Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Ryan Yedinak, Cañada College; Oskar Granados, Canada College; Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University; Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College; Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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Diversity

to use acoustic sensors for non-contact, non-destructive structural health monitoring.After learning basic theory through a series of training workshops, the students performedexperimental testing with various configurations of an array of microphone sensors on a single-degree-of-freedom structure excited by an earthquake simulator. With the acquired data, severalpost-processing algorithms are proposed to extract the useful information and eliminateunwanted signals.In addition to the surveys, the participants were invited to participate in a 30-minute conversationabout their summer internship experience to examine the internships’ impact on interviewees interms of: i) engineering self-efficacy and commitment to engineering as a career; ii