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NASA Robotics Mining Competition
No full textThe NASA Robotics Mining Competition capstone team focused on creating the driving, path finding, and suspension systems of an autonomous lunar rover. In tandem with the UP Robotics Club, the capstone team aimed to complete a mining rover that aligned with the criteria set forth for the Artemis mission to compete at the Kennedy Space Center in May 2020.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1054/thumbnail.jp
Wally Automatic Composter
No full textThe Wally Automatic Composting capstone team designed and prototyped a device to automatically compost food waste. The device can be controlled and monitored via smart phone app, with the goal of providing a convenient and environmentally friendly alternative for food waste disposal.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1053/thumbnail.jp
2-D LED Tetris Game
No full textTetris is a classic arcade video game that has been entertaining people since 1984. The 2-D LED Tetris capstone team recreated this classic game using electrical engineering concepts and hardware programming. The final product will present the user with a 2-D Color LED matrix and a functional Tetris game interface to play the game.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1044/thumbnail.jp
Biomass Conversion and Testing Facility
No full textEngineering students at UP need to be able to safely conduct hands-on combustion experiments. The Biomass Conversion and Testing Facility capstone team designed and constructed a fume hood to remove and measure the emissions from small scale combustion experiments. The team tested the system with cookstoves used in developing countries, which reduce human exposure to the pollutants from traditional biomass fires.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1048/thumbnail.jp
SIGN Fracture Care - Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System
No full textNegative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a method of healing wounds by applying continuous suction to the affected area. Existing NPWT devices are often too expensive and electrically dependent to be used in low-resource settings of developing countries. The UP capstone team designed and developed an easily assembled, mechanical device to increase accessibility to NPWT in developing countries at a more affordable price.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1036/thumbnail.jp
Tai Chi! Enhancing Priest Wellness through Tailored Tai Chi Programming
Get PDFFalls are a leading cause of injury and traumatic death amongst older adults. As health declines, older adults may also be burdened by high stress. A priest community partnered with a school of nursing to address challenges associated with aging in place, including fall risk and stress, through health promotion practices. The 8-week intervention examined the effect of tailored Tai Chi programming on fall risk and stress. Baseline timed up and go and stress scores were compared to postintervention scores; weekly Tai Chi exercise resulted in a statistically significant reduction in fall risk scores. Findings from this intervention may inform the nurse practitioner’s care of individuals looking for holistic cost-effective interventions to reduce fall risk
The Goal Attainment Scale for Improving Collaborative Goal Setting for Patients with Diabetes
Get PDFThe financial cost of managing diabetes in Oregon is unsustainable. Furthermore, the physical consequences for patients can be devastating (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2019). One solution to improve the management of diabetes is shared provider-patient decision making (Larme, A., & Pugh, J., 2001). The Goal Attainment Scale (GAS) method, was initially used and successful in mental health for improving self-care activities (Newton, 2013) and it appears to be a viable solution for improving collaborative goal setting to enhance self-care for patients with diabetes.
This practice improvement project focuses on the use of the GAS method to facilitate collaborative goals setting between a group of providers and patients with diabetes at one family practice clinic. For eight weeks, there were forty-eight qualifying encounters for forty patients with diabetes at the clinic and thirteen patients developed goals (32%) using the GAS method. The remaining twenty-seven patients (68%) refused to participate, or they were not ready to make a change in self-care of diabetes. Five of the thirteen patients with GAS goals returned for additional visits and of this group either maintained or improved on the scale during the eight weeks. The level of provider engagement and motivation in goal setting varied; however, the patients who developed GAS goals demonstrated a commitment to caring for their diabetes. The primary benefit of the GAS tool was patient involvement
An empirical (re)exploration of leadership in a nonprofit: Understanding leadership as a perspective and a practice
Get PDFLeadership is a complex concept to define, understand and put into practice. This study first problematizes the concept of leadership as a trait or possession. The project then explores leadership as a dynamic communication process that is co-created through meaningful patterns of interaction. To this end, two conceptual themes about leadership as communication emerged through a synthesis of the literature: leadership as influence and leadership as cultural empowerment. Through qualitative methods, the research aims to investigate these themes as possible leadership symbolic interaction patterns at a nonprofit organization in the Pacific Northwest. This study found that there were three key aspects to conceptualizing where organizational communication starts and leadership communication begins: setting the stage, belief in the system, and how to go on together. The significance of these findings emerges in the nuance of how important routine organizing processes are in constructing inclusive cultural assumptions that then lend to constituting leadership as collective agency or collective ability to act, act for, and act with others toward a purpose. This thesis also illustrates how it is possible for leadership to be understood as both a perspective and a process
Roped into Intimacy
Get PDFThe bondage community is largely stigmatized and misunderstood by normative culture (Moser & Madeson, 2002). Using ethnographic fieldwork, this qualitative study explores how participants in the rope play (BDSM) community in a US west-coast city develop intimacy with their play partners through embodied communication. Research methods such as participant observation, thick description, and semi-structured interviews were employed to acknowledge, uncover, and respect the unique perspectives and experiences of members of this community. This study demonstrates how this subculture uses “hyper-communicative” behaviors such as breathwork, touch, and attuned listening breathwork to create intimacy between play partners. The study found that these forms of “hyper-communication”, along with explicit role assignments, enables partners to co-construct fantasies and create a shortcut to intimacy. The study supports and expands upon the Equilibrium Theory of intimacy and offers practical applications of hyper-communication for non-BDSM practitioners
Too Influential or Too Inadequate? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Environmental Advertising
Get PDFThis study focused on how environmental advertising constructs messages and shapes reality for consumers. Guided by discourse theory, this study used critical discourse analysis to examine and thematize images of environmental advertisements, resulting in the four themes of personalizing, personification, time, and shock value over specifics. From these findings and their analysis, it became clear that today’s consumers of environmental advertising are in a predicament: these advertisements create unwarranted feelings of responsibility, blame, and pressure, while simultaneously falling short in offering substantive advice on how to make meaningful change. To address this twofold problem, this study created a guide to be a more critical consumer of media, as well as a suggested media campaign to offer a better approach to environmental advertising