Engaging Community College Students in Civil Engineering Research of Structural Health Monitoring using Acoustic Sensors
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Boulder, Colorado
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March 25, 2018
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March 25, 2018
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March 27, 2018
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Diversity
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14
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10.18260/1-2--29609
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https://strategy.asee.org/29609
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365
Paper Authors
Ryan Yedinak Cañada College
Ryan Yedinak, a Bay Area native, is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo.Prior to transferring to Cal Poly in the Fall of 2017, Ryan spent three years at Cañada College in Redwood City, California completing his lower-division undergraduate courses. In addition, Ryan has worked as an intern at NASA Ames Research Center where he helped design and build autonomous and non-autonomous rovers, and San Francisco State University where he aided in research to develop a system for using acoustic sensors for structural health monitoring.
Oskar Granados Canada College
Oskar Granados is currently a sophomore at Canada College in Redwood City, majoring in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include general engineering, renewable energy (energy preservation), astrophysics, waste management, the smart grid, and structural analysis. Over time, he hopes to get involved in the engineering industry workforce, research and development, and pursuit a teaching career to pass on the tradition of American education to communities who lack access to higher education.
Vincent Vu Thanh Tran San Jose State University
Vincent Tran is currently a junior at San Jose State University pursuing a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. His research interest include mechatronics and biomedical technology.
Moises Arturo Vieyra Canada College
I am an undergraduate student at Canada College ready to transfer to a 4 year University. My future plan is to get my bachelors degree in civil engineering and work my way to creating my own company.
Alec William Maxwell San Francisco State University
Alec Maxwell is currently a graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Besides actively conducting research on innovative tools for engineering education in the Intelligent Structural Hazards Mitigation Laboratory at SFSU with Prof. Zhaoshuo Jiang, he also serves the community as the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the SFSU chapter.
Amelito G Enriquez
Canada College
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Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Cañada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geodetic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and increasing the representation of female, minority and other underrepresented groups in mathematics, science and engineering.
Wenshen Pong P.E. San Francisco State University
Wenshen Pong received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering.
Dr. Pong is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has published over fifty technical papers in the areas of Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Pong has been the Director of the School of Engineering at SFSU with 20 full-time faculty and over 25 part-time faculty since 2009.
Cheng Chen San Francisco State University
Dr. Cheng Chen is currently an associate professor in the school of engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include earthquake engineering, structural reliability and fire structural engineering.
Kwok Siong Teh San Francisco State University
Kwok Siong Teh received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and University of California at Berkeley in 1997, 2001, and 2004, respectively. He is currently an associate professor of mechanical engineering at San Francisco State University. His primary research interests are in: (i) the synthesis, characterization, and applications of metal oxides, conductive polymer, and low dimensional carbon nanostructures for energy generation and storage; (ii) engineering design pedagogy that incorporates makerspace, case studies, and scenario-based learning.
Xiaorong Zhang San Francisco State University
Xiaorong Zhang received the B.S. degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2006, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from University of Rhode Island, Kingston, in 2009 and 2013 respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. Her research interests include embedded systems, wearable technologies, neural-machine interface, and cyber-physical systems.
Hamid Mahmoodi San Francisco State University
Hamid Mahmoodi received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design in nano-electronic technologies. He has published more than one hundred technical papers in journals and conferences and holds five U.S. patents. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design. He has served on technical program committees of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design, and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.
Hao Jiang San Francisco State University
Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences from Tsinghua University, China, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000.
Hao Jiang has been with San Francisco State University since August 2007 as an assistant professor in electrical engineering. Prior joining SFSU, he worked for Broadcom Corporation, Jazz Semiconductor and Conexant Systems Inc. His research interests are in the general area of analog integrated circuits, particularly in ultra-low-power circuits for biomedical applications.
Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E.
San Francisco State University
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Zhaoshuo Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engineering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low-rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.
Abstract
In the current practice, sensors such as the accelerometers and strain gages are attached to or embedded into structure to measure its response for structural health monitoring purposes. However, installation and maintenance costs of these sensors are high, and the process is time and cost consuming partially because the operation of the structure has to be interrupted to perform the maintenance. Acoustic sensor with its ability to capture sounds through air vibration is very promising means to perform the task of measuring vibration for structural health monitoring purpose as a non-contact, non-destructive method. However, challenges remain on developing proper algorithms to convert measured acoustic data to vibration measurements from the source. The XXX System, with its enrollment of approximately 2.5 million students, is in a prime position to grow the future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Through a U.S. Department of Education funded XXXXX program between XX, a Hispanic-Serving community college and XXXX, a public comprehensive university, a 10- week summer program is set up to provide opportunity for community college students to experience the excitement of the state-of-the-art research. As one of the Civil Engineering projects in this summer program, the community college students are working closely with graduate students at XXXX to investigate the possibility to use acoustic sensor for non-destructive structural health monitoring. After learning basic theory through a series of training workshops, the students performed experimental testing with an array of microphone sensors with various configurations on a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structure exciting on a shake table. With the acquired data, several post-processing algorithms are proposed to extract the useful information and eliminate the noise.
In addition to the surveys, the participants were invited to participate in a 30-minute conversation about their summer internship experience to examine the internships’ impact on interviewees in terms of: i) engineering self-efficacy and commitment to engineering as a career; ii) academic goals, including interest in research; iii) career goals; and iv) network of/engagement with professionals from academia and industry. The feedback from students shows that the XXXXX program offers an effective way to engage students from community college in engineering research.
Yedinak, R., & Granados, O., & Tran, V. V. T., & Vieyra, M. A., & Maxwell, A. W., & Enriquez, A. G., & Pong, W., & Chen, C., & Teh, K. S., & Zhang, X., & Mahmoodi, H., & Jiang, H., & Jiang, Z. (2018, March), Engaging Community College Students in Civil Engineering Research of Structural Health Monitoring using Acoustic Sensors Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference, Boulder, Colorado. 10.18260/1-2--29609
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