Douglas Troy, Anne Carson, and Jean Vanderbeek’s article, “Enhancing Community-Based Disaster Preparedness with Information Technology,” was the third most downloaded article from Disasters Journal in 2008. The article was downloaded 1,313 times as compared to 1,738 times for the top download.
Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) refers to a specific form of local-level capacity building and [...]

A paper co-authored by Anna Dollár from mechanical and manufacturing engineering and Paul Steif from mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University won the Mechanics Division Best Paper Award at the American Society of Engineering Education 2009 Annual Conference. The paper titled “Web-Based Statics Course used in an Inverted Classroom” describes an online course that they [...]

Mysore Narayanan, associate professor of engineering technology at Miami University Hamilton, has received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Graduate Studies Division for his paper, “Assessment Based on the Principles of Theodore Marchese.”
Dr. Narayanan’s paper is an assessment of specific topics in the area of engineering education based [...]

We are proud to announce that Janet Burge, assistant professor of computer science and software engineering has recently published a book entitled:  “Rationale-Based Software Engineering.”  The rationale behind a software system includes the decisions made while developing the software, the alternatives considered, and the reasons that argue for and against those alternatives. The rationale provides insight [...]