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Evsc 125-002: Fundamentals Of Envr Sciences, Michael Bonchonsky

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Chem 301-102: Chemistry Technology, Xianyang Meng

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Evsc 385-102: Environmental Microbiology And Evsc 627-101, Mengyan Li

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Chem 221-002: Analytical Methods, Chunyan Liu

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Eps 202-452: Society Techn & Environmnt - Honors, Michael Bonchonsky

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Evsc 375-102: Environmental Biology, Zeyuan Qiu

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Chem 475-102: Biochemistry Lab I, Edgardo Farinas

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

No abstract provided.

An Introduction To Electrical Systems And Their Importance To Cardiac Resuscitation And Biomedical Innovation, Imran Noorullah

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 12-14

https://www.uab.edu/inquiro/issues/past-issues/volume-11/an-introduction-to-electrical-systems-and-their-importance-to-cardiac-resuscitation-and-biomedical-innovation

Improving Undergraduate Student Engagement In Stem Through Bioinformatics Research, Michele C. Morris

Dissertations

A novel intervention to introduce undergraduate students to bioinformatics, provide authentic research opportunities, and support student retention in science majors and careers is presented in the Characterizing Our DNA Exceptions (CODE) project. The need to increase the number of qualified STEM graduates, particularly in the fields of bioinformatics and computational research, was the impetus for this project that leads students down the path of scientific discovery as they characterize genomic variants of uncertain significance (VUS). This study sought to examine if student participation in a CODE research project would increase their bioinformatics awareness, interest, comfort, and knowledge, as well as …

Display Of Plenty: Addressing Food Insecurity On Campus, Adrienne Warner, Sarita Cargas, Sarah Johnson

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This chapter describes how undergraduate students created an interactive display in an academic library to address food insecurity among students at their university. In the 2021 fall semester, students in the Honors College course, The Human Rights of Students, created a visual display to present and refine their work on raising awareness of food insecurity. Spurred by the 2020 University of New Mexico Basic Needs Report, they engaged others in conversation through digital and analog media to dispel stigma and promote resources. Not only did it raise awareness, their undergraduate research project embodies several social justice tenets found in the …

A Portrait Of Mwrite As A Research Program: A Review Of Research On Writing-To-Learn In Stem Through The Mwrite Program, Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Field M. Watts, Ginger V. Shultz, Anne Ruggles Gere

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The writing-to-learn (WTL) literature is varied in how assignments are structured and implemented in the classroom, making it difficult for instructors to identify how to incorporate writing effectively. Drawing on the WTL literature, the MWrite program was established to work with STEM faculty to design, implement, and assess evidence- based WTL assignments. Herein we present a review of the WTL research generated through the MWrite program, situating our findings in a four-dimensional framework of engagement to identify how the MWrite WTL assignment design and implementation has supported students’ learning. Our analysis indicates that the multi-faceted design of MWrite WTL assignments …

Benefits And Drawbacks Of Pre-Licensure Clinical Jobs In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Rachael Muhlenkamp, Rebecca Trzecki, Jason Grassie

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This research study aims to identify the benefits and drawbacks of pre-licensure clinical jobs in undergraduate nursing students. Many nursing students are encouraged to have a job in clinical settings in order to gain more experience. Many undergraduate nursing students here at the University of Akron currently have jobs in the clinical setting and these are the student's who we plan to use as our sample for this study. This study will be completed by spring of 2023, before graduation.

Pacific Magazine 2022, University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Pedagogical Uses For Machine Translation: Korean L2 Writing, Manali Khandekar

2022 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Korean is a particularly challenging language for English speakers due to its typological distance from English, and as such, learning Korean typically requires hundreds or thousands of additional hours of instruction to reach intermediate and advanced levels. One solution that this study analyzes is the use of a rapidly improving technology: machine translation (MT). Participants were tasked with producing a short composition in Korean and then trained to use MT-based strategies to improve their writing; they also completed pre- and post-surveys to gauge their attitudes toward machine translation. Results showed improvement in vocabulary choice and grammar as well as case/locative …

An Assessment Of Students’ Enrolment Rate In University Of Ilorin, Nigeria From 2019-2021: Implications For Management, Yusuf Suleiman, Salami Tunde Adeniyi, Obalasiki Kamal, Lawal Saheed Oluwaseun, Oladejo Misbau Abiodun

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

Enrolment at all levels of education is regarded as one of the indices of measuring the growth and development of education system. It is against this backdrop that the study assesses the enrolments of students in the University of Ilorin and its implications for the management. In order to get data for the study, annual report of the university from 2019-2021 were used to provide answers to the two research questions that were formulated to guide the study. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive method of analysis. The findings of the study revealed that females were more enrolled than males …

A Torsion-Based Rheometer For Measuring Viscoelastic Material Properties, Merrill E. Asp, Elise Jutzeler, Jakub Kochanowski, Katherine Kerr, Dawei Song, Sarthak Gupta, Robert Carroll, Alison E. Patteson

Physics - All Scholarship

Rheology and the study of viscoelastic materials are an integral

part of engineering and the study of biophysical systems. Tissue rheology is even

used in the study of cancer and other diseases. However, the cost of a rheometer is

feasible only for colleges, universities, and research laboratories. Even if a rheometer

can be purchased, it is bulky and delicately calibrated, limiting its usefulness to the

laboratory itself. The design presented here is less than a tenth of the cost of a

professional rheometer. The design is also portable, making it the ideal solution to

introduce viscoelasticity to high school students …

Institute Supports Graduates And Undergraduates

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Maxwell Institute continues to encourage and support the work of graduate and undergraduate students through two funds.

Each year at this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program and its application deadline. Named in honor of the late eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, this pro-gram provides financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute, particularly work done under the auspices of one department of the Institute, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, such as studies of the …

Exploring The Relationship Between Rural Health Disparities And Income, Mortality, Insurance And Hospital Access, Jacob Ingram

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

There is limited information about how social determinants of health relate to mortality rates in rural and urban areas. The purpose of this study was to determine ruralurban differences in, and correlations between, county-level mortality and social determinants of health variables (i.e., income, number of hospitals, being with or without insurance). The design was secondary, cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational. There are 82 urban and 172 rural Texas counties. Mean county-level mortality rate was significantly higher in rural counties (M=108, SD=36.4 per 10,000 population) compared to urban (M=90.9, SD=25.6). In rural counties, uninsured rates were higher, insured rates were lower, and …

Perceptions Of Future Careers For Middle Year Engineering Students, Catherine Mcgough Spence, Adam Kirn, Lisa Benson

Integrated Engineering Department Publications

Background: One facet of motivation relevant to students' learning is their perceptions of the future, including future career goals and how those perceptions influence their present actions; this is collectively referred to as their future time perspective (FTP).

Purpose/Hypothesis: This study describes the different FTPs of engineering students. We aim to help researchers and practitioners leverage students' motivations to improve learning experiences and inform future studies by providing a model of engineering students' FTP.

Design/Method: A phenomenographic approach was used to determine students' different characteristic FTPs within the context of their engineering courses. Interviews with engineering students (n=18) at a …

The Role Of Self-Tutorial In Introductory Physics Student Performance On Test Of Understanding Of Vectors, Katherine Finegan

Master's Theses (2009 -)

A single-interaction self-guided lesson was designed to teach basic vector concepts to introductory physics students. The self-guided lesson was tested for efficacy by comparing pre-test and post-test subscores on a Test of Understanding of Vectors (TUV) and comparing subscore differences to students in the same physics courses who had not taken the self-guided lesson. Analysis showed no significant differences in subscore differences between students taking the self-guided lesson and those in comparable control groups, indicating that more robust interventions are needed and/or further work must be done on the self-guided lesson to improve student vector understanding.

Awareness And Usage Of E-Resources Among Undergraduate In Fountain University, Osun State, Nigeria, Fausat Kehinde Adenariwo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims at investigating the awareness and usage of electronic resources among undergraduates of Fountain University, Osun State, Nigeria. Three research questions were answered and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and systematic sampling technique was used to select 1000 undergraduates. Simple percentage and frequency table was used to analyse the research questions, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used for testing the hypotheses. The results obtained revealed that undergraduates of Fountain University are quite aware and highly use electronic information resources. The study also …

Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Their Experience With Financial Aid And Loans With Potential Solutions, Sheila J. Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

Since the cost of higher education is rising every year, some students will contact their financial aid office to inquire about their options to pay for school with loans and grants. However, financial aid administrators might not provide undergraduate students with useful information that will guide them to make informed decisions on loans because the financial aid administrators might lack training to help students. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the undergraduate students' perceptions of their experiences with financial aid and student loans for Rowan university undergraduate students and the financial aid office using a non-experimental descriptive …

Vulnerabilities Posed By Information Technology Systems Of Firms Fixed Effect Panel Ols, Aparna Narayanan

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The information technology infrastructure of firms plays an essential role in their operation. With this, many cybersecurity risks arise at an organizational level. This research seeks to understand if the age and size of a firm are related to this risk factor. The research utilizes a dataset containing records of 13,075 companies across the period of 2014-2020, extracted from the directory of records of autonomous system numbers from CyberGreen. This study hypothesizes the following: H1. Organizational age will have a positive relationship to the organizational risk score, making them more vulnerable to attacks. H2. The organizational size will also have …

An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach To Convolutional Neural Network Optimization And Understanding, Nicholas Laudermilk

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) show promise for the technology’s use in widespread biomedical applications. As these models grow more complex, understanding how they work becomes increasingly more difficult. To use these systems in the healthcare setting, it is imperative to reduce model ambiguity and increase user trust in their decision-making. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques were used to optimize the development of a super-resolution convolutional neural network (SRCNN). Image augmentation was performed on the training data, and k-fold cross-validation was used to obtain more reliable metrics. Activation maps were used to show the output of each convolutional layer, and the …

Guaranteeing The Code-Accepted Taret Collapse Mechanism Of Steel Structure, Mateo Galvez

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Standard structural design practice requires designing for almost every possible load scenario, including high winds, strong earthquakes, and large magnitude live loads. However, it is impractical and expensive to design for every possible scenario The best engineers can do for these extreme load cases is design the failure mechanism to behave a specific and safe way so there is no sudden structural failure. This project designed the controlled and predictable failure mechanism for the 5-story apartment building that was designed by the senior design project group. This is not something that can be achieved using structural modeling software and a …

Testing For Transfer Of Learning In Educational Palliative Care Vr Simulation, Alexis Lueckenhoff

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Because palliative care scenarios are difficult to simulate, a VR simulation including four unique end-of-life scenarios is developed to provide more experience to nursing students before graduating and completing tasks in the field. Such applications have a wide range of possible inputs, making them difficult to test. However, testing is essential to ensure that a product meets its original requirements in addition to achieving its intended purpose of transfer of learning. Thus, a testing strategy is proposed to assess validity and fidelity of the simulation using both objective and subjective means. The performance of both nursing students and experts will …

Homogenous Mixing Of Two Materials In An Integrated Pellet Metering System, Christian Stefan Tindula

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

UTA’s LAMMA Lab has created a pellet 3D printer by attaching a Massive Dimension Pellet Extruder head to the end of a Kuka 6 degree of freedom robotic arm. The printer must have constant access to two pellet reservoirs and be able to print a two-material structure or a mixture of the materials. A batching system was created that distributes pellets using a lead screw conveyor to an enclosed metering plate. When the weight of the pellets distributed to the plate is equal to the specified weight of the batch, the conveyor stops, and the enclosure shifts moving the entire …

Mars Rover: Proof Of Life, Rakesh Yadav

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The existence of extraterrestrial life has always been a fascinating topic for human beings, and the discovery of water on Mars reignited the debate over whether life on the planet is possible. This project describes the methods of proving life from a soil sample. Biuret and Benedict reagents are used for protein and carbohydrate tests, which are the essentials of life. The presence of protein and carbohydrate is indicated by the purple or deep blue and light green color change of the reagents; however, after testing the soil with reagents, it was discovered that the color change might be challenging …

Doctor-Patient Real Time Chat Application, Sri Subhash Pathuri

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

During the pandemic, the majority of the working population spent most of their time doing sedentary desk jobs. As a result, they may have developed inadequate spine posture, which can cause profound implications such as back pain if not corrected at an early stage. Implementation of machine learning and computer vision has allowed us to capture and analyze video input from the user’s cellphone to remind them whenever they are not in the correct position. To further support users, a chat feature has been implemented through which the users can quickly get in touch with orthopedic experts for evaluation and …

Simulated Blood Glucose Meter Design For Educational Simulation In Healthcare, Mayur Bhakta

2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

A commonly performed point-of-care test is the measurement of a patient’s blood glucose, a process currently practiced in healthcare simulation with minimal realism at UTA’s Smart Hospital. Training of healthcare professionals involves essential skill development and proficiency, which cannot be done effectively with low-fidelity props. A device was developed with consideration of the types of scenarios run at the facility and coded to be prototyped with Arduino. The device’s circuit setup and function were simulated using Tinkercad to assess the desired output values in the three glucose ranges: hypoglycemic, normal, and hyperglycemic. Successful generation of random glucose readings in these …