Automatic Software Generation of ASIM Program Code from an xTEDS

Guiding a Range Curriculum with an Educational Needs Assessment

A learning feedforward controller (LFFC) using a dilated B-splines network (BSN) is proposed in this paper. The LFFC acts as an add-on element to the existing feedback controller (FBC) for control performance enhancement. The LFFC signal is updated iteratively based on the FBC signal of previous iteration as the task repeats. In the LFFC approach, there are two parameters to tune: the B-spline support width and the learning gain. A frequency domain design approach is presented with detailed design formulae for dilation 2. Simulation results are presented for the path following control of the USU ODIS robot (omnidirectional inspection systems), a new family member of the Utah State University (USU) ODVs (Omni Directional Vehicles).

Librarians at the Utah State University (USU) Merrill-Cazier Library started working with LibGuides in 2007, and USU subject librarians quickly adopted the system. USU is a land-grant institution with a main campus of 14,000 students and several smaller regional campuses and centers throughout the state, many of which rely heavily on online resources. After seven years of working with LibGuides, a product of Springshare, approximately seven hundred research guides had been published. The guides varied in purpose and design, and we did not have a consistent or clear view of how students found or used them. We also did not have a template or a structured design, beyond some general best practices. Over time, we started to consider questions around the visibility of LibGuides, more effective ways to integrate LibGuides into courses, and possibilities of using emerging technologies to reach students where they study and conduct research. While the library had already begun manually integrating guides into Canvas, USU’s learning management system (LMS), as a way to extend our online presence, we sought a more automated integration with course and subject guides.

Reflections on Leonard J. Arrington

Soil Science Society of America JournalVolume 38, Issue 6 p. viii-x Book Review Nematode Ecology and Plant Disease By H. R. Wallace. Crane, Russak & Co., 347 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. 228 p. 1973. $19.75 G. D. Griffin, Utah State University, Logan, UtahSearch for more papers by this author G. D. Griffin, Utah State University, Logan, UtahSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 November 1974 https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1974.03615995003800060009xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume38, Issue6November-December 1974Pages viii-x RelatedInformation

Agronomy JournalVolume 50, Issue 8 p. 482-483 Article II. Specialization vs. Generalization in Training Agronomists Wynne Thorne, Wynne Thorne Experiment Station Director, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.Search for more papers by this author Wynne Thorne, Wynne Thorne Experiment Station Director, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 August 1958 https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj1958.00021962005000080020xCitations: 3 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume50, Issue8August 1958Pages 482-483 RelatedInformation

With the increase in acoustic research in the Electrical Engineering Department at Utah State University comes an increase in the number of acoustic related senior projects. This poster presentation will display several of the senior projects performed. These include such projects as: (1) sound system design software for matching sound system equipment to different performance environments; (2) analog audio synthesizer designs; (3) design of active crossover networks; and (4) audio amplifier/equalizer designs. Including acoustic-related senior projects in the electrical engineering curriculum allows students to apply the theory learned in classes to real-world experiences. It increases a student’s interest in the field of acoustics and prepares new engineers for employment in the audio industry.

On Monday we visited the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, the Cleveland-Lloyed dinosaur quarry, and sites in the Mussentuchit member of the Cedar Mountain Formation. Many thanks to Marc Jones for the photos. In 2010, the College of Eastern Utah became Utah State University – Eastern, and the CEU Prehistoric Museum in Price is now officially the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum. The dinosaurs in the center of exhibit hall are being remounted.

R. Paul Larsen was born December 1, 1926 in Orem, Utah. Paul grew up on a general crop, dairy and fruit farm. He received his BS degree in Horticulture from Utah State University in 1950; MS in Horticulture from Kansas State University in 1951 and PhD in Horticulture from Michigan State University in 1955. He served one year in the Merchant Marines during World War II and served in the armed forces from 1951-1953. Dr. Larsen joined the faculty at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor of Horticulture in 1955; was promoted to Associate Professor in 1959 and Professor in 1965. In 1968 he accepted the position of Superintendent and Horticulturist at the Tree Fruit Research Center, Washington State University, Wenatchee, Washington and currently serves in that capacity.

Extension professionals are being challenged to innovate their work, yet day-to-day responsibilities do not always allow time or space for creativity and innovation. In early 2016, Ohio State University Extension held its inaugural Innovate Extension event, a hackathon-style gathering focused on creative collaboration during which teams competed for grant funds by developing an idea, plan, and pitch over the course of a day. Turnout exceeded expectations, and participants gave high marks to the experience. Due to the event's success, additional Innovate Extension events have been hosted at North Dakota State University, Utah State University, and Oregon State University. This article provides highlights and outcomes.

This qualitative study explored the influence a distance learning servant leadership course had on the emergency service students’ understanding of leadership. The research study utilized a case study design in order to tell the story of the lived experiences of the participants. The setting for the study was a state university in Utah, with the six participants being declared, undergraduate emergency services majors that underwent a 15-week distance learning servant leadership class. The data used in the study consisted of the post-hoc online eJournal writings of the participants. The data analysis revealed to two themes that formed the individual case descriptions presented in results section. The literature review acknowledged the problem of bureaucracy within the emergency services and identified the practice of servant leadership as a possibility for overcoming the often-bureaucratic approach towards leadership. In addition, the literature review identified commonalities between established constructs of servant leadership and the emergency services. The findings of the study seem to demonstrate that undergoing a class on servant leadership left lasting impressions on becoming a servant leader and overall was a positive experience for the student. This study’s findings add to the existing body of knowledge associated with servant leadership within emergency service academia.

This study examines how serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) affects individuals’ attitudes toward immigrants. Several hypotheses were developed based on intergroup contact theory. An online survey was filled out by 1,290 undergraduate students taking classes at a state university in Utah. Multivariate analyses yielded several findings. First, those who have served an LDS mission hold a more positive attitude toward immigrants than other individuals. Second, missionaries serving in some mission fields hold a more positive attitude toward immigrants than their counterparts, including those who needed to learn and speak a new language during their mission, those who served the mission in Latin America, those who received help from people of other countries during their mission, and those serving in places with either a lower or similar living standard. Surprisingly, being a victim of violence from people of other countries during the mission did not exert a significant impact on respondents’ attitudes toward immigrants.

While the workforce requires applicants trained to meet the needs of an aging population, many gerontology programs find recruiting students a challenge. Barriers to enrollment vary and are influenced by disciplinary silos, miscomprehension of terminology (such as “gerontology”), vague career paths, and limited resources. Program directors are challenged to identify innovative and new strategies that market training opportunities at a variety of levels and across colleges and departments. In an effort to harness the power of networks, it is our goal that this symposium fosters discussion in order to improve our communal approach to increase the number of individuals prepared for careers in aging. This symposium examines the recruitment experiences and challenges from the perspective of gerontology programs at four universities. Fruhauf (Colorado State University) explores the importance of university-community engagement in support of gerontology programs. Fauth and Liu (Utah State University) describe effective recruitment strategies for an interdisciplinary gerontology certificate housed within a department of Human Development and Family Studies. Eaton (University of Utah) presents the outcomes from a targeted initiative to increase early undergraduate enrollment in an interdisciplinary online gerontology minor. Finally, Yorgason (Brigham Young University) shares a systematic approach to leverage resources and fundraising that successfully increased program enrollment and faculty involvement throughout campus. Dr. Margaret B. Neal, an experienced educator and former director of the Institute on Aging at Portland State University, will facilitate discussion surrounding how we can mobilize our networks to strengthen, innovate, and expand approaches to recruitment in gerontology.

Harry F. Martz was born June 16, 1942 and grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Frostburg State University in 1964, and earned a Ph.D. in statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1968. He started his statistics career at Texas Tech University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Statistics right after graduation. In 1978, he joined the technical staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico after first working as Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Utah State University in the fall of 1977. He has had a prolific 23-year career with the statistics group at LANL; over the course of his career, Martz has published over 80 research papers in books and refereed journals, one book (with co-author Ray Waller), and has four patents associated with his work at LANL. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and has received numerous awards, including the Technometrics Frank Wilcoxon Prize for Best Applications Paper (1996), Los Alamos National Laboratory Achievement Award (1998), R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine (2003), Council for Chemical Research Collaboration Success Award (2004), and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Distinguished Licensing Award (2004). Since retiring as a Technical Staff member at LANL in 2001, he has worked as a LANL Laboratory Associate.

As the old English saying goes, ‘a little of what you fancy does you good’, but the current human type 2 diabetes epidemic suggests that you can have too much of a good thing. ‘A prolonged high sugar diet can “exhaust” the ability to regulate blood glucose’, says Susannah French from Utah State University, USA. In addition, the human obsession with feeding wildlife may be placing other species at risk from unbalanced diets: ‘Catalina Monzon-Arguello and colleagues discovered in 2018 that juvenile green sea turtles in the Canary Islands have high fat and cholesterol levels in their blood as a result of being fed by tourists’, says French. Northern Bahamian rock iguanas on the Exuma Islands are also familiar with sightseers. ‘Many visitors take day boat trips to visit and feed the iguanas’, says French, explaining that the tourists ply the iguanas with grapes. The question was how much of an impact the sugar-charged diet is having on the reptiles’ health? But first, Dale Denardo from Arizona State University, USA and French needed to know how captive iguanas would respond to a high sugar diet.‘We chose to study the more common green iguana in the lab, because rock iguanas are critically endangered’, says French, who supplemented the youngsters’ usual ‘Tortoise Diet’ and greens meals with either a high (5 g kg−1) or low (2.5 g kg−1) glucose drink. ‘The low dose provides glucose in an amount similar to that found in consumed grapes’, says Denardo. Then, after 17 days, he gave each iguana an intermediate strength glucose drink (3.75 g kg−1) and monitored the animals’ blood glucose over the following 2 days. The reptiles’ glucose levels peaked 3 h after consuming the sugar; however, the iguanas that had been fed the high glucose diet had the most difficulty regulating their blood sugar levels, reaching ∼520 mg dl−1, in contrast to iguanas that had been fed Tortoise Diet and greens alone, whose levels peaked at only ∼420 mg dl−1. A high glucose diet seemed to impact the captive iguanas’ ability to regulate their blood glucose levels after a meal. But what about the wild iguanas on the Exuma Islands?French, Denardo and colleagues from various institutions from the USA travelled to the remote islands. ‘When we pull up onto picturesque sandy beaches on the tourist islands, the sound of the boat motors draws the iguanas down, but landing on the islands where tourists do not travel requires carefully timing your jump from the boat’, French recalls. Gently capturing 48 rock iguanas, 24 from islands frequented by tourists and another 24 from islands that are too rugged for tourists to reach, the team fed each iguana a glucose drink and monitored their blood sugar responses for almost a day; the results were concerning. The iguanas from one island where they are fed frequently by tourists experienced the highest glucose peak ∼570 mg dl−1 after 5 h, remaining high 8 h later, although the grape-fed iguanas from another island had a less extreme response (∼505 mg dl−1 after 5 h). In contrast, the blood sugar of the iguanas from the islands that rarely see tourists was much lower (peaking at ∼450 mg dl−1), rose at a slower rate and returned to normal more quickly.Ecotourists feeding the wild iguanas on the Exuma Islands are definitely affecting the iguanas physically. Now, the question is whether they are also affecting the animals’ health. ‘If these were humans, we would be talking about diabetes; however, it is not yet clear what the health implications are here. That is something we are continuing to work on’, says French.