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Record W4405675708 · doi:10.24908/pceea.2024.18515

A Mechanical Hackathon Co-developed with Industry

2024· article· en· W4405675708 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Christopher Rennick, Silas Ifeanyi

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBiomedical and Engineering Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusiness

Abstract

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Hackathons have become a very popular activity in the software domain. These activities give students a chance to work in teams to address challenging, real-world, software design problems in a fast-paced and time-bound environment. This limited duration has both positives (e.g. students can experience the entire design-build-test process during a 2-day event), and negatives (e.g. students may be “hacking” code together instead of following a more rigorous design process); but if designed well can give students a meaningful design experience which develops their empathy, self-efficacy, and sense of belonging. To date, however, these events have typically stayed within the software domain where the cycles of building and testing can happen very rapidly. This paper describes an extra-curricular activity, co-developed with industry, which provided an opportunity for undergraduate students to design, build, and test solutions to a challenging real-world, mechanical problem sourced from an industry partner. This activity was offered as a pilot to approximately 40 students over a weekend in fall 2023 as part of a larger industry “Innovation Challenge” where the majority of students at the challenge were working on a related software problem from the same industry partner.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.067
Threshold uncertainty score0.616

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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