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Aggies Sweep American Water Works Association Scholarship Challenge | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Four Utah State University engineering students received scholarships from the American Water Works Association Intermountain Section.

Usu Biological Engineer Featured In Chemical & Engineering News | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The ongoing research into alternative bio-based fuels by USU's Dr. Foster Agblevor was featured in a February cover story of Chemical & Engineering News magazine.

Design Of A Metadata Framework For The Environmental Models With An Example Hydrologic Application In Hydroshare, Mohamed M. Morsy, Jonathan L. Goodall, Anthony M. Castronova, Pabitra Dash, Venkatesh Merwade, Jeffrey M. Sadler, Mohammad Adnan Rajib, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, David G. Tarboton

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Environmental modelers rely on a variety of computational models to make predictions, test hypotheses, and address specific problems related to environmental science and natural resource management. Scientists and engineers must devote significant effort to preparing these computational models. While significant attention has been devoted to sharing and reusing environmental data, less attention has been devoted to sharing and reusing environmental models. A first step toward increasing environmental model sharing and reuse is to define a general metadata framework for models that is flexible and, therefore, applicable across the wide variety of models used by environmental modelers. This paper proposes a …

Civil Engineering Professor Named Educator Of The Year | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Utah State University professor of civil engineering Dr. Paul J. Barr has been named the 2017 Educator of the Year by the Utah Engineers Council.

Colorado River Basin Environmental Water Transfers Scorecard, Leon Szeptycki, David Pilz

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The Colorado River and its tributaries support more than 35 million people and irrigate more than four million acres of farmland. At the same time, the river supports 30 fish species found nowhere else on earth and inspires millions of visitors and residents alike with its sheer beauty. However, growing water scarcity caused by increased water use, hydrologic variability and climate change loom over all the Colorado River provides.

Potential Crop Evapotranspiration And Surface Evaporation Estimates Via A Gridded Weather Forcing Dataset, Clayton S. Lewis, L. Niel Allen

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Absent local weather stations, a gridded weather dataset can provide information useful for water management in irrigated areas including potential crop evapotranspiration calculations. In estimating crop irrigation requirements and surface evaporation in Utah, United States of America, methodology and software were developed using the ASCE Standardized Penman-Monteith Reference Evapotranspiration equation with input climate drivers from the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) gridded weather forcing dataset and a digital elevation model. A simple procedure was devised to correct bias in NLDAS relative humidity and air temperature data based on comparison to weather data from ground stations. Potential evapotranspiration was …

Utah Water Research Lab Unveils Latest In Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

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Researchers at Utah State University last week unveiled their newest platform of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Biological Engineering Professor Presents Inaugural Lecture | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

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Biological Engineering faculty Dr. Anhong Zhou reflected on family and the future of bio-technologies at his inaugural lecture last month where he was honored for his promotion to professor.

Utah State University’S Cee Department Gets Attention From Industry Magazines | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Utah State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was mentioned several times recently in the United States Society on Dams (USSD) Newsletter and the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) Annual Report.

National Media Turn To Usu Engineering Professor For Developing Oroville Spillway Situation | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

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Reporters around the world are covering the developing story in Northern California where massive water flows are threatening the integrity of the Oroville Dam’s main and auxiliary spillways.

Uwrl Researchers Develop Genetic Tool To Improve Arsenic Studies | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Environmental engineers are making it easier to identify the bacterial species responsible for releasing a form of arsenic that contaminates the water supplies of millions of people worldwide.

Wildfire In Utah: The Physical And Economic Consequences Of Wildfire, Paul Mark Jakus, Man-Keun Kim, Randy S. Martin, Ian Hammond, Edd Hammill, Nancy O. Mesner, Jacob Stout

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

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On June 26, 2012 a lightning strike ignited a wildfire in the Manti-La Sal National Forest of central Utah’s Carbon and Emery counties (Figure P.1). By the time the Seeley wildfire was contained three weeks later, some 48,000 acres of federal, state, and private land had been burned and $8.7 million in suppression costs expended (Styler 2012). According to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS.gov) project, nearly one-third of the acreage was severely burned, damaging vegetation and soils for years to come. Severe burns vastly increase the erosion potential of burnt landscapes, and the steep lands of Huntington …

Alternative Cdep Design To Facilitate Cell Isolation For Identification By Raman Spectroscopy, Cynthia Hanson, Elizabeth Vargis

Biological Engineering Faculty Publications

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) uses non-uniform electric fields to cause motion in particles due to the particles' intrinsic properties. As such, DEP is a well-suited label-free means for cell sorting. Of the various methods of implementing DEP, contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is advantageous as it avoids common problems associated with DEP, such as electrode fouling and electrolysis. Unfortunately, cDEP devices can be difficult to fabricate, replicate, and reuse. In addition, the operating parameters are limited by the dielectric breakdown of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). This study presents an alternative way to fabricate a cDEP device allowing for higher operating voltages, improved replication, and the opportunity …

Learning From Engineers To Develop A Model Of Disciplinary Literacy In Engineering, Amy Wilson-Lopez

Funded Research Records

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Fast And Efficient Radio Resource Allocation In Dynamic Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks, Chonggyu Niu, Yibing Li, Rose Qingyang Hu, Fang Ye

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Ultra-dense network (UDN) is considered as a promising technology in 5G wireless networks. In an UDN network, dynamic traffic patterns can lead to a high computational complexity and an excessive communications overhead with traditional resource allocation schemes. In this paper, a new resource allocation scheme presenting a low computational overhead and a low subband handoff rate in a dynamic ultra-dense heterogeneous network is presented. The scheme first defines a new interference estimation method that constructs network interference state map, based on which a radio resource allocation scheme is proposed. The resource allocation problem is a MAX-K cut problem and can …

An X Band Patch Antenna Integrated With Commercial Triple-Junction Space Solar Cells, Taha Yekan, Reyhan Baktur

Civil and Environmental Engineering Student Research

An X band patch antenna was integrated on top of the cover glass of commercial space-certified solar cell and was studied for understanding the interaction between the solar cell and the antenna. It was found that the solar cell acts as a lossy substrate for the antenna and reduces the gain of the antenna by about 2 dB, and such a reduction remains consistent for different working states of the solar cell. The patch antenna reduces the efficiency of the solar cells because it blocks light, however, at 10 GHz, the impact of a patch antenna alone to the solar …

Usu Seeks Computer Science Department Head | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Utah State University seeks applications for the Head of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

Dr. James L. Moore Presents Bpe Program Seminar At Usu | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Dr. James L. Moore III will visit Utah State University on Jan. 30 as the guest speaker at a seminar on the Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program.

Usu College Of Engineering Development Director Sworn Into Legislature | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The Utah State Legislature welcomed several new lawmakers to its ranks on Monday, including Val K. Potter, the executive director of development at Utah State University’s College of Engineering.

Usu Engineering Students Receive Design Award | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

A team of USU student engineers were awarded a plaque for being the Runner Up at the WEF Student Design Competition at WEFTECH 2016.

Select Partner Proterra Makes Debut In Park City | Utah State University Power Electronics Lab, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The Research Center for Sustainable Electrified Transportation (SELECT) is pleased to announce that partner Proterra is established in Park City, Utah.

Exercise - Calculate Reservoir Performance Metrics - University Of Colorado Boulder, Joseph Kasprzyk

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A Learning Style Comparison Between Synchronous Online And Face-To-Face Engineering Graphics Instruction, Wade H. Goodridge, Oenardi Lawanto, Harry B. Santoso

Engineering Education Faculty Publications

The implementation of a successful engineering program to a synchronous online curriculum is subject to many impacting factors. One such factor, that has not seen much investigation, concerns learning styles. Student learning styles may have a dramatic influence on the success of a synchronous online deliverable engineering graphics curriculum. The immediate objective of this research was to look at the effectiveness of teaching Engineering Graphics with a synchronous online delivery method and to compare it to a more traditional face-to-face delivery method. Using Kolb’s learning style inventory, student learning styles in both educational settings were investigated and analyzed to discover …

Gams Handout 1, Ethan Yang

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Gams Handout 4, Ethan Yang

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Analysis And Design Of Highly Transparent Meshed Patch Antenna Backed By A Solid Ground Plane, Tursunjan Yasin, Reyhan Baktur, Timothy Turpin, Jesus Arellano

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes rectangular and circular patch antennas fabricated from meshed conductors and backed with solid ground planes. Because of the meshing, the antennas are rendered optically transparent, where the transparency is determined by the mesh geometry. It is found that although there is a compromise between the antenna's efficiency and the optical transparency of the meshed patch, it is possible to optimize the antenna by refining mesh lines to certain extent. The limiting factors for refining mesh lines include material handling and fabrication process as well as the increased line impedance when being refined, which accordingly causes loss in …

Gams Handout 2, Ethan Yang

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Gams Handout 3, Ethan Yang

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Evaluating And Redesigning The Self-Monitoring Tool, Harry Budi Santoso, Isnaeni Nurrohmah, Fadhilah Suci, Wade H. Goodridge

Engineering Education Faculty Publications

In order to facilitate self-monitoring interventions designed by the Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia a web-based self-monitoring tool was created. This paper aims to evaluate the tool regarding its usability and user-experiences prior to its wide adoption. The System Usability Scale (SUS) and the User-Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) were used to evaluate the self-monitoring tool. The tool was implemented in a Human-Computer Interaction course during odd semesters, and the evaluations were taken by the participants of the course. The evaluation results were analysed to help determine whether the tool needs to be enhanced or improved. Based on the results, a …

Exercise - Choose A Manager To Learn Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis - University Of Colorado Boulder, Joseph Kasprzyk

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A prompt for an in-class exercise, so that students can learn basic principles of multi-criteria decision analysis. The ideal place for this exercise is to have it before the formal lecture of multi-criteria decision analysis. The students will start to gain an intuitive understanding of how to transform preferences to scores, how to weight the metrics, and how to make a final decision.