Schweik, C. M., & Rees, P., & Brewer, S. D., & Olson, C., & Smoliga, D. (2015, June), MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learning, Makerspace Course  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24447

\bibitem{asee_peer_24447}
  Schweik, C. M., \& Rees, P., \& Brewer, S. D., \& Olson, C., \& Smoliga, D. (2015, June), \emph{MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learning, Makerspace Course}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24447

Charles M Schweik, Paula Rees, Steven D Brewer, Christine Olson, and Dan Smoliga.  "MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learning, Makerspace Course".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24447 Internet.  13 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_24447}
  Charles M Schweik, Paula Rees, Steven D Brewer, Christine Olson, and Dan Smoliga.
  "MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learning, Makerspace Course".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24447 Internet.  13 Jan, 2025

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AB  -      MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring     Technologies – Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped,                   Service Learning, Makerspace Course                                                      Recently there have been tremendous advances around open source and low-cost technologiesthat have implications for environmental science and environmental management. Prominentexamples of this can be found in the recent “maker movement”, the creation of community-based“makerspaces”, and the emergence of groups like the Public Laboratory for Science(PublicLab.org). In many ways, the Maker movement represents a logical extension of synthesisof current trends in education: i.e. active learning, problem based learning, team-based learning,flipped classrooms, and community-service learning. In Fall 2014, we offered an experimentalUniversity course to evaluate the efficacy of student learning in an interdisciplinary, flipped,service learning, Makerspace course.Through this course, an interdisciplinary, multi-campus set of self-motivated university studentswas introduced to several general areas of open source or low-cost commercial technologies thatcan be applied to solve real-world environmental management problems. The students identifiedspecific projects to develop based on their particular interests, but centered around two primaryareas: (1) Do-It-Yourself (DIY) / Do-It-Together (DIT) remote sensing of the naturalenvironment and (2) DIY/DIT Arduino- or Raspberry PI-based environmental sensing andmonitoring. Required course deliverables include: (a) An implemented project with digitalproducts, (b) An “instructable” that teaches someone how to implement their project, (c) Apresentation of their project, to be filmed for a new segment of a local public access television“Maker” show and/or posted on a more public platform such as a “research note” on thePublicLab.org website, and (d) Service learning in the form of mentoring middle school studentsenrolled in an after school program. In addition, the course meeting time was designed to overlapwith a weekly community Maker Meetup. Seven, team-based student projects are currently underdevelopment, including an Arduino-based dog GPS collar, an Arduino-based water qualitymonitor based on the PublicLab “Riffle”, an Ardunio-based air quality monitor, a DIYhydroelectric generator, an autonomous recording unit, a DIY balloon-based mapping of theinvasive species Water Chestnut, and an OpenROV open source submarine modified so that itcan log underwater oxygen levels. Three of the projects already have active Public Lab pages forsharing their work.This effort is part of a larger collaboration across three colleges and multiple departments at theUniversity involving both K12 and University educational components. One or two of thestudent projects from the course will be displayed/demonstrated as part of the Maker postersession. Initial insights gained around three overarching research questions will be presented,including: (1) What role might interdisciplinary, flipped, service learning, Makerspace coursesplay in undergraduate and graduate student curriculum? and (2) Can such courses be effectivelyleveraged to play a significant role in engaging K12 students in Science, Technology,Engineering, Arts, and Math?
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