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I am an Electrical Engineering student, entering my senior year at San Jose State University (SJSU). I currently am enrolled in CIS2 online course at De Anza Community College. This page serves as the Individual Project which summarizes all 10 of the modules covered throughout the course.

Introduction
Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources (Best Source) (New Searches)

This website gives insight into criteria that should be used to evaluate the credibility of online sources. Criteria includes questioning the author’s qualifications and credentials, connections between the author and any organization/institution, questioning if the author is biased, and verifying that the works cited are credible references. These criteria and others mentioned are essential in deciding which online resources are credible.

20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship (Selected Media List)

This infographic supplies the reader with a summary of general behavior which should be exercised online. Examples include listen and think fast before you write, don’t get personal, don’t shout, and remember people may not be who they seem to be. These types of rules are essential in surviving online, or rather having digital citizenship.

Positive and Negative Impact of Computer in Society (Selected Media List)

This article goes in-depth on the different types of impacts the computer has had on society. It explains how the computer is being utilized across different types of industries and fields in today’s society. The article concludes by giving a list of the positive and negative impacts that the computer has had on society.

Privacy and Freedom of Speech
6 Terrifying User Agreements You've Probably Accepted (Best Source) (Selected Media List)

Today, many transactions are placed online requiring us to register, social media is everywhere, and the world has become digital. We are living at such a fast pace that we have no time to carefully read the user agreements in its entirety. This article tells us of the 6 top user agreements to be aware of.

The 5 biggest online privacy threats of 2013 (Selected Media List)

This article discusses how we generate more personal information online than we may think, leaving ourselves vulnerable to marketers and law enforcement officials. We are unaware of all the tracking and data collection that is being exercised when we sign up for online services and accept their privacy policies. It is very important to educate ourselves on ways to exercise our privacy rights by paying close attention to the five major threats which this article focuses on.

Copyright and Fair Use Animation (New Searches)

This animated video defines and distinguishes the differences between copyright and fair use. While copyright laws require permission from the copyright holder, fair use allows you to quote materials for purposes such as school work, education, news reporting, criticizing, or commenting without the permission from the copyright holder.

Intellectual Property
10 Absolute Facts about Copyright… Sort of (Best Source) (Selected Media List)

This article helps explain some of the common verbiage surrounding copyright law. This is important to understand because copyright issues can become extremely complicated. The article defines what your work is, freelance work, infringement, and fair use just to name a few.

How Media Literacy Helps Us Understand Our Changing World (New Searches)

This article points out the importance of becoming familiar with social media, or rather gain media literacy. It mentions the 2 L’s of media fluency which are listen and leverage in order to be successful when dealing with social media. It is important for educators to become media literal in order to reach the social media based students.

How A Company Gets Away With Stealing Independent Designers' Work (New Searches)

Many artists today are utilizing the internet to sell their art but unfortunately companies are stealing their work without their permission. This article mentions how a wholesale company, Cody Foster & Co., has been accused by artists for stealing their art which they have used to design their ornaments. These artists, like many other piracy victims, have turned to social media to spread the incident of this crime.

Crime
Ethical Problems in Computing (Best Source) (New Searches)

This article brings up several ethical dilemmas brought about by computer technology which include computer crime, privacy, and the power computer professionals have. In order to commit any type of computer crime, some form of intelligence is required to manipulate and gain access to a computer system. Unfortunately, most of these crimes, such as stealing funds online, are not punished and are merely required to return the money.

The 10 Most Common Internet Crimes (Discussions)

This article lists the 10 most common internet crimes and gives a definition of the crime as well as the punishment associated with each crime. Some of the most common crimes include phishing, blackmailing, sports betting, child pornography, drug trafficking, and criminal copyright infringement.

[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403134,00.asp '''You Got Hacked! What Now?'''] (New Searches)

This resource is ideal for anyone who has had their email or social media accounts hacked. It provides ways to recover from hacking and ways to prevent it from happening again. Furthermore, the article gives insight into how the hacking may have occurred, information on purging your passwords, and ways to change your online habits to prevent hacking.

Employment, Education and Entertainment
5 Excellent TED Ed Lessons to Spark Students Creativity (Best Source) (Selected Media List)

This resource provides 5 TED Ed videos on creativity including how to write descriptively, solving Einstein’s riddle, what adults can learn from kids, can robots be creative, and scientists transforming how we think about a disease. In particular the Einstein riddle video is engaging and allows you to participate as you watch. The video on artificial intelligence presents interesting concepts and makes you believe that A.I. can’t be creative after all.

Speech Recognition for Learning (New Searches)

This resource explains one of the most used form of assistive technology in schools which is speech recognition technology. Many types of software and apps exist which recognize speech and convert it to type up notes. This type of technology helps students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, vision impairments, and other physical disabilities preventing the student from writing, typing, or hearing.

DragonBox Numbers (New Searches)

Research has shown that it is easier to memorize thing when we associate them with an image, such as what this game is all about. DragonBox Numbers assigns a character to each number and creates games for children to learn and develop their math skills. Since children today are already using their phone for many reasons, this game incorporates education and entertainment all in one.

Grand Challenge: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
At SJSU, engineers are required to take a ENGR 100W writing course which heavily emphasis the importance of sustainability. We are taught the importance of taking care of our planet for the future generations. Essentially, we are taught the Seven generation sustainability, which means that we are only to use resources which will not risk the planet for the next seven generations to come. With this in mind, we became exposed to many realities and ideas in sustainable infrastructure, which is the reason why I chose this challenge to further research. The following shows the links I came across, as well as a brief summary of each link.

Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure (Selected Media List)

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the U.S. infrastructure was given the average grade of D. The reason for this is because much of the infrastructure is old and requires replacement. In addition, there has been minimal government funding to repair or replace it. It is up to Engineers today to come up with innovative ideas to restore and improve urban infrastructure.

Goal 4: Build or Retrofit 50 Million Square Feet of Green Buildings (New Searches)

The city of San Jose has implemented The Green Vision which consists of ten goals to be reached by the year 2022. These goals are to be used to convert the city of San Jose into the world center of clean technology innovation. Included in this vision is Goal 4 which encompasses building or retrofiting 50 million square feet of green buildings to reduce energy and water use while incorporating sustainable construction. As a result, this will reduce the city's carbon impact.

Goal 10: Create 100 Miles of Interconnected Trails (New Searches)

In addition to Goal 4, the city of San Jose has in place Goal 10 which is to create 100 miles of interconnected trails and 400 miles of street network to support commuting and recreation. The creation of these networks will promote commuting and recreation while reducing pollution, carbon impact, and bettering people's health.

GPR applied to mapping utilities along the route of the Line 4 (yellow) subway tunnel construction in São Paulo City, Brazil (New Searches)

One of the greatest challenges in restoring and improving infrastructure are the uncertainties of what lies underground. Much of the existing infrastructure lies buried underground and many of the records of the infrastructure locations are incomplete or unavailable. In order to solve this problem technology such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is being used to create a three dimensional profile of the existing underground utilities. GPR has been shown to effectively generate these profiles while not damaging the existing infrastructure. In 2011, a study in Brazil was conducted using GPR in the planning of an underground transportation system. The GPR was successful in mapping three dimensional profiles using 200 MHz of radar to determine eligibility for subsurface tunnel bores. GPR also prevents the destruction of underground facilities and also any possible accidents caused by accidentally penetrating these facilities.

Six Ideas for Fixing the Nation's Infrastructure Problems (Best Source) (New Searches)

As mentioned earlier, the lack of government funding has made it difficult to address the existing infrastructure. Roads and highways rely mainly on the Highway Trust Fund which relies heavily on the tax from gasoline. With the increase of hybrid vehicles and such, there is less money available for road construction. Experts suggest the use of a vehicle-miles traveled fee (VMT) which taxes road users depending on their usage of the road. Of course many are against the notion of being tracked.

San Jose isn't the only large city taking initiatives in this challenge. in 2006, Denver completed a 1.67 billion Transportation Expansion Project which was a multi agency venture to overhaul the metro area's multimodal transportation networks. This project added 19 miles of light rail and pedestrian bridges, it improved merging onto existing highways, and relieved congestion by widening the highway. This project was voter approved in 1999 through two bond measures which financed the project.

Los Angeles is currently in the process of revamping its transportation infrastructure as well. City Mayor Villaraigosa's voter approved tax hike is set to raise 40 billion dollars over the span of 30 years. The plan is to address the light rail, subway and rapid bus projects. If Los Angeles succeeds in obtaining a federal loan, it could begin these projects within the decade.

Evaluating and Controlling Technology
Electrical Engineering & The Internet of Things (Best Source) (New Searches)

This article discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and the importance of studying or being exposed to Electrical Engineering (EE). It mentions that IoT was coined back in 1999 and that it represents the endless possibilities of machines and sensors in physical objects communicating with each other with the use of the internet. IoT allows these machines and devices to be mobile, virtual, and instantaneous.

Fastest, Slowest Internet Speeds: Where Canada Ranks (New Searches)

This article takes a look at the internet speeds across the world, with data being compiled between October 2010 and April 2013. The United States on average had a download speed of 17.3 Mbps, while Canada was slower at 16.6 Mbps and Hong Kong was leading the entire world. It makes you wonder if these speeds reflect customers not purchasing faster internet, technology is simply not available in certain areas, or is the government limiting the installation of certain technology.

Cool Infographics (Selected Media List)

Not only does this website present innovative and creative ways of presenting information, via the use of infographics, but they share rather interesting information. You can see how Dallas-Fort Worth Texas is a great place to start your business at, trace back in time the types of genre and bands that contributed throughout music, or even see which foods are really healthy for you. These infographics are pleasant to the eye and intellect.

Risks, Failures and Responsibilities
What Are the Downsides of Computerized Medicine? (Best Source) (New Searches)

In this interview of Dr. Robert Wachter, a medical professor at UCSF, he discusses how the computerized world of medicine is changing for both the good and bad. Wachter mentions a downside of computerized medicine with an example of a teenage who was given an antibiotic dose 39 times the recommended amount which lead to a grand mal seizure. Even with such downsides, Wachter believe medicine is better off with computers, since there is better care for people overall.

Tynker (New Searches)

This website is geared for kids in helping them develop their coding skills with 12 self-guided courses of over 1000 coding activities. Kids can code along with their friends to create apps, explore STEM, fly drones, and even code on Mod Minecraft. In the current digital world we live in, it is essential that kids learn to code at an early age.

Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology (New Searches)

In this MIT technology review article, Vivek Wadhwa explains how employers can get into legal troubles if they ask their interviewees about religion, sexual preference, or politics, yet they can use social media to filter them out. Lenders can get in legal trouble if they reject someone based on their race, gender, and sexuality, yet they can refuse a loan based on your Facebook friends or even a computer algorithm which may jude you undesirable. Wadhwa further explains that although these actions are unethical, laws and ethics in today’s world can’t keep pace with the advances in technology.

Anytime, Anywhere
Will Free Online Courses Ever Replace a College Education? (Best Source) (New Searches)

This resource looks into the reasons why MOOCs could or could not replace a physical on campus education. It compares a Harvard course with a MOOC HarvardX course and explains that the MOOC offered better visuals and more engaging videos. Although MOOCs are innovating and cutting edge, until they begin to offer college credits, they may not be replacing an on campus college education.

Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams (New Searches)

In this TedTalk video, Eliasson tackles traffic congestion via a study done in Stockholm. This TedTalk is innovative because it shows how congestion pricing reduces traffic by 20 percent and reduces congestion by enormous number. More importantly, this video taps into how people adapt to changes in society as well as how society reacts better to suggestions rather than instructions.

What is Open Source? (New Searches)

This resource explains what the term open source is and how it differs from the term proprietary software. It explains why open source is not only beneficial for coders, but people in general can enjoy open source by using Owncloud or Nextcloud instead of proprietary apps such as Google Apps. Open source isn’t just a training ground for coders, but a realm for the general public to enjoy as well.

Technology Advances, Social Trends
What Does the Future of Biotechnology Therapies Look Like? (Best Source) (New Searches)

This article takes a look into the promising future of biotechnology and preventive medicine. It explains biotechnology as a new field which will continue driving medical progress to ensure that patients get the best suited therapies for specific conditions, genetic makeups, and other health issues. Biotechnology has allowed for the detection of any change in the DNA sequence of genes associated with disease risk, therefore helping predict the diseases which a patient could develop in his/her life.

15 New Technologies That Will Become Mainstream Soon (New Searches)

This resource gives the reader a glimpse into the technologies which will soon become available to all of us such as smart glasses, wearable electronics to track your vital signs, and holographic like screen-less displays to name a few. In addition graphene, once mass produced, will be used in virtually everything due to it being 100 times stronger than steel and applicable in many applications.

PrePex (New Searches)

The recipient of the 2015 Sutter Health Award, PrePex has made an innovative change for a large group of people worldwide in the prevention of contracting and/or spreading AIDS/HIV. Not everyone has access to surgical circumcision, so PrePex has created a device to be worn by men for seven days, during which the foreskin becomes necrotic and then can be removed painlessly and bloodlessly. PrePex not only has created a way to reduce the infection rate of HIV/AIDS, but has paved the way for future innovations to come.