Engineering Quarterly VOL.II. . . No.1
University of Mary
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FALL 2019
W ELCOME ! Welcome to the first issue of Volume 2 of the Engineering Quarterly, a newsletter published four times a year by the University of Mary School of Engineering. In it we include articles from each of the four engineering majors that we currently offer on campus: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Construction Management. We report on items and events of interest to engineering students, engineering companies, and alumni of our engineering program. You will read about our service and outreach activities in the community, the scholarships our students have been awarded, descriptions of the internships our students have worked at over the summer, guest speakers that have come in and enlightened us, and even assignment problems and projects that our students have completed as part of their course work. We hope that you will enjoy revisiting some of the problems that you had to solve back when you were studying for your own engineering degree – or at least you will enjoy the fact that you don’t have to solve them! The intended audience of the Engineering Quarterly is engineers, engineering students, engineering alumni, future engineering students, and people working in fields closely related to engineering such as science, computing, and mathematics. Enjoy! Terry Pilling
On Thursday, August 1, this year’s Go Baby Go service was completed and the cars were presented to the kids. Dr. Heather Lundeen and Rodrigo da Costa Aparecido are the faculty members overseeing the project. The students raised $1500 and five children from two to six years old benefited with cars activated with a push button or a joystick.
first design, this service group, under Dr. Lundeen and Mr. Aparecido, have added more electronic features and modifications to the frame. In 2017, one of the cars had a special compartment for to hold a backpack with the child’s feeding equipment. In 2018, more children were served and some received cars with a button and others with a joystick to control the car. Now, in 2019, one car was had a double seater for twin brothers, in which either of them could drive the car.
In 2006, Cole Galloway initiated an inclusion movement for children with motor impairments, called Go Baby Go, at the University of Delaware’s Department of Physical Therapy. This program includes modifying an electric toy car in any way necessary for a child with motor or developmental delays to access their environment and interact with their peers. After taking the first measurements, and a few weeks of design and build, we had the great pleasure of giving the cars to the children. Watching the children learn how to use the controls to accelerate, and move on their own along with or after their siblings was a beautiful experience.
DAY OF S ERVICE By ANTHONY WALDENMAIER
G O BABY G O ! By RODRIGO DA COSTA APARECIDO
The Go Baby Go project was initiated three years ago as a partnership between Physical Therapy and Engineering where Engineering faculty and students work side-byside with Physical Therapy doctoral students to adapt ride-on toys that help with the inclusion and development of children with special needs.
For the 2019 iteration of the project, 13 Physical Therapy doctorate students identified children in the Bismarck/Mandan area that would benefit from those adapter cars and then collaborated with the Engineering School to design a project that would best fit each individual child, and then build and modify the cars.
Every year, the University of Mary has a Day of Service where students and faculty go out into the community and perform service activities to help people and businesses in Bismarck-Mandan. Service activities range from seasonal work like raking leaves or picking up garbage to reading stories to young school students and everything in between.
We in the Engineering school also arrange for our own service events which have The PT students would decide how to best a uniquely engineering flavor to them. This accommodate the needs of the child and the The students worked over several weeks year, we traveled to Apple Creek Elemenengineering students would design the frame to design the modifications that would benefit tary School where we conducted two separate and electronics to meet those needs. the children and their families. From Cole’s projects.