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This edition has been superseded. Please see the current 13th edition (updated January 2018): http://opus.ipfw.edu/mcetid_facpubs/56

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The problem of academics publishing in journals of dubious quality, published by so-called u22predatory publishersu22 is only increasing. A group of IPFW faculty members, concerned about the problem and the affect it could have on their departmental reputations and the futures of graduate students credited as co-authors on such works, approached the IPFW Helmke Library about examining the issue as it manifested itself within Opus, our institutional repository. This led to a year long study which involved sifting through every journal article uploaded to the repository one at a time and comparing their publishers with those listed on Beallu27s List. The results revealed that, while the problem did indeed exist within our repository, it was limited in scope, and confined to a small numbers of departments and professors. That some of these were repeat offenders made us begin to question the predatory publisher label

YEATER, Rossand ISIORHO, K. Solomon A., Geosciences, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499, yeatrj02@students.ipfw.edu Groundwater testing and monitoring is a crucial part of environmental management for urban and rural settings. This study examines the water chemistry in a well field located at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) campus in order to determine the contaminant and thus the water quality in the campus. The well field at the IPFW campus is located by a creek that drains into the St. Joseph River. Nitrate, nitrite pH, temperature, conductivity, total dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen and head elevation were measured over a 56 day testing period (late September – mid November) in 15 of the 20 installed wells. Soil samples were also collected from a burrow pit at the location to determine the hydraulic conductivity of the soil. The hydraulic conductivity (k value) was obtained using Hazen method and aided the determination of beds. The nitrate and nitrite levels ranged from 0.0 – 20.9 and 0.0 – 0.029 mg/L, respectively. A few readings were above EPA regulated contaminant levels for drinking water (10 and 1.0 mg/L for nitrate and nitrite respectively. Trends of nitrate and nitrite often show an inverse relationship, suggesting that nitrate is being reduced to nitrite via iron content and/or organic activity. There is a positive correlation between the head elevation and dissolved oxygen (DO) with the seasonal decrease in temperature. Grid wells that have elevations varying less that one inch are assumed to penetrate the same layer and head differences of these wells were used to determine the flow direction, which is northwest. This is in agreement with previous studies under the assumption that the creek is an influent stream and receives runoff and drainage from the IPFW campus. New data will be presented as it is an ongoing research project. Session No. 29--Booth# 24 T28. Undergraduate Research II (Posters) Tuesday, 19 April 2016: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Illinois Ballroom AB (I Hotel and Conference Center) Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 5 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NC-27548

As water moves downstream, it carries sediments that become sorted and rounded. The purpose of this research project is to determine the water content of soil, overall composition of sediments (gravel, sand, etc.), and grain size changes (if it does change) along a river profile, using a creek that runs through the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) campus. In the 2014 Fall semester, grain size distribution analysis was performed on 14 soil samples collected along the length of the creek. Fourteen soil samples were also collected from same sites in the 2015 Spring and Fall semesters resulting in three sets of data. Collected data indicates water content and grain size distribution vary along the creek profile. Water content for the Fall 2014 samples has a range of ~20 -28%. This is closely mimicked with the Fall 2015 samples with a range 20-25%. However the Spring 2015 data begins ~28% and falls to ~24% over the course of the creek profile. This could be due to a higher influx of water during the spring season keeping the sediments waterlogged. Certain soil samples contained significantly lower water content than others, that, when examined more closely, revealed different soil profiles containing less silt-clays and higher sand-gravel. The soil composition data ranges from coarse to fine grained sands, silts, and clays with less gravel present in the recent samples. This could be due to heavy flooding experienced in this area as well as recent construction on campus. Knowing the cause(s) of finning sediments downstream in the creek may help in managing the stream and probably other rivers in northern Indiana. This is an ongoing research and new data will be presented.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1037/thumbnail.jp

The purpose of this project is to design a “Shared Space” that can be used as a multi-functional space for learning and collaborative activities. The users of this shared space include interior design students from the Latin University of Costa Rica and local interior design professionals. This “Shared Space” project is located in Santa Maria de Dota, Costa Rica, which is known for its coffee plantation and is a beautiful place to sit back to enjoy the wonderful natural surroundings. Unfortunately, deforestation has become a forefront issue in recent years in Santa Maria de Dota area that causes farmers to develop new ideas for coffee plantations in order to have more sun exposure for coffee plants. Local people in Santa Maria de Dota also have initiated a strategy of reducing water and energy consumption by using organic materials. This project is inspired by the concept of sustainability in the coffee industry and strategies of addressing the issue of deforestation. In this “Shared Space” facility, specific spaces for different activities are provided, such as a learning studio space for students, a place to meet and greet clients, spaces for collaboration with communities, offices for interior designers, and a place to showcase their design work. “Shared Space” fosters communication and collaboration between students, professionals, educators and communities. By integrating multiple functions, technologies, and interactions between team members, educators, and clients, a shared space can be used for collaboration among different levels of students in the service-learning model. Also these spaces can provide a more private space to support individual research. The design goal was to alleviate the issue of deforestation while providing a place for education and collaboration with the community. In order to be sustainable, it is important to incorporate recyclable materials and products in the design. Bamboos are used as the primary building material. Replacing timber is another approach to reduce deforestation. In addition, the design incorporates local products such as reusing defective coffee beans as wall partitions and reusing burlap bags left over from the coffee in attempt to keep the cost low for the Santa Maria de Dota economy. Another strategy to tackle deforestation in the design is to grow trees within “Shared Space” as decoration and replant them out in the community once they have outgrown the facility. The design approach has both purpose and impact of fostering education and community collaboration while promoting of designing a sustainable environment.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1011/thumbnail.jp

The current standard of wound assessment is heavily dependent on manual measurements and visual inspection. This approach has areas that need to be improved to provide a better quality service to patients and to enhance the accuracy of the assessment. Some of existing steps can be digitally automated and the image data can be properly stored for later computation and analysis. These steps will reduce inconvenience for the patient and increase accuracy for wound care. This project is a creation of a prototype system that allows a team of medical practitioners to remotely record data of a patient’s wounds and then assess the healing process of the patient’s wounds with the assistance of computers and domain experts at a medical office. The system is developed as a web application, connected with a back-end sub-system including a database. By using a front-end graphical user interface, such as through the Internet or on a mobile phone, a local medical practitioner can capture the images of wounds at a patient’s location and request an evaluation by physicians who are located at their medical office. The physician remotely assesses the transmitted images and is able to give feedback or a diagnosis in real time. This assessment procedure provides a convenience to patients who are experiencing lack of mobility. This also enables the patients to receive high quality services from medical professionals at other facilities. In addition, the developed system improves the quality of service by utilizing a computer-assisted measuring process on the digitized images. This developed system will also allow color/shape tracking of the image in order to automatically measure the wound’s dimensions. Lastly, the data can be digitally archived and has the ability to be used for historical comparison to keep track of the wound’s healing progress with annotations attached to the image. The Senior Capstone team’s role in this project is the initialization of the WoundView system and the aforementioned tasks. Our sponsor institution is Parkview’s Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. This project has future potential to contribute greatly to the under-developed branch of telemedicine due its ability to be improved and expanded on. One such example includes deriving the wound depth and volume from the images. Another could include image morphing the progress of the healing wound through 3D modeling.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1004/thumbnail.jp

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Significant reductions in the cost of solar photovoltaic modules have been coupled with the emergence of innovative financial tools and resulted in dramatic increases in the development of distributed renewable energy generation systems. The deep penetration of solar energy throughout our nationu27s electric sector is dependent on successfully integrating distributed generation, storage, and demand management systems. Achieving this challenge will require improvements to component technologies coupled with paradigm shifts in how energy systems and controls are conceived, developed, tested, and deployed in the marketplace. An integrative approach to meet this challenge is presented including the formation of a collaboration platform for academic and industry partners that is coordinated around a physical smart grid test bed embedded in a large unregulated electric grid. The value adding processes of this ecosystem for research, education, and market deployment are described based on two years of operation. Specific strategies for the advancement of smart grid solutions leading to the deep penetration of renewable energy are also presented including topics of distributed generation, energy efficiency, advanced metering and controls, and cyber security. Implications of these strategies on research, education, and workforce development are also described

What began as a professor’s classroom illustration to encourage students to take climate change seriously sparked a student movement that transformed Eastern University into a leader in environmental stewardship and social responsibility. How did this happen at an evangelical university in a conservative coal state that, at the time, was producing 1% of the world’s climate change gases? Using the method of autoethnography, the author provides an explanation that involves political opportunity structures (recent legal changes now allowed consumers to purchase clean energy from the electrical grid), the influence of ideas (the professor had published a theory about the transformative influence of environmental education—students challenged her to operationalize the theories), intentional strategizing (by students who implemented best practices from other universities), student government (who conducted meetings across campus before holding a senate vote) and political struggle between university administrators and students that was only resolved after the student body president obtained media coverage by The Philadelphia Inquirer. What really lit a fire under the student body, however, went beyond theory frames, politics, legal changes, social movement strategies, student government or individual charisma. Some might call it serendipity. By 2003, 37% of Eastern University’s electricity came from wind energy. Within two years, Eastern University had 100% of the electricity for the main campus generated by wind energy. In 2004, they added a 56 kilowatt solar system to the roof of the Eagle Learning Center. On February 2, 2012, Eastern University made a seven-year commitment to 100% clean energy for the main campus. This is the story of the transformative and enduring influence of environmental education at Eastern University and the sociomaterial learning that influenced collective identity formation and student activism

As part of a senior capstone course, one of the graduating students developed a tutorial to enhance online learning. After surveying current students and collaboration with the health sciences librarian and faculty, two priorities for improvement emerged. These were identified as ways to help students work in groups and use discussion forums more effectively. This presentation will include sharing what was learned through the literature, a tutorial that was developed for students and how the effectiveness of the teaching strategy is being evaluated. Come learn about how to enhance your own online instruction

New realities require new ethical standards, and new ethics require new teaching/training activities and practice. Join four ethics instructors and learn about their most popular ethics teaching activities. The majority of our time will be spent engaged in a sampling of these activities, discussing the experience, and sharing participants’ favorite ways to teach and learn the NOHS ethics codes

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Worm propagation models are important for understanding worm dynamics and designing effective and efficient detection and defence systems. The existing models, however, ignore the heterogeneity in vulnerable hosts and assume that the worm-scanning rate is the same for all infected hosts. In this work, we analytically and empirically study the impact of heterogeneity of vulnerable hosts on worm propagation. Specifically, we first apply the Jensenu27s inequality to show that the heterogeneity in vulnerable hosts indeed hinders the speed of worm propagation. Next, we propose a novel model to predict and characterise worm dynamics among heterogeneous vulnerable hosts. Finally, applying the real trace from Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) to simulate the propagation of a Witty worm in the Internet, we verify our analytical results and demonstrate that our proposed model can accurately predict the spread of worms among heterogeneous vulnerable hosts