CETA Faculty Present and Publish

Several CETA professors presented papers at the annual ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) conference and exposition held this year starting June 15 in Austin, Texas. The ASEE Conference is the only national conference addressing the various disciplines in engineering, technology, and architecture.

Dr. Ivana Milanovic, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Tom Eppes, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented their paper “AC 2009–30: Senior Design Projects for Engineering Technology: Issues, Benefits, and Trade-Offs.” In the paper, the two professors discuss the evolution and structure of and the approach to senior capstone projects in CETA.

Dr. Patricia Mellodge, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented two papers. The first, “Digital Health: A Sophomore Level Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project Course,” was written and presented with Brad Deschenes, a Computer Engineering major here in CETA who will be a senior this fall. The second paper is “A Multi-University, Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project in Engineering” concerns a project that Dr. Mellodge is working on with Professor Diane Folz of Virginia Tech.

CETA student Brad Deschenes and Dr. Patricia Mellodge at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Austin, Texas.

Dr. Clara Fang, assistant professor of Civil, Environmental & Biomedical Engineering, presented her paper entitled “Community-based Service Project Learning in Civil Engineering Courses,” in which she discusses a service project she uses in a Civil Engineering course.

Dr. Fang has also had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Advanced Transportation in 2009. The paper, authored with L. Elefteriadou, is entitled "Modeling and Simulation Vehicle Projection Arrival-Discharge Process in Adaptive Traffic Signal Controls."