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Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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18 25 26 27 Correct # 12 67 61 64 4 32 8 11 10 2 56 Correct % 10.8% 60.4% 55.0% 57.7% 3.6% 28.8% 7.2% 9.9% 9.0% 1.8% 50.5% Pre-Test Result in Percentage 100.0% 80.0% 60.0% 40.0% 20.0% 0.0% 5 6 7 12 13 14 17 18 25 26 27 Fig. 1. Percentage of the students with the correct answer in pre-test.The data in Table I and Fig. 1 shows that four problems (6, 7

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney Hadsell, Cañada College

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successfullypass the course. These challenges inhibit the students’ ability to complete the necessaryrequirements for transfer in a timely manner, if they are able to complete them at all. We havechosen to address these issues by developing a pre-semester physics “bootcamp” to give studentsthe necessary study skills and practice working with physics content before they start theirphysics course. Additionally, we incorporate directed support during the semester to continuedeveloping the student’s ability to succeed.Physics Jam is a 1 to 2 week free program offered to all students taking first or second semesterphysics. During the program, students work on reviewing math concepts they will need to besuccessful in their physics course, developing study

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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methods.IntroductionGroup project/activity based teaching is an interesting concept and is in practice at severalinstitutions1-5. How much these activities influence learning has been controversial6-9. As in othercolleges, at our institution most of the engineering students take Engineering Physics 1 and 2. Aspart of Engineering Physics course requirement, weekly group projects and a final group projectwere assigned. In order to do the weekly in class group activity, we assigned 5 members to ateam and gave them a problem to work on as a team within a given time. At the end of theallocated time, the group had to submit a solution package with the names of the team members.During the course of the project, students were allowed to have a round table discussion

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and Universidad Andres Bello ; Jorge Eugenio de la Garza Becerra, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and Universidad Andres Bello ; Cynthia Concepción Castro, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey

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- versity, Campus Monterrey. Finally, she has worked in the industry in the sector of Telecommunications performing engineering design and implementation on wireless networks. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fis-Mat Integrated Physics and Mathematics: A proposal for a curricular sequenceAbstractThis proposal is a project in an early stage. The curricular sequence consists of designing andimplementing three integrated courses of Physics and Mathematics corresponding to the firstthree university courses for those disciplines. The first integrated course, Fis-Mat 1 (short forPhysics and Mathematics in Spanish), combines the first course of Physics and

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Katherine Snyder, University of Detroit Mercy

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of position, velocity, andacceleration functions in terms of derivatives and integrals.For 19 years students in the introductory calculus-based physics course at the University ofDetroit Mercy were assessed using a variation of a problem introduced by Arons 1 in Part II of histext. In a previous work on using operational definitions, we examined the results of thisassessment for 8 sections of the introductory course. In this paper we extend the work anddisaggregate the student population by gender. We provide students a chance to cooperativelycorrect examinations. We believe this practice improves student learning and has implicationsfor the administration of fair and equitable assessments of that learning.Student populationThe University of

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kanti Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Digital Design and taught up to 2001, till Dr. Terence Kelly (received his doctorate under supervision of Pro- fessor Prasad) took over. From spring 1998, Professor Prasad also developed and taught 16.517, MMIC Design and Fabrication course to meet the growing demand of regional semiconductor industries. He is the recipient of Zone I best paper award by American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2008. He has been appointed as honorable member of IAAB of the MEGHE group of Institution and Shree Baba Ramdeo College of Engineering and Management (Nagpur) in India. He has also received the Best Teaching award for the New England Region, and the Best Campus award for the Zone 1 from ASEE dur- ing 2012. He is

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aziz S Inan, University of Portland; Peter M Osterberg, University of Portland

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inFigure 1. Figure 1. Two rigid bodies before and after collision.Note that for collision to occur between these two bodies, V1i > V2i condition must hold.Assuming this condition applies, these two rigid bodies undergo an elastic collision at time 0when the velocities of the two bodies abruptly change from V1i and V2i to V1f and V2f, respectivelywhere V1f and V2f represent the constant final velocities of the two bodies after collision also asshown in Figure 1. Based on this, the velocities of the two rigid bodies can each be representedin terms of Heaviside unit-step function u(t) as follows: i f i (1a

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello ; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello

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-semester physics and math courses in a largeprivate university in Mexico. A Likert-scale instrument was used, in which students choose froma completely agree-to-completely disagree scale of statements related to the relevance of physicsand mathematics to both the applicability in upper division engineering courses and the students’future career. The results of this new study shed light on four aspects: 1) students’ perceptions ofthe relevance of physics and mathematics of scholar engineering and professional engineeringpractices, 2) the comparison of students’ perceptions of the relevance of physics to that ofmathematics, 3) semester and gender differences in those perceptions, and 4) the comparison ofstudents’ perception of the relevance of

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamid Mohajeri, DeVry University, Pomona , CA , 91768

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the state of the particle at the given potential and kineticenergy. It is not a simple algebraic equation. It is a linear partial differential equation thatstudents know how to solve, given that they have taken required Calculus courses.Time – Independent Equation4:Recall from Last year paper1 that Time – Independent Schrodinger equation is obtained directlyfrom the applying De Broglie principle to a wave equation:From the very basic classical mechanics, General Physics I Class students already know theWork – Kinetic Energy Theory: 𝑊 = ∆𝑘 = −∆𝑈 (1)and at the same time for all conservative Forces we have: 𝜕𝑢

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christos Zahopoulos PhD, Northeastern University

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understanding of fundamental scientific principles and lack of any formalinstruction in the science of quantum systems is what was intended for the “ScientificFoundations of Engineering” course in the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program atNortheastern University to address. But before going to Quantum Physics, we start with a quickreview of classical mechanics.Based on his more than 25 years of experience with K-12 science teacher professionaldevelopment and his knowledge of how to teach through preconceptions, the author decided togive the 1992 version of the FCI1 to the 34 students in his class of graduate engineering studentsin order to accomplish three goals: 1. Assess student prior knowledge by probing the level of understanding of these

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hüseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University; Drew Landman, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University

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specialized responsibilities for the purpose of launching their rockets, collecting data to be processed, and writing a report. Metric units were used.Introduction and Educational GoalsModel rocketry is at once miniature astronautics, technological recreation, and an educational tool.A model rocket is a combined miniature version of a real launch vehicle. A model rocket is a veryconvenient metaphor to illustrate many important engineering concepts and principles in a fun andexciting way. Once a model rocket leaves the launcher, it is a free body in air. Model rocketshave been used as student projects for decades. Other similar publications [1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 20,and 21] report engineering projects in the same general area, but this project is unique

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo; Jennifer H. Rushing, Central Coast New Tech High

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 which would aid K­12 teachers in effectively incorporating engineering into curricula in an integrated manner.   Introduction The relatively new science standards outlined in the National Research Council’s “Framework  1​for K­12 Science Education”​  and the “Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By  2​States”​ document three dimensions of all standards (1) a limited number of disciplinary core ideas (2) scientific and engineering practices for examining these ideas, and (3) crosscutting concepts.  These are set within a context of an ongoing developmental process and integration or coupling of core ideas and scientific practices to develop performance expectations. The emphasis on practices help to

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Aric Martin Gillispie, University of Central Oklahoma; Adam Dorety, University of Central Oklahoma; Andrew Meier, The University of Central Oklahoma; Shahram Riahinezhad

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. These projects will be transformative for the students and expose them to HPC “at scale.” The projects require the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on an HPC system; intentionally exposing students to a new way of doing things. The issues that students must confront include: 1) complex geometric modeling that result in very large file sizes, 2) meshing geometries that are large or require many nodes, 3) transitioning files generated on a desktop computer to a HPC environment, 4) understanding navigation and use of an HPC system, 5) understanding the use of parallelism in a distributed computing environment, 6) quantifying results, and 7) visualizing results.  The goal of this work is to impact the student’s long term ability to deal

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke D. Conlin, Stanford University; Doris B. Chin, Stanford University

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instructional video related to their tinkering experience.MethodsParticipantsThe participants were sixth-graders (N=76) from a diverse urban public middle school (30%Black, 29% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 12% White; 10% English Language Learners). The teacherssigned up for a field trip and agreed to participate in a follow-up lesson in their classroom.DesignThe study involved two phases. In Phase 1, students went on a field trip to the tinkering space ofa local museum, where they participated in one of two activities, Marble Machines (N=46) orWind Tubes (N=30). Due to administrative constraints, students were not randomly assigned totinkering activity, but teachers were instructed to assign students such that the groups werebalanced on class performance and

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meera N.K. Singh PEng, University of Calgary; Qiao Sun, University of Calgary; Cassy M. Weber, Science Alberta Foundation (o/a MindFuel)

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. She is the CEO of MindFuel (Science Al- berta Foundation), a registered charity and non-profit, which develops award winning STEM resources for K-12. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Evaluation of a Digital Learning Management System in High School Physics Classrooms 1 Meera Singh, 1Qiao Sun, and 2Cassy Weber meera.singh@ucalgary.ca; qsun@ucalgary.ca; CWeber@MindFuel.ca 1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, 40 Research Place N.W., Calgary AB, T2L 1Y6. 2 CEO, MindFuel, Suite

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Paulo Alexandre Martin, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Nair Stem, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Keiti Pereira Vidal Souza, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

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actions (student activities to improve learning without any evaluation grades,namely, 1.Student support; 2.Technical Staff; 3.Video classes, and 4. Teaching service) anddirect learning actions (student activities to improve learning with evaluation grade, namely, 5.Online exercises; 6. Pre-Exam; 7. Laboratory reports; 8. Active Learning Projects; 9. LaboratorySeminars, and 10. Preparatory Discussion Laboratory Questions).Keywords: Physics, Engineering Education, Active LearningIntroductionLearning is a process. The assessment of learning is a powerful diagnosis that allows teachers toredirect their efforts towards assisting the weaknesses of the learning process as presented bystudents. This paper discusses 10 ways to improve learning Physics as

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ian Frommer, US Coast Guard Academy; Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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and after the adjustments, but again, minor changes were required to make it fullyoperational. The presuppositions that went into the design and implementation were insufficientto achieve functionality. There is some recognition of this problem in the literature on engineering laboratories.Feisel and Rosa [1] point out the lack of consensus on what constitutes proper laboratoryinstruction and the overall lack of consensus on what constitutes an appropriate laboratoryexperience. They decry the dearth of literature on learning objectives associated withinstructional engineering laboratories. In any earlier paper, Ernst [2] proposed as objectives thatstudents “should learn how to be an experimenter”, that the lab “be a place for the

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Engineering Alignment with Core Curriculum (Physics)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Camilla Arlina Nix, Drexel University ; Jared Andrew Ruddick, Girard Academic Music Program; Jessica S. Ward, Drexel University; Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University

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groupactivity. Students learned about the various steps of the engineering design process through aguided activity. Students were introduced to the concept of constraints and limitations whenasked to build a tower of a specific height that could hold a certain weight. They utilizedinformation from Physical Science in deciding what type of structure would allow them to havesuccess in their design.Cardboard Roadways Activity: During the unit on Force and Motion, students worked in groupsof 3-5 to design a roadway that would allow a small die cast car to remain in motion for 10seconds and not run over their track by more than 1 foot. Students were first introduced to theactivity following the first few classes on force and motion, then as their knowledge

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa L. Larkin, American University

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award 2013. Dr. Larkin can be reached at tlarkin@american.edu. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Writing in STEM: A Synthesis of Two Adaptive ApproachesAbstractProviding students with opportunities to improve their written and oral communication abilitiescan be an effective way to elicit student learning. ABET Criterion 3 speaks directly to theimportance of this skillset through Student Outcome g which states “an ability to communicateeffectively (3g1 orally, 3g2, written) .” 1 There are a number of ways to include this skillsetwithin the assessment component of a typical STEM classroom. With this ABET studentlearning outcome as a backdrop, this paper

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gergely Sirokman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Franz J Rueckert, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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undergraduate science research into our institute's curriculum issupported by a significant amount of research into the impact of such activities on scholarlyachievement in a number of fields. David Lopatto has published extensively on the positiveimpact of undergraduate research on academic programs. [1-5] Undergraduate research is shownin these publications to be key to producing engaged scientists for the future. Hinkel and Henke[6] show explicitly the positive impact participation in undergraduate programs has on futurestudent achievement and employment. In light of this information it is almost unforgivable not tooffer these opportunities to students who are willing to avail themselves of them.Science research courses give students the opportunity

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 4

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and Universidad Andres Bello; Jorge Eugenio de la Garza Becerra, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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groupsof three, they took pictures of their whiteboards, and all pictures were stored in a repository for all(students, instructors and researchers) to review. When students worked individually, instructorsassessed their learning based on their written solutions. The analysis of the whiteboards confirmedthat at the beginning of the semester students used few representations, whereas by the end of itthey were incorporating congruently more than ten different representations, making their modelsmore robust.1. IntroductionIn the past four years, a special course has been taught in a private university in northern Mexico.While this is not the first course that has attempted to integrate two different subjects, even withinthe same university where this

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Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg S Mowry, University of St. Thomas; Camille M George, University of St. Thomas

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sweet sorghum stalk post-harvesting in sub-Saharan Africa, consequentlythe century-long historic processing of sorghum juice in the United States was used as a baselineand reference. In the United States, sweet sorghum stalks are crushed and the fresh juice isconcentrated by approximately a 10:1 volume reduction via water removal into shelf-stable syrup.Sorghum molasses is a lucrative boutique product used as a honey, maple syrup, or liquidsweetener substitute. Sorghum syrup is a natural product that unlike refined sugar, uses nochemicals in its manufacture. It is a source of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zincand vitamin B-6.10The new sorghum hybrid was bred by ICRISAT to be a dual-use crop which simultaneously yieldsacceptable

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard W. Liptak, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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, studentstake a second nanotechnology course (EP380). This second nanotechnology course builds uponthe modern physics they already have to include investigating quantization, and the applicationof the Schrödinger’s equation to observe probabilities, and determine Eigen frequencies forvarious nanoparticles with modeling software.Figure 1 shows a student's model of an electron's orbital around hydrogen developed inFEM software COMSOL.Finally, our students take a quantum physics class PH401. This provides our students with astronger understanding of quantum mechanics, a key component for micro andnanotechnologies.Software and ModellingCourses Offered: ME123 or CSSE120, EP190, EP380, EP411, EP415We foresee that our students need to be able to perform some