Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids edited by Aranya Chakrabortty and Marija D. Ilić.

Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids brings together leading experts in power, control and communication systems, and consolidates some of the most promising recent research in smart grid modeling, control and optimization in hopes of laying the foundation for future advances in this critical field of study. The contents comprise eighteen essays addressing wide varieties of control-theoretic problems for tomorrow’s power grid. Topics covered include control architectures for power system networks with large-scale penetration of renewable energy and plug-in vehicles, optimal demand response, new modeling methods for electricity markets, cyber-security,data analysis and wide-area control using synchronized phasor measurements.

Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty has research interests that span all branches of control system theory with applications to large-scale electric power systems. He is a part of the FREEDM Systems Center, currently researching several system and control-theoretic problems for the US power grid using Synchrophasor (WAMS) technology, and its integration with renewable energy sources such as wind energy. Before coming to NC State he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington, and was an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. In 2011 he received an NSF CAREER Award.

Computer Aided Biomanufacturing edited by Roger Narayan and Paul Calvert.

Due to the rapid advances over the past few years in the field of computer aided biomanufacturing, the crucial information for researchers in the field is scattered throughout numerous journals and thus not readily available. This carefully compiled collection of selected articles from the top Wiley-Blackwell journals on the topic of computer aided biomanufacturing provides the fundamentals necessary to comprehend current computer aided biomanufacturing technologies while also developing new ones.
From the contents of Computer Aided Biomanufacturing:
* History of Rapid Prototyping in Medicine
* Use of Imaging Modalities in Rapid Prototyping
* Computer-Assisted Modeling of Tissues
* Fused Deposition Modeling
* Inkjet Printing
* Stereolithography Apparatus and other Photopolymerization Techniques
* Selective Laser Sintering
* Materials Used in Rapid Prototyping
* Future Developments

Dr. Roger Narayan is a Professor at the University of North Carolina-North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is the author of over one hundred publications and several book chapters on microscale and nanoscale processing of biological and biomedical materials. He currently serves as an editorial board member of a number of professional journals, including as editor-in-chief of Materials Science and Engineering C, Biomimetic and Supramolecular Systems. Dr. Narayan has edited the textbook Biomedical Materials, and co-edited Advances in Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials, Printed Biomaterials, and Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the North Carolina State University Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as Fellow of ASM International.

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Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities by Bastian Schroeder, Ronald Hughes, Nagui Rouphail, Christopher Cunningham, and Katy Salamati (of NC State’s Institute for Transportation Research and Education), and others.

Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities is intended to provide useful information related to establishing safe crossings at roundabouts and channelized turn lanes (CTLs) for pedestrians who are blind. The specific objectives of this project were to:

• Identify and field test crossing treatments with the potential to enhance accessibility for pedestrians who are blind,
• Formulate and apply an evaluation framework and associated performance measures that can quantify accessibility,
• Develop approaches to extend the findings to other sites through statistical modeling and microsimulation, and
• Discuss implications of the results for engineering practice and the ongoing accessibility debate.

This report is not intended to provide practitioners with rigid requirements of when to install specific treatments. To do so would involve policy decisions that are beyond the scope of this effort. Instead, the report provides pertinent information on the concept of accessibility and how to provide improved crossing environments based on the crossing task for a visually impaired pedestrian.

Dr. Bastian Schroeder will be one of the presenters at a free August 17th joint Easter Seals / Transportation Research Board webinar that will present information about a National Cooperative Highway Research Program project that produced this report.

The Image Processing Handbook, Sixth Edition, by John C. Russ. (Available online to NC State users)

The Image Processing Handbook explains the acquisition and use of digital images in a wide variety of scientific fields. This sixth edition features new sections on selecting a camera with resolution appropriate for use on light microscopes, on the ability of current cameras to capture raw images with high dynamic range, and on imaging in more than two dimensions. It discusses Dmax for x-ray images and combining images with different exposure settings to further extend the dynamic range. This edition also includes a new chapter on shape measurements, a review of new developments in image file searching, and a wide range of new examples and diagrams.

Dr. John C. Russ is a retired Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department of North Carolina State University and was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society for achievements made in the field of microscopy. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Microscopy Research and Technique, a member of the board of directors of the Society for Quantitative Morphology and was the founding editor of the Journal of Computer Assisted Microscopy. Dr. Russ is still active as an author, workshop instructor, consultant and expert witness.

Microsystems for Bioelectronics: the Nanomorphic Cell by Victor V. Zhirnov and Ralph K. Cavin III..

Microsystems for Bioelectronics: the Nanomorphic Cell considers physical principles and trends in extremely scaled autonomous microsystems for biomedical applications. It provides a physics-based assessment of the ultimate potential of miniaturization technologies. In particular, fundamental scaling limits for energy sources, sensors, computation and communication subsystems are developed. The book is comprised of seven chapters that examine various facets of semiconductor bioelectronic microsystems. The book targets a broad audience with engineering background and can also be useful for the biomedical community.

Dr. Victor V. Zhirnov received the M.S. in applied physics from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, Ekaterinburg, Russia, and the Ph.D. in solid state electronics from the Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1998 he was a senior scientist at the Institute of Crystallography of Russian Academy of Science in Moscow. Currently he is research associate professor at North Carolina State University and also has an appointment as research scientists at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). His responsibilities at the SRC include assessments of emerging nanoelectronic devices. Victor Zhirnov’s research interests include properties of materials properties at nanoscale, deterministic doping of semiconductor nanostructures, tunneling phenomena, vacuum microelectronics and nanoelectronics. He has authored and co-authored over 80 technical papers and contributions to books. He has served as a consultant to a number of government, industrial, and academic institutions.

Dr. Ralph K. Cavin III received his BSEE (1961) and MSEE (1962) from Mississippi State University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University in 1968. He served as a Senior Engineer at the Martin-Marietta Company in Orlando, Florida from 1962 -1965. At Martin, Dr. Cavin was involved in the design and manufacture of missile guidance and control systems. After taking his Ph.D., Dr. Cavin joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A & M University where he obtained the rank of Full Professor and also served the department as Assistant Head for Research. In 1983, he joined the Semiconductor Research Corporation where he served as Director of Design Sciences research programs until 1989. He became Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University from 1989 – 1994 and was Dean of Engineering at North Carolina State University from 1994 -1995. He is currently Vice President for Research Operations at the Semiconductor Research Corporation. Dr. Cavins technical interests span VLSI circuit design, computer-aided design of microelectronic systems, control theory with applications to semiconductor manufacturing, and applications of computing and telecommunications to engineering education. He has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed technical papers and contributions to books. Dr. Cavin is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Board of Directors of the International Engineering Consortium and the IEEE Computer Advisory Board.

Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery edited by Roger Narayan, Thomas Boland, & Yuan-Shin Lee.

Recent studies have shown that novel processing and modeling techniques may be used to create patient-specific prostheses, artificial tissues, and other implants using data obtained from magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, or other imaging techniques. For example, customized prostheses may be fabricated that possess suitable features, including geometry, size, and weight, for a given medical condition. Many advances have been made in the development of patient-specific implants in the past decade, yet this information is not readily available to scientists and students. Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery provides the biomaterials scientist and engineer, as well as advanced undergraduate or graduate students, with a comprehensive discussion of contemporary medical implant research and development. The development of printed biomaterials is multidisciplinary, and includes concepts traditionally associated with engineering, materials science, medicine, and surgery. This text highlights important topics in these core fields in order to provide the fundamentals necessary to comprehend current processing and modeling technologies and to develop new ones.

Dr. Roger Narayan is a Professor at the University of North Carolina-North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is the author of over one hundred publications and several book chapters on microscale and nanoscale processing of biological and biomedical materials. He currently serves as an editorial board member of a number of professional journals, including as editor-in-chief of Materials Science and Engineering C, Biomimetic and Supramolecular Systems. Dr. Narayan has edited the textbook Biomedical Materials, and co-edited Advances in Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials, and Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the North Carolina State University Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as Fellow of ASM International.

Biomedical Materials edited by Roger Narayan.

Biomedical Materials provides a comprehensive discussion of contemporary biomaterials research and development. Highlighting important topics associated with Engineering, Medicine and Surgery, this volume reaches a wide scope of professionals, researchers and graduate students involved with biomaterials. A pedagogical writing style and structure provides readers with an understanding of the fundamental concepts necessary to pursue research and industrial work on biomaterials, including characteristics of biomaterials, biological processes, biocompatibility, and applications of biomaterials in implants and medical instruments. Written by leading researchers in the field, this text book takes readers to the forefront of biomedical materials development, providing them with a taste of how the field is changing, while also serving as a useful reference to physicians and engineers.

Dr. Roger Narayan is a Professor at the University of North Carolina-North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is the author of over one hundred publications and several book chapters on microscale and nanoscale processing of biological and biomedical materials. He currently serves as an editorial board member of a number of professional journals, including as editor-in-chief of Materials Science and Engineering C, Biomimetic and Supramolecular Systems. Dr. Narayan has also co-edited Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery, Advances in Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials, and Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the North Carolina State University Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as Fellow of ASM International.

Turbulent Combustion Modeling: Advances, New Trends and Perspectives edited by Tarek Echekki & Epaminondas Mastorakos.

Turbulent combustion sits at the interface of two important nonlinear, multiscale phenomena: chemistry and turbulence. Its study is extremely timely in view of the need to develop new combustion technologies in order to address challenges associated with climate change, energy source uncertainty, and air pollution. Despite the fact that modeling of turbulent combustion is a subject that has been researched for a number of years, its complexity implies that key issues are still eluding, and a theoretical description that is accurate enough to make turbulent combustion models rigorous and quantitative for industrial use is still lacking.

In Turbulent Combustion Modeling: Advances, New Trends and Perspectives, prominent experts review most of the available approaches in modeling turbulent combustion, with particular focus on the exploding increase in computational resources that has allowed the simulation of increasingly detailed phenomena. The relevant algorithms are presented, the theoretical methods are explained, and various application examples are given.

Turbulent Combustion Modeling: Advances, New Trends and Perspectives is intended for a relatively broad audience, including seasoned researchers and graduate students in engineering, applied mathematics and computational science, engine designers and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) practitioners, scientists at funding agencies, and anyone wishing to understand the state-of-the-art and the future directions of this scientifically challenging and practically important field.

Dr. Tarek Echekki’s current research is concerned with the development of predictive tools for and the understanding of fundamental process that govern reaction and transport in turbulent flows. One principal scope of the research is concerned with the combustion of fossil fuels as they pertain to energy conversion, pollutants’ formation and fire hazards. At NC State Dr. Echekki teaches Fluid Dynamics of Combustion, Principles of Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, & Engineering Thermodynamics.

Enterprise Growth Strategy: Vision, Planning and Execution by Dhirendra Kumar.

Even during economic downturns, businesses have to grow to survive and compete in domestic and international markets. There is always a need to plan for future growth. Enterprise Growth Strategy presents the total process of a growth strategy. The author, Dr. Kumar, is an engineer who entered the academic world following a long career in manufacturing business and has since taught almost every aspect of business and management. The ‘growth strategy’ concept he has developed is comprehensive and manifestly practical. Dr. Kumar describes mechanisms by which businesses can gain market share; develop, modify, or upgrade products; acquire new or expand existing businesses; transform resources to increase revenue and profitability; reduce cycle time; and, empower business associates. Quality concepts – market growth, financial and core competency – are outlined and a variety of growth strategy tools presented. The relationship between continuous improvement metrics and business growth metrics is explained and their relevance to financial performance examined. Examples and case studies are presented to illustrate how different business areas such as Sales and Marketing; Product Development; Operations; Support Services; and, the Finance function, contribute. Leadership responsibilities, employee participation in the execution of growth strategy, culture and change issues are also discussed.

Dr. Dhirendra Kumar is Senior Extension Engineer at North Carolina State University in the USA. He has worked as an engineer, technical adviser and program manager for Outboard Marine, John Deere, Pratt and Whitney, and Pitney Bowes. Since turning to academia, Dr. Kumar has been a researcher, senior lecturer, and a visiting and adjunct professor, holding different posts at the Universities of Iowa, Nebraska, Hartford, Central Connecticut and New Haven. He has written books, instructional manuals, and many conference papers and is a member of a number of advisory boards and scholarship committees. In his current role he advises graduate students on industrial projects and leads projects in organizations external to his university. Dr. Kumar is also developing and taping courses for distance learning on topics, such as Enterprise Growth Strategy, Resources Transformation, and Continuous Improvement.