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A Study On Ethical Hacking In Cybersecurity Education Within The United States, Jordan Chew Mar 2024

A Study On Ethical Hacking In Cybersecurity Education Within The United States, Jordan Chew

Master's Theses

As the field of computer security continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to educate the next generation of security professionals. However, much of the current education landscape primarily focuses on teaching defensive skills. Teaching offensive security, otherwise known as ethical hacking, is an important component in the education of all students who hope to contribute to the field of cybersecurity. Doing so requires a careful consideration of what ethical, legal, and practical issues arise from teaching students skills that can be used to cause harm. In this thesis, we first examine the current state of cybersecurity education in the …


Supersonic Air Inlet Modeling Using The Method Of Characteristics, Shay S. Takei Mar 2024

Supersonic Air Inlet Modeling Using The Method Of Characteristics, Shay S. Takei

Master's Theses

The Air Inlet Method of Characteristics Analysis Tool (AIMCAT), a tool based in Python 3, is developed to model supersonic air inlet geometries during the early phases of design. The method of characteristics (MOC) is used to solve the governing equations for an inviscid, irrotational, isentropic, steady, supersonic flowfield. A comparison is made between modeling shock waves implicitly using Mach wave coalescence and modeling them explicitly using oblique shock relations. Multiple test cases are used to assess the accuracy of the tool by comparing to experimental wind tunnel data. Good general agreement was achieved over the majority of the supersonic …


Coralai: Emergent Ecosystems Of Neural Cellular Automata, Aidan A. Barbieux, Aidan A. Barbieux Mar 2024

Coralai: Emergent Ecosystems Of Neural Cellular Automata, Aidan A. Barbieux, Aidan A. Barbieux

Master's Theses

Artificial intelligence has traditionally been approached through centralized architectures and optimization of specific metrics on large datasets. However, the frontiers of fields spanning cognitive science, biology, physics, and computer science suggest that intelligence is better understood as a multi-scale, decentralized, emergent phenomenon. As such, scaling up approaches that mirror the natural world may be one of the next big advances in AI. This thesis presents Coralai, a framework for efficiently simulating the emergence of diverse artificial life ecosystems integrated with modular physics. The key innovations of Coralai include: 1) Hosting diverse Neural Cellular Automata organisms in the same simulation that …


3d Pano Inpainting: Scene Construction Using A Single Input Panorama, Shivam Asija Mar 2024

3d Pano Inpainting: Scene Construction Using A Single Input Panorama, Shivam Asija

Master's Theses

Creating 360-degree 3D content has gained traction in the past few years, being used for Virtual Reality environments. However, creating such content is challenging because it requires a multi-camera setup or a collection of images from different perspectives. This paper proposes 3D Pano Inpainting, a pipeline capable of transforming a single equirectangular panoramic RGBD image into a complete 360° 3D virtual reality scene represented as a textured mesh. Our methodology is as follows: we estimate a consistent depth map for the input panorama; we use a pre built framework to convert the image and its depth map into a textured …


Improving Automatic Transcription Using Natural Language Processing, Anna Kiefer Mar 2024

Improving Automatic Transcription Using Natural Language Processing, Anna Kiefer

Master's Theses

Digital Democracy is a CalMatters and California Polytechnic State University initia-
tive to promote transparency in state government by increasing access to the Califor-
nia legislature. While Digital Democracy is made up of many resources, one founda-
tional step of the project is obtaining accurate, timely transcripts of California Senate
and Assembly hearings. The information extracted from these transcripts provides
crucial data for subsequent steps in the pipeline. In the context of Digital Democracy,
upleveling is when humans verify, correct, and annotate the transcript results after
the legislative hearings have been automatically transcribed. The upleveling process
is done with the …


Finite Element Analysis Of The Bearing Component Of Total Ankle Replacement Implants During The Stance Phase Of Gait, Timothy S. Jain Mar 2024

Finite Element Analysis Of The Bearing Component Of Total Ankle Replacement Implants During The Stance Phase Of Gait, Timothy S. Jain

Master's Theses

Total ankle replacement (TAR) implants are an effective option to restore the range of motion of the ankle joint for arthritic patients. An effective tool for analyzing these implants’ mechanical performance and longevity in-silico is finite element analysis (FEA). ABAQUS FEA was used to statically analyze the von Mises stress and contact pressure on the articulating surface of the bearing component in two newly installed fixed-bearing total ankle replacement implants (the Wright Medical INBONE II and the Exactech Vantage). This bearing component rotates on the talar component to induce primary ankle joint motion of plantarflexion and dorsiflexion. The stress response …


Design And Analysis Of Zero Voltage Switching Hybrid Voltage Divider, Stephen Ulysses Alvarado Estrada Mar 2024

Design And Analysis Of Zero Voltage Switching Hybrid Voltage Divider, Stephen Ulysses Alvarado Estrada

Master's Theses

This work explores the design, construction, and analysis of a novel DC-DC converter which incorporates combinations of switching capacitors and inductors to achieve an integer voltage divider function, without the need for a feedback loop controller to achieve the desired output voltage. The proposed Hybrid Voltage Divider additionally provides zero voltage switching (ZVS) at turn on transitions which yields improved overall efficiency of the converter. Besides a proof-of-concept via computer simulations, another primary goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the functionalities of the proposed Zero Voltage Switching Hybrid Voltage Divider (ZVS-HVD) through hardware prototyping. The proposed ZVS-HVD was designed …


As-969-24 Resolution On The Senate Curriculum Appeals Committee Membership And Appeals Process, Executive Committee Feb 2024

As-969-24 Resolution On The Senate Curriculum Appeals Committee Membership And Appeals Process, Executive Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Adopts the attached revisions for modifying the bylaws of the Academic Senate regarding the Curriculum Appeals Committee and the Appeals Process as described below.


As-968-24 Resolution On Grade Forgiveness And Course Repeats Effective Fall Term 2026, Academic Senate Instruction Committee Feb 2024

As-968-24 Resolution On Grade Forgiveness And Course Repeats Effective Fall Term 2026, Academic Senate Instruction Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Resolves that the Academic Senate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo supports amending the policy for grade forgiveness/course repeat up to the maximum cited in the provisions of CSU Executive Order 1037 allowing for 16 semester-units for grade forgiveness and 12 semester-units for course repeat for a total of 28 semester-units; and further resolves that this provision become effective beginning with the Fall term of 2026.


Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/27/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/27/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/27/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/27/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Impacts Of Marine Heatwaves On Subsurface Temperatures And Dissolved Oxygen In The Chesapeake Bay, Nathan P. Shunk, Piero L. F. Mazzini, Ryan K. Walter Feb 2024

Impacts Of Marine Heatwaves On Subsurface Temperatures And Dissolved Oxygen In The Chesapeake Bay, Nathan P. Shunk, Piero L. F. Mazzini, Ryan K. Walter

Physics

Subsurface impacts associated with Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) in estuaries are not well understood, largely due to data scarcity. Using over three decades (1986–2021) of observations from several monitoring programs, this study investigates subsurface temperature and dissolved oxygen (DO) anomalies associated with surface MHWs in the Chesapeake Bay (CB). Seasonal variability in temperature anomalies followed a simple 1-D response to surface heating with downward heat transport and diffusion controlled by seasonally variable stratification and mixing. Two distinct temperature regimes were found: a thermally stratified spring-summer regime, when positive temperature anomalies were confined to the surface mixed layer (SML); and a homogeneous …


Executive Committee - Minutes, 2/20/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Executive Committee - Minutes, 2/20/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Agenda 2/20/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Executive Committee - Agenda 2/20/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Jwst Lensed Quasar Dark Matter Survey – I. Description And First Results, A. M. Nierenberg, R. E. Keeley, D. Sluse, D. Gilman, S. Birrer, T. Treu, K. N. Abazajian, T. Anguita, A. J. Benson, Vardha N. Bennert Feb 2024

Jwst Lensed Quasar Dark Matter Survey – I. Description And First Results, A. M. Nierenberg, R. E. Keeley, D. Sluse, D. Gilman, S. Birrer, T. Treu, K. N. Abazajian, T. Anguita, A. J. Benson, Vardha N. Bennert

Physics

The flux ratios of gravitationally lensed quasars provide a powerful probe of the nature of dark matter. Importantly, these ratios are sensitive to small-scale structure, irrespective of the presence of baryons. This sensitivity may allow us to study the halo mass function even below the scales where galaxies form observable stars. For accurate measurements, it is essential that the quasar’s light is emitted from a physical region of the quasar with an angular scale of milliarcseconds or larger; this minimizes microlensing effects by stars within the deflector. The warm dust region of quasars fits this criterion, as it has parsec-size …


The Mini Syllabus: Locating And Engaging With Black Women In Popular Culture, Katrina Marie Overby Feb 2024

The Mini Syllabus: Locating And Engaging With Black Women In Popular Culture, Katrina Marie Overby

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


Real #Hotgirl Sh*T: Practical Application Of Intersectional Re-Presentation Instruction, Jessica F. Love Feb 2024

Real #Hotgirl Sh*T: Practical Application Of Intersectional Re-Presentation Instruction, Jessica F. Love

Feminist Pedagogy

This critical commentary outlines how the Real #HotGirl Sh*T: Megan Thee Stallion & Mediated Hip Hop, Black Feminist and Communication Pedagogy promotes active learning via popular culture and digital media, and it provides a practical model for employing intersectionality in classroom settings. Previous critical media pedagogy exploring minority media re-presentation primarily focused on the effects of master narratives produced by traditional media. This syllabus's incorporation of social and digital media helps students understand how collective minority groups use and interact with media as a political tool to challenge re-presentational regimes. More importantly, this syllabus employs real-world examples of popular culture …


Listen To Black Women: Newsgathering In Digital Third Spaces, Gheni N. Platenburg Feb 2024

Listen To Black Women: Newsgathering In Digital Third Spaces, Gheni N. Platenburg

Feminist Pedagogy

This teaching activity re-introduces the concept of digital third spaces and how to use them as complementary newsgathering tools. Students are tasked with visiting these spaces to listen to Black women. In other words, they will observe content and engage in conversations with digital third space visitors to better educate themselves on the topics, issues and concerns of Black women and learn how to take this information and formulate story ideas for improved news coverage of and about Black women.


‘Hot Girl Teaching’ In A Faith-Based Environment, Niya Pickett Miller Feb 2024

‘Hot Girl Teaching’ In A Faith-Based Environment, Niya Pickett Miller

Feminist Pedagogy

There is much to learn from Megan Thee Stallion, the self-proclaimed “Hot Girl Coach.” However, her provocative lyrics and hyper-sexuality are challenging to interject into communication-themed classes at a predominantly white, faith-based university where many students come with an expectation for learning that resists mainstream trends and upholds conventional Christian values and conservative ideological ways of thinking about socio-political issues. This commentary offers a faith-based and feminist perspective about how including Black popular culture, and (more broadly) culturally diverse texts in predominately white, faith-based classrooms can work and why such centering does not contradict biblical principles.


A Hip Hop Dialogic: Exploring Hip Hop Feminism In The College Classroom, Makini Beck, Nickesia Gordon Feb 2024

A Hip Hop Dialogic: Exploring Hip Hop Feminism In The College Classroom, Makini Beck, Nickesia Gordon

Feminist Pedagogy

In this paper, we explore the use of Hip Hop feminist pedagogy in an undergraduate classroom. We discuss the ways an in-class deliberation activity can: 1) engage students in ethical argumentation and critical reasoning on Black and Latina women’s representations in Hip Hop music and culture; 2) invoke discussions about the sexual and racial politics inherent in Hip Hop, including the objectification, hyper-visualization and marginalization of Black and Latina women; and 3) prompt students to think about Black and Latina women’s resistance to dominant male discourses and the ways women participation in the music and culture can be identified as …


Megan Thee Stallion’S Southern Black Feminist Poet(Ic)S And The #Hotgirlsemestersyllabus, Qiana Cutts Feb 2024

Megan Thee Stallion’S Southern Black Feminist Poet(Ic)S And The #Hotgirlsemestersyllabus, Qiana Cutts

Feminist Pedagogy

In this critical commentary, I celebrate the artistry, activism, and career of Megan Thee Stallion and explore the #HotGirlSemesterSyllabus as a pedagogical tool for a course on Southern Black Feminist Poet(ic)s. I also introduce #HotGirlSemesterSyllabus Accompaniment: Performance, Literary, and Visual Art as a syllabus companion and arts integration resource.


#Hotgirlsemestersyllabus, Katrina Marie Overby, Gheni Platenburg, Niya Pickett Miller Feb 2024

#Hotgirlsemestersyllabus, Katrina Marie Overby, Gheni Platenburg, Niya Pickett Miller

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


Savage, Classy, Bougie And Ratchet Feminist Pedagogy, Katrina Marie Overby, Gheni Platenburg Feb 2024

Savage, Classy, Bougie And Ratchet Feminist Pedagogy, Katrina Marie Overby, Gheni Platenburg

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/13/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/13/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/13/2024, Academic Senate Feb 2024

Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/13/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


As-967-24 Resolution To Change The Add/Drop Period For Five-Week Summer Terms, Academic Senate Instruction Committee Feb 2024

As-967-24 Resolution To Change The Add/Drop Period For Five-Week Summer Terms, Academic Senate Instruction Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Resolves that the Academic Senate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo supports changing the add/drop timeline for the 5-week summer sessions to the end of the fifth day of instruction; and further resolves that the timeline to submit a late enrollment appeal during a 5-week summer session be changed to begin on the sixth day and end on the seventh day of instruction; and further resolves that this change goes into effect for the 2024 summer term; and also resolves that this policy will sunset after the 2026 summer term.


Closing, Sarai Devi Dasi, Vivian Jameson Feb 2024

Closing, Sarai Devi Dasi, Vivian Jameson

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.


Contributors, Ryden Secor Feb 2024

Contributors, Ryden Secor

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.


'Dreamscape_01' & 'Across The Universe A.I. Version', Ryden Secor, Sarai Devi Dasi Feb 2024

'Dreamscape_01' & 'Across The Universe A.I. Version', Ryden Secor, Sarai Devi Dasi

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.


'Love Letter' & 'Entwined', Fenn Bruns, Vivian Jameson Feb 2024

'Love Letter' & 'Entwined', Fenn Bruns, Vivian Jameson

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.