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1. Building sustainable communities: A project-based learning approach to modify student perceptions of the building industry

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Montoya, Jonathan Lee, Lundell, Ryan, Peterson, Forest, Tarantino, Sergio, Ramsey, Marc, Katz, Glenn, Fruchter,, Renate, Fischer, Martin, and Baldini, Robert

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Keywords: collaboratively designing, sustainable building, energy efficiency, project-based learning, virtual design and construction, environmental justice, energy efficiency
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ABSTRACT The building industry has experienced a paradigm shift with increased use of data for collaboratively designing, building, and operating sustainable, socially conscious, energy-efficient projects; this shift has resulted in a theory called virtual design and construction (VDC).  Secondary education provides students few opportunities to explore these methods. However, project-based learning (PBL) has shown success in VDC education at a graduate level; though scarce in low-income schools due to a discrepancy called the ‘opportunity gap.’  The opportunity gap creates a perception that the building industry does not lead to advanced STEM degrees — which students otherwise discover through courses like VDC. That perception forms a resistance to building industry entrance pathways such as building trade apprentice programs. That resistance then hinders achieving the social mandate to include underrepresented demographics such as women in high paying STEM fields such as apprenticed building trades. As a result, it is a male dominated pathway.  Leveraging California Proposition 39 funding, the authors developed a PBL education platform to integrate VDC students from the secondary, apprentice, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The purpose of this research was to discover to what degree underrepresented youth perceive the building industry as a career if given an opportunity to learn VDC through PBL. The VDC curriculum was piloted as a course that encompassed topics of sustainability, environmental justice, and energy efficiency.  A mix of community-based participatory research (CBPR), ethnography, and surveys were utilized to gather content. Data were gathered from three secondary institutions, including an all girls school and an underrepresented community with one tenth the admission rate to top-tier universities of Palo Alto high school (selected as a generic benchmark for comparison).  Through CBPR the authors show that VDC-PBL 1) narrows the opportunity gap 2) teaches virtual design and construction, and 3) explores careers in sustainability and topics of environmental justice.

Published
2018

6. Building sustainable communities: A project-based learning approach to modify student perceptions of the building industry

Author

Montoya, Jonathan Lee, Lundell, Ryan, Peterson, Forest, Tarantino, Sergio, Ramsey, Marc, Katz, Glenn, Fruchter, Renate, Fischer, Martin, and Baldini, Robert

Subjects
virtual design and construction, sustainable building, Career techical education, project-based learning, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION, Ethnographies, Opportunity gap, collaboratively designing [Keywords], environmental justice, Virtual design and construction, energy efficiency
Abstract

The building industry has experienced a paradigm shift with increased use of data for collaboratively designing, building, and operating sustainable, socially conscious, energy-efficient projects; this shift has resulted in a theory called virtual design and construction (VDC). Secondary education provides students few opportunities to explore these methods. However, project-based learning (PBL) has shown success in VDC education at a graduate level; though scarce in low-income schools due to a discrepancy called the ‘opportunity gap.’ The opportunity gap creates a perception that the building industry does not lead to advanced STEM degrees — which students otherwise discover through courses like VDC. That perception forms a resistance to building industry entrance pathways such as building trade apprentice programs. That resistance then hinders achieving the social mandate to include underrepresented demographics such as women in high paying STEM fields such as apprenticed building trades. As a result, it is a male dominated pathway. Leveraging California Proposition 39 funding, the authors developed a PBL education platform to integrate VDC students from the secondary, apprentice, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The purpose of this research was to discover to what degree underrepresented youth perceive the building industry as a career if given an opportunity to learn VDC through PBL. The VDC curriculum was piloted as a course that encompassed topics of sustainability, environmental justice, and energy efficiency. A mix of community-based participatory research (CBPR), ethnography, and surveys were utilized to gather content. Data were gathered from three secondary institutions, including an all girls school and an underrepresented community with one tenth the admission rate to top-tier universities of Palo Alto high school (selected as a generic benchmark for comparison). Through CBPR the authors show that VDC-PBL 1) narrows the opportunity gap 2) teaches virtual design and construction, and 3) explores careers in sustainability and topics of environmental justice.

Published
2023
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12. Ultrasound imaging for hand prosthesis control: a comparative study of features and classification methods

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Ang, W T, Masia, L, Ortenzi, Valerio, Tarantino, Sergio, Castellini, Claudio, Cipriani, Christian, Ang, W T, Masia, L, Ortenzi, Valerio, Tarantino, Sergio, Castellini, Claudio, and Cipriani, Christian

Abstract

Controlling a robotic rehabilitation artefact such as a hand prosthesis is yet a rather open problem. Particularly, the choice of a human-machine interface (HMI) to enable natural control is still debatable. The traditional choice, i.e. surface electromyography (sEMG), suffers from a number of problems (electrode displacement, sweat, fatigue) which cannot be easily solved. One of its main drawbacks is the inherent low spatial resolution, at least in the standard settings. To overcome this hindrance, several novel HMIs have been proposed to substitute or augment sEMG; among them, pressure and tactile sensing, and ultrasound imaging (US). In this paper we propose an advancement towards the usage of US as a HMI for hand prosthetics; namely, we compare traditional US image features with Histograms of Oriented Gradients used as input for three classifiers, and show that a high number of hand configurations and grasping force levels can be classified way above chance level by choosing the right combination of features and classifier. In an experiment involving three intact human subjects, a classification accuracy of 80% was obtained; when classifying three different levels of grip force for four grasps, the performance reduces to 60%. These results confirm the usability of US imaging as a HMI for hand prosthetics, and pave the way to its practical usage as a means of natural prosthetic control.

Published
2015

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