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1 xxxxx Pipeline September 2010 Volume 5, No. 1 C A L P O L Y C O L L E G E O F E N G I N E E R I N G QL+ Lab open for project Multidiciplinary team work to help the diabled improve their quality of life THE NEW QL+ LABS ARE OPEN AT CAL Poly and dozen of engineering tudent are making new by undertaking project that aid the diabled and, in particular, public ervant and veteran who have been injured in the line of ervice. Founded by alumnu Jon Monett (IE 64), the QL+ Lab ha already generated multiple multidiciplinary project including: n ERB PROSTHETIC HAND ME tudent Max Maloney, Matt Griebel and Nickola Butler are collaborating to update and redeign the Erb Conformable-Grap prothetic hand, originally developed in the early The updated hand will be inexpenive, lightweight, and fit a wide range of amputee arm ize and remaining limb ize. It will be intuitively functional, meaning control of the hand will require little conciou thought. It outer covering will maintain anatomic fidelity and a cloely a poible mimic the appearance and functionality of a natural hand. n ADAPTIVE WHEELCHAIR A tudent team compried of Mark Azzarello, Brian Robinon, Jaon Della Roa and Dean Swenon are working on a wheelchair deign that will make it poible for wheelchair rider to re-experience nature independently, without the need to purchae Pleae ee QL+ on Back Page (8) Opening door Cal Poly Engineering: Bridge to the future Cal Poly Steel Bridge team, hown praticing peed contruction of their bridge, helped Cal Poly Society of Civil Engineer (SCE) pull off a threepeat at the American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE) Pacific Southwet Regional Conference lat April. The group wa named the overall conference champion for the third year in a row, bringing Cal Poly winning record to 14 out of the lat 16 year. Cal Poly teel bridge engineer placed 2nd in Stiffne, 2nd in Structural Efficiency, 1t in Contruction Speed, 1t in Contruction Economy and 1t overall. The QL+ Lab near Cal Poly Engineering Plaza i now open and ponoring tudent project that mitigate phyical limitation or retriction caued by injury or diability. QL+ erve military veteran and other public ervant who have utained life-changing injurie in the line of duty. For more information, ee THE CHAIR-MAN QL+ Lab founder Jon Monett (IE 64) trie out the AdapTech adaptive indoor/outdoor powered wheelchair while talking with the tudent team working on the project. The goal of thi QL+ project i to make it eaier for wheelchair rider to re-experience nature by being able to handle a wide variety of terrain. The tudent team include Mark Azzarello, Brian Robinon, Jaon Della Roa and Dean Swenon.

2 2 PIPELINE Let the unhine in: Project aim to increae efficiency of olar panel by keeping them clean AFTER DEVOTING THREE QUARTERS TO DESIGNING and building a wahing rig for olar farm, the primary take-away for the four mechanical engineering tudent working on the project wa: You can t predict everything. David Hohn, Eric Wallace, Atlund Smith, and Charlie Joy had to work with ignificant contraint in deigning a mobile rig to wah the dut from olar panel. They had to conider the water preure and ditance to the face of the panel; and they needed to facilitate run-off of the water. We had to cale down our original deign coniderably, aid Eric, but our bigget concern wa water conumption. In the end, all the team member were excited to work with a real client, Sun Power Corp., and they all found themelve highly motivated to work in the renewable energy field. n CENG Pirate project track, capture and divert dangerou UAV Electrical Engineering profeor John Saghri, center, i working with tudent Ahley Wagner (CPE), Matt Woolbridge (EE) and Huhnak Singh (EE) on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pirate/Silen- Track integration project. Not pictured: Travi Dean (CPE). The project ha alo erved a a good introduction to working on engineering project in team and the weekly progre report and conference call with Raytheon tie in that corporate feeling. Electrical Engineering tudent Huhnak Singh IMAGINE SMALL, UNMANNED ARIEL vehicle (UAV) that are cheap, eay to build and fly, and are capable of a variety of application ranging from reconnaiance to carrying a deadly payload. Now imagine thee UAV in the hand of terrorit. Enemy UAV have, in fact, been een and captured in the Middle Eat conflict, which i why Raytheon i funding a project at Cal Poly to develop a UAV pirating ytem that would make it poible to track a UAV and capture or divert it out of harm way. Directed by EE Profeor John Saghri, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pirate/ SilenTrack integration project tie together Raytheon computer viion ytem (Silen- Track) and the mini radio controlled UAV Pirating ytem developed at Cal Poly. The ytem purpoe i to track the UAV peed and poition and watch how it change a ignal are ent out on different ervo channel, explain Saghri. Thi information i then ued to remap the control of the UAV to a tandard controller o that a UAV pilot can fly the plane out of the area. Saghri note that thi method of UAV takeover eliminate the need for human viual confirmation and peed up the proce of taking over the UAV. Thi alo allow the ytem to be ued without extenive knowledge of UAV or the communication ignal between the tranmitter and receiver ued for radio controlled UAV. In addition to Saghri, the Pirate project i co-upervied by Software Engineer Micheal Scott of Raytheon, who provide a corporate perpective for the tudent team member, including Travi Dean (CPE), Huhnak Singh (EE), Ahley Wager (CPE), and Matt Woolridge (EE). Singh note not only ha he learned a lot about UAV and the hale of working with large oftware and hardware project, but the project ha alo erved a a good introduction to working on engineering project in team and the weekly progre report and conference call with Raytheon tie in that corporate feeling. Travi Dean alo come away from hi Pirate experience with enhanced teamwork and project cheduling kill in addition to learning about the creativity of problem-olving when given limited reource. All invaluable leon when he and hi fellow pirate enter the profeional workplace. n RMAX unmanned helicopter Cal Poly team eek to incorporate UAV into SLO County earch and recue effort A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS FROM CAL POLY ENGINEERING ARE LEADING AN effort to bring the advanced technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to local earch and recue team. In a recent propoal ubmitted to the California State Park Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Diviion Grant and Cooperative Agreement Program, electrical and computer engineering profeor Lynne Slivovky and aeronautical engineering profeor Rob McDonald have outlined a project to develop two UAV including the Yamaha RMAX helicopter donated to Cal Poly Engineering by Northrop Grumman to ait the San Lui Obipo County Sheriff Search and Recue team to located lot hiker and OHMVR uer. n A team of engineering tudent led by EE profeor Lynne Slivovky, econd from right, are working on a project that would employ the RMAX unmanned helicopter for earch and recue effort.

3 Cal Poly tudent unveil new hoit to aid diabled kayaker CAL POLY ENGINEERING and Kineiology tudent unveiled their Adapted Paddle Launch Vehicle in mid-may. The device i the reult of a collaborative project aimed at helping people with diabilitie enjoy kayaking. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the APLV wa deigned to make the proce of loading client into boat le invaive while imultaneouly increaing afety within Cal Poly Adapted Paddling Program. The Adapted Paddling Program alo offered a free kayaking clinic to local reident with diabilitie and include a paddling experience in the Morro Bay etuary. Kineiology tudent participate a aitant intructor. Previouly, participant in the program who ued wheelchair had to be phyically lifted and placed into the kayak by tudent. Four to ix tudent were then needed to lift the kayak and walk it down the boat ramp in order to launch the kayak. A team of mechanical engineer and Kineiology tudent wa created and challenged with deviing a le invaive way of loading program participant into their kayak and then afely tranporting the kayak to the water. The vehicle conit of multiple part that can be broken down for eay tranportation a well a aembled quickly for ue at the launch ite. A hoit i ued to tranfer the paddler from their wheelchair to the kayak, which i ecurely mounted on the launch vehicle. The APLV i then deployed to afely tranport the kayak down the boat ramp to be launched. n SuPER project addree global energy crii THERE IS SOMETHING SuPER GO- ING on at Cal Poly. Dr. Jame Harri (CPE/EE), Dr. Ali Shaban (EE) and Dr. Dale Dolan (EE) are working to bring energy utainability to familie in underdeveloped nation. The Sutainable Power for Electrical Reource (SuPER) project i an example of Cal Poly pecial brand of applied reearch: tudent, even at the undergraduate level, working hand-in-hand with faculty reearcher on cutting-edge project that addre engineering global challenge. In thi cae, enior in the Electrical Engineering Department are working on SuPER, a both a enior project and long-term development project. The project involve the development of a low-cot, utainable ource of electrical power with a 20 year life cycle that can be owned by a family unit. Harri initiated SuPER out of a belief that utainable energy i key to raiing the tandard of living for the world poor. The ytem relie on olar power and battery power torage. Thi technology will provide acce to electrical power through free market mechanim, a oppoed to governmental aid, explain Harri. The technology i Cal Poly Adapted Paddle Launch Vehicle wa launched into Morro Bay Harbor in mid-may. baed on olar photovoltaic ource, battery torage, and a tandard DC output. The project involve ytem engineering, embedded ytem deign, control, power electronic, digital deign, and power protection, making it ideal a a focu for mater thee and enior project. The SuPER technology i baed upon exiting technology, but extrapolate capabilitie into the future uing a Moore A happy group of Cal Poly Engineering and Kineiology tudent collaborated on the Adapted Paddle Launch Vehicle. Matt Camack (EE) i one of the engineering tudent working on the Sutainable Power for Electrical Reource (SuPER) power tation project. Law model. The ytem development plan are to ue an FPGA, oft-core proceor architecture for flexible hardware implementation of the acquiition, torage, control, and ditribution of DC power. According to Harri, the project i lated for a five-year development period, with the firt three year devoted to technical development. The lat two year will focu on the economic utainability of the ytem, he ay. n Sponored Reearch A ampling of ponored faculty project: Multidiciplinary n Organic Twittering: A Service-Learning Approach to Green Job: Thi project encompae a divere group of faculty led by Dr. Lynne Slivovky to addre economic community need through a mixture of utainability, organic farming, computing, and civic engagement. Student in an introductory honor cla will focu on utainable, green economic development. A hitory cla in comparative ocial movement will examine the ue of media, pat and preent, in environmental and organic movement. A biological control cla will look at utainable approache to pet control. A frehman material engineering deign cla will develop project that aid native plant production. A computer engineering enior deign cla will develop ocial media tool to link both knowledge and practice of green job. n Support for the Cal Poly E-Plane Project: Under a grant from the California Space Grant Conortium, ix Cal Poly tudent will deign and develop an aircraft that can achieve very high mileage in term of range achieved for pecific energy conumption. The multidiciplinary enior project will include tudent drawn from aeropace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer cience. The project will be guided by faculty member from thee dicipline with the upport of a graduate aitant who will utilize the project a the mater thei project. Aeropace Engineering n Phyical Propertie of Orbiting Object: Jacob Technology ha been working with Dr. Kira Abercromby to determine phyical characteritic of orbiting object to be ued within model to predict the future environment of object at pecific orbit. n Cal Poly Flight Tet Platform and Intrumentation Development: A Cal Poly team led by Dr. Robert McDonald will develop a flexible, modular, low-cot approach to flight tet appropriate for teting of aerodynamic model and component, and including development of flight tet intrumentation uing autonomou module. n Light Sail 1 miion: Stellar Exploration and Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari are upporting the Plantary Society Light Sail 1 Satellite Miion. Thi work i funded by the Planetary Society, which will be reponible for procuring the launch vehicle contract for thi atellite. n P-POD Integration and Launch Support: Cal Poly will upport qualification teting, fitcheck, integration, and launch ervice at variou tet and launch ite. Project tatement of work alo include refurbihing a P- POD harne and actuator after a tet firing. Biomedical and General Engineering PIPELINE 3 n Mater of Science Specialization in Stem Cell Technology: Under a $500,000 grant from the California Intitute for Regener- Continued on Page 6

4 4 PIPELINE xxxxxxx. xxxxxxx xxxxxxx n AIRCRAFT DATA COLLETION Compried of AERO, EE and CE tudent, the A.C.D.C. project commiioned by Van Aircraft wa taked with deigning a lightweight, unobtruive, independent machine which would help revolutionize the way aircraft performance data i collected. Prothetic Hand ME tudent Max Maloney, center, demontrate the prothetic hand project he working on in the QL+ Lab. (See Page 1) Senior Deign Expo Hand On Innovation and Education June 3rd 3:30-6:00 PM Bonderon Project Center Define Imagine Deign Build Verify Expoition Preented by Mechanical, Biomedical and Computer Engineering Student in Cooperation with the Project Baed Learning Intitute HUMAN-POWERED HELICOPTER Following the lead of Leonardo da Vinci and a ucceful Cal Poly project in 1989, member of the Cal Poly Aircraft Contruction Club are competing in a $250,000 contet by engineering a new human-powered helicopter. Club member include Eli Knight, Danial Hudon and Brenton Haven. Project-Baed Learning Taking Learn by Doing to the next level The Bonderon Project Center wa once again filled with an impreive array of enior project at the 2010 Senior Deign Expo in June. Generally upported or ponored by companie or organization looking for innovation, and happy to team with Cal Poly to allow bright, innovative young tudent the opportunity to gain hand-on, often private ector experience, the project howed the power of multidiciplinary colloboration. And the range of project wa wide: From aircraft data collection project to guidable motorcycle light to robotic limb and machine enitive enough to ort out variou type of recyclable, ingenuity wa on full diplay. Amy Kronteiner and Danny Marx were two member of the evenmember A.C.D.C Aircraft Data Collection Team compried of Aero, EE and Computer Engineering tudent. The project wa commiioned by Van Aircraft, which aked the tudent to develop a ytem to collect accurate aircraft performance data to calibrate data, Kronteiner explained. The team objective wa to develop an interchangeable ytem that collect aircraft performance data in order to calibrate aircraft intrument for Van Aircraft. The tudent ought to develop a lightweight, unobtruive, independent machine which would help revolutionize the way aircraft data i collected. Marx aid working on the project wa a fantatic experience becaue I got to work on a real-world engineering project that our ponor company will actually ue. It wa a great learning experience to go through the whole deign proce from conception to deign to contruction to teting to delivering the final project. Marx, a third-year AERO tudent, added: Thi coure wa by far the mot ueful cla I have taken at Cal Poly and what I learned during thi project I will keep with me forever regardle of what field of engineering I m working in It clae like thi one that make great engineer. Two other enior project that attracted atten-

5 PIPELINE 5 SUPER LIGHT, SUPER STRONG The goal of Central Coat Compoite wa to build lightweight wheel for the Cal Poly Supermileage vehicle. Team member included: Verent Chan, Jame Alvernaz, Brian Hamtrom, David Lewi and Jame Sciaini. HYDROGEN-POWERED GOLF CART A team including Greg Sander, Barlo Baulto, Mike Brickner, Jeff Herde and Mike Brickner are working with IME profeor Kurt Colvin on a golf cart that run on hydrogen. Abradable Seal Tet Rig Sponored by Solar Turbine, thi team, which include Jaon Fong, Andrew Peae and Trevor Plaine, deigned a rig that tet abradable eal, which allow relative movement of rotar part with repect to tationary part in a turbine motor. tion were the Equine Hoof Block and the Guidable Motorcycle Headlight. Equine Hoof Block team member Jaon Smith and Aaron Murano hope that their project a tand that meaure different force on a hore leg will be a breakthrough in equine health. When project ponor came to Cal Poly, one particular idea caught Smith eye: It feel good to work on a project that can can be ueful in the future. The Guidable Motorcycle Headlight addree the problem of inadequate lighting while riding [a motorcycle] at night, by uing gyrocopic leveling and lighting cue from enor around the helmet. Thi project ha already won accolade, and ha the ditinction of winning the Cal Poly Venture Challenge. n Suie Kopecky EQUINE HOOF BLOCK Team member Jaon Smith and Aaron Murano diplay their Equine Hoof Block, which help meaure force on a hore leg. ENERGY OF MOTION Deigning an interactive exhibit for the San Lui Obipo Children Mueum that enhance concept of energy wa the tak for thi Cal Poly team that included Steven Azeka, Patrick Ligot, Brian Mich, Jaime Salazar and Eric Sanchez. Expo photograph by Larry Coolidge

6 6 PIPELINE Sponored Project ative Medicine, Cal Poly i developing an MS degree pecialization in Stem Cell Technology that will provide 10 trainee with a foundation for ucceful career in tem cell reearch. Graduate of the program will be well-prepared to matriculate into tem cell-focued doctoral program or to begin employment a reearch pecialit in tem cell lab at for-profit or non-profit intitution. Civil & Environmental Engineering n Collaborative Reearch: Innovative Learning Style and Univeral Acce for Geotechnical Engineering: In a collaborative effort with Auburn Univerity, thi NSF-ponored project by Jame Hanon propoe to improve tudent learning of engineering curricula by providing broad-baed teaching technique and learning exercie which may correlate with independent and unconventional learning tyle. The method will employ challenging ue of both experimental deign and tudent-friendly technology. The final phyical product of the reearch will be tudent-developed learning module that are particularly deigned for univeral acceibility. n VOC emiion from flooring ytem and the impact of floor leveling creed: Dr. Daniel Janen i tudying Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emiion from flooring, in particular whether alkali from concrete lab can react with flooring material reulting in emiion of additional VOC and whether calcium aluminate floor leveling creed reduce the tranport of alkali from the concrete lab to the flooring material thereby reducing the emiion of VOC from flooring ytem. n Durability Studie of Modified Platering Mixe, Surface Deterioration of Platered Swimming Pool: Thi i the eventh phae of a tudy led by Dr. Damian Kachlakev to invetigate the long-term effect of variou parameter on the mechanim of etching deterioration, cracking and dicoloration of platered wimming pool. n Polytech Waterbag, Water Treatment for Diater Relief: The Polytech Waterbag provide clean drinking water in the critical time following natural diater. The waterbag project, led by Dr. Trygve Lundquit, enable an individual to collect, tranport, treat, and hygienically tore water in a ingle unit. n Study on the Rik of Levee Failure in the Wetern U.S.: Dr. Robb Mo will lead a time-critical comprehenive rik analyi will be performed on the California Bay Delta utilizing exiting failure data, available loading data, newly acquired uburface data, advanced reliability method, and patial tatitic/tool to provide a rational mean for directing levee failure mitigation effort. n Microalgae Production and Harveting in Watewater: Cal Poly tudent led by Dr. Yarrow Nelon i aiting MicroBio Engineering, Inc. with the demontration of a lowcot municipal watewater treatment proce baed on algal growth that alo produce biofuel. The work i performed at four pond located at the San Lui Obipo Watewater Reclamation Facility. Continued on Page 7 Bently Center fund reearch for engineering project THE DONALD E. BENTLY CENTER For Engineering Innovation i ued to fund reearch in rotor dynamic, ponor graduate and undergraduate reearch, publih conference and journal paper, develop graduate coure, provide ervice to profeional ocietie and improve reearch in engineering education, according to the newet director, Dr. Chri Pacual. The Bently Center welcomed Pacual during the 2009 Fall Quarter. It wa founded in 2003 by indutrialit Donald E. Bently and led by Dr. Jim Meagher until lat year. Currently, the Center endowment i valued at $6.5 million, and continue to grow. I am excited about thi profeional development opportunity, Pacual aid in a recent newletter. The Bently Center promote the teacher-cholar model, a central Cal Poly attribute, by providing releae time from teaching, o that faculty member can purue profeional growth, which, in turn enriche claroom teaching. Activitie and project undertaken via the Bently Center include: Rotor Dynamic Reearch, Coure Pack and Textbook Development, Cal Poly Cartilage Biomechanic Group, Monkey Robot Project, Rocket Nozzle Reearch, Vehicle Dynamic Model, Improving Engineering Education, and Automotive Air Cycle Machine and Wind Power Reearch. All of the project in the Center are equally important and unique, ay Pacual. What i amazing i the diverity of project that the Center ha helped What i amazing i the diverity of project that the Center ha helped fund. The Center work bet becaue it help the faculty purue their interet. Chri Pacual fund, he note. The key to thi diverity and ucce i that the Center encourage faculty to purue their interet and reearch inclination. For intance, prior to joining Cal Poly, Bentley Center reearcher Patrick Lemieux had worked on a model for Automotive Cycle Machine. At Cal Poly, he worked cloely with mater tudent Chritopher Forter on a machine powered olely by hop air and a turbo-dieel engine. The work performed on thee prototype may be the ubject of an ASME preentation in 2010, and may be conidered for patent protection by the univerity, Pacual aid. A the Bently Center endowment pending reerve continue to build, the Center will fund more innovation Donald E. Bently Center for Engineering Innovation Synopi of Project Reult: Fall 2008-Summer 2009 Donald E. Bently and reearch by Cal Poly mechanical engineering faculty and tudent. Since it inception, however, the Bently Center ha been a model of Learn by Doing in action. n Student Brinell Teting Machine come in under budget and it work MAYBE THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SHOULD LET CAL POLY engineering tudent Joe Cloutier, Mike Jakulky and Johua Keler run the budget hearing. Sponored by a $10,000 grant from Parker Aeropace Group to build a Brinell Limit Teting Machine, the tudent deigned, contructed and validated through teting a machine that came in at a thrifty $5,292, including travel. Parker wa really involved in the proce and really pleaed with the reult, Jakulky aid. It wa great combining everything we ve learned and getting to deign with a mathmatical foundation a model that work and it doe indeed work. The fixture wa deigned to determine the load limit of new material ample at the onet of brinelling, which refer to a material urface failure caued by contact tre that exceed the material limit. (Dent or brinell mark are the reult of too great a load). The tudent Brinell machine wa teted by loading 1/2- inch metal ball and 1/4-inch roller between teel plate and comparing the load at which viual deformation wa detected to the load calculated. The tudent concluded: Once a quantitative definition of brinelling i accepted by Parker and more advanced equipment i available for meaurement of permanent deformation, thi machine will be able to determine the brinelling value of new material. n

7 A whole lotta haking going on Cal Poly undergrad contribute to NSF eimic reearch: teamwork i the key to thi complex project FIVE PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES ARE COLLABORATING ON the National Science Foundation-ponored project titled, Seimic Performance Aement in Dene Urban Environment: Soil Structure Interaction on the Scale of a City Block. Participant include UC Berkeley (lead intitution), Cal Poly, SUNY Buffalo, UC Davi and UC San Diego plu the Conortium of Univeritie for Reearch in Earthquake Engineering. The project addree the need to better undertand ground motion interaction between denely paced building by undertaking centrifuge experiment in which the input motion, ground condition, ground repone, and tructural repone are carefully tracked. Thi databae will enhance the profeion undertanding of oil-tructure interaction (SSI) effect of building in a dene urban environment. Dr. Gregg Fiegel, Cal Poly faculty advior to the project, note, During the pat year, no le than 20 technician, engineer, and tudent aited in the completion of three intene centrifuge experiment. The contruction of a centrifuge model typically include over 150 meaurement tranducer and intrument and will be ubject to over a dozen imulated earthquake. How much data i collected? Ton! Cal Poly tudent Jack Montgomery, left, work with graduate reearcher from UC Davi, UC San Diego and UC Berkeley on a eimic tudy ponored by the NSF. Strider project aim to improve mobility for young SMA patient SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY IS A RARE DISEASE THAT CAUSES a critical lo of mucle motor function for young patient. The overall goal of the Strider project i to provide Nathan, an energetic 4-yearold with SMA, with a device that will allow him to exercie, utain impact to promote bone denity growth and to move around in a vertical poition. Deigned for Nathan for age 4-6 and to upplement hi current mean of exercie that include water therapy, tretching, winging and vibration therapy, the 4-wheel, lightweight prototype paed tet for tability, handling, ability to travere multiple terrain, functionality and comfort. The bet part wa when Nathan got in it and tarted moving it made all the work worthwhile to ee him mile, aid Alex Trak, who along with Eric Johnon and Ricardo Garcia form the Strider team. We learned the whole proce of deign and thi project make me conider going into adaptive technologie. n Four-year-old Nathan, an SMA patient, move in hi Strider, a project by Cal Poly tudent Alex Trak, Ricardo Garcia and Eric Johnon. Cal Poly Civil Engineering tudent Rohani Patel worked at UC Davi on an NSF-ponored tudy of oil tructure during earthquake. Key City Block team member have included three undergraduate tudent from Cal Poly. During the pat year, civil engineering major Jack Montgomery, Rohani Patel, and Clayton Proto each pent approximately two month living in Davi, where the centrifuge facility i located at the Center for Geotechnical Modeling. Needle to ay, completion of the experiment require effective teamwork and communication. One of the mot rewarding apect of the aignment wa working cloely with other tudent toward a common goal, aid Patel. Patel aignment actually began at UC San Diego, where he teamed with graduate tudent to apply nearly 200 train gauge to two mallcale tructural model. I remember learning about train gauge in my Mechanic of Material cla at Cal Poly, he aid. At the time, I didn t undertand them completely, but working with them at San Diego allowed me to better undertand their application. For the initial centrifuge reearch, Jack Montgomery applied hi tructural dynamic and earthquake engineering knowledge while teaming with a UC Davi graduate tudent to deign and tet a miniature voice coil ma vibrator. Thi device wa eventually ued to tudy the dynamic repone of model building teted on the centrifuge. Say Montgomery, I found the combination of tructural and geotechnical engineering to be the mot intereting apect of the project. The tructure, the foundation, and the oil mut all be analyzed when evaluating how neighboring building interact. Thi required reearch expert with different background to work together toward a common goal. n contributed by Gregg Fiegel PIPELINE Sponored Project n New Method for Meauring, Evaluating and Predicting the Safety Impact of Road Infratructure Sytem on Driver Behavior: A part of thi Collaborative propoal to NSF, Dr. Anurag Pande i involved with the collection and analyi of the data ued to calibrate and validate the macrocopic and microcopic model of driver behavior. n Soil Stabilization Guide: Working with the Univerity of California, Davi, Dr. Ahraf Rahim i developing a Soil Stabilization Guide for the Caltran Diviion of Pavement Management. Computer Science n Ice-edge AUV mapping and Navigation Experiment in the Arctic: Dr. Chritopher Clark took a planning viit to the Ny- Aleund Arctic Reearch Station in Svalbard, Norway, to prepare for autonomou underwater vehicle (AUV) navigation experiment, n Redeigning Introductory Computing: The Deign Dicipline: Continuing a project with Adelphia Univerity, the Cal Poly team led by Dr. John Clement will ponor a workhop on a radically new approach to teaching object-oriented programming in introductory coure. n Tet-Driven Learning with WebIDE: Thi project led by Dr. David Janzen endeavor to eae and peed adoption of Tetdriven development (TDD) in academia by developing and aeing lab material and a upporting web-baed integrated development environment (WebIDE) for firt year programming coure. Electrical Engineering n 70MHz Channel Emulator Project Phae II: The tudent project led by Dr. Al Liddicoat will work on the digital deign, computer interface, and ytem level verification for a Digital Link Channel Emulator (DLCE) ued to evaluate the end-to-end radio frequency communication ytem in ue for pace exploration. Smart Dial-a-Ride for Demand-Reponive Tranit Operation: Reearch and Development of a Prototype Dipatch Aitance Tool: Thi project led by Dr. Jeffrey Gerfen propoe to invetigate and develop the conceptual bai for an efficient ytem to aid Dial-a-Ride operation in everal area including: (a) taking ride reervation, (b) aigning ride to vehicle, (c) optimizing vehicle routing, and (d) automatically generating report which characterize ytem operation and riderhip. Thi propoal cover the firt part of the project enviioned to analyze dial-a-ride operation and develop a concept of operation for a Dipatch Aitance Tool (DAT). Material Engineering n Teting Service for Agilent Technologie: Dr. Trevor Harding team analyze ample provided to Cal Poly by Agilent for the appearance, location, compoition and integrity of intermetallic layer and compound, and to analyze failure. The purpoe Continued on Page 8

8 8 PIPELINE Sponored Project of the project i to allow Agilent to determine the effect of gold (Au) content on SAC305 older joint reliability of certain urface mount package and through-hole connector with variou iothermal aging time and environmental tree. n Opening the Dialogue to Collaborate for Sytemic Change at Cal Poly: Sponored by the National Science Foundation via the National Academy of Engineering, the project led by Dr. Linda Vanaupa will bring local takeholder together in a one or two day workhop to initiate the dialogue on how the Cal Poly community can work together to grow a new model of multi-takeholder collaboration. In the propoal, Vanaupa write: A polytechnic education in the 21t century can take place in the context of working on relevant ocietal challenge, rather than olely on hypothetical problem within the wall of claroom. Mechanical Engineering n Cal Poly Laminar Flow Technology Development: The Cal Poly team led by Dr. Ruell Wetphal continue to conduct feaibility tudie and component/ytem teting aimed at improving the Boundary Layer Data Sytem (BLDS) device. n Reuable, Oxidizer-Cooled, Hybrid Aeropike Rocket Motor for Flight Tet: The Cal Poly team led by Dr. William Murray i tudying the ue of the refrigerant capabilitie of nitrou oxide (N2O) to provide the cooling required for reuable operation of an aeropike nozzle in conjunction with an N2O-Plexigla hybrid rocket motor in ue by the NASA STTR program. A a imple, practical nozzle, the propoed innovation fit well with hybrid rocket deign, which tend toward impler, le expenive deign alternative. Multicultural Engineering Program n Support for MESA School Program: The MESA School Program (MSP) at Cal Poly receive funding from MESA, the College of Engineering, and corporate donor. Student from rural and low-income population are le likely to elect educational path that prepare them for college. Thi program work with middle and high chool tudent who are intereted in cience and math. Through etablihing a MESA period during the educational day, tudent will learn about applied cientific and mathematical principle, increae their knowledge of career and technology, and expand their educational horizon to include college a a viable educational option. Mechanical Engineering tudent Max Maloney, left, demontrate hi QL+ prothetic hand project to Cameron Clapp. QL+ Lab from Page 1 or witch between different wheelchair. The new wheelchair will eaily adapt between indoor and outdoor environment, and on-road and off-road format, including rough terrain and gradient. n BREATHABLE FACIAL PROS- THETIC The objective of thi QL+ tudent team project i to develop and demontrate a practical ytem for the aeration of facial prothee for patient with evere difigurement. n CAT D6R INGRESS/EGRESS The team of Matt Rubin, Erick Serrano and Eric Ward are developing a ytem to enable equipment operator with limited mobility, included leg amputee, to eaily enter and exit the operating cab of a CATD6R earth moving machine, which i everal feet above the ground. n THE TABLETTE The goal for thi QL+ project i to create a portable table to make dining out eaier and more pleaurable for people in wheelchair. The Tablette i engineered to fit any table, regardle of height or width. The deign provide adequate lap covering, filling the pace between the table edge and the wheelchair eat, effectively extending the table edge. n RECUMBENT BICYCLE The development of a recumbent bicycle deigned to accommodate a rider with a length differential between right and left leg i the goal of thi QL+ project. Among the engineering tak on the pecial bike are a new pedal, fixing a problem with the chain tenion, and developing a hydraulic eat for greater comfort. See for more information on QL+ Lab project. n Help u bring real-world problem to Cal Poly engineering tudent! Pipeline i publihed annually by the Cal Poly College of Engineering Volume 5, No. 1 October 2010 (805) YES! I am intereted! Pleae contact me by: Phone: ( ) Mail (Addre): pbli.calpoly.edu Matthew Cottle Aitant Dean mcottle@calpoly.edu Cal Poly College of Engineering San Lui Obipo, CA