Work in Progress: Outreach Assessment: Measuring Engagement
The Learn By Doing Lab (LBDL) at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is an on-campus laboratory where 5th through 8th grade students are taught by undergraduates who may be planning a careers in teaching. The...
View ArticleIntegrating Courses Through Project Based Learning
Integrating three courses (one sophomore level, two senior level) through Project Based Learning (PBL) within the Industrial Engineering curriculum at the California Polytechnic State University, San...
View ArticleEvolving a Summer Engineering Camp through Assessment
EPIC (Engineering Possibilities in College) is a one-week summer program for high school students (entering 9th-12th grades) to learn about engineering and experience hands-on labs in a university...
View ArticleThe Inside-Out Classroom: A Win-Win Strategy for Teaching with Technology
As costs of higher education soar and many universities face uncertain funding models, institutional pressures have increased to improve instructor efficiency. At the same time, U.S. industry leaders...
View ArticleDesign Projects with Out-of-Town Companies
The capstone design class in the industrial engineering department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) includes projects with companies. The projects are large...
View ArticleTesting the Test: Validity and Reliability of Senior Exit Exam
A senior exit exam is considered an excellent direct measure of student learning for ABET assessment, but the usefulness of the information gathered is related to the validity and reliability of the...
View ArticleUsing Sports Coaching Techniques to Enhance Project Based Learning Instruction
As instructors attempt to apply project based learning as a preferred pedagogy for many aspects of engineering education, countless questions are raised. For instance, how do instructors assess...
View ArticleTeaming Multi-level Classes on Industry Projects
For the past few years we experimented with teaming students from a sophomore-level class and a senior-level class to work on industry projects. The classes are “work design” and “facilities design.”...
View ArticleSynthesis of gold micro- and nano-wires by infiltration and thermolysis
An approach for synthesizing micro- and nano-sized gold wires by infiltration and thermolysis is investigated. A porous ZrO2 ceramic preform with aligned pores obtained by unidirectional freezing and...
View ArticleStability analysis for forging of porous bodies
The continuum theory of sintering is used for the analysis of the stability of forging of a cylindrical powder specimen. The constitutive properties of the powder material are assumed to follow a...
View ArticleFabrication of Net-Shape Functionally Graded Composites by Electrophoretic...
It is shown that electrophoretic deposition (EPD) sintering is a technological sequence that is capable of producing net-shape bulk functionally graded materials (FGM). By controlling the shape of the...
View ArticleFabrication of functionally graded 3A/5A zeolites by electrophoretic deposition
Functionally graded zeolites of molecular sieve type 3A and 5A are deposited by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) from acetone suspension with 8% volume concentration of n-butylamine as particle...
View ArticleProcessing model for tungsten powders and extention to nanoscale size range
Nanoscale tungsten powders promise access to very hard, strong and wear resistant materials via the press–sinter route. A small particle size changes the response during sintering, requiring lower...
View ArticleA Control-Chart Based Method for Solder Joint Crack Detection
Many researchers have used different failure criteria in published solder joint reliability studies. Since the reported timeto-failure would be different if different failure criteria were used, it...
View ArticleA Control-Chart Based Method for Solder Joint Crack Detection - conference...
Many researchers have used different failure criteria in the published solder joint reliability studies. Since the reported time-to-failure would be different if different failure criteria were used,...
View ArticleDensification of W-Ni-Fe Powders Using Laser Sintering
In this paper, Laser Sintering (LS) of 90%W–7%Ni–3%Fe (wt.%) powders have been investigated, with the goal to understand the influence of final density by laser power, scanning speed, laser trace...
View ArticleWarpage and shape distortion in laser metal sintering
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is the primary method to fabricate metal and ceramic components in additive manufacturing. Due to the anisotropy of powder material, the sintering rate difference will...
View ArticleMechanisms and solutions to the brittle solder joint in electroless Ni plating
Brittle solder joints in Electroless Ni electroless Pd immersion Au (ENEPIG) surface finishes are one of the key reliability issues in electronics assembly. Previous characterization of the reflow...
View ArticleModeling of selective laser sintering/ selective laser melting
Selective laser sintering and selective laser melting are powder based additive manufacturing (AM) process that can rapidly manufacture parts with comparable mechanical properties to conventional...
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