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Title: 2022 - Using GPS to Implement PID Control for a Remote-Control Car’s Speed - Oral Presentation
Description: ENGR 2900 students work on improving the SLICK Science cars that are used for an interactive summer camp for middle school students to learn more about engineering and robotics. This year, students plan to add a PID controller to the throttle so that the cars can maintain a desired speed regardless of the surface on which they are driving. PID controllers are a common way of aligning as closely as possible the output of a system to a desired value. The “P”, “I” and “D” in PID control stands for “proportional”, “integral” and “derivative”. Implementation of a PID control comes in comparing the output of a system (as read from a sensor) to a desired input. The difference between the two, the “error”, is then integrated and differentiated and the new output to the system is a scaled up or down version of the sum of the proportional, integral, and derivative terms. With the implementation of PID control, the motors on the SLICK Science cars will work harder to maintain a certain speed on rough terrain, such as grass, than they will on smooth surfaces like asphalt. The controller uses information from the GPS in a closed loop system in order to adjust power to the motors. PID controllers are a powerful way of controlling an input given a desired output and are used in many every day and industrial applications. This is a video of the presentation, "Using GPS to Implement PID Control for a Remote-Control Car’s Speed" given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenter: Cecilia Costelow, Jacob Sampson, Jeremy Riedl & Quentin McRae. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/lEYzN-oAvsA
Subjects: Robotics, Engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanical systems, mechanics
Local Identifiers: 22-0245

Title: 2022 - Jordan PREP Nano Drifters - Oral Presentation
Description: Our goal was to reverse engineer remote-control models for drift cars. Some of these models cost anywhere from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars. We don’t have that type of money and these are not accessible to most underrepresented students. We decided to make our own using our knowledge from Jordan PREP. We would like to design one that is affordable, not just for us, but for any kid or teen that is interested in engineering and cars. The concept is that we are trying to make our product a hands-on kit. It will teach the kids about working with electronics, engineering and problem solving by making a drift remote-control car that is pocket-size, affordable, and STEM-education related. This is a video of the presentation, "Jordan PREP Nano Drifters" given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenters: Kevin Aguilera Hernandez & Salvador Reynaga. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/AbTIVQuAvgw
Subjects: Engineering, mechanical engineering, Mechanical works, mechanics, mechanical toys, stem, Educational technology, Educational innovations
Local Identifiers: 22-0247

Title: Pre-Engineering at Utah Technical College
Description: Mail Correspondence of the Utah Technical College that promotes the pre-engineering programs, career opportunities in engineering. It gives explanation of the engineering field and adds scopes of some of the areas of study inside the engineering field that the College offers, such as: Electrical engineering, Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering, computer science. Contains a postage-free card to ask for more information to the College. Date unknown. Printed in color.
Subjects: Leaflets, Engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, Programs, mechanical engineering, computer science, enrollments, Universities & colleges, Student aspirations
Local Identifiers: 21-0757

Title: 2022 - Demonstration of Work and Energy Using a Stirling Engine - Poster Presentation
Description: We designed an experiment to demonstrate the concepts of heat and work in a thermodynamic system. Heat is thermal energy in the form of the movement of particles at the molecular and atomic scale. A Stirling engine is a mechanical device that can harness heat energy into the mechanical energy of a spinning flywheel. In this lab experiment, the efficiency of the Stirling engine is determined by calculating how much heat energy in the system is transferred into the actual rotation of the flywheel of the engine. Through doing this, it demonstrates, in a non-abstract way, the concepts of work and energy.
Subjects: Engineering, engineering concepts, Experiments, mechanical engineering, mechanical instruments, mechanical systems, physics concepts, student projects, Physics
Local Identifiers: 22-0162

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