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This concise guide is designed for novice faculty and nursing education students who are teaching or will be teaching in higher education. The text provides the skills necessary to teach courses for classroom and online courses. Information is provided in a practical and accessible way and includes best practices for setting up a syllabus and curriculum, test item writing, grading, mentoring students, and personal advancement as a faculty member. Exercises, rubrics, and self-test items are furnished to give readers hands-on practice in defining and carrying out an effective instructional agenda.

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This book explains methods and coding to create FEM-based models to optimize process variables and predict dimensional distortions during the manufacture of thermoplastic matrix composite parts. After investigating defects, such as spring-in, caused by thermal inconsistencies during manufacture, the text offers a step-by-step approach to simulating and predicting the magnitude of distortion via readily available FE codes. Models are validated by testing using the example of a multi-staged roll-formed continuous thermoplastic woven laminate, which can be readily extended to a variety of mold geometries. Information in this book is intended to reduce the need for costly and time-consuming re-tooling in thermoplastic parts design. It includes models and experiments for faster, less expensive manufacture of thermoplastic parts. It is focused on simulating thermal defects in thermoplastics. It covers: techniques for better molds, tooling and equipment; Material Property Testing; Thermoplastic Matrix Composite Manufacturing Methods; and, Process Characterization of Roll Forming.It looks at: Case Study Modeling Approaches and Results; Using Elastic Mechanical Properties; Using Viscoelastic Mechanical Properties; and, Pseudo Meso-Level Decomposition.

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