Stander Symposium Projects

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  Visualizing Convex Regular-Faced Polyhedra through 3D Printing

  Elizabeth Paci

  Hilbert’s third problem asks whether two polyhedra of equal volume are scissors-congruent. In other words, is it possible to slice one of the polyhedra into a finite number of polyhedra and then rearrange them to form the other polyhedron. Dehn showed that this is not the case by creating a polyhedra invariant now named in his honor: the Dehn invariant. One may show that two polyhedra are scissors-congruent if and only if they have the same volume and Dehn invariant. A related topic concerns whether it’s possible to slice a convex regular-faced polyhedra into a finite number of solids which are themselves convex regular-faced polyhedra. Examples of regular-faced polyhedra include the Platonic, Archimedean, and Johnson solids. We will discuss how these and related ideas—including the nomenclature of polyhedra—can be visualized using 3d printing techniques.

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  Voices from UD Faculty: The Impact of COVID-19 on Productivity and Progress

  Eden Michelson

  We have all spent the last three years sharing our concerns, frustrations, and hopes with one another. By offering channels for faculty to specifically name the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their professional and personal lives, the 2022-23 Gender Equity Research Fellowship team hopes to stimulate tangible institutional change that will support faculty moving forward.Our project utilized a mixed methods approach, though the present research focuses on the qualitative research findings. The purpose of the qualitative data was to find commonalities between the responses that faculty provided when asked about the pandemic in relation to their role(s) at the university. Data collection included three focus groups and individual interviews. The sample for the one-on-one interviews consisted of 19 participants. The research team analyzed the data using two rounds of coding, and results found that participants experienced various challenges. Faculty’s primary roles at the university were shaped around professional duties, such as scholarship and being a resource for students, rather than responsibilities like parenting and caregiving. Many faculty members shared experiences related to exhaustion and burnout.Our findings have led us to suggestions that focus on improving faculty well-being by calling for a shift from focusing on productivity to emphasizing people, policies, and programs. Creating a space for participants to share their experiences brought new insights about the countless roles that faculty take on and how to best support them as we continue to navigate a post-quarantine world.

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  Water Evaporation Levels in Shade vs Direct Sun (Using Arduino Uno and IOT)

  Thomas Mansfield

  For my final goal, I would like to make a sensor that judges how fast water evaporates in each time frame. I would like to do this as I noticed water collects in our side yard on surfaces for days at a time. Using a water sensor, I would judge the amount of water that evaporates in sunlight and in shade by sending the information to my computer from the Arduino Uno to collect and analyze it.

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  Water Level Detection Sensor

  Brundha Reddy Naredla

  Water Level Detection SensorABSTARCTThe application, which is an ultrasonic tank level sensor, is used to measure the level of liquid or solid materials in a tank or container. It works by emitting high-frequency sound waves, which bounce off the surface of the material, and then detecting the echo of these sound waves to calculate the distance to the surface of the material. Ultrasonic tank level sensors are commonly used in industrial applications where it is necessary to accurately monitor the level of materials in tanks, silos, and other containers. This technology is a reliable and cost-effective solution for measuring the level of materials in tanks and containers, and is widely used in a variety of industrial applications.

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  Water Quality Monitoring System Using a TDS Sensor and Arduino

  Mahesh Babu Uppada

  This project presents the design and implementation of a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) sensor-based water quality monitoring system based on an Arduino platform. A given water sample will be used to calculate the total dissolved solids in the system, and the results will be displayed on a graphical user interface. The method is designed to be affordable, dependable, and simple to use. This project describes the system's design and execution, including its hardware components, software code, and graphical user interface. The accuracy and dependability of the system are also demonstrated in the project presentation of test results. The report concludes with recommendations for upcoming system improvement projects.

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  Watershed Analysis of the University of Dayton Campus

  Steven Shattuck

  The project seeks to create a watershed map of the University of Dayton campus through ArcGIS data and techniques. The campus has a network of stormwater drains that output directly to the river, with every area of campus having runoff that goes to specific drains. Using digital elevation model (DEM) data and GPS locations of stormwater drains, the campus will be divided into small parcels or mini watersheds displaying all of the area that flows to each drain. Any rain that falls in these regions will runoff to the drain associated with it. This knowledge could be used in future projects and research to evaluate the water management of the campus.

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  Watershed and Land-use Analysis in Harrison Township using ArcPro

  Sammy Miller

  The purpose of this project is to provide the planner(s) within the Harrison Township Government with a resource about their water systems and land-use to assist them in future decision-making processes. This includes creating a map, using ArcGIS ArcPro, that incorporates the delineation of watersheds, land-use information, and socioeconomic data. Locations of industries with National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits are also identified to indicate areas where the water quality could be negatively impacted. Special attention is given to watersheds that contain these industries. Furthermore, for these specific watersheds, the fraction of different types of land-use is calculated. Lastly, socioeconomic data is included in another layer to provide suggestions of potential environmental justice issues within the watersheds that have a larger percentage of industrial land usage.

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  Weather Simulation in Virtual City

  Umang Jain

  VR is a tool for showcasing urban designs while highlighting how people and the environment will be affected by their conversation. It can simulate these scenarios with VR technology and identify improvements and necessary changes. From traffic videos, this project investigates the detrimental impacts of weather conditions, specifically heavy rain and flooding, on their infrastructure and livelihoods. Through the use of a virtual city model, this project will simulate the various effects of rain and flooding on the city's transportation systems, and daily activities of its residents. By utilizing this virtual model, the project aims to provide valuable insights into how such extreme weather events can be better managed and mitigated in the future.

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  Website monitoring system

  Nikhil Suresh

  Develop a web application that allows users to monitor website status. The main functions of the application include the following:1) Monitor the website status2) Monitor the SSL Certificate expiration date3) Alert if the system goes down4) Dashboard to visualize the status and downtime.

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  What is the Reasoning & Ultimate Source Behind Supplementation Usage in College Athletes?

  Meghan Lorz

  Dietary supplement usage is a phenomenon that has become quite prevalent in our society. A dietary supplement can be defined as any category that contains one or more dietary factors including amino acids, minerals, vitamins, etc. They play a major role in exercising adolescents and college athletes, specifically in terms of gaining certain benefits. Individuals utilize dietary supplements for a variety of different reasons and benefits, and these individuals often hear about these supplements through a variety of sources. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reasoning and source behind supplement usage in college athletes. Previous research has implied that many college athletes take supplements to enhance performance or improve overall health. Conclusions are drawn from a survey completed that the University of Dayton and the results are analyzed about why college athletes use dietary supplements, and how they first heard of them.

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  What's in the Waste? Adventures of a Dumpster Diver

  Cassie Austin

  Did you know that UD generates over 3000 tons of waste each year? Join MPA Graduate Student Cassie Austin to learn about her journey last semester with "dumpster diving" through campus waste audits at UD and what the findings say about what can be done to reduce our waste footprint on campus.

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  When is Peace Not Peace? Conflict is an Opportunity for Deepening Relationships

  Grace Sutter, Robin Park, John East

  Drawing on the work of Kazu Haga, a Buddhist who offers training in Kingian nonviolence, this poster will describe ways conflict can be transformed into an occasion for uncovering obstacles and building deeper connections. In the face of so much conflict among us, what changes in ourselves and in our education will prepare us to engage conflict constructively?

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  Where Do Female Athletes Get Their Role Models? Exploring Women's Basketball In the U.S. From Inception to NIL

  Tierra Freeman

  The goal of this research is to look into where young female athletes get their role models from while focusing specifically on the marketing and promotion women receive in the industry compared to their male counterparts. I hypothesize that most older Gen Z players had a lack of exposure to female role models, yet many younger Gen Z players can identify more players and female influences, possibly due to increased social media usage and/or NIL.The question I ask for you all to keep in mind throughout this presentation is : As female athletics become more visible, how will that influence the next generation of female athletes?

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  Which Wounds Will be Redeemed? The Role of Disability, Suffering, and the Resurrection in Teresa of Avila's Spirituality

  Elise Abshire

  The objective of my presentation, "Which Wounds Will be Redeemed? The Role of Disability, Suffering, and the Resurrection in Teresa of Avila's Spirituality," is to engage in an historical investigation of redemptive suffering and Resurrected woundedness, especially for persons with disabilities. Teresa of Avila, with her embodiment of suffering, provides a first-hand example of the spiritual tension experienced when living with a disability. From the perspective of Teresa, her body was physically limiting her from fully serving God; "que servía mucho más a Dios con la salud" ["I would be able to serve God much better if I were in good health"] (Autobiography VI: 5). Thus, does disability or woundedness hinder one's relationship with God? Teresa reveals that she wishes her body was healed in order to serve God in a greater way. The main aspect of this project is to present the tension between these two approaches to suffering happening within the same person with special consideration of her early modern European social context. After setting a Christological foundation, I will combine the voice of Teresa of Avila with contemporary thinkers, such as Paul Gondreau and Miguel Romero, to arrive at the present conversation in theological disability studies. Through providing Teresa of Avila's first-hand account of embodiment of suffering with a disability while striving to live a spiritual life, this paper can help to fill a lacuna in current research on this historical religious woman and Resurrected bodies, suffering, and woundedness in disability.

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  Who Do We Include? Exploring Inequity in Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)

  Delaney Barga

  The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) legally protects students’ access to the least restrictive learning environment (LRE). When possible, placing students with disabilities in general education classrooms with minimal intervention is required. The positive effects of inclusion have been supported in research over the years, yet schools continue to segregate classrooms in ways that are not aligned with the LRE guidance. This project explores the IDEA law, LRE guidance, and implementation of inclusion in schools.

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  Who’s “Smart” Enough for This Class? The Effect of Math Tracking on the Success of Students

  Libby Kreikemeier

  Tracking or the separation of students into different classrooms based on perceived ability, within the math classroom is often considered a norm today. Yet there is significant evidence pointing towards it being more harmful than helpful. This literature review explores the impact of math tracking on the success of students from middle school through higher education math.

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  Why You Should Care About Book Bans: Book Bans vs. Democracy

  Matthew Chandiles

  This project investigates the hindering effects of book bans as a constraint on the curriculum of real-world problems for America's youth. First, the cause-and-effect relationship of book bans under several rationales of protest, including political, personal, parental, or religious concerns are explored. Next a consideration of limiting the voices of marginalized and minoritized groups as a result of book bans is highlighted. Removing these literary resources and others in schools actively threatens a curriculum that promotes a holistic democratic education that prepares America's youth as informed, functional citizens.

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  Wind at UD Softball Stadium

  Jacob Sekerak

  The purpose of this project is to set up a sensor to collect meaningful data for the final project of ECE 520: Internet of Things. To accomplish this, I am going to record the behavior of wind during softball games at the University of Dayton’s softball stadium. This will be done by utilizing an embedded device along with a sensor that measures wind speed and direction. Wind can have a major impact on how fly balls especially behave during softball games and this could give the softball program better insight into how the wind is behaving just off the Great Miami River.

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  Women Superintendents in the Rural Midwest: Narratives of Challenges and Resistance

  Anne Strothman

  Women represent 76.5% of all teachers in U. S. public schools (Institute of Education Sciences, 2020). Yet, only 26.7% of superintendents leading districts are women (Tienken, 2021, p.19). Although women have made gains in leading schools in larger districts, the same trend is not evident in smaller, rural school systems, which describe the majority of school districts in the United States (AASA: The School Superintendents Association, 2017). Scholars commonly attribute this disparity to gender bias prevalent in rural cultures. Quinlan’s analyses (2013) underscored the gender inequality and sexism that women can face in rural contexts. To help address gender inequalities in educational leadership, schools, districts, and educational leaders must develop an awareness of specific structural and sociocultural barriers to the superintendency faced by women in rural contexts and take proactive steps to understand and mitigate those challenges. This study focuses on the narratives and lived experiences of women superintendents in rural school districts, and of women who aspire to the superintendency in a rural context. This qualitative study also explored the effects that COVID-19 has had on these women’s experiences as rural superintendents, an important aspect of their experience since the pandemic has disproportionally affected women in the United States (AAUW, 2020; Donovan and Labonte, 2020; Hilferty et al., 2021; Karageorge, 2020). This study can help women interested in pursuing careers as rural school district leaders to learn about those challenges and thus prepare themselves better to overcome them. Finally, this study aims to promote gender equity in rural K-12 systems to support women serving in district-level leadership roles in providing leadership models for all students, especially those who identify as female.

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  Working With An Arduino and Sensors

  Abril Robinson

  This project comes from the computer science class "Internet of Things" where we have learned about various microcontrollers. In this project, a sensor is used to collect data and to react automatically to input from an environment. Using an arduino, I can now unlock the door to my house using my phone.

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  Yorkie dependent transcriptional network promotes tumor growth

  Arushi Rai; other authors: Indrayani Waghmare, Amit Singh, Madhuri Kango-Singh

  The Hippo pathway effector, Yorkie (Yki) is a key mediator of signaling interactions and transcriptional addictions in tumor cells and presents an attractive opportunity to study transcriptional dependencies in cancer cells. The RasV12 scrib-/- tumor mosaic model, a well-established model, shows activation of oncogenic Ras in the background of impaired apical-basal polarity. Previously, we have shown that in RasV12, scrib-/- cells Wingless (Wg) act upstream of Caspases, JNK and Yki and via its canonical and non-canonical pathways to interact with Yki to regulate the development and cancer growth. Our goal is to understand further how the two evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways i.e., Hippo and Wingless crosstalk and interact with each other to regulate tumor growth using the RasV12, scrib-/- tumor model in Drosophila imaginal discs. Our data showed that the wg transcriptional reporters and wg transcript levels both are upregulated in RasV12, scrib-/- cells. In other contexts, wg is shown as a transcriptional target of Yki. Therefore, we will test for (a) the effects of Yorkie protein, the main effector molecule of the Hippo pathway, on the transcription and expression of Wg and other Wg pathway components by reporter assays, and qRT-PCR- based approaches, and (b) the effect of wg pathway components (frizzled, TCF) on the intrinsic wingless signaling and also the growth of RasV12, scrib-/- tumor (c)the effect of feedback interactions that promote tumorigenesis using genetic epistasis-, and immunohistochemistry-based approaches. Here, we present our progress on the organization of the molecular network involving Wingless and Yorkie.

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  Youth, Violence, and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities

  Caroline Hauer, Ariana Adkins, Melissa Moore

  Violence -- whether physical or rhetorical -- is a key mechanism by which social groups navigate their status and power. Groups with less power tend to experience disproportionate rates of violence. In this panel, presenters explore the social conditions in which violence emerges; how individuals are impacted and react to violence; and how violence is represented in both mainstream and social media outlets. The first paper investigates how children who experience abuse or trauma go on to enact aggressive behaviors themselves. The second paper investigates how media representations of violent crime committed by American juveniles have evolved since 1980. The third paper investigates inter-generational discourse on TikTok and how adversarial group dynamics contribute to current polarized and politicized identity-based rhetoric on the Internet. Each of these papers is based on original social science research undertaken by presenters for the sociology senior capstone. Taken together, the papers reveal the myriad ways that violence and conflicts emerge in social interactions. This panel should be of interest to folks who are interested in thinking through ways to build a more safe, peaceful, and democratic society.

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  18th Annual Integration Bee, Mathematics College of Arts and Sciences

  Arthur H. Busch

  The students compete in teams of 2-3 people. This is organized in a similar way to the traditional spelling bee. Teams will be evaluating integrals that are projected on a screen. If a team incorrectly evaluates an integral, the team is eliminated from the competition. After the elimination rounds, we will hold the lightning rounds. They first 'y' many teams to correctly evaluate the given integrals will proceed to the next round. We do this until there is a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place team. First, second, and third place teams will receive math t-shirts. The Department of Mathematics will host a pizza lunch in the Science Center Atrium from 12:00-1:00 PM prior to the Integration Bee.

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  192.Apofasi - novel global events pattern detection engine

  Karthi Balasundaram

  Since the beginning of mankind, global occurrences were found to be directly impacted by the emotions of a common man. However people became aware via newspapers and televisions only after the event had occurred. As technology became instant, faster, and handy, it started impacting the occurrences directly as the tweets/posts posted in the Social media platforms; such as twitter directly initiates conversations about earth shattering events. One such event taken as an experiment is the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Language barrier is a real life challenge and it indirectly impacts the events because of misunderstandings. In this work, a dataset of 10014 tweets posted in 40 different languages from Feb, 21 2022 till Mar, 17 2022 are collected and an attempt to categorize those tweets into positive, negative and neutral sentiments are performed. Upon inferring the pattern using event extraction and sentiment analysis techniques that lie as a branch of natural language processing, it is astounding to note meaningful information. Also, impressive data are collected directly from a community in Africa called “Masakhane” and have been successful in analyzing the sentiments for swahili language. Between the two experiments made using ‘192.Apofasi’ - the engine based out of NLP with nltk python library, found a sentimental correlation exists between the war and the tweets. The real challenge is in gathering and preprocessing the dataset to make it a machine understandable model. As a result, 5094 neutral, 2788 positive and 2132 negative tweets are obtained. It is therefore a strong evidence that by developing and deploying a machine learning model into handheld devices, every human being will be able to understand the patterns of the current events irrespective of the language thereby opening numerous opportunities for its betterment. Keywords : Natural Language Processing, Event extraction, Sentimental analysis, Emotive tweets, Russia, Ukraine

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  3D Printing with Recycled Plastics: Opportunities and Challenges

  Peter Anthony Fabe

  Plastic waste is a significant global health and environmental issue. Inefficiencies and lack of regulated disposal have made waste plastics commonplace in every corner of planet Earth. But what if we could turn waste plastics into any object we want? 3D printing technologies utilize the same base plastics that are readily disposed of in single use plastic applications and can make custom product designs that drive innovative and sustainable solutions. However, there are many barriers that need to be overcome in the path of creating circular economies around plastic waste and 3D printing. This presentation will identify explored mechanisms and methodologies for transforming and using plastic waste in 3D printing applications, important factors in retaining performance and mechanical properties of plastics over repeated use, and infrastructural systems that need to be established to form a truly circular economy around 3D printing and plastic waste.