A team of four engineering students received a $2,000 award from the Oregon Space Grant Consortium to assist them with their senior capstone project. The team is working to design, manufacture, and test a small-scale jet engine over the course of the year. The team has been developing theoretical models for the combustion chamber design, and will use the award to test their calculations versus reality. The team consists of Alex Chabert, Jacob Johnston, Thomas Manfredonia, and Savon Sengsavanh. They are being supervised by engineering faculty member Jordan Farina and working closely with local industry.
Aziz Inan, engineering, along with undergraduate electrical engineering students Jacob Kirby and Matthew Yuen and alumni Peter Perkins and Henry Benitez, presented their research, titled “Why do GFCI’s keep tripping?,” in the monthly meeting of IEEE Oregon and SW Washington EMC and PSES Chapters which took place in Franz 026, University of Portland, January 31, 2017.
Anissa Rogers, sociology & social work, edited “Contemporary Issues and Future Directions in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Aging,” a special edition of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, volume 37, January 2017.
Olivia Coiado, engineering, presented “Heart Pump Modelling: Design of Pulsatile Flow Phantoms,” with student co-presenters Kevin Jones, Parker Schibel, at the Inaugural Biomedical Engineering Western Regional Conference, Provo, Utah, January 2017.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “A Mosaic of Identities of the Sensus Fidelium: The realities of African Ecclesial Communities in Diaspora” in Learning from All the Faithful: A Contemporary Theology of the Sensus Fidei. Pp. 226 – 236. Edited by Bradford Hinze and Peter Phan. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016. He also wrote “Recognizing the Place of African Traditional Religions in the Comparative Theological Discourse: Mediating Classroom Encounters through Storytelling” in Comparative Theology in the Millennial Classroom: Hybrid Identities, Negotiated Boundaries. Pp. 164 – 176. Edited by Mara Brecht and Reid Locklin. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Brian Adams, business, wrote “The Challenges of Detection and Enforcement of Insider Trading,” in Journal of Business Ethics, with Tod Perry (Indiana University) and Colin Mahoney (University of Portland, MBA student), volume 139, no. 4, December 2016. He also wrote “Problems with the Dow Jones Industrial Average – A Simple Unweighted Arithmetic Mean: An Issue Re-Revisited,” in Global Review of Accounting and Finance, volume 7 no. 2, September 2016, with Rich Gritta.
Steven Mayer, chemistry, (with Yuka Kobayashi, Jae W. Park) wrote “FT-IR and Raman spectroscopies determine structural changes of tilapia fish protein isolate and surimi under different comminution conditions,” in Food Chemistry 226 156–164 (2017).
Carolyn James, mathematics, wrote (with Casas, A., & Grant, D.) “Using Scaffolding to Scale-up Justifications” in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 22(5), 294-301, December 2016.
Senior biology major (minors in chemistry and philosophy) Elisa Reverman’s paper, “Moral Obligation vs. Supererogation: The Ethics of Reporting Sexual Assault,” has been judged to be the best undergraduate paper submitted for presentation at this year’s meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, according to Andrew Eshleman, philosophy. As noted in the award announcement, “This is the highest award for an undergraduate student presented by the Association and represents a significant milestone in academic achievement.” Reverman originally wrote the award-winning paper for an Advanced Ethics course, Fall 2016. Reverman has also served as team captain for UP’s intercollegiate Bio-Ethics and Ethics Bowl teams. She will receive her award at the annual conference banquet in Dallas, Texas, on February 24.