Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland - Eastern Shore; Abbas H. Diab, University of Maryland - Eastern Shore; Christopher E. Hartman, University of Maryland - Eastern Shore; Lei Zhang, University of Maryland - Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D., University of Maryland - Eastern Shore; Yakov Pachepsky, USDA-ARS; Rakesh Joshi

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

to fill the container approximately 100 ml of water. The valve and the pump are shut off, thecounter is increased in the programming loop, waiting for indication that the next way point insequence is reached in accordance with the mission plan.4.0 Results and DiscussionFor preliminary testing a pond in the UMES__ campus (Figure 8a) is chosen to assess the designedcapabilities of the STRIDER platform. Eight locations are chosen from the Google Earth map ofthe pond and entered in the mission planner and downloaded to the Pixhawk (Figures 8b and 8c). (a) (b) (c)Figure 8: a) Google Earth Image of Campus, UMES pond, b) Mission plan c)Waypoints for Preliminary

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Silvia Husted, Unicersidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez; Judith Virginia Gutierrez; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

teams towork independently in the required labs depending on their product selection; however, severalcourse sessions and meetings with the course instructor were planned in order to promotecreativity including lessons and selected exercises that provided a number of techniques to helpthem generate innovative solutions to the correctly defined problem. These techniques includebrainstorming, vertical and lateral thinking, analogies, TRIZ (Russian acronym for ResheniyaTeoriya Izobretatelskikh Zadach, that translated literally is “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”), and SCAMPER (acronym for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put toanother use, Eliminate, and Reverse) 2.In this context, a creativity test at the beginning and end