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As-802-15 Resolution On Faculty Involvement In The Development And Articulation Of Faculty Salary Adjustment Plans, Academic Senate Faculty Affairs Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

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As-804-15 Resolution On Cal Poly Internship Policy, Academic Senate Instruction Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

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As-803-15 Resolution To Revise The Periodic Review Guidelines For Campus Centers And Institutes With Academic Affiliation, Academic Senate Research, Scholarship And Creative Activities Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

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As-800-15 Resolution On Modification Of Retention Of Exams Policy, Academic Senate Fairness Board

Academic Senate Resolutions

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As-801-15 Resolution On The Binding Nature Of College And Department Personnel Policy And Criteria Statements, Academic Senate Executive Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

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

Academic Senate Agendas

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Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 6/2/2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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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 …

Roborodentia Robot, Jordan Dykstra, Anibal Hernandez, Robert Prosser

Computer Engineering

This report provides details on the design and implementation of a robot for the Spring 2015 Roborodentia competition. The system is described from a software perspective, a hardware perspective, and a mechanical design perspective.

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 …

Randomized Controlled Intervention To Reduce Bisphenol A Exposure In Women, Allison Smouse, Mikaela Streeter

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure is recognized as having negative health effects and is related to weight gain, obesity, and some cancers3 • More troubling is that BPA is present in all aspects of life, including most plastic containers, make-up and shave creams, non-organic foods, etc. The aim of this project is to determine the effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention program designed to limit exposure to BPA. Twenty, healthy women with high baseline BPA exposure will be randomized (N=lO) to reduce BPA exposure or control (N=lO). The control group (n=lO) will receive basic health care information about BP A exposure, and …

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 …

Sustain Slo Undergraduate Narrative Research: Reenergizing Learning, Rachel Pittman, Philip Hatcher, Elise Candelaria, Jada Golland

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

This proposal would allow four undergraduate students to present their research paper on transformative learning at an American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in Seattle in June 2015. These four students participated in SUSTAIN SLO, a community-based learning initiative, their freshman year at Cal Poly. SUSTAIN SLO is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to study aspects of change in higher education. As part of SUSTAIN's research, 23 students who participated in the first generation of the initiative in 2012 were interviewed one year after their experience. During summer 2014, the four undergraduate students involved in this proposal partnered …

Starbucks Line Monitoring, Michael Roberts, George Gargov

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

We have developed a computer vision application to count the number of people in line at the Starbucks in the UU. The count will soon be published live on the web, and statistics will be tracked. Also coming soon are iOS and Andriod applications. This project has to date yielded one senior project and one soon to be defended MS thesis. Other senior projects and/or thesis documents will be published in the future as well.

The Garden Project, Jillian Broeckel-Bleher, Ellie Gertler, Georgia O'Farrell

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The Garden Project, San Luis Obispo is a program that rehabilitates inmates through restorative justice practices at the San Luis Obispo County Jail. The program offers inmates at both the men’s and women’s honor farms opportunities to connect to the land through physical gardening practices, establish relationships with other inmates as well as outside volunteers, gain vocational skills that will benefit inmates upon their release, and ultimately empower inmates to become confident and productive members of the community.

Application Of Pyroprinting For Source Tracking Of E. Coli In Pennington Creek, Charles Moritz, Dillon Shapiro, Christopher Pann

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The goal of this project is to determine the source of fecal contamination in Pennington Creek. Dangerously high numbers of E. coli were recorded in the creek by the Morro Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) over the last 10 years. This is of particular concern because the creek runs directly through an outdoor school for K-12 education. One potential source of the contamination is the cattle in fields on either side of the creek for several miles, though they are supposedly kept out by fences. Another possibility is local wildlife—specifically wild turkeys, which roam around in flocks of over 100 …

Comparative Analysis Of Photovoltaic Systems Across Multiple Environments, Wesly Mcguire, Adam Poffenbarger

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The Cal Poly National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Student Chapter proposes to participate in study through the NECA ELECTRI‐International Student Passport Initiative that will fabricate and install four (4) photovoltaic systems in impoverished areas of Ecuador. Following the installation, the NECA student chapter will monitor the operation of the systems and perform a comparative study of the systems across the various ranges of geography, humidity, elevation and ecological conditions.

Increasing The Independence Of Children With Spina Bifida Through The Designing And Building Of A Mechanical Aide, Andrew Duffek, Robert Brent, Michael Hamada, Melissa Rodriguez

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

In order to assist Silas Hopper, a child with spina bifida, with getting into his wheelchair independently when being on the ground, the senior project team set out to construct a device that would fulfill that purpose. They did this through coming up with a strict definition of the problem to be solved, designing a number of potential solutions for the problem, prototyping to determine the feasibility of the solutions, making design modifications after testing the prototype, and building the final device.

The end product was a device that was able to operate mechanically, with a design that considered safety …

Understanding The Relationships Of User-Selected Music In Video Games, Memphis Wong

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

Music has been an integral part of video games in its contribution to users' gameplay experiences. Varying from simple sound effects to elaborate scores, music helps shape the reactive environment of each video game. In particular, video games that generate unique levels and scenarios based on music has become more popular as its own genre. Games such as Audiosurf take this further, with having the game revolve entirely around levels generated to custom tracks. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of such games, when it allows a user to select his or her own music.

Advanced Topics In Experimental Design, Jason Anderson

Statistics

No abstract provided.

Determining Colonization Efficacy Of Commercial Mycorrhizae Products And Fragaria X Anannassa ‘Albion’., Tommy Jue, Alexandra Wollenman

Horticulture and Crop Science

No abstract provided.

Headstart Nursery: Rooted In Quality, Luis Alonzo, Michael Joyce, Clinton Loomis, Doug Kaplan

Case Studies in Agribusiness

Growers can more efficiently use their land if they grow from transplants than from seed. Headstart Nursery started in 1979 to supply Christopher Ranch, well-known for their garlic products, with bell pepper transplants. Since then, Headstart expanded their transplant line to other Salinas Valley crops and even flowers. Transplants are labor intensive; Headstart has been innovative with their human resource management policies and practices.

Driscoll's: The Global Brandje, Jesus Morales, Edgar Lopez, Noah Lilien, Jack Stradley

Case Studies in Agribusiness

With a mission “to continually delight berry consumers”, Driscoll’s is the arguably the world’s largest berry company. They started as strawberry breeders, expanded in raspberries, blueberries and blackberries, and have been leaders in packaging and marketing of berries. They do not grow berries for market, but develop the nursery stock, which they provide to their growers, and market the output. They also provide theirs growers with advice and guidance on issues ranging from sustainable growing practices to labor management.

House Of Bread Case Study, Audrey Butler, Danica Cramer Danica Cramer, Mackenzie Thesman, Alicia Warren

Case Studies in Agribusiness

Sheila McCann became bored with her public defender job and decided to open her own business. She made a list what she wanted from a business and came to open House of Bread. She uses high quality ingredients and stresses the craft nature of her small batch baking. With her San Luis Obispo store running well, she looked for where else she would like to live and settled on Truckee, CA, known for its outdoor activities. With this new store she is exploring franchising.

Shanley Farms: Premium Produce That People Care About, Maggie Andrada, Bryce D’ Arelli, Melissa Gurvis

Case Studies in Agribusiness

When Jim Shanley retired from an executive position with a large commodity and feed company, he bought avocado farms in Morro Bay and Visalia. He soon expanded into Finger Limes and innovative marketing of his avocados.

Head Start Nursery: Rooted In Quality, Luis Alonzo, Michael Joyce, Clinton Loomis, Doug Kaplan

Case Studies in Agribusiness

Headstart Nursery started as a supplier of bell pepper transplants to Christopher Ranch, a large produce company in Gilroy, CA. Their first season was so successful they decided to expand their offerings to other produce transplants and even flowers. Today they are a large transplant supplier of both conventional and organic produce.

Driscoll's: The Global Brand, Jesus Morales, Edgar Lopez, Noah Lilien, Jack Stradley

Case Studies in Agribusiness

How Driscoll's grew to become the world's largest berry marketer is presented.