Timezone MST |
Event/Session Title |
Event/Session Chair |
9:00 - 9:15 |
Opening and Welcome Ceremony Day 1
Opening Session, Room CS 404 |
Opening remarks, Chairs |
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9:40 - 10:00 |
Keynote Speech Day 1 - Room CS 404

Continual Reliability Improvement
Jake Barker
Director, Pacificorp
Director of Distribution Engineering and Area Transmission Planning for PacifiCorp.
He also worked in asset management developing the 10 year capital plan for major projects,
managing customer engineering services and smart grid. Was Transmission Planner, Manager
of Distribution Engineering and Distribution Engineer for downtown Salt Lake City,
Utah. Project Engineer for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 in Salt Lake. Master of
Business Administration degree from the University of Utah, and an electrical engineering
degree from Utah State University.
PacifiCorp has continually and steadily improved its service reliability to customers
as measured by SAIDI and SAIFI. This presentation will detail the programs and practices
put in place to achieve continual improvement, as well as discuss ideas for future
improvement.
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Break
Poster Session Location: CS Building - Losee Center Breezeway
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10:20 - 11:40 |
Session 1
Engineering 1, (Controls/Electrical Engineering 1) - Room CS 410
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Afsaneh Minaie
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Nonlinear Control Algorithm for Systems with Convex Polytope Bounded Nonlinearities
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Olli Jansson and Matt Harris |
Nonlinear, Low-Energy-Actuator-Prioritizing Control Allocation for Winged eVTOL UAVs |
Mason B. Peterson, Randal W. Beard, and Jacob B. Willis |
Temperature Uniformity Control In a Gas Heated Box Furnace |
Arthur Peck and Dakota Roberson |
Engineering 2 (Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence 1) - Room CS 411
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Mohammad Shekaramiz
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Sparse Bayesian Learning via Variational Bayes Fused with Orthogonal Matching Pursuit |
Mohammad Shekaramiz and Todd K. Moon |
Offline Signature Verification: A Study on Total Variation versus CNN |
Kateryna Anatska and Mohammad Shekaramiz |
System Identification and Machine Learning Model Construction for Reinforcement Learning
Control Strategies Applied to LENS System |
Golam Gause Jaman |
Computing 1, (Systems) - Room CS 402
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Paul Bodily
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Exploring AV1 Encoder Potentials for Priority-Driven Wireless Multimedia Services |
Evan Ballesteros, Krishna Murthy Kattiyan Ramamoorthy, and Wei Wang |
Human Cognition Aware QoE For NOMA Pricing: A Prospect-Theoretic Augmentation To Non-Orthogonal
Wireless Multiple Access |
Wei Wang |
Communication without Connection |
Jeffrey Johnson, Robert Foster Houghton, and Alex Jensen |
A Reference Architecture for Healthcare Systems with Coded Terminology Support |
Renato F. Bulcao-Neto, Valdemar V. Graciano Neto, and Alessandra Alaniz Macedo |
Education 1: (Education and Technology) – Room CS 403
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Larry Zeng
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Curriculum Development for Teaching Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems &
Critical-Infrastructure |
Basil Hamdan and Rawan Al Nsour |
Online Engineering Education: Laboratories Factors and Barriers During the Pandemic
- A Case Study |
Rawan Al-Nsour, Ruba Alkhasawneh, and Sura Alqudah |
Syntax Exercises and Their Effect on Computational Thinking |
Marina Johnson, Hillary Swanson, and John Edwards |
Examples of Machine Learning Models from Classic to Modern |
Gengsheng L. Zeng |
Technology 1: Mixed Reality/ Technology Design – Room CS 401
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Mike Elbert
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Teaching & Learning in Virtual Reality: Metaverse Classroom Exploration |
Emily Hedrick, Michael Harper, Eric Oliver, and Dan Hatch |
Theatrical and Spatial Modes of Presenting the Endowment Ritual in Latter-day Saint
Temples |
Brandon Ro |
Poster Judging Session 1: CS Building-Losee Center Breezeway
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11:40 - 1:00 |
Lunch Break
Poster Session: Location: CS Building - Losee Center Breezeway
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1:00 - 2:20 |
Session 2
Engineering 3 (Transportation Engineering 2) – Room CS 410
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Khaled Shaaban
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Challenges and Lessons Learned from Building a New Road Drainage System in a Developing
Country |
Khaled Shaaban |
COVID-19 Impact on Traffic Fatalities in Utah |
Khaled Shaaban and Mitch Mortimer |
Effect of Through Movement Flow Rate on Left-Turn Lane Utilization at Signalized Intersections |
Mohammad Shareef Ghanim and Khaled Shaaban |
Driver Compliance at All-Way Stop-Controlled Intersections |
Khaled Shaaban, Steven Taylor, Ryan Jackson, and Dustin Wall |
Engineering 4, (Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence 2) - Room CS 411
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Mohammad Shekaramiz
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Automated Hearing Impairment Diagnosis Using Machine Learning |
Kyra Taylor and Waseem Sheikh |
Identifying Patterns in Fault Recovery Techniques and Hardware Status of Radiation
Tolerant Computers Using Principal Components Analysis |
Fereshteh Ramezani, Christopher Major, Colter Barney, Justin Williams, Brock J. LaMeres,
and Bradley M. Whitaker |
Facial Password Data Augmentation |
Shad Torrie, Andrew Sumsion, Zheng Sun, and Dah-Jye Lee |
Feature Analysis in Satellite Image Classification Using LC-KSVD and Frozen Dictionary
Learning |
Kaveen Liyanage and Bradley M. Whitaker |
Computing 2, (Machine Learning 1) – Room CS 402
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JP Tang
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Composition of Short Stories Using Book Recommendations |
Delaney Moor, Aleksandar Petrovic, Caitlyn Bailey, and Paul Bodily |
Stock Market Feature Selection Using Orthogonal Array |
Jingpeng Tang, Qianwen Bi, Ian Beal, Eric Stauffer, Yashwanth Kotha, and Smita Gupta |
Adaptive Encrypted Traffic Characterization via Deep Representation Learning |
Jonathan Wintrode and David DeTienne |
Education 2: (COVID-19 and Online Teaching) – Room CS 403
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Ghimire, Aashish
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Quantifying Student Struggles using Heatmaps and Keystroke Data |
Gordon Fjeldsted and John Edwards |
Introspection with Data : Recommendation of Academic Majors Based on Personality Traits |
Aashish Ghimire, Travis Dorsch, and John Edwards |
Remote Microelectronics Laboratory Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Chris J. Winstead |
Impact of the COVID-19 on Undergraduate Research for Engineering Students and Possible
Strategies to Promote Research |
Khaled Shaaban and Alaa Alsarhan |
Technology 2: Technology Management– Room CS 401
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Rawan Al-Nsour
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Developing Student Rubrics For Creative Evaluation: Academic Research To Improve Student
Learning Outcomes And Increase Faculty Grading Efficiency |
Eric Oliver, & Dan Hatch |
What Twitter is Saying About Women in Technology |
Kodey Crandall, Kelsey Stevens |
Digital Twins in Control Cabinet Construction |
Lukac, Dusko (virtual) |
Mobile Remote Assistance with Augmented Reality Applied in a Power Distribution Utility:
A Qualitative Study |
Zenni Lodetti, Paula (virtual) |
Poster Judging Session 2: CS Building-Losee Center Breezeway
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2:20 - 2:40 |
Break
Poster Session: Location: CS Building-Losee Center Breezeway
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2:40 - 3:40 |
Session 3
Engineering 5, (Transportation Engineering 3) – Room CS 410
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Khaled Shaaban
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Operational Performance of Signalized Intersections: HCM and Microsimulation Comparison |
Mohammad Shareef Ghanim, Khaled Shaaban, and Suhaib Allawi |
Analysis of Pedestrian Crashes in Utah |
Khaled Shaaban and Austin Pinter |
Engineering 6, (Wind Turbine Inspection: Machine Learning/Drone Path Planning) – Room
CS 411
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Mohammad Shekaramiz
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Drone Path Planning and Object Detection via QR Codes; A Surrogate Case Study for
Wind Turbine Inspection |
Branden Pinney, Shayne Duncan, Mohammad Shekaramiz, and Mohammad A.S. Masoum |
Locating and Extracting Wind Turbine Blade Cracks Using Haar-like Features and Clustering |
Cherif Seibi, Zachary Ward, Mohammad A.S. Masoum, and Mohammad Shekaramiz |
Residual and Wavelet based Neural Network for the Fault Detection of Wind Turbine
Blades |
Lalle M. N’diaye, Austin Phillips, Mohammad A.S. Masoum, and Mohammad Shekaramiz |
Wind Turbine Fault Classification Using Support Vector Machines with Fuzzy Logic |
Colton Seegmiller, Blake Chamberlain, Jordan Miller, Mohammed A.S. Masoum, Mohammad
Shekaramiz |
Computing 3, (Image processing) - Room CS 402
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Bob Houghton
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Handwritten Multi-Digit Recognition With Machine Learning |
Soha Boroojerdi and George Rudolph |
Learn Dynamic Facial Motion Representations Using Transformer Encoder |
Zheng Sun, Andrew Sumsion, Shad Torrie, and Dah-Jye Lee |
Engineering 7, (Communications Engineering 1) – Room CS 403
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Todd Moon
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Soft Linear Algebra over Noisy GF(2) matrices |
Todd K. Moon and Jacob H. Gunther |
Scheme of Secure Satellite Intercommunications Based at Solar Photons |
Huber Nieto -Chaupis |
Outdoor Surveillance and Mitigation of Infected Zones Through Engineered Electrical
Fields |
Huber Nieto-Chaupis |
Using Dual Approximation for Best Linear Unbiased Estimators in Continuous Time, with
Application to Continuous-Time Phase Estimation |
Todd K. Moon, Randy Christensen, and Jacob H. Gunther |
Technology 3: Automotive/ Industrial Automation – Room CS 401
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David Frame
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Using Gasoline Engines to Power Electric Cars |
Edward Durney and Brian Durney |
Lightweight foldable robotic arm for drones |
Wesley Thomas, Parker Wegrowski, Jacob Lemirick, and Taher Deemyad |
Make Cars Modular Again |
Edward Durney and Brian Durney |
Using Modular Model Cars to Drive Innovation and Learning |
Durney, Brian |
Poster Judging Session 3: CS Building-Losee Center Breezeway
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3:45 - 4:45 |
Session 4
Engineering 8 (Mechanical and Civil Engineering 1) – Room CS 410
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Masood Amin
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Design and Development of a Single-Stage Axial Compressor Testbench |
Shishir Khanal, Cooper Dastrup, Andrew Anderson, Anish Sebastian, and Marco P. Schoen |
Sarrus Linkage Aerial Drone Arm |
Jacob Lemirick, Wesley Thomas, Parker Wegrowski, and Taher Deemyad |
Jet Engine Modeling Using T-MATS with Experimental Verification
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Kellie Wilson, Marco P. Schoen, and Ji-Chao Li
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Engineering 9 (Communications Engineering 2) – Room CS 411
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Todd Moon
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Soft solution of noisy linear GF(2) equations |
Todd K. Moon, Jared O. Jensen, and Jacob H. Gunther |
Doppler Shift and Envelope Distribution of V2V Channels at 5.9 GHz in Suburban Environments |
Carlos A. Gutierrez, Willie Harrison, Michael Rice, Bryan Redd, and Autumn Twitchell |
Fabrication of Metallic Far-Infrared Filters |
Jared E. Payne, Joseph Eddy, Hunter R.J. Stevenson, Brad Ferguson, Ryan T. Beazer,
Gregory N. Nielson, and Stephen M. Schultz |
Computing 4 (Machine Learning 2) - Room CS 402
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Larry Zeng
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Sketch-a-Map (SAM): Creative Route Art Generation |
Marcus Goeckner, Kirill Brainard, Austin Lyman, and Paul Bodily |
Authorship Verification via Linear Correlation Methods of n-gram and Syntax Metrics |
Jared Ray Nelson and Mohammad Shekaramiz |
Using Neural Networks to Model the Spread of COVID-19 |
Isaac Boyd, David Hedges, Benjamin T. Carter, and Bradley M. Whitaker |
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1:00 - 4:00 |
Technical Sessions
Technology 4 Technical Sessions – Room CS 409
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Tyler Bird
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IT/OT Cyber Security |
Rockwell Automation / Codale - MATTSON Jacob |
Siemens Motor Management and Data Usages |
Siemens Industry / Mark Berger |
Post-Pandemic IoT Electronics/ Accelerated Change |
Engineering Technology / David W. Frame |
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