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				 <title> Utah Transportation Center Awarded Funding</title>
				 <link>http://engineering.usu.edu/htm/news/articleID=16043</link>
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				 		<img src="http://engineering.usu.edu/plugins/work/blogger/10/75x75Utah-Transportation-Center.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 15px" /> &lt;p&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;/plugins/work/blogger/10/images/Utah Transportation Center.JPG&quot; style=&quot;width: 226px; height: 133px;&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;The Utah Transportation Center, housed in the College of Engineering at Utah State University, has been awarded $550,000 to help the state and the country with transportation needs.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The United States is faced with an aging infrastructure, and that problem is coupled with limited fiscal means to meet these demands. The funding to USU will be used to support student-based research to find innovative ways to address these needs. The money will primarily be used to fund graduate student research to find solutions to state as well as national needs.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Three engineering professors will be involved in the project, including Paul Barr, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Utah Transportation Center; assistant professor Kevin Heaslip; and professor Marvin Halling.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;We have a great working relationship with the Utah Department of Transportation and will actively look for ways to use it to help them build and manage our infrastructure,&amp;rdquo; Barr said.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The U.S. Department of Transportation invests in the future of transportation through its University Transportation Centers Program, which awards grants to universities across the United States to advance the state-of-the-art transportation research and develop the next generation of transportation professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This success illustrates the fruits of all the hard work that has been performed over the past five years since the establishment of the Utah Transportation Center at USU,&amp;rdquo; Barr said. &amp;ldquo;This includes Long-Term Bridge Performance Program, Automated Electric Transportation, Local Technical Assistance Program and other state and federal projects totaling approximately $10 million over the past five years.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Barr said the new funding will come from two tiers of sources. The first is with a combination of eight other universities. This collaboration will result in $300,000 each year and will be led by Barr. The second source, Tier 2, will be from the Mountain Plains Consortium that incorporates USU with seven other schools. This partnership will result in $250,000 annually led by Heaslip.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The universities will work together to solve transportation problems in each state, particularly focusing on infrastructure problems and limited fiscal means to fix it, and finding the best way to solve them. Barr said one of the important things the U.S. DOT has done is move from a competitive and earmark-based program to a purely competitive program that forced the collaboration of multiple universities.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This collaboration will facilitate discussion from people at various universities and departments of transportation,&amp;rdquo; Barr said. &amp;ldquo;We can utilize the best practices from each of these states and work to find the best solution for our national needs.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Barr said proposals were from universities across the United States.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Looking at the caliber of schools that we have teamed with shows just how far we have come in terms of a national reputation,&amp;rdquo; Barr said. &amp;ldquo;I think that it also says that we are seen as having a strong core that will be successful in the future.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Five years ago, the college received start-up grant funding from Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Bob Bennett.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;We have used that money to develop a program that was competitively selected based on our past accomplishments against some of the best schools across the country,&amp;rdquo; Barr said.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Contact: Paul Barr, director, Utah Transportation Center, (435) 797-8249, &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:paul.barr@usu.edu&quot;&gt;paul.barr@usu.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>The Utah Transportation Center, housed in the College of Engineering at Utah State University, has been awarded $550,000 to help the state and the country with transportation needs.</ezplug:articleBody>
				 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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				 <title> E- Week 2012</title>
				 <link>http://engineering.usu.edu/htm/news/articleID=15967</link>
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				 		<img src="http://engineering.usu.edu/plugins/work/blogger/10/A_UtahState_logo_blue_on_white1.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 15px" /> &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 128);&quot;&gt;Utah State University-College of Engineering&lt;br /&gt;
Engineering Week 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monday Feb 20&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President&amp;rsquo;s Day-No Classes&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tuesday Feb 21&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Energy-Use It Wisely&amp;rdquo; Display&lt;br /&gt;
Entertainment powered by student built bike-pedal generators.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR Atrium 9:00-3:30&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;A Little Leverage&lt;br /&gt;
Trebuchets built by MAE students on display.&lt;br /&gt;
TSC International Lounges All Day&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;College of ENGR Awards Luncheon&lt;br /&gt;
College awards, catered lunch, and guest speaker Ron Jibson: Pres &amp;amp; CEO of Questar and USU Alumnus. Tickets $1 available Feb 6-17 at Engineering Advising.&lt;br /&gt;
TSC Ballroom 12:15-1:30&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Employer Panel&lt;br /&gt;
A panel of employers from each major will share what they look for when hiring and how graduates can stand out. There will also be time for Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR 106 3:30-4:30&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wednesday Feb 22&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Breakfast by the Dean&lt;br /&gt;
Free fruit, muffins, and milk; courtesy of Dean Hinton.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR 3rd Floor 8:00am until gone&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;College of ENGR Community Expo!&lt;br /&gt;
The ENGR building will be open to the community and filled with senior design projects, displays and demonstrations from engineering clubs, student research, local engineering firms and more! Last year brought in around 400 attendees of all ages.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR Building 6:00-8:00&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thursday Feb 23&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Famous Aggie Ice Cream&lt;br /&gt;
Come get some of the best ice cream in the nation and enjoy the club competitions.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR 3rd Floor Noon until gone&lt;br /&gt;
Ms. Engineering Pageant&lt;br /&gt;
This yearly contest put on by SWE is one you won&amp;rsquo;t want to miss. Watch the College of ENGR&amp;rsquo;s finest get their nerd on.&lt;br /&gt;
TSC International Lounge 4:30&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday Feb 24&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Lunch by the Dean&lt;br /&gt;
Free sub sandwiches courtesy of Dean Hinton.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR 3rd Floor Noon until gone&lt;br /&gt;
Departmental Awards&lt;br /&gt;
Outstanding students and faculty are honored by their respective departments.&lt;br /&gt;
Times &amp;amp; Places TBA&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday Feb 25&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Journey to the Stars: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Honoring USU&amp;rsquo;s Pioneering Accomplishments in Space&lt;br /&gt;
Dean Craig Jessop&amp;rsquo;s American Festival Chorus presents a multimedia extravaganza paying homage to USU&amp;rsquo;s contribution to space exploration.&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Featuring the valley&amp;rsquo;s finest musicians and narrated by &lt;em&gt;Senator/Astronaut Jake Garn&lt;/em&gt;, be ready for a combination of music and engineering like you&amp;rsquo;ve never imagined!&lt;br /&gt;
Kent Concert Hall 7:30&lt;br /&gt;
Tickets &amp;amp; Information at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanfestivalchorus.org&quot;&gt;www.americanfestivalchorus.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other E-Week Activities:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Nerds vs Zombies!&lt;br /&gt;
Survive the zombie apocalypse in this mission based Nerf dart-gun game. Think &amp;ldquo;capture the flag&amp;rdquo; on steroids.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR &amp;amp; EL Buildings&lt;/h4&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tues-Fri 9:00pm to Midnight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Club Competitions&lt;br /&gt;
Various student competitions held by the College of Engineering&amp;rsquo;s student clubs and organizations. Includes the yearly Beta Bowl competition and much more.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGR Bldg Days &amp;amp; Times TBA&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marv&amp;rsquo;n&amp;rsquo;Joes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Marv&amp;rsquo;n&amp;rsquo;Joes will be sold at The Hub for only $1.50 all week! Thanks Drs. Joe Caliendo and Marv Halling for your delicious contribution to society.&lt;br /&gt;
TSC-The Hub&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information contact&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ASUSU &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:usu.ecouncil@agmail.com&quot;&gt;usu.ecouncil@agmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>Utah State University-College of Engineering
Engineering Week 2012</ezplug:articleBody>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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				 <title> Evening With Industry</title>
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				 		&lt;h3&gt;Student engineers had the opportunity Wednesday to participate in the nationally awarded Evening with Industry, where they sat face-to-face with potential future employers over dinner, discussing their aspirations and futures.&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; width=&quot;75&quot; height=&quot;75&quot; src=&quot;/plugins/work/blogger/10/images/SWE75x75.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Society for Women Engineers hosted their fourth annual fundraising event in the TSC International Lounge, and 17 engineering firms and companies arrived to mingle with approximately 120 students about their futures in engineering. Each student paid $15 to participate in the event, which included dinner and the company of several professional engineers.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;In the past only a couple companies have come, but now that they know what it&amp;rsquo;s like they are coming back and more companies are coming too,&amp;rdquo; said Alyssa Quinn, this year&amp;rsquo;s SWE president.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Last year was a big for Evening with Industry, Quinn said, and that was with seven companies and about 40 students in attendance, which makes this year a major success. The national SWE organization recognized USU&amp;rsquo;s SWE chapter with a programming award for the successful and creative nature of Evening with Industry. The chapter received this award at a regional level and national level, and SWE members are hoping this year&amp;rsquo;s large turnout means another award this year.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Before dinner was served, Quinn, a senior majoring in civil engineering, thanked those in attendance and paid tribute to the hard work of SWE member Laura Barrett for her tireless efforts to bring more companies to the event than ever before. Afterward, Chris Hailey, associate dean in the College of Engineering addressed the employers in attendance.&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;/plugins/work/blogger/10/images/Alyssa.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;width: 144px; height: 154px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;As a faculty member of the College of Engineering, I&amp;rsquo;m partially responsible for preparing your future workforce,&amp;rdquo; said Chris Haley, associate dean for the College of Engineering, &amp;ldquo;and so without a doubt the studies have shown that academic preparation is really important and engineering is a demanding major.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Civil engineering major Danny Pond said events organized through the College of Engineering prepare him beyond academics &amp;ndash; this event included. Pond, a senior, said this was the first year he attended Evening with Industry and it was worth his time and money to foster relationships that could be meaningful in his future search for employment. The event opened his eyes to a dozen more engineering firms he was unfamiliar with going into the dinner event, though he was familiar with ATK, Williams Engineering, Inc., and Rio Tinto.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sonya VanLeeuwen of Moog Inc. in Salt Lake City, and a USU alumna, said this was her first year participating in the SWE benefit and said the students she met were nervous, but eager to learn about their opportunities.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;What we&amp;rsquo;re interested in doing is getting the word out there to the engineering community about what Moog does, and we are looking for the best and brightest talent,&amp;rdquo; VanLeeuwen said.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Moog Inc. is an engineering firm that specializes in aircraft controls, space defense work and navigation surveillance systems.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;The money raised from this event will go toward sending SWE members to conferences, for outreach and other events we put on for our members,&amp;rdquo; Quinn said.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;SWE offers students a sense of belonging that they receive outside of the classroom, Hailey said while describing the purpose of national SWE and USU&amp;rsquo;s chapter. It is important to have funding for this organization so they can fulfill their mission to retain women engineers and other students who are considered a minority in the field.&lt;/div&gt;
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>Student engineers had the opportunity to participate in the nationally awarded Evening with Industry,where they sat face-to-face with potential future employers </ezplug:articleBody>
				 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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				 <title> Research on Capitol Hill</title>
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&lt;div class=&quot;imagebox&quot;&gt;The annual celebration of undergraduate research  gives students the change to share their independent projects and  results with state legislators as they display their posters in the  state capitol rotunda.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Effect of Acceleration on Nucleate Boiling and &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bubble Departure Dynamics in Microgravity&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Major: Civil Engineering&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Faculty Mentors: Heng Ban, MAE; J.R. Dennison, Physics&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A  member  of USU&apos;s  Get Away Special &amp;quot;GAS&amp;quot; Team, Jenica attended the 2011   NASA  Microgravity University and flew the team&apos;s experiment aboard  NASA&apos;s  &apos;&apos;Vomit  Comet&apos; microgravity aircraft. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=50660&quot;&gt;Read more about Jenica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A  member  of USU&apos;s  Get Away Special &amp;quot;GAS&amp;quot; Team, Landon attended the 2011   NASA  Microgravity University and flew the team&apos;s experiment aboard  NASA&apos;s  &apos;&apos;Vomit  Comet&apos; microgravity aircraft. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=50682&quot;&gt;Read more about Landon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Read more about the event in &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://research.usu.edu/vp/htm/news-media-and-events/news/articleID=15669&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Research Matters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; produced by the Research Office and the Vice President for Research.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;An expert in geotechnical engineering, John Rice, is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU&amp;rsquo;s college of engineering, and works to improve the methods by which engineers evaluate the safety of dam structures. Rice works on his research projects with multiple USU students, and one of their largest projects requires testing a complex geometric phenomena dealing with the prediction and preventing erosion under levees.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We are going in and questioning, well, how safe is this dam? How big a risk does this situation pose?&amp;rdquo; Rice said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Graduate students Nathan Braithwaite and Joe Zaleski both work with Rice on this project, and Rice will look to hire two undergraduate students as well as one additional graduate student to assist him in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lourdes Polanco, a Ph.D. student, is working on a similar project with Rice for her thesis. Together, they must come up with a probability of failure, based on the subsurface configuration of the soils and their properties. To test the erosion under a levee, samples of soil under the levee are taken, measuring the permeability. The type of soil present and its permeability are both big factors when plugged into Rice&amp;rsquo;s method, and are telling in whether breakage due to an erosion event is likely.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before Rice&amp;rsquo;s new method, which he is currently testing, there was a simplified geometric method that was often not applicable due to complex subsurface geometrics, Rice said. The method uses finite element analyses, and with a Monte Carlo simulation that selects random variables pertaining to the state of the profile where the erosion may occur, a more accurate probability of failure is produced. This project was made possible by start-up funding, but Rice is currently looking for funding sources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It provides a more real assessment of levee reliability,&amp;rdquo; Rice said. &amp;ldquo;Therefore, it will allow government, the (U.S. Army) Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, to assess more accurately what the risk that is related to specific levee reaches. This way they can be more effective in spending the money on their projects.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The National Science Foundation funded Rice and graduate student Mandie Swainston $127,000 to research the hydraulic gradient required to initiate erosion. They are collaborating with Penn State University, and their own Tong Qiu, develop a method for predicting. Qiu uses a numerical model to predict what will happen to different soil grains when water flows through them. Qui takes the information Rice and Swainston collect during lab analysis and uses that data to validate his numerical model. This way Qui can apply his model in a real way, and build devices that allow him and his students to replicate the experience the model predicts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Utah Dam Safety Program is looking to fund Rice&amp;rsquo;s research in mitigating with an additional $10,000 after funding him with $5,000 last year. The project involves looking at the current designs&amp;nbsp;for mitigating high water pressures in dams and levees using slotted pipes and gravel filters. Rice will look at the grain size of the sand or gravel filter in comparison to the slot size of the pipe, and come up with a relationship to match the appropriate filter with the pipe slot size.&lt;/p&gt;
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Office: EL272 &lt;br /&gt;
Phone: (435) 797-8611&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;USU&amp;rsquo;s School of Graduate Studies has awarded a number of scholarships and fellowships for the 2011-2012 academic year. Recipients represent both outstanding incoming graduate students and exceptional graduate students who are completing their programs.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;The Presidential Fellowship includes a $12,000 stipend for the academic year and an award for the nonresident portion of tuition. Criteria include a 3.5 GPA and quantitative and verbal GRE scores at the 70th percentile or above. The Presidential Fellowship is specifically intended to recruit excellent new graduate students to Utah State University.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;For the 2011-2012 academic year, Presidential Fellowships have been awarded to the following:&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Trace Hansen, Agricultural Systems Technology and Education&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Andrew Craig, Psychology&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;KyeKyoung Lee, Teacher Education and Leadership&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Melanie Rees, Special Education and Rehabilitation&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Alyssa Walker, Instructional Technology and Learning Science&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qi Zheng, Biological Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YongqingGuo, Engineering Education&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maureen Kesaano, Biological Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zane Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Chimalis Kuehn, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Nate Hough-Snee, Watershed Science&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Robert Call, Physics&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Geoffrey Smith, Biology&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;In the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, the following received partial Presidential Fellowships:&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Jill Aoki, Accountancy&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Bernard Addo-Adah, Management Information Systems&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Anthony Lemon, Accountancy&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Charles Major, Business Administration&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The Vice President for Research Fellowship includes a $15,000 stipend for the academic year and an award for the nonresident portion of tuition. Criteria include a 3.5 GPA and quantitative and verbal GRE scores at the 70th percentile or above. In addition, the student must be in a research degree program that includes a master&amp;rsquo;s thesis or doctoral dissertation.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Eleven students were awarded Vice President for Research Fellowships for 2011-2012. These students include:&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Matthew Coombs, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Jonathan Friedel, Psychology&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Scott Smith, Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Joshua Wade Stewart, Family, Consumer and Human Development&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Stephen Tucker, Teacher Education and Leadership&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TasnuvaTithi, Electrical and Computer Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oisin Tong, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Kristin Ladd, English&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Melissa Lambert, Environment and Society&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Todd Jones, Mathematics and Statistics&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Eui Min Kim, Chemistry and Biochemistry&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Nine Dissertation Fellowships of $8,000 each have been awarded for the 2011-2012 academic year. Recipients are:&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Brian Gall, Biology&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emilie Garbi, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shaobo Huang, Engineering&amp;nbsp; Education&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Christy Meredith, Watershed Science&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hemangkumar Patel, Biological Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Alina Sergeeva, Chemistry and Biochemistry&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;SubashShrestha, Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Megan Tippetts, Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;AshwiniWagh, Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The Dissertation Fellowship is intended to provide outstanding doctoral students with additional time to draft and revise their dissertations. For many doctoral students, the need to teach or to serve as a research assistant interferes with their ability to complete their dissertation work in a timely way. This fellowship aims to help doctoral students move more efficiently and quickly toward the completion of their dissertations.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Two Martin Luther King Fellowships for African American graduate students have been awarded for 2011-2012. The amount of the award is $7,000. The recipients are Chenika Fowler, Psychology; and Freddy Ishola, Accountancy. Dr. and Mrs. Allen W. Stokes established the Martin Luther King Graduate Fellowship in 1968 to assist deserving African American students achieve graduate education goals at USU.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Marina Yatchang, a doctoral student in Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2011-2012 Dr. Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Doctoral Graduate Fellowship. This $5,000 fellowship is awarded to underrepresented and international doctoral students. It was established by the Patels as a way for others to benefit from a higher education in the United States, just as Dr. Patel did.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;The Seely-Hinckley scholarship is for outstanding graduate students who face financial difficulties. It awards the in-state tuition for up to nine credits and student fees for two semesters. Recipients are:&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Sara Carter, Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Monette Clark, English&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Preston Colver, Plants, Soils and Climate&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Daniel Franklin, History&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Vern Hart, Physics&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Kathryn Henderson, Environment and Society&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;MaeganLokteff, Family, Consumer and Human Development&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Abraham McCowan, Art&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The Charles and Rae Perkins endowment supported a $5,000 award to two Perkins scholars for the 2011-2012 academic year: Emily Bradley, Music; and Kendra Bogert, Art. These scholarships are awarded to graduate students with financial need.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Chris Hodge is the American Indian Support Project Fellowship awardee for this year. This project is designed to support the graduate education of American Indian students.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In September, Smith received a $635,000 grant from the Department of Energy for his research project &amp;ldquo;Transient Mixed Convection Validation for NGNP,&amp;rdquo; which focuses on providing data for engineers who simulate nuclear reactors. The wind tunnel allows Smith and his research team to collect information vital for testing critical computer simulations of accidents at nuclear plants.&amp;nbsp;The team includes Ph.D. students Jeff Harris and Brandon Wilson, MS student Blake Lance, and undergraduate Vardan Semerjyan. Ultimately, this project lends to the construction and improvement of nuclear plants, making them more safe and cost efficient.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Plant vendors, regulators, and researchers run computer simulations to ensure that a plant is safe.&amp;nbsp;They simulate the worst-case scenario whenever they are not sure they can model accurately.&amp;nbsp;Newer models may be more accurate and can be less conservative, but they need to be tested by comparing them to experimental data&amp;rdquo; Smith said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;While computer models are always progressing, simulating the motion of gas or liquids remains a difficult challenge. We think computers are so powerful, but it is unlikely that a perfectly accurate computer model will ever exist&amp;rdquo; Smith said. &amp;ldquo;Experiments like this one help us to find the flaws in computer models and to fix them.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;By shining a laser sheet at particles in the see-through test section located in the center of the wind tunnel and then photographing their motion, the researchers can measure the wind velocity inside the wind tunnel.&amp;nbsp;They can also measure how much heat is entering the wind tunnel through a heated wall.&amp;nbsp;Each of these results can be compared to computer models of the flow.&amp;nbsp;The process of comparing a computer simulation model to experimental data is called &amp;ldquo;validation.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One unique feature of the wind tunnel is that it generates &amp;ldquo;mixed convection.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;A hot object will cool itself due to &amp;ldquo;natural convection,&amp;rdquo; or the tendency of heated air to rise.&amp;nbsp;The same object can be cooled by using an airmover (fan, blower) to force air to flow over it, or, in other words, using &amp;ldquo;forced convection.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;In mixed convection, the forced air motion and the rising heat each play a role.&amp;nbsp;Nuclear plants normally run under forced convection.&amp;nbsp;Mixed convection is an important flow regime to simulate since, in nuclear plants in the event of a pump failure the coolant flow will go from forced, to mixed, to natural convection in that event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The DOE is interested in new thermal-hydraulic validation data to help vendors and regulators in their new designs and safety analyses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Smith has a similar project funded by Bettis Marine Propulsion Laboratory (who build Naval nuclear reactors) as well as a project aimed at building a web-accessible database for validation data funded by Idaho National Laboratory (INL).&lt;/p&gt;
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Email:&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:barton.smith@usu.edu&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt; barton.smith@usu.edu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For more information about GOED, contact Michael Sullivan, 801-538-8811 or &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:mgsullivan@utah.gov&quot;&gt;mgsullivan@utah.gov&lt;/a&gt; or visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.business.utah.gov/&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Contacts: Bruce Bugbee, 435-797-2765, &lt;a href=&quot;http://bruce%2Ebugbee@usu.edu/&quot;&gt;bruce.bugbee@usu.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Byard Wood, 435-797-868, &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:byard.wood@usu.edu&quot;&gt;byard.wood@usu.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Tami Goetz, State Science Advisor, 801-538-8871, &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:tgoetz@utah.gov&quot;&gt;tgoetz@utah.gov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Michael Sullivan, Dir. of Communications, GOED, 801-538-8811, &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:mgsullivan@utah.gov&quot;&gt;mgsullivan@utah.gov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>Researchers Bruce Bugbee and Byard Wood were presented the Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. </ezplug:articleBody>
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				 		<img src="http://engineering.usu.edu/plugins/work/blogger/10/75x752.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 15px" /> &lt;p&gt;The Governor&amp;rsquo;s Medal award program was initiated in 1987 to recognize  those who made career achievements and/or provided distinguished service  that has benefited the State of Utah and the country in the areas of  science and technology. Specific criteria were developed to determine  the significance of these contributions to the economic development of  the State.&lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; width=&quot;350&quot; height=&quot;460&quot; src=&quot;/plugins/work/blogger/10/images/For-WEB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Academia&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;Byard D. Wood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt; Department Head and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Utah State University&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Wood has impacted Utah&amp;rsquo;s science and technology base through a  five-decade career and commitment to developing sustainable, renewable  energies including solar and biofuels, and to educating the next  generation of Utah&amp;rsquo;s bright and promising engineers.&amp;nbsp; He launched the  Utah Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) Biofuels Initiative to  develop research facilities and infrastructure for biofuels and  bioproducts research and development.&amp;nbsp; Under his eight-year leadership,  USU&amp;rsquo;s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering program has increased its  undergraduate student population by one-third from 432 to more than 670,  and graduate students have nearly doubled at 100.&amp;nbsp; He has also  demonstrated commitment to diversity and has doubled the number of  female undergraduate students in the program.&lt;/div&gt;
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Read more:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://utahpulse.com/view/full_story/17043209/article-State-Advisory-Council-for-Science-and-Technology-Announces-Governor%E2%80%99s-Science-and-Technology-Medals-for-2011?instance=today_home_pulse#ixzz1j60AuAcB&quot; style=&quot;color: #003399;&quot;&gt;Utah Pulse - State Advisory Council for Science and Technology Announces Governor&amp;rsquo;s Science and Technology Medals for 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>Governor Gary R. Herbert announced the winners of the Governor’s Science and Technology Medal Winners for 2011


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				 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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				 <title> David Rosenberg receives NSF CAREER Award</title>
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				 		<img src="http://engineering.usu.edu/plugins/work/blogger/10/davidrosenberg75x75.jpg" align="left" style="margin-right: 15px" /> &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The research goal of this CAREER proposal is to apply uncertainty and modeling to generate alternatives frameworks to the problem of allocating scarce water to improve environmental watershed services.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Some of the more interesting and innovative aspects of the research project include exploring the notion of near-optimal water management (rather than optimal),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;Collaborating with a technical advisory committee of federal, state, and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;not-for-profit environmental and ecological managers in the lower Bear River&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;basin (that includes Cache Valley), and launching a Bear River fellows program&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;that will, in collaboration with USU&apos;s Outdoor Recreation Program and Dr. Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;Roark in the Dept. of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, provide and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;evaluate the impacts of experiential river based data collection and leadership&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;development trips for incoming Freshmen. We plan to follow each 5-day river&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;trip with year long research experiences for the undergraduate trip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;participants to allow them to analyze, synthesize, and present the data they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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color:black&quot;&gt;collect on the trips.&amp;quot;... David Rosenberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;The awarded amount is $409,985 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start date is January 1, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expiration date: December 31, 2016&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Please contact Dr. Rosenberg for further information.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engr.usu.edu/cee/faculty/derosenberg/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David                 Rosenberg &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Assistant Professor&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:david.rosenberg@usu.edu&quot;&gt;david.rosenberg@usu.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Phone: (435) 797-8689&lt;br /&gt;
Office: UWRL 205, Eng. 227&lt;/p&gt; 
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				 <ezplug:articleBody>&quot;Near Optimal Water Management to Improve Environmental and Ecological Decision Making&quot;</ezplug:articleBody>
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