College of Aeronautics

Dr. John Deaton published “+Gz Acceleration Loss of Consciousness: Time Course of Performance Deficits with Repeated Experience” in the journal Human Factors.

College of Business

Drs. Judith Barlow, Barbara Pierce and Deborah Carstens and Dean David Steele presented “Effectively Integrating Technology in a Business School Curriculum” at the International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

Dr. LuAnn Bean and Dr. David Hott co-wrote “An Internal Audit Focus on Privacy Policies” that was published in Internal Auditing.

Donn Miller-Kermani presented “Web Accessibility of Electronic Government Resources for Small Businesses” during the 2006 International Conference on IEMS.

College of Engineering

Dr. William Allen presented “Detecting Intrusions by Their Effect on the Fractal Dimension of Network Traffic” at the IEEE Topical Conference on Cybersecurity in Daytona Beach, Fla. He co-wrote the paper with Dr. Gerald Marin.

Dr. Carmo D’Cruz presented “Taking Engineering Entrepreneurship Education to the Next Level with Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship at Florida Tech” during the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) 10th Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore. The paper was co-written by D’Cruz, Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh and Dr. Wade Shaw.

Dr. Lee Harris was invited to join a special task committee of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI).
The department of marine and environmental systems (DMES) hosted 50 high school students from a magnet school program in Ames, Iowa, that focuses on marine systems. The experience was led by Dr. Elizabeth Irlandi.       

Dr. Samuel Kozaitis and Dr. Venton Këpuska presented four papers at SPIE’s Annual Defense and Security Symposium in Orlando, Fla. Two of the papers, co-written with colleagues and students, were: “Wake-Up-Word Speech Recognition Application for First Responder Communication Enhancement” and “Communications Protocol for RF-based Indoor Wireless Localization Systems” with Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Shahsavari, Dr. Chang Wen Chen, doctoral student Tamas Kaska and undergraduate student Maria Pinzone. SPIE is the International Society for Optical Engineering.

Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli, who led the engineering team that created the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model, presented at a news conference in Miami, Fla.

Dr. Maria Pozo de Fernandez presented “Training, Attracting and Retaining Chemical Engineers of the Future” at the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Marius Silaghi presented “Nogood-based Asynchronous Distributed Optimization (ADOPT-ng)” at the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems at the Future University-Hakodate in Japan.

Doctoral student Gaurav Tandon, with Dr. Phillip Chan and Dr. Dibasis Mitra, co-wrote the chapter, “Data Cleaning and Enriched Representations for Anomaly Detection in System Calls.” It will be published by Springer Publishing Company in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Computer Security: Methods and Applications.

Dr. Scott Tilley will present “Redesigning Legacy Applications for the Web with UWAT+: A Case Study” at the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering in Shanghai, China.

Papers by Dr. Manolis M. Tomadakis were accepted for presentation at the Spring National Meeting of the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) in Orlando, Fla. They include “Prediction of Gas Diffusion Layer Transport Properties and Their Effect on the Performance of PEM Fuel Cells,” co-written by graduate student Katie Pentas. 

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Dean Mary Beth Kenkel presented “Challenges to Women in Leadership” at the Annual Conference of the National Council of School and Programs of Professional Psychology in Las Vegas, Nev.

Three papers by Dr. Patrick Converse were accepted for publication in books. They include “Forcing Choices in Personality Measurement: Benefits and Limitations” to be published in A Closer Examination of Applicant Faking Behavior.
Among the papers by Dr. Richard Griffith to be published in future journals is “Do Applicants Fake? An Examination of the Frequency of Applicant Faking Behavior.” It will appear in Personnel Review.

Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy organized and chaired a symposium on the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent and chaired a paper session on MMPI investigations at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment in San Diego, Calif.

Dr. Gordon Patterson received the President’s Award from the Florida Mosquito Control Association for his contributions to mosquito control.

Dr. Erin Richard’s paper, “Examination of Situational and Attitudinal Moderators of Hesitation and Performance Relation,” was published in Personnel Psychology.

Two papers by Dr. Frank Webbe and Dr. Thomas Peake were published in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. One was “Evaluating the Construct Validity of a Dementia Screening Battery: A Follow-Up Study.”

Dr. David Wilder, with graduate students Julie Atwell and Byron Wine, had a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal Behavioral Interventions. The manuscript describes a study that evaluated a treatment for noncompliance among preschool children.

College of Science

Debra Blenis and Dr. Cecilia Knoll presented papers at the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology’s annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Blenis presented “Stress Management for Teachers” and Knoll presented “Using a Computer Algebra System, Mathematica, in Mathematics Courses.”

Dr. Mark Bush presented “Climate Change and Biodiversity Response: View from a Hotspot” at Texas A&M University.

A paper by Dr. Michael Grace and doctoral candidate Scott Taylor was accepted for publication in Contributions in Marine Sciences. The paper is “Development of Retinal Architecture in the Elopomorph Species Megalops atlanticus, Elops saurus and Albula vulpes (Elopomorpha: Teleostei).”

Dr. Junda Lin co-wrote two papers that were accepted for publication. One, for Marine Biology, is “Effects of Density and Simulated Recruitment and Mortality on Sex Change in a Protandric Simultaneous Hermaphroditic Shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni.”

Dr. Ramon Lopez presented the 2006 George C. Benson Memorial Lecture at Miami University in Ohio.

Dr. Terry Oswalt was appointed to a three-year term on the George Van Biesbroeck Prize Committee of the American Astronomical Society.

Dr. Robert van Woesik gave a seminar titled “Mechanisms Forcing Coral Population Changes” at the Institute of Marine Science in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

University College
Dr. Clifford Bragdon presented “Advanced Simulation Technology Applied to Passenger Terminal Safety and Security” at the International Passenger Terminal Expo 2006 in Paris, France … Dr. Dennis Kulonda and Bragdon wrote “Technopolis Creation—A Survey of Best Practices,” which was accepted for presentation at the Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

Mary Collins, Orlando Site, received acceptance of her dissertation, “Harnessing Pygmalion in Reverse: The Effect of Older Workers’ Expectations on their Younger Supervisors’ Leadership Behavior.”