Expanding the Pipeline: Training Future Professionals with Accessibility Mindset

It is highly demanded to offer software developers an opportunity to learn the fact that new technologies that they are creating may create a technical barrier to people with disabilities. Through this project, we plan to empower students with the skills they need to build technical solutions for people with visual impairment, hear impairment or fine motor skill impairment through enhanced curriculum and engaged lear...

Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Industry

The California State University Northridge (CSUN) proposes to initiate a new curriculum in Data Science (DS) that is designed to offer new coursework, research opportunities linked to emerging efforts in industry, and career exploration workshops for undergraduates in mathematics and related programs of studies. The project falls under the NSF AD Harnessing the Data Revolution. CSUN, a federally designated Hispanic Serving In...

Integration of Mobile Accessibility in Engineering and Design Curriculum

Today, we see people use more mobile computers, such as smartphones and their companion mobile applications including both native and hybrid than any other types of computing devices. Smartphones become the world's most personal computing devices for everything, dating, ride sharing, finance, gaming, insurance claims, email, music, etc. Both devices and applications should also be designed and engineered as accessible as it...

Promoting Student Engagement and Success through Assistive Technology

pproximately 25% of adults in the United States live with a disability, and ATs play an important role accommodating people with disabilities in different environments, including in education, employment and independent living. Research has shown that people with disabilities from minority populations are less likely to have access to AT and are more likely to report unmet AT needs. Additionally, students are often unaware of t...

Wave in Nonlinear Transmission Lattice

In this project we will explore solutions in the transmission line or lattice analogue of a nonlinear left handed metamaterial. The nonlinearity is expressed by a voltage dependent. We will develop both the corresponding nonlinear dynamical lattice, as well as its reduction via a multiple scales expansion to nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) models for the envelope of a given carrier wave. We then consider the robustness of different types of solitary waves of...

Autonomy Research Center for STEM

California State University, Northridge proposes to establish the Autonomy Research Center for STEM (ARCS), a sustainable multidisciplinary university center of excellence that will significantly contribute to NASA?s research in autonomy for civil aviation and space exploration, while transitioning and commercializing research results to address pressing industry and societal needs. In collaboration with researchers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center and Je...

Climate Change Resiliency Assessment for Cold Storage and Logistics

UCI and Lineage will take a holistic approach that incorporates the critical components of the cold chain: food, people, energy, infrastructure, transportation, and the environment. Studying the complex interdependencies and interactions of these sub-systems allows for correlations and cascade effects to be properly taken into account. These relationships can be exploited to inform preventative and reactionary countermeasures.

California Advanced Defense Ecosystems & National Consortia Effort

CSUN is proposing to develop few inputs for Workforce Development in Smart Manufacturing. As part of this initiative, CSUN will partner with El Camino College, Governor?s Office of Planning and Research to implement the following: 1) Inventory of SM curricula and programs in the U.S., identification of SM skill sets working with industry and academia. 2) Development of certificate program in Smart Manufacturing (maybe 6-8 hours)...

Energy & Appliance Standards for Plug Loads: Assessing Current Needs and Future Opportunities

Analyze and Test Total Energy Consumption of Plug Load Devices to Support Codes and Standards for Non-covered Products. This research will analyze the devices not currently covered by California or US Standards, determine their total energy consumption (standby and active modes) and identify those with the most potential for consideration in future codes and standards. We plan focusing major testing with...

FW-HTF-P: Workers and Technology Together (WATT)

Proposed Project The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, ?Climate Change and Land?, estimated that food waste and its loss as energy ?caused between 8 and 10% of the emissions of the gases responsible for global warming in the period 2010-2016?. Of the total methane emissions released from landfills in a given year, food waste accounts for 20%. The efficient capture and safe processing of food waste into energy will have an apprec...

Consortium for High-volume Additive Manufacturing of Aerospace Heat Exchanger and Talent Development

The Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM1 (ARCS), a NASA-sponsored center for convergence research at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in partnership with Castheon Inc, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE), UCLA, LA Piece College and Honeywell propose a transformative convergence research approach that will fundament...

The Sustainable Manufacturing Alliances for Research and Training Industry Assessment Center (The SMART IAC)

The Sustainable Manufacturing Alliance for Research and Training Industrial Assessment Center (SMART IAC), hosted by the University of California Irvine and California State University Northridge (satellite) is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Centers Program. We provide no-cost energy consulting services to manufacturers within 150 miles of UC Irvine and CSUN...