School of Engineering
Recent Faculty Publications
Following is a partial list of recent faculty publications:
June, 2009
Wendelin Wright (Mechanical Engineering) and graduate student Marcus Samale: "Studies of Shear Band Velocity Using Spatially and Temporally Resolved Measurements of Strain During Quasistatic Compression of a Bulk Metallic Glass" by W.J. Wright, M.W. Samale, T.C. Hufnagel, M.M. LeBlanc, and J.N. Florando. Published in Acta Materialia.
May, 2009
Dan Lewis (Computer Engineering): “Attracting the Next Generation of Students to Computing” the first part of a two-part article published on the front page of the May 2009 issue of CSTA Voice, (a national newsletter for K-12 computer science teachers). The article describes the motivation, rationale and details of our new BS degree program in Web Design and Engineering.
Toshishige Yamada (Center for Nanostructures), Drazen Fabris (Mechanical Engineering) and Cary Y. Yang (Electrical Engineering): T. Yamada, T. Saito, D. Fabris, and C. Y. Yang, "Electrothermal Analysis of Breakdown in Carbon Nanofiber Interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 30 (5), pp.469-471 (2009).
Aaron Melman (Applied Mathematics): "Some properties of Newton's method for polynomials with all real zeros" in the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics. He also gave a talk in the Linear Algebra/Optimization seminar of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University on April 29.
Robotics students had two articles published in the latest issue of the Marine Technology Society Journal. One was on the development of the Lab's novel SWATH boat, and the other presented innovative work in multi-boat operation: E. Beck, W. Kirkwood, D. Caress, T. Berk, P. Mahacek, K. Brashem, J. Acain, V. Reddy, C. Kitts, J. Skutnik and G. Wheat, "SeaWASP: A Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull Autonomous Platform for Shallow Water Mapping," Marine Tech Soc Journal, v 43, n 1, pp. 6-12, 2009.
P. Mahacek, I. Mas, O. Petrovic, J. Acain, and C. Kitts, "Cluster Space Control of Autonomous Surface Vessels," Marine Technology Society Journal, v 43, n 1, pp. 13-20, 2009.
Michele Ellie Ahi (adjunct professor Engineering Management): Outsourcing Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Empowering Americans Through Education and Innovation. The book draws on trends in education and economy that have shifted America from being a technological and innovative super power to the critical state it is in now. It is available on Amazon, Lulu and eBay.
Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering) has an article in the current issue of explore, the journal published by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at SCU, and will participate in a panel discussion of sustainability at SCU: Tuesday, May 19, noon – 1 pm, Campus Ministry Conference Room, Benson Center.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. Student Wally Kozacky: “A Frequency-Domain Adaptive Filtering Algorithm with Constraints on the Output Weights”, to be presented at the upcoming 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) taking place in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student Ifiok Umoh: “An Adaptive Nonlinear Filter for System Identification” in Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
Chris Kitts (Mechanical Engineering) and graduate student Ignacio Mas: C. Kitts and I. Mas. Cluster Space Specification and Control of Mobile Multirobot Systems. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, v 14, n 2, pp. 207-218, 2009. It is a journal article on their multi-robot motion control technique.
April, 2009
Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering): Cayan, D., M. Tyree, M. Dettinger, H. Hidalgo, T. Das, E. Maurer, P. Bromirski, N. Graham, and R. Flick, 2009, Climate change scenarios and sea level rise estimates for the California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment, Public Interest Energy Research Program Reports, Publication # CEC-500-2009-014-D, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, 62 pp. (available online at http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/publications/cat/). This biennial update outlines some of the latest projections of changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level we face in California, largely due to past and continuing use of fossil fuels.
Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering): "Assessing reservoir operations risk under climate change," published in the latest issue of the journal Water Resources Research. The study examined the relationship between uncertainties in future climate projections and the subsequent impacts of California's water system, and how systems might respond depending on how risk-averse water managers are.
March, 2009
Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering): Lawler, J. J., S. L. Shafer, D. White, P. Kareiva, E. P. Maurer, A. R. Blaustein, and P. J. Bartlein, 2009, Projected climate-induced faunal change in the western hemisphere, Ecology, 90(3), 588–597. By assessing the impact of climate change on thousands of species of birds, mammals, and amphibians, the authors found local loss of at least 10% of the vertebrate fauna over much of North and South America. The largest changes are projected for the tundra, Central America, and the Andes Mountains where faunal distributions in the future will bear little resemblance to those of today.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student Jeoong Sung Park: “A New Hardware Implementation of the H.264 8x8 Transform and Quantization,” presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taipei, Taiwan April 2009.
Nam Ling (Computer Engineering) and Ph.D. student Maria Pantoja: "Transcoding with Resolution Conversion Using Super-Resolution and Irregular Sampling," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer.
Yuling Yan (Bioengineering): "Implementation of a Virtual Laryngoscope System Using Efficient Reconstruction Algorithms," in Medical Science Monitor, a peer-reviewed international medical journal for experimental and clinical research.
February, 2009
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering): Šćepanović B., Gil-Martín L. M., Hernández-Montes E., Aschheim M., and Lučić D., Ultimate Strength of I-Girders Under Eccentric Patch Loading: Derivation of a New Strength Reduction Coefficient, Engineering Structures.
Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering): "Climate model based consensus on the hydrologic impacts of climate change to the Rio Lempa basin of Central America" in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Science (Vol.13, pp. 183-194, 2009). This article represents a collaborative effort with co-authors from Washington State University and 3Tier Group in Seattle, and benefited from the assistance of colleagues at the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. The conclusion is that projections of drier conditions, lower streamflow, and decreased hydropower capacity for the region are robust and high confidence.
January, 2009
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of the School of Engineering): Wookyung Kim, Hyungrok Do, M. G. Mungal, and M. A. Cappelli (2008) “Plasma Assisted Diffusion Flames: Role of Elevated Ambient Temperatures,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36 (6), 2898-2904.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of the School of Engineering): Hyungrok Do, M. G. Mungal and M. A. Cappelli (2008) “Jet Flame Ignition in a Supersonic Crossflow using a Pulsed Nonequilibrium Plasma Discharge,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36 (6), 2918-2923.
Mohammad Ayoubi (Mechanical Engineering) and James Longuski: “Asymptotic Theory For Thrusting, Spinning-Up spacecraft Maneuvers,” in the Journal of Acta Astronautica.
Ralph Morganstern (adjunct professor of Applied Mathematics): Morganstern, Ralph, E. (2008), "Fast Chirp Transform Applied to LPI FMCW Radar Waveforms,” presented in the proceedings of the 54th Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, Monterey, CA, June, 2008.
December, 2008
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student Obianuju Ndili: “A Hardware Oriented Integer Pel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm in H.264/AVC” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/ECSI/EURASIP Conference on Design and Architecture for Signal and Image Processing, Nov. 2008.
October, 2008
Sergio Escobar-Vargas (Ph.D. student) Drazen Fabris, Jorge Gonzalez (Mechanical Engineering) R. Sharma, C. Bash, and O. E. Ruiz: “Bubble growth characterization during fast boiling in an enclosed geometry” in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering): Lee, H. J., Aschheim, M., Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martin, L. M., “Optimum RC Column Reinforcement Considering Multiple Load Combinations,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering): Hernández-Montes, E., Gil-Martín, L. M., Pasadas-Fernández, M., and Aschheim, M. (2008): “Theorem of Optimal Section Reinforcement,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 36(5):509-521, Nov.
Wendelin Wright (Mechanical Engineering) and William Nix (Stanford): "Storage and Loss Stiffnesses and Moduli as Determined by Dynamic Nanoindentation” in the March 2009 Focus Issue on Indentation Methods in Advanced Materials Research in the Journal of Materials Research.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student Thomas Paul: “Evolution, Insights and Challenges of the PHY Layer for the Emerging IEEE 802.11n Amendment” in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.
August, 2008
Jorge Gonzalez, Tim Hight, and Ph.D. student Rabindra Pokhrel (Mechanical Engineering): Rabindra Pokhrel, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Tim Hight, Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson; “Analysis and Design of a Paraffin/Graphite Composite PCM Integrated in a Thermal Storage Unit,” presented at the 2008 International Conference on Energy Sustainability in the Solar Heating & Cooling Topical Area. Named “Best Paper” of the ASME Solar Energy Division. Five Best Papers were awarded at the Conference of a total of 177 in five different Topical Areas.
Edwin Maurer (Civil Engineering): Brekke, L.D., Dettinger, M.D., Maurer, E.P., and Anderson, M., 2008, Significance of model credibility in projection distributions for regional hydroclimatological impacts of climate change: Climatic Change, 89, doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9388-3, 371-394. The paper summarizes results of a US Bureau of Reclamation research effort, in which the authors evaluate the historical skill of global climate models and conclude that historic skill plays only a modest role in framing future climate projections.
Edwin Maurer (Civil Engineering): Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, B. Anderson, X.-Z. Liang, E. Maurer, J. Zhu, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, A.M. Stoner and D. Wuebbles, 2008, Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Vol. 13 (5-6), 425-436, doi: 10.1007/s11027-007-9133-2. This article provides an assessment of climate change impacts to the Northeastern U.S.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student, Ifiok Umoh: “An adaptive algorithm for Hammerstein Filter System Identification;” presented at the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi and Ph.D. student, Thomas Paul (Electrical Engineering): “Analysis of convergence of a frequency-domain LMS adaptive filter implemented as a multi-stage adaptive filter,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology (formerly Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems) 2008.
July, 2008
Ruth Davis, Weijia Shang (Computer Engineering) and student Stefan Schaeckeler: "Visualization of Procedural Abstraction; presented at the Fifth Program Visualization Workshop during the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference in Madrid, Spain.
Jorge Gonzalez (Mechanical Engineering) and Daniel E. Comarazamy: “On the Validation of the Simulation of Early Season Precipitation on the Island of Puerto Rico Using a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model,” Journal of Hydrometeorology, pp 507-520, June 2008.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean, School of Engineering): V. S. R. Somandepalli, Y. X. Hou, & M. G. Mungal (2008) “Visualization of Drag Reduced Boundary Layer Flows with Polymer Injection,” 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, July 1-4, 2008, Nice, France.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean, School of Engineering): W. N. Heltsley, J. A. Snyder, M. G. Mungal & R. K. Hanson (2008) “Mapping the Combustion Stability Regimes of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon Jets in Supersonic Crossflow with OH-PLIF,” 14th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, 7-10 July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean, School of Engineering): H. El-Asrag, H. Pitsch, W. Kim, H. Do & M. G. Mungal (2008) “A Computational and Experimental Assessment of the Damköhler Number Similarity for Static Flame Stability in Augmentor Flows,” AIAA 2008-4955, 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, 21 - 23 July 2008, Hartford, CT.
Drago Siljak (Electrical Engineering) gave a keynote lecture, “Multi-Agent Systems on Dynamic Graphs,” on the opening day of the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, July 2-9, 2008, Orlando Florida.
June, 2008
Silvia Figueira (Computer Engineering) and former student Tan Trieu: “Data Replication and the Storage Capacity of Data Grids,” presented at HPDGrid - International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments, in Toulouse, France, in June 2008.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. student, Ifiok Umoh: “An adaptive algorithm for Hammerstein Filter System Identification.” The paper was accepted at the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in August 2008 and will be presented by Ifiok in Lausanne, Switzerland.
May, 2008
Nam Ling (Computer Engineering) and Ph.D. student Jianpeng (James) Dong: presented their paper “A Model Parameter and Mad Prediction Scheme for H.264 Macroblock Layer Rate Control” at the ISCAS ’08 conference in Seattle.
Aaron Melman (Applied Mathematics) and Tobias Carothers (Computer Engineering student): "Bounds on the location of critical points of a polynomial with all real zeros," was published in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, the official journal of the national mathematics honor society. The paper is based on research carried out as part of the Kuehler Grant summer research program in 2006 when Carothers had just completed his freshman year.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean, School of Engineering) W. Kim, H. Do, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli (2008) “Optimal discharge placement in plasma assisted combustion of a methane jet in crossflow,” Comb. Flame, 153, 603–615.
Bryan Ribaya (Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student): "A study on the mechanical and electrical reliability of individual carbon nanotube field emission cathodes," Nanotechnology, Vol 19, pp185201 (2008). To view the article, visit: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/19/18/185201/
Silvia Figueira (Computer Engineering) and her former student Tan Trieu: “Data Replication and the Storage Capacity of Data Grids,” was presented at HPDGrid - International Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments, in Toulouse, France, in June 2008.
April, 2008
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering): Gil-Martín, L. M., Aschheim, M., and Hernández-Montes, E. “Proportioning of Steel Beam-Column Members Based on RSD Methodology,” Engineering Structures.
March, 2008
Godfrey Mungal (Dean, School of Engineering): Y. X. Hou, V. S. R. Somandepalli & M. G. Mungal (2008) “Streamwise Development of Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction with Polymer Injection,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 31-66.
John Jameson (Center for Nanostructures): "Equilibrium and compatibility simulation of plunge centerless grinding" in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Journal of Engineering Manufacture. Authors: John R. Jameson, T.N. Farris (Purdue), and S. Chandrasekar (Purdue).
John Jameson (Center for Nanostructures): K. Abe, M.P. Tendulkar, J.R. Jameson, P. Griffin, K. Nomura, S. Fujita, and Y. Nishi, “Ultra-high bandwidth memory with 3D-stacked emerging memory cells,” ID 173, International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), Minatec in Grenoble, France, June 2–4, 2008.
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering): Aschheim, M., Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martín, L.M. (2008). “Design of Optimally-reinforced RC Beam, Column, and Wall Sections,” Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 134(2):231-239.
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering), Hernández-Montes, E., and Gil-Martín, L. M. (2008). “Design of Optimally-reinforced RC Beam, Column, and Wall Sections,” Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 134(2):231-239.
Maurer, E. P. (Civil Engineering) and H. G. Hidalgo, 2008, “Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods,” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Vol. 12, 551-563. Online at: http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/12/551/2008/hess-12-551-2008.html
In this study, Maurer worked with colleague Hugo Hidalgo at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to compare two methods of inferring regional climate change from global climate simulations, both of which are being used in the latest work by the California Energy Commission and CalEPA to project climate change impacts on California resources.
Sally Wood (Electrical Engineering): S. L. Wood, S. -T. Lee, G. Yang, M. P. Christensen, and D. Rajan, "Impact of measurement precision and noise on superresolution image reconstruction," Appl. Opt. 47, 1638-1648 (2008).
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Electrical Engineering): "Wireless LAN Comes of Age: Understanding the IEEE 802.11n amendment" in IEEE Circuits and Systems Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 28-54, March 2008.
February, 2008
Edwin Maurer (Civil Engineering): Cayan, D.R., E.P. Maurer, M.D. Dettinger, M. Tyree and K. Hayhoe, 2008, Climate change scenarios for the California region, Climatic Change, Vol. 87, Suppl. 1, 21-42 doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9377-6. The article summarizes work, sponsored by the California Energy Commission and the California Environmental Protection Agency, aimed at assessing future climates for California and the potential impacts on key state resources.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of Engineering): C. M. White & M. G. Mungal (2008) “Mechanics and Prediction of Turbulent Drag Reduction with Polymer Additives,” Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 40, 235–256.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of Engineering): Y. X. Hou, V. S. R. Somandepalli & M. G. Mungal (2008) “Streamwise Development of Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction with Polymer Injection,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 31-66.
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of Engineering): W. Kim, M. G. Mungal & M. A. Cappelli (2008) “Formation and role of cool flames in plasma assisted premixed combustion,” Appld. Phys. Letters, 92, 051503 (3 p).
Sukhmander Singh (Civil Engineering): “Relevance of Technology Enhanced Educational Tools for Engineering Education,” was included in the International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, December 3-7, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
December, 2007
Rance DeLong (Computer Engineering term lecturer) has a paper appearing in the Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2007 in December: “Toward a Medium-Robustness Separation Kernel Protection Profile,” Rance J. DeLong, Santa Clara University; Thuy D. Nguyen, Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Leven, Naval Postgraduate School.
November, 2007
Rachel He (Civil Engineering): "Estimating Nationwide Link Speed Distribution using Probe Position Data" by Lin, He and Kornhauser was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Rachel He (Civil Engineering): "Estimation of Origin-Destination Flows and Route Choice Parameters From Incomplete Link Flows" by He was recently published in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, 347-354.
Edwin Maurer (Civil Engineering): "Fine-resolution climate projections enhance regional climate change impact studies" by Maurer, E. P., L. Brekke, T. Pruitt, and P. B. Duffy (2007), Eos Trans. AGU, 88(47), 504, available online at: http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/2007/47-504.html
Godfrey Mungal (Dean of Engineering): "On the role of oxygen in dielectric barrier discharge actuation of aerodynamic flows," by W. Kim, H. Do, M. G. Mungal and M. A. Cappelli Applied Physics Letters, V19, 181501 (2007).
Mahmudur Rahman (Electrical Engineering) co-authored and published a paper in the IOP journal, Nanotechnology, “Effects of cathode structure on the field emission properties of individual multi-walled carbon nanotube emitters.” Writers included graduate students Darrell Niemann and Bryan Ribaya; graduate Norman Gunther; and adjunct research professor Cattien V. Nguyen.
September, 2007
Ruth Davis (Computer Engineering) will present "Increasing Retention of Women Engineering Student" in a poster session at the American Society for Engineeirng Education (ASEE) 6th Global Colloquim on Engineering Education in Istanbul, turkey.
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi's (Electrical Engineering) book, "Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification," on signals and communication technology has been published by springer.
Wendelin Wright (Mechanical Engineering): "An Improved Analysis for Viscoelastic Damping in Dynamic Nanoidentification" by W.J. Wright, A.R. Maloney, and W.D. Nix, International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Numbers 2/3 , pp. 274-292, 2007, which she also presented at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the Material's Research Society.
Wendelin Wright (Mechanical Engineering): "Shape Memory Polymers Based on uniform Aliphatic Urethane Networks" by W.J .Wright, T.S. Wilson, J.P. Bearinger, J.L. Herberg, J.E. Marion III, W.J. Wright, C.L.Evans, and D.J. Maitland. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Volume 106, pp. 540-551, 2007.
May, 2007
Sarah Kate Wilson (Electrical Engineering): "Opportunistic Beamforming and Scheduling for OFDMA Systems" by P. Svedman, S. K. Wilson, L. J. Cimini, and B. Ottersten, in the May 2007 issue of IEEE Transactions on Communications.
April, 2007
Maurer, E. P. (Civil Engineering), 2007, Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, California under two emissions scenarios, Climatic Change, Vol. 82, No. 3-4, 309-325, doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9180-9
March, 2007
Vicuna, S., E. P. Maurer (Civil Engineering), B. Joyce, J. A. Dracup, D. Purkey, 2007, The sensitivity of California water resources to climate change scenarios, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 43 No. 2, 482-498, doi: 10.1111 / j.1752-1688.2007.00038
February, 2007
Mark Aschheim (Civil Engineering) collaborated with three Santa Clara University seniors, two faculty at the Universidad Centroamericana, and one at the National University of Mexico in writing “Enhancing The Sustainability and Earthquake Resistance of Confined Masonry Dwellings in El Salvador" (Aschheim, M., Flanagan, S., Harlander, J., Pitt, C., Alfaro, A., Rivas, C., Rodriguez, M. E.), which was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Earthquake Engineering.
Gil-Martin LM, Hernandez-Montes E, Aschheim M. (Civil Engineering), Optimal design of planar frames based on stability criterion using first-order analysis ENGINEERING STRUCTURES 28 (13): 1780-1786 NOV 2006
Sumit Naiksatam, Stephen Chiappari (Applied Mathematics), and Silvia Figueira (Computer Engineering), Engineering Pricing Incentives for Efficient Bandwidth Utilization in LambdaGrids, presented at Create-Net/ICST QShine 2006, Waterloo, Canada, August 2006. * Selected to appear in the Elsevier's Computer Network Journal.
Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia Figueira (Computer Engineering), and Stephen Chiappari (Applied Mathematics), Triumph of the Bandwidth Commons: Elastic Reservations, Price Incentives, and Request Realignment in LambdaGrids, presented at ICST/IEEE GridNets, San Jose, California, October 2006. * Selected to appear in the Elsevier's FGCS - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications.
Christopher Kitts (Mechanical Engineering) has a number of publications in press or recently published, including: "A First Principles Approach for Managing Anomalies in Space Systems." IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Automation Science; "Tsunami-generated boulder ridges in Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada." Geology; "Sapphire: A Case Study in University-Class Satellites." AIAA Journal on Spacecraft and Rockets; "Self-Positioning Smart Buoys, The Un-Buoy Solution: Logistic Considerations using Autonomous Surface Craft Technology and Improved Communications Infrastructure" Proceedings IEEE/MTS Oceans Conference; "Internet-based spacecraft operations for the GeneSat-1 Nanosatellite." AIAA Space 2006 Conference; "An Integrated Development Network for Distributed Design" AIAA Space 2006 Conference; "The GeneSat-1 Microsatellite Mission: A Challenge in Small Satellite Design." Proc. AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites.
