Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry

FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.

The outward appearance of a product and product
design form underlies successful innovation. Design
form creates initial impressions impacting buyer
judgments. Prototypical designs provide assurance
and familiarity. High-designs signal superior quality,
exclusiveness, and prestige. Continued high
performance gives authentic designs the real deal
reputation. Results contributed to product design
literature by revealing buyer’s initial impressions of
prototypical, authentic, and high-design forms, the independent
variables. The dependent variables were
functionality, ergonomics, hedonism, self-expression,
authenticity, and information search. Plan of
action included a convince sample of 60 millennials,
personal distribution/ collection, manipulation check,
and questionnaire pretest. Methods included secondary,
survey, and experimental research. Ethical
practice conformed to APA style, and consent forms.
Reliability/validity was heightened by items borrowed
from scholarly journals. Key findings: 1) high-design
scored highest on self-expression, hedonism, and
information search but lowest on ease of use; 2) prototypical
design posed the greatest injury hazard; 3)
Authentic design signaled highest functionality.

“Death Spiral Financing” refers to a certain type of
Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE), generally
used by companies in financial trouble. I will show
how these “toxic” PIPEs usually lead to the devaluation
and even destruction of companies. While not
illegal, these transactions take advantage of loopholes
within the SEC regulations regarding disclosure
of securities purchases. I will present how the
SEC has raised claims (mainly unsuccessfully) against
such practices in at least one of two categories: sale
of an unregistered security, or insider trading. I will
conclude by arguing that such transactions need to
be more carefully scrutinized in order to protect and
better inform the “unsuspecting public”.

Modern devices such as the projectile t-shirt launching
cannon is consisted of a handheld cannon with
a tank of compressed air attached at the base. Our
team explored new innovative designs in order to revamp
current state of the art products on the market.
The team took initiative to focus on a more autonomous
functioning device rather than a user-controlled
system. The design would have capabilities to locate
and transport to pre-determined locations for optimal
proficiency to launch t-shirts to fans in all ranges of
the venue/stadium. Similarly, alongside with automatic
dynamic abilities, the device must control the
pitch and rotation of the barrel while firing t-shirts and
launch multiple rounds of shirts in one trial run. The device will provide an overall better experience for
corporate or private investors to interact with their
fan-base delivering free merchandise within the limitations
of the respected venues.

The black hole is one of the most interesting phenomena’s
that exist in our world, it’s said that the gravity
of a black hole is super strong that in can literally pull
anything including light, but the speed of the light
is said to be infinite because nothing in the known
physical form can actually stay in the form on reaching
the speed of light. That means that for the light
to be pulled the gravity of whatever the object that’s
pulling it has to be infinite as well , which can only
come as a result of having so much mass condensed
in a singular point, called “black hole”.

FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.

FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.

FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.

FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.