A study on six plots of corn was conducted on the St. Andrews School farm near Townsend, DE to compare the runoff water quality characteristics between pelletized broiler litter (PBL) and conventional fertilizers, in this case urea. The objective of this comparison was to see whether or not PBL is a suitable replacement for conventional fertilizer. Within the six corn plots, three of the plots ...

ba ck g r oun d & aim: spiritual care is an integral part of a holistic nursing care. providing spiritual care has a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes. although nurses understand the importance of incorporating  patient’s  spiritual  beliefs  into the care practice,  understanding  their  spirituality before addressing the spirituality of patients is also important. therefore, the ai...

This article describes the successful revitalization of an undergraduate physics program. The areas of curriculum development, undergraduate research experiences and advising and retention, to name a few, are emphasized in this interconnecting and systematic approach whereby each and every effort combines to get results. The program can be used by other physics departments wishing to improve an...

⎯ This paper presents a case study on the challenges of teaching state-of-the-art design to undergraduate students. The issues encountered are exposed specifically through the discussion of the development and teaching of a comprehensive first course in Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Index Terms ⎯ Design Education, Undergraduate Education,...

Project ownership is an essential but sometimes overlooked ingredient for a successful undergraduate research experience. We have embarked on an experiment in undergraduate education that targets isolation of microbes from rainforest plants and characterization of natural products as objectives for discovery-based undergraduate research.

We present our experience integrating MerkleHellman knapsack cryptosystem into undergraduate computer science curriculum. The paper focuses on the additive knapsack and ways to integrate it into the following undergraduate computer science courses: introduction to computer science, cryptology, and analysis of algorithms. Ideas for undergraduate student projects are presented and discussed.

This paper presents an undergraduate student research project which involved a new power diode called the Super Barrier Rectifier (SBR) diode. Several projects incorporating SBR diodes in dc-dc converters performed by undergraduate students will be described. Challenges in conducting these projects along with results will also be discussed. Index Terms – Undergraduate research.

Selecting an appropriate programming paradigm in which to teach the first programming and problem solving course in a Computer Science undergraduate program has been discussed extensively. Procedural programming, functional programming, and object oriented programming are the most widelyused programming paradigms both in institutes of higher learning and in the high-tech industry. In recent yea...

The undergraduate years of one’s educational career are among the most formative in terms of education and research outlook. The university education should both broaden the student’s perspective, while simultaneously sharpening critical thinking skills. Though classroom experience is beneficial, it is incomplete. The purpose of this paper is to address some of the issues associated with provid...