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Chioma di Ulivo - Courtyard Canopy
Get PDFChioma di Ulivo ( Olive Tree Canopy ) is the investigation and design of a canopy structure in the Engineering West (Bldg. 21) Hasslein Courtyard. The canopy will serve as a filtration system for both water and fallen olives from the olive tree on site, while providing a functional collaboration space for faculty and students alike. The goal of this project was to construct a quality diorama built by Lilla Vigh and Claudia Geist under the supervision of Dr. Craig Baltimore
Metallurgical Impact of Switching from Hammer Units to Hydraulic Presses for Forging
Get PDFCarlton Forge Works (CFW) is evaluating the retirement of its hammer units in favor of hydraulic presses to address safety concerns in forging aerospace components. This paper investigates the metallurgical implications of this transition, emphasizing the importance of superior microstructures and meeting industry standards and customer requirements. The alloys in question are Titanium-6Al-4V (Ti64) and Inconel 718 (INCO 718), which comprise a majority of CFW’s production. Ti64\u27s high specific strength and thermal stability make it ideal for aerospace applications, while INCO 718 is recognized for superior high-temperature creep performance. Defects like freckles and white spots in INCO 718 are analyzed for their impact on mechanical properties. The influence of forging techniques on alloy microstructures is examined, particularly in Ti64\u27s dynamic globularization and flow instabilities and INCO 718\u27s grain size variations. The findings contribute valuable insights to aid CFW in the decision-making process, ensuring safety, efficiency, and quality in their forging processes
Innovative Housing Solutions: A Toolkit to Utilizing Recycled Spaces as Transition Shelters for the Unhoused
Get PDFIncreasingly, the challenges of homelessness in urban areas have necessitated innovative solutions that leverage existing infrastructure. This project explores how repurposing underutilized spaces, such as vacant offices and hotels, into transitional shelters can provide immediate relief and long-term support for unhoused individuals. By focusing on inclusive design and strategic planning, this toolkit offers a comprehensive approach to addressing homelessness through adaptive reuse of existing buildings.
Urban areas in the United States face a persistent homelessness crisis exacerbated by economic instability, lack of affordable housing, and systemic barriers. Traditional shelters often fail to provide the necessary support for long-term stability, highlighting the need for more sustainable and integrated housing solutions. This toolkit is grounded in extensive research, including literature reviews and case studies from successful initiatives in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. Key elements of the research include analysis of the economic and systemic challenges in the housing market, examination of Point-in-Time (PIT) data to understand the demographics and specific needs of the unhoused population, case studies on the conversion of vacant spaces into housing, assessing both the opportunities and challenges, and interviews with urban designers, policymakers, and advocates to validate findings and gather insights.
The shortage of affordable housing, rising rental costs, and systemic issues like zoning laws and gentrification significantly impact housing stability for low-income and minority groups. Detailed PIT data reveals the diverse nature of the unhoused population, including significant ethnic and gender disparities that necessitate targeted interventions. Initiatives like California’s Homekey program demonstrate the efficacy of adaptive reuse in rapidly increasing affordable housing supply while promoting community integration. Effective repurposing requires inclusive design that considers accessibility, safety, and community integration. Engagement with unhoused individuals throughout the planning process ensures that solutions meet their needs and foster a sense of ownership
AS-971-24 Resolution on Revisions to UFPP 6.3: Post-Tenure Faculty Evaluation Patterns
Get PDFEnacts the resolved revisions to UFPP 6.3 Post-Tenure Faculty Evaluation Patterns in the attached report by 2024-2025; and further resolves that academic units currently requiring shorter post-tenure evaluation patterns change their policies accordingly
Review of the Heumann Perspective Podcast
Get PDFThis media review of the Heumann Perspective podcast encourages educators to use it as a way to discuss and teach disability justice and activism
Biomechanical Effects of Worn-Out Shoe Outsoles and Insoles on the Human Foot
No full textThe combination of outsole, midsole and insole layers of new shoes provide proper cushioning to the foot during the daily activities of life. Subsequently, the wear-based degeneration or damage to one or more of these sole layers can reduce the cushioning effect to the plantar surface of the foot. This reduction of cushioning effect can impact the distribution of stress concentration regions along the foot plantar surfaces and lead to foot pathologies. The present proposed research intends to study these effects of shoe-wear on the plantar surface of the human foot, using FEA (ABAQUS) and experimental methods. Commonly, the worn-out zones of shoes are observed as flattened shoe soles around the forefoot region, heel, medial or lateral zones. The proposed research intends to simulate the effect of gait-based loading on a human foot geometry, when applied through the multiple layers of worn-out soles, compared to that of a new shoe sole geometry. The gait-based loading on the geometry shall be obtained from the data captured from a force platform
Deploying a Distributed Cloud-based Microservice Application Benchmark Suite
Get PDFCloud services have lately transitioned from a single monolithic application to several loosely coupled microservices. This design shift from a single complex monolithic application to tens or hundreds of single-purpose microservices has enabled modern cloud services to be deployed, scaled, and managed in a more efficient way. Microservices can be deployed inside their own lightweight containers hosted on a cloud platform, and they can be individually developed, updated, tested, and elastically scaled. Each microservice can also be developed in its own suitable language, with only a common API for microservices to communicate with each other. Due to these benefits, large cloud providers and services such as Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Twitter have adopted the microservice architecture model in recent years. In this project, we will study and deploy a known distributed cloud service benchmark suite that is representative of a real industrial application with tens of microservices hosted on multiple cloud virtual machines. This suite covers a broad spectrum of popular cloud services such as social networking service, media service and an e-commerce service. Each service consists of multiple microservices that use different languages, programming models and open-source frameworks. The microservices will communicate using RESTful APIs and will enable simulating user traffic flow through a load generator tool. The final project outcome will generate a modular and extensible distributed microservice application suite that is deployed on a popular cloud platform and can be used by faculty members and students for performance debugging and simulating a practical representative industrial cloud service
Gamified Machine Embroidery
No full textThis project aims to improve accessibility to the embroidery field by developing an application that captures the utility of a embroidery software (controlling an embroidery machine to produce embroidered output) and combines it with the playfulness of a game, to put those advanced controls in the hands of novices
Impact of Composites Material Research on Underrepresented Communities
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to qualify and quantify the amount of research into composite materials applicable to certain engineering industries, then examine the impact these industries have on communities of a lower socioeconomic status. Of a random sample of papers from ScienceDirect over the last 24 years, it was found that the amount of research applicable to industries cascades as follows: the most is applicable to the construction industry, followed by automotive, defense, renewable energy, and biomedical. The effects of each industry have been examined and are presented as well
Spacecraft Attitude Control Simulator
Get PDFThe Spacecraft Attitude Control Simulator is a single-axis attitude control platform which is intended to recreate the frictionless space environment in order to test cold-gas thruster control schemes. The overall goal of this research project was to observe settling data from the platform and compare it to simulated data. In practice, the predicted settling time was only 7% larger than observed settling time