section taught by different professors togive hands-on engineering experience in their first-year of university coursework. Some previousprojects include an Egg-Drop Machine, a Pumpkin Launcher and autonomous robots.16 Detailsregarding these project sections will not be discussed here since the individual professors,independent of the larger lecture section of FEOC, determine the objectives and designrequirements.For the FEOC, DLC mentors are used for the large section lecture as well as the smaller project-based sections mentioned above. Small groups of approximately ten freshman students areassigned a mentor. The mentor is responsible for organizing and leading group activities withtheir protégés’ every other week. The off-weeks are used for
in Spring 2019 Learn: Battery Building Once in Spring 2019 Design and Build Student Group Basics Learn: Mechanical System Once in Spring 2019 Design and Build Student Group Design Learn: Electric Motor Design Once in Fall 2019 Design and Build Student Group Arduino Pumpkins Once in Fall 2019 Design and Build Student Group Electronics Engineering and Once in Fall 2019 Industry Trade Group Manufacturing Crash Course Learn to Solder Once in Fall 2019 Professional Society Student GroupMicrocourses have been set up to be flexible in nature, taught by
advisors.GUIDE meetings, seminars and requirementsAs part of the GUIDE program, all scholars attend Engineering Seminars (see Table 1) duringthe Fall Semester. Each year, the seminars have varied depending on the requests and needs ofthe students. Faculty from each engineering department and representatives from the communityand campus have talked with the students. Due to student requests, there are 2-3 seminars eachsemester where scholars become better acquainted with the other GUIDE teams. These haveranged from carving pumpkins to a personal scavenger hunt (e.g.: students find out who hasvisited all 50 states, or who has the most pets at home). Many of the seminars have evolved intopanel discussions with students and/or faculty. One of the most
the shopping cart used to transport various equipment from the storage area by the Joslyn Senior Center to the fields in Larkin Park. The new cart should be able to carry rakes, hoses, field liners and chalking material, bases, the pitching maching, and an electric generator. Beckman Laser Institute. BLI would like to develop a simple transilluminator system for the nasal sinuses. Transillumination is a very old technique where a light source is place in the mouth, and the room lights are shut off. If one has fluid in the sinuses, the face will be dark. If one has air, the face will light up like a pumpkin. It is based on the higher transmission of the red and Near-IR wavelengths. The design team can replace the light source
Pump- Number of Pumpkin seeds to plant The former is the secondary formulation for Experience (XP) maximization. Notice that Raspberries (Razz) are not in the Optimization Function and any XP gain from Razz must be from places Plowed (Plw). Constraint 1 limits the time available to the next 12 hours, but multiplies by the number of plots available (24*12=288). Page 22.1636.6 As apparent from the formulation, students replaced the previous plants with newunlocked plants. At each juncture, the student must choose which seeds to evaluate. Thisleads a variable to potentially last through to the Final Formulation.Table 3
are examples of how specific teams met this criterion for success: • “Rain-Catch Irrigation System.” The team chose to focus on a particular village in The Gambia, where most of the population is comprised of subsistence farmers and essentially all of the annual rainfall occurs within a 4-5 month period. The team identified a community building with a corrugated metal roof suitable for a gutter system, researched costs of specific building materials in The Gambia, sized and costed a concrete water storage facility, presented research regarding the time and water required to grow pumpkins and squash, and quantified the number of acres that could be irrigated during the dry season for this length of
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the computer. Their automatondepicts them sitting at the desk in swivel chair, in front of a moving computer screen. A differentstudent created the gear automaton to show how school makes them feel. They created movinggears showing the “gears turning in the head” as they complete various courses in thecurriculum. (a) (b) Figure 6 Example projects for mini project 3 (gear automaton). ((a) – self-portrait; (b) – how school makes me feel)Figure 7 and Figure 8 show example automaton for one of the final projects. This automatondepicts a scene from the combined stories – It’s the great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and DoctorKnow-All. The scene depicts Dr. Know-All
ScalePast projects of “Exploration of Engineering Design” have been speculative in nature; studentswere given a design problem statement and had to speculate both the customers’ needs and thecontext of the problem. For example, one semester project featured students designing and Page 14.2.4building devices capable of launching pumpkins. While such projects promote basic problem-solving and resource management skills, their limited context and concrete objectives did notprovide a significant opportunity for the students to achieve all of the course’s learningobjectives (e.g., interpreting customer needs, managing a design project, framing an open
facility using available materials. They presented research regarding the time and water required to grow pumpkins and squash, and quantified the number of acres that could be irrigated during the dry season for this length of time using the volume of water collected. ≠ “At-Home Carbonator.” The team did market research demonstrating that there is demand for carbonated fruit, which is currently only available through bulk production processes. The team did heat transfer calculations showing that a crock-pot sized device that was charged with dry ice could maintain a temperature cold enough for a time long enough to produce carbonated fruit. They also submitted a reasonable device cost estimate
subtle difficulties of certain tasks.Such discussion amounted to a collaborative design of each component of the software, andallowed large tasks to be decomposed into subtasks by the entire team.F. Software Development EnvironmentThe CubeSat processor is a Microchip dsPIC33 microcontroller. This processor is found inMicrochip’s Explorer16 Development Board (five of which were shared between the softwareteam and the other engineers on the CubeSat project) as well as the Pumpkin CubeSat Kit™Development Board (one of which was shared by project members). The Microchip MPLAB XIDE was used in concert with the Microchip XC16 C Compiler. Hardware debugging wasperformed with a Microchip ICD 3 in-circuit debugger. Subversion was used as our source
similar list of elements in the responses, which are explained in thesenext paragraphs. The Minor Design project is hands-on, small team, design-and-build,accomplished early in the term, with a short assignment window of approximately 2-3 weeks.There are different Minor Design projects across the sections taught by various instructors–design and build an alternative energy vehicle to meet criteria, build a pasta bridge to hold amaximum load, design a device to protect a pumpkin from a 50-foot freefall, or develop amodular custom aircraft engine support stand. The Major Design project is conducted in groups Page 24.880.6of 3 to 4, and over a
PLA 3.12 0.15 20 mm Cube on UP!3D ABS 5.03 0.24 Pumpkin ABS 29.13 1.40 Tension Test Specimen ABS 7.23 0.35 Tension Test Specimen PLA 9.25 0.44 Saturn Rocket ABS 60.26 2.89 Snowman ABS 27.87 1.34 Yoda ABS 37.78 1.81 Lamp ABS 74.33 3.57 Ghost (big) Glow-in- 42.81
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, modifications were made to create their final designs. As final designs,one student used steam; the other one used hot water to heat soil. McCulloch MC1385 DeluxeCanister Steam System, which is a multi-purpose steam cleaner, was purchased and used assteam generator. An available 20-gal electric heater was used as water heater.Some successful student design projects are: Design and Assembly of a Two-Axes Solar Trackerfor Solar Power Generator, Conversion of a Dune Buggy to a Hybrid Vehicle [3], Design andConstruction an ASTM Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus [4], Air Conditioning Waste Heat ToDomestic Hot Water [5], Wheel Balancing Machine Design [6], Pumpkin Thrower Design forthe World Punkin' Chunkin' Competition [7].The ETME 475-Mechanical Systems Design
-Catch Irrigation System.” The team chose to focus on a particular village in The Page 22.1346.7 Gambia, where most of the population is comprised of subsistence farmers and essentially all of the annual rainfall occurs within a 4-5 month period. The team identified a community building with a corrugated metal roof suitable for a gutter system, researched costs of specific building materials available in The Gambia, and designed a rain-catch system and concrete water storage facility using available materials. They presented research regarding the time and water required to grow pumpkins and squash, and
,TryEngineering.org, stem-works.com, eie.org, Pinterest, and Teachers Pay Teachers werefrequently referenced. The most common design challenges were bridges (20), boats or rafts(13), catapults or levers (11), shelters or structures (9), towers (7), cars (6), and parachutes (5).Some of the more original proposals for design challenges included fishing poles, submarines,musical instruments, and packaging for pumpkins. Each preservice elementary teacher then implemented the two EMU lessons during theirfield placement with classrooms of K-5 students, under the classroom teacher’s supervision. TheCT completed an evaluation form and electronically submitted this to the science methodsprofessor, copying the PET. Finally, the PET completed a structured
examples are: a pumpkin drop, ping pong ball launchers,mousetrap cars, and devices to wake up a roommate2,18. The opportunity is present for alllearning styles to be reached. Sensors will benefit from seeing the physical fruits of their laborwhile intuitors are able to apply concepts, perform calculations, and innovate. Visuals are able todraw and diagram whereas verbals and reflectors benefit from research and book reading. Activelearners get to work in teams and have a hands-on approach to the solution, while sequentialsand globals are both covered through the nature of the design process and iteration.Professor’s Presentations & Explanations. This learning mode includes any material presentedin the form of a lecture, PowerPoint presentation