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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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Paul Weber, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Anh Phan, Utah Valley University

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Education, 2020 A Virtual Reality Simulation and Experiment for Sputter Deposition and Vacuum TrainingMatthew Meyers, Anh Phan, Daniel Rodriguez, Marty Clayton, Afsaneh Minaie, and Paul Weber Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058 USA AbstractWe have developed a laboratory exercise that teaches students the method of RF sputterdeposition for coating both metals and dielectric materials onto silicon wafers. Since thesputter system involves the rather complex structure of two-stage vacuum system including adiffusion pump, we have created a virtual reality (VR) simulation that reproduces the operatingsequence of the system with high fidelity. This simulation requires students to perform

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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Calvin S. Kalman, Concordia University; Franco La Braca, Concordia University; Mandana Sobhanzadeh, Mount Royal University

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Group’s ’Tutorials in Introductory Physics’ system and ’Physics by Inquiry’ curriculum in comparison to labatorials as well as observed their ongoing physics laboratory reform.Dr. Mandana Sobhanzadeh, Mount Royal University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Comparison of Labatorials and Traditional Physics Labs Franco La Braca1, Calvin S. Kalman1 , Mandana Sobhanzadeh21 Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada Phone-1-514-848-2424x32842 Department of General Education, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta T3E 6K6, Canadaintroduction The physics lab has long been a distinctive part

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello; Carlos Eduardo Martinez-Torteya, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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following the same design as that reported inthe previous study [4]. The textbook for the course was “University Physics” by Young andFreedman [9]. Students of the course also attended weekly laboratory sessions where “Tutorialsin Introductory Physics” by McDermott and Schaffer [10] was used extensively. All the courseactivities, including the tests, were conducted in Spanish.To measure conceptual understanding, we administered a version in Spanish [11] of theConceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) [12] as a pre- and post-test along with12 DC circuits questions from the Electric Circuits Concept Evaluation (ECCE) [13]. While allthe students enrolled in the course participated in the pre-test, only 63 students took the post-test.During

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Paper ID #28539the D and F Ionosphere Layers: Why are AM Broadcast Signals Mostly LocalDr. Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Paul Crilly is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He re- ceived his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University, his M. S. and B.S. degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all in Electrical Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the University of Tennessee and was a Development Engineer at the Hewlett Packard Company. His areas of interest include laboratory development, antennas

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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numeroussuppliers.The physics department at Detroit Mercy offers a 3 credit hour, junior-level course—ModernPhysics with Device Applications (PHY 3690). The course is required for electrical engineeringstudents and is offered during the winter term. In order to enroll in the course, students mustsuccessfully complete one year of a calculus-based general physics sequence of courses alongwith the associated laboratories. At Detroit Mercy the first physics course is mechanics and thesecond covers topics in electromagnetism. As juniors, students have taken a course in differentialequations and linear algebra. Engineering students are exposed to the MATLAB environmentduring their freshman year.[9] Electrical engineering students use MATLAB in their

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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Todd Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin

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Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP) report released,” The Physics Teacher, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 190–190, 2017. [4] C. Wieman and N. Holmes, “Measuring the impact of an instructional laboratory on the learning of introductory physics,” American Journal of Physics, vol. 83, no. 11, pp. 972–978, 2015. [5] N. Holmes, J. Olsen, J. L. Thomas, and C. E. Wieman, “Value added or misattributed? A multi-institution study on the educational benefit of labs for reinforcing physics content,” Physical Review Physics Education Research, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 010129, 2017. [6] N. G. Holmes and C. E. Wieman, “Introductory physics labs: We can do better,” Physics Today, vol. 71, pp. 38–38, 2018. [7] D. Scherer, P. Dubois, and B

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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Jessica Patricia Conry, Arkansas Tech University; Amber Harrington, Arkansas Tech University

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relevant professional society, to Capstone make an informed judgment in which they must consider the impact of their scientific or engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. Table 2: Performance indicators at the Introduce, Reinforce, and Master levels and in which courses they will be assessed for the student learning outcome related to ethics and professional responsibility.The focus of this paper is on how our program assessed the ANSAC SLO 5 and EAC SLO 4 atthe “Introduce level” in our introductory physics courses in the fall of 2019 and the results of theassessment process. To introduce ethics in our physics laboratories, we created a series of casestudies and quizzes that our Introductory Physics