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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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State LA Engineeringmajors. In this course, students learned about codes of ethics and moral frameworks which frameengineering design decisions. The course also provided an opportunity for students to get toknow about the community partners and be introduced to the project. We took field trips to thecommunity partner organizations and students were asked to share reflections on needs theyidentified, and hypothetical case studies were created out of the BOOST projects. The studentsalso learned to communicate and interact professionally with the community partners. Studentswere assigned to project teams and met with the faculty mentors to begin forming team bondsand brainstorming conceptual designs, and discussing potential ethical issues that

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Benjamin Hawkins, Cal Poly, SLO; James Eason, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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courses in biology, chemistry, calculus, electriccircuits, and computer programming.To date, 3 cohorts of students have engaged with this module. Each cohort is between 50 and 75students and composed of primarily third-year Biomedical Engineering students, with a smallfraction of Electrical Engineering students. The demographics reflect those of the BiomedicalEngineering program, with approximately 55% female students. Initial results indicate thatstudents develop significant ability to work with MATLAB as an engineering tool and enterfollowing coursework better prepared to apply prerequisite materials. In a qualitative self-assessment, participating students indicated that the activities could have better reinforced lecturecontent, but

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Christine E King, University of California Irvine

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rather than in an educational setting, and little research hasbeen performed in applying these ground rules to undergraduate group work7.Related Work:There have been a few examples of using ground rules systems in undergraduate engineeringeducation to enhance teamwork skills and group dynamics7-12. For example, Sheppard et al.(2003)8 found that the utilization of ground rules systems and peer feedback tools is importantfor international and virtual team-based projects, where students are geographically dispersed asthey attempt to achieve interdependent organizational tasks. This is more reflective of the currentglobal environment of business and engineering, and highlights the need for ground rulessystems to foster collaboration and team

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Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California

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podcast genres and provides lists of conventional “moves”—expected elements—in each genre. Awareness of these categories and their conventions wasuseful for students in analyzing podcasts they listened to and in creating their own podcasts,particularly when assembling individually voiced segments into a cogent structure. The studentsprimarily used two genres, “narrative” or “chat show” or a blend of the two (Drew notes a thirdcategory for shorter podcasts, the “quick burst” which did not lend itself to this assignment).Below, one student reflects upon the process of deciding which format to employ for his team’spodcast: Reading this article has made me more aware of the different styles of podcasts and the varying

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Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California

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to gather near-immediatefeedback from the students about the teaching-learning process which the instructor can use to improvestudent learning and his/her teaching effectiveness [1]. Classroom assessment techniques also helpstudents reflect on their understanding of the course content as the course is unfolding and, in this way,promote the development of lifelong learning skills [2]. Multiple classroom assessment techniques havebeen described and collated in the classic reference “Classroom Assessment Techniques: a Handbookfor College Teachers” by T.A. Angelo and K.P. Cross [3].The “muddy points” or “muddiest point” (MPs) is one of the most commonly used classroomassessment technique that consists in asking students at the end of a lesson to

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

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could be fosteredthrough a series of reading assignments and reflections in a junior-level material science course 4.Henderson et al. studied whether mindsets influence a student’s engineering identity over timeand to see if this relationship differs by gender 5. Dringenberg et al. held a series of focus groupson the growth mindset with first-year engineering students, and found that it was useful forstudents in unpacking and reflecting on past experiences, and for educators in understanding thenature of intelligence 6. Lastly, Zappe et al. described instructor training to understand the growthmindset and how to promote it when students approach assignments 7.Fostering a sense of belonging in undergraduate engineering majors has also been a

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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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our currentdataset. Devers’ results were scored on a six-point scale. Because our results are scored on a sevenpoint scale, the results of the other study were re-scaled for comparison. These results arehighlighted in Table 7.From evaluating the scores, we see a substantial difference between the two pairs of data sets.From the statements evaluating growth mindset, the students surveyed through the SUCCESSsurvey demonstrated lower beliefs in growth mindset. In Devers’ research, the opposite is shownwith scores higher than 3.5. For the items measuring fixed mindset, the students in the SUCCESSstudy scored 2.8, which reflects the mentality of a somewhat fixed mindset. The comparisongroups of high school students in AP Physics and undergraduate

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

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. Evaluation/grading procedure(s) must be defined based on these requirements. The technical content includes design and implementation of engineering systems (hardware and/or software) at upper division level. Service learning content includes diverse activities with community partner(s) so as to benefit both the college students and the partner(s). 3) A minimum 10 service learning hours are required for each student. Each project team must work with an external community partner for the service learning experience. 4) Reflective activities are included in the course where students are encouraged to discuss with other team members and the

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

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skills can include: Understanding of and ability to use relevantmaterials, equipment, tools, processes, or products, awareness of quality issues and theirapplication to continuous improvement. Graduates must have developed transferable skills,additional to those set out in the other learning outcomes, that will be of value in a wide range ofsituations, and plan self-learning and improve performance, as the foundation for lifelong learning[12]. “Service-learning is a form of experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle ofaction and reflection as students work with others through a process of applying what they arelearning to community problems, and at the same time, reflecting upon their experience as theyseek to achieve real

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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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 of  classes (see the below section  regarding s tudent and faculty reflections).   These new courses will  be offered s tarting in 2019, and will serve CIA minors and discipline   specific majors as well:    ART 376 The Art of Mixed Reality:  Conceptual creation, storytelling, interface design in 3D  virtual and augmented realms, visual styles and use of metaphors. A theory­based view of mixed  reality (MR) worlds, including coding and software, the making of 3D assets, technical  challenges and constraints. The students will develop, research, write and propose their own idea  for a MR project.    ART 470 Conceptual Art and Storyboarding for

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Lily Xiaolei Chen, California State University, Los Angeles

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, standards and laws, on fire protectionproblem-solving in building design and construction, on management ofhazardous/flammable material and fire-safe community planning, etc.One of the major lessons learned from pilot teaching is, case study, as an effective tool,plays a key role in helping students establish the connection between phenomena, and itcan be used in different learning context. For instance, it is found that one of the mosteffective teaching approaches in this course is to use a case study in the lecture toelucidate the theme, then ask students to further explore the theme via another case studyin the assignment.Based on the pilot teaching practice, collected feedbacks and reflections, the future workplanned include:1) Current

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Yongping Zhang P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ; Wen Cheng P.E.; Ahmed Elaksher P.E., Cal Poly State ; Xudong Jia, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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is important toask students to write a brief report on each field trip. It keeps students focused and responsible. It is alsoworth mentioning that the additional National Flight Academy program in Pensacola, Florida after thethree-week program was a big incentive, as it motivated students to perform better to get selected.Grouping the students into teams of 2 to 4, to present what they have learned through a presentation(multimedia) is beneficial and crucial in enhancing their learning process. It provides them a greatopportunity to reflect on what they have learned and improve their presentation skills. Students can havepeer evaluation to select the best presentations, which can be presented again to all parents andparticipants in the

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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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to pre-class actives, in-class activities are much more flexible. Some commonindividual activities include polling (e.g., iClickers), gaming (e.g., Kahoot), concept maps,individual problem solving, one-minute paper/reflection, and so on. Some examples of groupactivities are think-pair-share, group problem solving, in-class projects, opinion line-up, sticky-note clustering, fishbowl, cumulative brainstorming, crowdsourcing, etc.. More details of in-classactive learning activities can be found in33. In addition to the basic components and structures, knowing the advantages and challenges offlipped classroom teaching is also helpful for instructors to maximize the positive effects andreduce the negative effects on students’ learning. This

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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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Grover [48-53]. Hopefully, studentswill develop adequate knowledge for the class of problems knows as BQP (bounded-errorquantum polynomial time) [54, 72, 73]. Students will also be provided a free Quantum DevelopmentKit [QDK] to write some quantum computing programs in order to gain some hands onexperience before graduation. Reflections on our experience will be disseminated widely toNorth American universities (using emails, flyers etc.) so that others can learn from ourexperience. Will Knight reported [16] that Isaac Chuang suspects “. . .that the revolution will notreally begin until a new generation of students and hackers get to play with practical machines.Quantum computers require not just different programming languages but a