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- Creator:
- Patil, Amruta Navnath
- Description:
- The purpose of this paper is to help implement some concepts studied during the Master of Science in Engineering Management program in context of a specific company and its supply chain. The idea to provide solutions to minimize costs, improve supply chain and implement efficient forecasting techniques. It will serve as a termination masters project and will go in conjunction of the final project presentation to provide insights on the below topics: • Understanding of the disruption of the production and supply chain due to an unforeseen extreme situation. • Analysis of the various costs involved in servicing the demand and how it impacts profitability • Building a Cost Minimization Matrix that will suggest optimal production plans. • When to Produce and How much to Produce. • Showcasing cost saving opportunities by adapting policies of continuous evaluation. • Providing Suggestions and Recommendations on Improving KPI’s. For this Project we will be looking into the analysis of Niagara Bottling’s most common SKU’s that have demand all year round. They also have seasonality and trends attached with their demand patterns. We will look at the Direct Cost of Manufacturing and Shipping of these SKU’s. The major factor of this project will be to analyze these costs and demand patterns changes in an extreme unforeseen situation of the pandemic of 2020 that disrupted supply chains all around the world and has a continuing effect on the overall business of manufacturing. This will help us derive a model that will suggest production plans by continuously monitoring forecast and unusual demand fluctuations so that we can better prepare to meet service levels and increase profitability.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Creator:
- Farid, Morvarid
- Description:
- California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) passed Senate Bill 1371 in 2014 with an overall goal to reduce methane emissions by 40% by 2030. Utilities are mandated to implement mandatory best practices and report on their annual emissions to avoid penalties. As a part of this initiative utilities are actively looking for opportunities to enhance their systems and implement new technologies in response to Senate Bill 1371. There are aerial-based technologies available for utilities to proactivity find methane plumes. The aerial-based technology presented in this report uses LiDAR technology mounted to a helicopter. It identifies leaks on systems sized 10 CFH or larger and detects emissions on customer-owned facilities from houseline leaks and incomplete combustion from gas-fired equipment. However, this method does not replace the traditional walking survey as it does not detect small leaks. This report intends to help utilities operationalize this type of technology efficiently. There are three main problems identified. One is the scheduling part of these flight operations in a way that don’t overload the operational groups. The second is how the plans are effectively communicated with these operational groups. Third, how leadership can be more effective and efficient in this implementation. Lastly, how much does this technology cost and how can it be reduced. To solve problem one, a linear programming model is introduced to best sequence flight areas and schedule resources. The model minimizes the number of days flown consecutively for all districts, allowing time between flight operations in any district. This way, the impacted districts can handle and complete work orders before receiving the next batch of data. Following this methodology will allow utilities to reduce their costs. The second problem is addressed by implementing project management tools and techniques to develop a communication strategy for external and internal communications. Followed by recommendations for leadership and a cost analysis.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Creator:
- Campos, Carina
- Description:
- After the dissolution of the Redevelopment Agencies in California in 2012, cities were forced to find alternative funding streams to fund essential economic activity. As such, Business Improvement Districts or BIDs for short, have proven to become an economic development tool used by local governments to supplement services previously funded by the Redevelopment Agencies. This project examines historic Front Street in Norwalk, California as an area that can benefit from implementing a BID. It identifies five determinants that contribute to the effectiveness of BIDs. They are public safety, cleanliness, marketing and promotion and event programming. This project studied two case studies by conducting audits, making observations and implementing the Gehl Institute’s Public Life Tools. Ultimately findings showed that implementing a BID in the City of Norwalk could prove to be a helpful tool to fund essential economic activity, however, specifically for the City of Norwalk, before it can implement a BID, thought must be given to how it will bring investment to the area. Although brief recommendations were provided, such is beyond the area of study of this research and requires a deeper analysis. Thereafter, once Front Street boasts investment, implementing a BID will be much more effective in continuing the revitalization efforts in its downtown area.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Creator:
- Miller, Lindsey
- Description:
- This project reviewed the effectiveness of marketing on enrollment rates in the CPP Payment Plan offered by the Office of Student Accounting & Cashiering. Marketing is used as a tool to inform students a payment plan is an available and affordable option when paying tuition. A survey was sent to active Cal Poly Pomona students to gather data related to demographics, as well as student’s knowledge of the payment plan. This study found that 96% of participants had heard about the payment plan offered, but 78% of those participants have not previously participated in the plan. A discussion of literature found that low-income minority students have a greater need for financial assistance when it comes to affording college. This study further analyzed low-income students, low-income students who are parents, and low-income Hispanic/ Latino students to determine what percentage were participating in the plan. Survey data found that 4% of low-income students who are parents, 11% of low-income students, and 34% of low-income Hispanic/Latino students have previously participated in the plan. While marketing techniques such as email may be an effective form of notifying students, it does not necessarily impact the enrollment rates.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Velez, Fabian
- Description:
- The City of Covina is a city within the County of Los Angeles which faces an unusual issue of having pockets within the City which are under the jurisdiction of the County due to the expansion of City boundaries around areas which chose to remain under County jurisdiction. In August of 2019, an item was brought forth to the City Council which considered the annexation of the islands. This report examines the feasibility of the annexation by breaking down the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats through a SWOT analysis. The recommendation reached after the research is for the City Council, should they wish to proceed with the annexations, do so in a phased approach beginning with the six islands within the City’s boundaries which do not overlap with outer City borders.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Zheng, Hao
- Description:
- In the field of web application development, there are three main parts in code implementation: backend architecture, frontend implementation, CI/CI pipeline. Since backend architecture is extremely important, therefore it is crucial to design a maintainable and extensible backend architecture for further development. The paper is to demonstrate building a solid backend architecture for an online library website. The complete implementation of the architecture is split into four sections: microservices designing, database architecture, backend architecture, and REST API designing. In the introduction, the problems of traditional software development methodology are pointed out. The concepts of microservice and Docker are then introduced in Section 1. Section 2 demonstrates how to design the database architecture by illustrating ER diagrams and database controller packages. Section 3 demonstrates the specific steps of implementing backend logic for microservices using Python. REST APIs, the bridge connecting backend services and frontend clients, are introduced in Section 4. The verification of REST APIs using unit testing and postman is also introduced at the end of the paper. Each section explains related concepts and demonstrates specific steps of the implementation. The complete picture of the architecture is clear to illustrate the maintainability and extensibility of the system.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
7. Physical and Numerical Hydrological Modeling of Bell Canyon Within the San Dimas Experimental Forest
- Creator:
- Hernandez, Kevin
- Description:
- The San Dimas Experimental Forest (SDEF) has been used as an outdoor hydrological laboratory since 1934 by the United States Forest Service to investigate watershed management practices, understand the effects of forest fires, and conduct ecological studies. This study focuses on modeling a specific area within the SDEF's Big Dalton watershed, Bell Canyon (857 acres), through the creation of a scaled physical hydrological model and a numerical hydrological model. The scaled physical model downsizes Bell Canyon to produce a fiberglass mold house on a utility cart. Rainfall is applied at different intensities to the scaled physical model using a pump, piping, and sprinklers. The runoff from Bell Canyon is measured using a scale and Arduino microcontroller, allowing for the development of hydrographs. The numerical model in HEC-HMS is based on the full-scale Bell Canyon area and is compared to the scaled physical model to understand the similitude relationships between the two hydrological models.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Civil Engineering
- Creator:
- Aguirre, Gerardo
- Description:
- Research surrounding the education of minority and disadvantaged student populations has historically been focused on the “deficit model”, the notion that examines the weaknesses of a group rather than their strengths. This study investigated the educational journey of one particular group of students belonging to an overlooked minority population, the migrant farmworker student. The educational plight of the migrant farmworker student can be characterized as collateral damage to an agricultural industry that profits from the undereducation of this group. The failure of schools to pursue the academic achievements of migrant farmworker students effectively enables continued profits for cities and the agricultural economy in the U.S. by reproducing the migrant farmworker labor force. To discard the deficit model, this study conducted a comparative analysis of existing grounded theory-based case studies of migrant farmworker students in California and Texas to identify and evaluate the success factors of these students as they navigate through the Migrant Education Program (MEP) and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP). The results of this study identified success factors such as cultural capital, institutional agents, role models, parental involvement, academic learned capital, and fictive kinship associated with migrant farmworker student upward mobility. The intent of this study is to inform the MEP and CAMP on what currently makes these students successful to focus program objectives in the future. Additionally, I examined the intersection of education and planning. The key findings of this research focus on identifying the mechanisms by which the field of planning includes education policy in the context of a cities infrastructure.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Creator:
- Yan, Yichi
- Description:
- Music is one of the human hobbies and artistic pursuits. We have conducted extensive and in-depth research on music long ago and put forward many music theories. In the history of music, composers have never stopped summarizing composition techniques. With the development of computer technology and artificial intelligence, people have the idea of letting computers create music by themselves. Many kinds of neural network models can be used to generate music. For the most common fully connected neural network, the operation is complicated, the calculation speed is slow, and there is no special solution to the continuous problem. For example, the CNN convolutional neural network, although in many ways a fully connected neural network, But is also a model structure that cannot optimize and replace the problem of continuous sequence. This article will explain how to use the machine learning frameworks Tensorflow and Keras to build an LSTM neural network model to automatically synthesize a piece of music by learning music data.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Agunwah, Reginald
- Description:
- The Hog Back slide is a large rockslide in the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, located approximately five miles north of San Antonio Heights. This broad mound of translated slide boulders produced a natural dam across San Antonio Canyon in late Pleistocene time. The purpose my study is to investigate the fracture geometry that led to the failure of the Hog Back slide by the means of field mapping and stereonet analysis. This investigation builds on my previous senior thesis work that addressed the disturbed and/or displaced slide blocks. I completed a series of ten mapping traverses to acquire new rock observations and structural measurements, and constrain their locations with a GPS receiver. A synthesis of this research is used to develop a mechanical model for the failure of the Hog Back Slide. Through the new rock observations and structural measurements, the displaced contact that was found within the Hogback slide remained relatively intact, even after the slide mass had translated 1,300 feet to the southeast. The distribution of clast sizes that were observed show that part of the felsic gneiss was emplaced as a megaclast. The clast sizes seen with the quartz diorite were more distributed and widespread. A mechanical analysis of the clasts and the in-place rock show that there may have been many factors that could have caused the failure, such as tectonic events, mechanical weathering, and chemical weathering. Wherever the rock is exposed, it consistently shows the same kind of geometry in the planar structures contained therein. The foliations of the in-place rock generally strike northwest, with dips to the southwest. The foliations of the transported felsic gneiss clasts strike northwest and dip to the southwest. The foliations of the transported quartz diorite clasts strike in all directions with no preferred dip angle. The most logical conclusion to be derived from this information is that the toe of the slide acted as a cushion for the head of the slide, allowing the felsic gneiss slide mass to retain an orientation similar to the bedrock measurements in the source area.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Geological Sciences