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of Engineering Awards and Honors Dr. Vincent Capece, mechanical engineering, was the recipient of an ASEE/NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Capece spent the summer at NASA-Glenn Research Center conducting research in the Compressor Branch. Dr. Jim Cathey, electrical engineering, has been named to the TVA Professorship in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Don Colliver, agricultural engineering, received the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Best Journal Paper Award for 2000 for the paper "New Weather Data for Energy Calculations, published in the ASHRAE Journal 41(3):31-38." Dr. Bobby Hardin, civil engineering, has been appointed to one of two Raymond-Blythe Professorships in the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Issam Harik, civil engineering, has been named Interim Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering. Additionally, has been appointed to one of two Raymond-Blythe Professorships in the department. Paul Linton, computer science, received the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Staff in the Administrative/Professional category for 2000-2001. A computer systems administrator, Paul also received a College of Engineering Outstanding Staff Award in 1999. Dr. Syed Nasar, electrical engineering, is the recipient of the 2000 Nikola Tesla Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The award recognizes an individual or group of individual who have made outstanding contributions to the field of generation and utilization of electric power. Dr. Nasar has also been named to the James R. Boyd Professorship in Electrical Engineering. Taunya Phillips, director, Minority Engineering Program, received the Evelyn Black Award from the University of Kentucky Black Student Union. The award, presented at the Lyman T. Johnson Awards Banquet in April, was "In recognition of your steadfast and consistent efforts in helping to achieve a campus climate where true education can flourish." Sue Scheff, director, Women in Engineering, received the Sarah Bennett Holmes Award from the UK Women's Forum. The award recognizes efforts to promote the growth and well-being of women at the Unviersity of Kentucky and throughout the Commonwealth, perserverance in the face of obstacles and service to the University and community. Publications Richard Gates, biosystems and agricultural engineering, is the author of the paper, "Psychrometric and ventilation constraints for vapor pressure deficit control", (with Zolnier, S., R.S. Gates, J. Buxton and C. Mach.), in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2000, 26(3):343-359. He also authored "A learning technique for a general purpose optimizer" (with Sigrimis, N.A. and K.G. Arvanitis), Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2000, 26(2):83-103. Additionally, Dr. Gates published the following abstracts: "Broiler litter characteristics as influenced by dietary protein and amino acid supplementation," (with A.J. Pescatore, K.R. Liberty, A.H. Cantor, M.J. Ford, D. Burnham and A.S. Hussein", Poultry Science 79(Suppl.1):153 (Abstract); "Effect of amino acid supplementation of low protein diets on broiler growth and processing yields," (with Cantor, A.H., A.J. Pescatore, D.J. Burnham, M.J. Ford and N.D. Paton), Poultry Science 79(Suppl. 1):186 (Abstract); and "Effect of low protein, amino acid fortified, grower and finisher diets on broiler growth performance," (with Pantor, A.H., A.J. Pescatore, D.J. Burnham, M.J. Ford and N.D. Paton), Poultry Science 79(Suppl. 1):S141 (Abstract). Bob Gregory, UKCM, is the author of the article "Going Lean at Dana" published in the August 2000 issue of Quality Digest. The article features the cooperation between UKCM's lean manufacturing program and Dana Corporation, Stanford, Kentucky. To read the article, visit the following website: www.qualitydigest.com/currentmag/html/dana.html Reinette Jones, Engineering Library, has received notification that her book manuscript, History of Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, has been accepted for publication by McFarland Publishers. The work focuses on the little known fact that Kentucky was the leader in public library service and library education for African Americans in the United States, from 1904-1925. Much earlier, though, in 1865, Berea College offered the first integrated library service in the state. In 1900, Covington was the first city in the South to offer integrated services at a public library. The first library structure for African Americans was built in Henderson in 1904. The most well known African American library was the Western Colored Branch (1905) in Louisville with the first African American library managers and where the first library training program for African Americans was instituted in 1912. A publication date has not been set.
Jack Leifer, chemical and materials engineering, published the paper, "Prediction of Pitting Corrosion in Natural Waters via Artificial Neural Network Analysis," (with Mickalonis, J. I ), Journal of Engineering and Science Corrosion, vol. 56, no. 6, June 2000, pp. 563 - 571. The article is the result of funding from a research contract with Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC. Dr. Leifer is also the author of the book, Introduction to PowerPoint, Prentice-Hall E-Source Introduction to Engineering Series, 2001, ISBN 0-13-040214-1. The book is a "how-to" guide for the preparation of engineering presentations which covers basic PowerPoint commands but at the same time, focuses on how to integrate equations, graphs, and diagrams taken from other sources into presentations. It also contains advice on how to prepare and sufficiently rehearse an oral presentation containing technical material. Information on the book and the ESource series is available from Prentice-Hall: http://emissary.prenhall.com/esource. H. S. Tzou, mechanical engineering, is the author of the following invited chapters: "Integrated Piezoelectric Sensor‑Actuator Design for Distributed Identification and Control of "Smart" Machines and Flexible Robots: Part 1: Theory and Experiments," Intelligent Systems and Robotics, G.W. Zobrist and C.Y Ho, (Editors), pp.92-122, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (2000OPA), Netherlands, 2000 and "Integrated Piezoelectric Sensor‑Actuator Design for Distributed Identification and Control of "Smart" Machines and Flexible Robots: Part 2: Finite Element Formulation and Analysis," (with C.I. Tseng), Intelligent Systems and Robotics, G.W. Zobrist and C.Y Ho, (Editors), pp.123-151, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (2000OPA), Netherlands, 2000. Keith W. Whites, electrical engineering, published the refereed journal paper “Permittivity of a multiphase and isotropic lattice of spheres at low frequency,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 1962-1970, 2000. Dr. Jun Zhang, computer science, is the author of seven refereed journal papers. They are: (1) "Preconditioned Krylov subspace methods for solving nonsymmetric matrices from CFD applications, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 189 (3), p. 825--840 (2000); (2) "High accuracy multigrid solution of the 3D convection-diffusion equation," (with M. Gupta) Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 113 (2-3), p. 249--274 (2000); (3) "Accuracy, robustness, and efficiency comparison in iterative computation of convection diffusion equation with boundary layers" (with Lixin Ge), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, vol. 16 (4), p. 379--394 (2000); (4) "Sparse approximate inverse and multilevel block ILU preconditioning techniques for general sparse matrices," Applied Numerical Mathematics, vol. 35 (1), p. 89--108 (2000); (5) "On preconditioning Schur complement and Schur complement preconditioning," Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, vol. 10, p. 115--130 (2000); (6) "Preconditioned iterative methods and finite difference schemes for convection-diffusion," Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 109 (1), p. 11--30 (2000); "A note on accelerated multigrid high accuracy solution of the convection-diffusion equation with high Reynolds number, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, vol. 16 (1), p. 1--10 (2000). Presentations Dr. Fuhua Cheng, computer science, made two presentations at the Proceedings Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000 in Hong Kong, "Constrained C1 Piecewise Bicubic Bezier Surface Interpolation" (with P. Zhang and B. Barsky), and "Constrained Shape Scaling of Multi-Surface Objects" (with P. Zhang and C. Zhang), April 10-12, 2000. Richard Gates, biosystems and agricultural engineering, made several presentations the 2000 ASAE Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These include, Dietary Manipulation Of Crude Protein And Amino Acids For Reduced Ammonia Emission From Broiler Litter, ASAE Paper No. 00-4024; "Implementation and Results From a Steady State Vapor Pressure Deficit Crop to Air Controller" (with Mach, C., D.G. Colliver, J.W. Buxton and R.G. Anderson), ASAE Paper No 00-4088; "Image analysis for indication of seed germination", (with Wilkerson and E., R.L. Geneve) ASAE Paper No. 00-3025; "Equine Response to Environmental Factors: A Literature Review and Recommendations for Design and Environmental Modification," (with Golden, V., L.W. Turner, G. Coleman), ASAE Paper No. 00-4074; and "Feeding and drinking patterns and growth performance of individual broilers at selected cycling air temperature and drinking water temperatures," (with Puma, M., H. Xin, and D. Burnham), ASAE Paper No. 00-4068. Dr. Andrew Klapper, computer science, presented the paper "Multicovering Bounds from Relative Covering Radii", (with Iiro Honkala), at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2000, in Sorrento, Italy, July 2000. Dr. William E. Murphy, mechanical engineering and director, College of Engineering in Paducah, presented the paper, "Measurement of Thermal Conductivity for Three Borehole Fill Materials Used for GSHP" (with Q. Zhang), ASHRAE Transactions, V. 106, Pt. 2., at the ASHRAE Annual Meeting, June 24, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Lindell Ormsbee, civil engineering, and Gregg Epp, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, were speakers at the recent TMDL Conference - an interactive video conference, held August 26. The conference was designed to help citizens understand how water management agencies hope to restore water quality in Kentucky streams by setting Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL). The conference, hosted by the KWRRI, originated from the UK campus and was broadcast to remote sites at the Pikeville campus of Prestonsburg Community College, Madisonville Community College, and Somerset Community College. More than 40 people participated. Presentations provided information on how the TMDL process is being implemented in Kentucky and how citizens can play a role in applying this tool to their local watersheds. Drs. Jim Smart, William Murphy, and Bonita Lykins, College of Engineering in Paducah, and G. T. Lineberry, director, Extended Campus Programs, presented the paper, "Development of an Extended Campus Chemical Engineering Program", at the ASEE Conference Proceeding, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2000. Dr. Jim Smart, chemical engineering, College of Engineering in Paducah, presented "Development of an Extended Campus Chemical Engineering Program", at the ASEE Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2000. Dr. H. S. Tzou, mechanical engineering, was a tutorial organizer and speaker of “Smart Structures and Structronic Systems,” at the IUTAM2000, Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems, Magdeburg, Germany, September 2000. Dr. Greg Wasilkowski, computer science, presented the invited talk, "Smalefest 70", at the conference on Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong, June 2000. The conference was organized in honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Steve Smale, famous mathematician renowned for his contributions to the field, particularly Computational Mathematics.
Dr. Whites also presented “Electromagnetic analysis of microwave-driven sails,” at the Microwave-Driven Sails Meeting, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, August 23, 2000. The talk is the result of research collaborations with JPL and NASA. Dr. Jun Zhang, computer science, gave an invited seminar at Stanford University's Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics Program in May. Also in May, he was the co-chair of an iterative solver session, and gave a presentation, at the Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems 2000. Additionally, Dr. Zhang organized a special session on "High Order Compact Discretization Schemes and Applications" at the first SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. He also presented research results at the Midwest Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Day on March 18, 2000; at the 6th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods on April 3, 2000; and at the SIAM 2000 Annual Meeting on July 11, 2000. Research Funding Dr. Fuhua Cheng, computer science, has received funding for the research project, "Constrained Design, Streamline Modeling, Automatic Fairing and Automatic Joining Techniques for NURB Surfaces," from the National Science Foundation, (DMI-9912069), for the period 5/1/00-4/30/03, in the amount of $343,067. Dr. Richard Gates, biosystems and agricultural engineering, has received funding for the following research projects: "Quantification of Feeding and Drinking Behavior of Poultry for Enhanced Animal Well-Being" in the amount of $150,709 from the U.S Department of Agriculture for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01. This grant is a Strengthening/Sabbatical Award. "Towards a dynamic system for controlling mist propagation of softwood cuttings" from the Gloeckner Foundation for $10,000. His co-PI on the project is R. Geneve, Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky. "Cooling Cage Laying Hens by Partial Surface Wetting," from the U.S. Poultry Federation in the amount of $24,000. The grant will run for the period 2000-2001. Co-PI with X. Xin, Iowa State University. "Refurbishment of existing temperature/humidity chambers," from the UK Major Equipment Program. The grant for the year 2000 is for $9,000 with a match of $12,000 from the UK College of Agriculture, plus $41,000 from a USDA Regional Project with $9,000 gift match. Total funding for the award is $74,429. Dr. Keith W. Whites, electrical engineering, has received an “NSF CAREER Award: Eastern Europe Program Supplement,” in the amount of $14,900 from the National Science Foundation. The period of funding is 6/1/00 7/31/01. Dr. Jun Zhang, computer science, has received funding for his proposal, "Nonstandard High Order Multigrid Techniques with Applications to Laminar Diffusion Flame Simulation", from the National Science Foundation. The grant is for $253,970 and will run from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2003. Dr. Zhang also received a supplemental equipment grant from NSF in the amount of $17,000 for the period September 1, 2000 to July 31, 2002. Professional Activities Dr. Fuhua Cheng, computer science, visited Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China, for the NSF GeoWebCad project, June 11 - 14, 2000. During this time, he presented the talk "Smooth Surface Connection". Dr. Don Colliver, biosystems and agricultural engineering, was elected Treasurer of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for 2000-2001. Dr. Andrew Klapper, computer science, has been named associate editor for Sequences for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory effectove December 1. Dr. Klapper is also a member of the program committees for Indocrypt 2000 and for SETA 2001 (Sequences and Their Applications). Dr. William Murphy, mechanical engineering and director, College of Engineering in Paducah, is involved in a number of professional activities with the (ASHRAE). These include member of the Technical Activities standing committee; member of Board of Directors of the ASHRAE Learning Institute; consultant to the ASHRAE Accreditation Activities standing committee; and ASHRAE Representative on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). He was also a facilitator for ABET Regional Faculty Workshop, June 3-4, 2000, Houston, Texas; is Vice President and Board Member of the US National Committee of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR); a member of the conference planning committee for the IIR 2003 International Congress, Washington DC; and program chair for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Paducah Section 2000. Dr. Richard Gates, biosystems and agricultural engineering, served as an instructor "Statistics and Modeling Concepts for EMMS Data" a professional development workshop sponsored by Environmental Physiology. The workshop was presented at the Annual International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, July 2000. Dr. Judy Goldsmith, computer science, was invited to serve on the faculty of the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics held May 30 - June 9 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Goldsmith co-taught the course Foundations of Computational Complexity, part of the Program's Undergraduate Lecture Series, along with Dr. Sarah Mocas, Portland State University. Dr. Doug Kalika, chemical and materials engineering, is the programming chair for the Polymers area, Materials Engineering and Sciences Division, of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2000-2001). Sue Scheff, Women in Engineering, chaired the National Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 25-27, 2000. She also hosted an engineering day as part of the week-long Women in Science Summer Program July 27, 2000. Dr. H. S. Tzou, mechanical engineering, served as Co-Chairman (with Prof. U. Gabbert), of the 2000 IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Magdeburg, Germany, Sept.26-29, 2000. Dr. Tzou also serves on the Steering Committee for the International Symposium on Smart Structures and Microsystems (IS3M2000), Royal Plaza Hotel, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, to be held October 19-21, 2000. He is also a symposium organizer for the 6th Biannual Symposium on Active Control of Vibration and Noise, 2000 Mechanical Engineering Congress, Disney World, Florida, to be held November 5-10, 2000. Dr. H. S. Tzou, mechanical engineering, is the Associate Technical Editor, ASME Transactions - Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Encyclopedia of Vibration, Academic Press London, United Kingdom; series on The Professional Mechanical Engineering Series: Multidisciplinary Technologies, Academic Press, London, United Kingdom; Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, International Federation of Nonlinear Analyst and Ukraine National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Academic Press, London, United Kingdom (also serves as Associate Editor); Journal of Vibration and Control, Sage Publishing Co., California; and for the book series on Stability, Vibration and Control of Structures, World Scientific publishing company, River Edge, New Jersey and Singapore. Laura Whayne, Kentucky Transportation Center, is Chair of the Transportation Division of the Special Libraries Association, an international organization of libraries in specialized subject areas. Short Course Development and Presentation Dr. William Murphy, mechanical engineering and director, College of Engineering in Paducah, developed and presented the following short courses: Pumps, Fans and Cooling Towers (10 hour course) October 1, 1999 (Hopkinsville) October 30, 1999 (Paducah) January 5, 2000 (Paducah) Manual J/Right J - Manual N/Right N (10 hour course) December 21, 1999 (Paducah) ASHRAE Load Calculation Methodology and Passive Solar Design (10 hour course) March 13 and March 14, 2000 (Lexington) Air Distribution Systems, Controls, Ventilation, and IAQ (10 hour course) May 25 and May 26, 2000 (Lexington) Student News and Activities Materials Graduate Student Receives International Paper Award Xiangming Cheng, graduate student in Materials Engineering, has been selected as the winner of the 2000 ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest for his paper "Earing Behavior and Crystallographic Texture of Aluminum Alloys during Cold Rolling." ASM International is the preeminent metals and materials information society with more than 42,000 members. This particular award was established by ASM in 1986 and only one is presented each year. The award will be officially announced in the August issue of ASM News and formally presented at the ASM Committee/Counncil and Canada/Europe Awards Luncheon October 9, 2000 in St. Louis, Missouri. EE Undergraduate Student Receives IEEE Scholarship Christopher Riegel, electrical engineering undergraduate student, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Scholarship for 2000. The scholarship is in the amount of $1,000. Mr. Riegel was chosen for this honor via an international competition. Society of Women Engineers Members Attend Conference Nine members of the Society of Women Engineers attended the National Society of Women Engineers Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 27 - July 4, 2000. During this conference, a team of SWE students participated in the Boeing Team Tech competition. Their project, sponsored by the Oldenburg Stamler Corporation, Millersburg, Kentucky, was titled, "Hydraulic Oil Contamination Removal". Team Presentor was Chris Trinkle, a mechanical engineering student. Miscellaneous Dr. Raphael Finkel, computer science, is on sabbatical leave for the 2000-2001 academic year. Dr. Finkel is spending the year at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, working at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre. Dr. Richard Gates, biosystems and agricultural engineering, is on sabbatical leave for the 2000-2001 academic year. Dr. Gates is spending the year at Iowa State University. Dr. Jun Zhang, computer science, with the support of the Computer Science Department, has established the High Performance Scientific Computing and Numerical Simulation Laboratory (HiPSCNS) at the University of Kentucky. An equipment grant from NSF was used purchase 4 workstations, a laptop computer, and a laser printer for the laboratory. Dr. Zhang's HiPSCNS Laboratory has established collaborative research relationship with the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zhang spent three weeks this past summer in Austin conducting collaborative research with Professor Graham F. Carey. The Kentucky River Watershed World Wide Web Page (http://www.uky.edu/WaterResources/Watershed) is now available. It includes general information about the Kentucky River Watershed Management Framework. The Kentucky River Basin Assessment Report (completed this summer) is also available at this site. The assessment report will be utilized this fall in regional meetings which will be held to make decisions about watershed priorities and to work toward development of watershed task forces. The intent of the management framework is for local groups, government agencies, and individuals to collaborate in forming teams to solve problems in the priority watersheds that are identified through this process. The Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute is serving as the basin coordinator for the Kentucky River, which is the first basin in which the watershed management framework is being implemented in the Commonwealth. Shaver Engineering Library Receives
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