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Agamemnon Crassidis; Daniel S. Kaputa

benefits students directly by allowing them to focus on an up-and-coming area, i.e., UASthat may be included in resume building and future projects related to UASs. We also outline afoundation for a regional UAS student competition to be housed at RIT’s existing outdoor UASnetted closure facility and, in the future, a student UAS related conference. In particular, weconsider the development of a final capstone requirement for the new proposed UAS relateddual-listed course for mandatory participation in the proposed UAS student competition andstudent conference as part of the curriculum enhancement effort. A new lecture for presentationto RIT’s graduate seminar series was developed in the topic of commercial applications andsocietal benefits of

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Michael E. Kuhl

. Gargac, “Integrating Entrepreneurial Mind-set into First-Year Engineering Curriculum through Active Learning Exercises,” Association for Engineering Education - Engineering Library Division Papers, 2019.[5] C. Vignola, J. London, R. Ayala and W. Huang, “Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset in an Undergraduate Engineering Statistics Course using Project-based Learning,” 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN, 2017, pp. 1-4.[6] H. Burden, J. Steghöfer and O. Hagvall Svensson, “Facilitating Entrepreneurial Experiences through a Software Engineering Project Course,” 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training

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Stephen Boedo

and deflections areessential course topics in all undergraduate mechanical and civil engineering degreeprograms. Singularity functions are a well-known economical and practical solutionmethod for beams subjected to multiple loads and supports. However, the method aspresented in most contemporary textbooks is often unclear to the student and instructoralike in the handling of function discontinuities and integration constants. The methodalso appears to be limited to a small set of concentrated actions and polynomialfunctional forms, where more complicated loading conditions must be achieved throughsuperposition. These perceived limitations of the singularity function method were addressed ina recently published paper, where in

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Douglas Bohl

equations of motion for a fluid. Thesecan be expressed in variable form for an incompressible Newtonian fluid as:𝜌( 𝑉⃑ + 𝑉⃑ ⋅ ∇𝑉⃑ ) = −∇𝑃 + 𝜌𝑔⃑ + 𝜇∇ 𝑉⃑ (1)These equations are 2nd order, non-linear differential equations, which is conceptuallyoverwhelming. Even when these equations are simplified, it is difficult to translate themathematical expression into a mental picture of the physical reality. This is true even for manyfaculty who have worked with these equations over the course of a career. Alternate analysismethods that are taught, such as integral analysis, are useful engineering tools but they too oftenremain just equations, with mysterious variables and meaning to the