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Rebecca M. Reck, Ph.D. Rebecca M. Reck, Ph.D.
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    • Accessibility and Inclusion in Undergraduate Labs
    • Alternative Grading
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New laboratory kit
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BYOE: Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for Controls Courses

A bring your own experiment (BYOE) is a special category of papers at the ASEE Annual Conference in the Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies.  In a BYOE paper the author describes how to develop equipment and/or a novel set of experiments.  At the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference, I published a BYOE paper about the GE 320 laboratory kit I developed and the experiments that can be performed with the kit.  During the conference, instead of a traditional paper presentation, I demonstrated an experiment with the kit in a science fair style session.  The full paper can be found on the ASEE PEER website.  

  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Control Systems
  • Instructional Laboratory
  • GE320
  • ASEE
  • Laboratory Kit
  • Labs
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12 July 2015

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Low-cost hardware
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Recruiting Volunteers for a New Project on Low-Cost Hardware

We are seeking volunteers who have experience teaching and/or developing control systems laboratories. The purpose of this study is to determine a consensus of the most important learning outcomes, concepts, and equipment for students to experience in a control systems laboratory. In order to achieve a consensus the survey will be administered in four rounds between June and August 2015. Each round will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

  • Low-cost Hardware
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Control Systems
  • Instructional Laboratory
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11 June 2015

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Brand consistency strengthens your online presence. (CC Illustration by Esther Gons.)
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Your Brand and Social Media

At the 2015 SWE Region H conference at University of Notre Dame, I presented a session titled "Your Brand and Social Media."  The first part of the presentiation was about creating a personal brand.  That was followed by an overview of some of the most popular social media/networking sites.  Then I wraped it up with some best practices from the The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users by Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick.

  • Social Media
  • Branding
  • Personal Brand
  • SWE
  • Region H
  • Presentation
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28 May 2015

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Write something everyday. (CC photo by Pete O'Shea.)
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#AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month)

So today I happened across #AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month), which is a writing challenge for academics to write every day in November. This intrigued me for two main reasons: 1. I have a lot to write in November anyway and 2. I need to develop better habits for writing.

  • Writing
  • AcWriMo
  • Academia
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02 November 2014

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GE320 kit block diagram.
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ASME DSCC Paper and Presentation

On October 23, I presented the first paper my advisor, Dr. R.S. Sreenivas, and I published on my research of affordable and portable laboratory kits for undergraduate controls education courses.  The paper and presentation were part of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in San Antonio, Texas.  The slides from the presentation are included below and the full paper is available in the ASME Digital Collection. 

  • Control Systems
  • Instructional Laboratory
  • Presentation
  • DSCC
  • Conference Paper
  • ASME
  • Labs
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30 October 2014

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Tips for Teaching STEM

At WE14, Diane Peters and I shared tips for teaching STEM in a workshop on Saturday afternoon.

  • WE14
  • Teaching
  • STEM
  • Engineering Education
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27 October 2014

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