Cañada College Engineering Students and Faculty Present at 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference
Tue, 14 April, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Eleven Cañada College engineering students attended the 2015
American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference in San
Diego on April 9-11, 2015. The students presented the results of the research
they did last summer as part of the 10-week summer research internship funded
by NASA through the Curriculum Improvement and Partnership Awards for the
Integration of Research (CiPair) Program. The students presented four papers
and four posters at the conference.
Tania Martinez, Amado Flores Renteria, and Jolani Chun-Moy
presented the paper “Engaging Community College Students in Earthquake
Engineering Research on Real-Time Hybrid Simulation,” and the poster
“Evaluating Effects of Delays on Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of Seismic
Response of Large Civil Structures.”
Rita Melgar and Mou Sun presented the paper “Teaching
Brain-Inspired Visual Signal Processing via Undergraduate Research Experience,”
and the poster “Modeling and Implementation of a Brain-Inspired Neural Network
for Edge Detection and Object Recognition.”
Norman Ettedgui and Joseph Cooney presented the paper
“Engaging Community College Students in Engineering Research through Design and
Implementation of a Cyber-Physical System for Myoelectric-Controlled Robot
Car,” and the poster “Design and Implementation of an EMG Control System.”
William Berrios, Jeremy Chow, Colin McGill, and Giovani
Rodriguez presented the paper “3D Printing as an Enabling Platform for
Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Engineering Education and Research,” and the
poster “Closed-loop Feedback Temperature Controlled Encasement to Test the
Optimal Temperature for Poly Lactic Acid and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
Polymers for the PunchTec Connect XL 3D Printer.”
The students were accompanied by Professor Amelito Enriquez
who presented the paper “Expanding the Community College Engineering
Educational Pipeline Through Collaborative Partnerships.” Engineering Professor
Nick Langhoff is a co-author of this paper, which received the
first ever Best Diversity Paper award at the conference
and will be forwarded as the Section’s entry to the national competition.
From the ASEE website: asee.org
“Founded in 1893, the American
Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals
and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and
engineering technology.”
The ASEE Pacific Southwest Section covers
Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada
