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Vertical Flight Society (VFS) 8th Annual Student Design Competition
Get PDFEvery year the Vertical Flight Society (VFS), a professional society for vertical takeoff or vertical lift vehicles, sponsors a student design competition in order to foster innovation and interest in vertical flight technology. The University of Portland sponsored a five-person mechanical engineering team to compete in the 8th annual Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Student Challenge. The team created an MAV that was capable of transporting a bag of sand from one set area to another. This required the development of a vehicle body, component selection, and testing. While the competition was ultimately cancelled, the team was successful in the creation of a vehicle
LED Mirror
No full textThe UP LED Mirror capstone team designed an LED mirror that will display an image comprised of multi-colored LED’s which mirror an object placed in front of it. More specifically, the LED Mirror is comprised of a small wall of LED’s and small infra-red motion sensors. As an object is passed in front of the LED Mirror, the LED’s track the object\u27s movement and display an equivalent image.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1045/thumbnail.jp
Button Press Coloring Book
No full textThe UP Button press coloring book capstone team project is a button press coloring book. The project is for kids that don’t have the fine motor skill required to draw on a normal coloring book.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1046/thumbnail.jp
Port of Portland - Wetlands as Treatment System
No full textThe Port of Portland capstone team worked on pump station and horizontal subsurface wetland to treat stormwater coming from Basin 7-D at the Port of Portland. This system will be a redundancy system to pretreat stormwater runoff due to an increase in impervious area from ongoing construction projects. Using green infrastructure will help decrease the amount of stormwater runoff.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1061/thumbnail.jp
ASHRAE Integrated Sustainable Building Design Student Competition
No full textThe goal of the UP ASHRAE capstone team was to design a “Net Zero” building, or a building that generates as much energy as it consumes in a year for the ASHRAE Integrated Sustainable Design Student Competition. Lighting, building materials, renewable energy options, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems were researched and implemented to minimize energy demands.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1052/thumbnail.jp
Global Emancipation Network - Image Analysis: ID of Businesses Involved in Human Trafficking
No full textThe UP GEN capstone project used artificial intelligence to identify massage parlors involved in human trafficking.The project focused on identifying high risk businesses in the state of Washington by analyzing publicly available images of massage parlors.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1039/thumbnail.jp
Battling Yellow Fever: An Analysis of How Fetishized Bodies Manage Identity
Get PDFThis study works to improve the understanding of how identity is managed through power dynamics. More specifically this study aims to observe how fetishized bodies manage identity within Western and patriarchal structures. Through the exploration of defining fetishization, the socialization of Western ideologies through colonization, and the theoretical framework of identity management, this question was explored through analyzing interviews and stories gathered through digital media outlets involving Asian woman interacting in sites and environments where their bodies are systematically fetishized. Two main themes emerged from the research: protecting identity through defense and strengthening identity through offense. An analysis of these interview and stories telling the experiences of fetishized bodies in sites of power reveals the power of storytelling to create empowerment, strengthen identity, and be used as a medium to break away from the dominant discourses that have dismissed their experiences as Asian women
The Dragon: A Thesis Exploration of Fairy Tales, Comedy, Beauty, and Wonder Or What Happens When a Virus Shuts Down Your Production?
Get PDFFor surely every fairy tale begins with an invitation. And what is this thesis but a chapter of my own fairy tale?
Once Upon a Time there was a graduate student, searching for a thesis play. She read many plays, by different playwrights, some alive and nearby, others long dead and from lands far away. She read comedies. She read bittersweet tales of regrets and misadventures. She read a very campy play written in the 1950s about a school for witches. She searched for plays based on words that interested her, like ghosts, grief, and gardens. She spent long afternoons dreaming about which play would be the one to capture her heart.
One summer day she stumbled across a play called The Dragon. “Ah,” she thought, “I do love dragons. And Lady Gregory is such an enchanting name.” At that point she had never heard of Lady Gregory. The play was a small hardcover book, dusty and forgotten. As she read, her interest blossomed, each plot twist surprising and delighting her. Here was a story of a princess, a prophesy, and a dragon. As she finished it for the first time, a spark was lit in her heart. She read it again, and she started imagining how she would tell this story
