Michael Cox, Ph.D., CSE, demonstrated his research in joint human-machine planning to military and government program managers at a DARPA workshop, Decision and Planning Aids Program, Crystal City, VA, October, 1998.

He also presented a paper (with Professor Manuela Veloso of CMU) entitled "Goal Transformations in Continuous Planning" at the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium on Distributed Continual Planning, Orlando, FL, October, 1998.

Oscar Garcia, Ph.D., CSE, has received additional funding on behalf of the Computer Science and Engineering Department in the amount of $125,000 from the Ohio Board of Regents for the Priorities in Graduate Education program and in the amount of $12,500 from Kent State University for the OBR Collaborative Research program.

Ramana Grandhi, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $51,813 from the Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, for his proposal entitled "Multidisciplinary Nonlinear Sensitivity Analysis."

Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Ph.D., CSE, (with H.T. Nagle, North Carolina State University, and S.S. Schiffman, Duke University) has published an article entitled "Electronic nose technology: an overview" in IEEE Spectrum, September 1998, pp. 22-34.

Marian Kazimierczuk, Ph.D., ME, (with D. Czarkowski) has published an article entitled "ZVS class D series resonant inverter-Time state space simulation and experimental results" in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I, Vol. 45, pp. 1141-1147, November 1998.

Giorgio McBeath, DEPE, CQE, presented "Engineering your Career" to the College of Wooster Buckeye Women in Science and Engineering Research program (B-WISER) on Nov. 14, 1998. He also educated the audience of 250 about the possibility of utilizing the Ohio Space Grant Scholars program as a way to finance a college degree.

Dr. McBeath was also appointed as Program Chair for the Dayton Section of the American Society of Quality for the 1999 program year. And, at the request of his alma mater Baldwin-Wallace College (est. 1845), he served as their representative at Dr. Goldenberg’s Inaugural ceremony November 20, 1998.

Krishna Naishadham, Ph.D., EE, presented a paper entitled "A Hybrid Method for the Improvement of the Accuracy of Electromagnetic Scattering from Large Structures," at the 10th International Symposium on Antennas (JINA 98), Nice, France, November, 1998. He has also been invited to edit a volume entitled "Electromagnetics" in the Electrical Engineering Handbook to be jointly published by Academic Press and IEEE Press in the year 2000 and to contribute a chapter entitled "Transmission Lines" to this publication. The Handbook is targeted toward practicing engineers.

David Reynolds, Ph.D., BHE, and James Marous, M.S. candidate, BHE, presented a paper entitled "A Non-Frangible Pedestrian Legform Impactor" at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, October 1998, Cleveland OH. [Note: This research was supported by a contract from the U.S. Dept of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Other authors are D.C. Longhitano (grad student at OSU) and Roger Saul with NHTSA at East Liberty, OH.]

Scott Thomas, Ph.D., ME, (with K. Klasing and K. Yerkes) published an article entitled "Prediction of the Operating Limits of Revolving Helically-Grooved Heat Pipes" in the Proceedings of the AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, HTD-Vol. 357-3, pp. 117-128, Albuquerque, NM; and an article entitled "The Effects of Transverse Acceleration-Induced Body Forces on the Capillary Limit of Helically-Grooved Heat Pipes" in the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 120, pp. 441-451.

Dr. Thomas has also received additional funding in the amount of $50,000 from the Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory, for his proposal entitled "Aircraft Mechanical/Thermal Technology Research."