ME-EM 2014-15 Annual Report

Table of Contents Human-centered Engineering Endowed Department Chair Enrollment & Degrees Graduates Department News Faculty & Staff Alumni Donors Contracts & Grants Patents & Publications Faculty & Staff Directoryhttps://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/mechanical-annualreports/1004/thumbnail.jp

Impulse, Spring 2020

[Page] 2 Rich Reid Retiring[Page] 6 The Konda Connection[Page] 8 Major Grant for Power Systems Research[Page] 10 A Drone that can Carry Humans?[Page] 12 New Department Head for EE/CS[Page] 14 The Making of MEDQ Systems Consulting[Page] 15 Dean\u27s Advisory Council Profiles[Page] 16 Distinguished Engineer Larry Weiss[Page] 18 Vital Statistics[Page] 20 Engineering Meets Entrepreneurship[Page] 22 Faculty Awards[Page] 24 Linda Wendt Retiring [Page] 25 Strategic Plan in Place[Page] 28 Dean\u27s Club[Page] 30 High-Impact Team Center Planned[Page] 32 Research Takes Off for New Faculty Member[Page] 33 Tyler Hanks Coordinates AME Production Lab[Page] 34 Alumni News[Page] 35 Youth Camps[Page] 36 Celebrating SDSU Engineershttps://openprairie.sdstate.edu/coe_impulse/1067/thumbnail.jp

Tort Law: Cases & Critique

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Wireless Vehicular Communication Based Solution for Road Traffic Efficiency

Wireless vehicular communications is a cutting edge set of technologies driven by the vision of providing a suite of original applications, and supported by emerging standards such as IEEE 802.11p. In turn the popularity of these applications is one of the key factors, which will drive the uptake of these vehicular communications technologies and ultimately determine their market success. Applications for vehicular communications can be placed in three main categories - Traffic Safety, Traffic Efficiency and Value-added Services (e.g. Infotainment/Business). Our work focuses on the provision of traffic efficiency services as we believe they offer an immediate benefit and can be adopted quickly by a large number of potential users. Satellite navigation systems provide a ready made deployment platform for these types of services and have already proven popular (14.4 million portable satellite navigation systems sold in Western Europe in 2007). There is also an existing trend toward complementing satellite navigation-related technology with local area wireless communications (by 2013 34% of all portable navigation devices will feature wireless cards 2). Our emphasis is on an infrastructure-based approach as this allows early adopters of wireless enabled satellite navigation devices to receive useful services from day one, regardless of the penetration level of the technology. This thesis describes Smart City, a novel framework, which purposes the use of wireless communication to make city life greener and more efficient. A major contribution to this framework is the proposed intelligent traffic management module. A route management service, which is powered by a best route selection algorithm, is put forward as a prototypical traffic efficiency service for this module. The novel aspect is that the algorithm minimizes journey times and traffic congestion as well as fuel consumption and emissions. Testing has shown how the algorithm provides-shorter journey times, a reduction in fuel consumption and harmful emissions and also results in financial savings. We have proposed and implemented an infrastructure-based communication scheme that enables prioritization of services provided to vehicles

Assessing the energy and financial viability of heated pavement systems for airports

Ice and snow impacts on transportation infrastructure systems add significant costs to the American economy in the form of snow removal, damaged pavement and lost productivity due to travel delays. Due to environmental and logistics concerns associated with traditional pavement deicing strategies, the use of heated pavement systems (HPS) at airports are continually gaining attention as a desirable alternative. The main objective of this research was to examine the financial viability of installing HPS at aprons and ramps for different categories of airports. The apron is the busiest part of the airport where vehicles and airplanes share the same space. Snow removal operations are challenging and time consuming for the ground staff involved as they are exposed to rough weather. In addition, due to immense activity and asymmetric (skewed) geometric designs, small sized snow removal equipment (SRE) is used in aprons. These factors together contribute to delays. In order to study the feasibility of HPS, two economic analysis techniques, the Net Present Value (NPV) and Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) were employed. The required data for economic analysis were collected through airport site visits, email surveys, government websites (Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics), reports, etc. The costs incurred due to melting snow by hydronic heated pavements and its potential benefits were calculated and compared with the operating costs of conventional snow removal methods under specific case scenarios. Due to the inherent uncertain nature of weather-related delays, an in-depth sensitivity analysis (SA) was carried out to represent contrasting scenarios. It was found that HPS, despite the high installation costs, may be economically viable at commercial airports. The feasibility depends on the size of the airport in terms of operations and area of installation. As the heated pavement technology continues to evolve with time, especially with the use of renewable energy sources and advanced construction methods, their benefits are far likely to outweigh the existing high initial installation costs

2008 annual report of the selectmen, departments, boards and commissions of the town and school district of the town of Raymond, NH, for the year ending December 31, 2008.

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