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Working To Be Seen And Heard, Camila Sánchez-González Dec 2022

Working To Be Seen And Heard, Camila Sánchez-González

University Libraries Blog Archive

Camila Sánchez-González '23 goes through the University Archives and finds women's voices in the history of UD. In her research through student-run publications and other sources, she learns just how women were seen and heard during the 1960s.


Ud In The News Dec. 3-9, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

Ud In The News Dec. 3-9, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Conversation and the daily newsletter of the American Society of Engineering Education highlighted UD classes while INSIGHT Into Diversity featured the new Health Equity Activation Think Tank.


Forever Linked, Eric F. Spina Dec 2022

Forever Linked, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

A small but sturdy silver link hangs from my keychain, a gift from Flyer football coach Rick Chamberlin. In a tradition he carried over from his predecessor Mike Kelly, Rick gave everyone who ever played for him a link to remind them they’re forever connected to the program and each other.


Author Of Books On Racial Reconciliation, Social Justice To Speak At Mlk Breakfast, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

Author Of Books On Racial Reconciliation, Social Justice To Speak At Mlk Breakfast, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Very Reverend Canon Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary, canon theologian at Washington National Cathedral, and author of two books on racial reconciliation and social justice, will be the speaker at the University's annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast.


Shelley Inglis To Step Down As Ud Human Rights Center Executive Director, Dave Larsen Dec 2022

Shelley Inglis To Step Down As Ud Human Rights Center Executive Director, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Shelley Inglis, executive director of the UD Human Rights Center, will step down from her position at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.


The Great Gas Leak Incident, Neil Bucher Dec 2022

The Great Gas Leak Incident, Neil Bucher

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

An alert plant worker spotted it first — actually, he smelled it: a gas leak coming from the main natural gas pipe entering the SA Building of the chemical plant.


Ud In The News Nov. 19-Dec. 2, University Of Dayton Dec 2022

Ud In The News Nov. 19-Dec. 2, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The New York Times, The Conversation, Newsweek, Sinclair Broadcasting's The National Desk, Inside Higher Ed and the Ed Prep Matters blog of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education highlighted UD faculty expertise.


173rd Commencement, Fall Dec 2022

173rd Commencement, Fall

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Disease Recognition In X-Ray Images With Doctor Consultation-Inspired Model, Kim Anh Phung, Thuan Trong Nguyen, Nileshkumar Wangad, Samah Baraheem, Nguyen D. Vo, Khang Nguyen Dec 2022

Disease Recognition In X-Ray Images With Doctor Consultation-Inspired Model, Kim Anh Phung, Thuan Trong Nguyen, Nileshkumar Wangad, Samah Baraheem, Nguyen D. Vo, Khang Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The application of chest X-ray imaging for early disease screening is attracting interest from the computer vision and deep learning community. To date, various deep learning models have been applied in X-ray image analysis. However, models perform inconsistently depending on the dataset. In this paper, we consider each individual model as a medical doctor. We then propose a doctor consultation-inspired method that fuses multiple models. In particular, we consider both early and late fusion mechanisms for consultation. The early fusion mechanism combines the deep learned features from multiple models, whereas the late fusion method combines the confidence scores of all …


Data-Driven Analysis For Facility Management In Higher Education Institution, Ashish Kumar Pampana, Jungho Jeon, Soojin Yoon, Theodore J. Weidner, Makarand Hastak Nov 2022

Data-Driven Analysis For Facility Management In Higher Education Institution, Ashish Kumar Pampana, Jungho Jeon, Soojin Yoon, Theodore J. Weidner, Makarand Hastak

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) and Unplanned Maintenance (UPM) are the most common types of facility maintenance. This paper analyzes current trends and status of Facility Management (FM) practice at higher education institutions by proposing a systematic data-driven methodology using Natural Language Process (NLP) approaches, statistical analysis, risk-profile analysis, and outlier analysis. This study utilizes a descriptive database entitled "Facility Management Unified Classification Database (FMUCD)" to conduct the systematic data-driven analyses. The 5-year data from 2015 to 2019 was collected from eight universities in North America. A preprocessing step included but was not limited to identifying common data attributes, cleaning noisy …


Engineering Systems For The Common Good: With Math, Class Hopes To Offer Solutions To Homelessness, University Of Dayton Nov 2022

Engineering Systems For The Common Good: With Math, Class Hopes To Offer Solutions To Homelessness, University Of Dayton

News Releases

It's an equation that may seem impossible, an engineering professor using math to help find solutions for homelessness in Montgomery County, but Raúl Ordóñez believes his class can calculate some very real answers.


Computer Engineering Student Creates Public Speaking Simulator With Faculty Mentor, Bridgett Dillenburger Nov 2022

Computer Engineering Student Creates Public Speaking Simulator With Faculty Mentor, Bridgett Dillenburger

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Inspired by his own struggles with public speaking, UD junior Bao Truong created a VR simulator to allow users to practice presentations before a computer-generated crowd.


A Patient-Specific Algorithm For Lung Segmentation In Chest Radiographs, Manawaduge Supun De Silva, Barath Narayanan Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie Nov 2022

A Patient-Specific Algorithm For Lung Segmentation In Chest Radiographs, Manawaduge Supun De Silva, Barath Narayanan Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Lung segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided detection and diagnosis using chest radiographs (CRs). Currently, the U-Net and DeepLabv3+ convolutional neural network architectures are widely used to perform CR lung segmentation. To boost performance, ensemble methods are often used, whereby probability map outputs from several networks operating on the same input image are averaged. However, not all networks perform adequately for any specific patient image, even if the average network performance is good. To address this, we present a novel multi-network ensemble method that employs a selector network. The selector network evaluates the segmentation outputs from several networks; on …


Wind Beneath Their Wings, Eric F. Spina Nov 2022

Wind Beneath Their Wings, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

During Sunday’s scholarship brunch, I marveled at Daisha Williams' poise, confidence — and ease in articulating why investing in students pays dividends.


Randy And The Impala Story (Or, Do Cars Have Souls?), Neil Bucher Nov 2022

Randy And The Impala Story (Or, Do Cars Have Souls?), Neil Bucher

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

While sitting in my comfy chair, watching an advertisement for a new TV show called Married at First Sight (and divorced soon after), I thought about my brother Randy.


The Writers' Lost And Found, Renee Burns Lonner Nov 2022

The Writers' Lost And Found, Renee Burns Lonner

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The first keynote speaker for this year’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, Cathy Guisewite, mentioned — in her classic self-effacing and, at the same time, most inspiring way — that she wrote absolutely nothing for the first five years after her 34-year daily comic series, Cathy, ended. I’ll raise her 15 years.


The Flyer Connection, Eric F. Spina Nov 2022

The Flyer Connection, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

If I’m wearing a Dayton Flyers baseball cap in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Pittsburgh or even Bryce Canyon National Park, someone invariably will smile and yell, "Go, Flyers!"


Cover And Contents, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Cover And Contents, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 1: Introduction, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 1: Introduction, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 2: Fluid Properties, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 2: Fluid Properties, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 6: Hydraulic Grade Line (Hgl) And Energy Grade Line (Egl), Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 6: Hydraulic Grade Line (Hgl) And Energy Grade Line (Egl), Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 8: Conservation Of Mass, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 8: Conservation Of Mass, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Ud In The News Oct. 29-Nov. 4, University Of Dayton Nov 2022

Ud In The News Oct. 29-Nov. 4, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Newsweek, The New York Observer, Reader's Digest, MSN Money and the Global Sisters Report are among the news outlets sharing UD faculty expertise about upcoming elections, cybersecurity for your cell phone and Black Catholic nuns.


Chapter 3: Fluid Statics, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 3: Fluid Statics, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 11: Conservation Of Energy (Steady-State), Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 11: Conservation Of Energy (Steady-State), Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Chapter 13: Head Loss In Pipes, Donald V. Chase Nov 2022

Chapter 13: Head Loss In Pipes, Donald V. Chase

Open Educational Resource: Civil Engineering Course Notes

No abstract provided.


Engineering Students Named 2022 Aes Energy Innovation Challenge Winners, University Of Dayton Nov 2022

Engineering Students Named 2022 Aes Energy Innovation Challenge Winners, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Engineering graduate students Scott Eardley, Sean Kapp and Megan McNelly are the winners of the AES Corporation 2022 Energy Innovation Challenge for their Project Oasis, an indoor farming system powered by solar energy and battery storage.


Synthesis Of A Phosphorus-Based Epoxy Reactive Flame Retardant Analog To Diglycidyl Ether Of Bisphenol A (Dgeba) And Its Behavior As A Matrix In A Carbon Fiber Composite, Mustafa Mukhtar Nov 2022

Synthesis Of A Phosphorus-Based Epoxy Reactive Flame Retardant Analog To Diglycidyl Ether Of Bisphenol A (Dgeba) And Its Behavior As A Matrix In A Carbon Fiber Composite, Mustafa Mukhtar

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper describes the synthesis of a phosphorus-based flame retardant that is a chemical analog of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA), as well as its incorporation as a matrix into carbon fiber laminates. Carbon fiber composites, if used for structural applications in mass transport vehicles (aircraft, trains), will require some aspects of improved fire performance to be used safely in those applications. The first phase of work involved the development of two separate synthesis routes to produce the flame retardant monomer, referred to as Phosphorus-DGEBA or simply P-DGEBA. The second step was to determine the viability of the compound's …


Review Of The Energy And Social Impact Of Bitcoin Mining And Transactions And Its Potential Use As A Productive Use Of Energy (Pue) To Aid Equitable Investment In Solar Micro And Mini Grids Worldwide, Kevin Hallinan, Lu Hao, Rydge Mulford, Lauren Bower, Kaitlin Russell, Austin Mitchell, Alan Schroeder, Rustam Kuzhin, Mohammad Ehsan Naikkhua, Rohulla Arya, Sayed Ehsani, Rishabh Shukla Nov 2022

Review Of The Energy And Social Impact Of Bitcoin Mining And Transactions And Its Potential Use As A Productive Use Of Energy (Pue) To Aid Equitable Investment In Solar Micro And Mini Grids Worldwide, Kevin Hallinan, Lu Hao, Rydge Mulford, Lauren Bower, Kaitlin Russell, Austin Mitchell, Alan Schroeder, Rustam Kuzhin, Mohammad Ehsan Naikkhua, Rohulla Arya, Sayed Ehsani, Rishabh Shukla

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Working Papers

Despite the climate commitments made by countries in the Paris Climate Agreement adopted in 2015, and reinforced during COP 21, world carbon emissions have increased in both 2021 and 2022. It is increasingly unlikely that the world can achieve the targeted 50% carbon reduction by 2030; the reduction approximately needed for reducing global temperature rise since the beginning of the industrial revolution to less than 1.5 deg. C. At the same time, the carbon intensive loads associated with bitcoin mining have grown, thereby contributing to growing worldwide carbon emissions. In this context, the role of cryptocurrency and particularly bitcoin is …


Elastomer O-Ring Seal Swell Measurements For Sustainable Aviation Fuel Material Compatibility, Conor J. Faulhaber Nov 2022

Elastomer O-Ring Seal Swell Measurements For Sustainable Aviation Fuel Material Compatibility, Conor J. Faulhaber

Honors Theses

As efforts continue to fight climate change by transitioning energy sources away from fossil fuels and towards renewable alternative, the commercial aviation sector finds itself at danger of falling behind in emissions reductions. To combat this, the best term opportunity to reduce the industry’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions has been identified as sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, derived from renewable feedstocks like agricultural waste or used cooking oil. Currently, SAF is regulated to a 50%v blending limit with conventional petroleum-based fuel to maintain certain jet fuel properties, including material compatibility with elastomer o-ring seals. When these seals come in …