Research Portfolio – Table of Contents

Personal Class Notes and Exercises (excluding material in the blog) (1)

• Resnick and Aristotle – Academics and the Need for Motivation
• Groundwork p.299
• Project STEEM – Lego Robotics exercise
• Analysis of Solar-Powered Generator schematic
• Analyzing the Field Research Project Design
• Analysis of the Research Site

Field notes (2)

• My Industrial Engineering class
• PhD Students (Commerce Week on Writing)
• Writing Local History (Commerce Week on Writing)

Project STEEM Material (from my own participation in X-TEEMS Academy)

Summer Camp

• Schedules for activities throughout both weeks of camp (3.a.i)

Week 1

Physics Lab

• sheet of paper from the bed of nails (3.a.ii.3)

Egg Bungee Jump

• activity guidelines (3.a.ii.2)

Math Population

• Math applied to population biology (3.a.ii.1)
• Demonstrating the spread of a rumor (3.a.ii.2)
• The mathematics of voting (3.a.ii.1)

Newspaper

• Activity guidelines (3.a.ii.2)

Cryptography

• Cryptography in the Internet (3.a.ii.1)
• Cryptography test (3.a.ii.2)
• Cryptography ciphers and encryptions (3.a.ii.1)
• Encryption and Decryption activity (3.a.ii.2)
• Relative frequency plot of various texts (3.a.ii.2)

Wind Tunnel

• Observing airflow (3.a.ii.1)
• Airfoil Theory (3.a.ii.1)
• Replica of Wright Brother’s Wind Tunnel (3.a.ii.1)
• Design and Implementation of Portable Wind Tunnel (3.a.ii.1)
• Home-Made Wind Tunnel (3.a.ii.1)
• Building a Wind Tunnel Laboratory (3.a.ii.2)

Biodiesel

• Experiment and Procedure (3.a.ii.1)

Planetarium Tour

• Constellations diagram (3.a.ii.1)

Guest Speaker: Jeana Yeager

• Biography and Information (3.a.ii.1)

Week 2

Holograms

• Explanation (3.a.ii.1)
• Procedure (3.a.ii.2)

Tadpoles

• Explanation (3.a.ii.1)
• Effects of Anesthetic (3.a.ii.1)
• Experiment (3.a.ii.2)
• Sketch of Tadpole from Microscopic view (3.a.ii.3)

Golden Mean Theory

• Explanation (3.a.ii.1)
• References for Additional Readings (3.a.ii.1)

CD Hovercraft

• Building procedure (3.a.ii.2)

Flame Experiment

• Material Safety Data Sheet for “Lamplight Ultra-Pure Lamp Oil” (3.a.ii.1)

Geometry

• Explanations of Pick’s Theorem and Green’s Theorem (3.a.ii.1)
• Practice examples (3.a.ii.2)
• Application of Theorems (3.a.ii.2)

GPS Scavenger Hunt

• FAQ about Geocaching (3.a.ii.1)
• How to use GPS unit (3.a.ii.1)

Electroencephalography

• Explanation and procedure (3.a.ii.2)

Karate Chop Physics

• Explanation and procedure (3.a.ii.2)

My team’s personal work

Paperwork (3.b.i) 

• Team Research Proposal

Research and Development (3.b.ii) 

• Initial ideas for project
• Idea for potato cannon
• Sketches for potential potato cannon project
• Financial detail for items needed to build Solar-Powered Generator

Pictures, Diagrams, Articles, Misc. Objects (3.b.iii)

• Solar Water Heating article from “Texas CO-OP Power”
• Solar-Powered Generator

Some articles and artifacts are on my computer or on my blog, and I will pull them into my research portfolio as I need them and/or print them.

 

Research Portfolio – Categories

1)      Personal Class Notes and Exercises (excluding material in the blog)

2)      Field notes

3)      Project STEEM Material (from my own participation in X-TEEMS Academy)

a)      Summer Camp

i)        Schedules for activities throughout both weeks of camp

ii)       Activity material

(1)    Definitions, theories, explanations

(2)    Application

(3)    Pictures, misc. objects

b)      My team’s personal work

i)        Paperwork

ii)       Research

iii)     Pictures, diagrams, magazine articles, misc. objects