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such as pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and
temperature in the aquarium. Educators will be
able to download data and help students plot and
conduct statistical analyses of the data.
Hands on activities are also used in different
workshops offered for teachers and K-12 students
at Rowan University. Developed experiments
can be used in a variety of engineering courses
as shown in Table 1.

students of any age group. The photos section has
some striking images of the Rowan engineering
students working on data acquisition as presented
below in Figures 3(a) and 3(b):
All laboratory activities, handouts, experi-
mental methods, quizzes and exams are posted
on this website. Navigation through the webpage
has been made easy with titles to useful links. The
webpage is presented in Figure 4.
The Sensors option provides information about
the various types of water quality probes being
used for collecting information on the water qual-
ity of the marine aquarium at NJAAS.
The LIVE DATA section displays real-time
pH, temperature and Dissolved Oxygen data for
the instrumented aquarium located at NJAAS.
The WEBCAM provides live feed of the images
of the marine aquarium. Educators and students

dISSEmInAtIon

The aquarium project has disseminated in a variety
of ways. A dynamic website been established to
disseminate our Aquarium Project.
The right hand corner of the website presents
basic information for prospective educators and

Figure 2. Instrumented marine aquarium at the NJAAS

Table 1. Courses incorporating proposed experiments

Civil Electrical and Computer Mechanical Chemical

Water Treatment and Design Networks 1 Applied Heat Transfer Biochemical Engineering

Wastewater Treatment Networks 2 Biomechanics Bioprocess Engineering

Solid and Hazardous Waste
Management

Sustainable Design Thermodynamics Reaction Engineering

Mechanics of Materials Thermodynamics

Unit Operations