2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings最新文献

{"title":"Watering for Community Gardens","authors":"G. Ricco, Md Rashedul Sarker, Sean Werling, M. Marshall, T. Crowel, Mayron Reyes Esposito, Emron Abusnaneh","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38282","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Indianapolis (UIndy) has partnered with the Community Health Network (CHNw) to address the food insecurity related issues among the residents of the South Indy Quality of Life Plan (SoIndy) in two community organic gardens. The goal of the Watering for Community Gardens project is to design and construct a watering system for the University Heights community garden. Employing a Design for Six Sigma framework (DFSS) under the DesignSpine™ design model at UIndy, the team began the process by conducting interviews with the client and interns who work in the garden. The Voice of the Customer DFSS tools that were utilized in this project, includes translation worksheets and KJ Analysis. These were used to help solicit and evaluate requirements that were most important to the user. There are four “stage-gate” checkpoints during this process. Our team has completed the first two. The first stage involves interviews with our client to determine functional and non-functional requirements. In the second stage, our team began to ideate and develop designs. After some preliminary designs, the team was able to narrow down to one design. The team decided on 3 designs to present for Gate Review 2. Each of the 3 designs was given design descriptions, and they were a gravity-fed drip irrigation system, an in-soil watering system, and a water pump fed system. Calculations were performed to determine the velocity of fluid flow, the volumetric flow rate, the gallons per day required for","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115147822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing Design Projects in Engineering: Constructing an Effective Problem Statement","authors":"Alexander Pagano, Saadeddine Shehab","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127357059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Student Success in Themed-Learning Communities","authors":"Mary Ann Frank, B. Morrow","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125423882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using an Engineering Design Process to Design an Extendable Desk","authors":"Meredith Magee, M. Sciutto, Alexander Ruble","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114404002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Guitar Pedals to Introduce Amplifier Design and Printed Circuit Board Layout in an Electronics Course","authors":"Benjamin D. McPheron, Kenneth Parson","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38281","url":null,"abstract":"Electronics, Mechatronics. Engineering Education, Control Systems, Mechatronics, and Signal Processing. Abstract One of the foundational learning outcomes of upper level engineering electronics courses is the analysis and implementation of discrete amplifier design. While it is relatively straight-forward to implement these designs in the lab, the application of amplifiers in practice may be difficult for students to understand. A simple application of discrete amplifier circuits is the analysis and design of guitar effects pedals. Effects pedals, and in particular overdrive, fuzz, and distortion circuits, demonstrate keystone concepts of electronics, including single stage amplifier design, multistage amplifier design, clipping, biasing, and variable parameter control. In addition, the implementation of these amplifiers in a small package size (within a metal enclosure) provides an excellent avenue for exposing students to printed circuit board (PCB) layout and prototyping. One benefit of these circuits is that they can be used with an input device (guitar) and an output device (audio amplifier) and students can physically observe (and hear) the results of their design. One particular benefit of this approach is a greater understanding of frequency response characteristics, as students are able to hear the results. In this work, several lab projects were developed for an upper level engineering electronics course to leverage guitar pedal design for teaching discrete amplifier design and PCB layout. This paper presents these projects, resources for implementing the projects, as well as assessment results from the initial offering of this course. In addition to direct assessment of the amplifier design course objectives, qualitative student survey results are presented. Both the direct assessment and student survey results suggest that this approach was effective in helping students better understand amplifier analysis and design.","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123212051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can online summer camps work? Evidence from adapting a high school hands-on water quality module for online delivery","authors":"Mary Foltz, S. Koloutsou-Vakakis","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38259","url":null,"abstract":"is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the Her research focuses on denitrification in agricultural systems and ways to decrease nitrous oxide emissions from denitrification. She has developed and taught five high school science courses and been involved in engineering outreach programs through the university and community. After graduating, she aims to become an assistant professor in an environmental engineering and science program. holds a Diploma degree in Civil-Surveying Engineering a M.A. in Geography (University of California, Los Angeles), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Air Quality, Science and Environmental Policy, and Engineering Risk and Uncertainty. Her recent research is about gaseous emissions of reactive nitrogen from fertilized fields into the atmosphere and impacts on air quality and climate change. Abstract There is evidence that participation in summer engineering camps facilitates students’ understanding of the work engineers do, which can influence their decisions toward selecting engineering majors in college and engineering career paths [1]. The Environmental Engineering and Sustainability summer camp for high school students has been offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2012, under the summer camp outreach umbrella of the Grainger College of Engineering [2]. The week-long camp includes hands-on activities aimed to introduce students to engineering design, scientific inquiry, sustainability, and how engineers contribute to protecting human health and the environment. In summer 2020, due to the pandemic, the camp was reformatted from in-person to virtual. The virtual platform enabled the camp to reach more students, especially those with limited resources to attend an in-person camp. Therefore, we believe it is worth reflecting on the benefits and challenges of this reformatted summer camp and suggest ways online student experience can be improved in the future. test the quality of various water sources, a creek running through campus. The virtual module also tested water quality, but each student chose a water source near them and results were compiled and compared for different samples across the country. both (in-person and interactive water quality and the virtual lesson was delivered to ten times as many students using video conferencing. The additional students and format had a unique set of challenges, more student diversity and opportunities for discussion of water quality on a broader scale. This paper presents our observations of student engagement, student assessment, and formal feedback to evaluate the success of the virtual module and identify ways to improve this approach in future iterations.","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134101451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intelligent Visual Factory Annunciation","authors":"J. Hilt, Joan Martinez, Paul G. Talaga","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129365819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Design and Fabrication of Beetleweight Combat Robot with Hubless Equator Blade","authors":"Jonathan Key, J. Emery, Elliot Motato, Joseph Herzog","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38262","url":null,"abstract":"A team of undergraduate engineers from the University of Indianapolis R.B. Annis School of Engineering has designed and fabricated a combat robot for a national competition in the Beetleweight division, which is less than 3 lbs. In the combat robot event, student teams designed and created a single custom-built machine that employs one or more methods of destroying or disabling their robot competitor. This robot is remotely controlled with an RF device and has been designed to meet all of the specifications and requirements of the combat robot event, as outlined in the competition manual. For Phase I of the design project, the team has researched past events and the contest manual to come up with the most important constraints and design decisions for the project. For Phase II, the team has proposed three preliminary conceptual designs and has chosen which design to develop further, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of design alternatives. The next phase, Phase III included fabrication, testing, and optimization of multiple subsystems, like the communication, weapon, and drivetrain. Phase IV has finalized the design and prepared it for final roll-out, which includes the fabrication of two identical robots for competition and part replacement. This work will highlight the design tools used including a morphological chart and Fusion 360, and strategies used in the design process to lead and manage a team of engineers, including a Gantt chart.","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131922695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating Effective Personalized Learning for STEM Skills: An Introduction to LON-CAPA for New Users","authors":"G. Harding","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38261","url":null,"abstract":": This introductory workshop shows how to create meaningful math-based assessments that are individualized to students. Using LON-CAPA, instructors can create online problems with randomized variables, enabling students to discuss and learn from each other without copying. Students can be given instant feedback and hints, and can repeat problems as needed to develop competencies. In the first part of the workshop you will experience LON-CAPA from the student’s perspective by completing practice problems and receiving hints and immediate feedback to aid in mastering course material. The 2nd part of the workshop will guide you through learning the LON-CAPA interface and programming some basic problem types, including multi-part numeric problems using randomized variables, significant figures, and required SI units. In part 3, the Learning Management System (LMS) functions of LON-CAPA will be explained, and you will learn how to organize and distribute content to students, as well as manage topics like assignment points and due dates. Part 4 will take a deeper dive into LON-CAPA’s functionality, including complex number handling, proper rendering of symbolic math equations, dynamic plotting linked to randomized variables, formula responses linked to randomized variables, interactive plotting, and use of 3rd party math applications for actions like solving symbolic math equations. Finally, Part 5 will show how instructors can use the assessment analysis features of LON-CAPA to get an overview of student performance individually and in groups, and how faculty can use the feedback from assignments to adjust lectures to address observed student difficulties and to create new, more targeted problems. This is a 3-hour workshop, and attendees should have basic familiarity with programming fundamentals.","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Design of a Multi-Terrain Therapy Treadmill","authors":"G. Ricco, N. Saqib, David Olawale, Tyler J. Nolan, Teangelo Rayner, Tyson Burton, Jacob Rohrig","doi":"10.18260/1-2--38279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--38279","url":null,"abstract":"Students the R.B. of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis collaborated with therapists at NeuroHope to design and create a multi-terrain therapy treadmill. Team members, with the help of NeuroHope, identified requirements and constraints using Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) protocols under a four-stage design framework called the DesignSpine in order to create a novel design for a multi-terrain therapy treadmill. The treadmill will be used to help recovering patients practice walking on different terrains while being supported in a LiteGait harness. The different terrains will aid in the recovery process of a patient by stimulating many different muscles needed to walk properly. Utilizing Voice of the Customer (VoC) tools along with methodologies from IDEO and the Stanford d.School, such as translation worksheets and empathetic interview, the team identified and honed in on a set of critical requirements needed for the treadmill’s redesign. Next, the team moved on to the ideation and conceptual design phase to develop either a design focused on retrofitting an existing treadmill or creating a more robust treadmill design. This process, after receiving feedback at the end of a planned stage gate review, ultimately produced a novel custom treadmill design that reduces the overall time needed to simulate different terrains during a patient's therapy session. With help from expert designers, the team came up with","PeriodicalId":328870,"journal":{"name":"2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123962950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}