Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Phys

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma; Matthew Mounce, US Navy; Jamie Weber, Parsons; Sudarshan Rai, Unknown; Willy Duffle, University of Central Oklahoma; Jesse Haubrich, University of Central Oklahoma

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Engineering Physics & Physics

which is chosen by the course instructor. 2. Students begin work on the project in SD-I, but have not completed a final design. At this stage the students are still understanding the project constraints and considering how to solve the design problem and basic conceptual design alternatives. Students are required to do planning at this stage from early in the SD-I course until the end of the academic year in SD-II. Gannt charts and other planning tools are standard requirements in project proposals and presentations. 3. The primary faculty sponsor approves the student proposal and by the end of the first semester students participate in a formal public presentation of the proposal and documentation of

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

could also be used in anappropriate upper level electrical or chemical engineering course. Subsequently, we describesome future plans for the activity which, along with some other curricula, may culminate in theintroduction of a stand-alone nanotechnology course and possibly a minor in nanotechnology. Page 15.61.2Device Physics of a Thin Film Organic Solar Cell Incorporating the Fullerene, C60Shown below in Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a thin film polymer solar cell1incorporating the fullerene C60. Commercial glass substrates coated with indium tin oxide (ITO)with a sheet resistance of about 10Ω/□ are used to form the anodes. The

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

strived to achieve. In the future offerings, we plan to make theproject more open-ended so that students with limited background can pass the course while self-motivated students can be more creative and productive. We will also emphasize more on self-motivation and life-long-learning skills.Due to the relative novelty of the revised course, we have very little measurable outcomes with Page 15.1040.8outside industrial world. However, we have heard on several occasions from industry that theyare looking for graduates who have practical knowledge and understanding about the tradeoffs inembedded system design. We hope that our graduates will possess

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Research University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Iteach such course was what programming language I should adopt. One constrain was theavailable programming language licenses at that institution. Usually I opted forFORTRAN, and a computer algebra system if available. My decision was mostlymotivated by its intrinsic array, its mathematical library and the available free source Page 15.46.5codes which turned out to very useful for the algorithms I had planned to illustrate andthe for the projects included in this course. I also use C/C++ for selected projects, helpingto show the interoperability of two programming languages.A distinctive aspect of our approach is that the physics drives the course