Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineering students is difficult; most consider privacyissues enough to squash this idea. The alumni themselves are hard to find. ABET seems to sense the difficulty and our evaluators weresatisfied with our limited survey results.Criterion 3’s program outcomes are a different matter. These are the abilities that students are supposed to have on graduation fromyour program. For example, the a-k outcomes that ABET suggests for a computer science program are: Page 25.90.2a) An ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics appropriate to the discipline;b) An ability to analyze a problem, and identify and define

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Quality points social and political constraints. FA 2011 Sample Size Evaluation Performance Indicators Stra tegi es As s es s m Da ta

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 25.4.10References 1. L. D. Feisel, A. J. Rosa, “The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, January 2005. 2. Susan S. Matthew, Joshua Earnest, “Laboratory-Based Innovative Approaches for Competence Development”, Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 8, no. 2, Australia, 2004, and UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Mumbai, India, 2004. 3. Cliff Mirman, Promod Vohra, “Programmatic Assessment within an Engineering Technology Program”, Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education; Sectional Conference, Valparaiso, IN, 2003. 4. J. O. Campbell, J. R. Bourne, P. J. Mosterman, A. J. Brodersen, “The Effectiveness

Conference Session

New Ideas for the ChemE Core

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fabiana Manzo, University of Houston (CoE); Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Enrique Barbieri, University of North Texas

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Chemical Engineering

manner. These empirical modelswere first order or second order plus time delay models. An example model which relates thereflux to the benzene benzene composition of the distillate product of the first column is given below, belowalong with its equivalent using Pade approximation: approxim e −36s (ss − 0.0556) GR11D1 (s) = 0.1291 1291 10 −4 = −1.559x10 828s +1 208x10 −3 )(s

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

Tagged Divisions

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

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lee Clapp P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Petronilo Estandarte Pana, LBJ Middle School, PSJA ISD

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

some withdrawal from an area where aquifersconstitute a major portion of water supply for other purposes. Likewise, injection of an oxidantwith the leach solution causes valence and phase changes of indigenous elements such as As, Cu,Mo, Se, S, and V, as well as U, thereby increasing the aqueous concentrations of these species aswell. A question of major concern at ISR mining sites is how to restore the groundwater to itsoriginal chemical composition. Restoration is necessary to reduce the amounts of undesiredchemical constituents left in solution after mining operations and thus to return the groundwaterto a quality consistent with pre-mining use and potential use. One promising approach torestoring groundwater quality at ISR sites is to

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald L. Skaar, San Diego State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

representing the stator core loss; jxM – the impedance representing the mutual flux shared by the stator and rotor windings; and r2/s – the resistance representing the rotor resistance and shaft load - both reflected to the stator.The relative magnitudes are as follows: r1, r2, jx1, and jx2 are of the same order of magnitude andusually much less than unity (the larger the machine, the smaller the values); jx M is almost twoorders of magnitude larger than the jx2; and rfe is usually several times larger than jxM. Theelement rfe is disregarded more often than not by authors when numerical examples areconsidered; with rfe removed, the resulting model has been referred to in the literature as theSteinmetz Model. As will be developed, the two most

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

developments in the study of philosophy, engineering and engineering educationThe last decade has been marked by an increasing interest among engineers and engineeringeducators in the philosophy of engineering education. In 2003 there were two major publicationsconcerned with this matter. First, Billy Koen‟s “Discussion of the Method: Conducting theEngineer‟s Approach to Problem Solving” rooted in the use of heuristics that he claimed to beuniversal [1]. Second, Louis Bucciarelli explored the connections between philosophy andengineering especially engineering design, in a book with the formidable title of “EngineeringPhilosophy” [2]. A year later, Goldman argued the case for a philosophy of engineering asopposed to a philosophy of science [3]. A

Conference Session

Engineering Education for Modern Needs Part I: Non-traditional Learning Methods and Expanding Student Markets

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

(1) (2) PlannerDepartmental Responsibility P SBudget Responsibility P SLiaison with Outside Interests P SResearch Administration S PGraduate Program Conceptualization P SGraduate Program Concept Development P S SDistance Hybrid Program Development S P SPhD Program P SDistance Learning P SDistance Learning Programs

Conference Session

New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadgee Mar González García, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Laura Isabel Nieves, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Paola Beatriz Pacheco, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Rosaurelis Joanne Marín, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Minorities in Engineering

a bilingual student as one who is taught both in English and/or Spanish, but Spanish istheir primary language. Furthermore, CATS was designed by Dr. Paul Steif to detect errorsassociated with important and difficult statics concepts. The questions in CATS were developedprimarily through the experience of the designer and two Statics professors at differentuniversities and according to 9 difficult concepts.4 Four distractors were created for eachquestion based on students’ written responses to open-ended questions.This paper discusses activities and findings from the first phase of the study, whose objectivewas the creation of a Spanish version of CATS, referred to as CATS-S. The research questionthat guided this phase was as follows: What

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C. Kanu, Ball State University; Tyler Steven Steward, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2012-4884: SENIOR PROJECT: USING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT(DOE) TO IDENTIFY MATERIAL AND PROCESSING VARIABLES THATIMPACT PART WARPAGE IN INJECTION MOLDINGDr. Rex C. Kanu, Ball State University Rex C. Kanu is Coordinator of the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program.Mr. Tyler Steven Steward, Ball State University Tyler S. Steward is a Manufacturing Engineer at Exedy of America Corporation. Address: 6025J Grace Lane Knoxville, TN 37919. Phone: 765-366-9686. Email: tssteward8807@gmail.com. Page 25.1154.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Senior Project: Using the

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Peter Vogt, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

course development that was funded by the National Science Foundationthrough a Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Phase 1 grant, titled Design Based 6Spiral Learning Curriculum (DUE-0837759). We would like to offer thank to the Mike Knutsonand the University of Utah graduate school.References [1] D. Mascaro, S. Bamberg, and R. Roemer, “Integration and reinforcement of engineering skills beginning in the first-year design experience,” 2010. [2] S. Bamberg, D. Mascaro, and R. Roemer, “Interactive learning using a spiral approach in a large required first-year mechanical engineering class,” 2010. [3] D. Mascaro, S. Bamberg, and R. Roemer, “Spiral design-oriented laboratories in the

Conference Session

Computer Science-related Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University; Karen Nielson, Utah State University; Stephanie M. Kawamura, InTech Collegiate High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fostered a significant conceptual change in relevant physics content areas.It must be pointed out that nearly all exiting physics education efforts (such as the publishedliterature 7-12) focus on improving students’ understanding of individual concepts, but notconcept pairs. A concept pair is a pair of physics concepts that are fundamentally different butclosely related. For example, linear acceleration and angular acceleration is a concept pair.Linear acceleration, in the units of m/s2, is used to quantify the change of linear velocity (m/s)with time. Angular acceleration, in the units of rad/s2, is used to quantify the change of angularvelocity (rad/s) with time. There exists a quantitative mathematical relationship between linear(tangential

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

be seen in Table1. Each KSA is followed by a K for knowledge, S for skill (or ability), or an A for attitude.Bolded KSAs represent KSAs that are applicable to multiple organizational goals; these appearon the table more than once.Assessing and designing coursework was not included in the table because the KSAs needed toachieve that goal will not be developed in the orientation, but rather throughout the core courseswithin the department. An additional goal of involvement and inclusion into the larger researchcommunity, both within the department and the community as a whole, was included from theconstant emphasis in the interviews.Many of the KSAs in Table 1 were modeled from what current students stated that they wishedthey had known when

Conference Session

Using Computers, Software, and Writing to Improve Mathematical Understanding

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

N. Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

advancing technology,is increasing the necessity for astute critical thinking skills, yet many students arrive at the universitywith these skills underdeveloped. Such higher-level thinking involves analyzing, evaluating, andcreating (the topmost three levels of thinking in Bloom‟s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain revisedby Anderson in 2001). Several researchers in the late 1990s into the 2000s have shown thatprocessing new information using these thinking skills increases students‟ information retention. Inaddition, thinking critically helps prepare students to become successful global citizens because theycan make the decisions and solve the problems of modern life more astutely, having both theknowledge retained and the thinking skills developed

Conference Session

Innovations in Solid Mechanics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

hierarchical ornetwork form, with labeled nodes (in circles or boxes) denoting concepts, and linking words orphrases specifying the relationships among concepts. Two or more concepts that are connectedby linking words or phrases form a proposition (i.e., a meaningful statement). Figure 1 showsthe structure and characteristics of concept maps 8.Since its development in 1972 by Joseph Novak and his colleagues 7, 8, who sought to follow andunderstand changes in children‟s knowledge of science, concept mapping has been adopted innearly every discipline ranging from STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics),psychology, and medicine to business, economics, accounting, history, and literature by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian F Martensen, Minnesota State University; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

participant connected via a videoconferencing program such asSkype.Student FeedbackAnonymous feedback from students was solicited using an online survey. Questions includedone demographic question (year in school), 19 Likert-scale questions and 4 open endedquestions. The Likert questions and their responses are shown in Table 1. Reverse coding wasnot used in order to be consistent with past uses of the survey. The survey was voluntary so outof 31 possible students, 14 responded.The responses to Q1 – Q5 presented in Table 1 indicate the student’s feelings of being connectedto peers and faculty. Overall the student responses indicate a more secure feeling of connectionwith the S-STEM program faculty than within their individual academic programs (Q1

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

Leadership in Quality and the Association for Institutional Research.Dan Merson, The Pennsylvania State University Page 25.254.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Design in Context: Where do the Engineers of 2020 Learn this Skill?Increasingly, engineers must design engineering solutions that consider the contexts in whichthey are implemented. Examples like China‟s Three Gorges Dam, the development of next-generation fusion nuclear power, and the One Laptop per Child program illustrate thecomplexities and the stakes of current and future

Conference Session

Technological Literacy Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, Harris, Harold, Facial Recognition System Screening Evaluation Methodology for Complexion Biases: Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education ASEE, Conference. Vancouver Canada, June 26-Jun30 2011 oChinchilla, Rigoberto, S. Guccione, J. Tillman, Wind Power Technologies in the United States: A Tech- nical Comparison between Vertical and Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines: Journal Of Industrial Technology Volume 27, Number 1 - January 2011 through March 2011 Dr. Chinchilla can be reached at rchinchilla@eiu.edu. Page 25.582.1 c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kavitha D. Ramane, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

todefense/reversal, minimization, acceptance, and adaptation.11 Other studies have employed theMiville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale—Short form (MGUDS-S), which uses affective,behavioral, and cognitive subscales to measure an individual’s openness to and appreciation ofcultural diversity.12 This paper, on the other hand, opens up a new line of research by exploringwhether Cultural Intelligence (CQ) may serve as yet another useful instrument for assessingvarious aspects of cross-cultural competence among engineering students and professionals.Cultural IntelligenceResearch based on the Cultural Intelligence (CQ) framework has proliferated in recent years.13However, it has attracted relatively little attention in the engineering education

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Crowell Sanders, Salt Lake Community College

Tagged Divisions

International

elements are present in a sample. Page 25.1061.4 Figure 3. Schematic illustrating SEM operation.   An additional spectroscopic measurement in the bottom-up fabrication lab includes UV-VIS spectroscopy. In these measurements, a spectrophotometer (Figure 4) sends electromagneticradiation in the visible spectrum through a sample (I0)11. This radiation passes through thesample (IT) reaching a detector that generates a signal indicating the wavelength(s) of lightabsorbed by the sample or the percent of light transmitted through the sample11

Conference Session

FPD VII: Research on First-year Programs Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Pryor, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

procrastination. Evidence is often subjective oranecdotal. In self- paced Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) courses, observationalopportunities can be further limited.Yet PSI can be an effective teaching strategy for course material such as that in a first-year, web-based, introductory programming course. Students (particularly first-year students) have diversebackgrounds and a varied technical literacy. In this particular course, students complete 18 unitsfollowing a traditional PSI s-curve (reviewed below) in terms of content difficulty over thecourse of one semester. The content introduces students to two syntaxes and three programmingparadigms (compiled, interpreted, and object-oriented languages). The PSI format allowsindividuals to invest

Conference Session

The Designer of 2020: Innovations in Teaching Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Barb A. Barnet, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Civil Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Interdisciplinary Teams through Two Companion Courses on InfrastructureAbstractOne of the program outcome criteria for ABET accreditation is that students demonstrate “anability to function on multidisciplinary teams” (Criterion 3(d)). * An innovative way to meet thiscriterion was piloted at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville in the 2011 Fall Semester by theauthors. During that semester, we taught two infrastructure-related courses. The first course,called “Introduction to Infrastructure Engineering” (I2I), was taken by civil and environmentalengineering students. The second course, “Infrastructure and Society” (I&S), was

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

2011 include oChinchilla, Rigoberto, Harris, Harold, Facial Recognition System Screening Evaluation Methodology for Complexion Biases: Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education ASEE, Conference. Vancouver Canada, June 26-Jun30 2011 oChinchilla, Rigoberto, S. Guccione, J. Tillman, Wind Power Technologies in the United States: A Tech- nical Comparison between Vertical and Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines: Journal Of Industrial Technology Volume 27, Number 1 - January 2011 through March 2011 Dr. Chinchilla can be reached at rchinchilla@eiu.edu. Page 25.583.1 c

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. Ladesic P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Robert R. Wolz, Gulfstream Aerospace; Frank Simmons III P.E., Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation; Timothy D. Farley

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College Industry Partnerships

, as a whole, the educational system has fallen short inSTEM education. Oddly universities and institutions7 appear to produce competent scientists andmathematicians but they deliver only mediocre engineering graduates when consideringpractitioner needs. Decades back some forecasted an erosion of the nation‟s ability to technicallycompete in the emerging world market. Others warned of serious losses in market share thatwould be accompanied by economic downturns in the U.S. and subsequent job shortages. Todaymuch of that prognostication appears to have materialized.Over the years opinions varied, sometimes disagreeing, as to the best remedies for turningengineering education more toward the costumers‟ needs (i.e. industry) but always there was

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Globig, University of Dayton; Michael J. Kozak, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

student.First Class Meeting - Anxiety ReductionAt the very first class meeting, the instructor tries to remove the anxieties of first year Circuits(affectionately called “Snircuits” by the instructor) students. Many of these students, especiallythe non-majors, are quite intimidated by Electrical Circuits even at the most fundamental levelbecause they can‟t “see” what‟s happening before them. A significant portion of the non-majorsare taking the course for the second time and / or have avoided taking it until they are upperclassmen increasing their anxiety ever further. In the first session, the instructor does not review the syllabus, etc. To some of the students thesyllabus is the only subject at the university that is more boring than the subject of

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Anna Zilberberg; Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Sean Mcvay, James Madison Univeristy

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

gap, this study aims to gain adeeper understanding of the faculty‟s experience with LTS. Herein, we present the thoroughdevelopment of the LTS Faculty Survey, designed with content and construct validationprocesses in mind and included quantitative and qualitative items, as well as key findings fromsurveyed LTS faculty experts (N=25). The survey enabled us to measure characteristics of LTScurricular and extracurricular efforts, perceived barriers faced by faculty, motivations forimplementing LTS efforts, attitudes about LTS, etc. all from a faculty perspective. Key findingssuggest that major barriers for LTS implementation are (1) faculty time/workload, (2) problemscoordinating with the community, and (3) the lack of policy on the role of LTS

Conference Session

The "Education" in Experiential Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nashwan Younis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

of graduation  75% of Co-ops accept full-time career-related jobs with Co-op employersCooperative Education was created at The University of Cincinnati in 1906 as a new teachingmethodology in its College of Engineering. Today, hundreds of thousands of students across thecountry, studying everything from accounting to zoology, continue this growing educationalexperiment, combining traditional classroom learning with paid, major-related professionalexperiences, just like those first University of Cincinnati co-ops. Despite this long history and thegreat benefits to students, little was known about the faculty‟s reaction to cooperative education.In 2005, Contomanolis4 surveyed engineering faculty at the six largest engineering

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

that, as in allother knowledge areas curriculum change is the result of a continuous flow of small changes [1].The process is very similar to that which (happens in the year to year changes made to aparticular automobile). Every now and again some innovation necessitates radical change and re-thinking of how thingsneed to be done in the future. In the writers lifetime the big change for him was the advent of thesemi-conductor especially the transistor in electronics. Thermionic vacuum tubes becameredundant overnight, and in the author‟s own field of study the problem of noise in amplifierswas radically changed for the better. Teachers had to re-learn quickly to adapt to the newtechniques. From the broader perspective it created a whole new

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Thermal and Chemical Systems and Sensors

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Corbet Johnson, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

448In all evaporations, the evaporants used were aluminum clips, approximately 0.5” in length andpre-bent into a v-shape.MethodologyFollowing a broad review of available processing schemes including many specifically tailoredfor vastly different configurations of evaporation equipment, two approaches to powersequencing were investigated [6] [7]. These approaches are explained in Table 2. Power levelswere specified as a percentage of the user-defined maximum input into the Sycon controller.Observations and Experimental FindingsMethod 1: Manual Linear IncreaseWith this method, the general trend was long deposition times of 30 minutes or more, lowdeposition rates (typically below 5 Å/s), and poor reproducibility. Evaporations from a singlefilament