Senior Project

Quentin Miller 30 April, 2018 Senior Project Day One Internship Time: 8.5h Blog Time: 0.5h Product Time: 3h Total: 12h Today was the first day of the internship (volunteership). The day mostly consisted of becoming aquatinted with the office atmosphere, the work culture, and the idea of getting a better understanding of what Salesforce is as a company and how it connects users, companies, and customers through data and analytics. The office is located about 25 minutes (walking) from were I am staying and I needed to be at the office at 10:00. Upon arrival, I needed to get a card from the building security and then I met my host. The introduction was followed by an orientation of the office space and meeting many of the main individuals at the office, including the manager of Salesforce Iberia. All of the information and everything that had and that has to do with the internship is nearly completely in Spanish. I then received an on-boarding session from one of the senior memb...

Quentin Miller 26 April, 2018 Senior Project Week Nine Blog So far on my Senior Project, I have acquired an internship, completed nearly all of the research required to construct my product, and began the actual creation of my product. I have completed two maps, one of which is a comprehensive guide to the neighborhoods of San Francisco, and have completed much of the planning for some of the many more maps I have yet to make. As mentioned in previous posts, my maps will pertain to a variety of areas within geography from diagrams of flight maps to geographic features. The research for my research blogs provided me with much of the background information that I will need to create many of my maps. That said, I will need to do some additional research regarding some of the more geographical elements and information. As for my internship, I have obviously never had any experience working in another country, let alone in another language. For my, I am somewhat nervous about if my Spa...

Quentin Miller 19 April, 2018 Senior Project Week Eight Blog This blog post will serve as a general update regarding my progress thus far and my plan for the rest of Senior Project. Since the last non-research blog, I have confirmed my internship/volunteership and have started working on my product for the project. I will be interning (of course without pay) at the Salesforce office in Madrid, Spain. I will arrive in Madrid on Saturday 28 April and depart Madrid on 18 May. Note that I will be accompanied by a parent/guardian at all times for liability reasons and that this trip has been approved by the school and by the company. During my time there I intend to be working with the internship for a large part of each day. In the time when I will not be working, I will be able to concentrate my efforts on creating my product though making maps. This process may appear simple, but is realistically a highly time consuming process that, while exciting and interesting to me, requires a ...

Quentin Miller 12 April, 2018 Senior Project W7 Research Blog Air Transportation and Globalization In today’s increasingly globalized world where connection, efficiency, time, and speed are valued, air travel and transportation plays a crucial role in connecting the world’s people, commodities, and cultures. Each day, there are over 100,000 commercial flights (excluding cargo flights) that transport over 1.7 million people (and cargo) between more than 17,000 commercial airports. Airplanes have created a whole new realm of mobility that enables people to travel further and faster in less time than any other form of transportation (by a large margin). In addition to serving as the go to for long distance passenger travel, air traffic is responsible for a large portion of long distance shipping, especially on the international scale. In a world where most goods and services must cross vast expanses of open ocean before being sold, air transportation of freight and other cargo e...

Quentin Miller 22 Mar., 2018 Senior Project W6 Research Blog Water in the American West Water is a vital natural resource for many different human processes from personal hydration to irrigation for crops. The requirement for water in so many different things that people need, both directly and indirectly, means that each person needs/uses a lot of water each day. In many areas of the United States where annual rainfall is above 30 inches, water shortages or challenges surrounding finding the water needed to satisfy water needs are not usually a problem. However, many parts of the United States do have water shortage problems or uncertainty regarding water supply. Nowhere is this more evident than in the western part of the United States. In this vast region, many troubling factors and trends surrounding water use and climate combine to create situations of uncertainty, risk, or even shortage of water. Most of the American West receives far less rainfall than other parts o...

Quentin Miller 15 Mar., 2018 Senior Project W5 Research Blog The Increasing Threat of Volcanoes in the United States on Human Populations Volcanoes are powerful and significant forces of nature that impact the environment and earth’s human population in a variety of ways. Volcanoes play a vital role in geological changes and movements and are responsible for the circulation of rock and other elements of earth from the mantle onto the surface and into the atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions have and continue to be some of the most powerful forces in regulating the planet’s climate, especially with regard to particulate matter and other gases. Additionally, their eruptions often make drastic changes to the world’s topography and its soil. However, in the context of the planet’s human population, volcanoes pose a variety of risks and produce disasters that are often deadly. Volcanic eruptions often spew lava, ash, rocks, and other gases that can be deadly and highly destructive to l...

Quentin Miller 8 Mar., 2018 Senior Project W4 Research Blog Transportation in the Bay Area (Current and Future) The Bay Area is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the United States with over 7.2 million people spread across nine counties in over 100 cities. With two cities that each have nearly a million people with relatively high densities, it is clear that reliable and sufficient systems and forms of transportation are required to adequately move the Bay Area’s people. However, in many cases, transportation in the Bay Area is seriously lacking. Freeways and other roads are clogged with traffic for hours on either side of peak rush hour, public transportation is sparse, slow, and not reliable in many areas, and commute times are some of the highest in the nation. These striking facts are only the surface when it comes to discussing transportation in the Bay Area; the issues listed above are compounded by a number of problematic trends. In the Bay Area, espec...