Stolk, Jonathan D. Vanasupa, Linda Chen, Katherine C Savage, Richard Harding, Trevor London, Blair
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Against a backdrop of compelling societal needs, graduates in science and engineering now must master their disciplines and demonstrate a sophisticated level of cognitive, affective and social develop...
Imagine a course block in which students discuss the cultural implications of 17th century iron working in North America in one hour, and design experiments to examine connections between composition ...
Harvesting energy from ambient vibration is a promising method for providing a continuous source of power for wireless sensor nodes. However, traditional energy harvesters are often derived from reson...
We present an indoor wireless localization system that is capable of room-level localization based solely on 802.11 network signal strengths and user-supplied training data. Our system naturally gathe...
Pratt, Gill A. Willisson, Pace Bolton, Clive Hoffman, Aaron
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We have been working on several control and actuation improvements applicable to the design of biomimetic robots and assistive (e.g. prosthetic or orthotic) devices. This paper focuses on the implemen...
Examining the perceptions of first-year undergraduates and their instructors can provide insight into these students’ experiences and shed light on the emerging issues of student attrition and lack of...
Every classroom constructs its own culture through the interactions of all participants, students and instructors. This culture, often covert or invisible, has a direct impact on students’ opportuniti...
Stolk, Jonathan D. Geddes, John B. Somerville, Mark H.
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Researchers have developed numerous theories and developmental models to describe self directed learning, lifelong learning, and self-regulated learning. The literature includes a large body of resear...
This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to assigning students to project teams for a year-long, industry-sponsored senior capstone course. Successful assignment requires knowl- edge of at least ...
This paper presents some of the challenges, successes, and experiences in designing a new senior engineering capstone program at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Senior capstone design pro...
Stolk, Jonathan D. Somerville, Mark H. Geddes, John B.
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The literature consistently reports that students express some degree of discomfort when they are thrown into self-directed learning environments. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of ...
Kerns, David V. Kerns, Sherra E. Somerville, Mark H. Pratt, Gill A.
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The importance of "design" in engineering education is well established and a cornerstone of most new engineering curricula as well as accreditation criteria Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) ...
Results are presented for the design and testing of an electromagnetic device to convert ambient mechanical vibration into electricity. The design of the device is based on an L-shaped beam structure ...
Somerville, Mark Geddes, John B. Linder, Benjamin Eris, Ozgur
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Curriculum development efforts often focus on delineating content within associated constraints: "how can I/we best design a course to cover a set of topics in the time available?". Such an approach i...
In some supercomputing environments, users are required to run editing, compiling and data-cleaning tasks on a workstation, and use supercomputers only for jobs that require them. This restriction is ...
Metal migration from the thick-film termination can affect not only the electrical characteristics but also the gauge factor or piezoresistive coefficient of thick-film sensors. Four sets of sensors w...
The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHS) Capstone is a semester-long project that builds upon prior coursework and allows students to produce a polished piece of original work. Past projects ha...
Kerns, Sherra E. Kerns, David V. Song, C Davidson, J. L.
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On the basis of the analysis of all the thick- film design methodologies, the authors designed a test sample on which four different length-over-width ratios of resistors were designed. They found tha...
Kerns, David V. Kang, W. P. Davidson, J. L. Henderson, B
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Summary form only given. A wide-band-gap semiconductor, high temperature tolerant microelectronic gas sensor of diamond has been developed for oxygen, hydrogen and CO gas detection. This new device ha...
For the 2024 AHS Capstone year, I decided to create a new medium for storytelling. A story told through short stories, songs, poems, and flash fiction. By combining all of these elements, I'm hoping t...
Two changemaking posters that are designed for Olin's 3D printing space.
The first poster gives a data analysis of some of Olin's 3D printing data from our usage forms to convince students that th...
