Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Effects of Fabrication Methods and Cure Cycle on the Machanical Properties of Carbon Fiber Laminate in Tensile and 3-Point Bend Testing, Adriano Agostino
Fin Flutter Analysis, Richard Bauer and Austin Hardman
Creation and Analysis of an Electric and Magnetic Model of a Micro Ion Thruster, Maxwell Bodnar
Design and Fabrication of a Ramjet Engine, Clinton C. Humphrey
SMORE Revision: Ignition and User Interface, Arash Mehrparvar
Incorporating Aluminum Honeycomb to Increase Efficiency of U-tube Removable Heat Exchanger, Daniel Soto and Daniel Corona
Control System Infrastructure for the Cal Poly Human Powered Helicopter: Upturn II, Douglas A. Thornber and Samuel J. Wahyou
Study of Natural Composite Materials Square Beam under Three Point Bending Test, Casey Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Computation Time Comparison Between Matlab and C++ Using Launch Windows, Tyler Andrews
Thermal Vacuum integration for Cal Poly's Space Environments Laboratory, Chelsea Barackman and Steven Jackowski
Instrument Panel Design, Martin Bialy, Amber Carney, and Michael Roche
Development of a Pyrotechnic Shock Simulation Apparatus for Spacecraft Applications, Joseph Binder, Matthew McCarty, and Chris Rasmussen
Low Cost Vacuum Chamber Design for Electromagnetic Railgun Operation, Andrew W. Bothwell and David J. Foster
Two-Stage, High-Altitude Rocket with Internal Skeleton Design Entered in Advance Category of 7th ESRA IREC, Samuel S. Bowman, Kevin J. Byrne, Allen Capatina, Aliki S. Loper-Leddy, and Joshua A. Van Schoyck
Feasibility Analysis for Electrically-Powered Hoverboard, Cameron Chan, Jason Cortez, and Jay Lopez
Assembly of a Passive Slat System for a CH-701 Kit Aircraft, Jordan Coenen and Spencer Spagnola
Registering an Amateur-Built Light Sport Kit Aircraft, Kevin Condron
The Numerical Open-Source Many-Body Simulator (NOMS), Jason Lloyd Daniel and Javen Kyle Foster-O'Neal
Development of a Flight Test Program for a Homebuilt Zenith STOL CH 701, Reed Danis and Dave Nguyen
Investigating Various Propulsion Systems for an External Attachment for a Controlled-Manual De-orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope, Nelson de Guia
The Importance and Challenge of Launch Environment Testing, Christina Diaz
Electric Aircraft Propulsion System, Austin J. Doupe
Electromagnetic Railgun Safety, Sven Ericson
Solar Energy Collection Analysis Tool for Conceptual Aircraft Design, Grant Glazebrook
Data Acquisition for Flight Tests using Handheld GPS and Electronic Flight Instrument System, Christopher Michael Gocha
Degradation of Solar Cells Due to Arcing in a Vacuum Chamber, Christina Gonzalez
Flaperon Assembly Manual for PegaStol Aftermarket Wings, Eric Alan Gray
Aerial Deployable Autonomous Solar Powered Glider, Brandon Groshong and Jacob Ohana
De-Orbiting Upper Stage Rocket Bodies Using a Deployable High Altitude Drag Sail, Robert A. Hawkins Jr. and Joseph A. Palomares
High-Fidelity Low-Thrust Trajectory Determination Research and Analysis, Tyler Hill
Validation of the Ballistic Limit Equation for Monolithic Aluminum Shielding at Geostationary Orbital Debris Impact Velocity, Brandon Holladay
Test and Verification of Vortex Shedding for a 3D bluff body, Paul D. Innes and Charles E. Carlson
Comprehensive Matlab GUI for Determining Barycentric Orbital Trajectories, Steve Katzman
Control Experiment: Model Helicopter, Matthew D. Lattanzi
Three-Axis Stabilized Earth Orbiting Spacecraft Simulator, Alan F. Ma and Nikola N. Dominikovic
Manufacturing Processes in an All-aluminum Airframe, Stewart McDougall
Preliminary Design of a Laboratory Cylindrical Hall-Effect Thruster, Scott McGrail and Sam Parker
A Study on Organic Epoxy and Hemp Composite Plates with an Emphasis on Mechanical and Finite Element Analysis, Alma Melendez
Analysis and Testing of Heat Transfer through Honeycomb Panels, Daniel D. Nguyen
Accelerating Lambert's Problem on the GPU in MATLAB, Nathan Parrish
Effect of Multifunctional Material on the Mechanical Behavior of Composite Structure Using Finite Element Analysis, Nicholas A. Romonoski
Interstellar Mission to Gliese 581, Brock Schmalzel and Brian Tsoi
Ramjet Fuel System, Kelsey Selin
The Study of Natural Composite I-Beam in a Three Point Bending Test, Abdel Shabbar
Empennage Sizing and Aircraft Stability using Matlab, Ryan C. Struett
Global Launch Vehicle Selector, Keisuke Suzuki
Performance Effects of Damage Arrestment Devices on Sandwich Composite Beams under Monotonic Loading, Yvette Vanessa Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Effects of Damage Arrestment Devices in Composite Plate Sandwiches with Fastener Holes, Mark Anderson, Nancy Hung Choy, Lacey Jones, and Rita Kourskaya
Performance Analysis of a Variable Conductance Heat Pipe, Herron Arreola
Flight Testing in a Simulation Based Environment, David W. Babka
An Analysis of Stabilizing 3U CubeSats Using Gravity Gradient Techniques and a Low Power Reaction Wheel, Erich Bender
Design, Manufacturing and Testing of an Environmentally-Green Bipropellant Thruster, Alex Bendoyro, Gabriel Sanchez, Erin Stearns, and Phillip Takahashi
Analysis and Design of an Affordable High Altitude Rocket System, Brian Cooper
Hybrid Rocket Based Combined Cycle Test Rig Design, Construction, and Testing, Mark Costa and Matthew Handfelt
Two Element Linear Strength Vortex Panel Method, Clifton A. Cox
Study of the Effect of Different Lay-up Methods on the Composite Mechanical Characteristics, Veronica Cuevas and Walter Ely Salguero
Analysis and Design of a Propulsion System Trade Study Tool for a Boeing 376 Series Communications Satellite, Kevin Dunk
Compressor Performance Map Generation and Testing per SAE J1723, Jeffrey Lee Freeman
An Analysis of N-Body Trajectory Propagation, Emerson Frees II
Thermal Analysis of the CubeSat CP3 Satellite, Jonas Friedel and Sean McKibbon
Decommissioning a Geosynchronous Satellite, Anthony D. Galvan
Development and Design of a Hovering Controller for Operation in a Dynamic Asteroid Environment, Nicholas Georgiades
Determination of the Surface Boundary Layer Using a Quadrotor, Andrew Haviland
Radiation in the Space Environment, Sally Hermansen and Jennifer Shatts
Design and Assembly of a Super Treadmill, Simon Iacob
Scale modeling of Cessna 172, Chee-woon Kim
An Investigation of Dynamic Soaring and its Applications to the Albatross and RC Sailplanes, Christopher J. Lee
Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Electromagnetic Rail Gun for the repeated testing and simulation of Orbital Debris Impacts, Jeff Maniglia, Jordan Smiroldo, Alex Westfall, and Guy Zohar
Electric Aircraft Propulsion Test Rig Design & Fabrication, Ryan Mayer, Brian Kubicki, Bradley Rodriguez, Austin Harris, and David Caudle
Wind Tunnel Modeling of Small Electric UAV Power System Performance, Nathan R. Phelps
3D CFD on an Open Wheel Race Car Front Wing in Ground Effects, Thomas A. Price
Development of a Laboratory Experiment to Simulate Upper-Stage Rocket Explosions, Timothy J. Price
Composite I-Beam Fabrication and Testing in Response to 14th Annual SAMPE Bridge Competition, Kodi Rider, Niño Noel Las Piñas, and Hans Mayta
Construction of NACA 66-415 NLF Composite Wing for Acoustic Turbulence Testing, Scott Sawyer and Sean Stewart
Aircraft Longitudinal Control Experiment, Dustin Schaff
Clifford Algebra Calculations with Representation Theory & an Introduction to Clifford Algebra, Alexander I. Scherling
Comparison of a High Purity Germanium Gamma Ray Spectrometer and a Multidimensional NaI(T1) Scintillation Gamma Ray Spectrometer, Greg Stratton
Flow Characteristics of the Renovated Cal Poly 3 x 4 ft Subsonic Wind Tunnel, Mathew L. Thomas, Dorian V. Pandey, and Jason N. Nguyen
X-51 Composite Airframe, Brendon J. Townshend
Conical Probe Calibration and Wind Tunnel Data Analysis of the Channeled Centerbody Inlet Experiment, Samson Siu Truong
Analysis of Surface Augmentation of Airfoil Sections via Flow Visualization Techniques, John Louis Vento
Mapping Galileo's Trajectory, Mark Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Blended Wing Body Form Factor Code and Model Center Integration, Simone (Simo) Alberti
Autonomous Control of the Cal Poly Motion Flight Simulator, Andrew M. Anderson
Hybrid Rocket Motor, Zach Arena, Alexander Athougies, and Alden Rodulfo
Hot Air Balloon Navigation, Dustin Blackwell
MATLAB Structural Analysis Code for String Wing Box Structure, Sean Brown
Interplanetary Gravity Assisted Trajectory Optimizer (IGATO), Jason Bryan
RV-7 N675CP Lean versus Rich Fuel Mixture Aircraft Performance, Edward Spenser Burgos and William Beaman Howe
MATLAB® GUI Visualization of Classical Orbital Elements, Nancy Teresa Cabrera
Modeling and Preliminary Finite Element Analysis on the Spun Structure for the CPInterSEP Project, Jason Carpenter, Kelly Cheng, Jeffrey Ma, Richard Pelham, and Kevin Povey
Non-Explosive Actuator Simulator, Bryan Costanza
Delamination of Sandwich Composites, Richard Anthony Davis
Analysis of F-104C World's Altitude Record Flight, William J. Day
Subwoofer Frequency Response Optimization by Means of Active Control, Luis Dominguez
Design, Fabrication, Structural Testing, and Numerical Analysis of a Small Scale Composite Wing, Jacob David Gaunt, Juan Carlos Flores, and Vincent Andrew Perry
Analysis of a Passive Flow Control Device via Flow Visualization Techniques, Cheryl R. Graham and Shi (Peter) Huang
Experimental Development of Compressor and Turbine Performance Maps for Turbomachinery, Michael W. Green
Conceptual Aircraft Hinge Moment Measurement System, Erin M. Hambrick and Nicole M. Thomason