WPI Research is the research magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It contains news and features about graduate research in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering, along with notes about new grants, books, and faculty achievements.
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Stephen Nestinger, as- sistant professor of mechanical engineering, and PhD student Mahdi Agheli received the Best Paper in Theory award at the 8th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Ap- plications, in Suzhou, China, in July 2012. The paper was titled "Study of the Foot Force Stability Margin for Multi-legged/Wheeled Robots Under Dynamic Situations." Editorial Honors Tanja Dominko, associate professor of biology and biotechnology, has been named to the editorial boards for two journals, Disruptive Science and Technology and DNA and Cell Biology. Christopher Brown, professor of mechanical engineering, and Torbjorn Bergstrom, operations man- ager for WPI's manufacturing laboratories, edited a special issue of the journal Scanning titled "Diverse Applications of Surface Metrology III." The papers were drawn from the 3rd Interna- tional Conference on Surface Metrology, held in Annecy, France, in 2012. David Brown, professor of computer science, completed a 10-year run as editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence for Engineering De- sign, Analysis, and Manufac- turing in 2011. He has been appointed to the steering advisory board for the new International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, which will debut in 2013. David DiBiasio, associate professor and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named to the editorial board of the journal Chemical Engineering Education. Sudoku on the Half Shell: 150 Addictive Sujiken Puzzles George Heineman Sterling Publishing, 2011 Heineman, associate professor of computer science, sliced the popular Sudoku puzzle in half along the diagonal to create a new puzzle, which he calls Sujiken. The book contains 150 puzzles in five levels of difficulty. [39] Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures, 16th Edition Justin G. Longenecker, J. William Petty, Leslie E. Palich, and Frank Hoy Cengage, 2012 Co-authored by Hoy, Paul Beswick Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, this popular textbook covers the fundamentals of business management with an emphasis on how to start a business as well as how to manage, grow, and harvest one. NEW BOOKS by WPI Faculty Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era Nikolaos Gatsonis and the members of the National Research Council Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space National Academies Press, 2011 Gatsonis, professor of mechanical engineering and director of WPI's Aerospace Engineering Program, was a member of the committee that conducted this review, which expressed deep concern about the state of NASA's life and physical sciences research, and optimism about achieving the next significant phase of human space exploration. Software Receiver Design: Build Your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps C. Richard Johnson Jr., William A. Sethares, and Andrew G. Klein Cambridge University Press, 2011 Through this step-by-step guide, co-authored by Klein, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, readers learn about wireless communications and software radio by building a complete digital radio that includes every element of a typical, real-world communication system.