College of Aeronautics

Dr. Mike Barker and Bill Graves wrote the chapter “Airport Planning and Design” published in McGraw-Hills’ Handbook of Transportation Engineering.

Dr. Nathaniel Villaire was selected as an Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. An active member of the association for 35 years, Villaire has made several technical presentations on crash site hazards and aviation safety at the association’s annual meetings. He is currently a member of the association’s nationally recognized Aviation Safety Committee.

College of Business

“Effectively Integrating Technology in a Business School Curriculum” by Dr. Judith Barlow, Dr. Barbara Pierce, Dr. Deborah Carstens and Dean David Steele was presented at the International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Carstens and Barlow also served as session chairs at the conference.

Dr. LuAnn Bean and Dr. David Hott had a paper accepted for publication in the journal, Internal Auditing. The paper is titled “An Internal Audit Focus on Privacy Policies.”

Dr. Deborah Carstens was principal investigator on a study funded by the East Central Healthcare Forum. The study, now completed, was titled “Baker/Marchman Act Error Analysis.”

“Interactive Direct Marketing” by Dr. B. Andrew Cudmore and Dr. John R. Patton was presented at the International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

Dr. Theresa Domagalski completed three book chapters to be published in books this summer. Among them is “Emotions, Violence and Counterproductive Work Behavior” to be published in Handbook of Workplace Violence.

Dr. Roger Manley, with co-author Dr. Wade Shaw, College of Engineering, presented “Project Partnering: A Medium for Private and Public Sector Collaboration” at the Sixth Annual International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, held in Orlando, Fla. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.

College of Engineering

Dr. Charles Bostater presented “Remote Sensing Systems and Sensor Motion Control—Converging Technologies” at the Third Forum on Sustainable Technological Development in a Globalizing World, held in Budapest.

“On the Learning of Useful System Call Attributes for Host-based Anomaly Detection,” by Dr. Philip Chan and doctoral student Gaurav Tandon, will be published in the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools.

Dr. Richard Ford was a panelist and presenter at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference in Tucson, Ariz. Ford collaborated with Dr. Mark Bush, College of Science, to write the paper he presented at the conference: “Internet Disturbance: Goal or Menace.”

Dr. Fredric Ham, Harris Professor, was a guest editor of a special issue of Neural Networks, the official journal of the International, European and Japanese Neural Network Societies. Ham is the Florida Tech representative to the Infrasound Consortium for Applied Research.

Dr. Lee Harris was appointed to a third year as a member of the Tourist Development Council Beach Committee of Brevard County.

Dr. Gerald Marin had his paper on network security basics published in IEEE Security & Privacy, 2005.

Dr. Ronaldo Menezes presented “The Fading Concept in Tuple-space Systems” at the 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in Dijon, France.

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Dr. Juanita Baker presented “Therapeutic Techniques Encouraging Full Disclosure for Children and Teens Who Have Been Sexually Abused” at a training workshop for Children’s Medical Services in Tampa, Fla.

Dr. Joshua Duntley wrote “Adaptations to Dangers from Other Humans” for The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.

Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy’s paper, “Review of the Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition,” was published in The Sixteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook.

Dr. Jose  Martinez-Diaz was elected as a full member of the Florida Behavior Analysis Peer Review Committee.

Dr. Matthew Normand’s paper on “The Effects of a High-Probability Command Sequence and Response-Independent Reinforcer Delivery on Child Compliance” will be published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Dr. Erin Richard’s “Are Emotional Display Rules Formal Job Requirements?” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Lisa Steelman, with Dr. Teri Domagalski, College of Business, published “The Impact of Work Events and Disposition on the Experience and Expression of Employee Anger” in Organizational Analysis.

A book review by Dr. Robert Taylor was published on the online Civil War site, H-CivWar. He reviewed The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr.

Dr. Frank Webbe earned Fellow status in the American Psychological Association’s Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology. Only about two to three percent of members have Fellow status in this division.

Dr. David Wilder and graduate students Julie Atwell and Byron Wine had a manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. The manuscript describes a study that the group conducted on the effects of varying levels of treatment integrity in the context of a common behavioral intervention for noncompliance in children.

College of Science

Dean Gordon L. Nelson presented “Ferrocene Containing Copolymers with Improved Electrostatic Dissipation Properties for Advanced Applications” at the 8th Polymers for Advanced Technologies International Symposium, held in Budapest.

Dr. Mark Bush published “Of Orogeny, Phylogeny, Precipitation and Parrots” in the Journal of Biogeography.

Dr. Junda Lin, with research associate Dong Zhang, had a paper on mate recognition in a simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp accepted for publication in Animal Behavior.

At the Third Forum on Sustainable Technological Development in a Globalizing World, held in Budapest, Dr. Virender Sharma presented “The Convergence of New Technologies to Improve Water Quality.”

Dr. Ralph Turingan published a paper on the implications for rearing marine fishes in Copepods in Aquaculture.

Dr. Robert van Woesik published “Assessing the Effects of Non-point Source Pollution on American Samoa’s Coral Reef Communities” in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Dr. Matt Wood, undergraduate student Josh Dolence and James C. Simpson ’95 had their paper, “FITDisk: A Cataclysmic Variable Accretion Disk Demonstration Tool,” accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, March 2006.

University College
Dean Clifford Bragdon was appointed to the International Society of Logistics (SOLE) board of advisors.

At the Patuxent River, Md., center, Dr. David Mutschler presented the paper “Language Based Simulation, Flexibility, and Development Speed in the Joint Integrated Mission Model” at the Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando, Fla. Dr. Alan Breitler presented a paper on “System Reliability Prediction—Towards a General Approach Using a Neural Network” at the U.S. Air Force T&E Days Conference held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Reston, Va.