WVU Tech’s faculty members are dedicated to the advancement of the fields they teach. Outside of the classroom, they’re researchers, writers, presenters, go-to experts and road warriors who share their passion for learning with the world:
Cortney Barko, Ph.D. (English) presented a paper, “Visual Depictions of the First Female Paleontologist, Mary Anning, in Children’s Literature,” at the 2014 Midwest Popular Culture Association conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 4. She also gave an invited talk on succeeding in academic job interviews at the same conference.
Paul Rakes, Ph.D. (History) will be featured in an episode of PBS’ American Experience covering the Coal Mine Wars. Dr. Rakes worked with the show to provide guidance in historical research, help separate legends from historical facts and connect the shows with other scholars.
Melissa Sartore, Ph.D. (History) presented “This Book Will Change Your Life, The Broader Narrative of Religious Conversion in the Book of Mormon” at the 2014 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 4.
Dr. Sartore also presented “Outlaws of War: Royal Pardons of Outlawry in Exchange for Military Service in Medieval England” at the Southeast Medieval Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on October 17.
Houbing Song, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) published a paper in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers):
Yuan Zhang; Limin Sun; Houbing Song; Xiaojun Cao, “Ubiquitous WSN for Healthcare: Recent Advances and Future Prospects,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.1, no.4, pp.311, 318, Aug. 2014 doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2014.2329462
Dr. Song also gave an invited talk, “Cloud-Assisted Mobile Crowd Sensing for Urban Transportation,” at the National Science Foundation Workshop on Large-Scale Traffic and Driving Activity Data (DriveSense ‘14) in Norfolk, Virginia, October 30-31. His travel was fully supported by the foundation.
Mark Wilson, D.A. (Economics) gave a presentation, “Revisiting Bretton Woods,” at the Kentucky Economic Association Meeting held in Frankfort, Kentucky in October.
Farshid Zabihian, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) traveled with four WVU Tech students to Birmingham, Alabama between October 31 and November 3 to attend the Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference. The group presented six papers involving 13 students:
Lytton, Andrew; Torres, Raúl F.; Hawk, Greg; Zabihian, Farshid, “Study of Wave Energy in the USA by Dividing American Coasts to Six Regions”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Ross, Garron; Zabihian, Farshid; Davari, Asad, “Design and Commissioning of Hybrid Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine System for Future Undergraduate Student Research Capabilities”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Perry, Alex; Johnson, Tavon; Zabihian, Farshid; Thaxton, Andrew, “Application of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines in West Virginia”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Zabihian, Farshid; Bowen, Jacob D., “Geothermal Heating and Cooling from Abandoned Coal Mines in West Virginia”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Zabihian, Farshid; Rine, Justin; Flores, Gerardo, “Experimental Analysis of Downdraft Gasifier”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Zabihian, Farshid; Brenner, Andrew; Ballard, Haylie; Acree, Kaleb, “Improving Compressors’ Efficiency through Modernization”, Fourteenth Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 2014, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.