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Robotics
No full textThe Robotics capstone is a competition-based capstone, hosted by the NASA Robotic Mining Competition: Lunabotics. The team is tasked with building a Lunar rover that is capable of navigating and excavating for materials on the surface of the Moon.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1064/thumbnail.jp
Working Mothers Navigate Identity & Authenticity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFInterviews with working mothers juggling professional and personal overlap during the COVID 19 pandemic show that the existing social and institutional challenges and the gendered burdens that working mothers bore before the pandemic, have intensified during the work-from-home environment. Women interviewed shared stories about working policies, organizational trust, burdens of childcare and housework and their wish for a more authentic merging of their work and mothering identities
BPA Internal Controls and Compliance
No full textIn this presentation I talk about the Bonneville Power Administration and the CGC department. I go into detail about the information I had to learn to be able to complete my project. I also talk about the project itself and explain how it is a part of the CGC department\u27s current work.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/ase_internships/1007/thumbnail.jp
TeamLift - Malawi Irrigation System
No full textThe UP capstone team partnered with the nonprofit TeamLift, to design an irrigation system powered by solar energy for a 7-acre farm located next to St. Mary’s Secondary School for Girls in Malawi, Africa. The irrigation system will improve living conditions for the students by providing plant-based proteins for the 600 students attending the school. Optimizing water demands from a bore hole onsite and utilizing solar pumps and panels, the irrigation system will supply water to a drip network that efficiently waters row and bed crops. This farm will decrease the cost of purchasing food from outside sources for St. Mary’s and act as a “classroom” for local farmers to increase awareness about the benefits of irrigation.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1040/thumbnail.jp
Electromagnetic Waves
No full textThe Electromagnetic Waves capstone project is a study on pushing rapid wireless energy transfer to its limit using high power electronics. A capacitor bank and inductor are used to transfer energy into a magnetic field which is then captured and stored by a receiving circuit several feet away. The goal is to gain experience working with electromagnetic fields and to better understand their limitations and applications in today’s technologies.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1047/thumbnail.jp
A Standardized Process for Adolescent Immunization Reminder/Recall in a School-Based Health Center
Get PDFWildMe - Family Tree/Co-Occurrence Visualization
No full textWildbook, a project by WildMe, is an open-source, online research platform capable of storing, visualizing, and analyzing data to aid in wildlife conservation efforts and biological research. The UP WildMe capstone project, Family Tree/Co-Occurrence Visualization, overhauled WildMe’s existing visualization suite through expressing a greater depth of wildlife data features (gender, age, relationships), providing intuitive data expressions (color, symbols), and allowing for interactive visualization via dynamically applicable filters (node count, geodesic, spatial, temporal).https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1041/thumbnail.jp
Co-Constructing Identity During Stressful Processes: How Identity is Co-Constructed During Tenure
Get PDFThis study uses narrative inquiry and semi-structured interviews to discuss the nature of tenure’s influence on identity. The location used for this project was a private institution in the pacific northwest of the United States and follows six professor’s experience gaining tenure, the barriers and boundaries they faced, and how that shaped their identities and relationships. The body of theory that grounds this paper comes from critical/postmodern-paradigm Organizational Communication Theory and Identity Negotiation Theory. This study expands the knowledge of boundary work, uses Identity Negotiation Theory in organizational contexts, and co-construction of identity. The findings indicate that there are three main platforms tenure takes place in: teaching, research, and service. All of these aspects have boundaries co-created by other stakeholders in the university that create a trend of concertive control over the expected behavior and identities of the candidates. The professors explain their agency and adaptation to both fit in and push the mold on the expected performance of tenure, and how it achieving it was a stressful, but authentic process
Experience Abroad
No full textMedium: Pen and watercolors on paper.
Description: A chronology of major cities visited during Spring 2020 study abroad in Salzburg Austria right before the Covid-19 pandemic.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/thaynecovert_exhibit/1018/thumbnail.jp
