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2011 North Midwest Section

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Eshan V. Dave

not provided here forbrevity, the list of topics, approximate number of lectures and a brief description is as follows: (1) Behavior of Materials (3 Lectures): This block discusses various types of physical and mechanical behaviors of solids and fluids. Topics such as elasticity and inelasticity, linearity and non-linearity of materials, constitutive equations etc. are discussed during this block. One laboratory session is conducted to familiarize students with various measurement devices as well as to conduct laboratory safety training. (2) Steel and Aluminum (4 Lectures): Manufacture of steel and aluminum are discussed along with mechanical and physical properties of interest, laboratory procedures to

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Waddah Akili

meant that each of the seven groups would take charge of twocases in terms of: presentation, provision of additional supplementary information when needed,and documenting generated discussion that proceeded presentation. The three 50 minute sessionsper week were apportioned as follows: The first session was primarily devoted to thepresentation of the selected case by the assigned group, followed by a short question and answerperiod. During the second session, an open discussion, guided by the instructor, would be gearedtowards relevant technical and nontechnical issues that had a bearing on the case. In this secondsession, all seven groups that made up the class contributed to the discussion. In the thirdsession, an invited speaker, a

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Daniel N. Pope

with thecapabilities and use of the ANSYS software. Students were expected to perform varioustutorials available on the ANSYS Customer Portal5 and at Cornell Uni e i SimCafe eb i e6and present a summary of the techniques and tools that they learned about in each tutorial. Theywere also prompted to access materials appropriate to their individual project from the ANSYSCustomer Portal5 and Resource Library7. Several lab sessions where used to review meshingincluding structured and unstructured meshes. Figure 1 shows examples used in the lab of anunstructured mesh (Fig. 1a) and a structured mesh (Fig. 1b) for axisymmetric flow over acylinder. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceThe coursework

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Carl Sandness; Tom Jamar; Roy Smith; j. Moe Benda

2007.This facility resides in the old study hall on the second floor of Hibbing High School and houses30 Dell Precision 390 workstations, a central server, printers and full network access. Withsupport from the HHS Administration and Building and Grounds, this facility has been central tocourse content delivery. Recent additions through the Applied Learning Institute and CarlPerkins funding including upgraded memory for the computers and a new Dimension seriesprototyper for generating plastic 3D models from student CAD creations.Second (9th 14th): An annual engineering mentoring session is held in November at BARREngineering in Hibbing. Local mining and engineering firms call for volunteer engineers tomeet with students over hors d oeuvres to

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Keith B. Lodge

particle-size distributions. As a whole the course provides the opportunity to reinforce the basic laws and Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferenceconcepts of physics, e.g., Newton s laws of motion, Archimedes Principle, pressure and friction.In addition the course is an ideal compliment to fluid mechanics using its basic principlesthroughout, especially those involving friction and the empirical correlations involvingdimensionless groups.AcknowledgementI wish to thank Duane Long for technical assistance.Bibliography(1) MARTIN RHODES, Introduction to Particle Technology , John Wiley & Sons, 1998.(2) RICHARD HOLDICH, Fundamentals of Particle Technology , Midland Information Technology

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Waddah Akili

, or during special meetings intended mainly for adjuncts.The academic systems in place today have not been fair to adjuncts in general. The author has a - a a a b abeing very good teachers. They are often marginalized by the tenure system, in the sense thattheir efforts and contributions to the academic process are undervalued.(1) As pointed out byGosink and Streveler,(1) there are ways for recognizing the contributions of adjuncts. Theirsuggestions have included the following: Look into the feasibility and/or the legal aspects of offering 3-5 year contracts to those who have demonstrated their abilities as good teachers. Accord appropriate titles, awards and citations, to distinguish