The BRIDGE: Solve a Complex Issue While Developing Employability Skills

IMPACT. 1: Solve a complex issue that has many components in which changes to one could cause major consequences to others. -- 2. Cultivate team skills: all team members participate in brainstorming ideas and developing a comprehensive implementation plan. -- 3. Develop transferable abilities to become more sought-after by employers.OSU PARTNERS: Alber Enterprise Center; Ohio State University Extension 4-HCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: FFA; Ridgemont High School; Marion City Harding High SchoolPRIMARY CONTACT: Myra Wilson ([email protected])Empowering students to develop analytical skills that are critical for today's workforce is the overarching theme of this Alber Enterprise Center program. By using common business analysis tools in a logical 6-step sequence, students learn how to solve complex issues while gaining valuable experience in critical thinking, problem solving, team building, decision making, leadership, and project planning

Achieving reliability using behavioural modules in a robotic assembly system

The research in this thesis looks at improving the reliability of robotic as¬ sembly while still retaining the flexibility to change the system to cope with dif¬ ferent assemblies. The lack of a truly flexible robotic assembly system presents a problem which current systems have yet to overcome. An experimental sys¬ tem has been designed and implemented to demonstrate the ideas presented in this work. Runs of this system have also been performed to test and assess the scheme which has been developed.The Behaviour-based SOMASS system looks at decomposing the task into modular units, called Behavioural Modules, which reliably perform the as¬ sembly task by using variation reducing strategies. The thesis work looks at expanding this framework to produce a system which relaxes the constraints of complete reliability within a Behavioural Module by embedding these in a re¬ liable system architecture. This means that Behavioural Modules do not have to guarantee to successfully perform their given task but instead can perform it adequately, with occasional failures dealt with by the appropriate introduction of alternative actionsTo do this, the concepts of Exit States, the Ideal Execution Path, and Alter¬ native Execution Paths have been described. The Exit State of a Behavioural Module gives an indication of the control path which has actually been taken during its execution. This information, along with appropriate information available to the execution system (such as sensor and planner data), allows the Ideal Execution Path and Alternative Execution Paths to be defined. These show, respectively, the best control path through the system (as determined by the system designer) and alternative control routes which can be taken when necessary

engAGING Collaborators: Future Focus on Staff Development in Senior Service Organizations

IMPACT. 1: Form a strong collaboration among all stakeholders interested in assuring that organizations provide quality and affordable senior services. -- 2. Identify factors influencing the future success of senior services organizations for providing effective services to the aging population in Ohio, specifically the attraction, retention, and training of qualified talent -- 3. Target programming in two key staff development areas that will improve the skill sets of 1) leaders and 2) direct care workers.OSU PARTNERS: Alber Enterprise Center; Wexner Medical Center - Office of Geriatrics & Gerontology; College of Food Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; College of Education and Human Ecology; Ohio State University Extension - Family & Consumer SciencesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Board of Executives & Long Term Services & Supports; LeadingAge Ohio; Delia Mallory Consulting; National Church Residences; Ohio Department of Education; Ohio Eastern Star Homes; Otterbein Senior Lifestyle Choices; Senior Independence for Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services; Westminster Thurber Retirement CommunityPRIMARY CONTACT: Myra Wilson ([email protected])Caring for 1.5 million seniors in Ohio is a challenge for the 800 long-term care organizations employing 100,000 staff. According to AARP, 3 million Baby Boomers live in Ohio and represent 33% of the state's adult population. Overcoming organizational obstacles is critical to serving seniors now and into the future. The Long-Term Services, Support & Healthcare Consortium (LTSSHC) began meeting in November 2014, to bring together key thought leaders to address these complex issues

Combining Functional and Structural Reasoning for Safety Analysis of Electrical Designs

Increasing complexity of design in automotive electrical systems has been paralleled by increased demands for analysis of the safety and reliability aspects of those designs. Such demands can place a great burden on the engineers charged with carrying out the analysis. This paper describes how the intended functions of a circuit design can be combined with a qualitative model of the electrical circuit that ful®ls the functions, and used to analyse the safety of the design. FLAME, an automated failure mode and e€ects analysis system based on these techniques, is described in detail. FLAME has been developed over several years, and is capable of composing an FMEA report for many di€erent electrical subsystems. The paper also addresses the issue of how the use of functional and structural reasoning can be extended to sneak circuit analysis and fault tree analysis.