College of Aeronautics

College of Business

Dr. Annie Becker’s paper, “Using handheld technology to monitor diabetes in remote communities,” was awarded “Best Paper” at the 2005 Information Resource Management Association International Conference, to be held in San Diego in May. Her research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Theresa Domagalski (with Dr. Lisa Steelman, School of Psychology) published “The impact of work events and disposition on the experience and expression of employee anger,” in the journal, Organizational Analysis. Domagalski also finished a book chapter, “Gender and the Expression of Emotions at Work,” to be included in the book, Gender and Communication Issues at Work.

Dr. David Hott presented two papers, “A model community for adults with developmental disabilities,” and “Micro payments keep growing, growing and growing,” at the 2005 Industry, Engineering and Management Systems Conference in Cocoa Beach. Dr. LuAnn Bean coauthored both papers.

A paper by Dr. Julie Siciliano was accepted for presentation at the 2005 Eastern Academy of Management Conference, held in Springfield, Mass. The paper is titled, “Moving beyond pre-Frederick Taylor practices: A research-based approach to continuous improvement in business education.”

College of Engineering

Dr. William Allen, Dr. Gerald Marin and Dr. Luis Rivera wrote “Automated detection of malicious reconnaissance to enhance network security” to present at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2005, held in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Dr. Walter P. Bond, Turky Al-Otaiby ’04 Ph.D. and Mohsen Alsharif ’05 Ph.D. presented “Toward software requirements modularization using hierarchical clustering techniques” at the 43rd ACM Southeast Conference at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Dr. Philip Chan and graduate student Hyoung Rae Kim wrote “Implicit indicators for interesting web pages” for presentation at the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies in Miami, Fla.
Dr. Fred Ham, graduate student Heriberto Delgado and former faculty member, Dr. Michael Thursby, wrote “A Novel Neural Network for the Synthesis of Antennas and Microwave Devices.” The paper will be published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

Dr. Lee Harris received an $88,000 grant from the Sebastian Inlet Tax District to continue his work in operating a wave and weather data collection system at the inlet.

Dr. Paul Jennings presented “Effect of temperature on membrane separation of gases from the Martian atmosphere” at the 2005 Space Technology and Applications International Forum in Albuquerque, N.M.

Dr. Cem Kaner published “Testing library Web sites for usability” in Knowledge Quest.

Dr. Samuel Kozaitis, Dr. Fred Ham and Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh were invited guests of Harris Corp. to participate in Engineering Week activities. Shaikh and Ham presented “Decision and risk analysis models” to employees of the Government Communications System Division.

Dr. George Maul made a presentation at “Towards the Establishment of a Tsunami Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean,” a meeting in Paris of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

Dr. Ronald Menezes presented “A perspective on the use of self-organization in tuple space coordination systems” at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Session on Swarm Intelligence in Las Vegas, Nev.

Dr. Debasis Mitra presented “Incremental scheduling with qualitative temporal information” at the 18th International Conference of Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Bari, Italy.

Dr. Kunal Mitra presented “Optical tomography system using short pulse laser for early breast cancer detection” at the Technology Transfer Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Dr. Ashok Pandit and visiting professor Chi Hyueon Youn presented “Description of a continuous simulation model for estimating long-term efficiencies of wet retention/detention basins.” Their presentation was at the 8th Biennial Conference on Storm Water Research and Watershed Management, held in Tampa, Fla.

Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh was invited by Harris Corporation’s RF Communication Division in Rochester, N.Y. to present the Master’s Degree Program in Systems Engineering. The division also requested Florida Tech to offer the program in late summer 2005.

Dr. Marius Silaghi and doctoral student Kishore Kattamuri ’03 M.S., wrote “Supporting debates over citizen initiatives” for presentation at the National Conference on Digital Government Research in Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. Manolis Tomadakis and Teri Robertson ’02 M.S., published “Survival and relaxation time, pore size distribution moments and viscous permeability in random unidirectional fiber structures” in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Dr. John Windsor organized the sessions on oceanographic and atmospheric sciences at the Florida Academy of Sciences (FAS) annual meeting, held at the University of South Florida. Dr. John Trefry, FAS president, will lead the annual meeting at Florida Tech next year.

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Dr. Juanita Baker and her husband, Richard Baker, received the 2004 Environmental Enhancement Award from The Friends of St. Sebastian River, of Roseland, for their book, Reflections of Blue Cypress Lake, and for their support of environmental causes.

Dr. Richard Elmore was installed as vice president of the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis at its annual meeting in Naples, Fla. Membership includes physicians, dentists, psychologists and other health care professionals in the state.

Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy chaired two paper sessions at the annual conference of the Society for Personality Assessment in Chicago. She presented a factor analytic research paper, titled, “MMPI-A structural summary: Integrating new scales and subscales,” and a paper co-presented with graduate student, Kristin Henley. It was titled, “The utility of personality testing in treatment planning.”

Dr. Judith Strother made a presentation at the International Association of Science and Technology for Development in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Her paper was titled, “Developing online English language training for specific purposes: A challenging collaborative effort.” She also chaired a session on Web-
based education curriculum and courseware development.

Dr. Frank Webbe wrote a review of the book, Ions in the Brain: Normal Function, Seizures and Stroke. His review is titled, “Little Things that Go Bump in the Brain.”

A manuscript by Dr. David Wilder was accepted for publication in the journal, Education and Treatment of Children. The paper describes a study that evaluated a procedure for increasing the on-task behavior of third and fourth grade students in classrooms.

College of Science

Dr. Marcus Hohlmann was awarded an $8,000 monthly grant for the summer by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Physics Center at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for work at the center. He and graduate student Samir Guragain helped prepare CMS, a huge particle physics experiment. “The LHC will be the world’s most powerful particle accelerator,” said Hohlmann.

Song-Kyoo Kim, ’02, and Nicole Hoier ’95 M.S., ’00 Ed.S. published “Human resource allocation applications of stochastic maintenance models with super-reserve backups” in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences.

University College
Dr. David Mutschler, Patuxent Graduate Center, presented “Parallelization of the joint integrated mission model using cautious optimistic control” at the Summer Simulation Conference in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dr. Barbara Peery, former director and now adjunct faculty, Fort Lee Graduate Center, has received a five-month Fulbright grant to the University of Joensuu, Finland. She will teach international human resources and finance.

Dr. Paul Battaglia replaces Dr. Lloyd Muller as director of the National Capitol Region Graduate Center in Alexandria, Va. Muller retired on July 31.