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Suguang Xiao, Clarkson University; Robert J Schneider, Clarkson University; Erik Backus, Clarkson University

4 include stress/strain and strength relationships, consolidation, permeability, and compaction of soils. Related geotechnical design problems included.Students improve upon Mohr circle skills from strength of materials coursework to determine soilstrength. In all laboratory experiments, students used samples of the collected failure material. Mostnotably, students performed a sieve analysis, and Atterberg limits testing to classify the soil as sandy silt.Both courses implemented the bank failure problem as SDL and PBL course projects. In accordance withABET outcomes, students iteratively solved the problem with respect to ethical duties and developed suchsolution methods.MethodsSite VisitThe team visited the site and

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2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Shivaun D Archer, Cornell University

the finalgrade for the lab, and HW answers to pressure, volumetric flow, and resistance relationships. Inaddition, peer evaluations that asked students to rate themselves and each team member on timemanagement, quality of work and contribution to the team showed that student worked well as ateam. Student evaluations of this lab were quite positive. Comments included “Lab wasinteresting”, “Interesting to learn about microfluidics”, “Cool to measure bead flow”, “The labwas the best part of the course: it was very interesting and helped me understand the material andgain valuable lab skills”.ConclusionWe have reported on a laboratory experiment coupled with a complementary computationalexercise that introduces microfluidics to a freshman