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CASE Day

CASE Day 2021 was held virtually in May 2021. Faculty and students showcased their projects in a virtual reality platform called Mozilla Hubs.

Click the links below to view projects in the virtual reality rooms.

Faculty Presentations

Student Presentations

Mini Maker Fair

Faculty Presentations

Si Hyun Kim

Co-authors : Dr. Giacomo Laffranchini and Dr. Martha Fernanda Wagstaff

Title of Project: Does humane orientation matter? A cross-cultural study of job characteristics needs-supplies fit/misfit and affective organizational commitment.

Giacomo Laffranchini

Co-authors: Dr. John Hadjimarcou; Dr. Si Hyun Kim

Title of Project: The First Turnaround Response Of Family Firms In A Crisis Situation

Student Presentations

Carlos Ramirez

Title of Project: D3 (Differentiating Trig) PDF

Description: Studied how climate has changed through trophic interactions of plants, caterpillars, and parasitoids. Noticed Phenological Asynchrony: When the life cycle of the host doesn't align with that of the parasite. In this case, caterpillars are maturing a lot quicker than their parasitoids because or warmth.

Reanna Saldivar

Title of Project: Coronavirus & Environmental Racism: Threats in Minority Communities

Description: Showing that minorities are affected by environmental injustice and areas they call home are affected by pollution and toxins provided by corporations. The pandemic has increased the crisis.

Student Presentations

Levi Snow

Title of Project: Climate Change and its affect on Mental Health

Description: Powerpoint of my research paper topics and my research findings.

Kaylee Licona

Title of Project: Climate change effects on mental health and the latino community

Description: My research project will go over the effects climate change has on low-income and Latino communities, as well as cover the effects on mental health. I will go in-depth on my findings and understand how natural disasters affect communities along with coming up with community solutions.

Maker Fair Presentations

Dr. John Calavitta-Dos Santos

Title of Project: Monumental Vision: a Collaborative Student and Faculty Experience to Reshape Public Space

Description: I engaged the ULV community to respond to a City of LA design challenge to redesign the site of the removed Christopher Columbus monument. Working with students and faculty across campus and disciplines, we created new monuments of progress based on our memories, histories, & cultural identities.

Dr. John Calavitta-Dos Santos

Title of Project: Creative Mapping: Supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) owed businesses in LA

Co-designers: Ashley Garcia, Alexander Hernandez, Monica Martinez, Jacob Corona, Sabrina Tinajero, Gage Unsoeld, Blake Washington, Dominic Gomez, Jaqueline Mendoza, Alyssa Valdez

Description: The purpose of this LVE class project is to support the AAPI community by promoting and delivering local AAPI business information through interactive and innovative maps in order to attract a younger target group like students by engaging viewer's attention.

Maker Fair Presentations

Beau Daoust

Title of Project: Personal Cloud Server

Description: For this project, I used a Raspberry Pi 4 and a WD Elements 4TB hard drive to host my own personal cloud server via a service called "ownCloud". This cloud server can be access anytime, anywhere, from any device.

Adrian Lai

Title of Project: PHP Web Scraper

Description: A PHP-based web scraper capable of scrapping movie information from IMDB such as film title, rating, and written review.

Maker Fair Presentations

Joshua Brown

Title of Project: Micro machines with magnetostriction

Description: Exploring the possibilities of making very tiny machines that can be controlled using magnetic fields.

Bryan Haley

Title of Project: Leo Lab Device & GameBoy HDMI Output

Description: LeoLab Device: IOLab clone with new hardware and software built from scratch.

GameBoy HDMI output: a console mod utilizing an FPGA to add HDMI output to an original Nintendo GameBoy.