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Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Emma Eccles Jones College Of Education And Human Services, August 28, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University (USU) requests approval to rename the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physical Education to a BS in Human Movement Science, effective Fall 2009.

The Utah Statesman, August 26, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Usu Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, August 24, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• School of Graduate Studies Report – Byron Burnham
• Section 401 – Composition and Authority of Faculty to PRPC – Ed Heath
• FSEC Member – Presidential Appointee Approval by Faculty Senate – Ed Heath
• Nominations for Honorary Degrees and Awards Screening Committee – Ed Heath
• Research Council Member Approval by Faculty Senate

The Utah Statesman, August 24, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, August 24, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Graduate Council Report
• Send Section 401 - Composition and Authority of Faculty to PRPC
• FSEC Member – Presidential appointee approval by Faculty Senate
• Nominations for Honorary Degrees and Awards Screening Committee
• Research Council Member approval by Faculty Senate

Cpd Project Recognizes Young Advocate, Center For Persons With Disabilities

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The Oculus: A Nanosatellite For Space Situational Awareness, Lyon King, Philip Hohnstadt, Jeffrey Katalenich, Peter Radecki, Thomas Venturino

Small Satellite Conference

As a part of the Air Force’s University Nanosatellite Program, Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) has designed and built a nanosatellite for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) research. The Oculus has the capability to visually detect and monitor resident space objects (RSOs) using space-to-space imagers as well as the ability to perform known attitude maneuvers while flying over U.S. observatories in order to anchor models and algorithms used to determine spacecraft attitude from unresolved ground imagery. Over 150 students at Michigan Tech have designed and built the Oculus, a three-axis-controlled nanosatellite equipped with two visible imagers, releasable free-flying imaging targets, and …

Lessons Learned From The First Swiss Pico-Satellite: Swisscube, Muriel Noca, Fabien Jordan, Nicolas Steiner, Ted Choueiri, Florian George, Guillaume Roethlisberger, Noémy Scheidegger, Hervé Peter-Contesse, Maurice Borgeaud, Renato Krpoun, Herbert Shea

Small Satellite Conference

SwissCube is the first pico-satellite developed by the Space Center at the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) in partnership with the University of Neuchatel and five engineering schools (HES-SO, FHNW) in Switzerland. SwissCube will be launch on PSLV in summer 2009 . The educational objective of the project is to provide a hands-on experience of the whole development cycles of satellites, and in parallel enhance flexibility, work autonomy and communication skills in a team composed of about 15 laboratories. SwissCube primary science objective is to measure the intensity of the airglow, a thin luminescence layer in the upper …

Tj3sat – The First Satellite Developed And Operated By High School Students, Carlos Niederstrasser, Alishan Hassan, Jake Hermle, Adam Kemp, Alexander Mcglothlin, Devan Samant, Joel Stein

Small Satellite Conference

In 2006 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) and Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) announced a new initiative to have students from TJHSST design and build the first ever high school satellite. Leveraging the large body of prior work done in the CubeSat community, and under the mentorship of Orbital engineers, TJHSST students are in the advanced prototyping phase of their CubeSat dubbed TJ3Sat. The TJ3Sat payload includes a digital voice synthesizer that is accessible by the general amateur radio community. The TJ3Sat project was conceived from the idea that some things simply cannot be taught by a …

The Naval Postgraduate School Scat++ Cubesat Program , Christopher Ortiona, Robert Jenkins, Christopher Malone, Lawrence Dorn, Matthew Schroer, Alexander Schulenburg, Paul Oppenheimer, William Crane, Daniel Sakoda, Marcello Romano, Rudolf Panholzer, James Newman

Small Satellite Conference

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Small Satellite program provides graduate students with hands-on experience designing, building, and operating satellites. NPS’s first satellite, Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) was deployed through the NASA Hitchhiker program on board STS-9 5 on October 29 , 19 9 8 and operated for several years. As a follow-on project to PANSAT, NPS plans to launch the Spacecraft Architecture and Technology Demonstration Satellite 1 (NPSAT1) sometime in the future. Currently the NPS Small Satellite program is evolving to include CubeSats to further enhance the educational and research opportunities at NPS. As ongoing university, government, and commercial …

Peak Power Tracking On A Nanosatellite Scale: The Design And Implementation Of Digital Power Electronics On The Sfl Generic Nanosatellite Bus, Grant Bonin, Doug Sinclair, Robert Zee

Small Satellite Conference

This paper describes the design and implementation of an advanced high-performance nanosatellite power system, with an emphasis on its battery management and peak power tracking (PPT) capabilities. This power system has been developed for the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies‘ Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS/SFL) Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB), which has enabled a wide variety of new space applications on a small scale. The GNB has a 20cm cubical form factor with no deployed solar arrays, making it inherently power-limited. Consequently, the need to accommodate relatively high powered payloads for multi-year missions has dic-tated the need for maximum utilization …

Boeing’S Cubesat Testbed 1 Attitude Determination Design And On-Orbit Experience, Michael Taraba, Christian Rayburn, Albert Tsuda, Charles Macgillivray

Small Satellite Conference

The CubeSat standard has provided space access to rapidly accelerate the maturity of hardware components and software algorithms for extremely small satellites. The Boeing CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) on‐orbit experiment, launched April 17, 2007, validated a highly integrated and multi‐functional approach for attitude determination. This paper covers the constraints and design concept of a CubeSat attitude determination system using multiple integrated sensors. The on‐orbit data collected from five two‐axis commercial‐off‐the‐shelf MEMS magnetometers, and four suites of sun sensors was processed and analyzed to determine the attitude of CSTB1. The attitude determination was verified via an image from a low power …

The Iris Nanosatellite For Autonomous Multi-System Responsive Space Operations And High Spectral Resolution Earth Imaging, Erin Beck, Christopher Kitts, Jose Cruz, Alexander Fischer, Steven Li, Anothony Young

Small Satellite Conference

Santa Clara University's Robotic Systems Laboratory is developing the Intelligent Responsive Imaging Spacecraft (IRIS) for autonomous multi-system responsive operations and high spectral resolution Earth imaging. IRIS will interact with an extended system of land, sea, air, and space-based robotic and human elements to observe transient events on the ground. Specifically, IRIS will provide critical imaging and communications services to detect, monitor, and respond to harmful algal blooms in shallow water regions. Students are responsible for all aspects of development. This paper will describe the mission concept and its use of advanced small satellite technologies to perform multi-system responsive space operations.

The Design And Development Of A Separation System For A Low-Cost Spherical Nanosatellite, Bruce Davis

Small Satellite Conference

The Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer (DANDE) is a spherical, 50kg satellite designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The goals of the DANDE mission are to fabricate a low-cost proof-of-concept spacecraft that improves our understanding of spatial and temporal variability of atmospheric neutral density and winds in the thermosphere. This project recently (January 2009 ) won the University Nanosat 5 competition sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and as a result will be launched in early 2011. To accurately measure atmospheric drag requires a spherically shaped satellite to allow for a known …

Rapid Assembly Of Spacecraft Structures For Responsive Space, Shazad Sadick, Roopnarine, Irene Yachbes

Small Satellite Conference

In order to achieve a six-day spacecraft architecture, the assembly, integration & testing (AI&T) of the Satellite Bus could be drastically reduced by stocking component-ready modular panels for assembly. The assembly of the structure itself, however, needs to be accelerated from the typical process of securing panels with dozens of mixedsize fasteners and the associated verification, tooling, and documentation that must also take into consideration the need to pass electrical and thermal connections across panels of the bus. A method for rapidly providing a stiff mechanical attachment across panels of a spacecraft bus, while simultaneously providing electrical and thermal continuity, …

Initial Flight Results From The Pharmasat Biological Microsatellite Mission, Christopher Kitts, Karolyn Ronzano, Richard Rasay, Ignacio Mas, Jose Acain, Michael Neumann, Laura Bica, Paul Mahacek, Giovanni Minelli, Erin Beck, Steve Li, Brian Gamp, Seamus Agnew, John Shepard, John Hines, Elwood Agasid, Charlie Friedericks, Matthew Piccini, Macarena Parra, Linda Timucin, C. Beasley, Mike Henschke, Ed Luzzi, Nghia Mai, Mike Mcintyre, Robert Ricks, Antonio Ricco, David Squires, Greg Yost, Defouw, Aaron Schooley, Diana Ly, Millan Diaz-Aguado, Eric Stackpole, Orlando Diaz, Tammy Doukas

Small Satellite Conference

The mission of the PharmaSat biological microsatellite is to investigate the efficacy of anti-fungal agents in the spaceflight environment. The satellite uses autonomous, in situ bio-analytical and sample management technologies in order to culture and characterize the growth of multiple samples of yeast, which are exposed to differing levels of an anti-fungal agent during their growth cycle. The satellite uses a 10 cm x 10 cm x 30 cm Cubesat-class structure with body-mounted solar panels, an ISM-band transceiver, and a simple PIC-class microcontroller for the main flight computer. PharmaSat was launched on May 19 , 2009 from Wallops Flight Facility …

Rapideye System Commissioning And On-Orbit Performance, Daniel Schulten, George Tyc, Yolanda Brown, Joe Steyn, Norman Hannaford, Wade Larson

Small Satellite Conference

RapidEye is a complete end-to-end commercial earth observation system comprising a constellation of 5 small satellites, each with a 5 band multi-spectral camera providing 6.5 m GSD and an approximate 78 km swath, a dedicated Spacecraft Control Center (SCC), a data downlink ground station service, and a full ground segment designed to plan, acquire and process millions of square kilometres of imagery every day to generate unique land information products. The system is owned and operated by RapidEye AG, a commercial company providing global geo-information services and data, located in Brandenburg, Germany. MDA is the mission prime contractor and was …

Canadian Advanced Nanospace Experiment 2 Orbit Operations: One Year Of Pushing The Nanosatellite Performance Envelope, Karan Sarda, Cordell Grant, Stuart Eagleson, Daniel Kekez, Amee Shah, Robert Zee

Small Satellite Conference

The objective of the Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment (CanX) program is to develop highly capable nanospacecraft, i.e. spacecraft under 10 kilograms, in short timeframes of 2-3 years. CanX missions offer low-cost and rapid access to space for scientists, technology developers and operationally-responsive missions. The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) has developed the CanX-2 nanosatellite that launched in April 2008. CanX-2, a 3.5-kg, 10 x 10 x 34 cm satellite, features a collection of scientific and engineering payloads that push the envelope of capability for this class of spacecraft. The primary mission …

Small Satellite Rendezvous And Characterization Of Asteroid 99942 Apophis, James Chartres, David Dunham, Bobby Williams, Anthony Genova, Anthony Colaprete, Ronald Johnson, Belgacem Jaroux

Small Satellite Conference

The Measurement and Analysis of Apophis Trajectory (MAAT) concept study investigated a low-cost characterization mission to the asteroid 9 9 9 42 Apophis that leverage small spacecraft architectures and technologies. The mission goals were to perform physical characterization and improve the orbital model. The MAAT mission uses a small spacecraft free flyer and a bi-propellant transfer stage that can be incorporated as a secondary payload on Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs), Atlas V or Delta IV launches. Using the innovative secondary architecture allows the system to be launched on numerous GTO or LTO opportunities such as NASA science missions or …

Blue Marble: Remote Characterization Of Habitable Planets , Neville Woolf, Brian Lewis, James Chartres, Anthony Genova

Small Satellite Conference

The study of the nature and distribution of habitable environments beyond the Solar System is a key area for Astrobiology research. At the present time, our Earth is the only habitable planet that can be characterized in the same way that we might characterize planets beyond the Solar System. Due to limitations in our current and near-future technology, it is likely that extra-solar planets will only be observed as single-pixel objects. To understand this data, we must develop skills in analyzing and interpreting the radiation obtained from a single pixel. These skills must include the study of the time variation …

The Cibola Flight Experiment, Michael Caffrey, Kim Katko, Anthony Nelson, Joseph Palmer, Scott Robinson, Diane Roussel-Dupre, Anthony Salazar, Michael Wirthlin, William Howes, Daniel Richins

Small Satellite Conference

The Cibola Flight Experiment (CFE) is an experimental small satellite carrying a reconfigurable processing instrument developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that demonstrates the feasibility of using FPGA-based high-performance computing for sensor processing in the space environment. The CFE satellite was launched on March 8, 2007 in low-earth orbit and has operated extremely well since its deployment. The nine Xilinx Virtex FPGAs used in the payload have been used for several high-throughput sensor processing applications and for single-event upset (SEU) monitoring and mitigation. This paper will describe the CFE system and summarize its operational results. In addition, this paper …

The First Steps Toward Developing Leadership Programs For Women In The United Arab Emirates: A Survey Study Exploring The Transformation Of Emirati College Students, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Developing effective leaders has become one of the most critical challenges for many organizations today, as strong, competent leadership often separates high-performing, successful organizations from less effective ones. In many countries research is being conducted to assist practitioners in designing successful leadership development programs for both men and women. However, in some countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), these efforts are only in their infancy, and leadership development for women is a new concept. Needless to say, there is no evidence of existing research on the development of women leaders in that country, and only a few indications …

Sagestep News, Summer/Fall 2009, No. 10, Sagestep

Newsletters

Seasonal newsletter of SageSTEP.

Improving The Quality Of Early Hearing Detection And Intervention Services Through Physician Outreach, Karen F. Muñoz, L. Shisler, M. Moeller, K. White

Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Faculty Publications

Physicians and other health-care providers should play a central role in helping families of children with permanent hearing loss receive timely and appropriate screening, diagnostic, and early intervention services. Because the technology and procedures for ensuring timely and appropriate services for infants and young children with hearing loss have changed so dramatically over the past 15 years, many health-care providers are not well informed about the best ways to provide effective services. Audiologists can help to ensure that physicians and other health-care providers are better informed about the services needed by infants and young children with hearing loss. This article …

Making And Keeping Your Cattle Herd Safe From Bovine Viral Diarrhea (Bvd), Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman, Allen Young

All Current Publications

This publication provides steps for keeping cattle herds safe from Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD).

Helmets, Heads, And Health For Horse Enthusiasts, Patricia Evans, Colette Floyd

All Current Publications

This publication describes why helmet use is highly recommended for all equestrian activities, while assisting with proper helmet sizing and fit.

Cultural Adaptation Of Treatments: A Resource For Considering Culture In Evidence-Based Practice, Guillermo Bernal, María I. Jiménez-Chafey, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez

Psychology Faculty Publications

There is a growing interest in whether and how to adapt psychotherapies to take into account the cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic context of diverse ethnocultural groups. At the root of the debate is theissue of whether evidence-based treatments (EBTs) developed within a particular linguistic and cultural context are appropriate for ethnocultural groups that do not share the same language, cultural values, or both. There is considerable evidence that culture and context influence almost every aspect of the diagnostic and treatment process. Yet, there are concerns about fidelity of interventions, and some have questioned whether tinkering with well-established EBTs is warranted. …

Logan Historical Newspaper Transcription Project, Cheryl D. Walters, Phyllis Smith

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Presentation given to summer citizens' group in Logan, Utah to tell them about the Logan Historical Newspaper Transcription Project and recruit volunteer transcribers. This project entails manually correcting computer-generated transcriptions to improve discoverability of the full-text digitized versions of the predecessor to today's Herald Journal. Before becoming today's Herald Journal, Logan's newspaper had four different titles: Logan Leader (1879-1882), Utah Journal (1882-1889), Logan Journal (1889-1891), and Journal (1892-1931). This digitized collection begins in 1879 with the Logan Leader and ends in 1898 with the Journal.

Considerations In Raising Small Backyard Flocks Of Poultry In Population-Dense Communities, David D. Frame

All Current Publications

During these times of economic challenge many people are considering raising a few chickens in the backyard to augment their food supply. This has raised numerous questions ranging from how to feed chickens to addressing local animal-keeping ordinances. Often, the answers are a work in progress for many communities. The following considerations should be taken into account.

Effects Of Creep Supplementation While Grazing Improved Irrigated Pastures, A. F. Summers

All Current Publications

This publication describes results of a study of creep supplementation versus grazing among calves.