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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...

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Integrating 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...

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Evolving 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...

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The 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...

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Design 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...

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Testing 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...

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Using 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...

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Teaming 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.”...

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Synthesis 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...

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Sequential deposition of copper/alumina composites

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Stability 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...

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Fabrication 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...

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Fabrication 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...

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Processing 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...

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A 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...

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A 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,...

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Densification 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...

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Warpage 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...

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Mechanisms 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...

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Modeling 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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