Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, April 3, 2014

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education Prefix Change School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education USU-Eastern Non-Credit Courses for Northstar to Banner Conversion Department of Art and Design New Course Prerequisite Change Course Description Change Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Title Change, Course Description Change Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change Course Number Change, Title Change Course Number Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Delete Course Department of Psychology New Course Department of Biological Engineering New Course Title Change Prerequisite Change Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prerequisite Change Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prerequisite Change Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Inactivate Course Department of English Course Number Change Department of History University Studies Request Reactive Course Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies Course Number Change Department of Political Science New Course Prerequisite Change Course Number Change Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology New Course S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources New Course Department of Environment and Society New Course Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Title Change, Course Description Change Course Description Change Department of Watershed Sciences Delete Course Department of Wildland Resources Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Prerequisite Change Delete Course Department of Biology Course Number Change Prerequisite Change Reactivate Course Department of Mathematics and Statistics University Studies Request Other Offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education Changing the names of three specializations under the Master of Business Administration Offering a Landscape Architecture Minor Offering a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree Using DocuSign for the Electronic Course Approval Form Electronically approving courses 2014-15 Curriculum Subcommittee Chair EPC and Curriculum Subcommittee Schedule for 2014-201

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 3, 2014

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education Prefix Change School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education USU-Eastern Non-Credit Courses for Northstar to Banner Conversion Department of Art and Design New Course Prerequisite Change Course Description Change Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Title Change, Course Description Change Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change Course Number Change, Title Change Course Number Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Delete Course Department of Psychology New Course Department of Biological Engineering New Course Title Change Prerequisite Change Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prerequisite Change Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prerequisite Change Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Inactivate Course Department of English Course Number Change Department of History University Studies Request Reactive Course Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies Course Number Change Department of Political Science New Course Prerequisite Change Course Number Change Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology New Course S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources New Course Department of Environment and Society New Course Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Title Change, Course Description Change Course Description Change Department of Watershed Sciences Delete Course Department of Wildland Resources Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change Prerequisite Change Delete Course Department of Biology Course Number Change Prerequisite Change Department of Mathematics and Statistics University Studies Request Other Offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education Changing the names of three specializations under the Master of Business Administration Offering a Landscape Architecture Minor Offering a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree Electronic Course Approval Form Update Election of 2014-2015 Curriculum Subcommittee Chai

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, September 4, 2014

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education New Course Title Change Credit Hour, Grade Mode Change Title, Prerequisite, Course Description Change Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science New Course Department of Plants, Soils and Climate Credit Hour Change Prerequisite Change Department of Art and Design New Course Department of Theatre Arts Grade Mode Change Department of Family, Consumer and Human Development New Course Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Title Change Prerequisite Change Department of Psychology Title, Prerequisite, Course Description Change Department of Teacher Education and Leadership Course Description change Prerequisite Change Department of Biological Engineering New Course Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Delete Course Inactivate Course Prerequisite Change Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Course Prerequisite Change Department of History Course Number Change Add Multiple List Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies New Course Title and Course Number Change Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Title, Course Number, and Description Change University Studies Request S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources Course Number Change Department of Environment and Society Credit Hour Change Department of Biology Delete Cours

Change blindness: eradication of gestalt strategies

Arrays of eight, texture-defined rectangles were used as stimuli in a one-shot change blindness (CB) task where there was a 50% chance that one rectangle would change orientation between two successive presentations separated by an interval. CB was eliminated by cueing the target rectangle in the first stimulus, reduced by cueing in the interval and unaffected by cueing in the second presentation. This supports the idea that a representation was formed that persisted through the interval before being 'overwritten' by the second presentation (Landman et al, 2003 Vision Research 43149–164]. Another possibility is that participants used some kind of grouping or Gestalt strategy. To test this we changed the spatial position of the rectangles in the second presentation by shifting them along imaginary spokes (by ±1 degree) emanating from the central fixation point. There was no significant difference seen in performance between this and the standard task [F(1,4)=2.565, p=0.185]. This may suggest two things: (i) Gestalt grouping is not used as a strategy in these tasks, and (ii) it gives further weight to the argument that objects may be stored and retrieved from a pre-attentional store during this task

Scalable collision detection for distributed virtual environments

PhD ThesisDistributed Virtual Environments (DVEs) provide a mechanism whereby dispersed users can interact with one-another within a shared \'irtual world. DVEs commonly allow users to interact with one-another in ways analogous to the real-world, e.g. mimicking Newtonian physics. A scalable DVE should enable large numbers of users to participate simultaneously, regardless of the In geographical location and hardware configurations of individual users. addition, these users should perceive a mutually-consistent virtual world in which each user perceives a consistent series of events in real-time. Collision detection and response is a fundamental requirement of most virtual environments and simulations. It is a computationally-expensive operation which must be perfonned at frequent intervals in all virtual environments which simulate the motion of solid objects. Collision detection has received large amounts of research interest and as a result a number of efficient collision detection algorithms have been proposed. However, these collision detection approaches are designed to detect collisions efficiently in simulations run on a single machine and are not capable of overcoming problems associated with scalability and consistency, which are of paramount importance in DVEs. This thesis presents a new collision detection approach, tenned distributed collision detection, which provides high-levels of scalability, consistency and responsiveness. This thesis presents the algorithms and theory which underpin the distributed collision detection approach and provides experimental results demonstrating its scalability and responsiveness

Advanced flight control system study

The architecture, requirements, and system elements of an ultrareliable, advanced flight control system are described. The basic criteria are functional reliability of 10 to the minus 10 power/hour of flight and only 6 month scheduled maintenance. A distributed system architecture is described, including a multiplexed communication system, reliable bus controller, the use of skewed sensor arrays, and actuator interfaces. Test bed and flight evaluation program are proposed

DELPHI IX: forecast and analysis of the North American automotive industry. Volume 2: technology

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/1236/2/91190.0001.001.pd

Flexible allocation and space management in storage systems

In this dissertation, we examine some of the challenges faced by the emerging networked storage systems. We focus on two main issues. Current file systems allocate storage statically at the time of their creation. This results in many suboptimal scenarios, for example: (a) space on the disk is not allocated well across multiple file systems, (b) data is not organized well for typical access patterns. We propose Virtual Allocation for flexible storage allocation. Virtual allocation separates storage allocation from the file system. It employs an allocate-on-write strategy, which lets applications fit into the actual usage of storage space without regard to the configured file system size. This improves flexibility by allowing storage space to be shared across different file systems. We present the design of virtual allocation and an evaluation of it through benchmarks based on a prototype system on Linux. Next, based on virtual allocation, we consider the problem of balancing locality and load in networked storage systems with multiple storage devices (or bricks). Data distribution affects locality and load balance across the devices in a networked storage system. We propose user-optimal data migration scheme which tries to balance locality and load balance in such networked storage systems. The presented approach automatically and transparently manages migration of data blocks among disks as data access patterns and loads change over time. We built a prototype system on Linux and present the design of user-optimal migration and an evaluation of it through realistic experiments