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Today I'm writing a podcast about CowPunk.
Like I needed another excuse to listen to The Gun Club.
Annnnnd Blitzen Trapper.
Today I'm writing a podcast about CowPunk.
Like I needed another excuse to listen to The Gun Club.
Annnnnd Blitzen Trapper.
I can't even deal with how good this song is.
I'm sick. So I've been at home. For what feels like foreverrrrrrrrrr.
Channel V was on in the background as I attempted to do my tax return (badddddd idea) and then after about 15 minutes I though fuck, this Pitbull song has been going on forever. And then I realised it was a pitbull special and the one song I'd been listening to was actually 4 different songs.
He actually repeatedly counts to four in a couple of languages in one of his songs. After which he goes on with the endless "I know you want me, You know I want 'cha"
Yes, how could I NOT want a guy who could count to four and looks like some kind of balding pimp.
Music TV in the daytime is the fucking worst.
And I swear, if I hear "Someone Like You" by Adele one more fucking time…
Where I don't know what to listen to and I'm ferociously searching through my CD collection for some sort of satisfaction.
Kind of just want to scream the house down listening to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.
All I want to do is describe what I want to hear, but I know that all the best music is indescribable and I am losing ittttt.
So yesterday I found out that Alexisonfire had split.
It was only a couple of weeks ago I wrote an introductory piece on them for potential new fans.
Dallas left to focus on City and Colour and Wade joined another band apparently.
This is one of the most devastating break-ups in music history. Ever.
Alexisonfire were the one band who got me into and helped me appreciate hardcore music. They were so sharp.
I remember the first time I saw them play. I was 17 and took the day off Year 12 so I could be at the front of the line at Billboards ensuring I'd be super close to them. Moneen were the support band and it was a fucking killer set.
They played everything I wanted I hear and it was amazing.
It absolutely devastates me that I won't get the opportunity to scream Drunks, Lovers, Sinners and Saints in their face and feed off the energy of their performances ever again.
But I guess I have the memories.
Superstar - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth covered this Carpenter's track for the 1994 tribute album, If I Were A Carpenter.
This Carpenter's track is actually a cover itself..
It was originally written by Delaney & Bonnie and the working title for the song was "Groupie Song" as it's a track about a groupie who has a strong love for a rock star after a one night stand. He promises to see her again but she can only hear him on the radio and just waits around in eternal longing for her unobtainable rockstar.
For the Carpenters version, Richard carpenter actually changed a lyric in the second verse from
And I can hardly wait
To sleep with you again
And I can hardly wait
To be with you again
A lot less suggestive/radio friendly.
Anyway, I absolutely love both versions, but Sonic Youth took the desperate out of the Carpenters version and injected a sense of sadness the song didn't have before. It was more intimate. It's amazing.
Lovesong - Death Cab For Cutie
This is probably one of my favourite songs of all time. The first time I heard this song on Disintegration I lost my shit. I will get married to this song. It is perfection.
I remember the first time I heard this cover. My friend Chris was driving me home and he played it for me on his iPod. Not gonna lie, I wan't expecting much. But I knew from the first note played, they had nailed this cover.
They actually covered this as apart of a compilation called Sweetheart - our favourite artists sing their favourite love songs.
Death Cab have this way of bringing out elements of a song that you never knew they had, and by doing so, making the song their own.
I'm completely obsessed with The Cure, Robert Smith wrote this song as a wedding present to his Fiance Mary before their wedding.. There is nothing not perfect about this song but after listening to it probably a million times, it starts to sound a little tired. Death Cab's cover brought it back to life and is just as good as the original in my eyes.
Remember Me - Tame Impala
"The track is built around two samples from "Woman of the Ghetto", a 1969 soul song by Marlena Shaw. The original song is polemic to legislators delivered by a woman from a black American ghetto. Near the end is the line: "Rmember me? I'm the one who had your babies", in reference to black maids raising white children for little pay in America. This sample is repeted throughout "Remember Me", as is a sample of a scat portion of the refrain" - Wikipedia
An interesting track for 3 teenage hippies from Perth to choose to cover for their EP.
Despite the fact they can't in any way empathise with the lyrics or themes of the song, you forget what the song is about because the song is so damn good.
Never Gonna Give You Up - The Black Keys
I was surprised to learn this was a cover. This is track 14 from their killer 2009 album, Brothers but was originally written and recorded by Jerry Butler. He was in The Impressions. Yeah, I dunno who they are either. But The Black Keys KILL this track. In a good way, 'yo.
Naive - Lily Allen
I Wasn't too keen on the idea of this cover. Naive was written by Luke Pritard of The Kooks when he was just 16 and he's so cute and innocent and girlfriendless in this track I didn't want Lily messin' it up.
Apparently the cover actually came about from a rumoured dispute between Lily Allen and The Kooks. They went to the same music school and apparently Lily Allen told the press she thought the Kooks were shit and they were all "Oh no you didn't" (Well, maybe not but that's how I imagine they reacted) and then she felt remorseful and to say sorry she covered this song as a heads up to the band. You know you're not shit when Lily Allen decides to cover one of your songs.
But didn't she cover Britney Spears too? Maybe you're the Naive one after all, Luke.
What a diss.
'You follow instructions then I'll follow instructions, the ultimate seduction'
- 50 Cent/Nicole Sherzinger Right There
You can can just imagine Fiddy falling over himself, so seduced by instructions.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate another pop lyrical masterpiece.


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Chances are, wherever you go your shoes go too. So the next time you're going places, do us a favor: take a photo of your PUMAs. It's easy. First, go somewhere. Then, stand still. Take a photo of your shoes with some sort of background. Like the Colosseum. Or your local pub. Or a weird mark on the sidewalk that looks a bit like Munch's "Scream."
We won't tell you how to make your PUMA-insta-art happen. We just want to see it. And heap accolades upon it. Share pictures of your PUMA shoes from all around the world with #travelingpumas. Every Friday, we'll select a winner from the tagged photos and the winner will receive a PUMA prize pack. The more creative, the better. Obviously.
Here are the rules:
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1. Organizer
The contest is organized by PUMA SE, PUMA Way 1, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany ("Organizer").
2. Start of contest and closing date
2.1 The contest runs on a week to week basis, with one winner per week, starting the week of Monday, September 17, 2012.
2.2 One winner will be chosen each Friday at the discretion of PUMA.
2.3 With the exception of the first week, each weekly contest starts after the selection of the previous week's winner and run until a new winner is chosen the subsequent Friday.
3. Participation entitlement
3.1 All participants must be 18 or older and have full legal capacity.
3.2 All information given by a participant in connection with the contest must be true and correct; otherwise, the participant can be excluded from participating in the contest or subsequently disqualified from participation. Likewise, participants who use prohibited aids or otherwise gain advantage through manipulation can be excluded from participation in the contest or subsequently disqualified from participation.
3.3 The organizer reserves the right to review the fulfillment of conditions for participation and require proof, particularly with respect to the age of a participant.
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7.4 The participant has the right to information without charge regarding the personal data stored about him/her by the organizer as well as to correction, blocking or deletion of this personal data. To assert the above rights the participant may contact the organizer at the following email address: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The organizer is not liable, to the extent legally permissible, for defects in the prizes. Legal recourse is excluded.

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The following information is provided for students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing or who may have other disabilities. These students may request accommodations through the use of Support Staff or use of an FM system to receive access to classroom information.
Support Staff and Deaf/HoH accommodations include:
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A Vermillion County man has been arrested on burglary charges.
Police say that 24 year old Shannon Lee Van Hoosier admitted to breaking into a house in Perrysville. Apparently Van Hoosier had borrowed $4 from the home owner earlier in the day and when the home owner left he returned home to find his front door kicked in.
A quick check of the recordings from security camera led authorities to Van Hoosier.
Van Hoosier was released after posting 10% of a $15,000 bond.


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1 Weber ate 1 ' i X .1 U) ,J it JL i il L timdef :. i VI: IJTU 0 0 g) 3 Ethics attorney said at seminar By Timothy Brownell correspondent I The Signpost Media and constitutional lawyer Michael Patrick O'Brien shared his knowledge about ethics in the changing world of journalism to Weber State University students, Monday afternoon in the WSU Shepherd Union Ballroom. "The new media world isn't so different from the old media world," O'Brien said. "There aren't a whole bunch of new rules that apply." O'Brien grew up in Ogden, Utah. He attended Notre Dame University and received a law degree at the University of Utah. He is now a lawyer at Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and McDonough in Salt Lake City. He told a group of 100 students that journalists are living in a more chaotic world because of the rapid change in technology; but even in the midst of change, such as the creation of Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and blogging, the same rules apply to ethical journalism journalists and bloggers are going to be held accountable for their words, good or bad. "Before you blog or post something on YouTube," O'Brien said, "you need to think about, 'Am I going to be sued for defamation? Have I made a false statement? Who am I talking about, a public or private figure?'" Anyone who puts out words or pictures for public review needs to consider their responsibility and the ethics of the action. "Beware of the consequences," O'Brien said. "You are only liable where the newspaper is printed or if it is aimed at a certain person or thing. However, if the newspaper is available online, readily available, then you can in fact be sued by any person." He gave the students a few examples of troubled Internet use. Thailand and Brazil both blocked YouTube on separate occasions. There was a video about the king of Thailand dressed as a clown and because in Thailand it is against the law to deface public officials, the creator of the video was held liable. See Media page 5 i i ..i I i 4 PHOIO BY BRICE KELSCH Hit SICNI'UST Michael Patrick O'Brien TT pic; AT Mm 7 It Ml,' . i r i mm , in n nm I lil UKIl t KLLM H i n..l I W Colin Inglefield, WSU physics professor, demonstrates properties of physics at an open hosue sponsored by the physics department. Master of Education spotlight Student juggled time, family, school By Gina Barker sr. news reporter I The Signpost Chris Hunter, 2008 graduate of the Weber State University Master of Education Program, is well on his way to success. Hunter graduated from Brigham Young University with a major in Russian studies, and with a business minor. From there, Hunter went on to receive another undergraduate degree from WSU, majoring in English teaching with a minor in history teaching. He even received his teaching license from WSU for secondary education, meaning he works with students in a classroom from grades six to twelve. Hunter said he chose these degrees because of his enthusiasm and love of literature, writing, and grammar. With a number of degrees and a well of knowledge under his belt, I Iu iter is even considering moving toward a doctorate from either BYU or Utah State. With a marriage and three kids on the side, Hunter expressed the difficulties of doing it all. "It has been a challenge," Hunter said. "My kids manage my time and sometimes finding time to study " really teaching. I enjoy want to take my knowledge and and use it to help others learn" Chris Hunter, masters student r ! f ; - C hris Hunter could be difficult." Hunter has been married for nearly 10 years, and has three kids, all under age 7 a tough job for someone who isn't also working and getting a degree. But being clone with school for now seemed to give I lunter a little peace of mind. "One goal in particular of mine is to travel more with my family," I lunter said. Hunter said he began to have dreams of teaching while in high school, but it wasn't until lie reached college did he make up his mind. "I really enjoy teaching," Hunter said. "I waul to lake my knowledge anil use i( to help others learn." Since then, Hunter lias worked at gelling his undergraduate degree from WSU and finally his master's. I lunler said his most valuable course iu the program was an instructional strategies course, where he learned how to ask llie right questions. "It's important to know bow to ask questions," Hunter said, "because questioning is a way to help students learn in another way." Currently, I lunler is working as a technology specialist with the Weber County School District and said he has big plans to help students. His goals arc to develop new programs using technology to help stimulate academic learning. He said his job lets him work with all ages of students, from K to 12. Even though Hunter isn't working as a teacher right now, he said he hopes to again and maybe even work as an administrator for schools. 1 lunter said his favorite aspect of WSU's Master of Education program (MED), was the professors. "1 will miss WSU," Hunter said, "but I have several close ties with the professors." I lunler helps professors in the department with design and layout of the Utah Council of the International Heading Association's reading journal, a publication of the inlet nationally ' recognized organization that helps promote reading anil general literacy. "1 think the WSU Mill) program is a Class-A program," Hunter said. "Anyone considering a MED degree would greatly benefit from chousing Weber. The faculty are experts in their fields, they know what they are talking about and anyone could learn a lot from lliein." I lunler explained how the program directlyhelped him. I lesaid that from class discussion, to talking with professors, the program helped cultivate and strengthen his own ideas for his classroom. "The faculty is so professional," I lunler said, "and I hey arc genuinely interested in a student's success." ummi'iit mi lln story ,il Repentant publisher pays By Molly Bennett correspondent I The Signpost Monday morning at 11 a.m. professor Steve Russell was handing out $100 gift cards to 25 students in Supply Chain 3050. ' "This, doesn't happen much does it?" Russell asked the class. The cards are credited for the Weber State University Bookstore. The money was from a repentant publisher. After a full semester of using a textbook littered with errors, Russell decided to write the publisher. "I raised heck with them," Russell said. "The editors really dropped the ball." The textbook was new this year and cost $155. Russell said it had excellent coverage, but the editors overlooked one minor detail. "They didn't check for mistakes," Russell said. 1 Ie said graphs were labeled incorrectly, and there were typos in the numbers. It caused much confusion for the students. When Russell contacted the publishers a few weeks ago, they asked him what they could do to make him happy. 1 Ie said they could reimburse the students $100. So they did. Students were smiling as Russell handed out the cards. WSU senior Bill Silver said he would put his money toward a book in the fall. Russell said students could still sell the book back at the end of the semester. "I'm hoping they'll buy it back," Silver said. . A ,,, . .' , i. '' ... . t 3 - ' 1 -. J '' ' . TV I 'I ii m i hi Mom in nni 1 1 i mi sii i Sieve Russell, Ihisiness administration professor, distributes $100 gilt cards lo students in his Supply Chain :()!() ( lass. Kussel received the cards from the publisher alter he complained about the many errors in the required textbook. Show at Institute honors United States By Shirrel Cooper sr. news reporter I The Signpo; John Woodstock, the Ogden LDS Institute Folk Dance director, has been planning on creating a patriotic show for the institute for years, but last May it finally came together. "It's been about 25 years since our last patriotic show," Woodstock said. "We feel that with the Olympics and the presidential elections, it's a good time to be patriotic." The spring show, "This Is a Great Country," ran on Friday and Saturday and featured patriotic numbers from the institute's choirs and folk dancers. Weber State University's ROTC did the flag ceremony for the show. Approximately 250 students participated in the show. Amy Webster, a WSU graduate, said she felt that participating in the show was an awesome opportunity to show feelings through song and dance. "The show is patriotic, and it's fun to do something patriotic that isn't on the Fourth of July or Veterans Day," Webster said. "It's been "great to focus on my country for the past fevv months ever7 day, rather than my normal . two days a year." . Webster feels that the show will give a. renewed sense of hope to those in the audience. "I think everyone should come to a show like this, whether it is our show or someone else's," Webster said. "They should come to a show that is patriotic." Andrea Uhrey has been involved in 12 institute shows. "This is my last year and, in my opinion, probably my best," Uhrey said. She said she felt that this show was especially important because our country is currently in a time of war. "I think people are losing patriotism since 911," Uhrey said. "Hopefully this show will help people to see this is a great country." She said she also hopes the show will help people support the troops, which will also be a section in the show. There was a slide show presentation featuring pictures of cast members' families who either have served or are currently serving in the military. "It's the old-fashioned thing people used to be proud to see and be a part of," said Jerald Simon, the institute choir director, lie said the show featured a variety of excellent numbers and performances done by highly talented people. "When all elements come together, there's a real power in the show," Simon said. "We love America. We're happy to tell people that." This May, the Ogden EDS Institute will take the show, "This Is a Great Country," on tour in Southern Utah. One ol the areas the cast will perform is Fillmore. Fillmore currently has more then -ID men and women stationed in Iraq. "They wanted us to do a patriotic thing before their soldiers come home in lime," Simon said. Simon said that despite the problems that are happening in America, America is still the greatest place to live and "we waul to honor that legacy." ( i unnwnl i tis W '( a vt si;sn,vi)Osf. m
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The Redskins tried to trade Jabar Gaffney, knowing he wasn't in their plans. But there were no takers so now they made the logical move: they released him.
Gaffney led the Redskins with 68 catches for 947 yards in 2011, but the number the coaches focused on was 2.7. That was his yards after the catch -- and it's a stat the coaches desperately want to improve from its wide receiver group this season.
Gaffney became expendable when the Redskins signed free agent receviers Pierre Garcon and Josh Morgan. They're also high on Leonard Hankerson and still have Santana Moss and Anthony Armstrong among others. There wouldn't have been much playing time for Gaffney.
Last week Gaffney wondered if a recent tirade from his Twitter feed contributed to the Redskins' decision, but coach Mike Shanahan shot that down.


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Samantha Lane is a sports writer with The Age's sports section. She joined The Sunday Age's sports team in 2005, where she specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, before joining the daily Age in 2007. She has a wealth of multi-media broadcasting experience since starting her journalism career in 2002 at www.afl.com.au. She is also a panellist on Network Ten's Before the Game. Samantha covered the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will be reporting extensively on the 2012 London Olympics.
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I recently published an article on Natural Resources Partners (NYSE: NRP), a Master Limited Partnership, see here. I believe I made a compelling case that NRP's distribution is safe. At a yield of 12.5%, this is an attractive, risk-adjusted total return opportunity. Here is a quote from my article reminding readers what NRP does,
"NRP engages in the business of owning, managing and leasing mineral properties in the U.S. NRP owns 2.3 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves in the three major coal-producing regions of Appalachia, the Illinois Basin and the Western U. S. and 380 million tons of aggregates. The company does not operate any mines, but leases reserves to experienced mine operators under long-term leases."
"Most of the leased coal is produced by large companies with experienced and professional sales departments. A significant portion is sold under long-term contracts. In the coal and aggregates royalty business, NRPs lessees make payments based on the greater of a percentage of gross revenues or a fixed royalty per ton, subject to minimum payments."
Don't Believe Me, Watch the Corporate Presentation
Subsequent to that article I found a new corporate presentation on the company's website, see here. Prospective investors really should look at this presentation. While in recent articles I've focused on liquidity, in this article I discuss longer-term growth opportunities. Again, the single best way to get comfortable with NRP is by looking at the presentation. Or, continue reading.
As of September 30, NRP had $122 million in cash and $197 million available on its credit facilities, for total liquidity of $319. Still, investors remain worried about a distribution cut. This makes little sense, (see the other article). Beyond what I believe to be a safe distribution of $2.20 per unit, there is a growth story to be told.
Substantial Past Acquisitions Have Yet to Fully Contribute to Cash Flows
It's essential to understand that NRP has spent more than $700 million on acquisitions over the past six years. Most was spent on coal reserves and assets in the Illinois Basin, "ILB." Investors are understandably worried about NRP's large coal exposure, but the ILB is the best basin in the country. Low-cost operations, minimal legacy liabilities, high heat content, and good proximity to domestic markets in the Midwest and Appalachia as well as exports through the Gulf. NRP has spent more than $500 million in the ILB. Cash flows from this investment will be increasing for years to come.
Since the company has no operating activities, meaning it does not mine any minerals or coal, it avoided the mistakes of Alpha Natural Resources, (NYSE: ANR), Arch Coal, (NYSE: ACI) and Walter Energy, who made large, ill-timed acquisitions in 2011. Each is now saddled with uncomfortably high debt levels. Ratings agencies S&P and Moody's have downgraded all three companies. And Arch and Alpha have issued expensive debt to shore up their balance sheets, (Arch 10.75% yielding bonds, Alpha 10.0% yielding bonds).
50% of Cash Flows From Non-Coal Royalty Revenues within 4-5 Years
NRP is diversifying away from coal in a meaningful way. The company has spent well over $200 million in recent years on Aggregates, Oil & Gas, and other natural resource assets. Collectively, these assets are far from fully utilized. From 2014, annual growth of 5%-7% could be in store from this portion of NRPs business. Therefore, offsetting flat coal performance are stable growing non-coal royalty sources that could reach 50% of total cash flows within 4-5 years.
Yield Today, Growth Tomorrow
Once NRP returns to moderate and stable growth, probably from 2014 on, the company's distribution should start to rise again. As the company's outlook improves the required yield demanded to hold the units could fall significantly. From 12.5%, I believe it could comfortably fall to 9% in 2 years. Assuming an unchanged $2.20 annual distribution, the unit price would increase to $24.5. While that may not seem that exciting vs. the current price of $17.5, the total return would be 65% after banking a 12.5% yield two years in a row.
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Scoring the opening performance on the Grammy Awards was good news for Taylor Swift in the album sales department. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Taylor's latest release, Red , moved 72,000 copies in the week after the Grammy broadcast earlier this month. That's an increase of 106 percent over the previous week, putting Taylor back at #1 on Billboard 's Country Albums chart.
Though he didn't take home any hardware, Grammy nominee Hunter Hayes also benefited from exposure on the show. Sales of his self-titled debut project were up 80 percent after his Grammy appearance. Carrie Underwood 's Blown Away was up 70 percent after her Grammy performance. Zac Brown Band took the Best Country Album Grammy for Uncaged , and they saw that project's sales spike 116 percent.
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The Razorbacks return 11 players from last year's 19-winteam, while ushering in a highly-touted recruiting class that features two ESPNTop 50 recruits in Bobby Portis and Moses Kingsley. The Hogs also add LittleRock native and Houston transfer Alandise Harris, who is eligible after sittingout 2012-13 due to NCAA four-year transfer rules.
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February, 2014
Maryam Mobed-Miremadi (bioengineering academic year lecturer) and colleagues have published an article in the Journal of Biotechnology and Biomaterials: "Mechanical Properties of Hydrated Acoustically Sensitive Alginate-Based Microcapsules Confined in a Microfluidic Device as a Function of Size and Composition."
January, 2014Ed Maurer (civil engineering) gave an invited presentation,"Downscaling climate model output for water resources impacts assessment," at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco, Dec. 12, 2013.
Nam Ling (computer engineering) will present the keynote speech, "3D Video Coding and 3D-HEVC: A Research Perspective," at the 2nd International Workshop on Video Coding and Video Processing (VCVP 2014) in Shenzhen, China, Jan. 21-23. In addition, he and Zhouye Gu (computer engineering) together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon) have a paper, "On 3D-HEVC Depth Map Intra Coding Improvement," at the same conference.
Prashanth Asuri (bioengineering) co-wrote an invited book chapter, "Delivery of Therapeutics using Carbon Nanomaterials," in Nanoparticles for Catalysis, Energy and Drug Delivery (published by American Scientific Publishers). The book is now available for purchase online here.
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon) had their proposal, "3D-CE5 related: On Neighbouring Reference Pixel Selection for Depth Intra Coding," JCT3V-G0143, adopted on Jan. 12 as a normative contribution to the emerging 3D-HEVC standard for future 3D video coding, at the 7th Meeting of Joint Collaborative Team on 3D Video Coding Extension Development (JCT-3V) of ITU-T SG 16 WP 3 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11, San Jose, CA, Jan. 9 – 17, 2014.
Aaron Melman (applied mathematics) had his paper, "The Twin of a Theorem by Cauchy," The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 120(2013), No. 2, p. 164-168, selected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for translation into Chinese. The Chinese version was published in Mathematical Advance in Translation. The translation provides mathematicians in rural areas of China with material that is otherwise not easily available.
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon) filed two U.S. provisional patents: "On Neighbouring Reference Pixel Selection for Depth Intra Coding," (application no. 61/923,124) filed Jan. 2, 2014, and "System and Method for Estimating View Synthesis Distortion," (application no. 61/923,500) filed Jan. 3, 2014.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) and six staff/students (Laura Bica, Chris Beasley, Giovanni Minelli, Michael Neumann, Richard Rasay, Eric Stackpole) from the Robotic Systems Laboratory are co-authors on a new publication presenting flight results from the NASA O/OREOS astrobiological spacecraft mission: P. Ehrenfreund, A.J. Ricco, D. Squires, C. Kitts, E. Agasid, et al., "The O/OREOS mission - Astrobiology in low Earch orbit," Acta Astronautica, v 93, pp. 501-508.
December, 2013Ralph Morganstern (applied mathematics) has published a two-volume set covering Discrete and Continuous Probability. More information here.
Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Zhengyi Luo, Li Song, and Shibao Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), have a paper, "Raptor Codes Based Unequal Protection for Compressed Video According to Packet Priority," published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 2208-2213, December 2013.
Yi Fang's (computer engineering) research group has a paper, "A pattern matching approach to streaming slot filling," appearing in the Proceedings of the 22nd Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, 2013. The co-authors are all from the computer engineering department: Hung Nguyen (PhD student), Yi Fang (faculty), Sandhya Gade, Vijay Mysore, Juan Hu, Sabita Pandit, Aparna Srinivasan, and Miao Jiang (all master's students).
Monem Beitelmal (mechanical engineering) is listed as a co-inventor on his 51st patent, "Refrigeration system with parallel evaporators and variable speed compressor," no. 8,561,418, granted on Oct. 22.
Sally Wood (electrical engineering) and her MS student Jasmin Gonzalez presented a paper, "Fourier Descriptor Based Diagnosis of Vocal-Fold Partial Asymmetry from High Speed Image Sequences," at the Forty-seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers Nov. 4. Yuling Yan (bioengineering) was also a coauthor of the paper.
Sukhmander Singh (civil engineering) made a presentation on his paper, "A New Approach to the Shear Strength Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Material for Landfill Design," at the 18th international Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (18th ICSMGE), Paris Sept. 2-6.
Drazen Fabris, Monem Beitelmal and student Reece Kiriu '12 (mechanical engineering) had a paper, "Solar-powered water distillation system," presented by Fabris at the ASME international mechanical engineering congress and exposition, (IMECE2013) Nov. 15-21 in San Diego CA. Beitelmal, Timothy Hight and students Jackson Smith '12 and Bryan Bidwell '12 (mechanical engineering) had a paper, "Formula electric system: Thermal management design," and Beitelmal and Hight, along with students Mark Allison '12, Kevin Claggett '12, Stuart Hopson '12 and Dominic Villa '12 also had a paper, "Formula electric system: Design and integration," presented at the same event.
Maria Pantoja (computer engineering) and Marie Bertola (modern languages) had an article, "Pronunciation Assistance Based on Automatic Speech and Facial Recognition" accepted for the 2014 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) program Mar. 24-27 in San Jose, California.
Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Yun He (Tsinghua University, China), Joern Ostermann (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany), Marek Domański (University of Technology, Poland), and Oscar C. Au (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China) have an editorial, Introduction to the Issue on Video Coding: HEVC and Beyond," published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing, pp. 931-933, Vol. 7, No. 6, December 2013. Read it here.
November, 2013Prashanth Asuri's (bioengineering) review on genetic engineering of stem cells, "Advances in homology directed genetic engineering of human pluripotent and adult stem cells," is now available online.
Dan Lewis (computer engineering) has been invited to give a talk on "A Rationale for Interdisciplinary Programs that Combine Engineering and the Liberal Arts" at IEDEC 2014 (The Interdisciplinary Engineering Education Conference), Mar. 10-11, 2014, Santa Clara, CA.
Yi Fang (computer engineering) has a paper accepted by World Wide Web, an international journal published by Springer that covers all aspects of the Web. The title of the paper is "Related Entity Finding by Unified Probabilistic Models," which proposes statistical models for entity-oriented search on the Web. Radha Basu was a contributing author to the book " Globalization, Change and Learning in South Asia , " now published and available on Amazon.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) and collaborators attended the 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, held in San Diego, Nov. 6-8, and presented a paper entitled "Motion Classifier Generation Using EEG for Robot Control."
Sukhmander Singh (civil engineering) had a paper: "Impact of IT Tools on Engineering Education," accepted, after peer review, and presented at the iCEER 2013 International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, this past summer in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Yi Fang (computer engineering) was awarded the "Outstanding Service Award" by the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013) on Oct. 30 in San Francisco, for his contribution as the Local Chair of the conference. CIKM is one of the top and highly competitive ACM conferences in the areas of Information Retrieval and Data Mining with an acceptance rate of full papers below 17% this year. More than 750 participants attended. Fang's research group also presented their work titled "Topical Authority Propagation on Microblogs" co-authored with master's student Juan Hu and PhD student Archana Godavarthy.
Hohyun Lee (mechanical engineering) and Brandon Ohara '13 MS '15 presented a poster, "Optimized Strategies for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting," at Energy Harvesting USA, Santa Clara, Nov. 20-21.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering) and co-authors had an article published: Livneh, Ben, Eric A. Rosenberg, Chiyu Lin, Bart Nijssen, Vimal Mishra, Kostas M. Andreadis, Edwin P. Maurer, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, 2013: A long-term hydrologically based dataset of land surface fluxes and states for the conterminous united states: update and extensions*. J. Climate, 26, 9384–9392.
October, 2013
Hisham Said (civil engineering) has an accepted invited paper for publication: Said H. and Berger L. (2013) "Future Trends of Sustainability Design and Analysis in Construction Industry and Academia," Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, ASCE. Hisham was invited to submit this paper with Lidia Berger (National Sustainability Director at Dewberry) to be published in the journal's special issue on the subject, and to be presented in the coming 2014 Construction Engineering Conference that is sponsored by ASCE and NSF.
Hohyun Lee (mechanical engineering), Miguel Gomes (BSME '11, MSME '13), Rachel Reid (BSME '13), Brandon Ohara (BSME '13, MSME '15), along with Nari Youn, and Daehyn Wee, have a paper available online, " Achieving Maximum Power in Thermoelectric Generation with Simple Power Electronics ," Journal of Electronic Materials.
Yi Fang (computer engineering) has a journal paper "Collaborative Language Models for Localized Query Prediction" accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). This paper proposes a series of theoretical collaborative language models to identify trending topics on the web for a given geographical location. This is a collaborative work with two researchers at Google and Microsoft.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) and her students have a paper, "Tracing Vocal-fold Vibrations Using Level-set Segmentation Method," accepted for presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE2013), to be held in Hong Kong, Dec. 16-18.
Nam Ling (computer engineering), with Zhengyi Luo, Li Song, Shibao Zheng (all from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) have a journal paper, " Raptor Codes based Unequal Protection for Compressed Video According to Packet Priority ," published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia to appear in the Jan. 2014 issue.
Godfrey Mungal had a paper published in Combustion and Flame: "Studies on the stability limit extension of premixed and jet diffusion flames of methane, ethane, and propane using nanosecond repetitive pulsed discharge plasmas," by M. S. Bak, S. K. Im, M. G. Mungal, and M. A. Cappelli, 160 (11), 2396-2403,
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Jeoongsung Park have a paper published in the Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS). The paper is titled, "A new VLSI architecture for 3-D DCT Video Compression System."
January, 2012
Sarah Ghanbari '11 (bioengineering), a member of Ashley Kim's group, presented "Detection of pathogens using inertial focusing and electrochemical DNA sensors for resource-limited settings" at the First Annual Advanced Biosciences Symposium, Jan. 20, at Santa Clara University, an event hosted by the Advanced Biosciences Initiative in collaboration with the National Biotechnology Education Conference.
Liang Xiang (bioengineering), a postdoctoral fellow and member of Jonathan Zhang's group, presented "Nonnatural amino acid incorporation in proteins" at the First Annual Advanced Biosciences Symposium, Jan. 20, at Santa Clara University, an event hosted by the Advanced Biosciences Initiative in collaboration with the National Biotechnology Education Conference.
Johann Steinbrecher (computer engineering), a Ph.D candidate, presented "On Supernode Transformations and Multithreading for the Longest Common Subsequence Problem" at the 10th Australasian Symposium on Parrallel and Distributed Computer (AusPDC) and "On Optimizing the Longest Common Subsequence Problem by Loop Unrolling Along Wavefronts" at the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing. Both papers were co-authored with Dr. Weijia Shang.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) and co-authors have a paper entitled "Vocal Fold Vibratory Characteristics of Healthy Geriatric Females - Analysis of High-speed Digital Images" accepted for publication in Journal of Voice.
December, 2011
Kern Peng (engineering management) has written a book, Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era: A New Alternative to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) that will be available soon.
November, 2011
Tokunko Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Nam Ling (computer engineering) visited Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 23-27, where they presented keynote speeches at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology (ICAST). Ogunfunmi delivered "Talk is cheap: advanced speech processing is here," and Ling delivered "Video compression: a new era." They also visited Loyola Jesuit College, a high school in Abuja and met with the principal, Father Nweke Ugo, who graduated from Santa Clara University several years ago. They gave talks to introduce the University's School of Engineering to their high school students.
Pete Woytowitz (adjunct, mechanical and civil engineering) co-authored the paper "On Determination of Sample Size to Evaluate Reliability Growth Plans"with X. Jin and T. Tan of Novellus Systems. The paper was presented at theASME 2011 International Mechanical Eng. Congress & Exposition, Nov. 11-17, in Denver, CO and will appear in the proceedings of the ASME IMECE 2011.
Mohammad Ayoubi (mechanical engineering), graduate student Farhad Goodarzi, and colleague Arun Banerjee had a paper, "Attitude Motion of a Spinning Spacecraft with Fuel Sloshing and Nutation Damping," accepted in the Journal of Astronautical Sciences.
Serge Zarantonello (applied mathematics) presented the paper "Image Integration with Learned Dictionaries and Application to Seismic Monitoring," by Youli Quan, Tieyuan Zhu, and Jerry M. Harris (Stanford University); Roy M. Burnstad (Saudi Aramco), and Sergio Zarantonello (applied mathematics, Santa Clara University), Sept. 19 at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in San Antonio, TX , and subsequently published in the SEG Expanded Abstracts 30, 4217 (2011). He also gave the workshop presentation, "Compressed sensing for time-lapse imaging," Sept. 22 at the same meeting.
Godfrey Mungal had three papers presented at the APS/DFD Meeting, Nov. 20–22; Baltimore, MD: "Experimental Study of Supersonic Inlet Flow Unstart Induced by Mass Injection" by Hyungrok Do, Seong-kyun Im, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli; "Flame Structure in a Compact Inlet/Scramjet Combustor" by Mirko Gamba, V. A. Miller, M. G. Mungal & R. K. Hanson; "Toluene Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging of Compressible Flows in an Expansion Tube" by V. A. Miller, M. Gamba, M. G. Mungal, R. K. Hanson, K. Mohri & C. Schulz.
Minghwa Wang (adjunct lecturer, computer engineering) presented a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), in Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 7-9.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) and a number of students in the Robotic Systems Laboratory had a new journal article, "The O/OREOS Mission: First Science Data from the Space Environment Survivability of Living Organisms (SESLO) Payload," accepted for publication in Astrobiology. The article provided initial peer-reviewed science results from the O/OREOS mission which is controlled by SCU students.
Kim Parnell (mechanical engineering) attended the International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-18) held in Jeju, Korea, Aug. 21-26. Kim presented the paper (with J.D. Melo and C. Tower of Stanford) entitled: "Stiffness and Strength of Laminates Fabricated with Bi-Directional Tape."
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) and co-authors have a paper entitled "Construction of Real-time Brain-Machine-Interface Control System Based on Motor Imagery" accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE-ROBIO 2011), to be held in Phuket, Thailand, Dec. 7-11, 2011.
Radhika Grover (computer engineering) published a book, Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach, Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, in October 2011.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student, Koji Seto have published a conference paper, "Performance-Enhanced Multi-rate iLBC," presented at the IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers in Asilomar, CA, Nov. 6-9, 2011.
October, 2011
Sukhi Singh (civil engineering) had a paper, "A New Approach for Characterizing Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste for Landfill Design," accepted for the 27th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, March 11-14, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
Weijia Shang (computer engineering) had a paper, "Exploiting Thread Level Parallelism by Loop Unrolling Along Wavefronts" by Johann Steinbrecher and Weijia Shang, accepted by the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Feb. 15-17, 2012, in Garching, Germany.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering) and students from the Robotic Systems Laboratory have published and presented articles at several conferences. Papers included two publications at the AIAA Conference on small satellites held in Logan, UT, that focused on two ongoing space missions with NASA, and the other presented at the IEEE Oceans Conference in Kona, HI, that reviewed experimental results of the control of robotic boat fleets, and one article at the IEEE Space Mission Challenges in Information Technology in Palo Alto, CA, on multi-robot control systems.
Unyoung (Ashley) Kim (bioengineering) and students Sarah Ghanbari, Nicholas Giustini, Cameron Mar, and Pankti Doshi presented their work, "Detection of Waterborne Pathogens Using Electrochemical DNA Sensors for Resource Limited Settings," at the 2011 BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Annual Meeting, held in Hartford, Connecticut, Oct. 12-15.
Sukhi Singh (civil engineering) presented his paper, "Incompatibles Between Science-based Progress and Societal Values" at the Third International Conference on Science in Society, Aug. 5-9 2011 at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
Ahmed Amer, JoAnne Holliday (computer engineering) and a group of collaborators, including former faculty member Thomas Schwarz, have a paper based on their shingled disk research published in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. The paper is titled "Data Layout and Management for Shingled Magnetic Recording" and appeared in the October issue.
September, 2011
Yuling Yan (bioengineering) and student Anand Bhandari have a paper accepted for publication in Biomed. Signal Process. Control (2011): "Comparative Analysis of Normal Voice Characteristics Using Simultaneous Electroglottography and High-speed Digital Imaging."
Ruth Davis (computer engineering) attended the 2011 International Conference on Engineering Education in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Aug. 20-26, at which she had three papers presented: "Design Thinking, a Pathway to Intentional Learning," by Ruth Davis and Chris Kitts; "... and a Little Child Shall Lead Them," by John Allen and Ruth Davis; and "Engineering Projects for the Community," by Shoba Krishnan and Ruth Davis.
Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures) gave an invited talk, "Transport in fused InP nanowire device in dark and under illumination: Coulomb staircase scenario," (8106-19) in the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2011, San Diego, CA, Aug. 22-25, 2011.
Sarah Kate Wilson (electrical engineering) had a paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications: Comparison of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing and Pulse-Amplitude Modulation in Indoor Optical Wireless Links," by DJ Barros, S.K. Wilson and J.M. Kahn.
Godfrey Mungal had a paper published: Hyungrok Do, Seong-kyun Im, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli (2011) "The Influence of Boundary Layers on Supersonic Inlet Flow Unstart Induced by Mass Injection," Expts. Fluids, 51, 679-691. He also presented a paper "Supersonic Inlet Duct Unstart Induced by Fuel Jet Injection," by H. Do, S. Im, M. G. Mungal and M. A. Cappelli, 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Ottawa, Canada, July 28 – 31, 2011.
Sally Wood (electrical engineering) presented an invited paper on super-resolution image reconstruction at DASP2011, a signal processing meeting, in Coolum, Australia, in July. She also attended ICIP2011, the annual IEEE image processing meeting in Brussels, updated plans for the 2013 DSP workshop in Napa, and attended meetings on first year engineering courses at the annual ASEE meeting in Vancouver, B.C. in June.
June, 2011
Godfrey Mungal: "The improvement of blowout limit in partially/fully premixed flames with geometrically modified bluffbody bases," Wookyung Kim, Hyungrok Do & M.G. Mungal (2011), Experiments in Fluids.
March, 2011
JoAnne Holliday (computer engineering) and Sarah Kate Wilson (electrical engineering): "Scheduling Methods for Multi-user Optical Wireless Asymmetrically-Clipped OFDM," Journal of Communcations and Networks
February, 2011
Chris Kitts (Robotic Systems Laboratory): "An Interdisciplinary, Marine Robotics Research and Education Program," The Journal of Marine Education, v 26, n 3, Dec 2010, pp.7-10.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering): "Vocal fold Vibratory Characteristics in Normal Female Speakers from High-speed Digital Imaging," Journal of Voice.
January, 2011
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): "Recent developments in optimal reinforcing of RC beam and column sections," Gil-Martin, L.M., Aschheim, M., Hernández-Montes, E., and Pasadas-Fernández, M., Engineering Structures.
Sikandar Khatri (civil engineering): paper accepted for presentation at Costal Engineering Practice, San Diego, 21-24 August 2011.
Chris Kitts (mechanical engineering), Ignacio Mas, and Robert Lee: "Model-Based Nonlinear Cluster Space Control of Mobile Robot Formations, Multi-Robot Systems, Trends and Development," Toshiyuki Yasuda (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-425-2, InTech.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D student Thomas Paul: "On the Convergence Behavior of Affine Projection Algorithm for Adaptive Filters," IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, Part I.
December, 2010
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): "Proportioning of Reinforced Concrete Column Sections," Aschheim, M., Gil-Martin, L.M., and Hernández-Montes, E., Engineering Structures.
Godfrey Mungal(dean of engineering): "Ignition, Flame Structure and Near-Wall Burning in Transverse Hydrogen Jets in Supersonic Crossflow," Mirko Gamba, M.G. Mungal & R.K. Hanson, and "Visualizing Supersonic Inlet Duct Unstart Using Planar Laser Rayleign Scattering," H. Do, S. Im, M.G. Mungal, M.A. Cappelli, APS/DFD Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA, 21-23 Nov. 2010.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): "Visualizing Supersonic Inlet Duct Unstart using Planar Laser Rayleigh," Hyungrok Do, Seong-kyun Im, M.G. Mungal, & Mark A. Cappelli (2010), Expts. Fluids.
Kat Wilson (electrical engineering): "SCFDE with Space-Time Coding for IM/DD Optical Wireless Communcation," Acolatse, Bar-Ness and Wilson, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2011, Cancun, Mexico, 28-31 March 2011.
November, 2010
Monem Beitelmal (mechanical engineering) and Chandrakant Patel (HPLabs): "A Steady-state Model for the Design and Optimization of a Centralized Cooling System," International Journal of Energy Research.
October, 2010
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): "Proportioning of Reinforced Concrete Column Sections," Aschheim, M., Gil-Martín, L. M., and Hernández-Montes, E, Engineering Structures.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering): "Contrasting Lumped and Distributed Hydrology Models for Estimating Climate Change Impacts on California Watersheds," Maurer, E.P., L.D. Brekke, and T. Pruitt, 2010, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 46(5):1024–1035. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00473.x.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): "Plasma Assisted Flame Ignition of Supersonic Flows over a Flat Wall," Hyungrok Do, Seong-kyun Im, Mark A. Cappelli & M. Godfrey Mungal, Combustion and Flame 157 (2010) 2298–2305.
Sally Wood (electrical engineering): "The Role of NSF's Department Level Reform Program in Engineering Education Practice and Research," John L. Daniels, Sally L. Wood and Susan C. Kemnitzer, Advances in Engineering Education.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering): "Spatio-temporal Processing of Massive Glottic Images from High-speed Videoendoscopy," SPIE BiOS: Biomedical Optics Symposium, 22-27 Jan. 2011, SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering): "Optical Switches: High-Contrast Imaging in Living Cells and Tissue," Unofficial Impact Factors: 17.902.
September, 2010
Silvia Figueira and graduate student Ginger Tseng (computer engineering): "An Analysis of the Energy Efficiency of Multi-Threading on Multi-Core Machines," IEEE Green Computing Conference, Workshop on Progress in Green Computing, August 2010; "Multi-Threading on Multi-Core Machines: Performance Gains and Energy Savings," Computer Measurement Group Conference, December 2010.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering): "The Utility of Daily Large-scale Climate Data in the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Daily Streamflow in California," Maurer, E. P., Hidalgo, H. G., Das, T., Dettinger, M. D., and Cayan, D. R., 2010, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1125-1138, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1125-2010.
May, 2010
Hohyun Lee (mechanical engineering): "Effects of Nanoscale Porosity on Thermoelectric Properties of SiGe," Hohyun Lee et al., Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 107, Issue 9, p. 094308 (2010).
April, 2010
Ahmed Amer (computer engineering): "Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System," accepted for publication; 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies.
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): "ASCE Engineered Bamboo I-Joists;" Journal of Structural Engineering, Mark A Aschheim, Ph.D.; Luisa Maria Gil-Martin, Ph.D.; Enrique Hernandez-Montes, Ph.D.
Francisco R. Madriz (electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate), research professor Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang (Center for Nanostructures): F. R. Madriz, T. Yamada, X. Sun, J. G. Nickel, and C. Y. Yang, "Frequency-independent RC-Circuit Model for One-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures," IEEE Elec. Dev. Lett. 31 (4), 263-265 (2010).
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Vicuna, S., J. A. Dracup, J. R. Lund, L. L. Dale, and E. P. Maurer (2010), "Basin-scale Water System Operations with Uncertain Future Climate Conditions: Methodology and Case Studies," Water Resour. Res., 46, W04505, doi: 10.1029/ 2009 WR007838.
February, 2010
Giovanni Seni (computer engineering) has a new book: Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy through Combining Predictions. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures): T. Yamada, T. Saito, M. Suzuki, P. Wilhite, S. Xu, D. Fabris, and C. Y. Yang, "Tunneling between Carbon Nanofiber and Gold Electrodes," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 107, no. 4, 044304 (2010).
Aleksandar Zecevic and Dragoslav Siljak (electrical engineering) have published a book: Control of Complex Systems: Structural Constraints and Uncertainty in the prestigious Springer series: Communications and Control Engineering.
January, 2010
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering): C. Kitts (2010). Robotics. In H. Bidgoli (eds) The Handbook of Technology Management, Vol 3, pp. 306-319, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Maurer, E.P., L.D. Brekke, T. Pruitt, K. White, E. Ochs, P. Duffy, and E.H. Girvetz, "User-driven Downscaling: Advances in Data Apportioning and Analysis to Augment Adaptation Planning," 90th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Association, 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, Atlanta, GA, 21 Jan. 2010.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering) W. Kim, H. Do, M. A. Cappelli and M. G. Mungal (2010) "Plasma Assisted Flame Holding in Subsonic and Supersonic Flows," AIAA-2010-0263, AIAA-ASM Weakly Ionized Gases Workshop, 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 4-7 Jan. 2010, Orlando, FL.
December, 2009
Nam Ling, Weijia Shang (computer engineering): Jun Zhang, Xiaoquan Yi, Nam Ling, Weijia Shang, "Context Adaptive Lagrange Multiplier (CALM) for Rate-Distortion Optimal Motion Estimation in Video Coding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Ed Maurer (civil engineering): Girvetz, E., Zganjar, C, Raber, G., Maurer, E.P., Kareiva, P., Lawler, J.J., 2009, "Applied Climate-change Analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool," PLoS ONE 4(12): e8320.
November, 2009
Ahmed Amer (computer engineering): "Avoiding State-Space Explosion of Predictive Metadata with SESH" and "Using Shared Parity Disks to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays," to appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009.
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): "Refinements to Compression Field Theory, with Application to Wall-Type Structures," Hernandez-Montes, E., Aschheim, M., and Pantazopoulou, S., American Concrete Institute Fall Convention, New Orleans, delivered by Hernandez-Montes on Nov. 9, 2009.
Monem Beitelmal (mechanical engineering): "A Steady-State Model for the Design and Optimization of a Centralized Cooling System," International Journal of Energy Research, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Monem Beitelmal (mechanical engineering): "KRATOS: automated management of cooling capacity in data centers with adaptive vent tiles," ASME/IMECE Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Nov. 15-19, 2009.
Unyoung (Ashley) Kim was a co-author of the paper "Simultaneous Sorting of Multiple Bacterial Targets Using Integrated Dielectrophoretic / Magnetic Activated Cell Sorter", and the work was presented by her co-author at the International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2009) on 4 Nov. 2009, Jeju, Korea.
October, 2009
Yuling Yan (bioengineering): "Quantitative Analysis of Diplophonic Vocal-fold Vibratory Pattern from High-speed Digital Imaging of Glottis" accepted to the MAVEBA 2009 - 6th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications.
Ahmed Amer (computer engineering): "Space-Efficient Predictive Block Management," International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS'09) on 15 Oct. 2009, Grenoble, France (Co-located with ACM EMSOFT 2009).
June, 2009
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering) and graduate student Marcus Samale: "Studies of Shear Band Velocity Using Spatially and Temporally Resolved Measurements of Strain During Quasistatic Compression of a Bulk Metallic Glass" by W.J. Wright, M.W. Samale, T.C. Hufnagel, M.M. LeBlanc, and J.N. Florando. Published in Acta Materialia.
May, 2009
Dan Lewis (computer engineering): "Attracting the Next Generation of Students to Computing" the first part of a two-part article published on the front page of the May 2009 issue of CSTA Voice, a national newsletter for K-12 computer science teachers. The article describes the motivation, rationale and details of our new B.S. degree program in Web Design and Engineering.
Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures), Drazen Fabris (mechanical engineering) and Cary Y. Yang (electrical engineering): T. Yamada, T. Saito, D. Fabris, and C. Y. Yang, "Electrothermal Analysis of Breakdown in Carbon Nanofiber Interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 30 (5), pp.469-471 (2009).
Aaron Melman (applied mathematics): had "Some Properties of Newton's Method for Polynomials with all Real Zeros" published in the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics. He also gave a talk in the Linear Algebra/Optimization seminar of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University on April 29.
Robotics students had two articles published in Marine Technology Society Journal: E. Beck, W. Kirkwood, D. Caress, T. Berk, P. Mahacek, K. Brashem, J. Acain, V. Reddy, C. Kitts, J. Skutnik and G. Wheat, "SeaWASP: A Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull Autonomous Platform for Shallow Water Mapping," Marine Tech Soc Journal, v 43, n 1, pp. 6-12, 2009. P. Mahacek, I. Mas, O. Petrovic, J. Acain, and C. Kitts, "Cluster Space Control of Autonomous Surface Vessels," Marine Technology Society Journal, v 43, n 1, pp. 13-20, 2009.
Michele Ellie Ahi (adjunct professor engineering management): Outsourcing Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Empowering Americans Through Education and Innovation. The book draws on trends in education and economy that have shifted America from being a technological and innovative super power to the critical state it is in now.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Wally Kozacky: "A Frequency-Domain Adaptive Filtering Algorithm with Constraints on the Output Weights", to be presented at the upcoming 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) taking place in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Ifiok Umoh: "An Adaptive Nonlinear Filter for System Identification" in Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) and graduate student Ignacio Mas: C. Kitts and I. Mas. "Cluster Space Specification and Control of Mobile Multirobot Systems." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, v 14, n 2, pp. 207-218, 2009. It is a journal article on their multi-robot motion control technique.
April, 2009
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Cayan, D., M. Tyree, M. Dettinger, H. Hidalgo, T. Das, E. Maurer, P. Bromirski, N. Graham, and R. Flick, 2009, "Climate Change Scenarios and Sea Level Rise Estimates" for the California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment, Public Interest Energy Research Program Reports, Publication # CEC-500-2009-014-D, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, 62 pp. (available online at http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/publications/cat/). This biennial update outlines some of the latest projections of changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level we face in California, largely due to past and continuing use of fossil fuels.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): "Assessing Reservoir Operations Risk Under Climate Change," published in the latest issue of Water Resources Research. The study examined the relationship between uncertainties in future climate projections and the subsequent impacts of California's water system, and how systems might respond depending on how risk-averse water managers are.
March, 2009
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Lawler, J. J., S. L. Shafer, D. White, P. Kareiva, E. P. Maurer, A. R. Blaustein, and P. J. Bartlein, 2009, "Projected Climate-induced Faunal Change in the Western Hemisphere," Ecology, 90(3), 588–597. By assessing the impact of climate change on thousands of species of birds, mammals, and amphibians, the authors found local loss of at least 10% of the vertebrate fauna over much of North and South America. The largest changes are projected for the tundra, Central America, and the Andes Mountains where faunal distributions in the future will bear little resemblance to those of today.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Jeoong Sung Park: "A New Hardware Implementation of the H.264 8x8 Transform and Quantization," presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taipei, Taiwan April 2009.
Nam Ling (computer engineering) and Ph.D. student Maria Pantoja: "Transcoding with Resolution Conversion Using Super-Resolution and Irregular Sampling," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer.
Yuling Yan (bioengineering): "Implementation of a Virtual Laryngoscope System Using Efficient Reconstruction Algorithms," in Medical Science Monitor, a peer-reviewed international medical journal for experimental and clinical research.
February, 2009
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): Šćepanović B., Gil-Martín L. M., Hernández-Montes E., Aschheim M., and Lučić D., "Ultimate Strength of I-Girders Under Eccentric Patch Loading: Derivation of a New Strength Reduction Coefficient," Engineering Structures.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): "Climate Model-based Consensus on the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change to the Rio Lempa Basin of Central America" in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Science (Vol.13, pp. 183-194, 2009). This article represents a collaborative effort with co-authors from Washington State University and 3Tier Group in Seattle, and benefited from the assistance of colleagues at the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. The conclusion is that projections of drier conditions, lower streamflow, and decreased hydropower capacity for the region are robust and high confidence.
January, 2009
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): Wookyung Kim, Hyungrok Do, M. G. Mungal, and M. A. Cappelli (2008) "Plasma Assisted Diffusion Flames: Role of Elevated Ambient Temperatures," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36 (6), 2898-2904.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): Hyungrok Do, M. G. Mungal and M. A. Cappelli (2008) "Jet Flame Ignition in a Supersonic Crossflow using a Pulsed Nonequilibrium Plasma Discharge," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36 (6), 2918-2923.
Mohammad Ayoubi (mechanical engineering) and James Longuski: "Asymptotic Theory For Thrusting, Spinning-Up spacecraft Maneuvers," in the Journal of Acta Astronautica.
Ralph Morganstern (adjunct professor of applied mathematics): Morganstern, Ralph, E. (2008), "Fast Chirp Transform Applied to LPI FMCW Radar Waveforms," presented in the proceedings of the 54th Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, Monterey, CA, June 2008.
December, 2008
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Obianuju Ndili: "A Hardware Oriented Integer Pel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm in H.264/AVC" in the Proceedings of the IEEE/ECSI/EURASIP Conference on Design and Architecture for Signal and Image Processing, Nov. 2008.
October, 2008
Sergio Escobar-Vargas (Ph.D. student), Drazen Fabris, Jorge Gonzalez (mechanical engineering) R. Sharma, C. Bash, and O. E. Ruiz: "Bubble Growth Characterization During Fast Boiling in an Enclosed Geometry" in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): Lee, H. J., Aschheim, M., Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martin, L. M., "Optimum RC Column Reinforcement Considering Multiple Load Combinations," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): Hernández-Montes, E., Gil-Martín, L. M., Pasadas-Fernández, M., and Aschheim, M. (2008): "Theorem of Optimal Section Reinforcement," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization," 36(5):509-521, November.
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering) and William Nix (Stanford University): "Storage and Loss Stiffnesses and Moduli as Determined by Dynamic Nanoindentation" in the March 2009 issue on indentation methods in advanced materials research in the Journal of Materials Research.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student Thomas Paul: "Evolution, Insights and Challenges of the PHY Layer for the Emerging IEEE 802.11n Amendment" in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.
August, 2008
Jorge Gonzalez, Tim Hight, and Ph.D. student Rabindra Pokhrel (mechanical engineering): Rabindra Pokhrel, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Tim Hight, Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson; "Analysis and Design of a Paraffin/Graphite Composite PCM Integrated in a Thermal Storage Unit," presented at the 2008 International Conference on Energy Sustainability in the Solar Heating & Cooling Topical Area, named "Best Paper" of the ASME Solar Energy Division. Five Best Papers were awarded at the conference of a total of 177 in five different topical areas.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Brekke, L.D., Dettinger, M.D., Maurer, E.P., and Anderson, M., 2008, "Significance of Model Credibility in Projection Distributions for Regional Hydroclimatological Impacts of Climate Change: Climatic Change, 89, doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9388-3, 371-394. The paper summarizes results of a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation research effort, in which the authors evaluate the historical skill of global climate models and conclude that historic skill plays only a modest role in framing future climate projections.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, B. Anderson, X.-Z. Liang, E. Maurer, J. Zhu, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, A.M. Stoner and D. Wuebbles, 2008, "Regional Climate Change Projections for the Northeast USA," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Vol. 13 (5-6), 425-436, doi: 10.1007/s11027-007-9133-2. This article provides an assessment of climate change impacts to the Northeastern U.S.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student, Ifiok Umoh: "An Adaptive Algorithm for Hammerstein Filter System Identification;" presented at the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi and Ph.D. student, Thomas Paul (electrical engineering): "Analysis of Convergence of a Frequency-domain LMS Adaptive Filter Implemented as a Multi-stage Adaptive Filter," Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology (formerly Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems) 2008.
July, 2008
Ruth Davis, Weijia Shang (computer engineering) and student Stefan Schaeckeler: "Visualization of Procedural Abstraction" presented at the Fifth Program Visualization Workshop during the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference in Madrid, Spain.
Jorge Gonzalez (mechanical engineering) and Daniel E. Comarazamy: "On the Validation of the Simulation of Early Season Precipitation on the Island of Puerto Rico Using a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model," Journal of Hydrometeorology, pp 507-520, June 2008.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): V. S. R. Somandepalli, Y. X. Hou, & M. G. Mungal (2008) "Visualization of drag reduced boundary layer flows with polymer injection," 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, July 1-4, 2008, Nice, France.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): W. N. Heltsley, J. A. Snyder, M. G. Mungal & R. K. Hanson (2008) "Mapping the combustion stability regimes of hydrogen and hydrocarbon jets in supersonic crossflow with OH-PLIF," 14th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, 7-10 July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): H. El-Asrag, H. Pitsch, W. Kim, H. Do & M. G. Mungal (2008) "A computational and experimental assessment of the Damköhler Number similarity for static flame stability in augmentor flows," AIAA 2008-4955, 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, 21 - 23 July 2008, Hartford, CT.
Drago Siljak (electrical engineering) gave a keynote lecture, "Multi-agent systems on dynamic graphs," on the opening day of the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, July 2-9, 2008, Orlando, Florida.
June, 2008
Silvia Figueira (computer engineering) and former student Tan Trieu: "Data replication and the storage capacity of data grids," presented at HPDGrid - International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments, in Toulouse, France, in June 2008.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and Ph.D. student, Ifiok Umoh: "An Adaptive Algorithm for Hammerstein Filter System Identification." The paper was accepted at the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in August 2008 and was presented by Ifiok in Lausanne, Switzerland.
May, 2008
Nam Ling (computer engineering) and Ph.D. student Jianpeng (James) Dong: presented their paper "A Model Parameter and Mad Prediction Scheme for H.264 Macroblock Layer Rate Control" at the ISCAS '08 conference in Seattle.
Aaron Melman (applied mathematics) and Tobias Carothers (computer engineering): "Bounds on the Location of Critical Points of a Polynomial with all Real Zeros," was published in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, the official journal of the national mathematics honor society. The paper is based on research carried out as part of the Kuehler Grant summer research program in 2006 when Carothers had just completed his freshman year.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering) W. Kim, H. Do, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli (2008) "Optimal Discharge Placement in Plasma Assisted Combustion of a Methane Jet in Crossflow," Comb. Flame, 153, 603–615.
Bryan Ribaya (electrical engineering Ph.D. student): "A Study on the Mechanical and Electrical Reliability of Individual Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Cathodes," Nanotechnology, Vol 19, pp185201 (2008). To view the article, visit: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/19/18/185201/
Silvia Figueira (computer engineering) and her former student Tan Trieu: "Data Replication and the Storage Capacity of Data Grids," was presented at HPDGrid - International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments, in Toulouse, France, in June 2008.
April, 2008
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): Gil-Martín, L. M., Aschheim, M., and Hernández-Montes, E. "Proportioning of Steel Beam-Column Members Based on RSD Methodology," Engineering Structures.
March, 2008
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): Y. X. Hou, V. S. R. Somandepalli & M. G. Mungal (2008) "Streamwise Development of Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction with Polymer Injection," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 31-66.
John Jameson (Center for Nanostructures): "Equilibrium and compatibility simulation of plunge centerless grinding" in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Journal of Engineering Manufacture. Authors: John R. Jameson, T.N. Farris (Purdue University), and S. Chandrasekar (Purdue University).
John Jameson (Center for Nanostructures): K. Abe, M.P. Tendulkar, J.R. Jameson, P. Griffin, K. Nomura, S. Fujita, and Y. Nishi, "Ultra-high bandwidth memory with 3D-stacked emerging memory cells," ID 173, International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), Minatec in Grenoble, France, June 2–4, 2008.
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering): Aschheim, M., Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martín, L.M. (2008). "Design of Optimally-reinforced RC Beam, Column, and Wall Sections," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 134(2):231-239.
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering), Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martín, L. M. (2008). "Design of Optimally-reinforced RC Beam, Column, and Wall Sections," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 134(2):231-239.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering) and H. G. Hidalgo, 2008, "Utility of Daily vs. Monthly Large-scale Climate Data: an Intercomparison of Two Statistical Downscaling Methods," Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Vol. 12, 551-563. Online at: http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/12/551/2008/hess-12-551-2008.html In this study, Maurer worked with colleague Hugo Hidalgo at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to compare two methods of inferring regional climate change from global climate simulations, both of which are being used in the latest work by the California Energy Commission and CalEPA to project climate change impacts on California resources.
Sally Wood (electrical engineering): S. L. Wood, S. -T. Lee, G. Yang, M. P. Christensen, and D. Rajan, "Impact of Measurement Precision and Noise on Superresolution Image Reconstruction," Appl. Opt. 47, 1638-1648 (2008).
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering): "Wireless LAN Comes of Age: Understanding the IEEE 802.11n amendment" in IEEE Circuits and Systems Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 28-54, March 2008.
February, 2008
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): Cayan, D.R., E.P. Maurer, M.D. Dettinger, M. Tyree and K. Hayhoe, 2008, "Climate change scenarios for the California region", Climatic Change, Vol. 87, Suppl. 1, 21-42 doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9377-6. The article summarizes work, sponsored by the California Energy Commission and the California Environmental Protection Agency, aimed at assessing future climates for California and the potential impacts on key state resources.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): C. M. White & M. G. Mungal (2008) "Mechanics and Prediction of Turbulent Drag Reduction with Polymer Additives," Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 40, 235–256.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): Y. X. Hou, V. S. R. Somandepalli & M. G. Mungal (2008) "Streamwise Development of Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction with Polymer Injection," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 31-66.
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): W. Kim, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli (2008) "Formation and Role of Cool Flames in Plasma Assisted Premixed Combustion," Appld. Phys. Letters, 92, 051503 (3 p).
Sukhmander Singh (civil engineering): "Relevance of Technology Enhanced Educational Tools for Engineering Education," was included in the International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, December 3-7, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
December, 2007
Rance DeLong (computer engineering term lecturer) had a paper accepted in the proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2007 in December: "Toward a Medium-Robustness Separation Kernel Protection Profile," Rance J. DeLong, (Santa Clara University); Thuy D. Nguyen, Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Leven, (Naval Postgraduate School).
November, 2007
Rachel He (civil engineering): "Estimating Nationwide Link Speed Distribution using Probe Position Data" by Lin, He and Kornhauser was accepted for publication in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Rachel He (civil engineering): "Estimation of Origin-Destination Flows and Route Choice Parameters From Incomplete Link Flows" by He, was recently published in the proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, 347-354.
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering): "Fine-resolution Climate Projections Enhance Regional Climate Change Impact Studies" by Maurer, E. P., L. Brekke, T. Pruitt, and P. B. Duffy (2007), Eos Trans. AGU, 88(47), 504, available online at: http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/2007/47-504.html
Godfrey Mungal (dean of engineering): "On the Role of Oxygen in Dielectric Barrier Discharge Actuation of Aerodynamic Flows," by W. Kim, H. Do, M. G. Mungal and M. A. Cappelli, Applied Physics Letters, V19, 181501 (2007).
Mahmudur Rahman (electrical engineering) co-authored and published a paper in the IOP journal, Nanotechnology, "Effects of Cathode Structure on the Field Emission Properties of Individual Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Emitters." Writers included graduate students Darrell Niemann and Bryan Ribaya; graduate Norman Gunther; and adjunct research professor Cattien V. Nguyen.
September, 2007
Ruth Davis (computer engineering) will present "Increasing retention of women engineering student" in a poster session at the American Society for Engineeirng Education (ASEE) 6th Global Colloquim on Engineering Education in Istanbul, Turkey.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi's (electrical engineering) has a book, Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification, on signals and communication technology has been published by Springer.
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering): "An Improved Analysis for Viscoelastic Damping in Dynamic Nanoidentification" by W.J. Wright, A.R. Maloney, and W.D. Nix, International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, Numbers 2/3 , pp. 274-292, 2007, which she also presented at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the Material's Research Society.
Wendelin Wright (mechanical engineering): "Shape Memory Polymers Based on Uniform Aliphatic Urethane Networks" by W.J .Wright, T.S. Wilson, J.P. Bearinger, J.L. Herberg, J.E. Marion III, W.J. Wright, C.L.Evans, and D.J. Maitland. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Volume 106, pp. 540-551, 2007.
May, 2007
Sarah Kate Wilson (electrical engineering): "Opportunistic Beamforming and Scheduling for OFDMA Systems" by P. Svedman, S. K. Wilson, L. J. Cimini, and B. Ottersten, in the May 2007 issue of IEEE Transactions on Communications.
April, 2007
Edwin Maurer (civil engineering), 2007, "Uncertainty in Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change in the Sierra Nevada, California under Two Emissions Scenarios", Climatic Change, Vol. 82, No. 3-4, 309-325, doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9180-9
March, 2007
Vicuna, S., E. P. Maurer (civil engineering), B. Joyce, J. A. Dracup, D. Purkey, 2007, "The Sensitivity of California Water Resources to Climate Change Scenarios", Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 43 No. 2, 482-498, doi: 10.1111 / j.1752-1688.2007.00038
February, 2007
Mark Aschheim (civil engineering) collaborated with three Santa Clara University seniors, two faculty at the Universidad Centroamericana, and one at the National University of Mexico in writing "Enhancing The Sustainability and Earthquake Resistance of Confined Masonry Dwellings in El Salvador" (Aschheim, M., Flanagan, S., Harlander, J., Pitt, C., Alfaro, A., Rivas, C., Rodriguez, M. E.), which was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Earthquake Engineering.
Gil-Martin LM, Hernandez-Montes E, Mark Aschheim. (civil engineering), "Optimal Design of Planar Frames Based on Stability Criterion using First-order Analysis." Engineering Structures 28 (13): 1780-1786 NOV 2006
Sumit Naiksatam, Stephen Chiappari (applied mathematics), and Silvia Figueira (computer engineering), "Engineering Pricing Incentives for Efficient Bandwidth Utilization in LambdaGrids", presented at Create-Net/ICST QShine 2006, Waterloo, Canada, August 2006. Selected to appear in the Elsevier's Computer Network Journal.
Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia Figueira (computer engineering), and Stephen Chiappari (applied mathematics), "Triumph of the Bandwidth Commons: Elastic Reservations, Price Incentives, and Request Realignment in LambdaGrids", presented at ICST/IEEE GridNets, San Jose, California, October 2006. Selected to appear in the Elsevier's FGCS - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications.
Christopher Kitts (mechanical engineering) has a number of publications in press or recently published, including: "A First Principles Approach for Managing Anomalies in Space Systems." IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Automation Science; "Tsunami-generated boulder ridges in Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada." Geology; "Sapphire: A Case Study in University-Class Satellites." AIAA Journal on Spacecraft and Rockets; "Self-Positioning Smart Buoys, The Un-Buoy Solution: Logistic Considerations using Autonomous Surface Craft Technology and Improved Communications Infrastructure" proceedings IEEE/MTS Oceans Conference; "Internet-based spacecraft operations for the GeneSat-1 Nanosatellite." AIAA Space 2006 Conference; "An Integrated Development Network for Distributed Design" AIAA Space 2006 Conference; "The GeneSat-1 Microsatellite Mission: A Challenge in Small Satellite Design." Proc. AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites.


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Our Victorian Tea & Open House occurs the first Sunday of December annually. This has become a tradition with the chapter.
(1) To perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence by the acquisition and protection of historical spots, and the erection of monuments; by the encouragement of historical research in relationship to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by the preservation of documents and relics, and of the individual services of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anniversaries.
(2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to the American people, "to promote, as an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," thus developing an enlightened public opinion, and affording to the young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens.
(3) To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country and to aid in securing for mankind all blessings of liberty.
Open house on dates shown on
Meetings & Events page.
Officers elected for 2014-2015
From left to right:
Kathy Kessinger, out-going Chaplain; Kate Holwerk, Vice Regent & Historian; Dorothy Scott, Regent; Sharon Steltz, Corresponding Secretary; Susie Frazier, Treasurer; Jane Milton, Chaplain
The drawing above is of the Scribner House, built in 1814.
It is the oldest frame house in New Albany, Indiana, owned and maintained by the Piankeshaw Chapter.
Scribner House is located on the corner of State and Main streets. See map for directions.
The house is open for tours by appointment.
For information call
(812) 949-1776 and leave a message. You will receive a response in a timely manner.
Thanks to the Horseshoe Foundation, Scribner House restoration can now begin!
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- Fits palms up to 3.5" wide
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