The Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium recognizes and celebrates academic excellence in undergraduate and graduate education. This annual event provides an opportunity for students from all disciplines to showcase their intellectual and artistic accomplishments. The Stander Symposium represents the Marianist tradition of education through community and is the principal campus-wide event in which faculty and students actualize our mission to be a "community of learners."
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Research exercise: Infant Cause and Effect Toy for Bombeck Family Learning Center
Daniel J. Buck, Joel F. Visser, Paige N. Yaeger
This project details the client meetings, design process, fabrication details, and test analysis of a toy designed to teach 3-16-month old infants the principle of cause and effect. This project was completed by a team of first year engineering students. After meeting with the client at the Bombeck Family Learning Center, the design team revised an original problem statement from "create a toy to teach cause and effect" to "create a product to teach cause and effect in a simple and clear way." Based on the problem statement, the team proposed several different designs, focusing on key aspects such as motion and noise. Drawing from these, the final design was a rectangular cuboid constructed out of clear, acrylic plastic. The design included a rubber edge guard and multiple interior channels containing freely-moving washers. The prototype design was tested according to varying criteria, including practical concerns (e.g. ease of cleaning), safety, and how well the infants understood the cause and effect demonstrated by the toy. Several factors influenced the testing of the toy and detailed results and observations were recorded.
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Research exercise: Ingrid Photovoltaic Solar Panel System
James A. Brewer, Chigozie C. Ezenagu, William J. Schwarze, Ying Xu
This summary will outline the ideas and objectives of the project as stated in the proposal in further detail. In 2011, the Melink Corporation, located in Milford, Ohio, donated a solar Photovoltaic System(PV) to the University of Dayton(UD) for research and education purposes. Melink is a transformative clean energy industry which aims at better the global economy, security and environment. It popularizes the use of clean energy including the solar power. In addition, TMI Electric Company is contracted to build the foundation for the solar PV system. Other stakeholders involved in the installation are: UD Facilities, Bowser Morner, and KOESTER. The installation design must be approved by these stakeholders. The purpose of this project is to oversee installation of a solar PV system behind the RecPlex Center at the University of Dayton. Which will include, inventory of components, developing drawings, scheduling contactors, and monitoring the output of the system. The team will research information about the solar PV system, incorporate and apply the engineering management skills in order to insure the success of the PV system installation. The University of Dayton Project Management Team will fully prepare an inventory of parts needed, and provide professional engineering drawings, pictures, and information to UD facilities, and manage all stakeholders involved. Ultimately, the goal of this project is to manage the installation of the solar PV system behind the RecPlex Center at UD. When the project is completed, the system will serve as an educational device for students and faculty to learn about the advantages of renewable energy. It will also serve as an icon, proving that the University of Dayton is making an attempt to utilize renewable energy.
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Research exercise: Journalists' Rights under State Shield Laws
Megan M. Garrison, Evan F. Shaub
Are student journalists protected by the reporter''''s privilege and state shield law in New York and Second Circuit Court of Appeals? Also: Do state laws protecting journalists from being forced to disclose confidential sources include writers using non-traditional media outlets? Is it time for a federal shield law?
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Research exercise: Legal Implications of Publishing National Secrets
Zachary T. McAuliffe, Michael J. Shuey
Could the press be prosecuted for treason for publishing stories about national security? What are the legal ramifications that the press faces when obtaining and publishing national security information obtained illegally by a third party?
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Research exercise: Legal Issues Confronting the News Media Concerning Politics, Murder and Undercover Reporting
Megan P. Kennedy, Lindsay M. Mudd, Carson M. Smith
What constitutes a "legally qualified" political candidate, "equal time," and "use" of broadcast facilities under the Federal Communication Commission provisions requiring equal access to the airways for political candidates? Also: Can murder defendants such as Troy Davis, Trayvon Martin, Casey Anthony and Jody Arias receive fair trials given the high-voltage national spotlight? How do courts define "massive, pervasive and prejudicial publicity" that would prevent a fair trial? Also: How can journalists avoid legal liabilities when going undercover to seek information in the public interest?
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Research exercise: Libel Law Exceptions for the Press in 2nd & 7th Circuit Courts of Appeals
Mariah L. Douglas, Lauren K. Glass
Is the "prudent publisher test" from Curtis v. Butts -- specifically the urgency exception for the press in libel cases -- providing protection for journalists using Twitter and other social media? Also: How does the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals define the "opinion" exception to libel law?
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Research exercise: Make It or Break It, You've Only Got Six Weeks: The Effectiveness of a College Readiness Program at For-Profit Colleges
Ericka Bruce
Colleges and universities attempt to fill the college readiness gap by offering developmental or remedial courses to enrolled underprepared students. One such remedial program, the Six Weeks to Success (SWTS) program at Delta Career Education Corporation, is designed to prepare low-scoring college students for the rigors of college level courses. Student data from five Delta Career Education colleges were obtained for Associate Degree students who enrolled between July 2011 and June 2012. An evaluation of the data from those who completed the program and those who did not was completed to determine if there was a statistically significant difference in student retention and Satisfactory Academic Progress (a combination of student Cumulative GPA and completion rate) between the two groups of students. This was used to determine how successful SWTS students are when compared to their counterparts who are not required to take the remediation program at all. First, student data were tracked to see how many quarters students remained enrolled and if they were meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress during their tenure. Second, data were analyzed to see if any trends were found in student major, demographic information, or location of the campus. Though results varied by campus, the Six Weeks to Success did have a positive effect on student retention and Satisfactory Academic Progress in most cases. Higher Education professionals designing remedial education programs for at-risk students may benefit from the results of this study.
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Research exercise: Modern Day Slavery: A Contrast Between Historical Thoughts of Slavery and the Modern Reality
Philip C. Interlichia, Wendy Onofre
The nature of modern day slavery has changed drastically from the popular historical idea of large plantations and ships full of chained humans. Although modern day slavery is no less terrible than slavery in history books, facets of slavery and human trafficking have changed. In order to bring a stop to modern slavery we must be educated in what slavery and Human Trafficking look like today.
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Research exercise: Ohio Laws to Combat Human Trafficking: Somewhat Flawed Despite Significant Strides Made
Braden G. Ashe
My presentation will detail how human trafficking is prosecuted in the Buckeye State following some recently implemented legislation, namely House Bill 262 and Senate Bill 235. Along with exploring the strengths and weaknesses of each bill, my poster will explain how their implementation is a victory in the constantly-evolving fight to combat trafficking. In order to do this, my presentation will shed light on how human trafficking was prosecuted in Ohio prior to the implementation of these statewide bills. The poster will explain the ill-pragmatism of the previously held human trafficking specification and why prosecutors typically chose to avoid pursuing it. In order to drive these points home with my audience, I will also provide human trafficking statistics in the state of Ohio to contextualize the scope and magnitude of the problem that this state struggles with. While I will convey very clearly that both sets of legislation are steps forward in the fight to abolish modern day slavery, I will also explain how both bills fail to address the cultural and systemic deficiencies that create an environment for vulnerable persons to be trafficked and re-trafficked. The heaviest emphasis will be placed on the patriarchal roots of American society and the redundant provision of ensuring trafficking among other crimes in the prosecution. Finally, I will explain the reason that the 90-day abeyance option was put into place and its intentions of protecting victims from re-trafficking. However, the audience must understand that victims of forced prostitution should never be prosecuted and I will suggest more empathetic alternatives to deal with the issues facing trafficked victims.
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Research exercise: Preparing Medical Faculty to Teach End-of-Life Care
Nancy P. Silverman
This presentation will demonstrate the need and suggest activities for the professional development (PD) of medical school faculty who can embrace and role model end-of-life (EOL) care as integral to medicine. The concept of EOL care considers dying a normal process and aims to minimize the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering of patient and family. It requires an empathetic and openly communicative physician as much as it does a knowledgeable one to be receptive to patient needs. Having focused upon the medical student, renewed efforts to educate the medical community should be directed toward the faculty charged with student learning. Although required for accreditation, curricular EOL learning is minimal within a majority of medical schools, minimizing student exposure to EOL learning and to the terminally ill patient. Faculty disinterest creates a hidden curriculum of negativity that impacts student attitudes. Creating faculty awareness of the problem and connecting the need for improvement becomes the impetus for faculty learning. Faculty PD will begin with a review of prevailing research on the gaps in EOL care and exit surveys of their schools' graduating students that reflect the faculty's impact on learning. Reflection on personal attitudes toward death and dying helps to reveal barriers that exist. Storytelling becomes a powerful way to illustrate issues and to objectify them for problem resolution. Vignettes, stories of personal experiences, death rounds, and small group discussion are a few of the modalities used to engage physicians in personal development. Opportunities that help physician faculty teach and role model excellent EOL care to future generations of physicians help to ensure the terminally ill experience a good death.
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Research exercise: Presenting and Highlighting the Staggering and Shocking Statistics of Human Trafficking in the USA.
Andres E. Acevedo, Tarebo Kurugu, Andrew G. Pecora
This poster will offer information on the realities of human trafficking in the USA.The most powerful state in the world has now been a dwelling place for human trafficking. Not only is it a destination country but also an increasing source and transit country where the crime flourishes. The victims are being subjected to various forms of exploitation that is considered inhuman. Human trafficking in the United States is becoming a huge problem and very few are well informed about the real situation regarding this crime. This poster will serve the purpose of increasing awareness and catch the attention of people with the hard core facts of human trafficking in the USA.
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Research exercise: Press Access to Information about Student-Athletes and Municipalities
Connor J. Mabon, Christopher M. Moorman
Are universities properly applying FERPA to journalists' requests for information about athletic programs and student-athletes? Are they withholding records, claiming they involve core educational and disciplinary records, when the documents should be open to the public? Also: Would implementation of an Ease of Access Test in Missouri and Florida, under their sunshine laws, allow journalists better access to municipal government information that is in the public interest?
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Research exercise: Quantum Dot Formation Using Nano-patterned Planar InAs
Daniel R. Esposito
Quantum Dot Formation Using Nano-patterned Planar InAs D. R. Esposito, S. Elhamri Department of Physics, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469 K. G. Eyink, J. Shoaf, V. Hart, L. Grazulis, K. Mahalingam, J. Hoelscher, M. Twyman, D. Tomich Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA Abstract We are working to control the size and uniformity of quantum dots for applications requiring the fine tuning of their energy band gaps. The critical quantum dot nuclei size is determined through a balance of surface and bulk free energies. These quantum dot nuclei are formed randomly over the surface in space and time. We are developing a process which uses planar InAs and nano-patterning to fabricate quantum dots on the surface. By nano-patterning samples, we can bypass the nucleation process and form volumes of material which are larger than the critical nuclei size. Subsequent annealing under high arsenic overpressure will ideally allow the material to reorganize into an equilibrium geometry without dislocations. Quantum dot formation under this method is primarily driven by the reduction of dislocations which contribute to the strain of the material. Our experiments have shown that quantum dots tend to form in the squares of the patterned grid as expected. While they tend to be more uniform than randomly nucleated dots, the annealing process also subjects them to coarsening and evaporation. We are now trying to hydrogen radical clean and anneal the samples at lower temperatures in order to reduce the effects of these processes, which increase size variation and decrease total volume respectively.
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Research exercise: Research on Conflict in Darfur
Kelcey E. Batzer, Lane R. Gibson, Teresa Gratacos Alfageme, Alexandra V. Luna, Lucia Mosquera, Madeleine J. Mullee, Kathryn R. Shockey, Sarah E. Spech, Steven J. Stefani, Michael R. Woomer
These posters will illustrate research on the conflict in Darfur.
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Research exercise: Research on Instruction in p-12 Schools
Mary E. Backer, Shannon M. Hogan, Robyn A. Sprock
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Research on Private p - 12 Schools in the United States
Margaret T Riley, Rachel L. Schuler, John S. Welsh
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Research on Roles and Practices that Engage Multiple Stakeholders in p-12 Schools
Veronica L. Colborn, Megan J. Woolf
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Research on Standardized Tests in p-12 Schools
Benjamin R. Brandel, Megan L. Brown, Owen T. Flanagan, Margaret M. Quinn
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Research on Student Achievement in p-12 Schools
Alyssa C. Bojarski, Sarah C. Thomas, Riley Catherine Weber
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Research on the Relationship between Policy and Practice in p-12 Schools
Kaitlyn Nicole, Burke, Rachel, Maria Cain, Matthew B. Leff
Standards for the teaching profession emphasize the importance of awareness, understanding, and integration into practice of current research in education. The goal of the EDT 110H1 class project was to present syntheses of related literature on pertinent topics to p ' 12 education.
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Research exercise: Simulation of Nonlinear Waves Using Sinc Collocation-Interpolation
Eric A. Gerwin, Jessica E. Steve
In this project we explore the Sinc collocation method to solve an initial and boundary value problem of nonlinear wave equation. The Sinc collocation method is based upon interpolation technique, by discretizing the function and its spatial derivatives using linear combination of translated Sinc functions. Our project will focus on multiple boundary conditions such as the well known Dirichlet and Neumann conditions. Our project will also focus on two established nonlinear partial differential equations: the Sine-Gordon equation and the Kortweg-de Vries equation.
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Research exercise: Slavery: How the Chains Remain Attached Today
Anthony Dibucci, Nathan R. Vicar
Most people believe that slavery in the United States ended on January 1, 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. However, in reality there are over 27 million humans enslaved throughout the word today. People may find this statistic hard to believe. This is due to the fact that the dilemma of human trafficking is a problem that is invisible to our society. In fact there are over 200,000 humans currently enslaved within the United States. Slaves today are forced, tricked, or threatened into situations where they work for little or no pay and are unable to leave their horrible situation. Human beings are taken advantage of for their labor and bodies to gain a profit for another person. They are subjected to horrible physical, psychological, and spiritual abuse that leaves them scarred for life, if they are even lucky enough to survive their life as a slave. This poster examines the differences between historic and modern day slavery.
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Research exercise: Solution Structures of Amphiphiles
Abigail A. Bartosic, Jessica L. Edwards
Much is known about the formation of micelles from amphiphilic molecules and ions. Interaction of amphiphiles at less than Critical Micelle Concentration (cmc) is less well understood. Our research strategy was to make use of the cyclic voltammetry (CV) technique and measured viscosity to determine the ionic radii of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) structures in solution. The manner in which the measured diffusion coefficients and ionic radii change with respect to amphiphile concentration was of interest. Our strategy was centered upon four considerations. First, Ferrocene (Fc) was used as an electrochemical marker for amphiphile aggregate formation. Ferrocene should interact with the hydrophobic portions of the amphiphile structures. The concentration ratio of SDS to Fc was maintained around 240 to ensure one Fc per amphiphile moiety. Second, the solubility of Fc in deionized water was obtained as evidence of Fc interaction with SDS. It was anticipated that Fc solubility would be much smaller when the solution contained no amphiphile. Third, after demonstrating electrochemical reversibility, the Randles-Sevcik equation was used to calculate the Fc-SDS diffusion coefficient. Finally, from the measured solution viscosities and diffusion coefficients the ionic radii were computed from the Stokes-Einstein equations. Our results showed a definite deviation from normal micellar behavior at concentrations much less than cmc which will further help to understand the behavior of amphiphiles at concentrations less than the cmc.
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Research exercise: The Ancestry and Evolution of the Fruit Fly t_MSE Cis-Regulatory Element
Connor W. McNamee
Animal development proceeds by continuously changing patterns of gene expression, where patterns are controlled by a type of DNA sequence known as a cis-regulatory element (CRE). How gene expression patterns are encoded in DNA sequence remains poorly understood. My thesis research studied a CRE, known as the t_MSE, which controls the male-specific expression pattern for the Drosophila melanogaster gene known as tan. This expression pattern is required for this species male-specific pigmentation, and the pattern is modified or absent in related fruit fly species. I isolated and evaluated this CRE's sequence and gene regulatory activity from various species and populations. My results pinpointed the evolutionary origin of the t_MSE and showed a surprising case of introgression between two sympatric species. These results make possible future studies to identify which sequence changes are responsible for this CRE's nascence and what the adaptive significance might be for its introgression.
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Research exercise: The Business of Trafficking: Supply and Demand
Quinlin C. Kelly, Shelby R.. Ryan, Madeleine L. Schneider
Human Trafficking, also known as the modern day slave trade, has become an extremely profitable business. An estimated 27 million slaves exist in the world today. Human trafficking is an organized criminal business involving supply and demand. Actors in the process include: the slaves/victims (supply), recruiters (wholesaler), transporters and intermediaries (distributor), pimps, and agents (retailer), and "Johns" and owners (customer). This poster explains the business model of human trafficking.
