Articles
Vibroacoustic study of circular cylindrical tubes in roller coaster rails (with Joshua I. Davis and Harold M. Cota), Noise Control Engineering Journal (2011)
Excessive noise generated by roller coasters during operation is a significant issue for amusement parks...
Enhanced Vehicle Identification Utilizing Sensor Fusion and Statistical Algorithms (with Stephane Roussel, Hemanth Porumamilla, Peter Schuster, and Christopher Clark), 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2009) Proceedings: Lake Buena Vista, Florida (2009)
Several studies in the area of vehicle detection and identification involve the use of probabilistic...
Undergraduate Engineers Develop Hydraulic Servo Control Systems Using Model-Based Design with Simulink, MATLAB Digest Academic Edition (2009)
In the past, control engineering was the exclusive province of computer and electrical engineers with...
A Compensated Acoustic Actuator for Systems with Strong Dynamic Pressure Coupling (with C. J. Radcliffe), Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (1999)
This study improves the performance of a previously developed acoustic actuator in the presence of...
Conference Proceedings
Use of Ultrasonic Sensors in the Development of an Electronic Travel Aid (with Chris Gearhart, Alex Herold, Brian Self, and Lynne Slivovsky), Proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Applications Symposium: New Orleans, LA (2009)
Ultrasonic sensors present one of the most cost-effective digital distance measurement systems available for mobile...
Undergraduate Research: Experiences from a Three-Year Project (with Peter Schuster), Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2007 (2007)
There are significant benefits of research for the involved undergraduate student. These include exposure to...
A Pre-Crash Simulator to Evaluate Vehicle Collision Prediction Algorithms (with Dana Desrosiers and Peter Schuster), Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automatic Control: Monterey, CA (2007)
This paper describes a software simulator for pre-crash collision predictions. The simulator is a surrogate...
Developing a MATLAB/Simulink RTWT Based Hydraulic Servo Control Design Experiment, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Conference & Exposition: Honolulu, HI (2007)
While one of the stated goals of the Mechanical Engineering Controls course is to develop...
Research in the Undergraduate Environment (with Peter Schuster), Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Chicago, IL (2006)
The benefits of research experiences for undergraduates are significant. For many faculty, these were the...