Imagine wanting to study how the microclimate changes throughout a large area of land. Typically you would need to put various sensors all along the property. Retrieving the data from each sensor would require gaining physical access and manually extr . . .

The purpose of this project is to create a Smart Mobile Solar Generator. The SOMO mobile solar generator is intended to replace noisy, fossil fuel based gas generators with a high output quiet renewable energy generator. Under normal operating conditi . . .

“Laundry Now” is a system that is intended to make the process of doing laundry more efficient. It is designed to be used in apartment complexes or dormitory housing laundry rooms and it will allow residents to easily check if washers or dryers are av . . .

The Smart Table is an outdoor solar powered charging station featuring a sensor network. This Smart Table was designed and built to meet the specific needs of the Sonoma State University community. It provides a place for four to six people to gather . . .

Autonomous vehicle technology is the future of transportation because it will allow the movement of people and goods without the need for human drivers. This will lead to an increase in the speed and transportation of people and goods. Currently all a . . .

The objective of this project is to design a cellular enabled and modular system that can monitor conditions of its surrounding environment and relay that data to an end user. A system such as this is applicable for general purpose telemetry that can . . .

The research experience conducted this summer is about collision avoidance system for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) using stereoscopic vision. It is one of the focus areas of UAS research at the Cal Poly Pomona's UAS Lab. Collision avoidance using ste . . .

The effects of sexual coercion on the person and their self-esteem are critical to research. This study is intended to increase the understanding of how culture may play a part in maintaining sexual scripts and how they in turn affect those who have b . . .

Compilation of pavement data can improve the current pavement design methods to ultimately increase the longevity of pavement lifespan and minimize costs for needed maintenance. The research of this project will focus on analyzing data compiled on LTP . . .

California has a teacher shortage and is in need of qualified teachers to enter the teaching field. In fall of 2017 80% of districts in California reported a shortage of qualified teachers. (Darling-Hammond, 2018). This paper is a case study of a univ . . .

Current methods of obtaining energy from the sun have successfully improved and become more refined. Yet the means in which we store this energy is receiving greater attention in the industry today. Storing thermal energy is a key component when it co . . .

Frozen, the most popular fairy-tale type movie of recent release is usually declared as nothing like the Hans Christian Andersen tale upon which it was based, "The Snow Queen". Vladimir Propp's 31 Narratemes, outlined in his "Morphology of the Folktal . . .

While research on gender and sports/physical activities is prevalent, there are limited studies on how cheerleading plays a part in the gender socialization of young girls. This research will focus and compare two adolescent cheerleading teams, one be . . .

In the United States, getting to a hospital or pharmacy is an issue for several people. This issue particularly affects the poor, disables, and elderly. Peer-to-peer shared ride services such as Uber enable people to reach their desired destinations; . . .

A The purpose of this research is to explore the specific types of insensitivities negativities micro aggressions and racism that Black/African American students at Cal Poly Pomona have personally experienced because of their race in order to more acc . . .

Developing new catalysts for chemical transformations that are cost efficient and environmentally friendly is of considerable interest. Currently, many catalysts used industrially, rely on relatively rare and expensive metals such as platinum, rutheni . . .

The goal of the project is to develop a rotary wing platform for autonomous aerial surveillance. A 3DR X8 multicopter (octocopter) is used as the UAV platform. The multicopter is equipped with a Tarot Gimbal to support a GoPro Hero 4 Black Camera for . . .

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a degenerative genetic illness that is characterized by progressive and severe cognitive and motor dysfunction. The motor symptoms include chorea (involuntary movement), dystonia (sustained muscle contractions), rigidity ( . . .

Software defined networking and network functions virtualization are two emerging technologies that are disrupting the way networking systems and infrastructure are established. One impetus for the development of these technologies is the open source . . .

One in five Americans have a mental health condition (U.S. Department of Mental Health), yet despite the increase of mental health insurance provided by the Affordable Care Act, the utilization of these services does not parallel the current number of . . .

The Interpreter of Maladies written by Jhumpa Lahiri, is constructed of a variety of short stories that depict how life is for immigrants of India, as she is an immigrant novelist and writer of the Indian diaspora. Each story is about a different styl . . .

The demand to improve modes of transportation are constantly growing. This high demand probes the need to improve our signalized intersections in order to increase capacity, decrease congestion, and minimize cost. Many ideas such as adding additional . . .

Psychology literature shows that undergraduate students who participate in research (e.g. as survey takers) find the experience valuable and report the participation as having a positive impact on their education. Although the value of undergraduate s . . .

It is critical that early childhood educators receive professional training and resources to support multilingual children, since about 60% of dual language learners under the age of five are in California (Zepeda et. al., 2020). Unfortunately, planni . . .

We present a new version of the Milky Way Project (MWP) to create a refined catalog of bubble classifications made by citizen scientists. The Milky Way Project users are able to make classifications over the internet, using various drawing tools to he . . .

The importance of the origin of a product is well documented in the country-of-origin (COO) literature (e.g., Schooler, Wildt, & Jones, 1988). A majority of the existing literature has found that products with a COO label influence a consumer’s attitu . . .

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator, the popular image of sentient machines as incapable of possessing the softer and more beautiful qualities of human beings has existed since nearly the creation of the first robot. The fear of robots destro . . .

In 2015, the National Fire Protection Association issued a report that revealed how every 2 hours and 41 minutes a civilian fire death occurs. Civilian fire injuries occur every 33 minutes nationwide and 1,298,000 fires in the U.S were reported in 201 . . .

This poem,inspired by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", is a critique of superficial, exploitative, and self-immolating behaviors of 21st century consumer culture.

Wool is a versatile fiber that has been used in apparel, home, and medical textiles for many years. There are over 100 different breeds of sheep that produce a variety of wool types ranging from being fine to coarse in nature. Fine wools such as those . . .

A shortage in the supply of fresh water has prompted research in more effective methods of water distillation. One such method called direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is driven by the temperature gradient between the two sides of the membra . . .

Disputes are one of the most common reasons for cost and schedule overruns in construction projects. The traditional Design-Bid-Build method often creates adversarial relationships between the parties involved, while alternative contracting methods (A . . .

Electric Vehicles (EV) are increasingly adopted by consumers in the U.S. and around the world. However, the EV draw lots of power from supply feeders for charging, leading to increased power losses in the power lines and depressed feeder voltages. The . . .

The purpose of this qualitative research is to analyze Chicana/o EOPS Southern California Community College students who are striving toward transferring to a four year university. Through their voices, the information collected via semi-structured in . . .

The desire to become the next big YouTube star has spurred much competition among content creators to produce extraordinary videos that enables one to shine through the infinite, vast YouTube world. However, the term "extraordinary" is interpreted by . . .

The purpose of this research was to analyze the way in which Latin American artists use music and language as a way to show resistance towards United States imperialism. Also, it was conducted to showcase how music is often used by disenfranchised com . . .

Code Switching can be thought of as the act of changing the way you speak for different contexts or selecting or altering linguistic elements so as to contextualize talk in interactions across different mediums. While most research of code switching i . . .

Electromagnetic hyperthermia is an interesting phenomenon that can be used in the biomedical field. In this work the hyperthermia behavior of nanofibers with multiple components is studied. Electrospinning different polymer based nanofibers containing . . .

This presentation investigates discrepancies in fiber model analyses of unbonded post-tensioned (UPT) precast concrete walls under combined gravity and cyclic lateral loads using the DRAIN-2DX program. Previous work showed that fiber model analyses of . . .

The goal of this project is to monitor and control a home from away or nearby with an app on a mobile device. This is done by connecting appliances and devices to a network through Wi-Fi and routed and controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3 and router. Some a . . .

Expressions can carry problematic hidden implications. I argue that the hidden implications that are deeply embedded in language are most problematic because they are frequently used and the harmful effects are not easily recognized. Specifically, by . . .

Prior research have shown that there is a preference for symmetry when given the choice between a symmetrical and asymmetrical product and other studies have concluded that consumers perceive a rounded price ending (.00) to be higher value than a non- . . .

Wind is becoming an increasingly popular source of energy being demanded to grid integration. However, the current design of the electrical grid- a once succinct design in the 20th century- cannot handle large-scale integration of wind energy because . . .

A landslide is defined as mass of rocks and soils sliding down slopes of a mountain or a hillside. It causes damages on infrastructure and impacts human lives. In addition, landslides prolong commute time and delay services along transportation networ . . .

This project application designs a computer vision system to detect hazards during the descent of a high-power rocket and live stream the video with outlined hazards to a ground station. In the field of high-power rocketry there are few applications i . . .

Increasing traffic demand bring more parking demand in downtown areas, and parking cost as an important factor determines parking demand and travel behavior. Parking cost as a key component of generalized cost could be used in model choice model of tr . . .

One of the main issues facing inner-city youth in the State of California is educational attainment. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2019), inner-city youth, have the lowest graduation rates compared to their suburban and ru . . .

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a recently commissioned near infrared instrument located in the Gemini South telescope. It is specifically designed for the direct imaging of exoplanets but it also has the capability to observe solar system objects s . . .