Faculty Members Publish

Dr. Patricia Mellodge, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will see the publication of a second book October 1, 2008, by Springer. She has co-authored Model Abstraction in Dynamical Systems: Application to Mobile Robot Control (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences) with Dr. Pushkin Kachroo, who was Dr. Mellodge’s thesis advisor at Virginia Tech and is now Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Co-Director of the Transportation Research Center/University Transportation Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Mellodge and Dr. Kachroo also published Mobile Robotic Car Design with McGraw-Hill in 2004.

Dr. Michelle Vigeant, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, presented a paper, “Auralization of an Orchestra with Phase-Shifted String Sections,” at the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The meeting was a joint conference held with the European Acoustical Association in Paris, France, from June 30 to July 4, 2008. Dr. Vigeant’s paper was the final study from her Ph.D. thesis.

Dr. Clara Fang, assistant professor of Civil, Environmental, and Biomedical engineering, recently published two peer-reviewed journal papers. “Capability-Enhanced Microscopic Simulation with Real-Time Traffic Signal Control” was published in the IEEE Transactions of Intelligent Transportation Systems. This paper reflects Dr. Fang's contributions in the area of traffic-adaptive controls and simulation. The other paper, co-authored with two transportation practitioners, considers the use of a simplified empirical Bayesian method for safety assessment of traffic calming treatment. The work is based on a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive, city-wide traffic-calming master plan developed by the city of Hartford in 2006 and will be published in the Journal of Advanced Transportation Engineering.

In addition, Dr. Fang will present her paper on “Portable Intelligent Traffic Management System for Work Zones and Incident Management Systems” at the upcoming IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The work reported on in the paper was sponsored by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and the Connecticut Department of Transportation.