College of Aeronautics

College of Business

Deborah Carstens’ paper, “Patient Safety Technology Gap: Minimizing Errors in Healthcare through Technology Innovation,” was published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Carolyn Fausnaugh’s paper, “Student-Faculty Collaborative Learning: An Experience Based Examination of the Production of Video Titled Patenting Vs. Infringement,” was presented at the Academic Business World International Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

College of Engineering

James Brenner’s paper, “Analysis Made Easy with Datafit,” was published in Chemical Engineering Education.
Carmo D’Cruz presented one of the Distinguished Lectures, “Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship—Uniquely Bridging the Engineering and Business Realms to Produce the Engineers of 2020,” at the ASEE national conference held in Chicago, Ill.

John Hadjilogiou and student Mike Rywalt presented “A System Design Integration Approach Integrated into the Freshman Year” at the ASEE Conference and Exposition: Emerging Trends in Engineering in Chicago, Ill., for the American Society for Engineering Education.

Fredric Ham was selected to be on the editorial board for the International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering.

Samuel Kozaitis was chairman of a session on Image Processing at the 8th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Frank Leslie was elected to the board of directors of the Florida Renewable Energy Association. This is the Florida Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), a national membership organization whose mission is to attain a sustainable U.S. energy economy. ASES strives to accelerate the development and use of solar and other renewable energy resources through advocacy, education, research and collaboration among professionals, policy-makers and the public.

Ralph Locurcio presented “Florida Tech—Building Leaders for the Construction Industry” at the National Meeting of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) in Palm Springs, Calif.

Ronaldo Menezes and graduate student Zeeshan-ul-hassen Usmani presented “Swarm-moves: Increase of Impulse Shopping in Supermarket Using Swarm-based Simulation” at the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, in Las Vegas, Nev.

Debasis Mitra co-wrote and presented “Correlogram-based Method for Comparing Biological Sequences” at the 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems in Annecy, France. Graduate student Gandhali Samant was a co-author of the paper.

Muzaffar Shaikh chaired the academic forum of the 16th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering held in Orlando, Fla. It was attended by 900 professionals.

Scott Tilley delivered the keynote address at the “3rd International Workshop on Software Development Methodologies for Distributed Systems” in Shanghai, China.

Manolis Tomadakis was invited to serve on the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry to be held in Kauai, Hawaii, in June 2007.

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Philip Farber was appointed to serve as a program review consultant to the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Accreditation.

William Gabrenya chaired the symposium “Sex and Culture: Indigenous and Comparative Contributions” at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology conference in Spetses, Greece.

Richard Griffith was quoted in Time magazine for his research on fibbing in résumés. To read the story, go to www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186550,00.html.

Jose Martinez-Diaz was invited to address the 18th annual convention of the International Society for Behaviorology in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Mark Maslin was featured in a Melbourne Community Orchestra concert at the Melbourne Civic Auditorium. Maslin, a baritone, sang selections from two Mozart operas, “The Marriage of Figaro” and “The Magic Flute.”

Matthew Normand was appointed to a four-year term as a coordinator for the verbal behavior area of the Association for Behavior Analysis international annual convention.

Thomas Peake recently served as consultant for the American Board of Professional Psychology in awarding the Diplomate.

A poem by Robert Shearer was published in the fall edition of Inkwell, the literary publication of Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y. The title of the poem is “Einstein Reported in Hiroshima.”

Robert Taylor was named president emeritus of the Florida Historical Society at its annual meeting in Naples.

David Wilder was appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. This is Wilder’s second appointment to the editorial board of this journal.

College of Science

Alan Leonard, Julia Grimwade and doctoral student Julien Torgue participated in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) workshop, “Cell Cycle and Cytoskeletal Elements in Bacteria,” in Copenhagen, Denmark. Leonard, who was an invited speaker, presented “Examining the Role of I sites in Initiation Timing and Resetting the Complex.” Grimwade and Torgue presented posters.

Mark Novak has several papers, either published or currently in print, in Toxicology Methods and Mechanisms, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Surface Science and Current Protocols in Toxicology. His paper, “Effect of Adrenalin, Adrenochrome, and Adrenolutin on Connexin Proteins in the Cardiovasculature,” published in Toxicology Methods Mechanics, was co-written by Lisa Moore and undergraduate student Vanessa Moreau. A paper to be published in Surface Science was co-written by Clayton Baum, Joel Olson and undergraduate student Jerry Buhrow.

Terry Oswalt was a session chair and an invited speaker at the 2006 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) national meeting at Depauw University, Greencastle, Ind. He also represented the Physics and Astronomy (P/A) Division at the CUR business meeting, held concurrently, and was appointed to the P/A Nominations Committee.
Virender Sharma wrote the chapter, “Ferrate Studies for Disinfection and Treatment of Drinking Water,” that was published in Advances in Control of Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water Systems by Nova Science Publishers.

Robert van Woesik’s paper, “Annual Cycles of Solar Insolation Predict Spawning Times of Caribbean Corals,” was published in Ecology Letters.

Matthew Wood presented “FITDisk: A Cataclysmic Variable Demonstration Tool” at the June 2006 meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

University College
At the Patuxent Extended Studies site, Alan Breitler co-wrote “An Alternative Approach to Improvement of Neural Net Performance.” He will present it at a conference on Intelligent Systems Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence and Complex Systems, at the University of Missouri, Rolla. 

Also at the Patuxent Site, David Mutschler’s paper, “Enhancement of Memory Pools Toward a Multi-Threaded Implementation within the Joint Integrated Mission Model (JIMM),” was selected for the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference in Monterey, Calif.

Kermit Zieg’s book, The Complete Guide to Non-Directional Trading, was published by Trader’s Press. Zieg is with the National Capital Region Extended Studies site in Alexandria, Va.