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A Network Flow Approach For Constellation Planning, Skylar A. Cox, Greg N. Droge, John H. Humble, Konnor D. Andrews

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

A graph-based network flow approach to constellation planning is presented that respects spacecraft resources and mission constraints to arrive at a preliminary operational schedule. The method discretizes task fulfillment opportunity windows into graph nodes and then adds edges based on feasibility of transition between these opportunities, either by slew maneuvers or extended-time task fulfillment during downlink operations. Intelligent graph pruning is applied to improve computation performance and provide a versatile planning capability with a minimal impact on the resulting solution. A network flow formulation allows for a simultaneous search for spacecraft plans using a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP). The …

Faculty Senate Agenda, September 6, 2022, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• HR Policy Changes
• Empowering Teaching Excellence Annual Report
• Faculty Code Changes

The Utah Statesman August 29, 2022, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Minutes, August 22, 2022, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Minutes

Call to Order - John Ferguson

Approval of Minutes - April 11, 2022

General Remarks for 2022-2023 AY - Senators Responsibilities - John Ferguson

University Business - Noelle Cockett, President | Larry Smith, Provost

Information

• HR Policy Changes - Doug Bullock

Reports

• Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) Annual Report - Neal Legler | Shelly Arnold

Old Business

• N/A

New Business

• 403:1-2 Academic Freedom | 403.3 Standards of Conduct Track Changes | Final (first reading) - Scott Hunsaker

Adjourn: 4:48pm

Local Production And Developing Core Regions: Ceramic Characterization In The Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Western Mexico, Anna S. Cohen, Amy J. Hirshman, Daniel E. Pierce, Jeffrey R. Ferguson

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

A core region is the first place for expected shifts in archaeological materials before, during, and after political changes like state emergence and imperial consolidation. Yet, studies of ceramic production have shown that there are sometimes limited or more subtle changes in the ceramic economy throughout such political fluctuations. This article synthesizes recent efforts to address political economic changes via geochemical characterization (neutron activation analysis; NAA) in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin in western Mexico. This region was home to the Purépecha state and then empire (Tarascan; ca. AD 1350-1530), one of the most powerful kingdoms in the Americas before European …

Curriculum Subcommittee, Agenda, September 1, 2022, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

1. Approval of Minutes - April 7, 2022
2. Program Proposals
3. Semester Course Approval Reviews
4. Other Business
5. Adjourn: 3:00 pm

Program Proposals:

• Request from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to offer a new specialization (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) to the MS and PhD degrees of Plant Science.
• Request from the Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts to change the name of the Theatre Arts Theatre Education Certification Option BFA to Theatre Arts Education BFA.
• Request from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of …

Range-Wide Sources Of Variation In Reproductive Rates Of Northern Spotted Owls, Jeremy T. Rockweit, Julianna M. Jenkins, James E. Hines, James D. Nichols, Katie M. Dugger, Alan B. Franklin, Peter C. Carlson, William L. Kendall, Damon B. Lesmeister, Christopher Mccafferty, Steven H. Ackers, L. Steven Andrews, Larissa L. Bailey, Jesse Burgher, Kenneth P. Burnham, Tara Chestnut, Mary M. Conner, Raymond J. Davis, Krista E. Dilione, Eric D. Forsman, Elizabeth M. Glenn, Scott A. Gremel, Keith A. Hamm, Dale R. Herter, J. Mark Higley, Rob B. Horn, David W. Lamphear, Trent L. Mcdonald, Janice A. Reid, Carl J. Schwarz, David C. Simon, Stan G. Sovern, James K. Swingle, J. David Wiens, Heather Wise, Charles B. Yackulic

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

We conducted a range-wide investigation of the dynamics of site-level reproductive rate of northern spotted owls using survey data from 11 study areas across the subspecies geographic range collected during 1993–2018. Our analytical approach accounted for imperfect detection of owl pairs and misclassification of successful reproduction (i.e., at least one young fledged) and contributed further insights into northern spotted owl population ecology and dynamics. Both nondetection and state misclassification were important, especially because factors affecting these sources of error also affected focal ecological parameters. Annual probabilities of site occupancy were greatest at sites with successful reproduction in the previous year …

Educational Policies Committee, Agenda, September 1, 2022, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Agenda

1. Approval of Minutes - April 7, 2022
2. Subcommittee Reports

   a. Curriculum Subcommittee(Chad Simon) Course Approvals – 83

   b. Academic Standards Subcommittee (Renee Galliher) No Meeting | Report

   c. General Education Subcommittee (Matt Sanders) Minutes – April 19, 2022

3. Other Business
4. Adjourn: 4:00pm

Program Proposals

• Request from the Departments of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education and Aviation and Technical Education in College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to create a new Department of Technology, Design and Technical Education.
• Request from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to discontinue the Horticulture: …

Precision Irrigation Guide For Center Pivots, Elisa Flint, Matt Yost, Troy Peters, Clara Anderson, Burdette Barker, Neil Hansen

All Current Publications

This factsheet discusses the different variable rate irrigation (VRI) options for center pivots, when they might reduce water use and energy, produce higher crop yields, and when it might be unreasonable to expect these kinds of benefits.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Agenda, August 22, 2022, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Call to Order
• University Business
• HR Policy Changes
• Empowering Teaching Excellence Annual Report
• Old Business
• Academic Freedom
• Standards of Conduct
• Track Changes

Continuous Ph Monitoring And Control: Selecting And Interfacing The Electrode, Controller, And Datalogger, Noah J. Langenfeld, Bruce Bugbee

Techniques and Instruments

pH control is essential to well-managed hydroponics. Here, we describe the selection and interfacing of electrodes, controllers, and loggers.

Using Digital Tools To Engage And Assess Students In Online Platforms: Lessons Learned, Katherine Vela, Rachel Turner, Amanda Deliman

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

A growing number of students are taking online and hybrid courses and many instructors are looking for ways to keep students engaged in these virtual settings. This presentation will focus on sharing lessons learned through using digital tools such as PearDeck and Google Applications (i.e., JamBoard, Google Docs, etc.) to engage students during synchronous and asynchronous classes. We will also share how we used student feedback to make improvements to current and future lessons using these digital tools. Participants will actively engage with the digital tools through a student's lens and then see the tool from an instructor's perspective. Participants …

Learning Strategies Lift Students, Melanie Chambers

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Students feel more confident in college courses when they know how to learn effectively. Incorporating learning strategies into class can lift student performance (Flippo, 2009) and transfer to other courses. In this session we will go over several evidence-based learning strategies that you can easily apply to your class. Examples include: time management semester planners, Cornell note taking method formats, Annotating textbooks, and test preparation strategies. With the adjustments of the Academic Support Services, there were lessons learned ­­­­­­with taking the strategies to where the students were. The lessons kept are the strategies that remain the same, however the way …

Shall I Swot Or Soar? Understanding How To Implement Two Reflection Tools To Improve Lessons, Courses And Overall Academic Programs, Andreas Baron Wesemann

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

No abstract provided.

Basic Need Challenges Of Today's Students: How To Best Support These Needs, Mateja Savoie Roskos, Jennifer Grewe, Jess Lucero, Jan Thornton

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

College students face a vast array of basic needs challenges that can impact their ability to thrive inside and outside of the classroom. Basic needs can include (but are not limited to) food and housing security, healthcare for mental and physical health/well-being, childcare, resources for personal hygiene, and more. Utah State University has many programs and services that aim to support the basic needs of students. In addition, there are many off campus resources that students are often eligible for. Being aware of the resources available and connecting students to those resources is essential when helping students navigate these hardships. …

Statewide Faculty-To-Student Mentoring Program - Updates, Opportunities And Panel Discussion, Don Busenbark, Jenifer Evers, Kim Hales, Hannah Lewis, Amanda Deliman, James Taylor, Jeff Spears, Michael Christiansen, Clinton Behunin, David Law

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

The Statewide Faculty-to-Student Mentoring program began at the statewide campuses level beginning in 2020. With the enthusiastic support of USU administration, the program has been actively implemented and continues to develop throughout many statewide campuses. Preliminary research shows promising supportive data results. This important work is significant because of the current issues facing our students. This Student-Centric Program helped to engage and connect faculty and students at the USU Statewide Campuses and provided an extra layer of support during the pandemic. Students have a greater sense of fulfillment and connection to Utah State University. Not only did students receive extra …

Teaching Without A Traditional Textbook, Jen Burbank, Stephanie Western

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Record numbers of faculty have introduced digital content options into their courses since going online in the spring of 2020. Many of the changes to course structure and increased use of Canvas as well as alternative text options are here to stay. Learn how to ditch that traditional textbook and make use of open educational resources (OER). Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free to use, adapt, and redistribute. With the cost of college education increasing, it is more important than ever to include freely accessible course materials for students whenever possible. Come and learn …

Your Syllabus Matters: Creating A Sense Of Belonging On Day 1, Harrison Kleiner, Heidi Kesler

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

The pandemic shown a light on the importance of students having a sense of belonging, which research shows is an important indicator of student success. However our syllabi can unintentionally signal "you don't belong" to some of our students. In this presentation, we will discuss ways we can change our course syllabi to better serve as a welcome mat for students, particularly first-generation and historically minoritized students. Relying on the work done in the Student Experience Project, participants will learn about evidence-based changes they can make to their syllabi, with particular focus on "low-lift" changes that can be made in …

Simple Techniques To Encourage Long-Term Retrieval, Stacy Bevan, Maryann Schneider

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Amid massive changes in teaching, one thing that remains constant is that we want students to really learn, not simply memorize to pass a test and then forget everything. We want our students to be successful in their studying rather than wasting time rereading highlighted text with glazed over eyes. Despite these ambitions, teachers often use ineffective techniques and students lack the metacognitive strategies needed to enable learning. The presenters of this session will highlight evidence-based techniques found in the book "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" by Peter C. Brown. They will also share personal experiences from …

Increasing Student Success By Integrating Career Education Into The Classroom, Dannon Loveland, Cindy Higgins

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

During the last several years of upheaval and change, equity become an increasingly important topic of focus and research in higher education. Studies have found that the number one reason students list for pursuing higher education is to get a better job. Students who don’t access career services are often those who would benefit the most. This has caused a rethinking in the way that career education is delivered to students from a service model which only reaches a small percentage of students to integration into the student experience. Faculty are in a unique position to promote career development in …

Inclusive Pedagogy: Benefitting All Learners, Madison Heider, Lindsay Thunell

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

The prevalence of students with disabilities and learning differences attending college is steadily increasing. This calls for reform among educators to adjust their teaching practices to serve this diversity of learners more effectively. Traditional methods for addressing disability and learning differences within the college classroom put the responsibility on individual students to request accommodations and adapt their learning to the outlined course requirements. Inclusive pedagogy creates learning that is “meaningful, relevant, and accessible to all.” This represents an institution-wide shift in mindset and responsibility toward creating content, instructional delivery, and assessments that are accessible, equitable, and beneficial for everyone. This …

Usu Course Formats: Student-Centric, Simplified, Strategic And Statewide, Ryan Hobbs

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

This session will introduce a list of revised course formats (and descriptions) proposed for USU. With the upcoming transition from IVC to Zoom and the impact of COVID on teaching and learning, USU is seeking to revise the available course delivery formats. This work has been centered on four key goals (each starting with "S"): (1) Student-Centric - keeping the needs of students in the forefront, (2) Simplify - to reduce the number of options and confusion, (3) Strategic - to ensure that the formats align with our university mission and strategic goals, and (4) Statewide - course formats meet …

Balancing Accountability And Flexibility In Asynchronous Online Courses, Missy Kofoed

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Students choose to take online courses for a variety of reasons, one being the increased flexibility that online courses provide. One of the challenges of a large, asynchronous online course is how to balance requiring accountability from students while also providing much needed flexibility. In this session, I will discuss strategies implemented from my participation in an ACUE course on effective online teaching as well as from the book Empowered at a Distance that help to incorporate both structure and flexibility in an online course. This session will include my lessons learned in modifying my courses over the years and …

Collaborative Research: Harnessing Mechanics For The Design Of All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries, Haoran Wang

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Inquiry Journal Facilitation: A Writing Assignment For Practicing Exploratory Speech, Jessica Rivera-Mueller

English Faculty Publications

The Inquiry Journal Facilitation is a project that helps preservice teachers develop habits of mind for engaging in critical dialogue about the situations they confront in their teaching contexts. In this project, preservice teachers compose a piece of writing that examines an idea, question, or issue that emerges from their clinical teaching site and lead an inquiry-based discussion about the ideas raised in their writing. Pairing the activity of writing with the activity of discussion creates a context for preservice teachers to create "exploratory speech" (Smagorinsky, 2013) collaboratively. In doing so, preservice teachers practice intellectual moves–framing observations, explaining those constructions, …

Mission Operations, Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Overview

• In review – CONOPS

• Mission Planning

• Anomaly Resolution

• Miscellaneous, but important considerations

• Looking forward

Three Options For Mixing And Loading Spray Tanks, Kalen Taylor, Cody Zesiger, Corey Ransom, Earl Creech, Matt Yost

All Current Publications

Correctly mixing a tank for chemical applications is something most farmers, ranchers, and home gardeners do regularly. However, understanding how to properly mix and calculate rates can be complicated. Follow one of the three options outlined in this fact sheet to accurately obtain application rates and mix chemical products safely and effectively.

Exploring How We Teach: Lived Experiences, Lessons, And Research About Graduate Instructors By Graduate Instructors, Audrey Tocco, Avaneesh Narla, Elizabeth Giardina, Erin Hughes, Faqryza Ab Latif, Heath J. Wooten, J. Nick Fisk, Jennie Baker, Jonathan Simmons, Kristyn Lue, Melissa Leaym-Fernandez, Natalie Low, Ryan Cheek, Samantha Prado, Sandra Silva-Enos, Shannon Kelley, Stacy Bluth, Taneisha Vilma, Theresa Hice-Fromille, Alexandra Lee, April Athnos, Tianyi Kou-Herrema, Seth Hunt, Ellen Searle, Emile Oshima, Olivia Wilkins, Nathalie Marinho, Matthew Langley, Hima Rawal, Harrison Parker

Exploring How We Teach

This book combines the knowledge of 30 graduate student instructors sharing about how they teach and how they’ve learned how to teach.

Classrooms And Minefields, Jonathan Simmons, Sandra Silva-Enos, Shannon Kelley

Exploring How We Teach

• Graduate school is a time of personal and professional challenges and changes. Engaging in personal reflection about your identity and your goals can help you make sense of these changes.
• Set and enforce your own personal and professional boundaries to protect all the parts of your identity; learn to recognize your own triggers and prioritize your own self-care.
• Create a set of lifelines—people and resources you can be vulnerable with and can turn to for both personal and professional challenges. You will need different lifelines to help with different problems such as identity whiplash or the many landmines you may …

Transferring Knowledge And Opening Pathways: The Unconventional Doctoral Student-Adjunct Instructor, Samantha Prado

Exploring How We Teach

• Doctoral student/adjunct instructor is a unique and important positionality that can provide perspective on the range of graduate student instructor experiences that exist.
• Positionality can be used to break down educational barriers and increase equity in the classroom.
• Transferring knowledge between contexts can be a form of advocating for social justice.
• There are both advantages and challenges to being a doctoral student/adjunct instructor.