Spartan Daily, December 13, 1939

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Multi-Material Ultrasonic Consolidation

Ultrasonic consolidation (UC) is a recently developed direct metal solid freeform fabrication process. While the process has been well-demonstrated for part fabrication in Al alloy 3003 H18, including with intricate cooling channels, some of the potential strengths of the process have not been fully exploited. One of them is its flexibility with build materials and the other is its suitability for fabrication of multi-material and functionally graded material parts with enhanced functional or mechanical properties. Capitalizing on these capabilities is critical for broadening the application range and commercial utilization of the process. In the current work, UC was used to investigate ultrasonic bonding of a broad range of engineering materials, which included stainless steels, Ni-base alloys, brass, Al alloys, and Al alloy composites. UC multimaterial part fabrication was examined using Al alloy 3003 as the bulk part material and the above mentioned materials as performance enhancement materials. Studies were focused on microstructural aspects to evaluate interface characteristics between dissimilar material layers. The results showed that most of these materials can be successfully bonded to Al alloy 3003 and vice versa using the ultrasonic consolidation process. Bond formation and interface characteristics between various material combinations are discussed based on oxide layer characteristics, material properties, and others.Mechanical Engineerin

Who Cares About Islamic Law?

The legal transplant in the Arab world, perhaps even in the Islamic world writ large, hasn’t had much luck by way of close study in US legal academia. Compared to its scholarly treatment in other non-Western contexts, such as Latin America and East Asia, the absence is glaring. This was not for want of scholarly interest in law in the Arab/Islamic world. Much has been published on Arab constitutions for instance, and you’ve had a few speakers in this lecture series, opine on the topic. Nor has there been lack of scholarly interest in types of legislation that had become symptomatic of our globalized world over the past two decades: foreign investment laws, intellectual property laws, oil and gas laws, and one must not forget that most unsavory yet pressing subject, national security and anti-terrorism laws. Rather, what is glaringly absent is the study of the “European Code”, the privileged form in which the legal transplant was first introduced only to become the permanent and defining feature of the contemporary legal system. There is a simple reason for this and I will state it bluntly. It is because Islamist scholars and their non-Muslim academic sympathizers either liberals with strong multicultural tendencies or “traditionalists” hostile to the modern nation state, have hogged the study of law in the Arab/Islamic world. A consensus of sorts has for long emerged among this block of scholars that the legal transplant was a colonial imposition that has displaced, with tragic consequences according to these scholars, the organic law of the Muslim. It is the latter that is worthy of study, typically referred to by them as “Islamic law”

Educating English Language Learners in Dexter

This case was commissioned by Public Education Network (PEN) and prepared by the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy. This case was designed for use at PEN's 2006 annual conference, and focuses on meeting the educational needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) in a fictitious community

Creating new stories for praxis: navigations, narrations, neonarratives

This paper considers differing understandings about the role and praxis of studio-based research in the visual arts. This is my attempt to unpack this nexus and place it in a context of credibility for our field. Jill Kinnear (2000) makes the point that visual research deals with and intensifies elements of research and language that have always been part of the practice of an artist. Presented is a way to conceptualise and explain what we can do as researchers in the visual arts. I am recontextualizing notions of research, looking at the resemblances, the self-resemblances and the differences between traditional and visual research methods as a logic of necessity. I am investigating how we can decode and recode what we do in the language of appropriation and bricolage. In mapping the processes and territories, I am interested in the use of autobiography as a way to incorporate a deep sense of the intricate relationships of the meaning and actions of artistic practice and its embeddedness in cultural influences, personal experience and aspirations (Hawke 1996:35). This is a study that explores possible parameters for visual research, questioning in what sense is it the best way to understand our relationship with traditional research fields