Heavy Lift Mobility Platform (AIAA 2024)

We present a design for a new heavy lift aircraft to replace the existing C-5M and C-17 fleet for USAF Air Mobility Command. Design requirements and specifications are taken from an RFP from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). A video presentation of the design can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmCVdGXyL

Intelligent Facade Innovation (IFI): Using IIoT, Digital Twin, and Next-Gen Architecture Designs

The urgent need for sustainable and eco-friendly solutions in architecture has never been more pressing as the world grapples with the escalating threats of climate change and the global energy crisis. As buildings are responsible for significant global energy consumption and carbon emissions, sustainable design efforts must focus on optimizing building performance and reducing energy consumption. Smart buildings have emerged as a pivotal solution to address these challenges, utilizing advanced technologies to create a more sustainable and efficient built environment. Lean building design is an essential concept in sustainable architecture that focuses on minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency throughout the design, construction, and operation. By optimizing the use of materials, energy, and resources, lean building design can reduce a building\u27s environmental impact and lower operating costs. Facades play a critical role in lean building design, as they are the primary interface between the interior and exterior environments, aiding in regulating the indoor environment, reducing energy consumption, and optimizing building performance. Facades can incorporate various technologies, such as solar panels, shading devices, and energy-efficient glazing, to improve energy efficiency and indoor comfort. Moreover, with the integration of Building Internet of Things (BIoT) and Facade Internet of Things (FIoT) technology, facades can be optimized for real-time data analysis, enabling dynamic control and monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and occupancy. While several papers have explored the implementation of Industry 4.0 trends on intelligent buildings, only a few have researched the integration of IoT on smart facades and the implementation of a digital twin concept. This research project aims to fill this gap by investigating the value of integrating IoT on smart facades and implementing the digital twin concept on kinetic facades

Influential Catholic Nun: Hrosvitha’s Impact on the Power and Roles of Women through Constance during the Middle Ages

This presentation explores the life of Medieval playwright and nun Hrosvitha and her impact on the role of women during the late Middle Ages. It will analyze and break down her play Dulcitius to discuss the theme of female independence with autonomy over their own body. In addition to reading of the play, this presentation includes the examination of the Middle Ages to contextualize the treatment of women and how her play challenged society. This project is done through research into Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius and the character Constance, the patriarchy in her German hometown Bad Gandersheim, and the marginalization of women through a lens of materialist feminism. This study is something that has limited research. Although there have been a few articles who talk about Hrosvitha and how she challenged the role of what women were in theatre by becoming the first documented female playwright, this project will dive deeper into exactly how she did this within Dulcitius. This topic does have relevance today, Hrosvitha being one of the first feminist dated, even with her covert style of feminism within the male-dominated society. It is important to highlight the powerful females that used their voices to influence others and allowed for a freer place for woman voices in society within literature, playwriting, and theatre

Raman Microscopic Measurement analyses of ZnO Thin Films grown on Sapphire by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition

The Raman Scattering (RS) characterization technique was employed to investigate ZnO thin films, grown on sapphire substrates through the process of metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In this investigation, ZnO thin films were grown within a specifically designed Low-Pressure Rotating Disk MOCVD Reactor. The growth process involved a temperature range of 200 to 1000°C, with growth pressure spanning from 5 to 80 Torr. Diverse ZnO thin films with varying thicknesses (10-230 nm) were deposited on c-plane sapphire substrates. Samples were prepared with a consistent O2 flow rate of 8348 mmol/min. The Raman Microscope was used to measure the peaks of three different samples of ZnO at three different laser powers respectively: 10%, 50%, and 100%. These measurements were obtained with 1800 l/mm grating, a laser wavelength of 532nm and a Raman Shift with a range of 100cm-1 to 900 cm-1. The results indicated prominent peaks at 379 cm-1 (with a deviation of 1), 417 cm-1, 577 cm-1 (with a deviation of 1) and 750 cm-1 respectively. This study provides clarity regarding the identification of the samples as ZnO grown on Sapphire substrates and offers insights into the crystalline quality of the sample materials

Steinway Spectacular

Program for the 2024 Steinway Spectacularhttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2734/thumbnail.jp

UC-60 MyFoodScan

MyFoodScan is a mobile app that enables users to scan barcodes of various food and drink items to ensure they are in compliance with their specific dietary needs. Individuals utilize this application to make a customized profile based on diet, such as vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, allergies, etc. MyFoodScan promotes compliance with dietary limitations. The application was developed with React Native, Expo Go, Google Firebase, using the React Native Camera for barcode scanning. The OpenFoodFacts API database is used for product information. The goal of this application is to enhance awareness and safety for various dietary needs and monitor dietary restrictions

GMR-45 Cloud Based Bus Tracking and Ticketing System

In many urban areas, public transportation systems frequently fail to fulfill passenger demand, causing aggravation owing to a lack of real-time information about bus locations, timetables and delays. Outdated ticketing processes, which are labor-intensive and prone to mistakes, compound the annoyance by failing to match current travelers\u27 expectations. Furthermore, transportation operators encounter difficulties with fleet management, route optimisation, and issue response due to a lack of comprehensive data analytics. Reliable monitoring systems are required to prioritize passenger and bus safety, and achieving sustainability targets necessitates efficient operations to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. A scalable and customizable cloud-based bus tracking and ticketing system is critical for addressing these difficulties and improving the entire public transit experience

Building Connection with Community Reads: Opening Up a Learning Community During Isolation and Beyond

Community Reads at the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library is a program open to students, staff, and faculty across both our communities with the goal of facilitating conversation around topics of social justice and equity. We use a shared reading (a book, essay, or short story) that aligns with a greater theme as the basis of our programming, but build out from our reading in many different ways. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and more than a year of virtual learning, the team has focused on providing multiple creative entry points into our readings and discussions, prioritizing alternative ways of knowing and interacting with texts and ideas. To further this goal, we have cultivated a robust partnership with our library’s Digital Scholarship unit and utilized a variety of open pedagogy tools and projects. We created a virtual art gallery through a WordPress based SPLOT, a virtual anthology through a WordPress based TRU Writer, and a digital zine hosted in the open access space ResearchWorks. In all of these projects, we have emphasized creative engagement with our texts and themes and leveraged these tools to provide students and community members with an opportunity to publish their work on open platforms. In this presentation, we will discuss the unique challenges of promoting and educating about open pedagogy outside the classroom, emergent opportunities to engage with students across disciplines and perspectives through these projects, and what we have learned from working with digital scholarship and open pedagogy tools

Ode To Man

This is a metal song I wrote and recorded as an interpretation of Walt Whitman\u27s poem Song of Myself, part 32. Whitman writes about how he envies animals and their pure, blissful nature. I decided to write from the perspective of the animals, instead throwing shade towards humanity and its flaws. This piece was created in response to a prompt that asked students to adapt a poem into a new form of media. Students analyzed both the poem\u27s original purpose and meaning, as well as the adaptation process, in order to understand the components of storytelling and how to communicate effectively to an audience in multiple genres

GC-22 Fabric Moderation Ticketing Mod for Minecraft

This project targets enhancing the KSU Esports program’s Minecraft server by implementing an in-game ticketing system. The system will enable players to report any instances of in-game incidents/issues seamlessly within the game environment. The integration with the KSU Minecraft Discord server will facilitate efficient communication between players and administrators. With a user-friendly interface and optimized resource usage, the system aims to streamline moderation processes