Conference Session

CEED Technical Session: High-Impact Makerspaces, Transitioning from Co-op to School and Service Research

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville; Mary Andrade, University of Louisville, J.B. Speed School of Engineering; Alex Delgado Beebe, University of Louisville, J.B. Speed School School of Engineering

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

University ofCincinnati in Ohio in 1906 1. Co-op programs have changed significantly over the years, but arestill utilized as a way to connect industry and educational programs. A limitation of highereducational programs is that they do not connect to real world problems, and co-ops are a wayto infuse the educational program to a real world application, where students can learn aboutwhat the profession does day-to-day. Students that are successful in academia will besuccessful after graduation, but academic success is only a small part of career success2. 1Cooperative education benefits have influence on the overall quality of their

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session: High-Impact Makerspaces, Transitioning from Co-op to School and Service Research

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Longo, American Society for Engineering Education; Brian Yoder, American Society for Engineering Education; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Rossen Tsanov, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

by the many activities that emphasize its creative and experiential aspects,often in the form of action verbs. In a 2014 interview with Phil Larson of the White HouseOffice of Science and Technology, Maker Media CEO Dale Dougherty loosely defined Makingas “creating, producing, crafting, shaping, tinkering, composing, and building” (p. 1). In a surveyof Makers at the 2012 World Maker Faire in New York City, Lande, Jordan and Nelson notedthe most frequent verbs used to define Making were “making,” “doing,” and “creating” (2013).Anderson (2012) asserted that everyone is a Maker, noting activities including gardening,cooking, and scrapbooking. By conducting a thorough review of recent literature on the subject,Martin created a working definition

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session: High-Impact Makerspaces, Transitioning from Co-op to School and Service Research

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Leaf, Eastern Washington University; Arin Seth Preston, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter P.E., Eastern Washington University; Robert E. Gerlick, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

years, for a child to master. Two important consequences of this are the financial costs andthe closing “window of opportunity,” as therapy is often most effective in the younger, formativeyears. As an aid in improving ASD therapy, robots have been developed over the past decade,with noted potential for their use as “co-therapists.” However, two major barriers to wideradoption of robots in therapy are the intensive programming requirements of the robots and thelimited “off-the-shelf” programs available to clinicians. This paper describes a pilot project withthe aim of enabling therapists to use the advanced technology of robots by eliminating thesebarriers through (1) the adoption of an intuitive and adaptable programming platform (NAOhumanoid