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Prevalence of COVID-19 in Ohio Nursing Homes
This study examines the Prevalence of COVID 19 cases in Ohio nursing homes in the context of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 5-star quality ratings. Data come from the June 3, 2020 Ohio Department of ... -
Copyright and Digital Preservation: Legal and Administrative Issues
In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library ... -
Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Student’s Desire for Textbooks & the Library Budget
This chapter provides an overview of how academic libraries can adequately budget for and manage textbooks circulated to students through a print course reserve service. -
Stakes and Stakeholders: OER—Framing the Issues
This book is intended to act as a guide for would-be champions of Open Educational Resources (OER) that anyone—called to action by the example set by the chapter authors—might learn serve as OER champions and guides ... -
Coaching up the Chain of Command
An increasing number of academics, especially librarians, find that they need to teach at least the basics of copyright law and its application to a wide variety of audiences. Copyright is a complex and counter-intuitive ... -
Data archive for "Dissipative assembly of macrocycles comprising multiple transient bonds"
Dissipative (nonequilibrium) assembly powered by chemical fuels has great potential for the creation of new adaptive chemical systems. However, while molecular assembly at equilibrium is routinely used to prepare complex ... -
Child Safety Seat Occupant Detection and Alert System
This report covers the design, build, and testing if an IoT (Internet of Things) device which uses signal attenuation as a detection condition. The device's intended purpose is to detect when a child has been left in a car ... -
Senior Design 498 - Universal Test Stand
Final report for Senior Design - ENT 498 - Universal Test Stand -
High Temperature Limit Sensor for Compressor Connecting Rod
Student Engineers researched and designed a method to measure temperature on the bearing of an Ariel Corporation compressor connecting rod. Placing a high temperature shut off device in the connecting rod will allow for ... -
Septic Tank Monitoring Device
Student Engineers have modified and updated a current septic tank control panel. This panel has more up-to-date components that gives homeowners and service providers more control over septic systems. The panel will operate ... -
Adapting a Parker proportional valve for use with a Festo hydraulic trainer
Student engineers designed, built, and tested the adaptation of a Parker Proportional Valve with Festo Hydraulic Trainers for educational use at Edison State Community College. The system will accompany lectures given by ... -
Guided Object Fetching Robot
This is a reflection on what the GOFR group has accomplished in the pursuit of making an Autonomously Guided Vehicle (AGV). This document will lay out the steps and research performed in order to design and build a functional ... -
Senior Project X-Ray Plate Holder (The Wilds) Final Report
Our group is creating a robotic x-ray plate holder for The Wilds so that they can x-ray the legs of giraffes while they are standing and non-sedated. The Wilds reached out to Zane State College for this project due to ... -
Remote Machine Monitoring
Clippard, A well-known company in Cincinnati Ohio that manufactures pneumatic valves, cylinders, and fittings, provided us with a challenge to build a system for them. This system will monitor 16 CNC machines during the ... -
Automated Wire Stripper
For our groups ENT 498 Senior Design Project we decided to design and build an automated wire cutter and stripping machine. Our final machine can automatically feed, cut and strip wires to a given length and quantity. ... -
Remote CO₂ Laser Engraver/Cutter
The goal of our project was to develop and manufacture a CO2 laser engraver capable of being remotely controlled via the internet using a custom-built interface. The purpose of our project was to provide access to individuals ... -
Universal Robot Gripper
This project will consist of multiple goals and milestones to achieve the desired result of assessing the feasibility of a more universal type of gripper used for material handling in the Rimrock Corporation. -
CNC Router
This project is an improvement upon the 2018-2019 senior design team’s CNC Router Table project. The project utilizes mechanical, electrical and software components to establish communication between the router table and ... -
Pipe Bend Tester
The purpose of this project is to improve an existing pipe bending testing procedure for HDPE 3”-6” diameter pipe. Instead of a manual, unstandardized process, there will be an automated, standardized one more efficient ... -
The Application of Machine Learning to Digitized Postcards as Artifacts
When machine learning is mentioned in the news, it is rarely in the context of historical artifacts. Often, the public learns about what machine learning promises through news about optimizing workflows, improving ...