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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deana Delp, Arizona State University

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Paper ID #46230Enhancing User-Defined Agricultural Projects with Commodity Modelingand Strategic PositioningDeana Delp, Arizona State University Deana R. Delp has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. She is an associate teaching professor at Arizona State University for Engineering Academic and Student Affairs in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Enhancing User-Defined Agricultural Projects with Commodity Modeling and Strategic PositioningAbstractThis full paper addresses the question of

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pavel Navitski, Oral Roberts University; Rachel L Budavich, Oral Roberts University; Moriah Love Metellus, Oral Roberts University; David Lopez, Oral Roberts University; Jonathan V Ophus, Oral Roberts University

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Paper ID #48368Engineering Sustainable Solutions: The Plant Wall Project as an InterdisciplinaryApproach to Integrating Design, Botanical Science, and Educational InnovationDr. Pavel Navitski, Oral Roberts University Dr. Pavel Navitski is Associate Professor at Oral Roberts University from 01/2020 after a stint as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Oklahoma State University, where he was researching drift detecting using sensor systems for field spraying and guest lecturing. He is originally from Belarus, where he was the head of the department of agricultural machines at the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy. The

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Jesu Raj Pandya, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Alena Zheng, University of Maryland College Park

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project explores the use of FarmBot, an open-source robotic farming system, andaeroponics, a soil-less cultivation method using Tower Garden technology. Integrating thesetechnologies presents a scalable and innovative approach to space agriculture, with potentialapplications both on Earth and beyond. Over the past two years, 10 diverse STEM undergraduates(first-year to senior) and three exchange summer interns have engaged in hands-on research onsustainable lunar agriculture. They cultivated crops such as spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, arugula,and basil in simulated lunar environments using FarmBot and Tower Garden systems. Learningobjectives included (a) programming autonomous farming systems, (b) exploring lunar regolithsimulants such as Lunar

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Woongbin Park, Purdue University; Yunjin Lim, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation; Jung Han, Purdue University; Hyeree Cho, Purdue University; Seokyoung Kwon; Juhyun Kim, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education

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to the smart farm project ▪ Practicing 3D design using Sketchup Team building app Setting your own goal of the project 7 ▪ Introduction to the smart farm project 2 ▪ Setting up the physical computing Team building environment Setting your own goal of the project Reviewing software coding and 3D design for building smart farms 8-10 ▪ Software design for their projects 3-4 ▪ Hardware design reconstructing the Arduino code 3D printing and leveraging various

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Cody Prince, East Tennessee State University; PAMELA J. MIMS, East Tennessee State University; Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University; Lindsay Lee, Michigan State University

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our ongoing project to foster workforce development inbioengineering and biomanufacturing. In this update, we will discuss the research and evaluationstrategy to assess the effectiveness of our training regime. This phase focuses on a hybridtraining approach which allows students to establish knowledge competency asynchronouslywhile developing practical industry-aligned skills in a series of short lab modules. We present astrategy of pre- and post-testing and industry assessment of participant competency.Additionally, we present this Work In Progress (WIP) to solicit critique of the proposed plan ofstrategy. We see this development as addressing the critical need for a more distributed andresilient bioeconomy. WIP: Biomanufacturing in

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Isaac Camacho, University of Texas at El Paso; Toluwalase Opanuga, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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educators and programs determine if reflection haseffectively contributed to students learning as intended so that teaching approaches can beadjusted to better meet student needs and improve overall instructional quality. Instructors needtools that can help assess reflection activities implemented in their classroom.This study was part of a larger research project to integrate reflection across two engineeringprograms. The purpose of this study was to (1) investigate a tool that instructors can use to assessthe impact of integrating reflection into their courses and (2) demonstrate its use in twoBiological and Agricultural Engineering courses. The intention is to provide validity evidencefor the tool and determine whether it can capture differences

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas

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Paper ID #46853Work In Progress: Mentorship Matters—Shaping the Professional Pathwaysof Biological Engineering StudentsMrs. Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas Leslie Massey is an advanced instructor in the First-Year Engineering Program (FEP) at the University of Arkansas, holding a BS in Biological Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering. She previously worked as a project manager at the Arkansas Water Resources Center before returning to teaching full-time in 2013. Currently, she teaches various courses in the FEP, including Introduction to Engineering I and II, and coordinates the First-Year Honors