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As-805-15 Resolution On Proposal To Establish A Master Of Science In Business Analytics, Orfalea College Of Business

Academic Senate Resolutions

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 6/2/2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Designing And Implementing A Planetary Geology Course For Engineers At The Jet Propulsion Lab, Jessica Joyce Dimizio

STAR Program Research Presentations

This project took place at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and involved creating an instructional tool that would increase the quality of communication between mechanical engineers and geologists who are collaboratively designing ways to collect and cache martian rock samples for the Mars 2020 rover mission. Geology and engineering do not cross paths in traditional education settings and communication is difficult due to the specialized language and processes of geology. Previous attempts to bridge communications between these two groups did not serve a large enough audience nor were they specific to the complexities of the Mars 2020 mission. Interviews with …

Madmath: Word Problem Generator, Mitchell Reed Vierhus

Computer Engineering

No abstract provided.

Simple Macro: Addon For World Of Warcraft, Yemane Gebreyesus

Computer Engineering

This senior project was started to try and solve a problem within World of Warcraft. That particular problem is the underdeveloped default macro interface, which Simple Macro aims to remedy by creating a more user-friendly interface that is accessible by a wider audience. It employs a click through method of accessing and editing data to reduce the amount of typing necessary. The addon also has a feature to specifically help players that want to change a target in certain groups of macros all at once. The project was developed in both Lua and XML.

On The Dynamics Of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, The!Immune Response, And Multiple Drugs, John Shamshoian, David Kato, Caleb Miller

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a cancer that begins in the bone marrow and spreads to the bloodstream and other organs if left uncontrolled. Although most patients undergo some sort of remission with the standard drug imatinib, patients will inevitably relapse [1]. Many CML researchers utilize mathematical models to understand leukemia and immune-­‐ response interaction and to create novel methods of treatment. We adopt a time-­‐delay differential equation model, used by Michor et. al [2], which incorporates biologically significant parameters and leukemia –T-­‐cell interactions. Inconveniently, the model is a system of nine nonlinear differential equations encompassing over two dozen parameters. …

Religious History In California: Los Angeles' Pluralistic Past, Amy Hart

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

This project will explore the unique religious diversity of Los Angeles in the 1920s through both the production of a Master's thesis for Cal Poly's History Graduate program, and the contribution of material content to the California Pluralism Project, a NEH-funded program supporting California's Religious Studies curriculum. This project will focus on two case studies as representative examples of Southern California's progressive tolerance in the period of the 1920s: The Pentecostal megachurch of Aimee Semple-McPherson, and the Vedanta Ashram of Swami Paramananda. Both religious institutions opened in Los Angeles in 1923, just thirteen miles away from each other, and continued …

Symposium, Wilson Shao, Jordan Lim, Melissa Nunez

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Symposium: Student Journal of Science and Math gives a voice to an interdisciplinary field of undergraduate students performing exemplary work in scientific and mathematical projects. In every issue of Symposium, students will be able to share their engagement in science, scholarship, and research that demonstrates Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing custom and creates campus-wide scientific discussion. Symposium aspires to unite science and math based disciplines across campus, advance student research, and produce annual publications of student scholarship. Student contributors will submit a culmination of their research to a board of reviewers and Symposium’s editorial staff to prepare it for the …

Advanced Topics In Experimental Design, Jason Anderson

Statistics

No abstract provided.

Tesla Motors Quality Engineering Application And Implementation, Nick Kwan

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Tesla Motors, in Winter 2013 during the author’s coop,had a variety of potential improvement areas regarding their quality engineering team. There were too many overall defects on the vehicles. Those defects were recognized as the cars were passing through inspection, coming off the line, as well as brought by customers to after-purchase service. One of the defects was the Charge-port Door Malfunction, in which the door of the Model S would not open on command. An additional defect was the Windshield Wiper Malfunction, in which the fluid was not hitting the car at the desired angle. Both of these defects …

Analysis Of The United States Hop Market, Michael W. Dasso

Master's Theses

Hops are one of the four main ingredients used to produce beer. Many studies have been done to analyze the science behind growing and harvesting hops, creating hop hybrids, and how to brew beer with hops. However, there has been little research done revolving around the economic demand and supply model of the hop market. The objectives of this study are to create an econometric model of supply and demand of hops in the United States from 1981 to 2012, and to identify important exogenous variables that explain the supply and demand of hops using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) …

Polymer Transcrystallization Induced By Carbon Nanotube And Graphene Fibers, John Abdou

Master's Theses

Carbon nanomaterials provide applications in a wide variety of roles, including as reinforcing materials, thermal and electrical conductors, and optical absorbers. While their benefits can be applied as bulk materials, their implementation into polymer materials as fillers allows for efficient enhanced properties with a small amount of material. These blended materials, referred to as nanocomposites, integrate the beneficial properties of both the polymer and carbon nanomaterials to create cheap solutions to construction and product development that bulk materials could not accomplish. However, major challenges must be overcome to allow for their adoption in industry. Among these problems is the interfacial …

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Agriculture Ambassador Program Of Work, Jacob Odello

Agricultural Education and Communication

The purpose of this project is to help the Cal Poly Ag Ambassador Program bridge the continuity gap from year to year by providing a comprehensive roadmap of the responsibilities Ag Ambassadors take on year to year. The program of work for Ag Ambassadors that was developed through this project will help the future generations of ambassadors continue the long standing traditions and legacies of the Ag Ambassadors, which has been a premier program at Cal Poly since 1989. The program of work has been designed to mold and change as the program grows, or changes are made to university …

A Study Of The Parametric And Nonparametric Linear-Circular Correlation Coefficient, Robin Tu

Statistics

Circular statistics are specialized statistical methods that deal specifically with directional data. Data that is angular require specialized techniques due to the modulo 2π (in radians) or modulo 360^◦ (in degrees) nature of angles.

Correlation, typically in terms of Pearson’s correlation coefficient, is a measure of association between two linear random variables x and y. In this paper, the specific circular technique of the parametric and nonparametric linear-circular correlation coefficient will be explored where correlation is no longer between two linear variables x and y, but between a linear random variable x and circular random variable θ.

A simulation …

#Twittercritic: Sentiment Analysis Of Tweets To Predict Tv Ratings, Isabel Litton

Statistics

Twitter has rapidly become one of the most popular sites of the Internet. It functions not just as a microblogging service, but as a crowdsourcing tool for listening, promotion, insight and much more. From the perspective of TV networks, tweets capture the real time reactions of viewers, making them an ideal indicator of a show’s ratings. This paper predicts Internet Movie Database (IMDB) television ratings by text mining Twitter data.

Tweets for five television shows were downloaded over a period of several months utilizing a SAS macro. Television show data, such as rating, show title, episode title, and more were …

Dcpp/Polygait Inventory Control System, Logan Pace, Robert Garlinghouse

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

This report discusses a proposed system to improve upon inventory management issues experienced in the M&TE Tool room for the PG&E Diablo Canyon Power plant. Effective inventory tracking and management is an important characteristic of any organization handling physical assets, and without the proper system in place, companies may lose expensive items and waste time by not having equipment available when needed. The tool room is experiencing inventory shrinkage of M&TE equipment nearing $100,000 per year largely because of an inefficient checkout system that fails to keep employees accountable for the tools they check out. Even more costly than the …

Quality Improvement At Patio Pacific, Petdoors, Tri Minh Nguyen, In Woo Suh

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Quality is key in manufacturing any type of product. Customer expectations only rise with time, and it has become more crucial than ever for companies to produce quality products to survive. This project sets out to improve quality of flagship products at Patio Pacific. This report contains the background of the company, Patio Pacific, the process of finding critical problems, and the methodology to solve them.

Customer returns and inquiries have the ability to eat up cash flow in any type of company. This senior project sets out with introduction of the project that explains how the project came about, …

Analysis Of Shear Strength Variance Of Ph 15-7 Mo Blind Rivet Stems For Aerospace Applications, Miles Macarthur, Kent C. Majewski

Materials Engineering

This project attempts to reduce manufacturing costs incurred to Cherry Aerospace by variance in material properties. To track and predict the shear strength of PH 15-7 Mo stainless steel rivet stems throughout the heat treatment process, samples were taken from several steps in the manufacturing process and experimental heat treatments were performed across a range of temperatures. The supplied rivet stems were heat treated for four hours at temperatures from 520°C to 560°C, in increments of 10°C. Double shear testing in accordance with ASTM 1312-13A revealed that there is no apparent correlation between the strength of the supplied wire and …

Fire Protection Analysis Of Warren J. Baker Center For Science, Aric E. Carracino

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

A prescriptive and performance based analysis was performed on the Warren J Baker Center for Science on the California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo campus. The code based analysis included reviewing the building’s egress components, structural fire protection, fire sprinkler system, and fire alarm system. This included the requirements of the California Building Code, as well as applicable NFPA codes. Analysis of the egress components of the building revealed several dead end corridors within the building that exceed the maximum allowed length of 50 feet. In addition, the student workspace areas on Level 3 require two exits, but are only provided …

The Influences Of The Triple Bottom Line Within The Athletic Footwear Industry, Jonathon Chiu

Materials Engineering

The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) is an accounting framework which encompasses three dimensions of work ethics: the social, the environmental, and the financial; it is also known as the three P’s: People, Planet, and Profit. In traditional accounting, the “bottom line” refers to the financial profit or loss a company sustains. The purpose of this study is to comprehend whether or not adopting environmental and social sustainable objectives would have affected the “bottom line” generated for companies within the athletic footwear industry. The companies selected for this study include: Puma SE; Adidas AG; Nike, Inc.; ASICS. These companies were selected …

Graduate Internship Project & Report - Ron Sa, Ronald Sa

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship project includes validation documents that are required in meeting the quality criteria for Agriculture Programs in the secondary level programs for the California Department of Education for the Reedley Middle College High School program. The internship included the development and implementation of a comprehensive program plan RMCHS, which is a new program in its third year of existence. It outlines the goals and objectives of the FFA and school program to include a Program of Activities, and how the program is to follow criteria to meet the quality objectives for an Ag Program. It also contains the development …

Dynamic Voxel Based Terrain Generation, Thomas Sanford

Computer Science and Software Engineering

This project is an implementation of an editable terrain system. By maintaining an octree of volumetric data and performing the mesh creation on the GPU, the program can allow for free editing of the surroundings which is then reflected in real time. This allows for real time applications to have terrain that can change depending on how the user interacts with it.

The Struggle Of The Rubiniumite Wars, Timothy Mendez, Evan Peterson, Darren Huang, Kyle Lozier

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The Struggle of the Rubiniumite Warsis a browser-based, one- to two-player, simultaneous turn-based strategy game set amongst the stars. It uses WebGL and Three.js for 3D graphics in the browser, Node.js for game engine and artificial intelligence design on the backend, and Socket.io for networking using websockets. The development group’s inspiration, motivation, and reflections are discussed. Additionally, details on the development of the game engine, database integration with Parse, user registration with Nodemailer, graphics with Three.js and HTML/CSS, and audio with HTML5.

Multiplayer Browser-Based Game Utilizing Javascript And Webgl Frameworks, Cy Tan, Benjamin Naftali, Matthew Tong, Vincent Chan

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The goal of our project is to make an online large-scale multiplayer game with persistent user data. This will involve real-time player interaction and many customization options. This game will be a massively-multiplayer online tactics role-playing game (MMOTRPG), a genre that has been insufficiently explored. This area of browser-based massive multiplayer games is also a platform of gaming that has yet to realize the capabilities of modern browsers and the level of interaction and graphics they now support.

The scope of our project does not encompass the complete feature set we have intended for the game, but rather a technical …

Resound.Fm, Matthew Bleifer

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The goal of this senior project was to create a social platform for people to share and discover the music they love. Current music streaming technologies lack an effective tool for helping users find new music. The personal element of music that used to exist in the days that people gathered around record players or shared mixtapes has been lost online and Resound.fm seeks to bring it back. Resound.fm is a Ruby on Rails web application, which uses some of the latest web technologies and design patterns to create a powerful new music discovery experience online. The project was completed …

Critical Point Pairs For Smectic-A* - Smectic-C* Phase Transitions., Ted Cassirer

Physics

Liquid crystals is a class of materials possessing properties from both solids and fluids. Similar to solids the molecules arrange themselves in some sort of order. In the liquid crystal state there are multiple phases, smectic being one of them. In a smectic liquid crystal the molecules are aranged (along $z$) in layers. Of the smectic liquid crystals there exists different phases. In the smectic-A (Sm-A) phase the avarage tilt is $0$ relative to $z$ and in the Smectic-C (Sm-A) phase the avarage tilt is non-zero relative to $z$. Normally the liquid crystal will transition between the two phases by …

Capiche!: Closing The Loop, Dane Jordan

Electrical Engineering

Capiche! is an application that provides real-time feedback to teachers, while allowing everyone in the classroom both students and teachers to see how well the material is being absorbed all anonymously. The student interface will consist of three buttons- Capiche!, Ehh... ,and ...what? to allow to students to input their understanding from complete comprehension to no comprehension. The live update data of the entire classroom will then be displayed on everyone’s phones and tablets. Furthermore, on the teacher’s device the lecture audio will be recorded and synced with the data, so that the teacher can review the lecture after the …

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: A Feminist Critique Of Lisbeth Salander, Sandra Michelle Robles

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

G Boots: A Real-Time 3d Puzzle Video Game Graphics Senior Project, Zachary Glazer

Computer Science and Software Engineering

G Boots is a real-time 3D puzzle video game. It uses OpenGL, using GLSL for shaders, in order to implement cross platform support of advanced rendering and shading techniques. A level editing system was implemented so that anyone can make or edit levels that can then be played in the game. At the end of two quarters of development by a single developer, one polished proof of concept level was created using the level editing system in order to show the feasibility of the project.

'Fo Fighter: 2d Real-Time Game, Cary Dobeck

Computer Engineering

‘FO Fighter is a 2D real-time game for Android and iOS mobile devices. The game utilizes the motion sensors and touch screens built within these devices to give the player a great amount of control over their character’s position and firing direction. This control allows for a reactive environment set in outer space, where gravity is determined by the device’s orientation, while the player must dodge, fight and destroy multiple enemy fighters on each planet in the solar system. ‘FO Fighter has been tested throughout its development cycle on numerous devices on both the Android and iOS platforms, with testers …