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Culture & Education: Life In Paradise, Christian Bernard, Arielle Eleazar, Ryan M. Huddlestun

Research

This poster describes cultural and community life in Paradise before the fire, noting the locations and types of schools, churches, and other civic institutions. The poster also describes several cultural events the town held each year, most of them festivals celebrating its history (Gold Nugget Days) or cuisine (Chocolate Fest).

Kresge College: Planning Precedent, Benjamin Campbell, Natalie Giombi

Precedents

Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, California (1971): One of the residential colleges at UC Santa Cruz, Kresge is located in a redwood forest on the edge of campus. Designed by Charles Moore and William Turnbull, the college is intended to be a non-institutional alternative to the traditional type: its several buildings are assembled irregularly along a twisting pedestrian street broken up by a series of outdoor “piazzas” in the manner of an Italian hill town.

The intent behind looking at this precedent was to have the students consider how buildings might be sited in the rugged topography of Paradise.

The Sea Ranch: Planning Precedent, Kaleena Klimeck, Foster Westover

Precedents

The Sea Ranch, California (1960’s): An oceanfront, largely vacation community located some 100 miles north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch is known both for its master plan, which sought to mitigate the impact of buildings in the landscape, and its architecture, which draws from vernacular agrarian building forms and materials. The master plan was devised by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. The most notable buildings were by the prominent Bay Area architects Joseph Esherick and MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whittaker).

The purpose of studying this precedent was to spur the students’ thinking about designing in a sensitive landscape.

Radburn, New Jersey: Planning Precedent, Elisabeth Frizzell, Victor Hoyos

Precedents

Radburn, New Jersey (1929): “A town for the motor age,” designed by the architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright and the landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley. Radburn is best known for its separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The main features in its design are the two main residential superblocks, each comprised of a network of cul-de-sacs surrounding a large semi-public outdoor space, which allow people to walk to school, a rec center, or a commercial center without crossing streets.

The intent behind researching this precedent was to look at ways of developing “walkability” in Paradise.

Lake Anne Village: Planning Precedent, Khoa Le, Sabrina Yerena

Precedents

Lake Anne Village Center, Reston, Virginia (1963-67): Located in rolling terrain outside Washington D.C., Reston was intended to provide a new model of suburban development in post-World War II America. The town as a whole is composed of several discreet communities, all separated by abundant open spaces. Lake Anne Village is the best known of these, primarily due to its center, a mixed-use development of townhouses, apartments, and shops, whose modestly scaled Brutalist buildings are artfully arranged around Washington Plaza, a superb public space overlooking the eponymous lake. James Rossant was the architect/planner.

The purpose of looking at this precedent …

Hammarby Sjöstad: Planning Precedent, Christian Bernard, Arielle Eleazar, Ryan M. Huddlestun

Precedents

Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden (2004-16): Located in what had been a dilapidated industrial area close to Stockholm city center, Hammarby Sjöstad was built as a comprehensive infrastructural project with sustainable alternatives for water, energy, and waste management. The district, comprising over 300 acres around the shores of Lake Hammarby, is home to some 25,000 people. The block pattern is based on the traditional urban fabric of Stockholm while the architecture is decidedly modern.

The purpose of investigating this precedent was to interest the students in sustainable features they might incorporate into their own designs, both for Paradise as a whole …

Seaside, Florida: Planning Precedent, Sophia Smith, Nolan Delgado, Tiana Shiroma

Precedents

Seaside, Florida (1985): A resort community on the Gulf Coast of Florida’s panhandle, Seaside was designed by the New Urbanist pioneers, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Arranged on a radiating street pattern, with myriad pedestrian alleyways and public spaces that promote walking and biking, the town is also known for its form-based planning code: this prioritizes the scale, mass, and envelope of buildings – rather than their use – based on lot location. The town also has an architecture code that specifies building elements and materials.

The purpose of looking at this precedent was to get the students thinking about …

Nolli Map: Comparative Study, Nolan Delgado

Precedents

Nolli Map, A Comparative Study: Giambattista Nolli was an Italian architect and surveyor, best known for his very detailed map of Rome, first published in 1748. The map showed the city’s layout in stark contrast: buildings are presented as solid matter, rendered in dark gray, while open spaces, such as streets, plazas, and even the interiors of major buildings, are presented as voids. As James Tice notes in his book, The Nolli Map and Urban Theory, this kind of figure-ground study “provides an immediate and intuitive understanding of the city’s urban form.”

In dense cities like Rome, buildings appear first …

Bo01: Planning Precedent, Ali Chen, Killian Angell

Precedents

Bo01, Malmö, Sweden (2001): Developed on abandoned industrial sites close to the center of Sweden’s third largest city, Bo01 is a high-density urban district completely reliant on renewable energy. It is known also for its innovative recycling of rainwater and wastewater. The dense, irregular street pattern was meant to provide both a pleasant pedestrian character as well as a buffer against strong winds coming off the ocean. Bo01 was designed by prominent architect Renzo Piano, among others.

The purpose of looking at this precedent was to spur the students’ thinking about sustainable features in terms of both planning and architecture.

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Me 350 Heat Transfer Laboratory, 5th Edition

Mechanical Engineering Lab Manuals

Welcome to the documentation used to describe and conduct eight heat transfer experiments that are located in the Thermal Laboratory in Building 13, Room 203, at Cal Poly State University. All of the experiments are designed to illustrate many of the concepts that are presented in undergraduate thermodynamics and heat transfer classes. The first objective of each lab is to give students hands-on experience with thermal science experiments. This includes working with standard facilities and instrumentation commonly found in thermal science laboratories. The second objective of each lab is to learn how to use experimentally collected data to either validate …

Unbreakable Black Holes Show The Solidity Of Spacetime, Laura Fleischman

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

As a physics undergraduate, I have been fortunate enough to be awarded two Bill Frost summer research grants to conduct hands on research in the field of physics. My chosen topic of research is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning the topics of general relativity and fluid dynamics with possible future applications to black hole astrophysics. I study a system called a black string, which is essentially a stack (or string) of black holes that extend beyond our observed universe. This topic is not only elegant and exciting, but also extremely important, being related to cosmic censorship, which is one of the …

Engineering Injectable, Self-Assembling 3d Vasculature, Kendyl Cohn

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Our laboratory (The Heylman Lab) is developing strategies for engineering tissue outside of the body. All tissues in the body receive nutrients and remove waste via an intricate network of blood vessels called the circulatory system. Like native tissues, all engineered tissues require this blood vessel transport system to properly mimic the in vivo tissue environment. Therefore, the aim of this project is to grow three-dimensional networks of blood vessels in vitro. These vessel networks will provide the foundation for tissue-on-a-chip systems when embedded in microfluidic chips being developed by other members of the lab. The scope of this project …

Project Mobius - A Novel Solar Aircraft For Long Duration Flight, Lexy Aguirre, Luke Bughman, Trey Chambers, Patrick Chizek, Samuel Chung, Hans Kehney, Dani Lopez, Claire Luce, Paul Vankeppel, Angela Wong

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The work described in this proposal will involve an interdisciplinary team of students working together to develop the concept, configuration, and system for an innovative long endurance solar aircraft. Most solar aircraft built to date either have flight times limited by poor aerodynamics and small wing areas, or are extremely large and have suffered some catastrophic structural failures. Our project aims to take a new approach, using very lightweight composite materials and an unusual “joined wing” or “box wing” configuration that should increase aerodynamic efficiency while also providing the structural strength that solves the problem that has plagued other attempts. …

Development Of A Sub-$200 Quantum Tunneling Current Measurement Device, Justin Jee

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Scanning tunneling microscopy is a modern technique which creates images of atoms in a material surface, the invention of which won a 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics. The importance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) branches across many industries and fields of study, but a cost on the order of $100,000 makes it impractical for undergraduate lab courses. Development of an inexpensive STM gives chemistry, physics, materials engineering, and electrical engineering students at “Learn by Doing” schools hands-on experience with modern imaging techniques, inspiring them and further preparing them for a successful career. This project develops the crucial first step …

Fabrication Of Microfluidic Devices With Integrated Electronic Components Via Dual Extrusion-Based 3d Printing, E. Brandon Strong, Ward Kirschbaum, Siddharth Prabhu, Aditya Jangid, Jonah Holbrook

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Microfluidics channels as small as 50 μm in width were produced via extrusionbased 3D printing. Multi-layered, multi-electrode devices were fabricated with inlaid conductive filament. Electrodes were used for simple electroanalysis of proteins. Prototyping of microfluidics devices via extrusion-based 3D printing may ultimately allow for an easy, cost-effective, high-throughput, high-resolution, and single-step method of rapidly prototyping electronic microfluidic devices, principally suited for use in diagnostics applications.

Synthesis And Characterization Of Novel Electrode Material For Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Glenn Lee, Nicholas Greco, Gabriela Remulla

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are becoming increasingly attractive as one of the most promising advanced secondary batteries with overwhelming advantages of high theoretical capacity (1675 mAh/g) and high energy density (2600 VS. 420 W h/kg of traditional Li-ion batteries). Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements on earth and is an underutilized byproduct from the oil and gas industries. Additionally, in comparison to Li-ion batteries, Li-S batteries have improved safety and lower cost. They are also more environmentally friendly. However, the predominant challenge with lithium-sulfur batteries is capacity drop and low cycle life during usage of the sulfur-based electrode. This …

Elucidating The Structure-Function Relationship Of Human Protein Kinase Mek1, Rebecca Lee, Leandre Ravatt

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

MEK1 is an ideal drug target for the therapeutic treatment of cancerous mutations that occur in the MAPK phosphorylation cascade, one of the most common cell proliferation signaling pathways. The study of the specific phosphorylation event between MEK1 and its only known substrate ERK2 has previously been limited due to the difficulty in obtaining the active phosphorylated form phospho-MEK1. Our study aims to overcome this barrier by utilizing the novel technology of the expanded genetic code to produce site-specifically phosphorylated proteins. In order to elucidate the structure-function relationships of MEK1, we are pursuing a hypothesisdriven, structure-guided approach based on conserved …

Effect Of Prolonged Probiotic Supplementation In A High-Fructose Diet In A Pig Model Of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Victoria Smith, Meghan Melnyk

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of pediatric chronic liver condition, caused by hepatic inflammation, insulin resistance and steatosis. We hypothesize that prolonged intake of diets rich in carbohydrates, specifically fructose, will induce NAFLD in infants, whereas probiotics may ameliorate the symptoms of the disease. To assess the effect of dietary fructose and probiotics in the pathology of the disease, 24 leptin resistant neonate pigs will be assigned to 1 of 4 treatment diets for 10 weeks: 1) control (CON), 2) high fructose (HF), 3) CON + probiotics, 4) HF + probiotics. Animals will be fed 40 …

Group Effectiveness And Questioning Processes In An Ibl Math Classroom, Joelle Saute

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

This study aims to build on an existing line of inquiry in the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education community, by extending our understanding of experts’ self-questioning strategies in two ways. First, we aim to study students’ self-questioning strategies while solving difficult STEM problems, to understand how their own inquiry guides their problem solving in similar and different ways, compared to experts. Second, we aim to study how students’ self-and peer-questioning strategies differ – that is, how students’ self-inquiry when problem solving is or is not related to their team problem solving strategies. There are a number of different aspects of …

Re-Envisioning Paradise, Ryan M. Huddlestun, Christian Bernard

Goals

This poster gives a timeline of the students' work over the course of the two-quarters. It began with a research phase in early January, barely six weeks after the fire had been extinguished, and continued with a town planning phase through mid-March. This was followed by a building design phase to the end of the studio in early June.

Throughout this time period, the students made four visits to Paradise, and held numerous public presentations there and in Chico, Sacramento, and San Luis Obispo.

Rethink Housing, Killian Angell, Benjamin Campbell

Goals

As a community of mostly single-family homes, Paradise lacked diverse housing opportunities. The goal of rethinking housing was a proposal for an assortment of higher-density housing and mixed-uses, strategically located, to accommodate a wider range of residents in terms of age, marital status, family situation, and economic position. Such diversity could provide a more stable future for Paradise, allowing younger workers and lower-income families the ability to both live and work there, while still keeping the town’s overall low-density character.

The projects on this poster show a range of housing types and target populations: workforce, co-housing, and senior housing. In …

Rethink Infrastructure, Khoa Le, Arielle Eleazar

Goals

In the Camp Fire, Paradise lost thousands of houses as well as stores, gas stations, and many other private commercial enterprises. But the town also lost many significant civic institutions. The projects on this poster show some of the individual projects intended to replace those institutions. These are ones that could provide renewed focus towards the community’s wellness, sustainability, governance, and education.

Rethink Mobility, Kaleena Klimeck, Foster Westover

Goals

Before the Camp Fire, Paradise was defined by a disorganized street network and a sprawling low-density development pattern, making residents highly reliant on cars. These factors also hampered the residents’ ability to evacuate the town quickly during the Camp Fire.

The goal of rethinking mobility issues in Paradise included a range of initiatives: from increasing street connectivity to improving roadways to encouraging alternative means of transportation, such as biking and walking. All of these had two main purposes: reducing residents’ reliance on cars for everyday travel within the town, and increasing safety, on a day-to-day basis, but primarily in the …

Redefine Economy, Elisabeth Frizzell, Ryan M. Huddlestun

Goals

The students’ individual building proposals in both studios ran the gamut: from housing to cultural amenities, and from civic infrastructure to commercial enterprises. Together, these projects were intended to diversify Paradise’s economy and create a more stable base for current and future residents. They did so by taking advantage of the town’s location: its proximity to Chico and a major state university, and its position as a potential gateway to the Sierra.

A resort lodge, a conference center, a performing arts center, and a “Food Habitat” were all intended as tourist draws. A co-working center and a new biomedical-research facility …

Re-Envisioning Paradise Map, Ali Chen, Emma Puryear

Goals

This poster is a large-scale version of the map showing the main features of the students' plans for Paradise: the new downtowns (East and West Villages); the neighborhood centers dispersed throughout the town, new road connections out of the town, and locations of the building proposals.

Paradise Redux: Urban Design Assignments, Part Two, Kent Macdonald

Project Description and Assignments

The next assignment asked the students to start trying to make sense of what they’d seen and learned about Paradise. There were three steps: an individual task that asked them to list noteworthy features of the town and possible mitigations or enhancements to those features; a small-group effort to brainstorm possible planning scenarios; and finally, a whole-class effort to reach consensus around a vision for the town’s future.

Paradise Redux: Urban Design Assignments, Part One, Kent Macdonald

Project Description and Assignments

This initial group of assignments lays out the planning-related tasks the students undertook in the first weeks of the course.

The first task was to gather basic background information on Paradise. The second was to make precedent studies of eight significant town-planning or large-scale projects realized over the past 90 years or so. The last task was a figure-ground exercise, based on Giambattista Nolli’s famous map of Rome in 1748, that would allow them to compare the precedents’ formal organizations with each other and with Paradise.