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Unpacking capabilities underlying design (thinking) process
Engineering graduates must know how to frame and solve non-routine problems. While design classes explicitly teach problem framing and solving, it is lacking throughout much of the rest of the engineering curriculum and is often relegated to capstone classes at the end of the students’ educational experience. This paper explores problem framing and solving through the lens of experiential learning theory. It captures core problem framing and solving approaches from critical, design and systems thinking and concludes with a table of learning outcomes that might be drawn upon in designing an engineering curriculum that more fully develops the problem framing and solving capabilities of its students
Non-Arrhenius ionic conductivities in glasses due to a distribution of activation energies
Previously observed non-Arrhenius behavior in fast ion conducting glasses
[\textit{Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.}\ \textbf{76}, 70 (1996)] occurs at temperatures
near the glass transition temperature, , and is attributed to changes in
the ion mobility due to ion trapping mechanisms that diminish the conductivity
and result in a decreasing conductivity with increasing temperature. It is
intuitive that disorder in glass will also result in a distribution of the
activation energies (DAE) for ion conduction, which should increase the
conductivity with increasing temperature, yet this has not been identified in
the literature. In this paper, a series of high precision ionic conductivity
measurements are reported for
glasses with compositions ranging from . The impact of the
cation site disorder on the activation energy is identified and explained using
a DAE model. The absence of the non-Arrhenius behavior in other glasses is
explained and it is predicted which glasses are expected to accentuate the DAE
effect on the ionic conductivity.Comment: 2 figure
Pre-Testing as a Method of Conveying Learning Objectives
Teaching methodologies involving student pre-testing have been used in K-12 education for a number of years. Although pre-testing has been conducted in some collegiate classrooms, there have been very few studies published regarding the effectiveness of the concept. This paper reports the results of a study in which one Introduction to Aerospace class was given a pre-test at the start of each unit of study, while a second class received a list of specific learning objectives at the start of each unit. The post-test unit test results of the two classes were then compared. The results of the study indicate that pre-testing may be a very effective means of communicating course expectations to students
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of PC-Based Aviation Training Devices and Conventional Flight Training Devices for Instrument Flight Training
Since the time instrument flight became common, ground training devices have been used to teach students basic instrument flight skills. The skills which students learn in these ground trainers are then transferred to an aircraft during later stages of training. There are three types of ground training devices that are recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration for flight training purposes. The first type of device is called a simulator, which is a device “that exactly duplicates the performance and physical aspects of a specific airplane (Butcher, 1996). Simulators are multi-million dollar machines, which are mounted on hydraulic legs and have full visual displays. These machines are so realistic that it is possible for a pilot to be trained to certificate completion in such a device, with no time in an actual aircraft. The use of these devices is typically limited to airline use, due to both their initial and operating costs
Active primate simulator Final report
Systems engineering data and design specifications for Biosatellite active primate simulato
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