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Quantum-Powered Battery Scheduling in Modern Distribution Grids
Get PDFThe rising need for exploiting a novel and evolved computation is an increasing concern in the power distribution system to address the exponential growth of distribution-connected devices. Scheduling numerous battery energy storage systems in an optimal way is one of the emerging challenges that will be more noticeable as the number of batteries, including residential, community, and vehicle batteries, increases in the grid. This thesis focuses on this topic and offers a necessary component in building the quantum-compatible distribution system of the future. Using a constrained quadratic model (CQM) on D-Wave’s hybrid solver as well as a binary quadratic model (BQM), this thesis solves the optimal battery scheduling problem for a large number of batteries. To formulate the BQM, a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) format was chosen and in order to fine-tune the QUBO model parameters, a sensitivity analysis was conducted. Numerical simulations, using Tesla Powerwalls, demonstrate promising results of model scalability for a large number of batteries. Additionally, the trend of computational time shows a linear pattern whereas in classical solvers this is exponential
Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology
Get PDFThe Gold Rush, which brought many new immigrant communities to the American West, made a permanent impact on American culture by prompting the development of many Western towns. However, the Chinese immigrant mining population in the Boise, Idaho area has had little museum representation despite the more than 300,000 Chinese people who emigrated to the US between the 1840s and 1880. To rectify this, the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology (IMMG), in collaboration with members of the Payette National Forest, the Asian American Comparative Collection, Boise State University/US Army Corps of Engineers, and the University of Denver, developed an exhibit on the lives, histories, and contributions of Chinese immigrant miners who lived and worked in the Boise region. The exhibit opened at the IMMG in spring 2021. This thesis is a reflection on and analysis of that museum exhibition development process. It focuses on the collaborative work necessary to curate a humanities-focused exhibit in an industrial science museum. This thesis also explores the process of creating an exhibit during the COVID-19 pandemic, which started in March 2020 and has impacted almost every aspect of this research and project
Wild Roots Wellness: A Wilderness-Based Couples Intervention Curriculum Proposal
No full textThis paper presents reasoning and evidence for the need to create and implement wilderness-based couples therapy programming. The introduction provides information related to evidence-based couples therapy modalities, nature-based therapy modalities, as well as the gaps in the literature illustrating the need for the invention and implementation of this new integration of services. A program intensive that involves individualized, wilderness based, couples therapy is presented. In addition, limitations and future and multicultural considerations are discussed
A Time to Create Change: A Case Study of Culturally Relevant Education
Get PDFAn opportunity gap exists in the United States school system where students of color score lower on standardized tests and have fewer opportunities than their white counterparts. Culturally Relevant Education (CRE) theory attempts to close this gap, and is defined by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995) as
Pedagogy that rests on three criteria or propositions: (a) Students must experience academic success; (b) students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence; and (c) students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order (p. 160).
In short, CRE is the use of culture, rigor, and critical consciousness for students of color to achieve success in the classroom. This dissertation in practice examined the use of CRE in classrooms at a Colorado high school. A case study was developed through interviews, observations, and collecting lesson plans from teachers in each of the core subjects to identify and analyze how CRE is perceived and used in these classrooms.
Relationships, diversity, intention, and administrative support were themes that emerged from the data that correlate to CRE framework created from the work of Ladson-Billings and Gay. Additionally, the themes of communication, disposition, student engagement, assessment and teacher accountability were present in this study but not prominent in the literature
