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About the College

Points of Pride

SCHOLARSHIP

• Mr. Ilhan Bayraktar's (Ph.D. Candidate in AE advised by Dr. Oktay Baysal) computational animation of truck aerodynamics was selected and published as the Cover Page Figure of the Month for November 2001 by the Electronic Magazine of TechPlot.
• Dr. Duc Nguyenn (Civil and Environmental Engineering) published a textbook titled Parallel-Vector Solvers for Finite Element Engineering Applications (Kluwer/Plenum Publishers).
• Dr. Jaewan Yoon's (Civil and Environmental Engineering) paper titled "Watershed-Scale Non-Point Source Pollution and Decision Support System Based on a Model-GIS-RDBMS Linkage" was the fifth-most-requested article on the AWRA Web Site.
• Ram Prasad, an environmental engineering graduate student, received the first place award in the graduate category of the ASCE/EWRI national student technical paper competition for his paper titled "Removal of Tributyltin from Shipyard Wastes."
• Dr. Amin Dharamsi (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was named a speaker for the Laser and Electro-optics Society (LEOS) invited lectures and delivered the keynote address in Edinburgh, Scottland.
• Dr. Ahmed Noor's (Aerospace Engineering) keynote lecture at the Teaching Tools Conference 2001 at Syracuse University, "Pathway to our Future Engineering Workforce," can be found in its entirety at http://www.i2sports.com/events/2001q4/nasa/.
• The cover article for the November 2001 issue of Mechanical Engineering, "Fresh Air, Wide-Open Space" co-authored by Dr. Ahmed Noor, articulates the future vision for aerospace systems and technologies. The cover depicts the concept of biologically inspired aircraft. The article can be accessed online at http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/wideopen/wideopen.html
• Dr. Bill Stanley (Engineering Technology) published a textbook on Linear Electronics published by Prentice Hall.
• Dr. Bowen Loftin (Director of Simulation Programs/VMASC) authored two papers for the December 2001 special issue on Collaborative Virtual Design Environments of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

• Dr. Gary Schafran (Civil and Environmental Engineering) received research grants in excess of $900,000.
• VMASC (Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center) was named the #1 research organization at Old Dominion University for the second year in a row.
• VMASC received a $900K grant from the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund to establish a battle lab facility at VMASC. The battle lab is a highly sophisticated computer simulation laboratory that integrates constructive, virtual and live simulations with intelligent decision support to create an environment in which to evaluate new ideas and concepts.
• The research grants obtained by Dr. Ahmed Noor, CAEE (Center for Advanced Engineering Environments) are now in excess of $1.4 million per year.
• ARC (Applied Research Center) has expanded its nanotechnology base by acquiring an Atomic Force Microscope from a DoD grant and a Transmission Electron Microscope from Riverside Hospital and by submitting proposals with Cornell University, Princeton Textile Research Institute, North Carolina State University, and the University of Arizona.
• LFST (Langley Full-Scale Tunnel) revenue for this year is more than $1 million.
• LFST received a $5 million, three-year NASA task order contract.
• Ford renewed its annual $250K LFST contract.
• Dr. Karl Schoenbach (Electrical and Computer Engineering) is the principal investigator for the Old Dominion University portion of a Multi University Research Initiative (MURI) grant for his project "Energy Storage and Electrical Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics." Old Dominion University anticipates an award of $400,000 per year for five years. The overall grant is expected to be $1 million per year for five years.
• Dr. Karl Schoenbach (Electrical and Computer Engineering), along with Drs. Beebe and Buescher from Eastern Virginia Medical School, received a joint patent on "Method and Apparatus for Intracellular Electromanipulation."
• Dr. Karl Schoenbach (Electrical and Computer Engineering) co-edited the book "Low Temperature Plasma Physics" (Wiley/VCH).
• Dr. Hani Elsayed-Ali (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was awarded an NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant for approximately $200,000 to develop a new instrument to study surface films.
• Dr. Bowen Loftin (Director of Simulation Programs/VMASC) received a $1.5 million Grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research on developing Virtual Environments for Training.

GLOBAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

• Seven graduate students (Air Force Officers) from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey have enrolled in the Department for their MS degree in Aerospace Engineering. They will begin their studies in January. The program was developed by Associate Dean Dr. Oktay Baysal.
• Dr. David Basco (Civil and Environmental Engineering) led the US team of lecturers for six US-AID-sponsored international short courses on coastal hazard mitigation held on five Caribbean islands.
• A Fulbright Scholar, Hungria Berbesi of Venezuela, is pursuing her Ph.D. in modeling and Simulation. Her research is sponsored by VMASC.
• Nine students from Rajagiri College in Cochin, India, enrolled in the BS program in Computer Engineering in August of 2001, as a result of a cooperative agreement arranged by Dr. Sacharia Albin (Electrical and Computer Engineering).
• A minor in Global Engineering was approved for all Engineering and Technology Students.
• An MS in Engineering with a Global Engineering Concentration was approved. Eleven students from five different countries have participated in the ODU component of the program

FACULTY

• Dr. Duc Nguyen received the 2001 Tonelson Award.
• The Department had a strong presence at the ASEM Conference. Dr. William Peterson was elected ASEM President at the Conference.
• Dr. Linda Vahala (Electrical and Computer Engineering) was awarded an Interpersonal Agreement (IPA) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in the area of Quantum Computing. The prestigious IPA pays part of her salary and she is considered to be a DoD employee while on travel for AFOSR activities.
• Dr. Brett Newman and Mr. Si-Bok Yu (Doctoral Candidate in Aerospace Engineering) received a top ten Best Paper Award for their paper entitled "Flight Control Leverage on Crack Growth in Flexible Aircraft - Part 1&2" which was presented at the 2000 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.
• Dr. Bowen Loftin (Director of Simulation Programs/VMASC) was elected to a two-year term as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics.
• Dr. Mikel Petty (VMASC) served on a committee of the National research Council investigating "Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Acquisition."

STUDENTS

• The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted approximately 300 student and parents from the Gifted and Talented (GAT) School in Chesapeake for a week of lab visits and contests in March of 2001.
• Nancy Icayan (Civil Engineering), Cheryl Ellis (Mechanical Engineering Technology), and Shannon Hysell (Computer Engineering) won NSF grants to participate in the International Institute for Women in Engineering (IIWE) Summer Program held in Paris, France in July 2001.
• The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has five PhD students studying with support from the GAANN fellowship program, which the department was awarded from the Department of Education.
• The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the second National Science Foundation CSEM scholarship competition in June of 2001.
• The Civil Engineering Technology student team won first place in the Northeast Region and was one of six teams to compete in the Associated Schools of Construction bid competition.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS

• Forty students are enrolled in the master's program in modeling and simulation. Twelve to 20 students are anticipated in the PhD program next year, and the first PhD is expected to graduate.
• VMASC has signed an MOU for technology enhancement with the Naval Postgraduate School. The Navy Nuke Program has experienced exponential growth.
• The Department of Engineering Technology developed the General Engineering Technology (GET) concentration. This new market builds on Navy College and existing courses to provide a 2+2 educational alternative that has significant workforce development implications across the state.

INDUSTRY PROGRAMS

• The Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering has certified the Navy Price Fighters Unit, in addition to several small companies, as ISO 9000 compliant.
• C2E2 grossed $100K for LEAN training at NNS in the past six months.
• C2E2 signed a $35K contract with Gateway for LEAN training.
• The Dean's Corporate Circle gained nine new members.
• Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center's membership roster grew to 139 organizations, including 90 industry members.

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

• CAEE, with VMASC and the AE department, is demonstrating the concept of group distributed teaching (featuring 11 nationwide instructors), through the course on Virtual and Synthetic Environments and Applications that will be offered in Spring 2002. The course will be televised at UFL, VA Tech, Mississippi State, and the Naval Postgraduate School, among others.
• CAEE completed the learning module "Introduction to Launch Vehicle Design Process." The module represents the state of the art in learning technology and includes rule-based natural language interface, interrogative visualization facilities, and intelligent software agents. It is currently being evaluated by NASA engineers and contractors, and will be used as a standard for future developments of learning modules at NASA.
• VMASC led the integration of the first Joint Battle-Space Environment (JBE) at 2001 Inter-Industry Simulation, Training and Education Conference in Orlando. This effort consisted of the integration of 16 simulations and one real time command and control system (approximately 72 computers) from Navy, USAF and Marines, with a total staff of over 40 engineers from across the Country.