College of Science and Liberal Arts

The 10th edition of a mathematics textbook co-authored by Dr. Michael Gallo has been published. The book is titled, Fundamentals of Mathematics.

Dr. Marcus Hohlmann was invited to join the international program committee for the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2004, to be held in Rome, Italy. He will be the convener for the “radiation hardness” topical sessions.

Dr. V. Lakshmikantham, “Dr. Lak,” has organized the Fourth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, which was held in Orlando, last summer. Dr. Lak coordinated the previous three conferences, which occur every four years. Past locations have been Tampa; Athens, Greece; and Catania, Italy. They are usually attended by more than 1,500 academics from 90 countries.

Dr. Junda Lin participated in the delivery of five presentations and chaired a session on ornamental crustaceans at the Marine Ornamentals 2004 meeting in Hawaii.

Dr. Nabil Matar presented the Globe Theatre Lecture in London, titled, “Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage moor.” While in London, he also was interviewed by the Guardian newspaper and the BBC.

Dr. Terry Oswalt was a judge on the American Astronomical Society and Astronomical Society of the Pacific team at the 2004 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Portland, Ore. He was the lead judge for the 2004 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards and also was a judge for the Richard D. Lines Special Award.

Dr. Gordon Patterson published The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. University Press of Florida released the book as part of its Florida History and Culture series. He also was program chairman when Florida Tech hosted the 102nd annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, “Visions of Paradise.”

Dr. Rudy Stoekel and Dr. Peter-Otto Uhr delivered papers at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the National Technology and Social Science Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Stoekel presented “Machiavelli as Satirist”; Uhr presented “Opera and Society.”

Dr. Ralph Turingan earned a $30,000 grant from the University of Florida for research on the feeding mechanics and prey selectivity of marine fish larvae.

Dr. Richard Turner and graduate student, Sarah Rhodes, presented the paper, “Salinity tolerance of adult hermit crabs in the Indian River Lagoon,” at the annual meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences, held at the University of Central Florida.

Dr. Robert van Woesik published a paper in Science, titled, “Comment on coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires.”

College of Engineering

Dr. William Allen and Dr. Gerald Marin presented “The loss technique for detecting new denial of service attacks” at the IEEE SoutheastCon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), held in Greensboro, N.C.

Dr. Frederic Ham was invited to be the new secretary of the International Neural Network Society Board of Governors.

Dr. Lee Harris was invited by the government of St. Eustatius in the Dutch West Indies to investigate and advise on the island’s beach erosion problems.

Dr. Cem Kaner gave a colloquium address at Carnegie Mellon University on accountability for defects in commercial software. He also gave four talks in Finland, including “Software test automation,” presented at Nokia.

Dr. Steven Lazarus earned a $40,000 grant for atmospheric research. He and graduate student Corey Calvert will produce near-realtime sea surface temperature analyses using data from the GOES-12 weather satellite, which covers the Atlantic Ocean, and data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

Dr. Gerald Marin presented “Generating realistic network traffic for security experiments” at the IEEE SoutheastCon ’04 in Greensboro, N.C.

Dr. Ronaldo Menezes co-authored two papers. One is “Simulating robot collective behavior using starlogo.” It was presented by author and doctoral student, Andy Tinkham, at the 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference in Huntsville. The other was authored and presented at the same conference by undergraduate, Ahmed Charles. It is, “On the implementation of SwarmLinda.”

Dr. Kunal Mitra earned a $30,000 grant from the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence to develop a new technique to locate lung cancer and tumors.

Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli and Dr. Chelakara Subramanian presented “Hurricane loss estimation model” at the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Maria Pozo de Fernandez earned a $40,000 grant from the Florida High Tech Corridor Council for GETSMART 2004. The summer program, Gateway to Engineering, Technology, Science, Math and Resources for Tomorrow, is a hands-on experience for middle school students.

A book by primary author, Dr. Kamel Rekab, and Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh, was accepted for publication. The book, Statistical Design of Experiments with Engineering Applications, is designed for academic learning and for professional development by practitioners.

Dr. Marius Silaghi, with graduate student Vaibhav Rajeschirke, presented “Multi-party technique for distributed csps modeling negotiations that can have several solutions” at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference, held at Columbia University in New York City.

Dr. Scott Tilley presented “On the challenges in fostering adoption via empirical studies” at the 4th International Workshop on Adoption-Centric Software Engineering, held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dr. Manolis Tomadakis published two papers in the Proceedings of the 2004 AIChE Spring National Meeting in New Orleans, La. One is “Utilizing phosphogypsum waste towards hydrogen fuel production by pressure swing adsorption separation of a biodegradation gas product.” This was co-authored by Dr. Howell Heck, Marwan Jubran ’99 M.S., and Khalid Al-Harthi ’00, M.S.

Dr. Jonathan Whitlow received a $50,000 NASA grant to develop computer models that can lead to producing propellants from the lunar regolith, or rock mantle.

Dr. Gary Zarillo earned a $30,000 grant from Offshore and Coastal Technologies, Inc. for numerical modeling of tidal inlets off Long Island, New York. He and his graduate student, Ken Connell, will apply a combined circulation and morphological model to predict changes over time at a tidal inlet.

School of Management

Dr. Judith Barlow presented a paper, titled, “Implementing health economics policy rules using job shop heuristics,” at the International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS) Conference in Cocoa Beach. Dr. LuAnn Bean, Dr. David Hott and Dr. Deborah Carstens were co-authors.

Dr. LuAnn Bean presented a paper, titled, “Embracing Blackboard: Effective strategies for quality integration,” at the 2004 College Teaching and Learning Conference, held in Orlando.

Dr. David Hott presented “Successfully supporting business faculty in teaching with technology,” at the 15th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, held in Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. Judith Barlow and Dr. LuAnn Bean were co-authors.

“Distance learning in an accounting principles course—Student satisfaction and perceptions of efficacy,” an article by Dr. Alex Vamosi, Dr. Barbara Pierce and Dr. Michael Slotkin, was accepted for publication in the Journal of Education for Business.

School of Aeronautics

Dr. Mike Barker and Russ Graves, M.B.A., wrote a chapter on airport design for Transportation Engineering, a McGraw-Hill engineering series handbook.

School of Psychology

Dr. Art Gutman authored a chapter on adverse impact in the book, Workplace Discrimination Litigation.

Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy was lead author of the paper, “Achieving competency in psychological assessment: Directions for education and training”. It was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Thomas Peake published his book, Cinema and Life Development: Healing Lives and Training Therapists. The book uses prevailing and emerging models of life-span development and examples from cinema to animate psychological understanding and application.

A manuscript by Dr. David Wilder was accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. His writing describes a novel procedure for identifying and intervening in the performance problems of construction industry employees.

School of Extended Graduate Studies

The school is the 2004 institutional recipient of the SOLE (International Society of Logistics) Eccles Medal. The medal recognizes outstanding achievements in the development or administration of logistics education.
School Dean, Dr. Ronald Marshall, accepted the award at the organization’s 39th Annual International Logistics Conference and Exposition in Norfolk, Va.

Dr. Norm Chlosta, Patuxent center, presented the paper, “Public management and fiscal policy: A transformational paradigm shift” at the American Society for Public Administration National Conference in Portland, Ore.