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Carbon Emission Awareness And Information Platform, Jose Ignacio Cordero, Paul Romero

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Climate change due to global warming has become a worldwide concern.

Nowadays, people are starting to wake up and realize that changes need to be

made in their lifestyles in order to preserve this earth and provide a better planet

for future generations. Finding a concrete solution to global warming and climate

change has proven to be a very challenging task. Governments have tried

implementing solutions and as a result, corporations have been forced to absorb

or transfer the cost of unsuccessful environmental regulations. Meanwhile,

individuals remain frustrated, wishing they could find a way to help.

The motivation behind this …

The Effect Of Xenon Pulsed-Light Technology On Biofilm Adhered To Stainless Steel Surfaces, Stephanie Jacquez

Master's Theses

In food processing, inadequate surface sanitation procedures lead to the formation of biofilms in which bacteria attach and aggregate in a hydrated polymeric matrix of their own synthesis. Formation of these sessile communities and their inherent resistance to existing sanitation procedures and agents are at the root of the risk of bacterial infections for consumers. Due to this existing problem, an effective method for reducing biofilm formation in dairy processing equipment is necessary for dairy products processing. Ultraviolet Pulsed light Technology has shown a positive effect in eliminating microorganism populations on food products. The objective of this work is to …

Marketing To Millennials: Improving Relationships With Millennial Consumers Through Online Advertising And Social Media Networking, Shawna Brown

Marketing

As the influence of the millennial population continues to grow, there is an increased demand for effective marketing techniques and methods for reaching this demographic group. With the expansion of technology and growth of social media, the advertising world has experienced tremendous changes in recent years that have been supplemented by the complexity of one of the world’s largest populations: millennials. While the millennial demographic is a difficult group that present a multitude of challenges for marketers, their purchasing power and growing influence act as a promising opportunity for brands.

This study examines the degree to which brands can effectively …

Multi-Level Route-Optimization Computer Application, Ryan Sutardji, Frank Nguyen

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

This report provides a detailed analysis on how to optimize driving routes by creating a computer application. There are many different route-optimization issues that logistical companies consistently face, as well as many different solutions and algorithms. With technology on the rise, pick-up, delivery, and transportation services are become a huge part of our everyday lives. When optimizing routes, reducing transportation costs by minimizing travel distance is always ideal, but other factors must be considered such as arriving at a location before or after a certain time. Our objective is to optimize driving routes based on travel distance and priorities. We …

Childhood Obesity Prevalence, Determinants, Disparities, And Interventions: A Review Of The Current Literature, Robin M. Mertens

Kinesiology and Public Health

No abstract provided.

Hollywood’S Vietnam: How Critics And Audiences Responded To The Vietnam War Genre, Jennifer Freilach

History

This four part essay takes a comprehensive look at articles published in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times to determine how and why critics reviewed essential films about the Vietnam War. It thereby highlights the trends that emerged in their reaction to them. The first section analyzes critics’ response to Coming Home (1978). As the first major film with direct reference to Vietnam, Coming Home posed a unique problem for film critics. The second section analyzes the second major film about Vietnam, The Deer Hunter (1978). The majority of newspaper critics defended Cimino’s epic against negative claims that …

Multi-Axis Machining Project Development, Ryan Patrick Blodgett, Andre Peter Rivera

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Multi-axis milling is a manufacturing material removal process in which computer numerically controlled (CNC) tools cut away excess material through movement in four or more axes. Compared to traditional three-axis machining, multi-axis machining greatly increases the capability and accuracy of the CNC machining processes by reducing the amount of operations required to completely machine a part. Currently, the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at Cal Poly lacks an advanced CNC class that incorporates fourth and fifth axis CNC machining in the curriculum. This report describes the process behind creating a project for such a class. The class will demonstrate the …

The Archaeology Of Fish And Fishing On The Central Coast Of California: The Case For An Under-Exploited Resource, Terry L. Jones, Kenneth W. Gobalet, Brian F. Codding

Social Sciences

Decades of systematic archaeological investigations highlight the importance of fish and fishing for prehistoric people along the central coast of California, but to date temporal and spatial trends remain unsynthesized. An evaluation of 202,177 fish remains from 86 sites on the central coast of California yielded a sample of 75,532 NISP from temporally and methodologically controlled contexts. Seventy-nine temporal components demonstrate a 10,000-year history of fishing within estuaries, along the open rocky coast, and on the Monterey Peninsula. Fishes within six taxa dominate the record throughout including New World silversides, small surfperches, and members of the herring family which …

The Poly Royal Beauty Pageant At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: How Queens Reigned Over Their Empire, Anna C. Johnson

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

The year was 1952, and the newly crowned Geraldine Cox took her first steps as Poly Royal Queen across the stage. Her coronation marked the eighteenth year California Polytechnic State University elected one woman, who reflected the character and dynamic of everything the campus had to offer, to “reign” over the activities of their annual Open House. Open House had been held annually at Cal Poly since 1902, but in 1933 Julian McPhee had a grander vision of what it could contribute to students and the surrounding community: a fully-fledged “country fair on campus” that the west coast had never …

Weathering And Withering Through The Great Depression: Mcphee's Early Years At The California Polytechnic School, Benjamin K. Aster

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

In 2008 the United States experienced a financial downturn that shook the economic foundations of this country. Unsuspecting homeowners watched helplessly as their homes were lost through the plummeting housing market and consequential bank foreclosures. This economic crisis affected almost all groups of people, including the students and faculty of higher education. In fact, the California State University system narrowly agreed with the California Faculty Association union to a set of furloughs, which amounted to a 10% pay cut for faculty over the 2009 academic year.[1] However, economic depressions are not new to the administrations of colleges and universities.

[1] …

Coeds Come To The Cal Poly Campus: The Return Of Female Students To Cal Poly, Kaylin A. Embrey

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

During the years between 1929 and 1956, women were banned from attending Cal Poly. Women were among the first classes of Cal Poly students, but the crisis that was the Great Depression led to financial strains on higher education; ultimately Cal Poly chose to resolve burdens by eliminating women from the student body. After more than a quarter century of an all-male student population, women were re-admitted in 1956. With such an abrupt reversal in policy, the now coeducational institution faced many challenges. How would the male students respond? What were the expectations of the women students, and did these …

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Band Program: The Responsibilities, The Development And Its Significance, Jenely-Anne Lozares

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

“College students don’t have to be music majors to participate in [band]. Only about quarter of the membership in [band] are music majors; the rest are students majoring in a variety of academic subjects...These enthusiastic students choose [band] to play their instruments1,” Doris Valliant, author of Going to College , explains. To choose to be a part of the band program at a university may be about fulfilling one’s enjoyment of playing their instrument, but it is also about the service and important role they provide, influencing and impacting the university. Thus, allowing college band programs to be the success …

Cal Poly Women: Roles And Depictions During World War Ii, Elena P. Sullivan

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

When the United States entered World War II as an Allied Power in 1941, educational institutions across the nation felt the impact of the conflict abroad. The California State Polytechnic School President Julian McPhee declared that the university was dedicated to the “all-out war effort” and pledged that all administration, instructors, and students were ready to “exert whatever extra energy is needed to bring final and complete victory to America’s cause.” For Cal Poly, this meant the implementation (and exclusion) of several activities. McPhee, Julian, 1941 Annual Report, January 1, 1942, 36.

University Housing: How Residence Halls Changed Student Life At Cal Poly, Gary B. Jimenez

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

In 2014, Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong submitted a “Letter to the Editor” in The Mustang News in which he described his vision for the future of Cal Poly housing. “As we contemplate our long-term vision for Cal Poly, we are shifting our culture to become a predominantly residential campus. In the foreseeable future, Cal Poly will house more than half — perhaps as many as two-thirds — of its students in university housing.”1 Armstrong continued, claiming that this move of opening up around 1,400 new spaces for freshman living on-campus was “good for students,” and that he hoped these …

Laying The Foundation For Excellence, Matthew T. Hamilton

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

The California Polytechnic School, now known as California Polytechnic State University, was originally founded in 1901 as a college to give a practical education in the fields of engineering and agriculture for working people of California. Over time, the school grew in popularity, and eventually became a university. Over the course of time, Cal Poly not only became a name brought up when mentioning exceptional schools for engineering and agriculture; but one that was now brought up when mentioning nationally renowned architecture schools. In 2015, Cal Poly was named the number two architecture program in the nation by the Architectural …

Buddhism, Mindfulness, And Transformative Politics, Matthew J. Moore

Political Science

This article examines whether the American cultural phenomena of the practice of Buddhism or the Buddhism-derived technique of mindfulness are likely to be helpful to the political left. It summarizes the central teachings of the ancient Buddhist texts, with particular focus on the issues of mindfulness and politics. It also reviews the political history of Buddhist countries. The author argues that although modern Buddhism has shed its historical embrace of absolutist monarchy in favor of republicanism, and although there is some ideological overlap between Buddhism and the American Left, Buddhism in America is too small a movement for it to …

Fire And Life Safety Analysis Of Cal Poly Engineering Iv, Business In Amarillo, Tx And Costco, Russell B. Bainbridge Iii

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

The main fire protection disciplines ‐ Egress Analysis and Design, Fire Detection, Alarm and Communication Systems, Water‐based Fire Suppression Systems and Structural Fire Protection ‐ are covered in this report.

For Egress Analysis and Design, the California Polytechnic State University’s Engineering IV building was analyzed and covered in the first portion of this report. The building was analyzed against the 2015 edition of NFPA 101 and the 2015 edition of the International Building Code. It is a typical university engineering building with classrooms, professors’ offices and some laboratories. The occupancies, the occupant load, exit widths, exit lengths and number of …

Maintenance Shop Building- Comprehensive Fire Protection Evaluation, Theodore P. Stanton

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

The purpose of this report is to analyze the fire protection systems and features of the Maintenance Shop Building (MSB), which is a two story office and training building on the campus of a large industrial facility in central California. The goal of the fire protection systems and features of the Building is to provide occupants with reasonable assurance of safety from fire. This goal can be met by ensuring that occupants not intimate with the initiation of a fire will be able to safely escape from the Building in the event of the fire.

The ability of the MSB’s …

Technical Area 3 - 40; Physics Building- Fire And Life Safety Analysis, Parker Fellows

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

A Fire Protection Engineering Analysis was performed on TA‐3‐0040, Physics Building at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The goal of the analysis has two parts; first, to examine the buildings fire protection features from a code based prescriptive analysis and second, to examine the building and fire protection features using a performance based design analysis.

Building 40 is a 2 story structure approximately 187,000 square feet. The building was constructed in the mid‐1950s with a first floor, basement, partial sub‐basement, and various mezzanines. Originally, this building was constructed as a non‐combustible type IIB structure according …

Teacher Internship Project - James C. Enochs High School, Michele Marie Schilperoort

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at James C. Enochs High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The internship includes the development of 30 raised garden beds for the Agriculture Department. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview of Enochs agriculture program and community

Teacher Internship Report: Madera South High School, Julie Elaine Luxon

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

The teacher internship report includes reflections and supporting documents related to the twelve quality criteria for Agriculture Education Programs in the State of California. The quality criteria evaluate the quality of an agriculture program in twelve areas and determine its eligibility for Agriculture Incentive Grant funds. This report was created for the Madera South High School Agriculture Program located in California's Central Valley.

Aged 539 Teacher Internship Program Highland Ffa, Lindsay Rebecca Walsh Devaurs

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Highland High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview of Highland High School, the agriculture program and the community.

Aged 539- Teacher Internship Report, Amanda Marie Shoffner

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship and project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at the McFarlane-Coffman Agriculture Center conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The internship includes the development of a new recruitment process for the Agriculture Department. The supporting material includes information to receive state and local funding, outline the goals and objectives of the program, along with an overview Clovis East, agriculture program and community.

Graduate Internship Report - Thomas Downey High School, Michael Christian Schilperoort

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship/project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Thomas Downey High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The internship included the development of a garden area space to be utilized for Supervised Agriculture Experience projects.

Digital Democracy Video Manager, Scott Lam

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The purpose of this senior project was to design and implement a video manager that provides scalability by caching videos. Currently, there are about 3600 videos associated with the Digital Democracy project. These videos are only for the California legislative system and as the project expands to multiple states the amount of videos will rapidly increase. By creating this video manager, disk space on the Digital Democracy server will be saved. All videos can be hosted on the cloud storage service and when operations need to be performed on those videos, they will be downloaded from the cloud.

Snag Tagged, Evan Pate Cobb

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Currently, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world. In the fourth quarter of 2015 they surpassed 1.5 billion monthly active users. Together, these users have uploaded over 250 billion photos to Facebook, an average of 217 each. Users, however, do not have the ability to back these pictures up. To solve this problem, we created Snag Tagged. Snag Tagged is a website that allows users to download all of their pictures off of Facebook. The website utilizes Facebook’s Graph API to authenticate users and query Facebook for their pictures. The website is hosted through Amazon Web …

Pre-R, Brian Carreon, Mariel Sanchez

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The project that PomTech worked on for Capstone is the Pre­R iOS Application for Dr. Sam Slishman. The main objective for this project was to create a functional prototype of the iOS application and deliver it to Dr. Slishman by the end of the 2016 Winter quarter. The prototype features the ability for patients to contact Dr. Slishman for consultation through a phone call, a Facetime video call, email, or a house call. In addition, the user of the prototype is able to see the proximity and availability of Dr. Slishman. Other features include a profile page of Dr. Slishman, …

The Big Short, Elizabeth Armon

Communication Studies

The Big Short (McKay, 2015), adapted from the non-fiction novel The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010), follows three separate but parallel stories leading up to the United States housing crisis of 2008. On a macro-level, the film brilliantly depicted the creation, and the ultimate burst, of the credit and housing market bubble. However, on a micro-level the audience is given an opportunity to realize and empathize with the internal struggle that many of the main characters faced as they grappled with the fact that their financial gain from shorting the market came with the caveat …

Thomas Davis And The Rhetoric Of Sport: A Reception Study On An Athlete’S Positive Perspective, Andrew Vincent Walsh

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Design, Construction, And Evaluation Of A Spill Guard Mat Cleaning System, Clayton Wright

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

No abstract provided.