Rhoads, K. R., & Harper, K. A., & Butler, M. W. (2024, July), Work in Progress: Increasing Maker Space Participation through First-Year Engineering  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48645

\bibitem{asee_peer_48645}
  Rhoads, K. R., \& Harper, K. A., \& Butler, M. W. (2024, July), \emph{Work in Progress: Increasing Maker Space Participation through First-Year Engineering}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48645

Kurt Ryan Rhoads, Kathleen A Harper, and Michael William Butler.  "Work in Progress: Increasing Maker Space Participation through First-Year Engineering".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48645 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_48645}
  Kurt Ryan Rhoads, Kathleen A Harper, and Michael William Butler.
  "Work in Progress: Increasing Maker Space Participation through First-Year Engineering".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48645 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - We added an additional component to a design module in the First-Year Engineering course at X university with the goals of increasing student participation, expanding the options for student innovation, and increasing the opportunities to utilize the campus maker space. 

The previous design module asked students to design and manufacture “whegs”, or wheel-legs that are attached to remote controlled cars and act like wheels on flat ground but have spokes for climbing obstacles. In teams of four, students worked over six weeks to find a biological inspiration for their designs, test prototypes, sketch their designs in SolidWorks, 3D print, and make modifications. During the last week of class, students competed to traverse an obstacle course using their final whegs. While students rated this module as their favorite, there was often unequal participation among group members because most of the design work can be completed by one or two individuals. 

Working in close collaboration with our maker space staff, we changed the module by asking students to add an “adventurer” component that collects rings along the obstacle course. The adventurer attaches to the car chassis, above the whegs, and can be made from cardboard, plywood, or acrylic. Students cannot 3D print the adventurer, and instead must use an additional manufacturing method available at the First-Year Engineering Lab or maker space, such as laser cutting, traditional woodworking, or milling. 

Adding the adventurer component increased individual participation on teams, increased the number of manufacturing techniques used by students, and added an exciting challenge during the obstacle course. In the future, we will analyze maker space utilization data to determine which resources were most used by students and whether this activity increased student maker space utilization outside of the First-Year Engineering course.

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CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
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