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Math 279-011, Summer 2023: Statistics And Probability For Engineers, Fariborz Jamedar May 2023

Math 279-011, Summer 2023: Statistics And Probability For Engineers, Fariborz Jamedar

Mathematical Sciences Syllabi

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Math 112-031, 032, 131, Summer 2023: Calculus Ii, Mathematical Sciences Department May 2023

Math 112-031, 032, 131, Summer 2023: Calculus Ii, Mathematical Sciences Department

Mathematical Sciences Syllabi

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Determination Of The Absorption Coefficient Of Open And Closed Cell Materials, Fernando Agustin Alejandre May 2023

Determination Of The Absorption Coefficient Of Open And Closed Cell Materials, Fernando Agustin Alejandre

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

With the growing development of self-driving vehicles, the issue of passenger discomfort due to noise pollution has infiltrated the automobile industry. The computer driving these vehicles requires multiple fans to maintain optimal temperatures. To reduce the noise level created by the fans, this senior design team was tasked with developing a sound dampening solution that can be implemented to the computer superstructure while maintaining aesthetics, functionality, and accessibility for repair of the computer. This extended project was performed to investigate the sound absorption properties of open and closed cell materials that could then be used to create a solution. The …


Is Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Recruitment Getting Better?, Usra Asghar Qureshi May 2023

Is Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Recruitment Getting Better?, Usra Asghar Qureshi

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the recruitment process has seen a significant increase, with many companies relying on third-party vendors to streamline their efforts. While AI has numerous advantages such as improving efficiency, reducing costs, and identifying the most qualified candidates, there are concerns about algorithmic bias and unfair treatment. Possible causes of these issues include insufficient training, improper technology use, and inadequate parameter specifications. The study examines the sentiment surrounding AI hiring over the last decade and determines whether advancements in technology and a better understanding of AI have made it mature enough to …


Creating Tools To Investigate The Predictive Power Of Polygenic Score For The Big 5 Personality Traits And Math Ability, Roman Goff May 2023

Creating Tools To Investigate The Predictive Power Of Polygenic Score For The Big 5 Personality Traits And Math Ability, Roman Goff

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Studies have shown that personality and mathematical ability are heritable traits. In the past, the genetic component of this heritability was investigated using twin studies where genetically identical twins are reared apart and the siblings’ traits are compared. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have obviated the necessity of such methods by combining genetic data with modern computing power. The exponential decrease in cost of human genome sequencing and increase in accessibility has made it trivial to use an individual’s alleles to correlate their genome to their phenotypic traits. In this study, the results of a GWAS for the Big Five personality …


Antoni Gaudí: Nature & Geometry, Sana Ashfaq Fatimah May 2023

Antoni Gaudí: Nature & Geometry, Sana Ashfaq Fatimah

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Antoni Gaudí believed that architecture is the fusion of nature and geometry. He had the power to unite form and structure and he continued to achieve this in his work which made it hold a special place in the history of Barcelona’s architecture. He is known for his work to have changed the way architecture was approached. Although many hated his work at first, it was after his death that they realized how he has the power to unite nature and geometry. To further understand his legacy, a collection, and analysis of books, journals, and scholarly material was undertaken. The …


Impact Of Fintech On The Commercial Banking Industry: Customer Side., Pratikshya Dhakal May 2023

Impact Of Fintech On The Commercial Banking Industry: Customer Side., Pratikshya Dhakal

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

FinTech are the firms that use new technology to deliver financial services. They have heavily impacted the change in the banking industry, mostly on the consumer side with innovation, social impact, and technological advancements. Commercial Banks have been declining in numbers for the past 35 years. This paper analyses the change in the customer side of commercial banking with the advancements of Fintech companies. This paper uses a systematic literature review approach to evaluate Fintech and commercial banks’ strategies. It creates concluding remarks on the change in customer’s behavior towards the adoption of Fintech using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). …


Spelunking Through A Forest Of Roots: Solutions Of Polynomials In Different Number Systems, Nathan Easley May 2023

Spelunking Through A Forest Of Roots: Solutions Of Polynomials In Different Number Systems, Nathan Easley

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Most advanced college students are familiar with the fact that an equation p(x) = 0, where p(x) is a polynomial of degree n with real coefficients, will have at most n solutions. When the coefficients are complex, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA) says that there are exactly n solutions, counting multiplicity. For example, x^3 - x = 0 has exactly three solutions, 0, 1, and -1. This thesis investigates how many solutions polynomial equations have in other number systems, particularly in hyperbolic and parabolic numbers. Our methods involve looking for how many solutions simple equations, such as x^2 - …


The Effects Of Prison Gerrymandering On Election Results, Francesca Jaubert May 2023

The Effects Of Prison Gerrymandering On Election Results, Francesca Jaubert

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

This study looks at whether or not there is a correlation between the voting patterns of a county and the presence of prisons within that county. There is a history of prisons being used to inflate population numbers within states to change where voting power lies. Previous research exists indicating a speculative relationship between Republican politicians and increased prison gerrymandering, so this research was developed to reveal if there is a genuine relationship between these two factors. Some of the variables included to better isolate the influence of prison location are per county income, biographical information, total population, voter turnout, …


Value Of Mechanical Design In Buildings Proper Information Inputs System Creation 3-D Modeling, Johnathan Noe Vasquez May 2023

Value Of Mechanical Design In Buildings Proper Information Inputs System Creation 3-D Modeling, Johnathan Noe Vasquez

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Mechanical design of a building is a crucial discipline that focuses on the comfortability of the occupants of the building. Functionality of proper systems within the building is essential in building success and proper design. Specifically, knowing the factors that affect HVAC design is crucial in designing properly. In addition to this knowledge, one should gain expertise in a program that can generate loads based on a mechanical standpoint. After loads are generated, the information provided is used to select specific equipment that can satisfy the design required. This is where manufacturers are researched, and data is compared to view …


Suburban Application Of Image Processing For License Plate Detection, Ryan James Bluestein May 2023

Suburban Application Of Image Processing For License Plate Detection, Ryan James Bluestein

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

It is not uncommon to see vehicles speeding in residential neighborhoods, particularly near high traffic areas such as highways or city centers. This issue is typically either dealt with by stationing police officers along streets, or by ignoring the issue completely. By capturing images of license plates and processing them to extract the plate numbers, offenders can easily and inexpensively be monitored and reported. One method of processing these images is to run them through a convolutional neural network. These networks excel at detecting objects within images. By creating a convolutional neural network, and training it based on sample data, …


A Way To Assess The Impairment Of Cerebral Autoregulation In Pediatric Patients Under Ecmo With Neuroimaging Abnormalities, Sylvine N. Ineza May 2023

A Way To Assess The Impairment Of Cerebral Autoregulation In Pediatric Patients Under Ecmo With Neuroimaging Abnormalities, Sylvine N. Ineza

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Cerebral autoregulation protects the healthy brain by maintaining an adequate cerebral blood flow in case of blood pressure changes. Cannulation of great blood vessels and alterations of pulsatile flow patterns during ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) alters cerebral autoregulation. This project provides a reliable methodology that can assess the degree of cerebral autoregulation impairment of ECMO patients and examine if it can be correlated or predictive of neuroimaging abnormalities. Initially, we used the normal WTC MATLAB code to obtain a time-frequency map. Then we calculated the in-phase percent significance and used the resultant values to determine the Scale Averaged Percent Significance …


Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms For Vehicle Route Prediction, Prithvidhar Pudu May 2023

Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms For Vehicle Route Prediction, Prithvidhar Pudu

2023 Spring Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Route prediction is an important tool in understanding the trajectories of vehicles. This information can be used to make intelligent decisions in city planning such as traffic avoidance and pedestrian safety. Machine Learning can predict these routes by learning common patterns from previous vehicle paths. These vehicle paths are plentiful due to the abundance of IoT devices and advancements in computer vision. The most suitable machine learning algorithm that could accurately predict destinations was determined by passing vehicle data to three popular machine learning algorithms: Decision Trees, Artificial Neural Networks, and Naïve-Bayes. The training data for these algorithms was converted …


Minions Fitness Tracker, Mohammad Hasibur Rahman May 2023

Minions Fitness Tracker, Mohammad Hasibur Rahman

2023 MathWorks Fitness Tracker Challenge-Archive

I made a fitness tracker that counts the steps of user using their mobile device. I made this tracker using MATLAB sensor and added the sensor path with the mobile device, the tracker would count the number of steps taken by finding peaks in acceleration data.


Are You Cloud-Certified? Preparing Computing Undergraduates For Cloud Certification With Experiential Learning, Eng Lieh Ouh, Benjamin Gan May 2023

Are You Cloud-Certified? Preparing Computing Undergraduates For Cloud Certification With Experiential Learning, Eng Lieh Ouh, Benjamin Gan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cloud Computing skills have been increasing in demand. Many software engineers are learning these skills and taking cloud certification examinations to be job competitive. Preparing undergraduates to be cloud-certified remains challenging as cloud computing is a relatively new topic in the computing curriculum, and many of these certifications require working experience. In this paper, we report our experiences designing a course with experiential learning to prepare our computing undergraduates to take the cloud certification. We adopt a university project-based experiential learning framework to engage industry partners who provide project requirements for students to develop cloud solutions and an experiential risk …


Mathworks Fitness Tracker, Tuan Quoc Le Apr 2023

Mathworks Fitness Tracker, Tuan Quoc Le

2023 MathWorks Fitness Tracker Challenge-Archive

Mobile fitness app that utilizes the sensors in mobile phone in order to determine the position, velocity, number of calories burned, and other potentially useful fitness information.


Examining Whether And How Instructional Coordination Occurs Within Introductory Undergraduate Stem Courses, Brian A. Couch, Luanna B. Prevost, Marilyne Stains, Blake Whitt, Ariel E. Marcy, Naneh Apkarian, Melissa H. Dancy, Charles Henderson, Estrella Johnson, Jeffrey R. Raker, Brandon J. Yik, Brittnee Earl, Susan E. Shadle, John Skvoretz, John P. Ziker Apr 2023

Examining Whether And How Instructional Coordination Occurs Within Introductory Undergraduate Stem Courses, Brian A. Couch, Luanna B. Prevost, Marilyne Stains, Blake Whitt, Ariel E. Marcy, Naneh Apkarian, Melissa H. Dancy, Charles Henderson, Estrella Johnson, Jeffrey R. Raker, Brandon J. Yik, Brittnee Earl, Susan E. Shadle, John Skvoretz, John P. Ziker

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Instructors’ interactions can foster knowledge sharing around teaching and the use of research-based instructional strategies (RBIS). Coordinated teaching presents an impetus for instructors’ interactions and creates opportunities for instructional improvement but also potentially limits an instructor’s autonomy. In this study, we sought to characterize the extent of coordination present in introductory undergraduate courses and to understand how departments and instructors implement and experience course coordination. We examined survey data from 3,641 chemistry, mathematics, and physics instructors at three institution types and conducted follow-up interviews with a subset of 24 survey respondents to determine what types of coordination existed, what factors …


Twitter Database Health Visualization, Tor Qureshi Apr 2023

Twitter Database Health Visualization, Tor Qureshi

2023 IDIR Data Visualization Challenges-Archive

By utilizing the Twitter IDs and their corresponding posts in the database, we were able to create a UI that generates a graph that demonstrates a word or phrases' usage over time based on the number of times mentioned within the time span of the database (2011-2023). In the future, this could be improved by combining it with the Twitter API to monitor live trends and associations.


Perception On The Use & Impact Of Facebook & Whatsapp For Academic Information By Undergraduate Students, Habibat O. Ochepa Cln Mar 2023

Perception On The Use & Impact Of Facebook & Whatsapp For Academic Information By Undergraduate Students, Habibat O. Ochepa Cln

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Facebook and WhatsApp are social network platforms that have enhanced communication, Information sharing, and absorption, They are tools for social change and Knowledge assimilation their importance cannot be overemphasized which necessitate this study to investigate the perception of use and impacts of Facebook and WhatsApp for academic information for undergraduate students in Nigeria. The study uses Purposive sampling in selection of two universities situated in Abuja Municipal, one private and one public university, The research design adopted for this study was the descriptive survey research design with total enumeration of 2,010 undergraduate students from six departments (building, architecture, information technology, …


Community In The Online Science Classroom, Emily Faulconer Mar 2023

Community In The Online Science Classroom, Emily Faulconer

Publications

As online course offerings rise, it is important to design and facilitate courses to promote community so students feel connected to each other and the instructor and feel a sense of belonging as a scientist. Online discussions are a common feature for building and nurturing community and combating isolation. Discussions stimulate active learning, a strategy to promote participation in knowledge construction. This sense of community and science identity is important for both persistence and performance. I will share efforts to promote community while reducing extraneous cognitive load through discussion design and targeted instructor professional development. I will share data on …


A Multi-Year Study Of Engineering Self-Efficacy In The Us: Exploring Gender Differences In A Small Engineering Program. International Journal Of Gender, Lillian C. Jeznach, Maija A. Benitz, Selby M. Conrad Jan 2023

A Multi-Year Study Of Engineering Self-Efficacy In The Us: Exploring Gender Differences In A Small Engineering Program. International Journal Of Gender, Lillian C. Jeznach, Maija A. Benitz, Selby M. Conrad

Engineering, Computing & Construction Management Faculty Publications

This study presents the baseline results of an ongoing study at a small liberal arts university in the US and explores the gender differences in engineering selfefficacy, preparedness, and engagement in undergraduate engineering students. Data from the first timepoint of the survey was used to identify factors such as high school grade point average (GPA), math preparedness, high school mentoring, and college extracurricular involvement, and their correlations with engineering selfefficacy, as measured by the Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) scale. Investigation of LAESE subscales revealed that students (regardless of gender) who entered college having previously studied calculus reported greater …


Phys 102 - 004 - 006: General Physics I Lecture, Oktay Gokce Jan 2023

Phys 102 - 004 - 006: General Physics I Lecture, Oktay Gokce

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 102 - 102: Physics I Lecture, Nuggehalli Ravindra Jan 2023

Phys 102 - 102: Physics I Lecture, Nuggehalli Ravindra

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 121 - 002: Physics Ii Lecture, Marsela Cina Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 002: Physics Ii Lecture, Marsela Cina

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 121 - 006 - 008: Physics Ii Lecture, Vitaly Schneidman Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 006 - 008: Physics Ii Lecture, Vitaly Schneidman

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 114 - 002: Introduction To Data Reduction With Applications, Andrew Gerrard Jan 2023

Phys 114 - 002: Introduction To Data Reduction With Applications, Andrew Gerrard

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.


Phys 121 - 004: Physics Ii Lecture, Marsela Cina Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 004: Physics Ii Lecture, Marsela Cina

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 121 - 018: Physics Ii Lecture, Hussein Hijazi Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 018: Physics Ii Lecture, Hussein Hijazi

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 121 - 012: Physics Ii Lecture, Esmeralda Vataj Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 012: Physics Ii Lecture, Esmeralda Vataj

Physics Syllabi

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Phys 121 - 010: Physics Ii Lecture, Esmeralda Vataj Jan 2023

Phys 121 - 010: Physics Ii Lecture, Esmeralda Vataj

Physics Syllabi

No abstract provided.