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Paper ID #8913What’s stopping them? Perspectives of teaching assistants on incorporatingdiverse teaching methodsMs. Martha E. Grady, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Martha E. Grady is a doctoral candidate within the department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida and an M.S. degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She intends to finish her doctoral degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Spring of 2014. Her
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Engineering at San Jos´e State University, San Jos´e, CA, 95192 USA (e-mail: ping.hsu@ sjsu.edu). S. Sujitparapitaya is associate vice president of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics at San Jos´e State University, San Jos´e, CA, 95192 USA (e-mail: sutee.sujitparaitaya@sjsu.edu). Page 24.391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Developing and Implementing Effective Instructional Stratagems in STEM Khosrw Ghadiri, Mohammad H. Qayoumi, Ellen Junn, Ping Hsu, and Sutee Sujitparapitaya
by the syringe pump, moves through the chip. The flow of fluid through the chip can beclassified as laminar or turbulent. The heat transfer coefficient, h, used for calculating forcedconvective heat transfer is determined through a correlation of the dimensionless numbers: Nusseltnumber, Nu, Reynolds number, Re, and Prandtl number, Pr. Nu = hD/k Re = DVp/μ Pr = μC/k (2) Page 24.403.6Where D is tube diameter in meters; V is characteristic fluid velocity in m/s; k is thermal conductivityof fluid in kJ/hr-m-K; ρ is fluid density in kg/m^3; C is the constant pressure
(2) Page 24.417.6 𝑐 𝑐 𝑓𝑙 > 0.01 𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑠 > 0.01 𝑓 . (3) 𝑙Here K is tube factor. K = 0.586 for circular tube or K =0.5 for rectangular /square tube. Theterm c is speed of sound (m/s) in air. The term d is the inside diameter of the tube in meterswhile s is the distance between pair of microphones in meters. In many applications, frequencyrange from 100 Hz to 8000 Hz is usually considered for any material to be assessed based uponacoustical performance. The microphone spacing plays