Notes from Engineering
Assistant Professor James Righter, Assistant Professor Gafar Elamin, and Assistant Professor Oguzhan Oruc presented papers at the Southeast American Society for Engineering Education conference in Starkville, Mississippi, March 9-11. Elamin presented “Engineering Student Preferences on Homework Grading and Exam Preparation.” Oruc, Dean of the School of Engineering Andrew Williams, Associate Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering Kevin Skenes, and Assistant Professor Eva Singleton presented “A Systematic Teaching Method for Modeling, Simulation and Control of Quadrotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles,” and the development of a new course entitled “Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles Using A Quadcopter As The Learning Platform.” Righter, alongside Assistant Professor Nathan Washuta and former Citadel professor Deirdre Ragan presented “Application of a House of Quality Intervention in an Engineering Capstone Design Course.”
Cadet Brian Bradrick presented a poster on manufacturing assembly operations and product complexity at the ASEE Southeastern Section Conference at Mississippi State University. The project is funded by the South Carolina Research Authority through an academic collaboration team grant. Research team members include Cadet Jack Riley, Cadet Victoria Snook and Cadet Saylor Gaines.
Cadets Sugghikiat Sungkeetanon, Tyler Kelly, Henry Brown, Jerry Johns, Roy Humphreys and Robert Price were ranked as accomplished competitors in the 2024 University Physics Competition. During the competition last November, these cadets had 48 hours to solve Problem A, which asked them to predict how long it would take the air to escape from a space station after being punctured by a small meteorite. Associate Professor John Sanders and Professor and College Marshall Joel Berlinghieri served as their faculty sponsors.
More than 830 teams registered for the competition. Of those, only 681 teams actually submitted a paper, so roughly 20% of the competitors either did not know where to start or were not able to finish the problem within the deadline. The fact that the cadets were ranked Accomplished Competitors means they not only met the challenge, but did so under pressure, completing the problem within the 48-hour timeframe.
