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Faculty Diversity, Development, And Equity Committee Minutes, November 12, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Diversity, Development, and Equity Committee

• Job description and advertisement, matrix, and role statement
• Advertising
• Screening the File
• Interview
• Making the Decision

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, November 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems, Technology and Education

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change, Add Dual List

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

Department of Economics and Finance

• Grade Mode Change

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

• New Course
• Title Change
• Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Add dual list, course description change
• Course number change, add dual list, course description change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Title Change
• Credit Hour Change

Department …

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, November 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Usu Faculty Forum Minutes, November 3, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design of Green Buildings
• Integration of Regional Campuses into USU
• Salary Inversion and Compression
• Faculty Course Evaluations
• Classroom Etiquette in the Age of Distractions
• Open Forum – The Open forum resulted in the following comments

Tooele County 4-H Leader's Guide, Stephen Sagers

All Current Publications

This manual that helps new leaders better understand the 4-H program in Tooele County.

Effect Of The Addition Of Waxes On The Crystallization Behavior Of Anhydrous Milk Fat, Silvana Martini, Amalia A. Carelli, Jiwon Lee

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Physicochemical characteristics of lipid-based foods depend, among other factors, on the microstructure and the characteristics of the lipid network formed during crystallization. The objective of this study, was to evaluate the effect of the addition of sunflower oil waxes on the crystallization and melting behavior of anhydrous milk fat (AMF), a lipid with a low content of palmitic and trans-fatty acids. The crystallization and melting behavior of AMF alone and with the addition of 0.25 and 0.5% of waxes was studied using a differential scanning calorimeter. The morphology of the crystallized samples was evaluated with a polarized light microscope. The …

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Emma Eccles Jones College Of Education And Human Services, October 24, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Utah State University requests approval to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Family Life Studies (FLS) via online delivery effective Spring Semester 2009.

General Education Subcommittee Minutes, October 21, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Course Approvals

Syllabus Approval

Other Business

• Educated Persons Conference
• General Education Assessment
• CIL Exam

Next Meeting

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, October 6, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Budget Issues
• General Guidelines
• FDDE Committee Report
• Budget and Faculty Welfare
• PRPC Report
• Committee on Committees

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 2, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Science

• Add Multiple List

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• New Course
• Delete Course

Department of Plants, Soils, and Climates

• Repeatable for credit

Huntsman School of Business

• Repeatable for credit

School of Accountancy

• Grade Mode Change

Department of Business Administration

• Grade Mode Change

Department of Management and Human Resources

• Grade Mode Change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course

Department of Family, Consumer and Human Development

• Course Description Change, Add Dual List
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change

Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences

• Title Change, Course Description Change …

Strawberry Irrigation, Brent Black, Dr. Robert Hill, Dr. Grant Cardon

Gardening

No abstract provided.

Yellow Sac Spiders, Ryan S. Davis

All Current Publications

Most Utahn’s are familiar with the hobo spider (Tegenaria agrestis) and its potentially harmful bite. However, most Utahn’s don’t know that there is another spider commonly entering homes that may have a similar, but less toxic bite than the hobo—the yellow sac spider Chiracanthium inclusum).

Problem-Based Educational Games: Connections, Prescriptions, And Assessment, Andrew Walker, Brett E. Shelton

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

The overwhelming success of the commercial game market has brought increased attention to emerging work in educational game design. Much of the existing work in educational games a strong similarity to the field of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), which has a rich history of conceptual literature as well as empirical investigations. Despite apparent similarities between the two fields, there has been no formal effort to explore the connections between them. This conceptual paper examines the basic tenants of PBL with an eye toward making prescriptive recommendations for the design and use of problem-based educational games. Examples within existing educational games are …

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Agriculture And Applied Sciences, September 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Utah State University requests approval to offer a Bachelor of Science in Residential Landscape Design and Construction effective Fall 2008.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, September 4, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Animal Dairy and Veterinary Science

• New Course

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• Prerequisite Change

Huntsman School of Business

• New Course

School of Accountancy

• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Economics and Finance

• Change of Administrative Responsibility
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Management and Human Resources

• Title Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Communications Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Course Description Change

Department of Psychology

• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change …

Equine Immunity, Vaccination Guidelines, And Recommendations, Patricia Evans, Kerry A. Rood

All Current Publications

This publication provides vaccination guidelines, recommendations, and suggestions for a healthy horse.

Equine Immunity, Vaccination Guidelines, And Recommendations, Kerry Rood, Patricia Evans

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, August 25, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Accreditation
• Salary Compression and Inversion
• Nationally Competitive Salaries
• Enrollment
• Executive Committee Orientation
• Senate Calendar
• Vacancies
• Budget and Faculty Welfare Committee
• Faculty Evaluation Committee
• Interim Appointments
• Code Review Committee
• PRPC
• Graduate Council Report

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, August 25, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Calendar
• Vacancies
• Committee on Committees
• Budget and Faculty Welfare Committee Chair
• Code Review Committee
• PRPC
• GLBT Code Change Proposal
• Grievance Policies and Procedures
• Graduate Council Report

The Fastrac Satellites: Software Implementation And Testing, Aaron Smith, Sebastian Muñoz, Eric Hagen, Gregory Johnson, Glenn Lightsey

Small Satellite Conference

The Formation Autonomy Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude, and Crosslink (FASTRAC) project from the University of Texas at Austin has developed two nanosatellites as the winner of the University Nanosat-3 Competition. Both satellites have been manifested for a launch provided by the Space Test Program (STP) in December of 2009. The FASTRAC satellites will demonstrate the following enabling technologies for nanosatellites: (1) on-orbit real-time GPS relative navigation via real-time crosslink data exchange; (2) on-orbit real-time attitude determination using a single frequency, C/A-code, reprogrammable GPS receiver; (3) a micro-discharge plasma thruster; and (4) a distributed ground station network. In this paper, …

Tj3sat – Unique Challenges Of Building A Small Satellite Within A High School Environment, Carlos Niederstrasser, Adam Kemp, Joy Lee, Ashley Lewis, Nishad Samant, Joel Stein

Small Satellite Conference

In 2006 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) and Orbital Sciences Corporation 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 Sciences engineers, TJHSST students are in the design phase of their new CubeSat dubbed TJ3Sat. The TJ3Sat payload consists of a digital voice synthesizer that will be accessible to the general amateur radio community. The launch of TJ3Sat is currently scheduled for mid 2009. Unlike most other student satellite programs, …

Thermal Management Integration Using Plug-And Play Variable Emissivity Devices, Kenneth Shannon Iii, Judd Sheets, Howard Groger, Ronald Storm, Andrew Williams

Small Satellite Conference

The performance of mission-critical components and systems within spacecraft and satellites requires the ability to control the local thermal environment. Under conditions of relatively constant component and system loading, this would involve radiative dissipation of both internally and externally generated heat loads and altering thermal balances to provide heating where necessary. As the local thermal load changes with component use, the need arises to alter the heat transfer rates and dissipation within the spacecraft. It is also desirable to be able to evaluate, reconfigure or repair space-based thermal control systems using only ground station commands. These needs can be met …

Initial Development Of Embedded Low-Power Parallel Processing For On-Orbit Spacecraft Anomaly Management, Christopher Kitts, Paul Toledo, Mike Rasay

Small Satellite Conference

Maintaining the health of a spacecraft is a critical element of satellite operations, typically driving operations costs and often requiring standing armies of highly trained operations staff. An important aspect of this work is anomaly management (AM), which is the detection, diagnosis and resolution of anomalous conditions. Research in this area ranges from the development of robust reasoning techniques to the design of highly-performance flight processors able to implement these techniques on-orbit. Our recent work in this area focuses on the composition of advanced model-based reasoning (MBR) algorithms for AM that can be efficiently executed on a new generation of …

Integrating Lithium Polymer Charging And Peak Power Tracking On A Cubesat Class Satellite , Dan Kaste, Will Holmes, Dan Brinks, Joel Gegner, Jim Moore, Hugh White

Small Satellite Conference

Every satellite must regulate incoming power from solar cells, charge batteries and regulate satellite power to maintain satellite health. The power system should be as light, small, and efficient as possible to allow a maximum of resources to satellite systems while minimizing complexity, and meeting CubeSat mechanical and thermal requirements. This paper describes a modular power system, which integrates peak power tracking, battery charging, and power regulation. In addition, it describes the entire power design of a CubeSat power system. This system includes the modular power system described above together with solar cells, and lithium polymer batteries. Due to a …

Nanosail-D: The First Flight Demonstration Of Solar Sails For Nanosatellites , Mark Whorton, Andy Heaton, Robin Pinson, Greg Laue, Charles Adams

Small Satellite Conference

The “NanoSail-D” mission is currently scheduled for launch onboard a Falcon Launch Vehicle in the late June 2008 timeframe. The NanoSail-D, a CubeSat-class satellite, will consist of a sail subsystem stowed in a Cubesat 2U volume integrated with a CubeSat 1U volume bus provided by the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC). Shortly after deployment of the NanoSail-D from a Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD) ejection system, the solar sail will deploy and mission operations will commence. This demonstration flight has two primary mission objectives: 1) to successfully stow and deploy the sail and 2) to demonstrate de-orbit functionality. Given a …

Cube Sat Launching Investigation, Elham Shahmari, Karan Molaverdikhani, Hooman Jazebizadeh, Sahar Bakhtiari Mojaz, Mahsa Taheran

Small Satellite Conference

Today different groups started to manufacture cubesats because of the low cost of manufacturing and launching the satellites. With the growth of cubesat manufacturing, the scientist has tried to produce the small launchers to respond the needs of new researchers and young scientists. In 1980 the manufactured the commercial small launcher and starting launch in 1990. Also Russia with improvement of their ballistic missile and performing changes and improvement tried to manufacture small launchers with a minimum cost to launch the cubesat in the planed orbits. The cubesat will be launched into space together with other cubesats inside a so …

A Novel Cold Gas Propulsion System For Nanosatellites And Picosatellites, David Hinkley

Small Satellite Conference

A Microelectromechanical System-based (MEMS) PICOSAT Inspector (MEPSI) picosatellite on STS-116, in December 2006, used a five thruster cold gas propulsion system to translate and rotate. The inspector picosatellite measured 4 x 4 x 5 inches in dimension and weighted 1.4 kg. Our propulsion system was produced by a unique (to spacecraft) method of manufacturing that is low cost, tightly integrated, and leak tight. This paper will describe the design, fabrication, testing and limits of this type of unit, and extrapolate to other related uses found at The Aerospace Corporation. This work was funded by The Aerospace Corporation’s Independent Research and …

Panel Discussion, Brett Alexander, Debra Facktor Lepore, Richard Bailey, Amnon Ginati

Small Satellite Conference

Panelists will be challenged to provide candid views on current small satellite market trends including factors that which indi­cate real growth in the market, impediments to market expansion, where small satellites fit in the global space market, and the key drivers and indicators to of the future business health of the small satellite industry. The panel will explore these issues from all mar­ket sectors—missions, satellites, launchers, and customers.This year’s panel will be interactive, with real-time audience participation.

Low Cost Rapid Response Spacecraft, (Lcrrs) A Research Project In Low Cost Spacecraft Design And Fabrication In A Rapid Prototyping Environment , Stevan Spremo, Jesse Bregman, Christopher Dallara, Shakib Ghassemieh, James Hanratty, Evan Jackson, Chris Kitts, Pete Klupar, Michael Lindsay, Ignacio Mas, David Mayer, Emmett Quigley, Mike Rasay, Aaron Swank, Jeroen Vandersteen

Small Satellite Conference

The Low Cost Rapid Response Spacecraft (LCRRS) is an ongoing research development project at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, California. The prototype spacecraft, called Cost Optimized Test for Spacecraft Avionics and Technologies (COTSAT) is the first of what could potentially be a series of rapidly produced low-cost satellites. COTSAT has a target launch date of March 2009 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The LCRRS research system design incorporates use of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf), MOTS (Modified Off The Shelf), and GOTS (Government Off The Shelf) hardware for a remote sensing satellite. The design concept was …

The Implementation Of A Plug-And-Play Satellite Bus, Maurice Martin, Don Fronterhouse, Jim Lyke

Small Satellite Conference

Several years ago, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) began a research program to understand the complexity of aerospace systems and how, through technology, it would be possible create them much faster. To underscore the ambitions of this work, we referred to this research as the pursuit of the “six-day” spacecraft. The six-day interval is marked starting with identification of a mission need and ending with a fieldable spacecraft ready to integrate onto a launch vehicle. This body of work culminated in the creation of a plug-and-play satellite bus (PnPSat) as a “clean-sheet” approach to spacecraft architecture. With PnPSat, we …