Engineering Outreach to K12

IMPACT. 1: Prof. Anderson and her students have visited a total of 47 different schools, bringing engineering hands-on projects to more than 5,000 students, many of whom may never have thought they could be an engineer, or even had any idea what an engineer does. -- 2. Recent projects have emphasized energy, with kids building a DC motor and a Faraday flashlight. Another has students build a finger- tip heart-rate monitor using a potato-chip clip, infrared LED, and some simple circuitry.OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; College of Engineering Minority Engineering Program; College of Engineering Women in Engineering ProgramCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: 47 different schools; 4H Club; Vineyard Community Center; Engineering Explorer Post; YMCA Y-Club; Young Scholars Program; Wright Scholars; OhioScience and Engineering Talent Expansion ProgramPRIMARY CONTACT: Betty Lise Anderson ([email protected])Prof. Betty Lise Anderson leads an outreach program for engineering that is specifically designed to address the shrinking number of students going into the STEM fields and to increase the number of women and minorities in engineering. Along with Ohio State student volunteers, Prof. Anderson visits schools, camps, and after-school organizations to engage kids by teaching them how to build real engineering projects, such as working speakers and motors that they can take home

K-12 Engineering Outreach

IMPACT. 1: Prof. Anderson and her students have visited a total of 78 different schools, bringing hands-on engineering projects to more than 9,000 students, many of whom may never have thought they could be an engineer, or even had any idea what an engineer does. -- 2. Recent projects have emphasized energy, with kids building a DC motor and a Faraday flashlight. Another has students build a finger-tip heart rate monitor using a potato chip clip, infrared LED, and some simple circuitry.OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; College of Engineering Minority Engineering Program; College of Engineering Women in Engineering ProgramCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: 78 different schools; 4H Club; Vineyard Community Center; Engineering Explorer Post; YMCA Y-Club; Young Scholars Program; Wright Scholars; Ohio Science and Engineering Talent Expansion ProgramPRIMARY CONTACT: Betty Lise Anderson ([email protected])Professor Betty Lise Anderson leads an outreach program for engineering that is specifically designed to address the shrinking number of students going into the STEM fields and to increase the number of women and minorities in engineering. Along with more than 150 Ohio State student volunteers, Professor Anderson visits schools, camps, and after-school organizations to engage kids by teaching them how to build real engineering projects, such as working speakers and motors that they can take home

K-12 Engineering Outreach

IMPACT. 1: The K12 Engineering program has visited nearly 90 schools, bringing hands-on projects to well over 13,000 K12 students, many of whom may never have thought they could be an engineer. -- 2. OSU students have used their engineering know-how to design over 20 projects to be age-appropriate, fun, and low-cost. They get to give back to their communities and their professions. -- 3. Students have travelled abroad to deliver these projects to schools in Colombia and Guatemala.OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: 90 different schools; Columbus Metro Libraries; Engineering Explorer Post; Young Scholars Program; Wright Scholars Program; YMCA; Math and Science Club; 4H; King Arts Complex Summer Arts Camp; Science OlympiadPRIMARY CONTACT: Betty Lise Anderson ([email protected])This program delivers hands-on engineering activities to classrooms, libraries, and camps, to address the need for more people in the STEM fields, particularly women and minorities. More than 250 OSU student volunteers engage kids by teaching them how to build real engineering projects, such as speakers or motors, that they can take home

Work Package 3 – Hydrogeological methods, drainage and grouting

Ground works such as deep excavations and foundation works performed in soft clay can cause damage to neighbouring buildings and structures. Drainage causes pore pressure lowering, followed by consolidation settlements. The costs related to settlement damage can be substantial and there is a considerable potential for reducing these costs. The risk of settlement damage caused by drainage and pore pressure reduction can be reduced during the early design phase of a project by undertaking the correct type of investigations and understanding the hydrogeological conditions. Furthermore, one may select construction methods, which reduce risk of drainage. In case the selected construction solution yields an unacceptable risk for settlement damage to surrounding buildings and infrastructure, remedial measures may be designed to mitigate the effects, followed by implementation and monitoring during the construction phase. This report provides State-of-the-Art related to hydrogeological investigation methods, hydrogeological modelling and numerous measures to mitigate the effects of drainage to excavations. In addition, governing Norwegian rules and regulations are discussed, as well as the causes of drainage to excavations in Norwegian ground conditions.Norges forskningsråd / The Research Council of Norwa

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The impact of diet during adolescence on the neonatal health of offspring:evidence on the importance of preconception diet. The HUNT study

Emerging evidence suggests that parents’ nutritional status before and at the time of conception influences the lifelong physical and mental health of their child. Yet little is known about the relationship between diet in adolescence and the health of the next generation at birth. This study examined data from Norwegian cohorts to assess the relationship between dietary patterns in adolescence and neonatal outcomes. Data from adolescents who participated in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (Young-HUNT) were merged with birth data for their offspring through the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. Young-HUNT1 collected data from 8980 adolescents between 1995 and 1997. Linear regression was used to assess associations between adolescents’ diet and later neonatal outcomes of their offspring adjusting for sociodemographic factors. Analyses were replicated with data from the Young-HUNT3 cohort (dietary data collected from 2006 to 2008) and combined with Young-HUNT1 for pooled analyses. In Young-HUNT1, there was evidence of associations between dietary choices, meal patterns, and neonatal outcomes, these were similar in the pooled analyses but were attenuated to the point of nonsignificance in the smaller Young-HUNT3 cohort. Overall, energy-dense food products were associated with a small detrimental impact on some neonatal outcomes, whereas healthier food choices appeared protective. Our study suggests that there are causal links between consumption of healthy and unhealthy food and meal patterns in adolescence with neonatal outcomes for offspring some years later. The effects seen are small and will require even larger studies with more state-of-the-art dietary assessment to estimate these robustly