Presentations and Publications by CETA Faculty

Research conducted by Dr. Abbly Ilumoka, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is featured in a new book, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ASME Press, 2008). Her research in neural network techniques for the design of engineering systems is in Part VI, “General Engineering Applications.”

The book contains the proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference and contains 168 refereed papers from researchers in 20 countries. The papers cover such topics as smart engineering systems, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary programming.

At the Joint Mathematics Meetings held January 5 through 8 in Washington, D.C., Dr. Patricia Mellodge, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented research performed by her and Dr. Lee Townsend, assistant professor of physics and mathematics, on “Approximating Bessel Functions of the First Kind Using Super-Gaussians.” The objective of their work is to approximate the Bessel function using a configuration that converges more rapidly and is more computationally efficient than the well-known series expansion for small arguments.

The Joint Mathematics Meetings at which Dr. Mellodge presented is the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. Various other societies also take part, among them the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, of which Drs. Mellodge and Townsend are members; the Association for Symbolic Logic; the Association for Women in Mathematics; and the National Association for Mathematicians. The joint meeting is held to advance mathematical achievement, encourage research and provide a forum for communication in furtherance of mathematical scholarship and research.