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Albéri, Matteo; Baldoncini, Marica; Bottardi, Carlo; Chiarelli, Enrico; Landsberger, Sheldon; Raptis, Kassandra Giulia Cristina; Serafini, Andrea; Strati, Virginia; Mantovani, Fabio – Education Sciences, 2019
Although environmental radioactivity is all around us, the collective public imagination often associates a negative feeling to this natural phenomenon. To increase the familiarity with this phenomenon we have designed, implemented, and tested an interdisciplinary educational activity for pre-collegiate students in which nuclear engineering and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Radiation, Learning Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Euler, Manfred – Physics Education, 2013
A hands-on model of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is presented. It uses near-field imaging with sound and computer assisted visualization to create acoustic mappings of resonator arrangements. Due to the (partial) analogy of matter and sound waves the images closely resemble STM scans of atoms. Moreover, the method can be extended to build…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Hands on Science, Laboratory Equipment
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Hanley, Quentin S. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
Fourier transforms are used widely in chemistry and allied sciences. Examples include infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectroscopies. A thorough understanding of Fourier methods assists the understanding of microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and diffraction gratings. The theory of Fourier transforms has been presented in this "Journal",…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories
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Russo, D.; Fagan, R. D.; Hesjedal, T. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, is home to North America's first undergraduate program in nanotechnology. As part of the Nanotechnology Engineering degree program, a scanning probe microscopy (SPM)-based laboratory has been developed for students in their fourth year. The one-term laboratory course "Nanoprobing and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Laboratory Experiments