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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

expected to become reasonably competent at operating certainlaboratory equipment, such as wind tunnels, load frames, and scanning electron microscopes(SEM), to which they would receive minimal exposure at many other universities, and thismakes Embry-Riddle unique in this regard.Within this context, the authors wrote a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation(NSF) to fund the creation of a laboratory-based course on materials and structural failure. Theemphasis is on failure modes and related issues that especially pertain to the aerospace industry,primarily because of the overall emphasis on the aerospace industry generated at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University. The course syllabus is influenced by the technical skills and

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

J. S. Shelley P.E.

classroom buildings. Polycominstructional broadcast systems have both instructor and student focused cameras. Three screensdisplay the content and instructor views at the front of the room and the distant students at theback of the room, as shown in figure 1. The instructor controls the camera views and contentimages from a control panel at the front of the room. A Blackboard website supports the course.The content storage tools for keeping the syllabus and course notes, the gradebook function,assessment and survey tools, and occasionally bulletin board and chat room features inBlackboard are used to enhance the in-class instruction. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

............................................................................................................... 37“A Learning Community for First-Year Engineering Students”* Ding Yuan, Jude DePalma, & Nebojsa Jaksic .......................................................................................... 45“Assessing the Effectiveness of Synchronous Content Delivery in an Online Introductory Circuits Analysis Course” Amelito Enriquez ....................................................................................................................................... 48“Evaluating Oscilloscope Sample Rates vs. Sampling Fidelity: How to Make the Most Accurate Digital Measurements” Johnnie Hancock ....................................................................................................................................... 60