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Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

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AS Ward; MN Gooseff; RY Toto; SE Zappe

 histories in simulation‐based teaching: The effects on self‐learning and transfer. Computers and Education 39, 319–332.  6 Mcateer, E., Neil, D., Barr, N., Brown, M., Draper, S., & Henderson, F. 1996. Simulation software in a life sciences practical laboratory. Computers and Education 26, 1–3, 102–112  7 Ma, J., & Nickerson, J. V., "Hands-on, Simulated and Remote Laboratories: A ComparativeLiterature Review", ACM Computing Surveys, (38:3) Article No. 7, 2006, 1-24. 8 Shin, D., Yoon, E. S., Lee, K. Y., & Lee, E. S. 2002. A web‐based, interactive virtual laboratory system for unit operations and process systems engineering education: Issues, design and implementation. Computers and Chemical Engineering. 26, 2, 319–330.  9  Woodfield B, H

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Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

cultivate a mentor network, enabling CUNY graduatestudents who are only a subway ride away, to become role models for STEM undergraduates atCity Tech. The goal is to increase the number of students receiving associate and bachelor’sdegrees within science, technology, engineering and math, by conducting the following activities: 1. Development and institutionalization of two three-credit courses, one in the sciences and math, the other in engineering technologies, that emphasize academic preparation through development of laboratory techniques, communication, team work and creative thinking skills. 2. Academic year mentoring of undergraduates by teaching assistants in STEM, and block programming of the summer cohort in

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anglesof destructive load tests. The lesson will of attack at which stall occurs.show how basic principals from physics arereadily transferable to problems in structuralengineering. We will determine the maximumweight selected structures can sustain prior tocollapse. Then, in the Structures Laboratory,we will verify the predictions by loading thetest actual structures with weights until failureoccurs. 4COMSOL Use of Moodle in TeachingThe motto of this workshop is “learn-by-doing.” Participants will learn how programs likeThe goal of this workshop is to teach participant’s Moodle and WordPress can not

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Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

development, implementation, and assessment of this team-taught course at LafayetteCollege will be discussed.IntroductionFlow visualization is a family of techniques used to reveal the details of fluid flow. Leonardo daVinci is widely recognized to be one of the first practitioners of this scientific art. He spentmany years in his makeshift laboratory and in the field observing the movements of water andair. During his research, he maintained detailed notes and drawings to record his observations. Asketch from Leonardo’s notebooks of a free water jet issuing from a square hole into a poolrepresents perhaps the world’s first use of visualization as a scientific tool to study turbulentflow.As the quintessential “Renaissance man,” Leonardo would likely

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Anil B. Shrirao; Raquel Perez-Castillejos

Microfluidics Labs Using Devices Fabricated By Soft- Lithographic Replication of Scotch-Tape Molds Anil B. Shrirao* and Raquel Perez-Castillejos*,† * Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and † Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ, USAAbstractWe present the use of Scotch® tape to fabricate microfluidic devices in basic teaching labs ofhigh schools and colleges; this technique is an alternative to using photoresist in a cleanroom.Microfluidic devices, beyond their multiple applications as portable, biomedical, analytical labson a chip, provide the opportunity to creating fluidic environments dominated by

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William D. Jemison; Christopher T. Nadovich

degree program in engineeringstudies. While the requirements for senior design differ somewhat across degreeprograms, all programs strive to provide the students with a solid capstone designexperience.As the curriculum is currently structured, ECE students are required to take a two-course design sequence during their senior year. During the first of these courses,senior design I, the students work on a structured design project that has been pre-packaged for them by the faculty teaching the course. Recently, this project hasbeen writing Verilog code to implement a wireless LAN using pre-designedFPGA and RF hardware that is supplied to them. The students are taught inlectures about formal design process, but their design freedom in the project