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RentBuddy: The All-in-One College Housing App
Get PDFFinding housing is nearly impossible for Cal Poly students living in San Luis Obispo due to unreliable, untrustworthy, and outdated online resources. How might we create an easy-to-access mobile application that provides a reliable and trustworthy platform for Cal Poly students to find potential roommates and off-campus housing? This project introduces RentBuddy, a digital solution to the off-campus housing crisis in San Luis Obispo County
Clueless: Revolutionizing Sustainable Fashion and Combating Overconsumption
Get PDF“Clueless” revolutionizes sustainable fashion by combating wardrobe overconsumption and the industry’s carbon footprint, using AI to suggest personalized outfits from existing wardrobes tailored to weather and wear history. It enhances user engagement through features like outfit ‘shuffle’ and provides insights into wardrobe utilization and carbon impact.
It’s more than an app; it’s a step towards a greener wardrobe and a healthier planet
Implementation of Topology Optimization into the Mechanical Design Process
Get PDFTopology Optimization is a lightweighting method based on finite element analysis that produces a part with optimum material distribution in the design space. Results from topology optimization often have organic shapes and curves that are difficult if not impossible to machine with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. This paper analyzes the implementation of the Solidworks® Topology Optimization add-in into the mechanical design process and discusses required postprocessing to ensure manufacturability of the optimized part though a case study on two example parts. Results of traditional optimization, topology optimization and “selective” optimization (optimization using the results from topology optimization to selectively remove material to ensure manufacturability) were compared in terms of weight reduction and time required for optimization. In addition, simplified lightweighted parts were experimentally tested to validate the results of Solidworks® FEA and Topology Optimization to ensure physical part performance and increase confidence in future model results. Overall, it was determined that due to the large amount of time to setup and run, topology optimization may not be the most effective lightweighting method if time is a significant design constraint. However, for some specific applications where part weight is of major importance or where additive manufacturing may be a possible manufacturing process, the benefits of topology optimization’s material removal capability outweigh the required solution time
Disrupting Childhood Trauma with Holistic Health Practices in Low SES Elementary Schools
Get PDFIt is evident that adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are a large challenge to tackle in the U.S., with 61% of adults reporting that they’ve experienced one ACE and 16% reporting four or more ACEs by age 18 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). ACE score items include, but are not limited to experiencing verbal, physical, sexual abuse, physical and/or emotional neglect, having a mentally ill family member, witnessing violence in the home towards a parent, and/or having a family member in prison. Such experiences serve as a public health threat that, without early intervention, bring about long-term effects biologically, psychologically, and socially; with this, an adequate comprehension of the lasting implications of trauma can enhance and serve as foundational knowledge in establishing potential interventions (Watters & Martin, 2021; van der Kolk, 2014). Fortunately, the effects of ACEs can be disrupted, and research shows that schools could be a primary resource for children to get the support they need. According to the National Center for Education, on average, children in the United States spend 6.64 hours daily in school, with 180 days (about 6 months) out of the year being school days (Xianglei et al., 2019). More than half of a child’s life is spent within the school setting, making elementary school settings a crucial candidate for preventing and treating mental health issues and disorders from a young age. Unfortunately, schools often lack the capacity to provide adequate trauma informed care, especially schools located in areas of low socioeconomic status. Research shows that current education systems can be revised to support traumatized youth and improve emotional, physical, and academic well-being. More studies point to the association between holistic healing practices, a form of trauma-informed care that can be accessible to all communities, and effective biopsychosocial regulation (Bazzano, et al., 2018; Cozzolino et al., 2022; Eads, 2022; Mayer, 2019; Sarkissian Leadership, 2018). Hence, in order to disrupt the effects of trauma on a child’s body, mind, overall wellbeing, and enhance success in school, elementary schools should implement strategic trauma informed protocols in order to holistically support their students. The purpose of this paper is to offer a review of the literature that studied accessible holistic health practices for low SES elementary school settings to support healthy development of children who have experienced and are experiencing adversity
Research Project Poster Presentation: Cultural Normalization of Risk?: Exploring Brain Injury in the National Football League Using Sociocultural Analysis
Get PDFBackground. This presentation began as an undergraduate end-of-term course project focused on sport, media, and American popular culture (April to June 2023). The poster presentation was originally presented at the 2023 annual conference of the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (SWACSM), following peer-review acceptance of the project summary statement (i.e. abstract) for conference presentation.
Purpose. The presentation is published here to Cal Poly Digital Commons as a resource to future students and professionals studying topics covered in the presentation (e.g. sociological theories, cultural values and risks, sports ethic).
Resources. This webpage has several resources described below. It consists of a copy of the abstract, a copy of the poster presented at the conference (see below), and a document listing full references used for the abstract and poster presentation (see below).
Acknowledgements. This presentation is a follow-up project to one group project from the undergraduate course, KINE 324 (Sport, Media & American Popular Culture) at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (2023 Spring Quarter). The first author of this presentation was a member of the class project group, and the authors thank the four other student members of the group project that laid the foundation to the present presentation (E. Martinez; S. Robles; L. Rumon; & A. Whitey). This presentation was supported by a 2023 SWACSM Student Travel Grant Award (to AVW). The authors thank Dr. Jessica Kaczorowski (Department of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) for granting the first author permission to use the follow-up project to partially fill requirements for her research internship course (PSY 445 - Research Internship I). The second author (JDT) served as the project supervisor for PSY 448, and was the KINE 324 course instructor. He serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Effects Of Intertidal Position On The Response To Oxygen And Desiccation Stress In The Common Acorn Barnacle, Balanus Glandula
Get PDFSessile invertebrates in the rocky intertidal experience intermittent periods of air exposure due to tidal flux, presenting risks of temperature extremes, hypoxia, nutrient limitation, and most dangerously, desiccation. Microscale variation in severity and frequency of these risks is widely dependent on vertical position within the intertidal zone. Common acorn barnacles (Balanus glandula) have a wide vertical distribution in the intertidal, creating large differences in microhabitat between the highest and lowest individuals in the population. This study set out to explore whether tidal position dependent differences exist in the response to oxygen and desiccation stress in B. glandula. We hypothesized that B. glandula from relatively high tidal heights, which are exposed to the air for a greater duration, will be better suited to tolerate anoxic and desiccation stress than conspecifics from lower tidal heights. To explore this, we compared responses of B. glandula collected from high and low intertidal positions to A) anoxia (0 mg O2/L) and hypoxia (≤ 2 mg O2/L) on survival, behavior (closed opercular plates, cirral beating, pneumostome formation), enzyme activity (lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), superoxide dismutase (SOD)), and tissue-lactate accumulation, in addition to B) the effects of humid (98% RH) and dry (32% RH) air emersion (at 17˚C) on survival, opercular behavior (open/closed), evaporative water loss (EWL) rates, and tissue-lactate accumulation. Relative to barnacles from the low intertidal, we found that barnacles from the high intertidal survive longer during anoxia and air emersion stress, close their operculum sooner in dry air, lose more water during air exposure at any humidity level, and tend to accumulate less D-lactate. We suspect that high intertidal B. glandula can survive desiccation longer by ejecting stores of mantle cavity fluid, thereby creating a moist lung-like, air-filled internal environment, then remaining largely closed and metabolically inactive when in air to avoid drying out and becoming anoxic. These differences may reflect plasticity or selective pressure in response to environmental stress during development and highlight the potential importance of microscale stress heterogeneity in influencing species climate change tolerance and potential distribution patterns
A Guide to an Effective Cal Poly Construction Management Internship
Get PDFInternships provide a multitude of opportunities for students to learn and apply curriculum concepts. Internships are a window providing students with a glimpse of industry standards and practices. For employers, internships can provide value in the form of assistance with documentation, providing a fresh pair of eyes, and providing potential hires. That being said, currently there is no common set of internship standards, producing varying results for interns. The purpose of this research paper is to provide a professional blueprint for current and future CM companies to integrate in their internships. Student surveys and industry professional interviews were conducted to gain student input and insight into what employers are expecting from their interns. A key finding within the study demonstrates that students believe communication is the most useful skill to learn in an internship. Interestingly, industry professionals see communication as one of the biggest challenges in an intern’s experience. Communication within the construction industry is something that cannot be practiced in the classroom and comes with industry experience. How can internships adjust to provide students the space to practice communication and improve in other areas? This paper analyzes which elements of an internship can be modified to allow students to leave with an effective internship
Additive Manufacturing for Medical Education
Get PDFA growing body of evidence is suggesting that anatomical knowledge, the keystone of many medical specialties, is suffering among new graduates. While a host of reasons are provided, one common thread that many point to is the decline of cadaver dissections in the classroom. Many virtual audio-visual tools are used to address this gap, yet evidence has shown their ineffectiveness. Given this gap, the high degree of flexibility found in additive manufacturing (AM), and the many uses AM has already found in the medical field, we propose its use to fill this gap, allowing for students to learn with touch in addition to sight and sound among a host of other benefits. Our proposed system is a modular workflow that covers the generation of highly detailed heterogenous digital model representations and manufacturing said digital representations. In service of this, a basic framework of this workflow was implemented on Windows operating systems to show the viability of used standards
Parameter Measurement of 0.33 HP Synchronous Machine Using ITECH Digital Power Supply
Get PDFThe classical methodologies for synchronous machine modeling provide a solid estimation for synchronous machine behavior but are limited in terms of accuracy due to the assumptions made in the modeling process. The equivalent circuit model developed by the classical approach breaks down the entire machine into a singular impedance component. This allows the model to be generated more quickly but limits its accuracy. In the pursuit of developing a more realistic model, this thesis outlines the parameter measurement of a Hampden SM-100 synchronous machine. In determining the SM-100’s experimental parameters, this thesis executes and analyzes new experimental approaches to synchronous machine modeling. With the results of these approaches, a model for the Hampden SM-100 synchronous machine is developed that considers the rotor, stator, and core parameters of the synchronous machine separately
