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What happens when the biggest barrier to scientific discovery isn’t a lack of ideas, but the cost of the tools themselves? In this episode, Jarin Earle, a junior in Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University, shares how a summer research project designing a low-cost viscometer changed the way he thinks about engineering; not as a way to build machines, but as a way to expand who gets the opportunity to do science.

Alternate Title

• Realize REU

Creator

• Earle, Jarin O.
• Yavitt, Ben M.
• Payton, Eric J.

License

• Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Subject

• Engineering

Geographic Subject

• Cincinnati, OH

Time Period

• Contemporary

Submitter

Eric Payton

College

• Engineering and Applied Science

Department

• Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering

Date Created

• 2026-07-24

Publisher

• University of Cincinnati

Language

• English

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Identifier: doi:10.7945/9jkz-2m42
Link: https://doi.org/10.7945/9jkz-2m42

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