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This event is open to students, faculty, staff and the public.
Schedule of Events
Indicates concurrent eventsCollege of Architecture Annual Showcase ’24
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Concludes at 8 a.m.
Demonstrations
D1 – Virtual and Augmented Reality demonstration towards developing and commercializing a Mixed Reality interface for working with construction robotics
D4 – Exploring Online Social Collaborative Spaces as Educational Alternatives to Physical Site Visits in AEC Education
D5 – Simulating the impact of fatigue, sleep, lighting and drugs on brain functions
D6 – Worksite-specific Safety Training Environments with Augmented Reality
D7 – Interactive Visual Analytics for Campus Digital Twin
D8 – New Horizons of Visual Information
D9 – Wearable Robots for Construction Safety Applications
D10 – Enhancing Data Sensing Competencies in the Built Environment
Plaza – Collaborative Autonomy: Citizen Science and Autonomous Driving for Safe and Accessible Mobility
Artwork Displays
Department of Architecture Book
Mods & Pods
COPY / ORDER / REPEAT
Information Tables
Table 1 – The Innovation Hubs – Reveille 3D printed modelD4 – Exploring Online Social Collaborative Spaces as Educational Alternatives to Physical Site Visits in AEC Education
Table 2–COA Strategic Plan
Table 3 – COSC NSF Sponsored REU ProgramD6 – Worksite-specific Safety Training Environments with Augmented Reality
Table 4 – Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) ProgramD8 – New Horizons of Visual Information
Table 5 – Construction Science Graduate ProgramD10 – Enhancing Data Sensing Competencies in the Built Environment
Table 6 – The Center for Heritage Conservation (CHC)
Table 7 – Master in Urban Planning
Table 8 – Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC)
Table 9 – Texas Target Communities (TxTC)
Table 10 – GeoSAT: Fearless on Every Spatial Front
Table 11 – Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center (TXRDC)
Table 12 – Camp ARCH!
Table 13 – Preservation and Conservation Student Society
Table 14 – Department of Construction Science Constructionarium
Table 15 – Master of Architecture and Career Change
Concludes at 5 p.m.
Presentation by Bradley R. Freels followed by a panel discussion with Katy Martin, Lacee Jacobs, and Scott Ziegler along with a Q&A with the audience.
Spillover for this panel will be located in the Rudder Forum.
Concludes at 9:15 a.m.
P05 | Jack Boling – ARCH 212 Campus Outdoor Space Analysis
P07 | Evan Kennedy – Development of a new standard method for evaluating the freeze-thaw performance of 3D-printed concrete Detecting Effects of Rapid Freeze/Thaw (F/T) on 3D Printed Concrete
P09 | Chan Young Park – A Framework for Digitizing P&IDs Using GPT and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Enhance Asset Data Interoperability
P16 | Dr. Nathanael Rosenheim – Social Vulnerability Indices (SVI): Exploring Assumptions & Limitations
P17 | Kin Long Lei – Are Plans and Policies Integrated for Community’s Hazard Resilience? An Evaluation for Indigenous Communities
P18 | Wenjin ‘Summer’ Wang – Neighborhood Life for Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-synthesis of Walking Interviews
P25 | Dr. Genny Carrillo – The Housing Environment and its Effect on Hispanic Children with Asthma
P26 | Leslie Martinez-Roman – Mandatory Flood Buyouts in Predominantly Hispanic Unincorporated Harris County
P30 | Alexander Abuabara – Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Owner and Renter Housing Assistance After Hurricane Harvey
P31 | Alexander Abuabara – Hurricane Evacuation Studies: Zone Planning for Texas Coastal Counties
P32 | Alexander Abuabara – Application of Bayesian Networks to Hurricane Risk Assessment
P38 | Quan Sun – Assessing volume delay function accuracy through multi-source traffic data: Insights from connected vehicle data and traffic simulation data
Concludes at 10 a.m.
Xuemei Zhu – Active Living 101: Physical Environment vs. Active Living–Perspectives from Urban Planning, Transportation, and Architecture
Seokyung Park – Residential Environments and Health of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Mediating Roles of Physical and Social Activity
Sungmin Lee – Urban Trees and Perceived Neighborhood Safety: Neighborhood Upkeep Matters
Dingding Ren – Bird Sanctuary
Xi Chen – Transit for Health and Mobility among Older Adults in El Paso, TX: Benefits, Barriers, and Promotion Strategies
Ani Colt & Preston Tyree – Transitioning from a Multigenerational to an Intergenerational Community: A Case Study of the Mueller Community in Austin, Texas
Concludes at 10:45 a.m.
Cuiling Liu – Fine Scale Urban Weather Data Acquisition by Using Urban Weather Generator Model
Tianchen Huang – Generating Landscape Conceptual Design via Text-to-image generative AI Model
Xinyue Ye – Optimizing Campus Resource Management through Digital Twins: Conceptualization and Implementation
Sinan Zhong – A Social Marketing Approach to Identify Benefits and Determinants of Intergenerational Interactions: US Nationwide Expert Interviews
Charles Culp – The Application of Machine Learning to Improving Building Energy Efficiency
Keshu Wu – Optimizing Campus Timetables with the Texas A&M Digital Twin: Integrating Spatial-Temporal Insights and Multi-Modal Transportation
Concludes at 10:45 a.m.
P05 | Jack Boling – ARCH 212 Campus Outdoor Space Analysis
P06 | Suryeon Kim – Identification of Similar Historical Projects and Potential Change Orders Using Case-based Reasoning
P07 | Evan Kennedy – Development of a new standard method for evaluating the freeze-thaw performance of 3D-printed concrete Detecting Effects of Rapid Freeze/Thaw (F/T) on 3D Printed Concrete
P08 | Janghwan Suk – Development of the updated version of the TxDOT construction production rate table
P10 | Yilin Cai – Smart 3D Concrete Printing: Robotic Control Based on Real-time Environmental Feedback
P18 | Wenjin ‘Summer’ Wang – Neighborhood Life for Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-synthesis of Walking Interviews
P19 | Hyewon Yoon – Association of Historical Redlining and Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) with cancer-related hospital utilization: In case of Texas, US
P20 | Dingding Ren – Re_Parking
P25 | Dr. Genny Carrillo – The Housing Environment and its Effect on Hispanic Children with Asthma
P26 | Leslie Martinez-Roman – Mandatory Flood Buyouts in Predominantly Hispanic Unincorporated Harris County
P27 | Tarlan Pourmostaghimi | Preliminary Findings on Hispanic Migration in the U.S., 2010-present
P30 | Alexander Abuabara – Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Owner and Renter Housing Assistance After Hurricane Harvey
P31 | Alexander Abuabara – Hurricane Evacuation Studies: Zone Planning for Texas Coastal Counties
P32 | Alexander Abuabara – Application of Bayesian Networks to Hurricane Risk Assessment
P33 | Wenjing Gong – Integrating high-resolution simulations and transformer network predictions for mitigating human heat stress: A digital twin of a Texas campus
P34 | Farzana Ahmed – Participatory Geographic Information System: A Tool for Community-Led Hazard Mapping
P37 | Li Deng – How Perceived Campus Greenness and Walkability Influence Psychological Distress Among College Students
P40 | Carlos Santos-Rivera – Evaluating the Resilience and Operational Strategies of Nonprofits in Puerto Rico: A Post-Disaster Analysis
P41 | Jeewasmi Thapa – The Power of Planning: Mitigating Diverse External Threats Among Growing Rural Communities
P43 | Najmeh Jahani – A Method for Regulating Land Surface Temperature by Creating Balance in Urban Landscape Heterogeneities –The Case of Tehran Metropolitan
Concludes at 11:30 a.m.
Concludes at 1 p.m.
Speakers include: Rick Rundell, Julie Hiromoto, and Greg Luhan.
Spillover for this panel will be located in the Rudder Forum. This panel concludes at 12:15 p.m.
P01 | Natalie Miller – The Weekend Home
P02 | Liliana O. Beltran – Optimizing Daylighting: Exploring Visual and Non-Visual Effects through Weather, Orientation, and Location
P04 | Xuemei Zhu – Design for Healthy and Active Aging: Understanding Physical Activity, Social Activity, and Fall Prevention in Long-term Care Facilities
P05 | Jack Boling – ARCH 212 Campus Outdoor Space Analysis
P24 | Shannon Van Zandt – Introducing the HUD Center of Excellence in Hispanic Housing Studies
P27 | Tarlan Pourmostaghimi | Preliminary Findings on Hispanic Migration in the U.S., 2010-present
P29 | Joey (Xinyu) Li – Dashboard for Exploring Housing Markets, Environmental Health, and Economic Well-Being in Hispanic Communities
P36 | Mikkel Hjort – Better Physical Frameworks in Psychiatry– A Study of the Importance of the Environment for Psychiatric Patients’ Recovery
P39 | Erika Koeniger – Developing a Housing Recovery Plan Assessment (HRPA) Tool
Concludes at 1 p.m.
Siyu Yu – Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Multi-hazards Approach
Sungju Jung – Citizen Oversight of Public Spaces: Evaluating Public Participation in Managing Privately Owned Public Spaces
Doug Wunneburger – Risk-based hurricane evacuation zone planning for the Texas Gulf Coast
Wenyu Zhang – An Intelligent Campus Assistant: Combining Assistive Chatbot and Digital Twin for Enhanced Event and Course Navigation
Concludes at 1:45 p.m.
Maryam Abbasi Kamazani – Optimizing embodied and operational energy and carbon footprints of buildings in current and future scenarios
Sejal Sanjay Shanbhag – An analysis of the cradle-to-gate life cycle of hempcrete in the United States to determine its potential to cause global warming
Yasaman Norouzi – Building-Level Life Cycle GWP Analysis: Comparing Hempcrete and Wood-Framed Walls
Shilpa Bhardwaj Halkur Srinath – Problems and Potential Solutions for Operating Room Environments in the USA
Roxana Jafari – Rethinking the Design of Mental and Behavioral Crisis Stabilization Units through Integrating Physical Mock-Up Simulations and Artificial Intelligence
Concludes at 1:45 p.m.
The Showcase Social will conclude at 3 p.m.
There will be free gelato and espresso drinks for registered attendees.
Presentation by Dr. Michael F. Goodchild followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Spillover for this panel will be located in the Rudder Forum.
Concludes at 3:15 p.m.
P05 | Jack Boling – ARCH 212 Campus Outdoor Space Analysis
P28 | Yuning Ye – Comprehensive Knowledge Map for Housing Data: Insights from the Texas Research Data Center
P35 | Weishan Bai – Neuro-Cognitive Enhancement of Remote Sensing Image Classification
P42 | Hanwool Lee – Differential Impacts of COVID-19 on Physical Activity, Social Activity, and Mental Health by Population and Neighborhood Characteristics
Concludes at 4:00 p.m.
Come join us at this closing session as we celebrate all the innovative and engaging events of the day, and look ahead to the next year at the College of Architecture! After a brief highlights reel, Interim Dean Suermann will discuss the major initiatives underway in the College and ways to be involved. Following that will be the award ceremony, so come show your support for the faculty, staff, and students receiving awards. New this year will be “People’s Choice” awards for Best Poster and Best Presentation Booth – voting will be open during the Showcase, with winners announced at the end of the closing session. There will also be a prize drawing – must be present to win. See you there!
Concludes at 5 p.m.