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DataScope: Predictive Diagnosis in IIoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing
Get PDFThis a collaborative project between Elizabethtown College and CPNet, LLC that is looking to help apply predictive modeling with CPNet’s domain knowledge to one of CPNet’s clients\u27 IIoT manufacturing problems. CPNet has provided us with datasets taken from one of their clients in the hope that we can build a model that will be able to predict when a part within the machines they are looking at will fail and subsequently shut the machine down. We are trying to take their data and turn it into information that the company can take preemptive action on and save them downtime during operation. In this project, we designed a health index that we used to create y-labels that we did not have in our dataset. We did this so that we could solve the remaining useful life problem of our project, which is where we attempt to determine how long the machine has to run before a failure or maintenance is needed based off of the health index using machine learning. We then went on to build several machine learning models to solve our problem. First, we used traditional machine learning models such as Polynomial Regression, Tree-based Regression, Ridge, Regression and XGBoost. Later we turned to Neural Networks and built a Multilayer Perceptron, a Convolutional Neural Network and a Recurrent Neural Network. From our experiments traditional machine learning models outperformed the neural networks. This was to be expected since the dataset wasn’t that large, but it was worth testing regardless. Also, from our experiments it is apparent that a part of our health index the CPK (CPK analysis will be explained in greater detail later in the paper.) will need to be worked on in the future to provide better y-labels. All in all, this project did show that this problem is worth exploring in the future since the solution could be quite valuable in smart manufacturing
Narrative Script for An Audio Tour, A Docent Tour, & Filmed Tour Posted Online for Remote Visitors to the Bowers Interpretive Gallery in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Get PDFThis project involves the creation of a script for docents to guide visitors through the Bowers Interpretive Gallery in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and filming a guided tour of the Bowers Interpretive Gallery to facilitate remote access to the exhibits. The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies’ Bowers Interpretive Gallery (possible by a major gift by Kenneth L. Bowers’59 H’99 and Rosalie E. Bowers’58) combines visual and sound exhibits of historical artifacts, images, and material culture presenting a broad overview of Anabaptist and Pietist groups’ history, beliefs/values, and their global impact. The message of the exhibit emphasizes themes of peace and service; central characteristics of The Historic Peace Churches. The exhibit content focus is primarily on the Amish and Church of the Brethren. A series of panels portrays aspects of Amish life and statistics related to Amish population growth. The rare book exhibit includes versions of the Bible and Anabaptist devotional literature. The music section allows visitors to hear examples of music from six different Anabaptist and Pietist groups. An exhibit of objects related to the Church of the Brethren’s Love Feast illustrates the meaning of this communion ritual and adaptations by other groups. Items of plain clothing demonstrate how distinctive dress contributes to identity among plain sects. This is particularly related to the founding of Elizabethtown College, established in 1899, in response to the 1895 Pennsylvania Garb Law: PL. 395-S.L. Sec. 4801.
This project relates directly to the Mellon Grant: “Confronting Challenges with Confidence: Humanities for Our World Today.” Given the fact, the college is located in a county of historic communities drawing millions of visitors who contributed $2.91 billion in tourism in 2018, an important component of the grant is called “Regional Heritage Studies.” This narrative, a script to be used by docents giving tours of the Interpretive Gallery, will enhance tourists’ experience visiting the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The film, available online, will encourage tourists to visit the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. For seven decades, the local tourism industry has been a major contributor to the economy of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The number of tourism industry direct jobs makes tourism Lancaster County’s sixth largest private sector, non-farm category in the local economy. In 2018, some 8.85 million visitors came to Lancaster County, up 2.5% from the previous year. The tourism industry highlights rural communities of the Historic Peace Churches: Amish, Mennonites, Brethren, and Quakers. Chief among these religious sects driving the local tourism industry are the Amish. Lancaster County’s Amish population reached 33,143 in 2018, up 3.2% from the previous year.
Eric Schubert, a Momentum student and History and Political Science major who is also pursuing a Certificate In Public Heritage Studies, and who has worked as a student assistant in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, has engaged in research involving primary sources, secondary sources, archival and historical library research, oral history, and museum exhibit design; to create the script for docents and the film for visiting the Interpretive Gallery in the remote. Schubert has drawn heavily on the skills he has learned in conducting research involving the history of the campus and the local community in Jean-Paul Benowitz’s course Honors/Public Heritage Studies 201: Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community.” Schubert’s report has been informed by his experiences conducting research for Steve Nolt as his student assistant in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Effects of monitoring versus blunting on the public’s preferences for information in a hypothetical cancer diagnosis scenario
No full textMonitoring and blunting are coping styles that characterize how people respond when faced with personally threatening situations. High monitors tend to pay more attention to, scan for, and amplify threatening cues; high blunters tend to avoid information and seek distractions when faced with a threatening event. This study sought to investigate possible differential effects of monitoring and blunting coping styles on information preferences in a hypothetical cancer diagnosis scenario in the adult general public of Minnesota. In a survey administered at a large public venue (2016 Minnesota State Fair), participants were asked to imagine they carried a gene mutation and were diagnosed with colon cancer. They indicated their information preference [modified Cassileth Information Styles Questionnaire (MCISQ)], completed two coping style measures [Miller Behavioral Style Scale (MBSS) and Threatening Medical Situations Inventory (TMSI)], rated their perceived severity of colon cancer (low, moderate, high), and answered demographic questions. Eight hundred fifty-five individuals provided usable data. Participants classified as monitors on the TMSI had significantly higher MCISQ scores (i.e., preferred more information) than those classified as blunters (p =.004). Those scoring high on monitoring and low on blunting on the MBSS preferred significantly more information than those scoring high on both monitoring and blunting (p =.04). Linear regression analysis revealed being a monitor (TMSI), scoring high on monitoring (MBSS), rating colon cancer as more severe, and having a higher education level were significant positive predictors of MCISQ scores. Results suggest individual differences in coping style, perceived severity, and education level affect desire for information. Genetic counselors should consider these patient characteristics (e.g., asking patients about their information preferences) and tailor their approaches accordingly
Hinduism and nonviolence
No full textThe difficulty of identifying Hindu Dharma as a whole with one position or another, not only on the question of violence and nonviolence, but on just about any issue of consequence, is perhaps greater than with most religious traditions, because the word Hinduism is itself an umbrella term of relatively recent coinage that tries to encompass what was, at one time, a very wide array of traditions, loosely affiliated to one another by their shared adherence to the authority of the Vedas-a set of texts whose boundaries are, themselves, contested and difficult to delineate. Traditional Hindu society, in ancient times, sought to balance the ideal of nonviolence with the reality of violence by severely circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate violence. Historian Romila Thapar has spoken of “a fundamental sanity in Indian civilization” which understood that unrestrained violence, such as that found in the practice of total warfare in the modern era, would lead to the end of human society
The Road Goes Ever On and On: Anglo-Saxon Literary Influences on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Get PDFJ.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings immerses its readers in a fantastical world with its own fictional history. While the novel contains fictional societies and characters, Tolkien clearly derives influence for his content, themes, and structure from the medieval literature and language that he studied and loved throughout his life. This paper examines Tolkien\u27s influences from Anglo-Saxon literature by comparing the fictional communities, elegiac elements, and narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings to those of several Old English works
Medical Writing Practices: An Inquiry into Writing Standards and Career Development Opportunities in Healthcare Communication
Get PDFThe medical writing field is a growing industry with robust opportunities for writing students. Being a niche yet important area of science, medical writing is often overlooked as an area of study at the undergraduate level. In order to provide this opportunity for interested students, as well as diversify the course curriculum at Elizabethtown College, a study was conducted into the medical writing field. The focus of this project is to research the local medical writing industry, along with graduate programs in the field, to better determine how an undergraduate 200-level medical writing course could be incorporated at Elizabethtown College. Information was collected through student research and alumni interviews. To structure the course, content was created and completed through a student lens in the form of literature review, video appeals analysis, and medical-related essay material. The results of the study showed that a medical writing course could greatly enhance the learning experience at Elizabethtown College and better prepare students for graduate programs and internship opportunities
Optimization of Simple and Inexpensive Paper-Based Assay for Lead
Get PDFThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines state that lead is a toxic metal that humans should not be exposed to in any amount. Due to corrosion of water pipes, lead can enter drinking water and be consumed by millions of people. As a group, we decided to reduce this issue by creating a simple and inexpensive paper-based test to detect lead(II) in water. The signal for this test results from encapsulating a phenanthroline-based probe in synthesized polymer nanoparticles. This test will display a colorimetric change, turning from yellow to bright orange if lead(II) is present in the water system. In an attempt to optimize the response of the test, different variables were adjusted to analyze the nanoparticles’ effectiveness. In this work, polymer type, polymer concentration, solvent, probe concentration, and synthetic method were explored and the optimal method for lead(II) detection was determined. Future directions for our research include focusing on the selectivity of the test to confirm it does not respond to other metals, such as copper and zinc, and optimizing the attachment of the nanoparticles to the test strip itself
The Engineering Epic Finale - An Authentic Alternative Assessment Method for Final Exams
No full textInspired by an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2015 titled “Final Exams or Epic Finales” (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Final-Exams-or-Epic-Finales/231871), three instructors of middle-level multidisciplinary engineering courses at Elizabethtown College, a small, private, regional liberal arts college, replaced their traditional final exams with self-described “epic finales” or final “celebrations of learning.” We seek to share our experiences from several years of implementation as many in the engineering education community consider alternative final exams coming out of COVID. We have implemented epic finales in Strength of Materials, Thermodynamics, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering Materials. Our experiences include in-person and virtual implementation. In this paper, we share our exercises, details of the semi-structured time block used, our grading approaches and rubrics, student and instructor reactions, challenges and opportunities identified, and guidance on the circumstances under which we recommend using this approach. Of note, student feedback indicating that students felt \u27like a real engineer\u27 and thought they would remember this exercise far better and for far longer than wiping their mind of the cramming before a typical exam. While the level of technical analysis during the exercise did not rise to the level of a typical final exam, in all courses, students had been tested on most of the content during partial exams. Instead, students had to display a higher level of \u27real world\u27 skills including problem-solving on an open-ended question, researching a new topic, synthesizing course content, modeling and making tractable a complex problem, self-regulated organization and group management, coordination and communication between groups of students, prioritization of which information they needed to solve the problem, and considerable time constraint. Our intention with this paper is provide instructors with our lessons learned over several years of implementation and the guidance to implement a practical, creative, and fun alternative \u27epic finale,\u27 under COVID circumstances and beyond
EXPECTED RECIPROCAL RANK for EVALUATING MUSICAL FINGERING ADVICE
No full textWe cast the computational modeling of musical fingering as an information retrieval (IR) problem in which the task is to generate an optimally ranked list of fingering suggestions for each phrase in a score. The audience for this list is a set of performers with potentially diverse fingering preferences. Specifically, we adapt the expected reciprocal rank (ERR) metric—proposed by Chapelle and associates as an improved evaluation metric for retrieving documents with graded relevance—to develop a set of novel metrics tailored to the piano fingering IR task. ERR, as originally described, relies on a heuristic function to estimate the probability that a user will be satisfied by a document with a particular graded relevance. For musical fingering, we instead estimate the likelihood that a given performer will deem a suggested fingering sequence sufficient for arriving at a satisfactory solution. Finally, we attempt to validate our specific use of ERR by comparing how it judges several competing models