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Art of STEM 2015
Show moreOnce a week, I teach an electronics class for high school girls at Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights. I couldn't find a basic electronics textbook I really liked, so I started drawing a comic book for them. This is one of the pages from that comic, which serves as a reference for the resistor color code. I find that the needs of technical communication "expressing a concept in multiple ways, showing how ideas relate to and build on each other, getting your point across whether the reader skims or ruminates" are perfectly suited to the words-and-pictures alchemy of comics. This page uses a combination of techniques I've learned from both engineering drafting and comic illustration, echoing engineering drawings in ligne claire style and making use, naturally, of color coding. And when I pass it out to my students, it's stapled like an old school `zine. Size: 9" by 12" Method: Pencil and ink on Bristol board, colored and lettered in Photoshop. This entry won second place in the CWRU category.
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Show moreThis engineer was caught in a moment of confusion, as he was attempting to fix an error with the welding machine. There are many components to these welding rigs, including holding fixtures, robotic arms and more. Every part needs to work perfectly in order to meet customer completion times. There's a lot that could go wrong and this company has a deadline that must be met.
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Show moreThis graphic piece is inspired by imagery of fighter jets piercing the sound barrier and the science behind that process. As pressure builds progressively at the front of the jet, a cone is formed, which is effectively "pierced" when the jet breaks the sound barrier. This successive process, depicted in my piece, relates to the form of my favorite jet, the F-16.
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Show moreSEM autograph of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a ubiquitous, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium. It has been intensively studied as an opportunistic human pathogen. It is one of the most common pathogens for nosocomial infection in immunocompromised individuals. This image was taken with FEI Helios Nanolab 650 using 2 KV 50 pA with TLD mode 2. The specimen was prepared with the OTO technique.
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Show moreThis is a Silicon Carbide crystal growing on top of Silica glass. The image was taken using an FEI Helios 650 high resolution scanning electron microscope at the Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials. The image was acquired using secondary electrons at relatively low voltage (5kV) to boost contrast and a tilt angle of 52 degrees to enhance the 3D feel of the surface.
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Show moreElectron transparency of the microstructure features from a Nickel based alloy after a FIB-SEM lift out looks like a real life scene! A sheep with curly hair eating grass and living happily 20 microns deep into an oxide layer of a jet motor turbine.
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