Integrating Engineering and Technical Communications in Sophomore Electrical Engineering Projects
Technical communications skills can be successfully taught to students in engineering courses without the expenditure of large amounts of class time if realistic design projects and reports are required of them. These design projects stimulate the acquisition of problem-solving skills by students. The use of handouts providing models of sample technical reports gives students reinforcement for the development of their technical communications skills.
Learning through Writing in an Engineering Course
In the fall 1982 semester, engineering report writing was integrated into the structure of a junior-level electrical engineering course at Howard University. The required homework consisted of engineering reports instead of the traditional textbook problem sets. A follow-up analysis of grades on examinations, on reports, and in later courses showed that 1) student understanding of engineering subject matter was not compromised by the course structure; 2) writing skills improved over the course of the semester; and 3) the correlation of student writing skills to problem solving skills was approximately 0.5.
A numerical study on liquid ring motion and fragmentation for the initial process of liquid explosive dispersal
For the explosive dispersal on liquid fuel of FAE technique, the expansion of gaseous detonation products, axisymmetric radial extension and fragmentation of a liquid ring were analyzed, then corresponding models were established. By those models coupled, the numerical simulation on motion and fragmentation of the liquid ring exerted by strong action was carried out. The results computed show that the models established are feasible, and present study can offer initial conditions for the numerical simulation on the process of liquid secondary breakup and gas-liquid mixing.