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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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Paper ID #31741Applications of Quantum Entanglement in Modern PhysicsDr. Robert A Ross, University of Detroit Mercy Robert A. Ross is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Detroit Mercy. His research interests include semiconductor devices and physics pedagogy. Ross received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Wayne State University in Detroit. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Applications of Quantum Entanglement in Modern PhysicsIntroductionEntanglement is a fundamental

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Smeet Patel, Northeastern University ; James Flanagan; Carly Tamer, Northeastern University; Nadav Nielsen, Northeastern University; Matt Prescott; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University

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this paper are intended to be applied on a much larger scale.From the perspective of Sarah Jansen et al, (2011), there is potential in the idea of capturing energyfrom sound, but researchers have not yet made it feasible to do so in a way that is efficient enoughfor real-world implementation. Alternatively, Sarah Jansen et al is prioritizing harvesting energyfrom the sun when considering energy conservation options since Sun is the free abundant energysource to the earth. According to Bhatnagar et al (2012), by viewing sound as a mechanical formof energy in the form of a wave, it becomes easier to imagine how sound can become electricity.- The oscillation of the sound waves creates pressure, which then allows the sound to be convertedto an

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania; Benjamin J. Zile; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Taylor Schmidt

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Design Project in Freshman Engineering Physics Course Abstract Published literature clearly agrees that one of the key factors contributing to goodstudents leaving engineering in their freshman year is that the students get bogged down intechnical courses and fail to see the application of engineering in a real-world context. Studentsoften fail to see the relevance of the technical skills they are learning in their basic math andscience courses because they are presented with very few opportunities to apply these skills inactual engineering problems. In addition, many schools have included hands-on projects in firstyear engineering courses that concentrate on developing project management and teamworkskills. While these projects are

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, U.S. Military Academy; Kyle Wilhelm, United States Military Academy; William M. Meier, United States Military Academy; Krista Watts, United States Military Academy; Susan M. Lintelmann, United States Military Academy; Suzanne M. Christoff J.D., United States Military Academy

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into a second-semester introductory calculus-based physics courseAbstractThis paper describes the impact of learner-centered teaching techniques on student learning in asecond-semester calculus-based physics course required for physics and engineering majors at agovernment undergraduate institution in the United States. Some students also take this course aspart of their engineering track or as an elective. The course contains four blocks of physicsconcepts: circuits, waves, gases and fluids, as well as modern physics. Two interventions areintroduced in each of the four blocks. These interventions are real-world technical mini-sessionstargeting defense applications, and real-world mentorship mini-sessions introducing key

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Liza Brooke Russell, Northeastern University; Cailey Moy Denoncourt, Northeastern University

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10mm inheight, so that the design would be comfortable and not bulky for the user.Since our tests indicated that Tasker is incapable of accessing the information we need to giveuniversal turn by turn directions, in order to have a more finalized product we would need toreevaluate our approach and find another way to create interaction between Google Maps and theHC-05 in our Arduino circuit. By finding an alternative program, this would also allow for usewith iOS.Our design has many exciting implications and applications in the real world. This product wouldbe appealing to anyone who uses Google Maps walking directions, for it makes walking navigationsafer and easier. The user will be able to look at his or her surroundings rather than

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Cristian Scott Stransky, Northeastern University; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University

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boundaries of traditional classroom-basedapproaches to project- concept- and team-based, and skill- and knowledge-integrated approachesusing real world situations. This new teaching approach can improve the effectiveness ofengineering education. Introducing new teaching approaches is always a challenging task andhas been explored using various tactics, and the detailed work is published in the peer reviewedjournals and proceedings8-13. For experiential energy innovation team project, we selectedmagnetism and its application to generate electricity via an innovative approach. Magnetic 1induction was discovered by Michael Faraday in the mid-19th century14

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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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possibleconflict between students’ pre-understanding and what they perceive in the lab. In this sense, theresolution of the associated cognitive dissonance is essential to addressing conceptual change. The interviews indicated that labatorials promote conceptual change by the followingmeans: (1) real-world connections, (2) peer-instruction, (3) deeper engagement, and (4) theirstructure, namely the checkpoints and conceptual scaffolding. Due to labatorials’ emphasis onreal-world applicability and inquiry, students often perceived a sense of relevance through thelabatorial activities or related them to their intuitive experience, increasing student interest andmotivation and helping them make the connection between theory and reality. Furthermore

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haridas Kumarakuru, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James G. O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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extracted from their text book. These solutions were given as an extra self-studyguide to navigate their 120 minutes weekly homework assigned through online masteringphysics platform. Each week’s homework questions were selectively assigned as the real-worldengineering applications where students were expected to use their theoretical understandingsgained from the classroom. Students were encouraged to work as a team on these problems. Toencourage this collaborative environment, an additional academic support and PhysicsFacilitated Study Groups (FSGs) were provided by the department on every Thursdays eveningfor three hours (but are not required for credit or completion of the course).In order to fulfill the conceptual concepts, quizzes were

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy

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second experiment inwhich the bratwurst was left to cool in air as would be expected for a human corpse in a real-world situation.A similar experimental procedure was followed, except that the temperature of the air wasmeasured to remain constant at approximately 24 °C. Figure 3 shows the results of a log-linearplot of the temperature difference between the bratwurst and ambient air as a function of time,which is tracked very well by a linear-regression fit. The slope value equals to 0.031 min-1,corresponding to a value of k = 0.07 min-1, which is about a third of the rate in the waterexperiment, reflecting both, the smaller temperature differential as well as the differingconductivities of the water versus air pockets adjacent to the

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Yukio Yoritomo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Maxx Joseph Villotti, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aric Tate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly Searsmith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Paper ID #26393A Tale of Two Rubrics: Realigning Genre Instruction through Improved Re-sponse Rubrics in a Writing-intensive Physics CourseJohn Yukio Yoritomo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign John Yoritomo is a 6th year PhD candidate in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. His research focuses on diffuse field ultrasonics, with applications in non-destructive evalu- ation and seismology. He has been a teaching assistant for many writing-intensive undergraduate courses in the Physics Department. He is also a member of a team working to improve the writing instruction in the

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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Guenter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Lukas Eckstein, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Benjamin Gahleitner, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Mario Gasparic, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Moritz Reisenberger, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Sascha Savoric, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Christian J. Steinmann, HM&S IT Consulting; Alexander Tretton

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-degree-of-freedomsystems and of a two-dimensional array of coupled oscillators. These projects are based on theidea of educating our students in the STEM disciplines ‒ essentially in physics, mathematicsand computer programming ‒ in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than onlyteaching the mentioned disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, our student researchprojects integrate them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications[5].The course Information Systems and Programming in the second semester of our AutomotiveEngineering bachelor's degree program forms the basis of the kind of undergraduate researchprojects our students are working on. In this course the programming language C# isintroduced, an

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Itzel H. Armenta, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Jorge Eugenio de la Garza Becerra, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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not given only by the object's inertia.” In other words, an object can have more thanone reason for resistance.When physics courses given subsequent to the introductory course are reviewed, it is found thatthe concepts typically used in the Physics I course are not always congruent with the definitionsor applications of terms in subsequent courses. For example, textbooks used in Physics I and asubsequent course both use the term, "moment of inertia," but they refer to different concepts;Hibbeler [19] refers to the moment of inertia but expands the idea into the mass moment ofinertia and the area moment of inertia.ForceSome of the exponent words often used to signify the concept of force in its severalmanifestations may seem to have

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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,robotics and mechatronic systems, electrical, computer, environmental, and architecturalengineering. The College of Engineering & Science has a well-established co-operativeeducation program with a long history of placing graduates into the workforce upon graduation.Located in the city of Detroit the college has close ties to the automobile industry, its numeroussuppliers and local defense contractors.Detroit Mercy engineering students take a comprehensive physics sequence during the wintersemester of their freshman year and fall semester of their sophomore year. The college offersPHY 3690 Modern Physics with Device Applications as a junior level physics course. Thecourse is required of electrical engineers and offered as an elective to other

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Alexander Kaiser, Utah Valley University; Reza Kamali, Utah Valley University; Paul Weber, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

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] off the ground! 5. How many one-nm objects, like the Oleic Acid molecule, would it take to span across our 17µm hair?Part Three: Particle in a BoxTheoryThe particle in a box problem is hard to visualize. This is because there is not a good real world exampleof a particle in a box. However, there is one good example that can now be used: Quantum Dots.Quantum dots are small semiconductor particles. By observing the emission spectra of different sizes ofQuantum Dots, the effects of quantized energy levels can be observed[11].As you remember, the particle in a box taught us that energy levels are quantized and inverselyproportional to the square of the length of the box. That energy can be represented by

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

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class typically offered by the physics department. This course may be required for electricalor computer engineers as a prelude to a semiconductor device class.Surveys of textbooks indicate that the curriculum for such courses has not changed much in acouple of decades. The table of contents of a typical text includes such topics as: relativity,quantization, the Bohr-Rutherford nuclear atom, wave-particle duality and the Heisenberguncertainty principle, the Schrödinger equation, atomic physics, statistical physics, and variousrelated applications. Virtually none of the popular texts include topics on quantum entanglementand quantum computing.Quantum entanglement involves correlations in the measurement of physical systems. Thesesystems are

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica R. Hoehn, University of Colorado, Boulder; Noah D. Finkelstein, University of Colorado, Boulder

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, quantumentanglement, EPR paradox, single photon experiments, Schrödinger equation, infinite and finitesquare wells, quantum tunneling, and various applications of QM (e.g., scanning tunnelingmicroscope, semiconductors, LEDs).In the following sections, we present our approach and outcomes for: a) fostering an inclusiveenvironment through a collection of teaching practices and course structures, and b)implementing a specific unit which engages students in conversations around diversity in STEM.Fostering a culture of inclusionApproachIn order to create an inclusive environment, we focus on four elements—community, voice,agency, and representation—that are considered to be important for cultivating a sense ofbelonging [4]–[9]. We embed each of these components