoint lectures were designed to beused by the students out of class. These lectures cover the material normally lectured on by theinstructor in previous years. An on-line book from Zyante (see Figure 1) was also added to theclass. In addition to the reading, the book contains exercises that are worked by the individualstudents outside of class to help them understand the material covered by the book and inlectures. The book software keeps

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Jose Macedo; Nick Sweeney

be describedlater in this paper.Details of the LaboratoryThere are 12 workstations in the laboratory, which can accommodate up to 24 students workingin teams of two students per workstation. We have at least twelve copies of all the equipmentavailable in the laboratory. Figures 1 and 2 show views of the automation laboratory. Figure 1. Gene Haas Laboratory for robotics and automation.The equipment available in the laboratory includes twelve setups of the following:(1) Rockwell Automation, CompactLogix 5000 PLC, RSLogix 5000 Software, add-on modules for A/D, D/A, high-speed counter, and one-axis stepper motor controller, Kinetics 350 one- axis servomotor controller, FactoryTalk View software for HMI. See Figures 2 and 4

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Carlye Lauff; Joanna Weilder-Lewis; Kevin O'Connor; Daria Kotys-Schwartz; Mark Rentschler

Engineering Education 229engineering education and making empirically based assessments of student progress. It has beenurged to make design pedagogy the highest priority in new engineering education curriculumdecisions.1 “Design is what engineers do, and the intelligent and thoughtful decision of theengineering curriculum should be the community’s first allegiance.”1This evident gap in new engineers’ preparation plus the lack of research around professionalengineering are the motivation for this research, which attempts to understand differencesbetween universities and companies with greater specificity through direct observation andrecordings. Currently

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David Naish

design problems. It is important to emphasize here that not all problems are most efficientlysolved using software, so students are taught to solve problems efficiently (i.e. sometimes it isfaster and safer to solve a simple problem by hand than try to input all parameters, make allassumptions, and run the analysis correctly). Typically in the class, students look at solving threemain types of problems: 1- simple problems best solved quickly by hand; 2- problems withsimple, repetitive, but numerous calculations, best solved using either a spreadsheet oralgorithmic approach; and 3- more complicated problems that are most efficiently solved usingengineering software.To ensure uniformity and applicability to subsequent problems, students follow a

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Stephanie Nelson; Brittany McCrigler

Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 290The representatives of iFixit are anxious to collaborate further with other technical writingclasses in California and around the nation to extend the company’s mission. As BrittanyMcCrigler, Director of Education Services for iFixit, states, “I believe that technical writing cantruly change the world.”1 Since ABET has identified the lack of writing skills of graduatingengineering students as an area needing significant improvement, this collaboration betweenengineering educators and iFixit’s own technical writing department shows great promise inproviding a solution to the global problem of

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John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

assessmentmethods. We have endeavored to capture the gestalt of the project in this paper.Tiny House OriginsThe Tiny House, illustrated in Figures 1-6, emerged from several sources, including participationby the capstone students, Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, in two junior-level IntegratedEngineering courses focused on sustainable design; lively conversations between the studentsand the client; extensive exploration of the literature on creativity, low-impact architecture,regional and community planning, systems thinking, and green construction1-27; examination ofonline documentation describing the design of small, tiny, nano, eco, and indigenous housing; Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

help students acquire technical capital. Tounderstand how students might acquire technical capital, this study investigated the perspectivesof students enrolled in technician level pre-engineering programs that incorporated well-structured and ill-structured problems at North-West Community College (NWCC). Thefindings suggest that scaffolding experiences – moving from very well structured problems toill-structured problems – allow students to acquire technical capital, which can help themsucceed in pre-baccalaureate engineering education.Introduction“Engineering has a diversity problem” (p.74) 1, causing national concern about the consequencesand solutions to this problem. On the one hand, creative engineering solutions are a product ofthe

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Bruno Osorno

students’ self-reportedparticipation level in the team projects and their grade in the exams was analyzed to assess theeffectiveness of team projects in this electrical power systems course. The results of theregression analysis suggest that there is a mild relationship between students’ participation levelin team projects and their final exam grades. According to Bloom’s paper the learning pyramid(Figure 1) indicates that we start we evaluation and end with knowledge, we can argue that thedevelopment of projects in tandem with exams and quizzes, induces students to go throughall the steps indicated in the pyramid, many times without realizing the learning involved duringthe process. The realization occurs at the final exam, when students perform

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

visits as shown inFigure 1, field trip to a large-scale Photovoltaic power plant, attending courses and technicalseminars on campus, and interacting with students’ clubs. Figure 1. Visiting and observing students conducting power electronic lab experiment.Indonesia Higher Education and Faculty Exchange ProgramDespite Indonesia’s population of approximately 240 million, the number of young Indonesiansattending college is relatively low. A report from the Indonesian Ministry of NationalEducation’s National Strategic Plan 2010-2014 cited the need to continue the work on increasinghigher education access, particularly in some regions of the country2. Indonesia higher educationinstitutions are mostly owned by private institutions. Out of 3,079

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Galen Pickett; Prashanth Jaikumar; Michael Peterson

teacher.ResultsThe biggest institutional evidence of success in our efforts is that the introductory physicssequence is no longer a gateway course with a low completion rate. In the last four semesters,the D, W, F rate in this course has fluctuated narrowly in the 10% range, without sacrificing therigor of the material. In a sense, introducing computational methods and modern concepts andmethods has made the course more difficult, but student performance is measured in a highlydiverse set of measures (content in exams, group skills in the social homework, laboratory work,and homework, for example). Thus, even with the more challenging curriculum, students have afair shot at learning the material, and passing these classes. Figure 1

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Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

-doing education whilerequiring the multidisciplinary interaction is the Microhydro power plant project conducted byPolinema with a faculty at Cal Poly as a project collaborator.Microhydro Power Plant Project Development MethodologyThe microhydro power plant (MHPP) project was conducted in 2012-2013 under the sponsorshipfrom the Indonesian Higher Education agency. The team that participated in the project consistedof faculty and students from the electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanicalengineering, and civil engineering programs. Figure 1 depicts the MHPP project developmentmethodology. The figure shows that during the first year (2012) literature study was donesimultaneously with the field study. Field study was conducted to

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Agustin Robles; David Alvarez; Jasmine Flores; Cham Htun; Cheng Chen; James Enright; Amelito Enrique; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

and strength for the entire frame system.This structure is going to be an office building designed with large open spaces in the center, andlarge windows to allow for natural light to enter. The seismic weight of each floor of the buildingis assigned as 95 psf on the roof, 90 psf on the third floor, and 92 psf on the second floor. Theheight of the building is 36 ft, with 12 ft story heights at each floor. As seen in Figure 1, the baseof the structure is shaped like a cross with a width of 150 ft and a length of 120 ft. The framessteel plates, horizontal boundary elements (HBEs), and vertical boundary elements (VBEs) are tobe designed according to AISC’s code provisions2 and ASCE 7-10 equivalent lateral forceprocedures3. Evaluation of the

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Sukhmander Singh

theengineering faculty especially for continuous improvement on an ongoing basis rather than ayear before evaluation time.Conclusions 1. ABET Assessment process has demonstrated accomplishment in improving the quality of education, yet some important attributes of education such as the creativity and the development of an ability to think have not been given due attention they deserve. 2. In the assessment process, regarding employer survey, there should be a way to check if the data collected is representative of all the areas across a discipline in engineering. 3. There is a need to assign a level of importance to the five Engineering Skills based attributes (a, b, c, e and k) with respect to the other professional skill

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Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

space.Shake-table tests allow researchers to simulate an earthquake on an entire scaled building. Thesetests require a large laboratory, very expensive equipment, and the cost to replace the yieldedmembers of the structure in between simulations could be prehibitive. Real-time hybridsimulation (RTHS) is an efficient alternative to the shake table test. Instead of testing an entirestructure in the laboratory, RTHS divides the structure into experimental and analyticalsubstructures. The experimental substructures are physically tested in the laboratory while theanalytical substructures are modeled numerically in computer programs. Figure 1 presents thegeneral concept of RTHS in relation to a full scale test. Proceedings of the 2014 American

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Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

extremely important markettrends: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing” 1. One of the paper’s authors, Dey, asthe Lead Faculty for the Masters in Computer Science (MS-CS) program of National University(NU), facilitated the inclusion of agility through virtualization in the curriculum of the DAT 605,Web and Cloud Computing (WCC) course.National University Class-per-Month Schedule. NU offers WASC accredited onsite and onlineteaching modalities in a one semester coursedelivered in a single calendar month. This is truly accelerated, Internet-time delivery of coursematerial and becomes especially challenging to the engineering programs in the School ofEngineering and Computing (SOEC)), and the Computer Science and Information

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Edward Smaglik; Terry Baxter; John Tingerthal P.E.; Chun-Hsing Ho; Mark Lamer

using a blended approach. Motivated in part by this initiative andreports on successful course redesigns8, the current course instructors met with the facultymember who originally designed the curricula to draft a proposal to redesign these courses.Drawing on the original instructor’s experience with blended courses9,10, the team identifiedpotential advantages of a blended approach and settled on the following project objectives: 1. Improve the student-centered learning environment in these courses so that it aligns with the various learning needs and styles of students both in and out of the classroom 2. Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our faculty who are teaching these courses 3. Increase the efficiency with which

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Clint Staley; Michael Haungs

the classic inverted instruction model in order to scale it up tohandling 200+ students. Before describing our model in detail, we first provide guidelines forchoosing which courses are appropriate for high-efficiency inverted instruction.Which Classes Are Suited. Like all things, pedagogical models should be used in moderation andapplied only where appropriate. MOOCs, online learning, inverted instruction, classical lecturingand others have potential uses in any curriculum if applied judiciously. In the same way, themodel we describe is suited only to certain courses. The necessary conditions a class must meetare: 1. A significant number of sections taught per term, at least enough to occupy two full-time instructors. 2

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Tina Smilkstein

. User interfacesand dangers of various systems.Assignment: Watching videos on: 1. safety of electronic devices, 2. creative healthmonitoring devices and 3. iPhone apps. Reading on security and ethics. Homework: Find onesecurity breach that you thought was interesting and present to class. Reading on future HMI(human machine interfaces).Lab: Group discussions of topics and interests. I participated in each group’s discussion andtried to brainstorm with them.Week 3Lecture: Guest lecturer on security. Presentation on security breaches from each student.Continued: User interfaces and dangers of various systems. Costs of systems. Pervasivecomputing. High-level technology for pervasive computing.Assignment: Reading of papers on: 1. pervasive

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Moe Tajvidi P.E.

for Engineering Education 389the topic theory and content are relatively infrequent 21, 17, 15, 7. Furthermore, the term “project-based learning” subsumes different activities with varying purposes and is frequently replaced byproblem-based learning. Based on the literature in civil engineering education, because of thehierarchical nature of engineering education, PBL is best applied in a hybrid form known asProject Based Learning11. This hybrid project-based learning form is different form problem-based learning in the aspect of (1) time, which means that engineering projects take more timethan problems, (2) application: which means that the

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Jared Tuberty; Thalia Anagnos; Emily Allen

College of Engineering student body reflectsthe overall diversity of the University. The ethnic breakdown of undergraduates in the collegeincludes 19% Hispanic, 3% African American, 40% Asian, 22% White, 6% Internationalstudents, and approximately 1% American Indian or Pacific Islander. Women areunderrepresented in the College, making up 14% of undergraduates. The majority of newstudents each fall in the College are first-time first-year students though a substantial number,approximately 40% of the new students, enroll as upper-division transfer students. These transferstudents come primarily from the extensive California Community College system. TheUniversity formed a formal retention and graduation initiative in 2009 and has

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Lisa Wang

earthquake, for example, about 12,500 structureswere moderately to severely damaged including residential homes, businesses, and freeways (seeFigure 1). Approximately 114,000 residential and commercial structures were damaged and 72deaths were attributed to the earthquake. Damage costs were estimated at $25 billion. On March11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake shook northeastern Japan. The effects of the greatearthquake were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. More than18,000 people were killed in the disaster, with severe structural damage in northeastern Japan(see Figure 2), including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering

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Jose Valdovinos; Cheng Chen; Abbyanna Davis; Amelito Enriquez; Wenshen Pong

reliable and sustainable civil engineering infrastructures. Real-timehybrid simulation seamlessly integrates physical testing with numerical simulation, thusproviding a cost-effective technique to evaluate seismic performance of large or full-scalestructures in limited size laboratories1. Figure 1 presents the schematic concept for real-timehybrid simulation. The structure is divided into experimental substructures and analyticalsubstructures, where the experimental substructures are tested in laboratories and the analyticalsubstructures are numerically modeled by computer program.Actuator delay presents great challenge for real time hybrid simulation. Various procedures havebeen developed to compensate for these delays to improve the accuracy of