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Ross McCurdy, Ponaganset High School

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the thirdconsecutive year, is now offered for science credit rather than as an elective course, and isrecognized and accepted as such by the University of Rhode Island The course instructsstudents on the fundamentals of fuel cell technology and includes the operation of fuel cellsystems ranging from 1 W to 2 kW. Students in this course also participate by working with fuelcells and support equipment used for Protium performances. Student evaluation takes placethrough projects, research, papers, presentations, class participation, and tests and quizzes. Page 11.596.4 The curriculum outline for the Fuel Cell Systems course includes:1.1

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Christopher Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Josh Bostwick, Cornell University

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pertaining to our criteria. Mechanics educators should vigorously emphasize fundamental aspects of mechanics, such as those that we suggest here, as a necessary (though insufficient) step to improve the ability of students to think critically and solve problems independently.1. IntroductionRooting Mechanics Education in Mechanics. Mechanics provides the educational foundationfor nearly all branches of engineering, due to its dual role (1) to convey explicit content andsubject matter (e.g. the behavior of mechanisms and structures), and (2) to develop analyticalskills and rational thought (e.g. building equations, based on rational models, that describephysical phenomena). Our experience indicates that students and instructors in

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Gary Moe, U.S. Air Force Academy

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have previously seen. Moreover, EM-120 is a core course each cadet must take,whether or not they are in a technical track. Typically, only 15-20 percent of EM-120 studentshave an interest in a technical major. As a result of the large percentage of non-technicalstudents, a major challenge for the instructors is to make the course interesting and meaningfulfor all students. The audience and sheer volume of material to cover requires the instructors to beeffective in presenting the lessons.Using the Personal Response SystemThe GTCO CalComp™ PRS is a computer-based polling system that enables students to useindividually coded, infra-red transmitters to answer concept questions during the lecture(Figure 1

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Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University

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; Sinusoids and Harmonic Signals; Systems of Equations and Matrices; Basicsof Differentiation; Basics of Integration; Linear Differential Equations with ConstantCoefficients. The course structure is 5 credit hours (4 hours lecture, 1 hour lab), plus mandatoryrecitation sections. The course is taught by engineering faculty, with all mathematical topicsmotivated by their direct application in the core engineering courses. Moreover, course materialis emphasized by physical experiments in the classroom and laboratory, and is thoroughlyintegrated with the engineering analysis software MATLAB.A detailed outline of the EGR 101 course content over a period of one 10 week quarter isoutlined in Table 1 below