Journal Papers
C. George, R. McGruder, and K. Torgerson, "Determination of Optimal Surface Area to Volume Ratio for Thin-Layer Drying of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)", The International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, September 2007, Vol. 2 No. 2. In press.
C. George and A. Shams, "The Challenge of Including Customer Satisfaction Into the Assessment Criteria of Overseas Service-Learning Projects", International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering, September 2007, Vol. 2, No. 2. In press.
J. Abraham and C. George, "Full-Building Radiation Shielding for Climate Control in Desert Regions", International Journal of Sustainable Energy, In press.
Conference Paper Accepted
AMP Thomas and J.R. Prichard, "Design for an Aging Population: A Multi-disciplinary Design Retreat", Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Conference, Houghton, Michigan, September, 2007.
AMP Thomas and M. Breitenberg, "Engineering for Non-Engineers: Learning from Nature’s Designs", Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.
J. Abraham and AMP Thomas, "Numerical Simulation of Momentum Transfer and Induced Co-Flow Associated with Synthetic Jets", Proceedings of FLUCOME 2007, Tallahassee, Florida, September 2007.
Presentations
Perry Parendo, 3M Fellow and independent consultant, will be presenting at the ASQ Minnesota Quality Conference on October 15. His topic "Is Design of Experiments a Part of Lean?" considers the circumstances around proper test implementation in an efficient and focused engineering operation.
Honors
Camille George attended a competitive NSF workshop sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The workshop sought to introduce faculty from different engineering fields to sustainable engineering education. The workshop encouraged engineering educators to consider problems holistically; to consider problems in context with ethical, political and societal issues; to interact with expects in other disciplines related to the problem; and to help solve problems over global spatial scales.
Grants
Camille George is part of a large multi-institutional collaboration working with a micro-business entrepreneurial center in Mali, the Institute of Engineering at the University of Bamako, the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Bamako, Montana State University, Virginia Tech, UC Davis, Chief Dull Knife College and the University of St. Thomas. The partnership has won a three-year grant from the USDA/CSREES Higher Education Challenge Grants Program "New Paradigm for Discovery-Based Learning: Implementing Bottom-up Development by Listening to Farmers' Needs and Using Participatory Process". The $462,632 grant is led by Florence Dunkel, of MSU and has funding for UST undergraduate and graduate engineering projects.
Student Research
Ben Dauwalter and Brian Falk spent the spring semester researching the use and design of walkers in nursing home environments with AnnMarie Thomas.
Students William Besser, Eve Commerford, Brian Falk, Lindsey Hines, Stephen Johnson, Ann Majewicz, Josh Smokovitz, Alan Twomey, and Ross Weinzierl worked with AnnMarie Thomas this spring in researching new technologies for the Chicago-based company Inventables. In return, Inventables contributed to the "new materials and technologies library" AnnMarie is developing.
