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Paradise Redux, Kent Macdonald

Project Description and Assignments

This document lays out the two types of work that the students undertook over the course of six months: the creation of overarching planning guidelines and the development of architectural proposals for specific sites in Paradise.

The planning work was a group effort lasting about five weeks. In small teams at first, the students did research on the town, as well as some historical planning precedents. Later, they came together to establish explicit goals and an armature for the town’s reconstruction.

Following the initial phase, the students – working alone – chose project sites and building types, which they then …

Paradise Senior Co-Housing, Victor Hoyos

Studio Projects

Victor Hoyos’s Paradise Senior Co-Housing project is located at the proposed neighborhood center in the northwest of town near Billie Road. Co-housing blends independent and communal living, and as such is a means to providing an affordable housing option – as well as a sense of community – for low-income individuals. In Victor’s scheme, three rings of housing units, each combining communal living and dining facilities, surround interconnected courtyards that have been arranged to preserve the natural environment.

Paradise Podium, Elisabeth Frizzell

Studio Projects

Elisabeth Frizzell’s Paradise Podium is a mixed-use housing project located in the proposed East Village. Apartments in three buildings sit over a podium of parking in the center of the trapezoidal site while one-story retail buildings hold the corners. Landscaped areas around the buildings provide a transition between the street and the housing.

Paradise W.E.T. Center, Arielle Eleazar

Studio Projects

Arielle Eleazar’s Paradise W.E.T. Center is a project focused on water education and actual treatment, located just below the proposed East Village downtown. The goal of this center is to provide an alternative solution to the town’s wastewater management by showcasing a hybrid system heavily reliant on biological filtration. This building also serves as a live demonstration area for water conservation, educating the public about the importance of water as a resource.

The Lodge, Sophia Smith

Studio Projects

Sophia Smith’s The Lodge is a hotel, restaurant, and spa, all contained within a single building, located on the far west edge of Paradise, overlooking Little Butte Creek canyon. The building, divided into two long bars separated by a garden, seeks to integrate with its surroundings: its long, narrow forms stretch across and down the bluff edge. The guest rooms, public spaces, and the occupiable roof all look out onto the vast, beautiful canyon below. The intent is that guests and visitors feel at all times connected with nature.

Regrowth: A Paradise Rec Center, Benjamin Campbell

Studio Projects

Ben Campbell’s Regrowth Recreation Center is located on a site overlooking the new park in the center of the proposed East Village. Seeking to encourage exercise and healthy lifestyles, the center has areas for weight training, classroom instruction for yoga and other types of exercise, a basketball court, and both an indoor and outdoor pool. The building is conceived as a series of arms extending from a central core. A café and retail shop space on the ground floor help integrate the center with the new downtown.

Forum: A Stage For Paradise, Kaleena Klimeck

Studio Projects

Kaleena Klimeck’s Forum is a performing arts center, located in the proposed East Village downtown. The center includes three stages, providing both indoor and outdoor venues for musical and theater performances, as well as exhibit spaces, rehearsal spaces, a restaurant, and a learning lab. The project is meant to be an attraction for residents as well as a draw for tourists.

The Pine School: The Paradise Integrated Natural Education School, Natalie Giombi

Studio Projects

Natalie Giombi’s The PINE School is a school for elementary-level students. Located at a proposed neighborhood center in the northwest of Paradise, the school focuses on environmental education as a means to inspire children. Communal spaces – a library, gymnasium, and administrative offices – are housed in a long bar facing the street. Behind it, facing south, three classroom wings open to a large garden with several outdoor classrooms and a natural play space. The building itself incorporates several sustainable features and so serves as a learning vehicle for the students.

Scada Preventative Maintenance: Reducing The Potential Of Unexpected Failures, Kyle Feist, Zachary Markow, Charles M. Burt

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

Irrigation district infrastructure utilizing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems can perform a critical service to irrigators, but also present the risk of damage to nearby property and humans in certain failure scenarios. It is therefore prudent to minimize the scope, frequency, and duration of SCADA component failure. However, it is typical for irrigation districts to focus on corrective (post-failure) SCADA maintenance activities, instead of investing in preventive maintenance.

Preventive SCADA maintenance requires budget and labor investment. However, it is anticipated that it is possible to balance the effectiveness and expenses of a preventative maintenance program with some strategic …

Cultural Immersion Project, Julie Rodgers

Diversity and Inclusion Resource Modules

The Cultural Immersion Project is an experiential-based, quarter-long learning activity designed for use with students in Cross-Cultural Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, and related courses. Intercultural competence refers to the ability to confidently interact with members of a culture different from one’s own, while being aware of the culture’s social norms and expectations (Deardorff, 2006). Students select a group, and over the course of a quarter/semester, learn about and experience (to the extent possible/appropriate) the cultural practices/norms/values of their group (e.g., via interviews, cooking food, listening to music, dance instruction, arts, literature, etc.). Students document their experiences (at least 6 different types …

The Non-Parametric Luminosity Evolution Of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts And Star Rate Formation, Miguel Aguilar, Maria Dainotti

STAR Program Research Presentations

In this research project the luminosity function of gamma-ray bursts was computed using the Efron- Petrosian method, which allowed us to find such properties an a non-parametric way. Data gathered from the Swift and Konus-Wind satellites was added for the first time by Fermi Satellite. The computation showed similar traces and patterns of the luminosity function compared to the ones of presented by Petrosian et al 2015. Further development needs to be performed for the display of the star formation rate.

Analyzing The Hypervolume Of Plant Functional Traits In The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Rosina Garcia, David Schimel, Ryan Pavlick

STAR Program Research Presentations

Studying Earth’s biodiversity is important in understanding how ecosystems are changing in response to environmental stressors. Particularly, monitoring Earth via remote sensing can give us high-resolution data of plant functional traits, such as canopy height, leaf mass per area (LMA), and leaf nitrogen content, which provide insight into ecosystem changes. We mapped out remote sensing airborne data from the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California and used R to create a hypervolume of the vegetated area. Hypervolumes are useful in creating a three-dimensional visualization of data to understand the relationships among different traits. We computed the three-dimensional space of the …

Thermal Performance Testing Of Lsst Science Raft Towers, Mirian Juan Estrella, Kevin Reil

STAR Program Research Presentations

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Commissioning Camera (LSST ComCam) is a smaller version of the LSST camera that will be installed for operation atop Cerro Pachon in northern Chile for early integration and testing. ComCam is composed of a single science raft tower module (RTM) containing nine 4K x 4K LSST science charge-coupled devices (CCDs), three raft electronics boards (REBs), and a dual thermal control system. Data from the 9 CCDs, resistance thermal detectors (RTDs), and power usage on the ComCam were collected for thermal analysis in order to understand the thermal behavior of the system.

Electric Field Performance Evaluation Of The Nexo Detector, Tri Duong, Richard Saldanha

STAR Program Research Presentations

The Nuclear physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Initiative (NPAC) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory engages in cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration projects to address fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the Universe. The next Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for the rare “neutrino-less double beta decay” (0vBB) process. The observation of 0vBB decay would demonstrate lepton number violation and confirm that the neutrino is a Majorana fermion, where neutrino is identical to its antiparticle. This would have important implications for our understanding of neutrino mass and the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the …

Natural Robot Control Interfaces Using Wearable Sensors, Maximilian Salceda, Chris Asad

STAR Program Research Presentations

The JPL BioSleeve is a gesture control interface that is worn on the forearm, which contains an array of surface electromyogram sensors to read electrical activity created by muscle flexion and extension, and inertial sensors to measure arm motions. An embedded processor then uses machine learning algorithms to recognize activity patterns and generate control commands from hand gestures. The goal of this project is to use Matlab and Unreal Engine to convert the muscle activity to inputs used to control a simulated robot in a virtual environment. To prove viability we are creating a virtual environment with a model of …

Process Of Developing The Artificial Snow Machine System, Aala Al Hasan, Scott Landolt

STAR Program Research Presentations

In order to test different types of anti-icing fluids that are used on aircraft surfaces prior to take off, it is necessary to develop a machine that artificially generates snow. Deicing aircraft is a two-step process that consists of applying both deicing and anti-icing fluids. Deicing fluids are applied to eliminate accumulated ice on aircraft surfaces that could obstruct proper airflow. Anti-icing fluids are then applied to prevent the additional accumulation of frost, ice, and/or snow for a period of time known as the endurance time. The endurance time is the duration the anti-icing fluid remains effective on the aircraft …

Survival And Growth In Experimental Plots At A Santa Rosa Island Restoration Site, 2016-2018, Marisol Gonzalez Villarreal, Robyn Shea, Aspen Coty

STAR Program Research Presentations

Survival and Growth in Experimental Plots at a Santa Rosa Island Restoration Site, 2016-2018 Marisol Villarreal1, Stephen Bednar2, Kathryn McEachern3 1Woodland Joint Unified School District, 2Mountains Restoration Trust, 3United States Geological Survey Restoration biology, the practice of healing a damaged landscape to that of a functioning ecosysytem, is as variable a science as they come. Restoration treatments may take into account precipitation, symbiotic relationships, microclimate, degree of plant succession, and soil conditions. The most effective restoration is based on experimental research. Such is the goal for the Cloud Forest Restoration Project on Santa Rosa Island, within Channel Islands National Park …

Cataloging The Campus Trees Of Cal Poly, Isaac Yorke, Matt Ritter

STAR Program Research Presentations

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo has a diverse collection of interesting trees on its campus. Over the past decade, select trees have received labels that include their common name, genus and species. The goal for this project was to develop a comprehensive digital database of the trees on campus and to create an educational tool for public use. A survey of the trees on campus was conducted and data were collected for each labeled individual. Trees were inspected for the presence of a tree sign, quality of the tree sign, proper identification, and tree health. Each individual was …

Method Development For Structural Assessment Of Nanolipoprotein Particles With And Without Cross-Linked Lipids, Emma J. Mullen, Wei He, Sean Gilmore, Matthias Frank, Matthew Coleman, Megan Shelby

STAR Program Research Presentations

Membrane proteins make up approximately 30% of the cellular proteome and account for over 60% of pharmaceutical targets.1 Determining the structures of this class of proteins is critical to our understanding of disease states and will advance rational drug design. But membrane proteins have limited solubility, rarely form large crystals that diffract well, and often misfold outside of a bilayer, hindering crystallographic studies.1 Nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs) have arisen as a platform to readily solubilize membrane proteins while mimicking a native lipid environment. NLPs consist of a discoidal phospholipid bilayer encircled by an apolipoprotein belt. In an effort to optimize and …

Comparing Regional Population Genetic Effects In Leptasterias Spp., Kristen N. Runge, Sarah Cohen

STAR Program Research Presentations

Leptasterias spp. is a species complex of six-rayed intertidal sea stars found along the northeast Pacific coast. A developmental mode of brooding their young, rather than broadcasting for planktonic development, limits dispersal away from the natal area, and may also result in local adaptation of populations. Local adaptation may lead to morphological and behavioral differences among populations. Previous studies on behavior in Leptasterias spp. have shown that activity levels may vary by population and region. Across three regions from California to Washington, differences were only observed between central California and more northern regions while northern California, Oregon, and Washington were …

Memory In A Contact Line, Charity Lizardo, Esmeralda Orozco, Audrey Profeta, Nathan C. Keim

STAR Program Research Presentations

We study the behavior of the liquid-solid-vapor contact line of water held in a narrow gap between two plates. A syringe pump injects and withdraws a constant, small volume of the water, driving the contact line back and forth repeatedly and changing its shape. We take photos of the contact line after each cycle. Comparing subsequent images to each other, we find that after several cycles the contact line reaches one of two steady states: a reversible steady state, where the shape is not changing, or a fluctuating steady state, where the shape continues to change slightly. Experiments on acrylic …

Fall 2019 Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules

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Winter 2019 Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules

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Spring 2019 Final Exam Schedule, Office Of The Registrar

Final Exam Schedules

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Spring 2019 Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules

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Conditioning Of Velocity Profiles In Pipelines, Charles M. Burt, Pascal Hellmann, Zachary Markow

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

This paper reports on the testing of a relatively simple flow conditioner for pipelines. This research found that a pipeline velocity flow conditioner that is constructed with an internal cone, having an inside diameter of 80 percent of the pipeline ID, provided the best results. It provided good velocity conditioning at a distance of two diameters downstream of an obstruction. The minor loss is equal to the velocity head of the flow in the original pipeline diameter.

2018/2019 Robert E. Kennedy Library Annual Report, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Library Publications and Administrative Reports

We have named our annual report Inside 35, and we are introducing a new format that aims to illustrate the impact of our programs on the Cal Poly community and how a library experience can transform lives and define future careers. The library, through all it has to offer, inspires and celebrates every student’s experience of learning, discovery and personal growth.

Summer 2019 Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules

No abstract provided.

Demographics: Life In Paradise, Elisabeth Frizzell, Victor Hoyos

Research

This poster provides statistical information derived from the US Census Bureau on the town’s population, such as age, race, income, and education levels.

The most salient points derived from this information have to do with the inhabitants’ median age, ethnicity, and income. By these measures and compared to the population of California as a whole, the citizenry of Paradise was generally older (median age of 50 versus 36), whiter (92% versus 72%), and less educated (percentage with a bachelor's degree or higher 25% versus 32%). The town also has fewer households with children (30% versus 46%) and proportionally more people …

Reunite Community, Gabrielle Icardo, Victor Hoyos, Nolan Delgado

Goals

While the bulk of Paradise would remain as it was – a single-family community nestled in the pine forest – the students wanted to counter the lack of a sense of place in Paradise. To that end, they proposed creating several areas throughout the town that would have a more village-like or Main Street atmosphere.

The largest of these would be two pedestrian-oriented districts at either end of the main part of Pearson Road, connected by an expanded Paradise Community Park. In these new districts, named East Village and West Village, many of the town’s principal civic, cultural, and commercial …