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This paper describes a junior-level semester-long class project for students in Fluid Mechanics courses. The goals of the project are to introduce students to engineering design, project management, and to incorporate material from other courses in engineering graphics, numerical methods, instrumentation and measurements, and manufacturing processes in a single project. The project focuses on airfoil design using computational tools, and the main emphasis lies on verification of results obtained from computational methods with experimentally measured values. Students will use the airfoil shape they select to make wings to go on a model foam glider. The final part of the project will be staged as a competition where student teams vie to see whose glider can fly the furthest under standard launching conditions.

Sample collection in livestock animals is difficult because choosing proper device for collecting samples is uncertain. Flocked swabs are the most recent advancement in single-use specimen collecting equipment. Flocking is the application of multi-length fibres to an adhesive-coated surface to improve sample collecting method and process. Since the onset of the animal collection swabs, nylon flocked technology has become a new tool in the field of healthcare especially diagnostic. Advantages of non-invasive methods include painless collection ensuring the best possible animal welfare. Nylon flocked swabs can be utilized for a host cell sample collection providing high quality and enough amount of DNA. In the present study, through nasal swab high amount of DNA was identified for goat (124.03 ng/µl) as compared to bovine (96.734 ng/µl) and pig (87.638 ng/µl). Thus nylon flocked nasal swabs showed a good performance for Veterinary diagnosis, although this would be an alternative promising specimen collecting tool.