This collection features articles and book reviews written by the Fairfield University Engineering Faculty.
Submissions from 2010
Entropy transport equation in large eddy simulation for exergy analysis of turbulent combustion systems, Mehdi Safari Qariq, M. Reza H. Sheikhi, Mohammad Janbozorgi, and Hameed Metghalchi
Integration of Sustainable Engineering into the Industrial Engineering Curriculum, Brian K. Thorn and Andres L. Carrano
Assessment of the Use of Household Chemicals in Al-Karak Governate, Jordan, Anf H. Ziadat, Rita Z. Hamarneh, and Bruce W. Berdanier
Submissions from 2009
Extraction of Complex Permittivity of Multilayered Dielectric Sample Loaded in a Rectangular Waveguide, Uma Balaji
A Design Optimization Framework to Estimate Environmental Impact of Design Decisions in Consumer Products, Carlos M. Briceno, Andres L. Carrano, Brian K. Thorn, and Marcos Esterman Jr.
Stacked catalytic reactor - U.S. Patent 7,476,367, Shahrokh Etemad and Lance Smith
Electrochemical Micro Machining: A Case Study for Synergistic International Industry - Academia Collaboration, Wayne Hung, Sriharsha Srinivas Sundarram, Faith Ozkeskin, Mike Powers, Juan Manriquez, and Venkata Vasiraju
Creating Servlets with Intellij V8, Douglas A. Lyon
The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 1, Douglas A. Lyon
The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 2: Radix 2 FFT, Douglas A. Lyon
The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 3: The PSD, Douglas A. Lyon
The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 4: Spectral Leakage, Douglas A. Lyon
INTERACTIVE Embedded FACE RECOGNITION, Douglas A. Lyon and Nishanth Vincent
Catalytic reactor for low-Btu fuels - U.S. Patent 7,521,028, Lance Smith, Shahrokh Etemad, Hasan Karim, and William C. Pfefferle
Submissions from 2008
Complex Permittivity Extraction of Dielectric Samples in Waveguide, Uma Balaji
An Environmental-Impact Optimization Framework for Assessing Trade-offs in Consumer Product Development, Carlos M. Briceno, Andres L. Carrano, Brian K. Thorn, and Marcos Esterman Jr.
Lichens (Rhizocarpon geographicum (L.) DC) as a Biomonitor for Atmospheric Pollution in Amman City, Jordan, Anwar G. Jiries, Mufeed I. Batarseh, Tayel El-Hassen, Anf H. Ziadet, Farah Al-Nasir, and Bruce W. Berdanier
A Data Mining Address Book, Douglas A. Lyon
Fixing Apples' Broken Clipboard, with Java, Douglas A. Lyon
I Resign! Resigning Jar Files with Initium, Douglas A. Lyon
Mining Edgar Tender Offers, Douglas A. Lyon
The Stock Statistics Parser, Douglas A. Lyon
The μ-law CODEC, Douglas A. Lyon
Overcoming Limited Resources: An AcademiaGovernment Partnership on Software Engineering and Capstone Projects, Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, Mike Paglione, Fred Snyder, and Confesor Santiago
Integrating a Research Component into a Web Development Introductory Course, Amalia Rusu and Bridget Keyes
An Industry-Academia Team-Teaching Case Study for Software Engineering Capstone Courses, Amalia Rusu and Mike Swenson
Design Optimization of MEMS Comb Accelerometer, Kanchan Sharma, Isaac Macwan, Linfeng Zhang, Lawrence Hmurcik, and Xingguo Xiong
Development Of Master’s Programs In Sustainable Engineering, Brian K. Thorn and Andres L. Carrano
An Approach for Modeling Economic and Environmental Impacts of Collecting Waste Cooking Oil for use as Biodiesel, Christopher Wood, Brian K. Thorn, and Andres L. Carrano
Submissions from 2007
Monitoring of Abrasive Loading for Optimal Belt Cleaning or Replacement, Andres L. Carrano, Bhavin S. Vora, Ferat Sahin, and Richard L. Lemaster
Data Mining Historic Stock Quotes in Java, Douglas A. Lyon
Diffraction Rangefinding in Java, Douglas A. Lyon
Displaying Updated Stock Quotes, Douglas A. Lyon
The Parametric Singleton Design Pattern, Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos
The Saverbeans Screensaver and Initium RJS System Integration: Part 5, Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos
Observer-Conditioned-Observable Design Pattern, Douglas A. Lyon and Carl Weiman
Pushing Beyond Traditional School and Course Boundaries: High School and University Students Collaborate on an Interdisciplinary Project, Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, Jennifer Kay, and Hong Zhang
Submissions from 2006
Evaluation of a total dissolved solids model in comparison to actual field data measurements in the Cheyenne River, South Dakota, USA, Bruce W. Berdanier and Anf H. Ziadat
An Integer Programming Approach to the Construction of Trend-Free Experimental Plans on Split-Plot Designs, Andres L. Carrano, Brian K. Thorn, and Guillermo Lopez
The distribution of heavy metals in urban street dusts of Karak City, Jordan, Tayel El-Hassen, Mufeed I. Batarseh, Hamzeh Al-Omari, Anf H. Ziadat, Abdullah El-Alali, Farah Al-Nasir, Bruce W. Berdanier, and Anwar G. Jiries
The Initium RJS Screensaver: Part 1, MS Windows, Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos
The Initium RJS ScreenSaver: Part 2, UNIX, Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos
The Initium RJS Screensaver: Part 4, Automatic Deployment, Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos
Initium RJS: A Macintosh Screensaver in Java, Part 3, Douglas A. Lyon, Francisco Castellanos, and Pawel Krepsztul
The JBoss Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 3, Douglas A. Lyon, Martin Fuhrer, and Thomas Rowland
Remote Job Submission Security, Douglas A. Lyon and Pawel Krepsztul
Work in Progress: Smoothing the Border between Academic and Professional Software Engineering Environment through Entrepreneurship, Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, and Robert Elliott
Integrating Sustainable Product Development into the Engineering Curriculum, Brian K. Thorn and Andres L. Carrano
Design, Development, and Deployment of Low Impact Solar Ovens for Impoverished Populations, Brian K. Thorn, Andres L. Carrano, Christopher Wood, and Carlos Plaz
Chemical and Mineralogical Characteristics of Dry Deposition in the Surrounding of a Cement Factory in Jordan, Anf H. Ziadat, Mufeed I. Batarseh, Tayel El-Hassen, Bruce W. Berdanier, and Anwar G. Jiries
Submissions from 2005
Geometric Modeling of Engineered Abrasive Processes, Andres L. Carrano and James B. Taylor
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainable Product and Process Design, Andres L. Carrano and Brian K. Thorn
Characterization of Surface Roughness Effects on Pressure Drop in Single-Phase Flow in Minichannels, Satish G. Kandlikar, Derek Schmitt, Andres L. Carrano, and James B. Taylor
Java Optimization for Superscalar and Vector Architectures, Douglas A. Lyon
Resource Bundling for Distributed Computing, Douglas A. Lyon
Synthetic Image Sequence Compression, Douglas A. Lyon
The JBoss Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 1, Douglas A. Lyon, Martin Fuhrer, and Thomas Rowland
The JBoss Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 2, Douglas A. Lyon, Martin Fuhrer, and Thomas Rowland
The JBoss Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 4, Douglas A. Lyon, Martin Fuhrer, and Thomas Rowland
Experimental studies of the vapor phase nucleation of refractory compounds. VI. The condensation of sodium., Daniel M. Martinez, Frank T. Ferguson, and Richard H. Heist
A Human Interactive Proof Algorithm Using Handwriting Recognition, Amalia Rusu and Venu Govindaraju
Catalytic Combustion of Gasified Coal for Low-Emissions Gas Turbines, Lance L. Smith, Hasan Karim, Shahrokh Etemad, and William C. Pfefferle
Swarm of Microsystem Particles for Multi-axial Morphogenic Rapid Prototyping, Paul Stiebitz, Andres L. Carrano, James B. Taylor, Carlos Plaz, and Siddharth Mestry
Submissions from 2004
Response Surface Methodology of Die-Sink Electro-Discharge Machined Surfaces, Andres L. Carrano, Bhairav Mehta, and Jason C. Low
Machining-Induced Subsurface Damage of Wood, Andres L. Carrano, James B. Taylor, and Richard L. Lemaster
Fuzzy Knowledge-based Modeling and Statistical Regression in Abrasive Wood Machining, Andres L. Carrano, James B. Taylor, Robert E. Young, Richard L. Lemaster, and Daniel E. Saloni
The Construction of Trend-Free Experimental Plans on Two-Level Split-Plot Designs, Andres L. Carrano and Brian K. Thorn
Encapsulation of Contaminated Soil in Concrete Mortar, Sreedevi Dawadi, M. R. Hansen, and Bruce W. Berdanier
System study of rich catalytic/lean burn (RCL) catalytic combustion for natural gas and coal-derived syngas combustion turbines, Shahrokh Etemad, Lance Smith, and Kevin Burns
Main burner, method and apparatus - U.S. Patent 6,748,745, Hasan Karim, Kent Lyle, Lance Smith, Shahrokh Etemad, and William C. Pfefferle
Asynchronous RMI for CentiJ, Douglas A. Lyon
Project Imperion: New Semantics, Facade and Command Design Patterns for Swing, Douglas A. Lyon
Project Initium: Programmatic Deployment, Douglas A. Lyon
The Imperion Threading System, Douglas A. Lyon
The Initium X.509 Certificate Wizard, Douglas A. Lyon
Computer Engineering 2004 – Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering: A Report in the Computing Curricula Series, Douglas A. Lyon and Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula
Handwritten CAPTCHA: Using the Difference in the Abilities of Humans and Machines in Reading Handwritten Words, Amalia Rusu and Venu Govindaraju
Method and apparatus for a fuel-rich catalytic reactor - U.S. Patent 6,752,623, Lance Smith, Shahrokh Etemad, M. J. Castaldi, Hasan Karim, and William C. Pfefferle
STREAM DEPTH SIGNIFICANCE DURING IN‐SITU SEDIMENT OXYGEN DEMAND MEASUREMENTS IN SHALLOW STREAMS, Anf H. Ziadat and Bruce W. Berdanier
Submissions from 2003
Circular Patch Antenna for Radio LAN Application, Uma Balaji
Effect of Abrasive Tooling Geometry on Surface Roughness Descriptors, Andres L. Carrano and Hitesh Kataria
Design, Implementation, And Integration Of An Experiential Assembly System Engineering Laboratory Module, Andres L. Carrano, Michael E. Kuhl, and Matthew M. Marshall
A Longitudinal Retention Study In An Urban Engineering School, Richard H. Heist and Ann Marie Flynn
Distance Learning: A Multimedia Approach, Richard H. Heist, Paul Marnell, and Graham Walker
A min-time analysis of three trajectories with curvature and nonholonomic constraints using a parallel parking criterion, Douglas A. Lyon
Custom Layouts, Douglas A. Lyon
Comparison Between Geometric Shapes of Engineered Abrasives on Material Removal and Surface Quality - Part II, Daniel E. Saloni, Richard L. Lemaster, and Andres L. Carrano
Submissions from 2002
Field theory based CAD of resonant iris filter in circular waveguide, Uma Balaji and P. Jain
Parametric Characterization of Peripheral Sanding, Andres L. Carrano, James B. Taylor, and Richard L. Lemaster
CentiJ: An RMI Code Generator, Douglas A. Lyon
Sensor Fusion and Bang-Bang Control with Nonholonomic Constraints, Douglas A. Lyon
There's more than one way to build a bridge [working title: The Legacy Bridge Problem], Douglas A. Lyon and Christopher L. Huntley
Traditional Versus Engineered Abrasives on Material Removal and Surface Quality, Daniel E. Saloni, Richard L. Lemaster, and Andres L. Carrano
Method and apparatus for a fuel-rich catalytic reactor - U.S. Patent 6,394,791, Lance Smith, Shahrokh Etemad, M. J. Castaldi, Hasan Karim, and William C. Pfefferle
Submissions from 2001
Transport in the static diffusion cloud chamber revisited, M. P. Anisimov, S. D. Shandakov, Y. I. Polygalov, and Richard H. Heist
Field Theory Based CAD of Inductive Iris Waveguide Filter, V. K. Chaudhary, P. Verma, and Uma Balaji
Dry, low NOx pilot - U.S. Patent 6,270,337, Shahrokh Etemad, Hasan Karim, and William C. Pfefferle
The effect of carrier gas pressure and wall heating on the operation of the thermal diffusion cloud chamber, Frank T. Ferguson, Richard H. Heist, and Joseph A. Nuth III
The impact of convective flow on thermal diffusion cloud chamber operation, Richard H. Heist and Frank Ferguson
Application of scaled nucleation theory to metallic vapor condensation, Daniel M. Martinez, Frank T. Ferguson, Richard H. Heist, and Joseph A. Nuth III
