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A Robust Platform For Mobile Robotics Teaching And Developing Using Arduino’S Integrated Development Environment (Ide) For Programming The Arduino Mega 2560, Sajjad Alhassan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In light of the rapid pace at which development happens with modern technology, mobile robots play an important role in our daily lives. This is due to their great importance in facilitating the affairs of life in various economic, commercial, industrial, scientific, and many other fields. In this research and project, we have restructured the microcontroller and system for one of the mobile robots (CEENBOT) that was designed by the University of Nebraska and replaced it with an Arduino Mega 2560.

The purpose of using the Arduino Mega 2560 robot is to provide alternative programming for the CEENBOT platform to …

Ministerial Decision On The Trips Agreement (Wto), Ana Santos Rutschman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Banner Year For Khan, A Pakistani American Graduate Of The Uab Public Relations Program, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Keys To The Kingdom: Driving Culture & Customer Service Using The Disney Hospitality Model, David G. Wolf

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Presentation conducted for New York Long-Term Care leaders to show them how the Disney management principles can be used to inform healthcare leaders to make better managerial decisions that will affect their culture and customer service.

Brides And Bridal Stores: Online Or Brick-And-Mortar, Libby C. Jones, Ismet Anitsal, Melek Meral Anitsal

Atlantic Marketing Journal

This paper explores the growing global bridal industry and the different trends, traditions, and aspects of specific countries' bridal industries. It outlines western and eastern traditions and how globalization contributes to their spread. A deeper focus is dedicated to the United States' bridal industry and the issues brick-and-mortar bridal boutiques face as more brides have started shopping at online bridal stores. The relationship between brick-and-mortar and online bridal stores is explored based on various propositions about the bridal industry's emerging challenges. These propositions include trust issues in the retail environment, convenience, selection of bridal gowns in different retail formats, incorporating …

Political Reality: Attack Ads Are Here To Stay, Rebecca Dingus, Chanho Song, Richard H. Kolbe, Michael Y. Hu

Atlantic Marketing Journal

The primary research questions of this study center on two largely overlooked areas in negative political advertising: (1) Would the sponsor of the attack ad message be better off with a positive message? (2) When one is targeted by an attack ad, how should the attacked candidate respond? M-Turk subjects (n = 1,380) were used to conduct a multi-stage experimental design to capture the dynamic aspects of how subjects react to the use of attack ads in a hypothetical political campaign. In general, subjects did not respond favorably to attack ads, as these negative political messages caused damage to the …

Uc-274 Restful Robots, Jack I. Young, Derek M. Comella, Sarah Thomas, Andrew Loveless

C-Day Computing Showcase

The UXA-90 Robots have been sitting idle at Kennesaw State University for years. The only documentation provided were factory manuals, and there was nothing additional found online. The first step was to conduct a risk assessment and report the results to Professor Perry and Dr. Pei. The objective of the risk assessment was to determine the viability of the robots and the feasibility of three different senior project teams using them for a project. Once the risk assessment was completed and reported it was determined that all three teams could proceed with their senior projects. However, it was recommended that …

Gr-273 Building A Chatbot, Varun Gottam, Sathwik Chepyala, Sai Mohit Saimpu, Venkata Sai Krishna Yalavarthi, Nikhil Sai Buddiga

C-Day Computing Showcase

A chatbot is now a part of many online applications like Health Care, Education, E-commerce, etc. It made the conversation between the customers and the service providers much more convenient as the chatbot can answer most of the queries without human intervention from the website side. This saves a lot of time and work.

Uc-261 Grocery Application, Quin’Dariu A. Lyles-Woods, Adam Maksymczuk, Aidan Le-Beard, Jeetu Sharma, Danny Sor

C-Day Computing Showcase

This project is being completed for Kennesaw State University’s CS 4850 - Computer Science Senior Project undergraduate capstone course. This project as described is a dynamic grocery list mobile app that updates all members when items are added. The app then must contain groups that the user is able to join, have a list that is shared between that group, and have the ability for all users in the group to add and remove items from the list. To notify the users, push notifications are likely to be used. In addition to having a shared list, it makes sense that …

Uc-272 Defunct To Funct: Expanding The Functionality Of Forgotten Robots, Thomas E. Stockdale, Khoa Ho, Johnny Huynh, Marcel Youri Nguiagaing Seuga

C-Day Computing Showcase

The field of robotics is an expanding landscape, pushing the frontiers of engineering, machine vision, artificial intelligence and more. The robotics industry also has a foothold in many areas, such as consumer markets, scientific research, industrial and medical applications, and even exploration. With the growing interest in automated machines, individuals who can work with these machines are in demand, and providing a way to learn the skills to do so would be just as valuable. Kennesaw State University is currently in possession of two UXA-90 Humanoid robots; both of which have remained in storage for extended periods of time since …

Uc-276 Akwaaba Web Server Security Project, Jayland Vann, Ty G. Rogers, Cody Reese, Ronald W. Southern, Taiyeb Choudhury

C-Day Computing Showcase

Our team engaged in a mock cybersecurity drill. Our objective was to take on the roll of cybersecurity consultants and to secure a mock business website. Afterwards, we were to engage in the active defense of the site from another team, while perpetuating attacks on another team's site. Goals: -Secure a business website and then engage in it's active defense. -Perform a successful attack(s) on another team's website. Outcomes: -Developed a comprehensive security policy -Documented site risk and vulnerabilities -Implemented security and configuration changes

Gc-244 Msit Capstone Project Fall 2022, Megen Cochran, Skylar Story, Tatiana Brown, Simisola Babatunde

C-Day Computing Showcase

Computer network system administrators need to inspect and analyze network traffic and detect malicious communications, monitor system performance, and provide operational services. However, identifying threats contained within encrypted network traffic, which has become increasingly prevalent, poses a unique set of challenges. It is imperative to monitor this traffic or threats and malware but do so in a way that maintains privacy. This project aims to develop a machine learning-based system that can accurately detect malware communication in this setting.

Gr-288 Comparative Performance Analysis Of Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Algorithm To Assess Post Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises, Manohar Murikipudi, Abm. Adnan Azmee

C-Day Computing Showcase

Due to the advancements in technology, data is growing exponentially. With this increased dataset size, the computation to process the generated information is rising sequentially. And the currently available classical computational tools and learning algorithms will not work due to the limitations of Moore's law. To overcome the computational issues, we have to switch to Quantum Computing which works based on the laws of Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Machine Learning (QML), a subset of Quantum Computing, is faster and more capable of doing complex calculations that a classical computer can't. Classical Computers work on bits - 0 or 1, whereas a …

Uc-238 Sp4-Dogem, Chloe Chung, Zane Atkinson, Melissa Iniestra, Deo Intshakal A Nzeng, Joshua K. Willson

C-Day Computing Showcase

The DogEm project's overarching objective is to produce a functional cross-platform mobile app that reliably sends a specific contact a series of calls, emails, and texts until the contact responds. To accomplish this goal, we have compiled preliminary research, produced a series of prototypes, and started the development process. Our preliminary research consists of research pertaining to our tech stack, our user base, our app's requirements, possibilities for messaging and calling features, UX/UI research, reading through React Native documentation, and constraints on the messaging and calling features on iOS vs. Android. Each member produced a DogEm app prototype to familiarize …

Ur-280 Speech Recognition, Rachnicha Rojjhanarittikorn

C-Day Computing Showcase

This project makes use of speech recognition in Python libraries from Google, such as Google Speech-to-Text. The program first installs the dependencies that are required to run the program. The program then asks the user for their input. The user has the option of either exit the program, having the text read back to them, or responding to the conversation. If the user decides to have the text read back to them, the program will use the Google Text-to-Speech library to convert the text to speech. The purpose of this project is to understand how to implement speech recognition in …

Wirewall A Follow Up: Labratory And Field Measurements Of Wave Overtopping, Tim Pullen, Jenny Brown, Margaret Yelland, Robin Pascal, Richard Pinnell, Chris Cardwell, David Jones

Protections Conference

At the Protections 2018 conference, the WireWall wave overtopping research project was introduced. WireWall uses recent advances in high frequency capacitance wire technology that can measure overtopping data. Wave overtopping has now been measured in the laboratory and in the field using the WireWall system. Here we provide an update on the validation of the system in flume tests and results from the first field measurement campaign.

Before deployment in the field, an extensive set of tests were carried out in one of the 2D wave flumes at HR Wallingford. These tests simulated known wave conditions from a buoy near …

Vol. 48 No. 8 - Whole No. 349, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 48 No. 4 - Whole No. 345, Jason Fisher

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

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Journal of Response to Writing

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Student Interpretation And Use Arguments: Evidence-Based, Student-Led Grading, Ll Aull

Journal of Response to Writing

Assigning grades is conventionally the exclusive, lonely terrain of the instructor, even as other aspects of teaching and responding to student writing are collaborative. As an alternative that promotes student engagement and agency, labor-based contract grading is used in a growing number of writing classrooms. This article strives to add to these conversations by describing evidence-based, student-led grading as an option that engages students as well as a broad construct of writing. This approach foregrounds students’ own response to their writing, in the form of evidence-based interpretation and use arguments for their grades. It engages students in the process of …

Feedback As Boundary Object: Intersections Of Writing, Response, And Research, Lindsey Harding, Joshua King, Anya Bonanno, Joseph Powell

Journal of Response to Writing

While a great deal is known about instructor response to student writing—from commenting practices to student perceptions—less is known about how feedback impacts students’ writing and writerly development. While we set out to study students’ explicit engagement with written instructor feedback, our initial experimental design was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, we describe the dialogic collaborative process that emerged as we considered both the data we were able to collect and, in turn, feedback anew. This article proposes that feedback on student writing is a boundary object which affords those interacting with it the opportunity for collaboration despite the …

Feedback Practices In Hybrid Writing Courses: Instructor Choices About Modality And Timing, Ariel M. Goldenthal, Jessica Matthews, Courtney Adams Wooten, Brian Fitzpatrick, Lourdes Fernandez

Journal of Response to Writing

Despite a wealth of research on feedback practices in synchronous and asynchronous courses, little has been done to investigate such practices in hybrid writing pedagogy. How do instructors make choices about providing feedback when both instructional modes are operating in a course?

A qualitative study conducted with fourteen instructors who teach hybrid writing courses at a large state university reveals how they navigate a series of choices about providing feedback on student writing. This study shows that instructional modality, use of the LMS, and labor conditions influence the decisions instructors make about how and when to provide feedback, especially on …

Editorial Introduction, Kat O'Meara, Betsy Gilliland

Journal of Response to Writing

No abstract provided.

Esp For Biotechnology Purposes In Serbian Higher Education: The Skills Required And Blended Learning Environment, Milevica Bojovic

Global Advances in Business Communication

Biotechnology engineering is a complex domain that explores the use of living systems and organisms to develop products or any technological application that uses biological systems and living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use in the production of raw food, feed, and food processing. English as a foreign language in biotechnology engineering reflects the complexity in terms of content knowledge, language skills, and strategies characteristic of biotechnology. The article focuses on the knowledge and skills a biotechnology engineer should acquire with the emphasis on communicative language ability in English as a foreign language for specific …

Grit And Resilience In Wlsps: The Potential Of Blending Translation And Indirect Service Learning, Isabelle Drewelow, Xabier Granja Ibarreche

Global Advances in Business Communication

This study explores how blending translation with service learning has the potential to support the development of grit and resilience. The participants collaborated on translating documents from English to Spanish for local organizations, as part of a service learning component of an advanced Spanish grammar course. Using reflection papers written by students at the end of the semester, the study adopted a qualitative interpretive approach to examine their perspectives. Students were asked to consider the skills they developed, share their perceptions of the value of the translations for the community and for themselves, and reflect on the emotions they experienced …

Online Intercultural Exchanges In A French For The Professions Course, Deborah Reisinger

Global Advances in Business Communication

This research study explores the experiences of post-secondary students in the United States and the France (n=28) who participated together in synchronous online intercultural exchanges (OIE) in the context of two distinct World Languages for Specific Purposes (WLSP) courses. The study design draws on research in OIE and WLSP, as well as on the researcher’s experience conducting a pilot OIE during the pandemic (spring 2021). Findings suggest that US students benefit considerably from these exchanges, self-reporting gains in business content, cultural knowledge, and language proficiency. Enthusiasm for the project demonstrates that OIE projects can also increase learner engagement and motivation …

“Any Time, Any Place, Any Path, Any Pace:” A Curricular Design For The Teaching Of Languages For Specific Purposes In The Pandemic Era And Beyond, Steven J. Sacco, Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter, Diana M. Ruggiero

Global Advances in Business Communication

As US universities face unprecedented financial challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, university officials have begun reducing and even eliminating foreign language programs. NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway is even predicting the demise of dozens of US colleges and universities as they depend almost exclusively on tuition (Galloway, 2020). Public health officials question whether pre-pandemic educational conditions will resume even after the end of the pandemic. Costly safety measures at schools and universities will have to be implemented. To safeguard the teaching of LSP courses, this essay proposes the adoption of a Center for LSP Studies, preferably anchored at a …

Special Issue: Global Advances In Business Communication - Wlsp World Languages For Specific Purposes: The Future Is Blended, Steven J. Sacco, Diana M. Ruggiero

Global Advances in Business Communication

No abstract provided.

Student Engagement In An Online Engineering Afterschool Program During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Jerrod A. Henderson, Chelsea Martinez, Rick Greer

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

The COVID-19 pandemic forced much of schooling online and limited students’ access to informal learning opportunities such as afterschool programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate how fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in an online engineering program and what factors influenced their engagement. We drew on a four-dimensional model of student engagement to describe how students engaged in the afterschool engineering program and to identify the factors that enhanced or inhibited engagement. Using a case study design, we drew on interviews with six program mentors and ten students and observation data from weekly Zoom sessions throughout the 2020–2021 …

Field Testing Of The Overflow Erosion Of Rhone River Levees, Christophe Picault, Fabrice Campette, Stéphane Bonelli, Sylvie Nicaise, Naim Chaouch, Faustine Byron, Yves Gremeaux, Alexis Doghmane, Mathys Garoui, Jordan Herbeck, Frédéric Golay

Protections Conference

It is important to quantify the soil resistance against erosion caused by the overflow of dikes and levees. Small-scale tests are not recommended, as they do not provide a correct representation of the actual soil in place and do not take into account the geometry of the structure. For this reason, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) developed an on-site overflow device in 2015. The procedure followed is based on ASTM-D6460 standard. Two tests were performed in May 2022 on a Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) dike near Avignon (France). The dike is 6.2 m high; …