CE 491/2/3: Senior Projects

Disciplines: structural engineering and geotechnical engineering

Additional requisites: Students must complete CE 406 and/or 421 by end of fall quarter 2013.

Description: This project involves the design of a 2 to 3 story steel and concrete automobile dealership featuring a large vehicle showroom, accounting department, salesperson/manager offices and a concierge area, along with a one story service department and on site exterior parking spaces for the clients/guests and for dealership's new and pre-owned vehicle fleet to be built in a large empty lot.

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Disciplines: environmental and hydraulic engineering

Additional requisites: Students must complete CE 431 by the end of fall quarter 2013. Completion of CE 499: Water Reclamation is highly desirable but not required.

Description: The Orange County Water District Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) is a state of the art advanced water purification facility that produces recycled water for indirect potable reuse. The facility employs a combination of treatment processes including membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, and advanced oxidation. Although the treatment system employed at the GWRS is considered to be the industry standard, alternative processes may be employed that require less energy and produce less waste, while still producing highly treated water that meets regulatory requirements. The goal of this project will be to develop a preliminary design for an alternative advanced water purification facility, including an estimate of capital and operations & maintenance cost. The alternative design will be compared to the industry standard design in terms of cost and product water quality.

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Disciplines: structural, traffic/transportation and civil engineering

Additional requisites: none.

Description: The Cal Poly team will prepare the 2014-2019 Transportation Facilities Program for the City of San Gabriel. The program involves designing a master plan and facilities for bikes on major streets, creating a “complete street” design for Las Tunas Drive, designing retrofits and safety upgrades for City bridges, and prepare a geometric design program for arterial and collector streets in the city of San Gabriel. This inter-disciplinary project involves traffic, transportation, general civil, and structural engineering.

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Disciplines: geospatial engineering (GIS and/or survey), water resources (hydrology/hydraulics, groundwater), environmental engineering (water quality and quantity testing, recycled water policy and permitting), and geotechnical engineering (infiltration testing).

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE 451, CE 326 and CE 431 by the end of fall quarter 2013.

Description: Green Cal Poly is an innovative water recharge project that will look at numerous sites and methods to infiltrate water (storm water and recycled water) into the Sprada Basin. Students will work in a team to evaluate various available infiltration technologies that could be implemented at Cal Poly Pomona. After a detailed comparison students will perform preliminary design on their final selected site and infiltration technology for the project. In addition, the teams will need to instrument the site with monitoring devices to assist with short term and long term performance. This project has two overall goals: 1.) increase the amount of available water within the Sprada Basin; and 2) improve the water quality within Sprada Basin. As part of the project students will need to be familiar with policies associated with recycled and storm water recharge for potable water use. The team will design a prototype that can be used to demonstrate how the infiltration project works so that there can be technology transfer and training. This project is intended to be a pilot study that Cal Poly can use to obtain external funding.

• Mapping viable site location at Cal Poly Pomona (incorporate all data within ArcGIS);
• Evaluate environmental factors and policies associated with recharge;
• Determine sources of water for infiltration (i.e. recycled water, storm water, etc.);
• Coordinate with facilities on the implementation of the proposed project;
• Analysis soil and water samples to evaluate water quality and infiltration parameters need for engineering analysis and design;
• Analyze watershed processes to evaluate quantity and quality of storm water;
• Design the infiltration system for the project;
• Design the methods needed to monitor the water for quantity and quality; and
• Design and construct a pilot infiltration exhibit that can be used by the campus for community involvement.

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Disciplines: transportation, structural, and geotechnical engineering

Additional requisites: None required but CE 223, CE 327L, CE 421 or CE 424 are desirable.

Description: This project will consist of developing a conceptual design of a new bus transit center and parking structure to be located between the Bronco Bookstore and the Kellogg Gym. The project will include transportation, structural/architectural, and geotechnical engineering. Two or three meetings and/or field trips will be held over the summer in preparation for starting the work in Fall.

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Disciplines: transportation/Transit Engineering, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE223 by the end of fall quarter 2013. CE499/L Railroad Design is highly desirable

Description: A two quarter collaborative senior project. Students will be working with Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning students. Focus of the project will be the OLDA line. Students will review project data and then develop alternatives for a light rail corridor from Santa Clarita to Cerritos, through Los Angeles. Working in interdisciplinary teams, students will gain an understanding of multimodal rail transit and how the three disciplines collaborate in industry.

During the first quarter, this will be a 4 unit class, with all three disciplines working together. During the second quarter, this will be a 2 unit class, with Civil Engineers working on finalizing the selected alternative designs. The extra 2 units will count as a technical elective credit.

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Disciplines: transportation

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE223 by the end of fall quarter of 2013.

Description: This project will concentrate on the improvement of the existing interchange at Railroad Canyon. The purpose of this project is to identify alternatives to reduce traffic congestion. Interchange improvement design will be conducted and a feasibility analysis will be performed for each alternative. A preferable alternative that supports this project and the Franklin’s project will be recommended and presented to Caltrans top management for I-15 corridor improvement.

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Disciplines: transportation

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE223 by the end of fall quarter of 2013.

Description: This project will concentrate on the new interchange design of I-15 at Franklin Street. The purpose of this project is to identify alternatives (after consultation with Railroad Canyon design team) to reduce traffic congestion. New interchange design will be conducted and a feasibility analysis will be performed for each alternative. A preferable alternative that supports this project and the Railroad canyon project will be recommended and presented to Caltrans top management for I-15 corridor improvement.

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Disciplines: structural, engineering

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE406 by the end of fall quarter of 2013.

Description: Design of a low-rise structural steel building in accordance with the 2013 California Building Code (CBC) and it’s referenced specifications and standards, including; 2012 International Building Code (IBC), ASCE 7-10, Minimum Design Loads For Buildings And Other Structures, AISC 360-10, Specification For Structural Steel Buildings, AISC 341-10, Seismic Provisions For Structural Steel Buildings, AISC 358-10, Prequalified Connections For Special And Intermediate Steel Moment Frames For Seismic Applications, and ACI 318-11, Building Code Requirements For Structural Concrete.

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Disciplines: environmental and water resources engineering

Additional requisites: None required but CE 431/L, CE 451, CE 456/L are highly desirable.

Description: This project will tackle one of the tasks of the “International Environmental Design Contest”, an event held by New Mexico State University every year in April. The Cal Poly Pomona’s proposed idea is use of ion exchange media to remove oxyanions (e.g. nitrates) from drinking water in association with a bacterial solution to regenerate the resin media. This will provide an environmentally sustainable and cost effective method for oxyanion removal. The deliverables of the project include: developing a project management plan including fundraising and marketing plans, developing a complete process design of ion exchange system including biological regeneration of media in full-scale and bench-scale, economical evaluation of the CapEx and OpEx of the designed full-scale plant, building and operating the designed bench-scale system, data-collection and analysis, developing a technical paper, poster, and professional presentations.

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Disciplines: geology, water resources, environmental and geospatial engineering

Additional requisites: None required but CE 431/L, CE 451, CE 456/L, CE 484/L are highly desirable.

Description: The Spadra Basin, currently unmanaged, is located in the city of Pomona. The goal of the project is to determine the long-term viability of the Spadra basin as a resource of reliable water in terms of quantity and quality. This can be answered by building a steady-state MODFLOW groundwater model of the Spadra basin. In this project, the students are expected to respond to the client needs (Cal Poly Pomona Facilities Planning and Management) and to perform the following tasks: identify all the geological data, existing pumping and observation well data, perform the following tasks- delineate the model components (e.g., tributaries, areas of return flow from groundwater), process a digital elevation model (DEM) to determine stream locations and aquifer topography, calculate inflows and outflows of individual model components, gather and calculate model parameters (e.g., conductance, recharge rate, hydraulic conductivity), use geostatistics to create surfaces, obtain concentrations of water quality parameters in wells (e.g., TDS, nitrate), run and calibrate the model. To do these tasks, field trips and consultation with the Cal Poly Pomona Facilities will be required. Project deliverables include a final report with all the details of the MODFLOW model development, ArcGIS model, geodatabases of the model components, and the calibrated model.

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Disciplines: structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering

Additional requisites: Students must have completed one or more of the following courses by the end of fall quarter 2013: CE 406, CE 421, CE 433/L, CE 424.

Description: This project involves the design of a mid-rise building California. The current economic environment will place significant financial constraints on the project. Students will be required to develop several alternatives to reach the budget constraints, select the best alternative and then complete the design. Students will be meeting with the architect, mechanical/electrical/plumbing designer, and construction contractor to determine design requirements and review design alternatives.

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Disciplines: geotechnical, structural, and civil engineering

Additional requisites: Students must have completed CE 326 by the end of summer 2013.

Description: The students in this senior project will complete the preliminary design of a tunnel. The project scope will include the following:

1. Collect and compile data for design.
2. Interpret and assess geotechnical conditions.
3. Develop tunnel alignment, profile, cross-section, and construction method.
4. Design initial and final tunnel support systems.
5. Design portals, portal structures, and any retaining walls or ground reinforcement required.
6. Document item 1. in 90% Geotechnical Data Report.
7. Document items 2. through 5. in 50% Geotechnical Design Report and 50% Drawings.
8. Prepare project schedule and cost estimate.
9. Compile all design calculations.

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