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The Marianists’ History Of The Evolution Of Ud’S Center For Christian Renewal, The Institute For Pastoral Initiatives And Contribution To The Mission Of The Catholic Church (1972-2023), Angela Ann Zukowski Mar 2023

The Marianists’ History Of The Evolution Of Ud’S Center For Christian Renewal, The Institute For Pastoral Initiatives And Contribution To The Mission Of The Catholic Church (1972-2023), Angela Ann Zukowski

Documents and Publications of the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives

In 1972, the Marianists established the Marianist Institute for Christian Renewal, later called the Center for Christian Renewal (CCR), under the auspices of the University of Dayton. The goal of the Center was to be a bridge between the University and the Catholic Church in dialogue and pastoral service. During the next fifty years to the present, the centers and institutes established under the initial CCR connected the University with the Catholic Church in the spirit and charism of the Marianist tradition. The areas of connection include support for social justice issues in Africa and West Dayton; Catholic elementary …

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Doc 2023-03 University Professional Faculty Promotion Policy, University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee Feb 2023

Doc 2023-03 University Professional Faculty Promotion Policy, University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee

Senate Documents

ACTION: Legislative Authority
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/="/">Proposal to ensure all full-time faculty have a pathway from promotion. This policy establishes general guidelines that govern University-wide procedures for promotion of full-time faculty who are not governed by the University Promotion and Tenure Policy, are not part of the School of Law, and who do not hold a visiting position.

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2023 Qdayton Colloquium Program, University Of Dayton Feb 2023

2023 Qdayton Colloquium Program, University Of Dayton

QDayton Documents

Program for the 2nd annual QDayton Colloquium, Feb. 17, 2023

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Virtuous Circle, Eric F. Spina Feb 2023

Virtuous Circle, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

"Beth (Schwartz) and Rick (Chamberlin) are simply two of the most caring, compassionate — and loyal — people on our campus. They’re kind, positive and humble servant-leaders who put others above themselves and respect the dignity of every person," said UD President Eric Spina at the annual Lackner Awards dinner.

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Securing The Right Skills: A Longitudinal Assessment Of College Students’ Writing And Public Speaking Self-Efficacy, T. Kody Frey, Jessalyn I. Vallade Feb 2023

Securing The Right Skills: A Longitudinal Assessment Of College Students’ Writing And Public Speaking Self-Efficacy, T. Kody Frey, Jessalyn I. Vallade

Basic Communication Course Annual

This research investigated the developmental patterns of students’ writing and public-speaking self-efficacy throughout their experience in the basic communication course (BCC). Questions were posed regarding (a) whether students grew in their reported writing and public speaking self-efficacy over two semesters, (b) whether growth differed based on biological sex, and (c) whether affinity and apprehension (as sources of performance self-efficacy) played a role in student growth. Two multilevel models revealed significant differences in students’ initial status and rate of growth for each outcome. Specifically, sex, affinity, and apprehension influenced students’ starting positions in the course, while only apprehension had a significant …

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Improving Well-Being In The Basic Course: The Impact Of Interpersonal Communication Competence And Public Speaking Anxiety On Loneliness, Belongingness, And Flourishing, Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post, Aayushi Hingle Collier, Henri K. Huber Feb 2023

Improving Well-Being In The Basic Course: The Impact Of Interpersonal Communication Competence And Public Speaking Anxiety On Loneliness, Belongingness, And Flourishing, Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post, Aayushi Hingle Collier, Henri K. Huber

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study evaluated whether interpersonal communication competence and public speaking anxiety had an impact on three indicators of student well-being (loneliness, belongingness, and flourishing) as well as evaluated whether the two most popular types of the introductory communication course (public speaking and hybrid/fundamentals) impacted interpersonal communication competence and public speaking anxiety to the same extent. Survey data was collected from 1378 students enrolled in one of these two introductory communication courses. Results showed that interpersonal communication competence was the strongest predictor of all three outcome variables, and the public speaking anxiety predicted some additional variance in loneliness and belongingness, but …

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Women In Science And Podcasting, Tori Miller Feb 2023

Women In Science And Podcasting, Tori Miller

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

University of Dayton engineering alumna looks to pay it forward to future female engineers with new women in STEM podcast.

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Houses Of Faith, Karen Spina, Teri Rizvi Feb 2023

Houses Of Faith, Karen Spina, Teri Rizvi

President's Blog: From the Heart

Faith takes deeper root when we open our hearts and share ourselves with others. My wife, Karen, has discovered that firsthand as a mentor for Marianist Student Communities.

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Additive Manufacturing Expedites Development Of New Walking Cane, University Of Dayton Feb 2023

Additive Manufacturing Expedites Development Of New Walking Cane, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Research Institute is advancing additive manufacturing technologies to help the Air Force more affordably sustain its fleet, and it also was the perfect solution to help one physical therapist help people walk more safely.

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In Changing Economic Times, Record 98% Of Graduates Report Getting Off On Right Foot Toward Career Success, University Of Dayton Feb 2023

In Changing Economic Times, Record 98% Of Graduates Report Getting Off On Right Foot Toward Career Success, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Searching for a job can be difficult amid lingering effects from the pandemic, increased competition and current economic uncertainty. Through it all, recent University of Dayton graduates report a record 98% success rate and 10.5% jump in average salary.

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Predicting Industrial Building Energy Consumption With Statistical And Machine-Learning Models Informed By Physical System Parameters, Sean Kapp, Jun-Ki Choi, Taehoon Hong Feb 2023

Predicting Industrial Building Energy Consumption With Statistical And Machine-Learning Models Informed By Physical System Parameters, Sean Kapp, Jun-Ki Choi, Taehoon Hong

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

The industrial sector consumes about one-third of global energy, making them a frequent target for energy use reduction. Variation in energy usage is observed with weather conditions, as space conditioning needs to change seasonally, and with production, energy-using equipment is directly tied to production rate. Previous models were based on engineering analyses of equipment and relied on site-specific details. Others consisted of single -variable regressors that did not capture all contributions to energy consumption. New modeling techniques could be applied to rectify these weaknesses. Applying data from 45 different manufacturing plants obtained from industrial energy audits, a supervised machine-learning model …

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University Of Dayton Top 9 Percent Of U.S. Schools In National Cybersecurity Competition, Lucy Waskiewicz Jan 2023

University Of Dayton Top 9 Percent Of U.S. Schools In National Cybersecurity Competition, Lucy Waskiewicz

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

UD computer science students finished in the top 9 percent nationally in the National Cyber League’s fall season.

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In Process, Dan Ratterman Jan 2023

In Process, Dan Ratterman

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Dan Ratterman’15 talks about turning a University of Dayton professor’s lesson into a booming business.

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An Engineer In Theater: “To Thine Own Self Be True.”, University Of Dayton Jan 2023

An Engineer In Theater: “To Thine Own Self Be True.”, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Nicholas Rollin felt split in two. As a mechanical engineering major, he was invested in his studies, but he also wanted to explore his love for technical theater. Instead of having to pick, Rollin found wholeness at UD.

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Virtual Accident Curb Risk Habituation In Workers By Restoring Sensory Responses To Real-World Warning, Namgyun Kim, Laurent Grégoire, Moein Razavi, Niya Yan, Changbum R. Ahn, Brian A. Anderson Jan 2023

Virtual Accident Curb Risk Habituation In Workers By Restoring Sensory Responses To Real-World Warning, Namgyun Kim, Laurent Grégoire, Moein Razavi, Niya Yan, Changbum R. Ahn, Brian A. Anderson

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

In high-risk work environments, workers become habituated to hazards they frequently encounter, subsequently underestimating risk and engaging in unsafe behaviors. This phenomenon has been termed "risk habituation"and identified as a vital root cause of fatalities and injuries at workplaces. Providing an effective intervention that curbs workers' risk habituation is critical in preventing occupa-tional injuries and fatalities. However, there exists no empirically supported intervention for curbing risk habituation. To this end, here we investigated how experiencing an accident in a virtual reality (VR) environment affects workers' risk habituation toward repeatedly exposed workplace hazards. We examined an underlying mechanism of risk habituation …

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Adsorptive Properties And On-Demand Magnetic Response Of Lignin@Fe3o4 Nanoparticles At Castor Oil–Water Interfaces, Mohammad J. Hasan, Emily Westphal, Peng Chen, Abishek Saini, I-Wei Chu, Sarah J. Watzman, Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides, Erick S. Vasquez Jan 2023

Adsorptive Properties And On-Demand Magnetic Response Of Lignin@Fe3o4 Nanoparticles At Castor Oil–Water Interfaces, Mohammad J. Hasan, Emily Westphal, Peng Chen, Abishek Saini, I-Wei Chu, Sarah J. Watzman, Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides, Erick S. Vasquez

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Lignin@Fe3O4 nanoparticles adsorb at oil–water interfaces, form Pickering emulsions, induce on-demand magnetic responses to break emulsions, and can sequester oil from water. Lignin@Fe3O4 nanoparticles were prepared using a pH-induced precipitation method and were fully characterized. These were used to prepare Pickering emulsions with castor oil/Sudan red G dye and water at various oil/water volume ratios and nanoparticle concentrations. The stability and demulsification of the emulsions under different magnetic fields generated with permanent magnets (0–540 mT) were investigated using microscopy images and by visual inspection over time. The results showed that the Pickering emulsions were more stable at the castor oil/water …

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Ud In The News Jan. 7-13, University Of Dayton Jan 2023

Ud In The News Jan. 7-13, University Of Dayton

News Releases

National Law Journal wrote about a law school program to recruit underrepresented students. Climate scientist Shuang-ye Wu was on The Academic Life podcast. The School of Engineering made the cover of OhioENGINEER's engineering education issue.

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This Course Takes College Students Out Of This World – And Teaches Them What It Takes To Become Space Pioneers, Joshua D. Ambrosius Jan 2023

This Course Takes College Students Out Of This World – And Teaches Them What It Takes To Become Space Pioneers, Joshua D. Ambrosius

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Spacecraft are just a small part of what it takes for humans to become an interplanetary species. University of Dayton political science professor Joshua D. Ambrosius explains how there is much more to creating a spacefaring society.

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Liquid-Liquid Equilibria Of Water + Ethanol + Castor Oil And The Effect Of Cellulose Nanocrystal/Fe3o4 And Lignin/Fe3o4 Nanoparticles, Mohammad J. Hasan, Fariba Yehaneh, Amy Ciric, Peng Chen, Erick S. Vasquez, Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides Jan 2023

Liquid-Liquid Equilibria Of Water + Ethanol + Castor Oil And The Effect Of Cellulose Nanocrystal/Fe3o4 And Lignin/Fe3o4 Nanoparticles, Mohammad J. Hasan, Fariba Yehaneh, Amy Ciric, Peng Chen, Erick S. Vasquez, Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Castor oil has been proposed as a renewable solvent for the liquid extraction of ethanol from water as an alternative to more traditional energy intensive distillation-based methods. The liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) of the ternary system water + ethanol + castor oil was determined at 295.15 K using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Castor oil was herein treated as a pseudo-component with the molecular weight of the triglyceride of ricinoleic acid. The experimental data was fitted to the UNIQUAC and NRTL models to obtain parameters for castor oil, and binary interaction parameters for castor oil/ethanol and castor oil/water pairs. The separation …

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Going Up, Michelle Tedford Jan 2023

Going Up, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Engineering students tour the University of Dayton's Roger Glass Center for the Arts, under construction at Main and Stewart streets.

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Collaborative Consultation Doctors Model: Unifying Cnn And Vit For Covid-19 Diagnostic, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran Jan 2023

Collaborative Consultation Doctors Model: Unifying Cnn And Vit For Covid-19 Diagnostic, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges due to its high transmissibility and mortality risk. Traditional diagnostic methods, such as RT-PCR, have limitations that hinder timely and accurate screening. In response, AI-powered computer-aided imaging analysis techniques have emerged as a promising alternative for COVID-19 diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that combines the strengths of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) to enhance the performance of COVID-19 diagnosis models. CNN excels at capturing spatial features in medical images, while ViT leverages self-attention mechanisms inspired by human radiologists. Additionally, our approach draws inspiration from subclinical diagnosis, a …

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Uit-Adrone: A Novel Drone Dataset For Traffic Anomaly Detection, Tung Minh Tran, Tu N. Vu, Tam Nguyen, Khang Nguyen Jan 2023

Uit-Adrone: A Novel Drone Dataset For Traffic Anomaly Detection, Tung Minh Tran, Tu N. Vu, Tam Nguyen, Khang Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in video surveillance and is one of the issues that have attracted various communities, such as computer vision, machine learning, and data mining in recent years. Moreover, drones equipped with cameras have quickly been deployed to a wide range of applications, starting from border security applications to street monitoring systems. However, there is a notable lack of adequate drone-based datasets available to detect unusual events in the urban traffic environment, especially in roundabouts, due to the density of interaction between road users and vehicles. To promote the development of anomalous event detection with …

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Preparation, Cure, And Characterization Of Cyanate Ester-Epoxy Blends Containing Reactive Flame Retardants, Mustafa Mukhtar, Donald A. Klosterman Jan 2023

Preparation, Cure, And Characterization Of Cyanate Ester-Epoxy Blends Containing Reactive Flame Retardants, Mustafa Mukhtar, Donald A. Klosterman

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Cyanate ester resins are sometimes mixed with lower cost epoxy monomers to modify cost, toughness, and processing capabilities. Despite the high performance of these thermosetting polymers, flame retardancy remains an issue. This study examined blends of three different commercial cyanate ester monomers (LVT-100, LECy, and XU-71787.02) and diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) at 50/50 wt% of each type. The blends were successfully reacted with two reactive flame retardants (FR): 9,10-dihydro-9-ox-9-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) and poly(m-phenylene methylphosphonate) (PMP) at phosphorus contents ranging from 0 to 3 wt%. The curing behavior of EP/CE blends was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). It was …

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Sustainability Plan For Amusement Parks – A Case Study, Vibhu Sharma Dec 2022

Sustainability Plan For Amusement Parks – A Case Study, Vibhu Sharma

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Publications

This report presents findings from an environmental assessment of multiple amusement parks across North America. The assessment aimed to identify opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and water usage. Key findings include: two-thirds of total emissions come from off-site energy generation, significant energy savings potential during off-season periods, variation in energy intensity across locations, and a strong correlation between cooling degree days and energy consumption at one location. Recommendations include reducing electrical consumption, purchasing green energy, installing on-site renewable energy, replacing fossil fuel equipment with cleaner alternatives, and implementing water conservation measures. These insights inform decarbonization, energy conservation, …

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Hands-On Learning, Eric F. Spina Dec 2022

Hands-On Learning, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

At the beginning of the semester Professor Kim Bigelow and Rachel Zidaroff, director of operations for United Rehabilitation Services (URS), gave four mechanical engineering students a modest $1,500 budget and a challenge — create a prototype of a portable device that would help people with limited motor skills take their work gloves on and off by themselves using just one hand.

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Ud Engineering Faculty, Alumni, Students Building Water System For Malawi Schools, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

Ud Engineering Faculty, Alumni, Students Building Water System For Malawi Schools, University Of Dayton

News Releases

UD School of Engineering faculty, staff and alumni are leading by example and showing students how to serve others with their engineering skills by improving access to water for schools in Malawi.

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University Awarded $840k For Choose Ohio First, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

University Awarded $840k For Choose Ohio First, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton was awarded nearly $840,000 for Choose Ohio First scholarships to recruit and graduate students studying the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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Ud In The News Dec. 10-17, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

Ud In The News Dec. 10-17, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, Commonweal and Sinclair Broadcasting's The National Desk highlighted UD programs and expertise. Regional and local media featured a new program for first-generation students and classes working for the common good.

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The Challenge Of Change, Eric F. Spina Dec 2022

The Challenge Of Change, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

"Some people are book-smart, but lack empathy, kindness and mercy. You cannot go about transforming the world — which is ultimately your assignment when you leave today — without both," President Eric Spina told the Class of 2022 at winter commencement. "As Flyers, you’re called to use your minds and hearts to work across disciplines and differences to make the kind of profound change the world needs."

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Music Theorist, Lgbtq+ Advocate Working To Make Ud Music Curriculum More Inclusive, Dave Larsen Dec 2022

Music Theorist, Lgbtq+ Advocate Working To Make Ud Music Curriculum More Inclusive, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Daniele Shlomit Sofer is bringing new ways of thinking to the ongoing revision of the University of Dayton’s music theory curriculum to make it more inclusive.

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