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Smart Wireless Weather Station and Climate Console (Resource Exchange)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

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June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Instructional Showcase

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

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Professional Interest Council (PIC)

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Julian Andrew Schmitt

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Marlene Urbina Illinois State University

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Marlene Urbina is a freshman undergraduate students at Illinois State University studying Engineering and Technology Education.

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Alexander Michael Perhay

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Orla Maire Sheridan

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Chance William Tyler Illinois State University

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Jeritt Williams Illinois State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-5117-8915

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Jeritt Williams is an assistant professor of Engineering Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches applied industrial automation and robotics.

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Matthew Aldeman Illinois State University

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Matthew Aldeman is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Sustainable & Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology undergraduate programs.

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Jin Ho Jo Illinois State University

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Dr. Jin Ho Jo is a Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Sustainable and Renewable Energy program. Dr. Jo also leads the Sustainable Energy Consortium at the university. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. in Building Construction Management. He earned his M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he investigated critical environmental justice issues in New York City. His 2010 Ph.D. from Arizona State University was the nation’s first in sustainability. His research, which has been widely published, focuses on renewable energy systems and sustainable building strategies to reduce the negative impacts of urbanization.

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Allison Antink-Meyer Illinois State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-8969-1263

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Allison Antink-Meyer is a pre-college science and engineering educator at Illinois State University.

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Abstract

STEM-based University Pathway Encouraging Relationships with Chicago High schools in Automation, Robotics and Green Energy (SUPERCHARGE) at Illinois State University is an NSF-funded program that aims to provide access to STEM skills, resources, and career exploration opportunities to underserved high school students through an afterschool program facilitated by teachers and partners from a Community-Based Organization (CBO). These STEM activities and experiences, which have been co-designed between undergraduate students and university faculty advisors, are based on the classroom and laboratory experiences of an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students from Engineering Technology and Sustainable and Renewable Energy programs, reimagined for the pre-college learner. Engineering-related concepts include but are not limited to block-based coding, working with sensors, data logging and analysis, transmitting and receiving data wirelessly, and design, problem-solving, and troubleshooting of projects through a systems and needs-based approach.

This resource exchange describes the concepts, activities, resources, and experiences culminating in developing a low-cost, highly-capable “Smart Wireless Weather Station and Climate Console” using the micro:bit microcontroller and integrating other commercially available products to create a “new” product. This first-year project is intended to be built by high school students and deployed within their local communities as part of a three-year program.

Schmitt, J. A., & Urbina, M., & Perhay, A. M., & Sheridan, O. M., & Tyler, C. W., & Williams, J., & Aldeman, M., & Jo, J. H., & Antink-Meyer, A. (2024, June), Smart Wireless Weather Station and Climate Console (Resource Exchange) Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47977

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