Conference Session

Physics Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Rose Annoni, University of St. Thomas; Adam S. Green, University of St. Thomas; Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of Saint Thomas

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Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2012-3544: TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE ENERGY GAPOF INP QUANTUM DOTS: A SOPHOMORE-LEVEL NANOMATERIALSEXPERIMENTMs. Jennifer Rose Annoni, University of St. Thomas Jennifer Annoni is currently an Undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of St. Thomas. She will graduate in May of 2012. Her plans are to pursue graduate school in the field of Engineering.Dr. Adam S. Green, University of St. Thomas Adam S. Green is an Associate Professor of physics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in atomic, molecular, and optical physics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He works with

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes

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Engineering Physics & Physics

3.00E+08 m/s n index of refraction of air 1.0003 v velocity of light in air 299702547 m/s v/c v/c = 1/n 0.99970009 (v/c)^2 (v/c)^2 = (1/n)^2 0.99940027 1-(v/c)^2 1-(1/n)^2 0.00059973 ((1-(v/c)^2))^1/2 ((1-(1/n)^2))^1/2 0.02448939 E Energy = h*f E Energy = h*c/λ 3.14E-19 J The wavelength of a He Ne Laser 6.33E-07 m Einstein said Energy = mc^2/((1-(v

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University; Santaneel Ghosh, Southeast Missouri State University; Ken Surendran, Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

5 trackAs mentioned before, most EP projects were in the fields of nano-science and robotics. Becausenano-science and robotics are interdisciplinary research fields, these projects also often involvedstudents from other departments, particularly biology, chemistry, and industrial and engineering Page 25.1109.6technology. Besides what was required by the course, these students also wrote conferencepapers and presented their findings at the regional, national, and international conferences. Afew examples were:  C. Yuen, T. Nguyen, E. Bowers, K. Mabery, T. Boyd, and S. Ghosh, “Dose-dependent cyto-toxicity evaluation of a

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of Saint Thomas

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Engineering Physics & Physics

assessments will help the instructor tailor the followinglecture(s) to address any remaining difficulties, and will also guide the revision of thelaboratories. Students’ responses to exam questions will then be used to assess students’understanding once again.(2) Modeling + Experiment: Computation is now a ubiquitous tool in science and engineering,complementing theory and experiment. There have been several successful efforts to introducecomputation in the introductory physics sequence and upper-level curriculum (for example,Matter and Interactions,8 the course developed by J. Tobochnik and H. Gould,9 and projects atLawrence University10 and Brigham Young University,11 among others12), using VPython,Maple, and other computational languages. However

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College

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Engineering Physics & Physics

local, regional, and international conferences. The courseappears to have performed well with respect to many of the ABET outcomes. Page 25.729.9References[1] Bowman, R. J. “Electrical Engineering Freshmen Practicum,” Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003.[2] Farrow, D., and R. LeMaster. “Automation laboratory development enhances studentlearning.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 18-21,2006.[3] Scott, S., R. Athinarayanan, Xiaobing Hou, and Shuju Wu. “Integrated curriculum andlaboratory development of an undergraduate

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jia-Ling Lin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Binzley, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Eman A. Zaki, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Physics & Physics

A. Elby, The impact of epistemology on learning: A case study from introductory physics, Am. J.Phys. 73, 372 (2005).9 K. Perkins, W. Adams, N. Finkelstein, S. Pollock, and C. Wieman, 2004 Proceedings of the Physics EducationResearch Conference (AIP, Melville, NY), Vol. 790, p.45 (2005).10 E. Seymour and N. Hewitt, Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Science (Westview, Boulder,2000).11 K. Perkins, M. Gratny, W. Adams, N. Finkelstein, and C. Wieman, 2005 Proceedings of the Physics EducationResearch Conference (AIP, Melville, NY), Vol. 818, p.137 (2006).12 T. McCaskey and A. Elby, 2003 Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference (AIP, Melville, NY),Vol. 720, p.37 (2004).13 L. Anderson and D. Krathwohl, (Eds.), A

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst, Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

also findsimilarity between electrostatics and kinematics, as well as between the propagation of EM planewave in a uniform isotropic medium and the traveling of an EM wave in a transmission line.The assessment result shows that this is an effective way of learning Electromagnetics, and thisintegrated knowledge structure can also resist the relentless erosion of time. Page 25.1175.5Reference[1] Johanna Leppavirta, “The impact of mathematics anxiety on the performance of students of electromagnetics,”Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 424-443, 2011.[2] M. Barnett, T. Keating, S. A. Barab, and K. E. Hay, “Conceptual change