Arizona State University

The 19th ranked Sun Devil Women’s Tennis team travels to Eugene this weekend to take on the No. 45 Oregon Ducks. Action begins at 12 p.m. PT at Oregon’s Student Tennis Center.

Coming off a successful match last Saturday that saw the Devils breeze past Texas 4-3 in Austin, the team will be ready for competition and looking to add to their already impressive 5-1 dual season record.

About the Teams
The Sun Devils have seen an impressive start to their dual season, with a 5-1 overall record and 2-1 away. Ninth-ranked duo Kelcy McKenna and Micaela Hein have proved unstoppable, having yet to lose a match this season. Junior Nadia Abdala was named Pac-10 Women’s Tennis Player of the Week for Feb. 16 - 22, after an impressive showing in Texas saw her storm pass the Longhorns in both singles and doubles play, along with sister Laila Abdala.

The Ducks will be fighting to defend their home court this weekend after a tough loss to Ohio State 2-5 in Eugene. They will be led by senior Carmen Serementa, who holds a 5-4 dual season record. The Oregon team is 6-3 overall this season.

Duck Hunting
In their last meeting on March 14, 2008 the Devils shot down the Ducks 7-0. The perfect showing was led by Laila Abdala who defeated Stephanie Macfarlane 6-1, 6-3. The Devils will be looking to repeat this perfect showing on Saturday.

From Devil to Duck
Oregon Head Coach Paul Reber was a four-year letter winner at ASU with the Men’s Tennis team, from 1992-96 and served as an Assistant Coach for the Women’s Tennis team for 10 years before moving to Eugene in 2006.

Up Next
The Devils will return to Tempe on Friday, March 6 to face off against Washington at 1:30 p.m. MT and then return on action on Saturday, March 7 to take on the Cougars of Washington State at 12:00 p.m. MT. Both games will take place at ASU’s Whiteman Tennis Center.

Legends of the Fall
The Fall 2008 season saw ASU dominating competition at the Cal Nike Invitational, where sophomore Kelcy McKenna took home the ITA Singles Gold crown as well as the ITA Doubles Gold title with teammate Micaela Hein. ASU also collected its third ITA All-American in two years with McKenna.

Double Duty
The 2009 season has seen exciting doubles action from Arizona State, with the return of partners Micaela Hein and Kelcy McKenna, who finished with an impressive 17-4 overall record in 2008. They are currently undefeated, holding at 6-0 record on the season. Senior Laila Abdala will also pair up for a final season with her sister, junior Nadia Abdala. The sisters will be in quest of success after posting 10 wins last season.

To Be the Best…
The Sun Devils have traditionally played one of the most rigorous schedules in the nation and this season will be no different. The team will be tested with a mixture of strong non-conference play and strenuous Pac-10 matchups, including back-to-back matchups with No. 10 USC and No. 3 UCLA.

Where They Stack Up
Last year, the Sun Devils finished the season ranked at No. 23 posting a 15-8 overall record, a fourth place conference finish and making it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Arizona State is currently ranked 19th with four returning letter winners and powerhouse Kelcy McKenna, currently No. 3 in the nation.

At The Helm
Coach Sheila McInerney enters her 25th season at the helm of the Sun Devil program. In 2008, she led the team to a university record 21st consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance following a winning 15-8 season. Those wins saw ASU upset NCAA Champion UCLA, as well as conquer Stanford for the first time in program history.

Arizona State senior women’s golfer Azahara Munoz and 2009 NLI signee Jennifer Johnson have both accepted invitations to the Kraft Nabisco Championships. Munoz and Johnson will join three other amateurs to compete in the LPGA event. The Kraft Nabisco Championship takes place March 30 - April 5 at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Munoz earned the exemption after taking first at the 2008 NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., last May. Munoz followed that performance up with a runner-up finish at the U.S. Amateur. In addition, Munoz is currently ranked in the top three of collegiate golfers. Munoz will miss ASU’s home event, the PING/ASU Invitational, to take part in the Kraft Nabisco Championships.

Johnson, who will join the Sun Devils in the fall, is currently ranked No. 16 in the Golfweek/Titleist Junior Rankings. She is a two-time AJGA first-team All-American. Johnson won the 2008 Rolex Tournament of Champions as well as the California State Amateur. Johnson was also a member of the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup Team.

Along with Johnson, the Sun Devils will also welcome Alessia Knight and Larissa Eruera in the fall. Munoz will make her spring tournament debut in the Sun Devils next event, The UCF Challenge, on March 8.

Nearly 20 minutes after a game that tested his resolve, Washington’s Justin Dentmon still wouldn’t remove his mouth guard.

"It felt like it was a fight … a 12-round fight," Dentmon said. "And we won by decision."

Overcoming his own gaffe that let Arizona State force overtime, Dentmon scored six of his 16 points in overtime, and the 21st-ranked Huskies kept control of the Pac-10 race with a wild 73-70 victory over the 14th-ranked Sun Devils on Thursday night.

Bruising forward Jon Brockman led Washington with 21 points and scored on the first two possessions of the extra session as the Huskies took control and managed - somehow - to retain hold on the conference lead.

Now instead of finding themselves in a logjam with the Sun Devils, UCLA and California, the Huskies (21-7, 12-4) are 1 1/2 games clear with only two league games remaining, both at home. Washington needs wins over Arizona and Washington State to wrap up its first outright conference title since 1953.

"That’s the Pac-10 this year, very competitive," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said.

Jeff Pendergraph led Arizona State (21-6, 10-5) with 24 points and 13 rebounds, and James Harden added 19 points, but was held to just four after halftime. Harden fouled out early in the overtime, as the Sun Devils saw their five-game win streak snapped.

"We played our butts off, it just didn’t come out the way we wanted it to," Harden said.

Thanks largely to Dentmon’s ability to rebound from the most costly of mistakes at the end of regulation.

With Washington holding a 61-59 lead and having just forced Harden to miss a difficult runner with 21 seconds left, Dentmon momentarily became lax standing just a few feet from the Sun Devils’ basket. Harden took advantage, stripping Dentmon and throwing down a two-handed dunk to tie the game.

Then in the final seconds Dentmon froze and was unable to get a shot off before regulation ended. All that after a horrific shooting performance from the Huskies’ leading scorer that was made only slightly tolerable because of two huge baskets by Dentmon in the last 2 minutes.

"Anyone would have put their head down and been out of it for the rest of the game after that turnover," Brockman said. "(Justin) came back and won the game for us."

But Dentmon came through by hitting six of eight free throws in overtime to go with Brockman’s two key baskets to start the extra session as the Huskies took advantage of Pendergraph playing with four fouls.

Harden, who played the final 9 minutes of regulation with four fouls, finally picked up his fifth and the Sun Devils were unable to overcome the early overtime deficit.

Now the Sun Devils need some help from their rival, Arizona, if they want to keep hope alive for their first Pac-10 title. The Wildcats play at Washington on Saturday.

"It’s going to hurt us tonight definitely, but tomorrow is a new day and we’ll prepare for Washington State," Harden said.

Arizona State crawled back from a 13-point first-half deficit and took its first lead since 2-0 on Pendergraph’s one-hander on the baseline that made it 53-52 with 5:50 left. The basket capped an 11-2 spurt for the Sun Devils after Washington had the ball with a chance to push its lead to double digits only a few minutes earlier.

Rihards Kuksiks added a 3-pointer less than a minute later and suddenly the Sun Devils were up by four. After Brockman scored for Washington, Kuksiks hit another open 3 from the baseline and ASU’s lead was 59-54.

But Dentmon, who made just two of his first 11 shots, hit an open 3-pointer from the wing with 1:53 left to draw Washington even at 59-all. He then hit an off-balance runner as the shot clock expired to give the Huskies a two-point lead with 45 seconds left.

Harden missed again with 23 seconds left, before his steal and dunk forced overtime.

"We’ve had some teams that have had a lot of heart. I think our hearts have gotten bigger and bigger as the years progress," Romar said. "What our guys did tonight, in a poor shooting night, I thought was very, very special."

Dentmon’s free throw put Washington up 68-63 with 1:34 left in overtime. Jamelle McMillan quickly scored and Kuksiks followed with a basket with 28 seconds left to get the Sun Devils within one.

Dentmon then hit two more free throws with 24 seconds left and Derek Glasser missed ASU’s last chance at a tie when his 3-pointer with 20 seconds left went long. Venoy Overton hit two free throws for Washington which became crucial when Glasser threw in an off-balance 3 with 4.2 seconds left.

An ASU research project to help the nation protect the health of its military aircraft and aerospace systems has been awarded additional funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is administering the project, which is funded by the Defense department’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

The project is led by Aditi Chattopadhyay, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and director of ASU’s Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems (AIMS) Center. She is overseeing work to develop systems and techniques to better monitor the structural health and predict potential wear and tear in aerospace systems.

The decision to grant an optional two years of support brings total Department of Defense funding for the project to $6 million over five years.

MURI program awards also support education and training of students pursuing advanced degrees in science and engineering fields critical to the mission of national defense.

 Chattopadhyay said the project’s goal is to make major progress in the ability to provide reliable estimates of the life cycles of current and future aircraft systems. 

To do this, her team is using advanced sensor data, information management, computer modeling and algorithms to develop damage diagnosis and prognosis techniques. The aim is to provide an accurate assessment of aerospace system health by analyzing the materials of which its components are made down to the microscopic level, as well as examining the overall condition of the system. 

The project co-leaders are Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola, a professor of electrical engineering, and Pedro Peralta, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

“Our team has specific expertise in material, structural, mechanical, electrical and systems engineering, and extensive experience in collaborative research projects under Department of Defense sponsorship,” Chattopadhyay said.

Victor Giurgiutiu, head of the Aerospace, Chemical and Material Sciences Directorate of the Air Force research office, is the program manager for the project.

Chattopadhyay said the ASU team is working closely with Air Force and Department of Defense research laboratories to ensure the project addresses critical issues for the military, and to help develop a plan for how the military can readily put to use the knowledge gained from ASU’s research. 

Three undergraduates from Barrett, the Honors College, will give a presentation on how ASU students have helped design the new Barrett campus at a national conference of the American College Personnel Association March 28 – April 1 in Washington, D.C. Kristen Nielsen, Barrett assistant dean, also will present and introduce the group.

“Dream Opportunity: Designing a Sustainable New Honors College” will highlight the collaboration that led to the design of the new $130 million campus, which is scheduled to open in August 2009. Barrett students and administrators have met with each other and with the project architects and developers over two years, to define honors programming and decide on sustainable design features.

Students initiated a plan to create a sustainable living community on the seven-building campus. Sustainability House will be home to about 200 students from a variety of disciplines who have made a commitment to an environmentally responsible lifestyle

These students will live in two connected residence halls that incorporate such features as low-consumption plumbing fixtures, enhanced energy monitoring, a green roof and organic garden offering students the opportunity to study and experience sustainable living concepts.

The new Barrett complex will meet silver certification standards on the LEED Green Building Rating System. It will stand alone as the nation’s first comprehensive campus for honors students at a public university. 

Student leaders of the sustainability community who will present at the conference are Benjamin Lang, Joe Canarie and Jamie Wernet.

Hundreds of runners and walkers will gather on Sunday, March 29, at Arizona State University’s West campus for the inaugural “5K Walk-n-Run for Success.” Proceeds from the event will benefit Helping Hands for Single Moms, an award-winning Valley-based nonprofit organization.

Helping Hands for Single Moms works to empower single mothers to provide for their families by helping them attain a college education, affordable housing, and financial literacy. While pursuing degrees at Phoenix-area colleges and universities, the 40 single mothers now involved in the program receive a combination of financial aid, money management and life skills training, a laptop computer, assistance with car maintenance, and support from a mentor.

“This is an excellent way to reach out to the community and play a role in an event that benefits such a worthy cause,” says Dan Turbyfill, events manager for ASU’s College of Teacher Education and Leadership. “Many of the students supported by this organization are attending ASU, and if we can assist them in any way, it’s important that we do so.”

Emis Cox, a single mother of four children from age 9 to 19, is working toward a bachelor’s degree in communication studies with a minor in Spanish through ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Before being chosen through a rigorous selection process to receive assistance from Helping Hands for Single Moms, she worked two jobs while attending Glendale Community College part-time.

“I realized that higher education would be my pathway to improved employment opportunities, even though it appeared impossible because of the immense responsibility I had as a single mother with no family around to help,” Cox says. Assistance from Helping Hands enabled her to cut back to one job, but she still juggles the responsibilities of work, school, and motherhood.

“Emis is a perfect example of the type of individual we are striving to help – a hard-working single mom who is sacrificing much in order to provide a better life for her family,” says Chris Coffman, executive director of Helping Hands for Single Moms. Coffman, a longtime minister in the Valley, started Helping Hands as a pilot project in 2001. The organization now has on file the names of more than 200 women seeking assistance.

“Helping these women continue their education benefits us all,” Coffman says. “If a single mom doesn’t succeed in obtaining a college degree, she likely will remain dependent on the state for entitlements such as food stamps, Section 8 housing, or subsidized health or child care.”

The March 29 fundraiser also will serve to launch the Single Mom College Community, as single mothers attending 10 partner colleges and universities across the Valley will meet and network for the first time.

On-site registration for the 5K Walk-n-Run for Success starts at 8:00 a.m. on March 29; the race begins at 9:30. Additional attractions include a special kid zone, clowns, food, music, and information booths providing details about college resources available to single moms.

Staff from Runner’s Den will lay out the 5K course at ASU’s West campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road in Phoenix. The Phoenix Suns Gorilla will shoot his confetti cannon to start the race. ASU’s mascot Sparky also will be on hand to support the racers.

The registration fee for the Walk-n-Run is $22. Participants are encouraged to register as teams. To register online, join a team, or make a donation, visit www.helpsinglemoms.org.

Arizona State University hosted a health professions fair Feb. 24 for students applying to a professional school. In its ninth year, the Health Professions Advising office hosts the event for any ASU student interested in health fields, including dentistry, medicine and pharmacy.

The fair was held at the Memorial Union and was attended by more than 35 exhibitors from national health professional universities and ASU clubs and associations. ASU exhibitors included Camp Kesem, Alpha Epsilon Delta, American Medical Student Association and Biomedical Informatics. Thirty national universities exhibited, including the University of Chicago, University of Iowa and Midwestern University.

“This event is an opportunity for students to meet admissions representatives from a variety of health fields nationwide,” says Phillip Scharf, director of Health Professions Advising in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “Many representatives are the admissions directors, so this is a great opportunity for these students to meet real decision makers.

“We have heard from past attendees that admissions representatives have remembered them from this fair at entrance interviews. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to connect with schools on a personal level,” he says.

Students from all four ASU campuses, representing more than 35 majors, attended the fair. Students interested in pre-health professions can major in any area, according to Scharf. Advisors have spoken with students majoring in such diverse fields as art, psychology, biology and chemistry.

“This is a great opportunity for students to explore areas of healthcare they might not have thought of before, like dentistry and pharmacy,” says Scharf.

More information about academic and health career advising at http://prehealth.asu.edu.

A rapidly growing demand for more electricity – from cleaner energy sources – has nuclear power poised for a revival in the United States.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expects companies in the energy industry to apply in the next two years for construction and operation licenses for more than 30 nuclear power plants.

To respond to the demand for more expertise in the field, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University is launching a graduate-level program in nuclear power generation.

“The nuclear power industry workforce is not only graying but there are far too few experts in this area to meet the needs of the near future. The NRC alone is expecting to hire hundreds of new employees to prepare for an expanding workload,” said Keith Holbert, an ASU associate professor of electrical engineering and a nuclear engineering specialist who will direct the new program.

“There will also be a large number of engineering positions created by electric utilities and engineering-architecture firms, and the industry will want experienced engineers to fill those jobs, not just entry-level engineers,” Holbert said.

The American Nuclear Society (http://www.new.ans.org/) recently cited a survey by the American Physical Society (http://www.aps.org/) estimating that the industry nationwide could need to hire more than 500 workers with specific expertise in nuclear engineering each year in the near future – far more than the current number of new nuclear engineers graduating college annually.

ASU’s certificate program is intended to train experienced professionals to take on more advanced roles in the nuclear industry. It’s designed to help chemical, electrical and mechanical engineers, as well as physicists, chemists and mathematicians, build on their expertise and become qualified for an array of jobs necessary to manage and operate nuclear power generation facilities.

“The majority of engineers working at, or in support of, nuclear plant operations, are not nuclear engineers, so higher education institutions need to offer programs that provide engineers and scientists in a variety of specialties more education in the fundamental concepts of nuclear energy and power plant operations,” he said.

The program will offer a graduate certificate requiring 18 hours of course credit, and all of the courses will be available online.

The certificate can be earned in about 18 months to two years, said Jeffrey Goss, executive director of the engineering school’s Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education program.

“This program offers science and engineering professionals a chance to retool their skills during the downturn in the economy, making them qualified to take advantage of the many opportunities that will be opening up at power plants across the United States,” Goss said.

At ASU, a graduate certificate is earned by completing a series of courses in a single field or in a field that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Graduate certificates facilitate the professional growth of people who already hold a baccalaureate degree.

Unlike more extensive graduate programs that provide candidates with research skills for a profession in academia or industry, graduate certificates offer candidates an opportunity for growth in their present field of employment, or an opportunity to try out related fields in which they may eventually pursue a graduate degree.

The program can be used as a bridge to a graduate degree in engineering, Goss said.

For more information – including a video – visit http://www.asuengineeringonline.com/online/.

Syndicated columnist, women’s activist and economist Julianne Malveaux will present “Unfinished Business: Immigration’s Economic Impact on America” for the A. Wade Smith Memorial Lecture on Race Relations. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. March 30 in the Memorial Union, Ventana Ballroom, on ASU’s Tempe campus.

Malveaux is the president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina, and an often-tapped public commentator. Her contributions to public dialogue on issues of race, culture, gender and their economic impacts have helped shape public opinion in America.

She does so regularly by appearing on national network programs including “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Politically Incorrect,” “To the Contrary” and “Evening Exchange.” Previously, she hosted talk radio programs in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York.

As a writer and syndicated columnist, her work appears regularly in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms., Essence and The Progressive. Her weekly columns appear in the Los Angeles Times, Charlotte Observer, New Orleans Tribune, Detroit Free Press and San Francisco Examiner.

She is co-author of “Unfinished Business: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face.” She also has two column anthologies: “Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist” and “Wall Street, Main Street, and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll.”

Not only an accomplished author, Malveaux has edited papers, studies and publications. She edited “Voices of Vision: African American Women on the Issues,” and co-edited “The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism” and “Slipping through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women.”

Active in her community, Malveaux serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute, Recreation Wish List Committee and Librarian Education Trust.

She earned a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics from Boston College. She is president and chief executive officer of Last Word Productions, a multimedia production company.

The annual A. Wade Smith Memorial Lecture on Race Relations honors the memory and life work of its namesake. Smith, a former ASU professor and chair of sociology, worked tirelessly to improve race relations on campus and in the Valley. He also chaired the ASU Campus Environment Team.

A year after his death in 1994, Smith’s friends and family, with support from ASU and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, established the lecture series to improve race relations on campus and within the greater community. Well-respected leaders and scholars, including Cornel West, Mary Frances Berry, Ray Suarez and Leonard Pitts Jr., are among the talented speakers who have presented this lecture in the past.

The A. Wade Smith Community Award for Advancement of Race Relations will also be presented at the lecture to an Arizona resident whose efforts contributed to the improvement of race relations in the community. The award recipient is chosen based on demonstrated leadership and courage in the advancement of race relations in Arizona. Past recipients include Doris Marshall, Raner Collins, Betty Fairfax, Jean Fairfax and Elsie Moore.

The lecture is free and open to the public, though reservations are required and available online at clas.asu.edu/smithlecture. Additional information is available at 480-965-1441 or clasevents@asu.edu.

Education researcher Jenefer Husman is probing the concept of mental time travel through “future thinking” to understand how personal motivation and a vision of the future affect students’ abilities to make connections between their college coursework and career goals.

“The more career–oriented students are, the less interested they are in non-major courses. I am finding that if students are thinking about their future within their major classes, they generally are more likely to make the connection between that class and their future,” explained Husman, an associate professor with the Division of Psychology in Education in the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education. “If they think the class is useful for their future, they are more likely to use active learning practices to approach learning in a more strategic way.”

Jere Brophy, a distinguished professor of teacher education and educational psychology at Michigan State University, called Husman an international leader in research on future time perspective, which he defined as the degree people think about and plan for their lives in the future and take these plans into account in making decisions today.

“She studies future time perspective as it relates to motivation, especially to forward-looking decisions about future schooling and career plans. Strong future time perspectives are important contributors to people’s decisions to prepare for careers in science, engineering, medicine or other fields that require many years of education and specialized training,” Brophy said.

One of Husman’s most recent articles about future thinking was named one of ScienceDirect’s Top 25 Hottest Articles in psychology among 2,000 journals in 24 subject categories on the online global research community for scientists, clinicians and engineers. “Beliefs and Perceptions About the Future: A Measurement of Future Time Perspective,” was co-authored with Duane F. Shell, a research associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Husman’s research is funded by a CAREER grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation that has provided $711,437 to date, including new funds awarded in November. The five-year project, titled CAREER: Connecting with the Future: Supporting Identity and Career Development in Post-secondary Science and Engineering, is tracking engineering students through their undergraduate coursework to examine motivation, self-regulation and their sense of their own future. Students from an introductory engineering course and core mechanical and aerospace engineering courses were surveyed, as well as students from a geo-science course for non-science majors.

As a result of her work, Husman received the prestigious 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, which honors the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields. 

Husman said it is important for students pursuing an engineering career to choose the right coursework, experiences and mentors and crucial for faculty to understand how these students conceptualize their future and the value of the coursework in their career goals. Her work validates two measures of human thinking about the future: The Future Time Perspective Scale (FTPS) and the Perceived Instrumentality Scale (PI).  Over the past two years, she has collected cross-sequential data from 2,000 students, including repeated data on up to 500 students, to interpret the engineering students’ future time perspectives.

The data indicates that students who already know they want to become an engineer often disengage in coursework that isn’t part of their career path, which correlates their interest level to motivation and self-regulation.

“What was surprising in the non-major courses, however, is that students who think about their future are slightly less likely to use active learning strategies,” Husman noted. “The faculty can be much more aware of the utility of their discipline outside of that discipline to help students engage in the research process so they understand how and why the course is useful in making connections to their own future. By better understanding how students think about their future in science and engineering, we can better support and guide them, increasing the number of students who choose and succeed in science and education careers.”

Because the study also reveals an unstable enrollment among engineering students, she plans to examine why enrollment fluctuates and to measure correlations between their beliefs and thoughts about the future with these changes in enrollment.

 “I hope to be able to look at the people who drop out and the people who stay in and see what is happening motivationally just before they drop out that might tell us how to intervene,” she said.

The CAREER grant currently funds five graduate assistants who are constructing and managing research data. The additional funding will allow Husman to hire up to three undergraduates to shadow the graduate students and participate as authors on conference submissions about innovations and research in computing and engineering education for the International Frontiers in Education Conference. They also will create a social networking group on Facebook to track the career paths of participating students.

“The undergraduates will experience what it’s like to be a research assistant and do educational and psychological research,” Husman said.

During her spring semester sabbatical, Husman spent two weeks at the University of Munich doing experimental work to measure emotion on affect. In April and May, she will work with Willy Lens, professor of psychology and director of the Research Center for Motivation and Time Perspective at the University of Lueven in Belgium. Lens said Husman’s work should be used by teachers, parents and student counselors when enhancing students’ motivation.

“Dr. Husman’s research is both from a theoretical and applied point of view and very rich and useful. Her work on the motivating role of the individual future time perspective is groundbreaking in educational psychology. Educational psychologists too easily assume that only intrinsic student motivation is adaptive and that extrinsic motivation is maladaptive. Nobody will disagree with the first part,” Lens said.

“But Husman’s research shows that instrumental motivation that derives from anticipating one’s future (i.e., future consequences of present schooling) can be very adaptive, although it is—by definition—extrinsic in nature,” he continued. “Ongoing work certainly will uncover in more detail in which conditions and for which type of students increasing the utility value of school work by referring to future outcomes will enhance—via high quality of motivation—deep level learning, interest, persistence, well-being and academic achievement.”

As a co-PI of the ASU COMPUGIRLS project with Kimberly Scott, associate professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Husman also will use her findings to help improve the program by isolating aspects of how people mentally represent their futures. COMPUGIRLS is one of the few programs nationwide to wed critical thinking, social justice issues and technology.  The program provides girls in under-resourced school districts access to the latest technologies in digital media, games and virtual worlds.  The intent of the project is to encourage the participants to use computer skills to make their communities more just, help them think about their futures and consider the possibility of studying computer science at the university level.

One hypothesis uses the model of the “time bubble” which contains a horizon of density, goals, connectiveness and future path that provides a time dimension and the human ability to consider the future and willingness to make sacrifices in the present to obtain a better future.

“Human beings have a time horizon—a point in time at which things are a lot less valuable to them simply because they are further away in time,” she said. “I need to pull those dimensions together and test correlationally and longitudinally to see if the model is accurate about how people navigate through time. How do you adjust courses or content in order to accommodate the different shapes and sizes of people’s time bubbles? All of these come down to motivating people through their future time perspective.”

In most pandemic influenza plans the focus is often on first responders, better communication, and reducing stresses on local healthcare systems. Schools and public places are known to accelerate the spread of pandemic, but little attention is paid to school closures.

That was what researchers at the Decision Theater at Arizona State University focused on during two pandemic influenza exercises that took place over two weeks in February.

The exercise explored several incidents that might trigger a major shut down of the state’s public school system and how public school and health officials might collaborate with each other and respond to an outbreak. The event included 34 participants from three counties in Arizona: Coconino, Maricopa, Pinal, which accounts for more than 4.3 million people.

Participants faced three scenarios: an imminent threat of the pandemic flu, the first wave of the infection, and a possible second wave. The multi-media exercise was conducted at the Decision Theater’s immersive environment, known as the Drum, a space often used by local government groups, urban planners and private and non-profit organizations.

This exercise involved interactive brainstorming sessions combined with rich data simulations of the disease spread. This included charts, a geospatial map tracking how disease was spreading and realistic television news reports. Participants had to make decisions based on threat levels they faced – levels defined by the World Health Organization. The cumulative effect was a simulated crisis happening in real time.

“Decision-makers quickly saw the need to know about the impact of the pandemic in school districts adjacent to theirs,” says Megan Jehn, assistant professor of Healthcare Management and Policy at the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU who designed this exercise with her students. “One group saw the need to get out of a silo-mentality.” 

These were school districts that had pandemic plans in place, but “in short space of time, they saw the need for improved communication across state, local and community agencies,” says Jehn.

Participants also realized that their decisions had implications beyond the education system, and how existing regulations could influence how a well-rehearsed plan was carried out. One example: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations on the distribution of food in schools could potentially limit the use of the facility as a food distribution center once the academic program shut down.

Decision-makers were faced with the emotional factors too.

“The economic and social consequences of the pandemic seemed to weigh heavily on the minds of those in the room,” says Peter Kelly, a physician and consultant for the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), who moderated the exercise.

“For the Deer Valley School District, we have a comprehensive plan, but this exercise really brought it to life,” says Sandi Hicks, public relations director. “However, being in the room with the different districts, and being able to hear the Counties’ response and the medical professions’ response made us realize that we need to work more collaboratively.”

The pandemic flu model – the technically correct description is a ‘differential equation-based mathematical epidemiological model’ – was created at the Decision Theater by Ozgur Araz a senior researcher of the Dynamics and Informatics team, and Tim Lant, research director at the Decision Theater.

“The best written plans always raise new questions and shine the light on unique policy challenges when they are tested,” says Lant who has been working with several state and federal agencies in similar epidemiological exercises. Most people will agree that it is critical that we address the blind spots in a decision laboratory environment like this, rather than deal with them in a real moment of crisis.”

At the state level, ADHS has a comprehensive pandemic influenza plan – one reason why Arizona was recently ranked by The Associated Press as nation’s best prepared state — but sees the school closure as a key piece in the puzzle.

“When you’re looking at a large problem like a pandemic influenza spread, you have to attack it in little pieces,” says Andrew Lawless, section chief for education and exercise in the Bureau of Public Health and Emergency Preparedness at ADHS, which sponsored these exercises. “The whole problem is maybe too big to solve at once, and it’s important to focus on specific target groups such as schools and children and try to figure out what we can do piece by piece.”

Last year, ASU put more of these pieces together in one of the first interactive pandemic influenza exercises in the country. That exercise, too, was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Health Services.

When Anuj Mubayi received his degree in December of last year, he became the first graduate of ASU’s doctoral program in Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences. Today, as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas in Austin, Anuj is poised to make a positive impact on the world. Anuj recently granted an interview to staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ School of Human Evolution and Social Change to discuss his work and how his transdisciplinary training prepared him for researching “real world” problems.

SHESC: What interested you about the doctorate in Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Science program?

AM: I entered the program from the department of mathematics. At the time, I thought I knew what research in applied mathematics was, but after getting hands-on experience in cutting-edge research under the guidance of the program’s interdisciplinary faculty, my thinking on the subject shifted dramatically. In a sense, it opened my eyes, broadening my depth and understanding of the scientific linkages of applied math to real world problems. The program has unveiled for me a different but truer meaning of applied mathematical research.

SHESC: What was the best part of the program?

AM: Part of the beauty of the program is that a student has the freedom to choose courses from different departments. The participating faculty come from a wide range of disciplines—mathematics, statistics, life sciences, anthropology, global health, computer science—and have a lot of experience working on interdisciplinary projects. This program has not only made me stronger in mathematics, but also in biological and social sciences. With the support of the faculty, I was able to secure an internship at the Center for Non-Linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The program supported me financially to participate in and present my research at various national and international conferences and workshops and provided opportunities to network and collaborate with researchers from institutions around the world. In addition, the program regularly invites world-renowned researchers, such as professors Fred Brauer, Karl Hadeler, Tom Banks and Zhilan Feng, to give talks and seminars. In my opinion, this is a very research-based and career-oriented program that has made me a highly competitive candidate for jobs in my field of interest. Upon completing my Ph.D. in December of 2008, I had three solid postdoctoral offers, which is a direct result of the preparation from my program.

SHESC: Tell us about your doctoral thesis.

AM: The title of my thesis is “The Role of Environmental Context in the Dynamics and Control of Alcohol Use.” My interest in this problem began during the second year of my doctoral program when I joined my advisors, Drs. Carlos Castillo-Chavez and Priscilla Greenwood, in a project led by the Alcohol Prevention Research Center at Berkeley. The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded this project. I regularly participated in the workshop that included theoreticians and practitioners from Berkeley and College Station in the School of Public Health at Texas A & M University. The Alcohol Prevention Research Center provided support and data on alcohol drinking.

This project had a major research goal of increasing our understanding of alcohol drinking dynamics and identifying interventions that can influence the existing drinking culture in communities. The focus of my research has been on the effect of social influences and social contexts on drinking patterns of at risk populations. I studied mathematical models on drinking dynamics and, in the process, learned and used tools that include differential equations, stochastic processes, parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis and statistical methods. The modeling of social processes and interactions that enable alcohol-related problems to spread through communities and their evolution in the presence of distinct environments became a central aspect of my work. We addressed issues related to the impact of specific interventions on drinking patterns.

SHESC: What are you working on now?

AM: I am working on a research project awarded to Dr. Christopher Kribs-Zaleta by the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program called “Cross-immunity and geographical invasion in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi.” In my dissertation, I used deterministic and stochastic modeling techniques to study social and public health problems. In my postdoc, I am extending the methodology by using spatial temporal models to study the spread of Chagas Disease in wildlife.

SHESC: Any advice for students considering the program?

AM: Be ready to always learn new ideas, concepts and techniques. It could be something that you are not using currently or you think is not in your area, but you still want to know about it. Not all social and biological problems can be solved with the same tool.

For more information on the Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences program, contact Bate Agbor-Baiyee, academic success specialist in the School of Human Evolution and Social Sciences, at (480) 965-6215 or bate.agbor-baiyee@asu.edu.

Jodi Guyot, jodi.guyot@asu.edu
(480) 727-8739
School of Human Evolution and Social Change

The nationally touring, interactive World Vision Experience: AIDS exhibit will travel to Arizona State University’s West campus March 15-22 to raise awareness about the effects of the AIDS pandemic on children in developing countries.

Visitors to the free exhibit will view the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a child in an AIDS-affected community in Africa. World Vision Experience: AIDS features an audio tour, coupled with dramatic photography, to provide visitors with a new perspective on the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.

The exhibit, which has been presented in numerous communities across the United States, is making its first appearance in Arizona. World Vision Experience: AIDS is sponsored by the Office of Student Engagement on ASU’s West campus, in cooperation with World Vision, a humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

“World Vision is giving Valley residents an opportunity to see, hear and experience in a personal way the lives of children whose worlds have been devastated by AIDS,” says Kevin Cook, dean of student affairs at ASU’s West campus. “We invite the local community to join us as we do our part to make a difference in the lives of those most affected by this disease – our children.”

Visitors to the 2,500-square-foot exhibit will walk though a replica of an African village while listening on headsets to a story of a child whose life has been affected by AIDS. The stories profiled in the exhibit are those of four real children touched by the work of World Vision, and are inspired by true events.

World Vision Experience: AIDS visited 75 cities during 2007/2008, and is slated to visit 40 more in 2009.  Approximately 4,000 to 5,000 visitors are expected to tour the exhibit in each city during a typical eight-day stay.

“World Vision, unfortunately, cannot take thousands of Americans to Africa to witness the tragedy of the AIDS pandemic personally,” says Richard E. Stearns, president and CEO of World Vision, U.S. “So we’ve created this exhibit to enable people to ‘step into Africa’ and learn more about the effects of the greatest humanitarian disaster of our time and how they can help. No one can do everything, but each of us can to something to help turn the tide against AIDS.”

World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. More information about the organization is available at www.worldvision.org.

Exhibit hours are:
Sunday, March 15: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday, March 16: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 17: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesday, March 18: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 19: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, March 20: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 21: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 22: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

World Vision Experience: AIDS is not recommended for children under 12; parental discretion is advised. For more information, or to schedule a time for a large group to visit the exhibit, call the Office of Student Engagement at (602) 543-8200.

ASU’s West campus is at 4701 W. Thunderbird Road in Phoenix; the exhibit will be housed in the La Sala ballroom in the campus’s University Center Building.

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After going 2-2 and finishing sixth in the UC Irvine Invitational, the No. 6 Arizona State University water polo team (9-5, 0-0 MPSF) will open conference play on Saturday against the four-time defending national champions, No. 3 UCLA (11-3, 2-0 MPSF). The game will also be the home opener for the Sun Devils in 2009.

MOVING ON UP
On the strength of two victories over top 10 teams last week, Arizona State moved up to the No. 6 position in this week’s Varsity Top 20 poll. The Sun Devils defeated then No. 5 California and No. 7 UC Davis at last weekend’s UC Irvine Invitational, vaulting them up four spots from No. 10 to No. 6 in the poll. That is the highest ranking this year’s team has achieved, with the previous best being No. 7 in both the January 28 and February 4 polls.

FACING THE BEST
The Sun Devils have already played 12 games against ranked opponents this season, including the last 11 in a row, and they are 7-5 in those contests. They defeated two top-10 teams at the UC Irvine Invitational, beating No. 7 UC Davis 9-6 and No. 5 California 11-10. ASU will play at least seven more games this season against top 10 teams (ASU is No. 10) in MPSF play, beginning with this weekend’s match-up against No. 3 UCLA. The Sun Devils will also host No. 1 Stanford and No. 8 San Jose State while going on the road to meet No. 2 USC, No. 4 Hawai’i, No. 5 San Diego State and No. 7 California. ASU will also take on the top-ranked team in the Division III poll when they play at Pomona-Pitzer on March 13.

SCORING IN BUNCHES
Arizona State has been scoring goals at a record pace so far this season. The Sun Devils have scored 149 goals on the season, an average of 10.64 per game. That is the most in program history for the first 14 games of a season, as the 2006 team had the previous high mark through 14 games with 132 goals. The Devils tied a single-game school record by scoring 20 goals in their season-opening win over Colorado State on January 24, and they have scored eight or more goals in 11 of their 14 games.

PICKING UP WHERE SHE LEFT OFF
After earning First-Team All-American honors in 2008, Addison McGrath has started her senior season in grand fashion. She has 38 goals, 15 assists and 17 steals so far this season, and she has scored a goal in 13 of the team’s 14 games this season, with 11 multiple-goal games. McGrath was selected as the Mikasa MPSF Co-Player of the Week for the first week of the season, as she scored 13 goals, had five assists and added five steals in the team’s three games at the season-opening Michigan Invitational. It was the third time in her career she earned the conference’s player of the week honor, also doing so in April 2006 and in the final week of the regular season last year. In addition, McGrath’s five-goal performance against No. 14 CS Northridge on January 24 was her 50th career multiple-goal game.

SECOND-SEASON SENSATION
Sophomore Nikki Unbehaun has played a big role in her second year as a Sun Devil. She currently ranks third on the team with 17 goals, already far surpassing her freshman season total of 10. Unbehaun has three four-goal games this year, coming in victories over Bucknell on January 25, No. 12 Hartwick on February 1 and No. 5 California on February 22. The four goals against the Golden Bears helped the Sun Devils to their first win of the season over a top-five team and their first comeback victory when trailing after three quarters.

BURSTING ON THE SCENE
Sophomore Lynlee Smith has had a brilliant start to her collegiate career. The New Zealand native who played in the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 and 2007 Junior World Championships has made an immediate impact for the Sun Devils. She has scored goals in 12 of her first 14 career college games, including four-goal performances against Colorado State on January 24, against No. 12 Hartwick on February 1 and against No. 7 UC Davis on February 21, and she had a hat trick at No. 2 Stanford on February 8. Smith is currently second on the team with 28 goals, and she is tied for the team lead with 15 assists.

MAKING A SPLASH
Smith is not the only newcomer contributing for the Sun Devils in 2009. Freshman Mariam Salloum has started all 14 games and is third on the team with 28 points (16 goals and 12 assists), while sophomore Sam Schubert has also played in all 14 games, scoring seven goals and adding three assists. Freshman goalie Dana Harvey has collected 88 saves and stopped 45 percent of the shots she has faced while making 12 starts in the cage. Freshman Bella Morrison made her collegiate debut at the Stanford Invitational, and she has five goals and one assist in eight games, while fellow freshman Kelsey White has played in three games and scored one goal.

LET THE RECORD SHOW
Addison McGrath has rewritten the Arizona State record books in her time on campus. She set single-season school records with her 81 goals and 123 points last season, and in the process she became the school’s career leader in both categories. She currently has 212 goals and 312 points, and she will look to continue extending her hold on both records throughout the season. McGrath is also within striking distance of ASU’s all-time assists record. She has 100 in her career, putting her in second place and just 19 behind Ashley Bower, who had 119 assists from 2004-2007. In addition, she has 122 career steals, placing her fifth on the school’s career list in that category.

EYE ON THE RECORD BOOKS
McGrath is not the only Sun Devil climbing the charts in the school’s record books. Junior Kelly Phelps is currently fifth in Sun Devil history in goals scored (91) and seventh in points (124), and she needs just seven points to move into the top five in that category. In addition, junior Bonnie Miles sits fifth on the school’s all-time list with 52 assists, leaving her just one shy of fourth place.

HAT TRICKS A PLENTY
The Sun Devils already have 17 instances of a player scoring three or more goals in a game so far this season. Senior Addison McGrath has seven of them, as she has one three-goal game, five four-goal performances and a season-high five goals in the team’s victory over No. 14 CS Northridge on January 24. Sophomore Lynlee Smith has three four-goal games and one hat trick, and sophomore Nikki Unbehaun also has three four-goal games. Freshman Mariam Salloum has two hat tricks on the season, while junior Kelly Phelps has one.

IN THE CAGE
Sophomore Kaitlyn Morris and freshman Dana Harvey are combining to help the Sun Devils replace All-American goalie Caylinn Wallace this season. Wallace was a four-year starter for ASU, collecting a program-record 1,087 career saves and a single-season record 346 saves last year. Harvey has collected 88 saves and stopped 45 percent of the shots she has faced while playing in 13 games (12 starts), while Morris, who played in eight games last season as Wallace’s backup, has seen action in five games (two starts) in 2009 and recorded 13 saves.

THE 200/300 CLUB
While the Sun Devils competed at the Stanford Invitational on February 7-8, senior Addison McGrath reached two numbers never before seen in Arizona State water polo history. In the team’s 10-9 overtime win over No. 18 Indiana, McGrath scored four goals to give her 200 in her career. Then, the next day, against No. 10 San Jose State, she again scored four goals, and the second gave her 300 career points. The school’s all-time leader in both categories, McGrath now has 212 goals and 312 points.

A RECORD START
The Sun Devils began the season with six straight wins, setting a new school record for a season-opening winning streak. They defeated Colorado State, No. 14 CS Northridge and Bucknell at the Michigan Invitational on January 24-25, beat No. 15 CS Bakersfield and No. 13 CS Northridge at the Cal Baptist Mini-Tournament on January 31 and then knocked off No. 12 Hartwick at the UC Irvine Mini-Tournament on February 1. The previous mark for longest season-opening win streak came in 2006, when ASU won four in a row to open the year.

IN THE SERIES… UCLA
Arizona State is 0-9 all-time against UCLA. The Bruins are one of three teams that ASU has never beaten in three or more meetings, joining Stanford (0-8) and Loyola Marymount (0-5). The Sun Devils lost to UCLA twice last season, falling 14-5 at the Michigan Invitational and 14-4 in an MPSF conference game in Los Angeles, and they lost 15-9 when the two teams last faced off in Tempe on March 10, 2007. UCLA has won all five MPSF conference games in the series.

A LOOK AT THE BRUINS
UCLA has won six of the eight NCAA women’s water polo championships, including the last four (2005-2008). The Bruins are 11-3 on the season, with their only losses coming to No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 USC and No. 4 Hawai’i, and they currently lead the MPSF standings at 2-0. Senior Tanya Gandy leads the team with 35 goals, while fellow senior Katie Rulon has 26. Senior goalie Brittany Fullen ranks second in the MPSF with 112 saves on the season.

PRESEASON MPSF SELECTIONS
Arizona State received 13 points and was ranked seventh in the 2009 MPSF preseason women’s water polo coaches’ poll. USC received 48 points and six of the eight first-place votes to take the top spot, followed by Stanford and four-time defending national champion UCLA, who each got one first-place vote. Hawai’i, California and San Diego State followed, and San Jose State received the eighth position. In 2008, the Sun Devils finished tied for fifth in the MPSF regular season, their highest finish since joining the conference in 2004.

WELCOME BACK
The 2009 Sun Devils have 22 players on the roster, including 10 that return from last year’s squad. The returning players feature just one senior, Addison McGrath, four juniors in Jennifer Campo, Bonnie Miles, Kelly Phelps and Kari Walsh, and five sophomores in Lauren Hayes, Kaitlyn Morris, Candice Phillippe, Christy Stibbe and Nikki Unbehaun. Junior goalie Taylor Greenberg also returns to the Sun Devils this season, after having been out of water polo for the last two years. She redshirted during the 2006 season.

NEW FACES
There are 11 newcomers on the team this season, including six international players. Dana Harvey, Bella Morrison, Sam Schubert and Lynlee Smith all come to Tempe from New Zealand, Mariam Salloum hails from Germany and Kelsey White arrives from South Africa. In addition, freshmen Aimee Bedell, Terra Debold, Kaileigh Esson, Stephanie Funston and Ashley Mercerau round out the Arizona State roster.

NEW TO THE STAFF
Mark Lawrence joins the Sun Devil coaching staff this season as the graduate assistant manager. A three-year player in the Australian National League, Lawrence comes to Tempe after spending a year as the men’s assistant head coach at Ohlone Junior College in Fremont, Calif., where he played from 1999-2001.

NEXT TIME OUT
The Sun Devils will remain at home and continue MPSF conference play next weekend, as they host the nation’s top-ranked team, the Stanford Cardinal, at noon on Saturday, March 7, at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center.

A rapidly growing demand for more electricity – from cleaner energy sources – has nuclear power poised for a revival in the United States.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expects companies in the energy industry to apply in the next two years for construction and operation licenses for more than 30 nuclear power plants.

To respond to the demand for more expertise in the field, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University is launching a graduate-level program in nuclear power generation.

“The nuclear power industry workforce is not only graying but there are far too few experts in this area to meet the needs of the near future. The NRC alone is expecting to hire hundreds of new employees to prepare for an expanding workload,” said Keith Holbert, an ASU associate professor of electrical engineering and a nuclear engineering specialist who will direct the new program.

“There will also be a large number of engineering positions created by electric utilities and engineering-architecture firms, and the industry will want experienced engineers to fill those jobs, not just entry-level engineers,” Holbert said.

The American Nuclear Society (http://www.new.ans.org/) recently cited a survey by the American Physical Society (http://www.aps.org/) estimating that the industry nationwide could need to hire more than 500 workers with specific expertise in nuclear engineering each year in the near future – far more than the current number of new nuclear engineers graduating college annually.

ASU’s certificate program is intended to train experienced professionals to take on more advanced roles in the nuclear industry. It’s designed to help chemical, electrical and mechanical engineers, as well as physicists, chemists and mathematicians, build on their expertise and become qualified for an array of jobs necessary to manage and operate nuclear power generation facilities.

“The majority of engineers working at, or in support of, nuclear plant operations, are not nuclear engineers, so higher education institutions need to offer programs that provide engineers and scientists in a variety of specialties more education in the fundamental concepts of nuclear energy and power plant operations,” he said.

The program will offer a graduate certificate requiring 18 hours of course credit, and all of the courses will be available online.

The certificate can be earned in about 18 months to two years, said Jeffrey Goss, executive director of the engineering school’s Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education program.

“This program offers science and engineering professionals a chance to retool their skills during the downturn in the economy, making them qualified to take advantage of the many opportunities that will be opening up at power plants across the United States,” Goss said.

At ASU, a graduate certificate is earned by completing a series of courses in a single field or in a field that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Graduate certificates facilitate the professional growth of people who already hold a baccalaureate degree.

Unlike more extensive graduate programs that provide candidates with research skills for a profession in academia or industry, graduate certificates offer candidates an opportunity for growth in their present field of employment, or an opportunity to try out related fields in which they may eventually pursue a graduate degree.

The program can be used as a bridge to a graduate degree in engineering, Goss said.

For more information – including a video – visit http://www.asuengineeringonline.com/online/.