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In-Situ Recession Measurements By Photogrammetric Ablator Surface Analysis, Stefan Löhle, T. Staebler, T. Reimer, A. Cefalu

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

A Light-Weight Ablative Material For Research Purposes, Thomas Rothermel, C. Zuber, G. Herdrich, L. M. G. F. M. Walpot

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

The Design Of A Mobile, Animatronic Bald Eagle, Eric Burns

Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium (Archived)

Modern animatronics are used as a tool to help engage audiences in realistic and entertaining experiences. Many animatronic figures are dynamic in movement, but static in mobility. The research presented covers the beginnings of mobile animatronic research. An animatronic bald eagle, Opportunity, was designed for that purpose. Animations for Opportunity are generated by integration of Arduino, Pololu Mini Maestro, and Hitec Servo Motors. Arduino receives signals from flex sensors which cause voltage variations when “flexed”. The 1:1 scale, animatronic eagle can be perched on the arm of an “actor” who simulates an eagle’s caretaker. The flex sensors are located within …

Smart Home Node For Local Wireless Applications, Lalith Narasimhan

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

This research investigated the possibility of implementing a multifrequency and multiprotocol wire-less smart home node by using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) and the open-source GNU Radio platform. Such an implementation could provide a high level of interoperability between various devices leading to a higher level of flexibility and easier implementation of current and future smart home standards and protocols.

Accident Prediction Models For Partial Cloverleaf On-Ramp Loops, Valerian Kwigizile

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA)

Accident prediction models, popularly known as safety performance functions (SPFs) play an important role in roadway safety analyses and evaluation processes. The 2010 Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides a number of SPFs that can be used locally after calibration to reflect local conditions. However, most of these SPFs focus on intersections and roadway segments. A limited number of studies have developed SPFs for interchanges and especially on-ramps and their related sections such as ramp segments and point of freeway entry. This study was an effort to develop Michigan-specific SPFs for urban partial cloverleaf (parclo) on-ramp loops at freeway entry. A …

Compressed Air Leak Study, Colin Knue, Suresh Kumar Baskaran

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Today compressed air plays very important role as part of expense. A huge chunk of expenditure can be saved as such. Effort in terms of monetary and energy will be a waste if even fraction of the compressed air is lost because of leak in the system without making the best use of it. There are leak detection and repair systems that can be adapted to overcome such wastage of compressed air. In this project, a procedure using ultrasonic leak detector to identify, locate and repair leaks is adapted. The summary of controlling already existing leaks and preventing more new …

Systems Simulation Analysis Of A Hospital Rapid Response System, Shoruk Mansour

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

The poster presents a systems simulation analysis of a hospital rapid response system. Analysis of interventions and future work related to the project are included.

Ceas E-News 04.11.2014, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences News

• CEAS Outstanding Students 2014

• Dr. Kristina Lemmer Awarded $360,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Grant

• Dr. Kailash Bafna Wins Institute of Industrial Engineers Award

• Einstein Has Landed at WMU’s Parkview Campus

• WMU Chapter of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Initiation

• IME Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) Program Receives Top Recertification Recommendation

• Institute of Transportation Engineers Paper Competition Award

• Science & Engineering Fair Competition 2014

• Sunseeker Trip to Chrysler Technology Center May Become Annual Team Event

• Student Engineering Design Conference Tuesday, April 15 at the Parkview Campus

Ergonomics Study Led Lighting Assembly, Marylin Glass-Angeles, Nathan Christensen, Josef Imesh, Lorena Peña, Natalia Matos

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

The current assembly process of the LED Lighting product line at Landscape Forms (LF) combines high force exertion, motion repetition and an uncomfortable posture. Therefore, Industrial Engineers overseeing the manufacturing of these products raised a concern for their workers health and were interested in identifying injury risks related to the current methodology as well as opportunities for the reduction of such risks.

The Green Manufacturing Industrial Consortium’S (Gmic) Approach To Zero-Waste-To-Landfill (Zwtl), Nathan J. Christensen, Marylin Glass-Angeles

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Introduction: As organizations continually seek to reduce various forms of waste, some may seek to reduce their landfill impact and improve recycling and material disposal practices. Many organizations interested in reducing their landfill waste have embarked on a zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWTL) journey. This journey involves thoroughly exploring the landfill waste of an organization, reverse tracking the waste to its source, and establishing new practices and procedures for eliminating the source of waste from the landfill stream. The purpose of this poster is to describe the methodology used by the Green Manufacturing Initiative to assist companies on their ZWTL journey.

Veneer Defect Data Collection & Analysis, Marylin Glass-Angeles, Josef Imesh, Nathan Christensen, Nathan Bowen, Zachary Miller

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Objectives: This project is Phase I of a two part study with the purpose of aiding Steelcase in reducing defects occurring in the sanding step of the wood manufacturing process. During Phase I, the team collected data and used the results to identify the greatest material and profit losses. The continuing goal of the study will be to address these issues to the greatest extent possible.

Design Of Hardware Accelerator For Fuzzy Automaton Using Dynamic Reconfiguration, Chinh K. Nguyen

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Introduction

Nowadays, computational intelligence has been applied to transform human behavior and experience into mathematical representations that can be interpreted by computer programs. The development of intelligent control systems and intelligent decision support systems (IDSS) (Fig. 1) are part of this trend. Moreover, Partial reconfiguration allows some regions of the FPGA to be dynamically reconfigured while other tasks are still running in the remainder of the device. A hardware accelerator was developed for a fuzzy automaton-based decision support system in the context of testing eye-hand coordination skills for handicapped children. A Zynq-7000 FPGA platform (Fig. 3) was used for this …

Modeling And Analysis Of Patient Care Assistants’ Workflow, Ewing Tiong

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Background

While there is a considerable amount of research on medium-to-long decision support models for healthcare systems, little emphasis is placed on research that focuses on short-term operational decisions made by healthcare providers. Patient care assistants (PCAs) provide both indirect and direct patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN). Main responsibilities include:

• Gathering patient data
• Assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs)

Electroplating Of Nickel And Copper Layers On Nanoengineered Plastics, Brandon Voelker, Muralidhar K. Ghantasala, Jeff Wheeler

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Introduction

• The motivation for this project is the development and proposed use of novel nanoengineered polymeric materials in many industrial and commercial applications. This necessitated the development of a robust metallic coating that can withstand aggressive environmental conditions.
• This research explores the methods of electroplating nickel and copper to the substrate, including the effects of various duty cycles and cathode current density

Removing Interference From Above Ground Reflectors In Ground Penetrating Radar Data, Vincent Krause

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

This poster considers the background and approach to removing interference from above ground reflectors in ground penetrating radar data.

Evaluation Of Thin Film Nanotube-Antibody Matrix Materials For Potential Integration Into Immunodiagnostic Biosensors, Brian Young

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA)

Most quantitative immunodiagnostic assay products require large laboratory equipment, controlled lab environments, and highly skilled technicians, making them expensive and impractical for use in other environments such as physician offices, the home and field clinics of developing countries. The long-range goal of this work is to attempt to develop an inexpensive quantitative hand-held immunobiosensor-based technology that can easily be applied to any antibody:antigen combination and used in any setting. A new approach to measure antibody:antigen binding in the presence of nanotubes has been described in several recent studies. Using conductive polymer/nanotube/antibody solution-impregnated filter paper, these researchers showed a change in …

Wright State University's Celebration Of Research, Scholarship, And Creative Activities Book Of Abstracts From Friday, April 11, 2014, Wright State University Office Of Undergraduate Research And Stemm Activities

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

The student abstract booklet is a compilation of abstracts from students' oral and poster presentations at Wright State University's second annual Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities on April 11, 2014.

Student Growth Measures For Teacher And Principal Evaluations, Suzanne Franco, Allison Mueller

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

There were three Ohio research efforts about Student Growth Measures (SGM) for Teacher and Principal Evaluations: 1) extended testing for previously non-­‐tested subjects and grades, 2) relationship between the teacher and principal evaluation systems’ implementation plans, and 3) an empirical study of Local Education Agencies’ (LEA) year-­‐end evaluation data from 2013. In 2011-­‐2012 Ohio offered a 2 year mini-­‐grant to LEAs agreeing to administer extended testing for Value-­‐Added measures (VAM) in grades and content areas not represented in the Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA). The mini-­‐grant allowed the state to create testing pools sufficient to produce teacher-­‐level VAMs. American College Testing …

Effectiveness Of Tsa Regulations In General Aviation, Samantha Somers

Honors Theses

General aviation (GA) security is one the industry’s most prominent topics. With a direct and indirect economic impact of over a billion dollars annually and many lives at stake, concerns of this matter cannot be ignored or taken lightly. It is difficult to reconcile the opinions of all parties involved to create a safe, affordable way to conveniently fly. The resolution process must begin by examining the sector as a whole, identifying its weaknesses, and determining its current security state. What improvements need to be made by the pilots, corporate flight departments, and general aviation businesses, if any? Are current …

Model Predictive Control With A Rigorous Model Of A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Lee T. Jacobsen, Dr. John D. Hedengren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Degradation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) can be minimized by maintaining reliability parameters during load changes. These reliability parameters are critical to maintain power generation efficiency over an extended life of the SOFC. For SOFCs to be commercially viable, the life must exceed 20,000 hours for load following applications. This is not yet achieved because transient stresses damage the fuel cell and degrade the performance over time. This study relates the development of a dynamic model for SOFC systems in order to predict optimal manipulated variable moves along a prediction horizon. The model consists of hundreds of states and …

Ablation Test Case Series #3, Tom Van Eekelen, Alexandre Martin, Jean Lachaud, Daniele Bianchi

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Overview Of Ablation Test-Cases, Alexandre Martin, Jean Lachaud, Tom Van Eekelen, Ioana Cozmuta, Michael Wright, Nagi N. Mansour, Daniele Bianchi

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Microscale Modeling Of Ablative Thermal Protection System Materials, Eric Stern, Graham Candler, Tom Schwartzentruber, Ioannis Nompelis, Michael Barnhardt

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Material Response Characterization Of New-Class Ablators In View Of Numerical Model Calibration, Bernd Helber, Alessandro Turchi, T. E. Magin

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Uncertainty Analysis Of Carbon Ablation In The Vki Plasmatron, Alessandro Turchi, P. M. Congedo, Bernd Helber, T. E. Magin

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Surface Radiation In Earth Re-Entry Flows With Graphite Ablation, Christopher Alba

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Surface Effects And Phenomena On Ablative Materials, Alexandre Martin

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Ablamod: Advanced Ablation Characterization And Modelling European Project Description, Gregory Pinaud, A. Guelhan

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

Overview Of Stmd’S Investments In Advanced Entry, Descent And Landing (Edl), Michael Wright

Ablation Workshop

No abstract provided.

The Santa Clara, 2014-04-10, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.