Project-based and experiential learning is becoming increasingly important in engineering education. When recently surveyed, a majority of the students in a junior-year class at the University of Pennsylvania stated t...
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Project-based and experiential learning is becoming increasingly important in engineering education. When recently surveyed, a majority of the students in a junior-year class at the University of Pennsylvania stated that they learned more from a particular course that had a strong lab component than from any other college class. This student belief may stem from the internal confirmation of understanding that hands-on work provides. Students seem to gain confidence when they are able to apply class material successfully to real-world systems, rather solving text book problems on paper. It is not yet clear where the critical learning takes place, whether in the lab or in the associated lecture, but it is obvious from our experience that laboratory work catalyzes student understanding and excitement about mechanical engineering. Based on student feedback and our belief in the value of project-based and experiential learning, we have developed a practice-integrated mechanical engineering curriculum that spans the full four-year undergraduate experience. Our goal is to ingrain theoretical concepts and develop independent student thinking by gradually incorporating design into laboratory activities;by exposing students to systems and applications before developing all of the relevant theoretical concepts;and by motivating students to appreciate the importance and relevance of the theory by directly applying it in projects. This curriculum incorporates three principal educational strategies. First, our laboratory classes provide a steady progression of skills and independence, from freshman through junior year. Second, many concepts are taught in a top-down framework, which exposes students to relevant physical systems and practical applications before they have been taught the specific theoretical concepts. Third, lecture material is formulated to support the laboratory activities, in contrast to the traditional approach where laboratory exercises are decoupled from or t
In our contribution we deal with a two-node straight sandwich composite bar element with constant double symmetric rectangular cross-sectional area. This new bar element (based on the second-order beam theory) is inte...
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Large strain actuation in (001)-oriented barium titanate (BaTiO 3) single crystals subjected to combined uniaxial stress and electric field is examined. The hysteresis evolution of the crystal under combined electrome...
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Amorphous sputter-deposited NiTi thin films were subjected to pulsed, melt-mediated laser crystallization techniques to engineer their microstructure. The effects of laser processing of pre-heated films are examined. ...
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Amorphous sputter-deposited NiTi thin films were subjected to pulsed, melt-mediated laser crystallization techniques to engineer their microstructure. The effects of laser processing of pre-heated films are examined. Laser processing of films at an elevated temperature has a significant effect on the rate with which solidification occurs and therefore may be used as an added parameter to control the resulting microstructure. It is seen that the temperature at which processing is carried out has significant implications for the resulting phase and microstructure, and therefore mechanical properties. Furthermore, the microstructural effects of varying incident laser energy density are examined via atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x-ray diffraction (XRD), and mechanical/shape memory properties are characterized via nanoindentation.
The mechanical properties of a cell's environment can alter behavior such as migration and spreading, and control the differentiation path of stem cells. Here the authors describe a technique for fabricating subst...
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New possible nanotechnology applications of some original developments and results of studying the regularities and micromechanisms (physics) of the hydrogen fluoride gas activator influence on oxidation of titanium, ...
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New possible nanotechnology applications of some original developments and results of studying the regularities and micromechanisms (physics) of the hydrogen fluoride gas activator influence on oxidation of titanium, zirconium and zirconium-based alloys with niobium, and also - on nitriding, boriding and carbiding a series of refractory metals (Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, W, Ta) are elaborated. The new possible nanotechnology applications of the techniques and physics of creating a compound-like nanosegregation or the liquid-like nanosegregation at grain boundaries in nanostructured metals, i.e. creating of specific cellular type natural nanocomposites, are considered as well.
Compositional lipid domains (“lipid rafts”) in plasma membranes are believed to be important components of many cellular processes. The mechanisms by which cells regulate the sizes and lifetimes of these spatially e...
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Compositional lipid domains (“lipid rafts”) in plasma membranes are believed to be important components of many cellular processes. The mechanisms by which cells regulate the sizes and lifetimes of these spatially extended domains are poorly understood at the moment. Here we show that the competition between phase separation in an immiscible lipid system and active cellular lipid transport processes naturally leads to the formation of such domains. Furthermore, we demonstrate that local interactions with immobile membrane proteins can spatially localize the rafts and lead to further clustering.
Stability of Pd-Co-Ni-Cu-P metallic glass was investigated in terms of free energy using first principle cluster calculations, thermal analysis, and photoemission spectroscopy measurements. We found that the internal ...
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It was hypothesized that the hydroxyapatite(HAP)/GEMOSIL biomaterial could promote osteoblast (MC3T3) self-organization. This study using MC3T3 cell line demonstrated formation of trabecular bone-like extracellular ma...
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It was hypothesized that the hydroxyapatite(HAP)/GEMOSIL biomaterial could promote osteoblast (MC3T3) self-organization. This study using MC3T3 cell line demonstrated formation of trabecular bone-like extracellular matrix (ECM) on the material compared to unorganized ECM on the control (no-material). The study also initiated exploratory tests for the underlying mechanisms via gene analysis and proliferation assay.
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