June 15 – July 2, 2013
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Faculty and students attended the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society last week in Boston. There were four oral presentations, a panel discussion, and one poster presentation given by faculty and graduate students.
Read more at Tech Today.
Assistant Professor Edward Cokely (CLS) published a paper, “The Philosophical Personality Argument,” in the journal, Philosophical Studies.
From Tech Today.
Assistant Professor Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon (CLS) attended the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications in Portsmouth, NH. While at the conference, Jeon cohosted a workshop, “The Social Car (socially-inspired C2X interaction)” and presented two papers, “Cross-cultural differences in the use of in-vehicle technologies and vehicle area network services: Austria, USA, and South Korea” and “Yes, free parking lot app, no, invisible health check app in my car: Young drivers’ needs analysis on vehicle area network services.”
From Tech Today.
Ten Michigan Tech science and engineering students, along with coordinator Joan Chadde, conducted fun, hands-on activities at Barkell Elementary School for the Family Science and Engineering Night. Two hundred and forty parents and elementary students turned out for the event.
From Tech Today.
Joan Chadde (CEE) has received a $70,000 research grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for “Meeting Transportation Workforce and Education Needs of the 21st Century.”
From Tech Today.
Associate Professor Paul Ward (CLS) gave an invited talk, “Predicting the Future: Expert-Novice Differences in Situation Assessment and Anticipation” at the 1st International Scientific Symposium on Sports Cognition at the Shanghai University of Sport, in China.
From Tech Today.
Michigan Tech’s Board of Control has awarded its Silver Medal to Professor Blair Orr (SFRES) in recognition of his efforts to establish and grow the University’s Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) program. Orr is the second faculty member ever to receive the Board’s rarely awarded Silver Medal.
Tech’s PCMI program now is the largest in the nation and has held that distinction for seven years. Since Orr launched the program in forestry in 1995, PCMI at Michigan Tech has expanded to eight graduate programs in departments across campus.
From Tech Today.
Orr receives Silver Medal Award
Orr’s areas of expertise include forestry in developing nations, forest economics, and land use in the Upper Peninsula. Congratulations, Blair!
Read more at the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.
Shari Stockero (CLS) has received a $109,083 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research project, “Collaborative Research: Leveraging MIPOs: Developing a Theory of Productive Use of Student Mathematical Thinking.”
From Tech Today.
PhD student Joel Suss (CLS) was awarded a travel honorarium from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Council of Technical Groups. He was one of 13 HFES student members who received the award and just one of four from the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group.
From Tech Today.