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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ossama Elhadary

pens are safer to bid on then new ones that nowadays areeasily replicated. It is also clear from the research that the relative value of the starting bid has amuch higher impact on the auctions for new pens versus auctions for used ones again clarifyingthat there are subtle difference in the way buyers approach these two auctions. In this researchthe author used the relative starting bid variable instead of the traditional starting bid variablethat was used in previous research arguing that the value of the starting bid is perceiveddifferently based on the perceived value of the item in the auction.1) IntroductionGuth, Mengel and Ockenfels9 reported that “Internet transaction fraud is 12 times higher than in-store fraud.” Jin and Kato7 also

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

supporting thatdiscipline. The following questions can then be posed to the students.1. What is the technical society all about?2. Tell about a meeting/conference/or event that the society is holding that would be of interestto you.3. What are membership benefits?4. What is the cost to join as a student, and will you consider joining?As was previously stated, the students were provided with a list of potential subjects forengineering projects, and encouraged to suggest others. The subjects suggested have includedprojects connected to active student engineering clubs; involvement with member companies ofthe IAC, Industry Advisory Council; and other campus activities. The following Table 1contains a list of subjects chosen by students for their

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: The Art and Science of Flow Visualization Jenn Rossmann1 and Karina Skvirsky2 1 Mechanical Engineering and 2Art Departments Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042AbstractThe flow of fluids explains how airplanes fly, why a curveball curves, why atheroscleroticplaque clogs arteries, why Jupiter’s red spot is growing, and how hurricanes form. Yet it isdifficult to see fluids flowing: you can’t see the wind, or ocean currents, without the techniquesof flow visualization. Flow visualization reveals an invisible world of fluid dynamics, blendingscientific

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

possible energy transformation into work.Thus, thermal energy stored at high temperatures generally is more useful to society than that available at lowertemperatures. This implies, as noted above, that thermal energy loses some of its “quality” or is degraded when it istransferred by means of heat transfer from one temperature to a lower one. Other forms of energy degradation includeenergy transformations due to frictional effects and electrical resistance. Such effects are highly undesirable if the useof energy for practical purposes is to be maximized (1-3). The second law provides some means of measuring this energy degradation through a thermodynamic termreferred to as entropy, and it is the second law (of thermodynamics) that serves

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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AS Ward; MN Gooseff; RY Toto; SE Zappe

Higher-Order Learning Through Virtual Laboratories in Fluid Mechanics: Lessons Learned AS Ward1, MN Gooseff1, RY Toto2, SE Zappe2 1 – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 2 – Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802AbstractStudent achievement of Bloom’s higher-order cognitive skills (analysis, evaluation, andsynthesis) is recognized as being necessary in engineering education, yet is difficult toachieve in traditional lecture formats. Laboratory components supplement traditionallectures in an effort to