RAMP & NEXT Framework
This is the first letter in the NEXT framework and stands for building relationships with professionals and mentors.
What is Network?
VOC stands for this term, which refers to chemicals that evaporate into the air.
What are Volatile Organic Compounds?
The first principle of engineering ethics: protect this above all else.
What is public safety?
This function prints text to the screen in Python.
What is print()?
This small computer used in RAMP can fit in your hand but run full Linux operating systems.
What is a Raspberry Pi?
This pillar of NEXT is about being fearless in learning and problem-solving. It involves investigating and searching.
What is eXplore?
The acronym TDS stands for this in environmental testing.
What is Total Dissolved Solids?
The core ethical principle that asks you to communicate risks clearly.
What is transparency?
This Python library is used for creating plots like scatter or line graphs.
What is matplotlib?
This process involves asking someone for permission before collecting data about them.
What is informed consent?
These four words define the NEXT acronym.
What are Network, Engage, eXplore, and Transform?
VOCs can worsen this chronic respiratory condition, especially in children.
What is asthma?
These two values are sometimes in tension: protecting people vs. moving fast with innovation.
What are safety and speed (or responsibility and release schedule)?
This Python package is used for scientific computing and supports regression analysis.
What is scipy?
This science concept relates spring force to stretch length: F = k × x.
What is Hooke’s Law?
The "Transform" pillar encourages students to design for this, not just function.
What is Impact?
We classify VOCs as this type of risk as people can be unaware of the potential harm that may be coming from VOCs they are unaware of.
What is "Invisible"
This concept describes the fair distribution of risks and benefits.
What is justice (or design justice)?
This concept helps find the best-fit line for a dataset; useful in Hooke’s Law analysis.
What is linear regression?
This kind of sensor uses metal oxide to detect VOCs via changes in resistance.
What is a MOS (MOX) sensor?
This is what "RAMP" stands for.
What is “Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways.”
This is the name of the sensor your VOC robot will use
What is "SGP30"
This infamous New York community was built over a toxic site and is often cited as a failure in engineering ethics.
What is Love Canal?
This Python package makes number crunching fast and efficient with arrays.
What is numpy?
This kind of matrix compares design options using ethics, cost, and confidence.
What is a tradeoff matrix?