A selection of presentations, conference proceedings and lectures from faculty members of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at University of the Pacific.

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Submissions from 2006

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Experiences with the LEGO Mindstorms™ throughout the undergraduate computer science curriculum, Daniel C. Cliburn

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The effectiveness of games as assignments in an introductory programming course, Daniel C. Cliburn

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Homework as an outcome assessment: relationships between homework and test performance, Abel Fernandez, Camilla M. Saviz, and Jeffrey S. Burmeister

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The QCD equation of state with asqtad staggered fermions, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, L. Levkova, U. M. Heller, D. B. Renner, D. Toussaint, and R. Sugar

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The decay constants fB+ and fD+ from three-flavor lattice QCD, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, M. Di Pierro, A. X. El-Khadra, R. T. Evans, E. Freeland, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, and R. Jain

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Update on the physics of light pseudoscalar mesons, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, L. Levkova, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, D. B. Renner, D. Toussaint, and R. Sugar

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Low energy constants from the MILC Collaboration, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, L. Levkova, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, D. B. Renner, D. Toussaint, and R. Sugar

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Swept Wind Turbine Blade Aeroelastic Modeling for Loads and Dynamic Behavior, Scott M. Larwood and Mike Zutek

Traveling wave particle separation in fluidic cell, M. H. Lean, J-P Lu, S. J. Limb, J. H. Daniel, A. R. Volkel, H. B. Hsieh, S. E. Solberg, B. T. Preas, and Shelly Gulati

Combining dynamic assessments with traditional monitoring approaches to improve understanding of NPS pollutant impacts., Gary M. Litton, William T. Stringfellow, S. Borglin, Jeremy S. Hanlon, and M. S. Brunell

A program to improve learning and retention of first year engineering students, Camilla M. Saviz, Abel Fernandez, Michael Golanbari, Rahim Khoie, and Kyle Watson

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Projected hydrogen cost from methane reforming for North America 2015-2050, K. Vanderveen, Andrew E. Lutz, L. Klebanoff, T. Drennen, W. Kamery, and J. Keller

A scalable framework for distributed virtual reality using heterogeneous processors, Qishi Wu, Jinzhu Gao, and Mengxia Zhu

Submissions from 2005

Dynamic statics: lights, camera, action!, Jeffrey S. Burmeister, Abel Fernandez, and K. Ausben

Large Data Management, Jinzhu Gao

Distributed Data Management for Large Volume Visualization, Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, C. Ryan Johnson, Scott Atchley, and James Kohl

Direct measurements of viscoelastic flows in micro-contractions, Shelly Gulati, Susan J. Muller, and Dorian Liepmann

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Quantifying viscoelastic behavior of DNA-laden flows in microfluidic systems, Shelly Gulati, Susan J. Muller, and Dorian Liepmann

Quantitative velocity measurements of lambda-DNA transport in microdevices, Shelly Gulati, Susan J. Muller, and Dorian Liepmann

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Properties of light quarks from lattice QCD simulations, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, E. B. Gregory, U. M. Heller, L. Levkova, F. Maresca, and J. Osborn

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B and D meson semileptonic decays in three-flavor lattice QCD, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, P. B. Mackenzie, C. DeTar, M. Di Pierro, S. A. Gottlieb, E. Gregory, U. M. Heller, and A. X. El-Khadra

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The Equation of State for QCD with 2+1 Flavors of Quarks, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, L. Levkova, F. Maresca, D. B. Renner, and R. Sugar

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The locality of the fourth root of staggered fermion determinant in the interacting case., James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, F. Maresca, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, R. Sugar, D. B. Renner, and D. Toussaint

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Update on pi and K Physics, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, F. Maresca, J. Osborn, S. A. Gottlieb, L. Levkova, U. M. Heller, D. B. Renner, and D. Toussaint

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More evidence of localization in the low-lying Dirac spectrum, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, S. A. Gottlieb, L. Levkova, U. M. Heller, O. Jahn, F. Maresca, D. B. Renner, D. Toussaint, and R. Sugar

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Predictions from Lattice QCD, James E. Hetrick, A. S. Kronfeld, I. F. Allison, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. T. Davies, C. DeTar, M. Di Pierro, E. D. Freeland, and S. A. Gottlieb

Evidence for Modeling Nitrification in the San Joaquin River as a Two-Step Process, Gary M. Litton and M. Brunell

Testing the Performance of the Port of Stockton (USACE) Aeration Device, Gary M. Litton and M. Robinson

Five Mile Creek Water Quality and Dye Studies, Gary M. Litton and Camilla M. Saviz

Synchronous distance delivery of an electrical and computer engineering program, Cherian P. Mathews

A computational model with experimental validation for DNA flow in microchannels, A. Nonaka, Shelly Gulati, D. Trebotich, G. H. Miller, Susan J. Muller, and Dorian Liepmann

Estimation and its importance in egineering education, Said Shakerin

Design and Development of a Wet Wall, Said Shakerin, Matt Samuel, and Jeremiah Henley

A Multiresolution Volume Rendering Framework for Large-Scale Time-Varying Data Visualization, Chaoli Wang, Jinzhu Gao, Liya Liu, and Han-Wei Shen

I/O Profiling for Distributed IP Storage Systems, Dan Zhou, Xubin He, Jizhong Han, and Jinzhu Gao

Submissions from 2004

Dynamic statics: preliminary cooperative learning findings, Jeffrey S. Burmeister and Abel Fernandez

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Visibility Culling for Time-Varying Volume Rendering Using Temporal Occlusion Coherence, Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, Han-Wei Shen, and James Kohl

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Topological Susceptibility with Three Flavors of Staggered Quarks, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, B. Billeter, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

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Semileptonic D → π/K and B → π/D decays in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, M. Di Pierro, A. X. El-Khadra, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, A. S. Kronfeld, and J. Osborn

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Leptonic decay constants fDs and fD in three flavor lattice QCD, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, M. Di Pierro, A. X. El-Khadra, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, D. Toussaint, and R. Sugar

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Results for light pseudoscalars from three-flavor simulations, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

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The scaling dimension of low lying Dirac eigenmodes and of the topological charge density, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, and O. Jahn

Leg stretcher for rehbilitation (draft), Michael McGee and Said Shakerin

Does Estimation Get Enough Attention in Engineering Education?, Said Shakerin

Photoelastic Technique, Said Shakerin

Water fountains blend art and engineering: A resouce for engineering education, Said Shakerin

Water Magic: Engineering and Art with Water Fountains, Said Shakerin

A numerical algorithm for complex biological flow in irregular microdevice geometries, D. Trebotich, P. Colella, G. H. Miller, A. Nonaka, T. Marshall, Shelly Gulati, and Dorian Liepmann

Parallel Multiresolution Volume Rendering of Large Data Sets with Error-Guided Load Balancing, Chaoli Wang, Jinzhu Gao, and Han-Wei Shen

Submissions from 2003

Implementing a Corporate Knowledge Management Vision at a Plant Level: Will Management Adopt the Concept?, Abel A. Fernandez and J. James

Knowledge Management Assessment Strategy: How Does One Measure Success?, Abel A. Fernandez and J. Martin

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Visibility Culling Using Plenoptic Opacity Functions for Large Data Visualization, Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, Han-Wei Shen, and James Kohl

Hardware-assisted View-dependent Isosurface Extraction Using Spherical Partition, Jinzhu Gao and Han-Wei Shen

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Pion and kaon physics with improved staggered quarks, James E. Hetrick, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

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The Phase Diagram of High Temperature QCD with Three Flavors of Improved Staggered Quarks, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, E. B. Gregory, U. M. Heller, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

Transparency Tube/Water Quality Relationships in the Central Valley Bay-Delta, Gary M. Litton, R. A. Dahlgren, E. Nieuwenhuyse, and Z. Yu

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The positive influence of cooperative work experience on the capstone design experience of engineering students, Cherian P. Mathews, Jason Mamaloukas, and Scott Parrott

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Design of a microcontrolled water fountain, Said Shakerin

Engineering and Art, Said Shakerin

Water Fountains and the use of Microcontrollers in Mechanical Engineering, Said Shakerin

Water Fountains with Special Effects, Said Shakerin

Submissions from 2002

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Design and evaluation of a decision support system in a water balance application, Daniel C. Cliburn, Johannes J. Feddema, James R. Miller, and Terry A. Slocum

An undergraduate research project: Experimental investigation of drag reduction for a cylinder with an attached fin, William Cook and Said Shakerin

Application of a Method for Selecting and Evaluating Environmental Technologies with Commercial Applications, Abel A. Fernandez, C. W. Weick, and S. Kaur

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Topological susceptibility with the improved Asqtad action, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. Burch, T. A. DeGrand, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, E. Gregory, U. M. Heller, J. Osborn, and R. Sugar

A comparison of improved cooling and hypercubic smearing for topology on dynamical Asqtad lattices, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, E. B. Gregory, U. M. Heller, R. Sugar, J. Osborn, and R. Sugar

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fB for Various Actions : Approaching the Continuum Limit with Dynamical Fermions, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, S. Datta, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, C. McNeile, K. Orginos, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

Remote Exploration of Isosurfaces Using Point Based Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Guangfeng Ji, Han-Wei Shen, and Jinzhu Gao

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The NREL Large-Scale Turbine Infow and Response Experiment - Preliminary Results, Neil Kelley, Maureen Hand, Scott M. Larwood, and Ed McKenna

Transport Characteristics and Oxygen Demands of Phytoplankton and Suspended Particulates in the San Joaquin River., Gary M. Litton, K. Hans, J. Martinez, B. Nakagawa, and E. Stieb

Quantitative analysis of Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos by selected ion monitoring: the improvement of the calibration curve without a deuterium-labeled analog as internal standard, Gary M. Litton, X. Hu, J. Yuan, O. Sparkman, and P. Jones

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Beamspace ESPRIT for multi-source arrival angle estimation employing tapered windows, Cherian P. Mathews and Michael D. Zoltowski

Submissions from 2001

Invited Speaker, Jeffrey S. Burmeister

Invited Speaker, Jeffrey S. Burmeister

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Wind Tunnel Testing of NREL's Unsteady Aerodynamics Experiment, Lee Fingersh, Dave Simms, Maureen Hand, Dave Jager, Jason Cotrell, Mike Robinson, Scott Schreck, and Scott M. Larwood

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Parallel View-Dependent Isosurface Extraction Using Multi-Pass Occlusion Culling, Jinzhu Gao and Han-Wei Shen

Parallel View Dependent Isosurface Extraction for Large Scale Data Visualization, Jinzhu Gao, Han-Wei Shen, and Antonio Garcia

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Hydrogen fueled engines in hybrid vehicles, Jay Keller and Andrew E. Lutz

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Wind Turbine Wake Measurements in the Operating Region of a Tail Vane, Scott M. Larwood

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Controlled Velocity Testing of an 8-kW Wind Turbine, Scott M. Larwood, Jim Sencenbaugh, and Brian Acker

Algal Growth and Decay in the San Joaquin River and Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel, Gary M. Litton and J. Nikaido

Design of Water Fountains, Said Shakerin

Engineering Education and Accreditation, Said Shakerin

Engineering Education and Accreditation, Said Shakerin

Water Fountains, Said Shakerin

Submissions from 2000

Using Conditional Probability to Develop a Distribution Center SPC Plan, Abel A. Fernandez, P. Kauffmann, and C. Keating

Selection of Curricular Topics Using Extensions of Quality Function Deployment, Abel A. Fernandez, P. Kauffmann, C. Keating, D. Charles, and R. Unal

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Comprehensive Testing of NedWind 12-meter Wind Turbine Blades at NREL, Scott M. Larwood and Walter Musial

Art and science of water fountains, Said Shakerin

Submissions from 1999

AHP and the Assessment of Community Fire Risk in the City of Hampton, Virginia, Abel A. Fernandez, D. Jacobs, P. Kauffmann, and C. Keating

A Logit Regression Model for Predicting U.S. Market Share of Large Civil Aircraft, Abel A. Fernandez, D. Jacobs, P. Kauffmann, and C. Keating

Forecasting Market Share of U.S. Commercial Aircraft Producers Using ARIMA Models, Abel A. Fernandez, D. Jacobs, P. Kauffmann, and C. Keating

A QFD Decision Model for Selecting Service, Teaching, and Research Opportunities, Abel A. Fernandez, P. Kaufmann, and C. Keating

Topology and mesons below and above T(c), James E. Hetrick

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Heavy-Light Decay Constants with Dynamical Gauge Configurations and Wilson or Improved Valence Quark Actions, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. DeGrand, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, C. McNeile, K. Orginos, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

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Semileptonic Decays of Heavy Mesons with the Fat Clover Action, James E. Hetrick, C. Bernard, T. DeGrand, C. DeTar, S. A. Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, K. Orginos, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint

Performance of spread footings on subgrades reinforced with geogrids and geojacks, C. Li, Scott M. Merry, and E. C. Lawton

The Sharing and Integration of Art and Environmental Science in Photography and Environmental Engineering Course Curricula., Gary M. Litton and D. P. Kasser

Derivative DFT Beamspace ESPRIT: A high performance closed-form 2-D arrival angle estimation algorithm, Cherian P. Mathews

DSP implementation of an amplitude modulation transmission system: A capstone design approach, Cherian P. Mathews, Adrianne Candia, and Waleed Kader