exchange of ideasbetween all participants. Annually implementation of outcomes will create a feedback loop,cultivating continuous growth of research and educational excellence.There currently exist several transdisciplinary NSF programs, such as REU and RET Sites, S-STEM, STEM+C, STELAR, INCLUDES and ITEST, which integrate STEM teaching, learning,and research for preK-post secondary students in formal and informal settings. The vision of theSTEM Culture of Excellence Center is to extend these programs by simultaneously bringingknowledge and innovation to school districts and community colleges, as well as broadeningparticipation, by supporting active research and mentorship opportunities between teachers, HS,UG, and graduate scholars, and provide
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, and positive student comments in Appendix C), instructorsmust excite students to take ownership of the questions and work independently on modeldevelopment. One way to do this is to introduce applications right from the dynamics or, fluidscourse which students regularly use or, have seen before, and prepare a mathematical modelaround it [18]. Note that the first two questions in Appendix A are attempting just that. Sincestudents would not recall the speed of sound and Mach number (M) check for incompressibility,the second question provides the value of the limiting airspeed of 102 m/s. It does give theinstructor opportunity to address the M < 0.3 limit while discussing the solutions with students.The location of stagnation points, the
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positions include: Signal Platoon Leader, 32nd Signal Battalion, Darmstadt, Germany; Assistant Brigade S-3 Operations for the 22nd Signal Brigade; G-6 Signal Officer for V Corps Artillery, Schwetzingen, Germany; Company Commander of Delta Company, 551st Signal Battalion and Delta Company, 369th Signal Battalion, 15th Signal Brigade, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Chief of Enterprise Operations, Southwest Asia Cyber Center, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. He has deployed twice for year-long assignments to Baghdad, Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I from 2003-2004 and to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait to support theater communications in Southwest Asia from 2012-2013. LTC Lowrance’s education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical
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educators with expertise in STEM lesson development asworkshop facilitators, individual consultants and classroom observers.AcknowledgementThe National Science Foundation (grant EEC 1301054), the Department of Chemical &Biomedical Engineering, and the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida aregratefully acknowledged for their financial support.References[1]. National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering andComputer Science, https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17575,Accessed 1/19/19.[2]. S.W. Campbell, S. W. Thomas, and V.R. Bhethanabotla, “RET in Functional Materials”,2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 26-29,2016.10.18260/p
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projects for engineers in art,music, dance, and theatre[9]. The 2018 publication from The National Academies of Engineeringand Sciences outlines 100’s of collaborations between STEM and Humanities and Artsfaculty[10]. The report states that researchers have found the integration of STEM and thehumanities increases knowledge retention and can make learning more engaging. For a morecomplete analysis of the benefits of these efforts the interested reader is directed to the NationalAcademies report. This paper describes a design project given to first-year engineering students that allowedthem to experiment with connecting engineering and the humanities. The project invited studentsto use Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein as a platform to
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100% rational and easy to follow solution process, Meets Minimum including required diagrams and figures Competency Incorrect answer due to one or two minor errors II 80% but supported by a correct solution process as described in Level I Does Not Meet Minimum III 0% Incorrect answer due to conceptual error(s) CompetencyIn Level II scores described in Table 2, there are two necessary conditions for classifying anerror as minor: 1. The mistake is a minor algebraic error, computational error, error in units or significant digits, or other human mistake such
keeping track of who is buying from their shop basically, and then they are trying to see how much. Just giving it, you know, a status take of how much each person is buying and what each person is buying, and then sending them ads related to the situation. But, I personally feel that there’s nothing really wrong keeping track of what each person buys from your own shop. However, the privacy part, we can get to that later, but….Rakesh asks if “anyone else feel[s] what Target did wasn’t wrong” and stresses that he doesn’tfind much wrong with anything Target did, framing Target as innocent and having done nothingwrong. Rakesh also describes Target in a way that stresses
-axis and v(x) is the largest eigenvectorassociated with the x-axis. The major and minor axis lengths are calculated as: M ajor axis length = 2√(3.2552)λ1 , and M inor axis length = 2√(3.2552)λ2 ,where λ1 and λ2 are the first and second eigenvalues of the covariance matrix, respectively. Withthe lengths of the major axis and minor axis, and the angle the ellipse makes with the x-axis, theellipse can be fully characterized for any orientation of data.Suspension Member Force CalculationsAs mentioned in the Experimental Setup s ection, the data logger was configured to output thelength of the potentiometer as a function of time. This data was converted to displacement bysubtracting