Teaching design students machine learning to enhance motivation for learning computational thinking skills.

The integration of computational thinking (CT) to enhance creativity in design students has often been underexplored in design education. While design thinking has traditionally been the cornerstone of university design pedagogy and remains essential, the increasing role of digital tools and artificial intelligence in modern design practices presents new opportunities for innovation. By introducing CT alongside design thinking, students can expand their creative toolkit and engage with emerging technologies more effectively.

Sintering Behaviors, Microstructure, and Microwave Dielectric Properties of CaTiO-LaAlO Ceramics Using CuO/BO Additions.

The effect of CuO/BO additions on the sintering behaviors, microstructures, and microwave dielectric properties of 0.95LaAlO-0.05CaTiO ceramics is investigated.

Modeling of polyethylene, poly(l-lactide), and CNT composites: a dissipative particle dynamics study.

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), a mesoscopic simulation approach, is used to investigate the effect of volume fraction of polyethylene (PE) and poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) on the structural property of the immiscible PE/PLLA/carbon nanotube in a system. In this work, the interaction parameter in DPD simulation, related to the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter χ, is estimated by the calculation of mixing energy for each pair of components in molecular dynamics simulation. Volume fraction and mixing methods clearly affect the equilibrated structure.

The interfacial behavior of water/PMMA thin film under normal compression.

Molecular dynamics simulation (MD) has been used to investigate the structure property of water/PMMA interface under compression and compression release. A virtual repulsive wall was employed to generate a normal compression strain on the simulation model, leading a compressive system. In order to understand the difference of interfacial phenomenon between the system under strain and under release, the hydrogen bond and density distributions of water and PMMA along the normal direction are calculated.