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Real-Time Object Detection For Resource-Constrained Autonomous Robots To Categorize Waste Materials, Rajvi Tiwari May 2020

Real-Time Object Detection For Resource-Constrained Autonomous Robots To Categorize Waste Materials, Rajvi Tiwari

2020 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Pollution is a serious issue faced by the modern world. An analysis of the last five decades reveals that even though considerable attention has been focused on managing larger institutional sources of pollution, individual and crowd-oriented sources of pollution in the form of littering continue to be a pervasive problem worldwide. The 2020 Institute of Industrial and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) region 5 robotics competition was created with the purpose of utilizing robotics to help combat this particular issue of littering. With the goal to represent The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) at the competition, our senior design team developed …


On The Topic Of Sudden Storm Commencements Related To The Earth’S Geomagnetic Field With An Emphasis On The Precursor Signature, Atharva Dange May 2020

On The Topic Of Sudden Storm Commencements Related To The Earth’S Geomagnetic Field With An Emphasis On The Precursor Signature, Atharva Dange

2020 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Much of space physics deals with the relationship between the sun and the earth. The type of interaction—solar winds, flares, particles, mass ejections, radiations, plasma, and magnetic fields—determine the phenomenon observed on earth. Sudden Storm Commencements (SSCs) are unique high impulse disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere characterized by an anomalous rise in the Dst index. Both hourly and minute time resolutions would be utilized to compare deviations in value ranging from 10nT to 50nT. The goal will be to study SSCs by analyzing satellite data and constructing simulations in order to be able to predict future such storms on Earth. …


Detection Of Exomoons By Decametric Radio Emissions And Determination Of Their Habitability Through Tidal Heating, Sanskruti Sharma May 2020

Detection Of Exomoons By Decametric Radio Emissions And Determination Of Their Habitability Through Tidal Heating, Sanskruti Sharma

2020 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Over 4000 exoplanets have been discovered but most of them are unsuitable for life. With organic compounds being discovered on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, exomoons have become hotspots for extra-terrestrial life. The strong tidal force of Jupiter have various effects on its moons. Large heat dissipation in Io creates an ionic atmosphere, which interacts with Jupiter electromagnetically. As a result, Io emits characteristic radio emissions. Subsurface ocean is also created in Europa due to heat dissipation in its interior. Tidal dissipation is calculated for different cases for Galilean moons. Habitable zones for Io and Europa are determined by varying the semi-major …


Eccentric Rotating Mass Motor Vibrational Plate Modeling, Lukas Willingham May 2020

Eccentric Rotating Mass Motor Vibrational Plate Modeling, Lukas Willingham

2020 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

To design and analyze a vibrational plate design, multiple steps must be followed to find the time response of the system. The design was created using an existing patent for the design objectives and the technology that must be avoided. The design was then created using a Delrin plastic sheet, a set of springs, 4 linearization bearings and a vibrational motor. From this point a Free-Body Diagram was set up to find the governing equations of the system. Using these equations, the time response was found using two different numerical methods: the ODE45 program within MATLAB and Laplace/Inverse Laplace. Using …


Geoscience Education Research: Trends And Applications In Undergraduate Courses, Diane Lally May 2020

Geoscience Education Research: Trends And Applications In Undergraduate Courses, Diane Lally

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Water resources are progressively under pressure from anthropogenic uses. Students need to learn about water systems as they are the future decision-makers and problem solvers who will be faced with unknown challenges in the future. The overarching goals of this dissertation were: 1) to identify ways in which geoscience instructors are incorporating systems thinking and science modeling in their teaching along with the accompanying methods for improving systems thinking and modeling implementation and 2) explore how the implementation of science modeling and systems thinking increase student evaluation of models and the understanding of hydrologic content. Data for these studies came …


Student Conceptualization Of Stoichiometry, Khushikumari J. Patel-Desai May 2020

Student Conceptualization Of Stoichiometry, Khushikumari J. Patel-Desai

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General Chemistry (I and II) is a year-long introductory course frequently taken at the start of the college career for STEM-intending students. It is broadly found to be difficult, and many students struggle. Stoichiometry describes the relationships between compounds and elements in a reaction. It is a fundamental concept that is taught in the first semester of General Chemistry as a building block for the understanding of future concepts in second-semester and upper-level chemistry courses. Students have a difficult time conceptualizing stoichiometry because it involves a combination of algorithms and builds off of other fundamentals. However, studies claiming to focus …


Using Online Discussions To Connect Theory And Practice In Core Engineering Undergraduate Courses, Lisa B. Bosman, Somesh Roy, Walter M. Mcdonald, Cristinel Ababei May 2020

Using Online Discussions To Connect Theory And Practice In Core Engineering Undergraduate Courses, Lisa B. Bosman, Somesh Roy, Walter M. Mcdonald, Cristinel Ababei

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Providing engineering undergraduate students opportunities to connect real-world applications with theory is key to preparing them for the workforce; however, this task often requires a balancing act between meeting course objectives in content-heavy core engineering undergraduate courses and providing experiences that connect real-world applications with theory. This study seeks to address this problem through the integration of online discussion prompts to promote a connection to real-world practical applications. The study included undergraduate students enrolled in three engineering core courses. The hypothesis was that participation in online discussions (using prompts) would lead to 1) an increase in student empowerment towards self-regulated …


Teaching About The Meaning And Importance Of Quality In An Undergraduate Operations Management Course, Arup Mukherjee Apr 2020

Teaching About The Meaning And Importance Of Quality In An Undergraduate Operations Management Course, Arup Mukherjee

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Arup Mukherjee, Ph.D., is professor and chair, Management and Management Information Systems Department, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514.


Che 260-002: Fluid Flow (Revised For Remote Learning), Ecevit Bilgili Mar 2020

Che 260-002: Fluid Flow (Revised For Remote Learning), Ecevit Bilgili

Chemical and Materials Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Che 489-002: Process Dynamics And Control (Revised For Remote Learning), Richard Cimino Mar 2020

Che 489-002: Process Dynamics And Control (Revised For Remote Learning), Richard Cimino

Chemical and Materials Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Cs 341-004: Foundations Of Computer Science Ii, Marvin K. Nakayama Mar 2020

Cs 341-004: Foundations Of Computer Science Ii, Marvin K. Nakayama

Computer Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Cs 491-104: Computer Science Project (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri Mar 2020

Cs 491-104: Computer Science Project (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri

Computer Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Cs 104-004: Computer Programming And Graphics Problems (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri Mar 2020

Cs 104-004: Computer Programming And Graphics Problems (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri

Computer Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Cs 491-102: Computer Science Project (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri Mar 2020

Cs 491-102: Computer Science Project (Revised For Remote Learning), Osama Eljabiri

Computer Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 121-014: Physics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Hyomin Kim Mar 2020

Phys 121-014: Physics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Hyomin Kim

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 121-016: Physics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Gareth Perry Mar 2020

Phys 121-016: Physics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Gareth Perry

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 102-004: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), N. M. Ravindra Mar 2020

Phys 102-004: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), N. M. Ravindra

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 102-006: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), N. M. Ravindra Mar 2020

Phys 102-006: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), N. M. Ravindra

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 102-102: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), George Georgiou Mar 2020

Phys 102-102: General Physics (Revised For Remote Learning), George Georgiou

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Che 342-002: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Gennady Gor Mar 2020

Che 342-002: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Ii (Revised For Remote Learning), Gennady Gor

Chemical and Materials Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 321-004: Water Resources Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Yuan Ding Mar 2020

Ce 321-004: Water Resources Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Yuan Ding

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 350-104: Transportation Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Branislav Dimitrijevic Mar 2020

Ce 350-104: Transportation Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Branislav Dimitrijevic

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 414-102: Engineered Construction (Revised For Remote Learning), Chrissa Roessner Mar 2020

Ce 414-102: Engineered Construction (Revised For Remote Learning), Chrissa Roessner

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 321-002: Water Resources Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Yuan Ding Mar 2020

Ce 321-002: Water Resources Engineering (Revised For Remote Learning), Yuan Ding

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 450-002: Urban Planning (Revised For Remote Learning), Wassim Y. Nader Mar 2020

Ce 450-002: Urban Planning (Revised For Remote Learning), Wassim Y. Nader

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 332-002: Structural Analysis (Revised For Remote Learning), Mohamad Saadeghvaziri Mar 2020

Ce 332-002: Structural Analysis (Revised For Remote Learning), Mohamad Saadeghvaziri

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ene 262-004: Introduction To Environmental Engineering, Wen Zhang Mar 2020

Ene 262-004: Introduction To Environmental Engineering, Wen Zhang

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Ce 332-104: Structural Analysis (Revised For Remote Learning), Mohamad Saadeghvaziri Mar 2020

Ce 332-104: Structural Analysis (Revised For Remote Learning), Mohamad Saadeghvaziri

Civil and Environmental Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Reconsidering Undergraduate Anatomy And Physiology Curriculum, Eric Michael Walsh Mar 2020

Reconsidering Undergraduate Anatomy And Physiology Curriculum, Eric Michael Walsh

Theses and Dissertations

In the past 50 years several convergent factors have spurred unprecedented change in anatomy and physiology (A&P) instruction. An explosion of biomedical knowledge, an increased demand for students well-versed in A&P, and decreased resources for the course has provoked a vast array of research. However, most studies employ one of three strategies to enact change: testing the effectiveness of new pedagogies, exploring the utility of new technologies, or documenting learning in new contexts. By comparison, a much smaller body of research focuses on changing the A&P curriculum to improve student learning. To address this gap, the musculoskeletal curriculum for an …


Sociohydrologic Systems Thinking: An Analysis Of Undergraduate Students’ Operationalization And Modeling Of Coupled Human-Water Systems, Diane Lally, Cory T. Forbes Jan 2020

Sociohydrologic Systems Thinking: An Analysis Of Undergraduate Students’ Operationalization And Modeling Of Coupled Human-Water Systems, Diane Lally, Cory T. Forbes

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

One of the keys to science and environmental literacy is systems thinking. Learning how to think about the interactions between systems, the far-reaching effects of a system, and the dynamic nature of systems are all critical outcomes of science learning. However, students need support to develop systems thinking skills in undergraduate geoscience classrooms. While systems thinking-focused instruction has the potential to benefit student learning, gaps exist in our understanding of students’ use of systems thinking to operationalize and model SHS, as well as their metacognitive evaluation of systems thinking. To address this need, we have designed, implemented, refined, and studied …