{"id":39030,"date":"2015-10-02T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T00:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=39030"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:11:46","slug":"student-engineers-participate-in-native-hawaiian-stem-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/02\/student-engineers-participate-in-native-hawaiian-stem-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Student engineers participate in Native Hawaiian <abbr title=\"Science, Technology, Engineering and Math\">STEM<\/abbr> symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_39034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39034\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium-260x180.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hexacopter project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The 4th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/ike\/\">Indigenous Knowledge in Engineering<\/a> (<abbr>IKE<\/abbr>) Student Symposium held on August 15, 2015 focused on <span aria-label=\"hoike\">h&#333;&#699;ike<\/span>, meaning culminating demonstration. The <abbr>IKE<\/abbr> program helps promote Native Hawaiians in engineering. Students who presented at the symposium completed a summer engineering experience, finished a pre-engineering math emporium course and a completed a hands-on engineering or research project over the academic year and\/or summer. These projects showcased how to improve the <abbr>STEM<\/abbr>-based workforce in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>Poster and presentation winners<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Estimating Battery Life Based on the Power Consumption of a Remotely Operated Underwater Robot (Sea Perch)<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvisors: Justin Carland and Jacob Tyler<br \/>\nStudents: Kapono Naeole-Nahulu, Christopher Parish, Tearanui <span aria-label=\"Kepookalani\">Kepo&#699;okalani<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hexacopter<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvisor: J Park<br \/>\nStudents: Tyler Ciccone, Jarren Endrina, Jarret Kahookele<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solar Powered Aqua Modifier (S.P.A.M)<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvisors: Norman Takeya, Milton Lau,Travis Takashima<br \/>\nAuthors: Jasmine Hoapili, Danny Tubera, Justin Barrowcliff, Ashley Magno, Blake Calderon, Rochelle Pagaduan, Joseph Peralta, Kay Hashimoto, Kalawaia Kamai, Gerson Previl<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS)<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthors: Wyatt Bartlett and John Nihi<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Phillip Ooi Mentors: Melia Iwamoto, Marica Otto<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fashionable Tech in Cosplay<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthor: Jessica Blankenship Grazziotin<br \/>\nMentors: Ed Kim, Noah Hafner, Aisis Chen<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Novel Algal Bioreactor for Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthors: Chad Morrow and Valerie Smith<br \/>\nFaculty Advisor: Dr. Eunsang Kan <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39056\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium-presentation.jpg\" alt=\"people looking at engineering projects\" width=\"620\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium-presentation.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/system-ike-symposium-presentation-260x174.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>IKE<\/abbr> student symposium presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>About <abbr>IKE<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>IKE<\/abbr> is a six-campus <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System<\/a> collaboration focused on the development of a pre-engineering pathway in the community colleges. This effort specifically focuses on developing a framework supportive of Native Hawaiian students in pursuit of engineering careers. Native Hawaiians and other minority groups are consistently underrepresent\u00aced in modern science and engineering fields; the intent of <abbr>IKE<\/abbr> is that through the evolution of successful pre-engineering programs in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> system, we will gain insights on engineering education practices effective for indigenous students that may be applied to other indigenous-serving higher education institutions and to other programs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <abbr>IKE<\/abbr> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous Knowledge in Engineering Student Symposium helps promote Native Hawaiian success in engineering fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[182,33,313],"class_list":["post-39030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-engineering","tag-hawaiian","tag-stem","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39030"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145336,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39030\/revisions\/145336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}