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    Making Change Sustainable: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) Meeting Review
    The purpose of the meeting described in this review was to decide how best to ensure the sustainability of the Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Science Education (NIBLSE; pronounced...

    Keywords: meetingsustainabilityfmnNIBLSEincubator

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    Is Earth Currently Undergoing a Sixth Mass Extinction?
    The five Phanerozoic mass extinctions were central in shaping biodiversity on Earth today. Due to increasing biodiversity losses, there is debate about whether we are currently undergoing a sixth...

    Keywords: conservationBiodiversityextinctionMass ExtinctionDeep Time

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    A Modeling Exercise in Sexual Selection using a Student-Created Bird Species
    Evolution-centered lessons at the undergraduate level can often be jargon-heavy, propagate misconceptions if taught ineffectively, and be uninteresting to students who may not see the relevancy of...

    Keywords: Evolutionfitnesssexual selectionNatural Selectionintersexual selectionmate choice

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    1-076-ClimateBifurcation-ModelingScenario
    We cover simple zero and one dimensional models for the mean temperature of the Earth. These models can exhibit bifurcations.

    Keywords: energy balanceclimateenergyalbedoHysteresisbifurcationice-agegreenhousebalanceStefan Boltzmann Law

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    3-104-BungeeJumping-ModelingScenario
    In this project, students design a bungee jumping cord (cross-sectional area and length) that will keep jumpers safe. Students communicate their recommendations as a letter to a client interested...

    Keywords: designfallingmassspring\bungeeelesticityrecommendationconsult

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    1-047a-CondensationOptimization-ModelingScenario
    We seek to optimize a condensation process which is modeled by a simulation using the random motion of 200 particles in a 50 by 50 square in which a particle bounces off the two vertical and top...

    Keywords: simulationdataoptimizationenergycondensationbest fitcostsum of scquare errors

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    1-050-BargingAhead-ModelingScenario
    As captain of a barge, you need to determine how fast to transport your barge up river against the current in order to minimize the expended energy.

    Keywords: optimizationkineticsenergytrophic efficiencyworkriverterminal velocityfrictioncurrentforcebargeworlkspeed

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    1-057-FiguringFluidFlow-ModelingScenario
    We propose three differential equations models for the height of a column of falling water as the water exits a small bore hole at the bottom of the cylinder and ask students to determine which...

    Keywords: dischargetankTorricelli's LawConservation of Energyfluid flowheightliquid

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    1-114-EarthClimate-ModelingScenario
    In this modeling scenario, we investigate the Earth's climate using a zero-dimensional energy balance model. Energy balance models are climate models that try to predict the average surface...

    Keywords: climateenergytemperaturelinearizationphase linesenergy balance modelroot finding

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    1-120-CircularRollerCoaster-ModelingScenario
    Students study the dynamics of a circular roller coaster and work out the equations of motion in the ideal case as well as considering the interesting complication of including kinetic friction....

    Keywords: population dynamicsenergyFluid Mechanicsmfrictionroller coasterintegration by8 parts

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    3-010-EnergyInSpringMassSystem-ModlingScenario
    As a way to synthesize the effects of damping and forcing terms, this activity is meant to encourage students to explore how different forcing terms will change the total energy in a mass-spring...

    Keywords: energymass-spring systemkinetic energypotential energytotal energy

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    3-067-RLCSeriesCircuit-ModelingScenario
    In this validation-oriented setup, the second order linear ordinary differential governing equation of a small signal RLC series AC circuit is solved analytically, and the results are compared with...

    Keywords: resistanceMultisimcircuitRLC circuitinductancecapacitancecimulationgoverning equation

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    3-073-EarthQuakePartII-ModelingScenario
    Your goal here is to determine how much friction/damping should be designed into a building to keep the roof from moving too far (which would result in the entire building collapsing) when it...

    Keywords: earthquakevibrationdampingamplitudespring-mass systemsteady-state solutionunderdamped

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    3-085-SimplePendulum-ModelingScenario
    Thestudent is asked to derive and solve a differential equation that gives the position (angle

    Keywords: Newton's Second Law of Motionpendulumkinetic energypotential energyConservation of Energytinitial conditionssmall angle approximationTaylor polynomialpercent error

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    3-092-WirelessPower-ModelingScenario
    We present an engineering application (wireless power transmission) modelled by a coupled system of two linear second-order differential equations with constant coefficients. One equation is...

    Keywords: DESMOSwireless power transmissionelectric circuitsKirchhoff's Voltage Law

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    5-010-DNADegradation-ModelingScenario
    We ask students to use the system of first order linear differential equations given in a source paper and estimates of the data from laboratory procedures from a plot to estimate the parameters...

    Keywords: DNA\kinetisplasmaratpharmacokinetis

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    5-012-LipoproteinModeling-ModelingScenario
    Data from a study on the amounts of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), form of cholesterol, in blood plasma is presented. Students build, validate, and use a compartment model of the kinetic...

    Keywords: wildlifelow-density-lipoproteintracercompartment modelcholesterolblood plasmabody tissue

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    5-036-HalfCarVibration-ModelingScenario
    Vibration vehicle models provide an opportunity to integrate vehicle-based vibrations into a mechanical engineering vibrations course. The project is on a multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF)...

    Keywords: vibrationvehiclehalf-car modelfinite element analysisshock absorberssuspension

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    9-020-HeatDiffusion-ModelingScenario
    This project guides students through experimental, analytical, and numerical techniques for understanding the heat (diffusion) equation with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. In particular,...

    Keywords: laboratoryDiffusionheat

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    3-069-HeatInBar-ModelingScenario
    The temperature distribution along a uniform slender bar due to conduction and convection is investigated through experimental, analytical, and numerical approaches.

    Keywords: heat transferexperimentconductionconvectionboundary conditionsfinite volume method

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