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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Victoria Sorg; Lilian Johnson; Alexandra Westbrook; Susan Daniel

day-long program includes hands-on lab modules, college admissioninformation sessions, a talk highlighting STEM career opportunities, and a panel discussion withfemale undergraduate and graduate students. The lab modules teach concepts like DNA extraction,the unique properties of polymers, and process engineering to make cosmetics. An unique aspectof this program is parental involvement. While students engage in labs, their parents are given in-formation on college financial aid and admissions to help them support their daughters through theapplication process. A laboratory module for parents and their daughters allows them to conducthands-on experiments as a team. Our program empowers parents to envision their daughters asengineers. Based

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Liyong Sun; Robert Edwards

difficult for them to understand these concepts.MET students tend to learn by doing. Students with this learning style benefit from theoreticalcoursework that is heavily reinforced with hands-on laboratory experiences. Although there areseveral lab components in these courses, they do not always address the core concepts that thestudents are struggling with. Classroom exercises are developed to help students betterunderstand certain important concepts in thermal-fluid sciences. This paper presents thedevelopment of classroom exercises for the pressure of fluid. Pressure of fluid is the mostimportant concept in fluid power course for mechanical engineering technology students. It isvery difficult for students to understand that the pressure of the

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Paul Cotae; Mahmoud Elsayed; Ira Moskowitz

On The Performance of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks: An Experimental Approach Paul Cotae, Mahmoud Elsayed Ira S. Moskowitz University of the District of Columbia Naval Research Laboratory School of Engineering and Applied Science Information Management & Decision Department of Electrical and Computer Architectures Branch, Code 5580 Engineering, Washington, DC 20008 Washington, DC 20375 pcotae@udc.edu, mahmoud.elsayed@udc.edu ira.moskowitz@nrl.navy.milAbstract -In this paper, we propose an experimental approach using both the bit error rate (BER) andsignal