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Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda September 4, 2025
Get PDFApproval of Minutes - April 3, 2025 Program Proposals Semester Course Approval Reviews Other Business Adjourn: 3:00 p
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Transdiagnostic Approach to Improve Quality of Life Among Adults Living With a Physical Chronic Health Condition
Get PDFThe research contained in this dissertation presents rationale and empirical support for the application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a transdiagnostic approach in improving quality of life for adults living with chronic health conditions (CHCs). The first study consists of a systematic review that aims to examine (1) the current state of evidence of ACT for adults living with a CHC, (2) how outcomes are being characterized within this population, (3) the methodological quality of the included trials, as well as (4) summarizing the health conditions in which ACT has been evaluated for. The second study examines the acceptability and feasibility of a self-guided, online ACT program in improving psychological and process-based measures for adults living with a CHC. Overall, this dissertation project presents an initial examination of ACT to inform future intervention development and research seeking to improve transdiagnostic treatment outcomes for adults living with one or more CHCs
Child Sexual Abuse: What Utahns Need to Know
No full textChild sexual abuse (CSA) is a significant social, criminal justice, and public health issue that impacts families, neighborhoods, and communities of all racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds. CSA is underreported, underfunded, and often accompanied by lifelong negative impacts on survivors’ physical, mental, and emotional health. Importantly, we acknowledge that not all who have experienced child sexual abuse feel that the term survivor (instead of victim) adequately conveys their feelings and experiences. However, for the sake of simplicity and to align with the terminology used in most research, we use the term in this report. Unfortunately, most survivors do not disclose the abuse until they are adults—and that is if they disclose at all—resulting in many child victims who do not receive help, services, or support, and may even operate under the mistaken idea that they were responsible for what happened to them. In fact, it is widely accepted among researchers and child advocates that the actual incidence of sexual abuse is higher than current data suggest, and self-blame, embarrassment, threats, fear of not being believed, and apprehension about consequences to the perpetrator may contribute to underreporting.
Child sexual abuse is a critical issue to address, and, since Utah girls experience disproportionate rates of CSA, bringing attention to the issue aligns with the Utah Women & Leadership Project’s (UWLP) mission to strengthen the impact of Utah girls and women. Our hope is that this snapshot will serve as a call to action for every Utahn to unite under a comprehensive strategy to address CSA and protect all Utah children.
This research snapshot focuses on four key areas: Defines CSA and provides statistics regarding prevalence data at state and national levels, and among various demographics, Presents survey results of Utahns’ awareness, understanding, and perceptions of the issue of CSA, Describes potential social, physical, mental, and emotional long-term impacts of CSA, and, Makes recommendations for addressing and preventing CSA
Women’s Safety & Security: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, And Attitudes
No full textDuring the fall of 2023, Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) researchers conducted a statewide study to establish a baseline for public perceptions related to the awareness, understanding, and attitudes about challenges that Utah women and girls face. In early 2024, we published 20 short research summaries that shared the results of this comprehensive study. Then, in the fall of 2024, we administered the survey, with slight refinements, around the state of Utah. We now share the results of the 2024 data by releasing six white papers; this is the third in the series.
Overall, this comprehensive study was designed to support the efforts of A Bolder Way Forward (BWF), which is a statewide initiative focused on ensuring that more Utah girls, women, and their families thrive. Each area of focus (spoke) has bold goals with data-driven metrics to measure progress. This research focuses on collecting and analyzing data to help track this progress for those goals based on potential shifts in public awareness, understanding, and/or attitudes related to each spoke. The shifts are critical for Utahn to make progress in the topic areas.
The following lists the five overarching categories within BWF and the 18 spokes included in this research: Education: Finance, Higher Education Attainment, and K–12 Initiatives Community Engagement: Political Representation, Boards and Commissions, and Civic Engagement/Advocacy Safety and Security: Child Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Poverty and Homelessness, Sexual Assault, and Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Discrimination Health and Wellbeing: Health Across the Lifespan, and Home and Family Workplace: Childcare/Pre-K Programs, Entrepreneurship, Gender Pay Gap, Leadership Development, Organizational Strategies and Workplace Culture, STEM Fields, and Workforce Development
This report covers elements of four spokes in the Safety & Security category (i.e., Child Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Poverty/Homelessness). One additional spoke from the Safety & Security spoke (i.e., Sexual Harassment & Gender-Based Discrimination) was included in the first white paper in this 2025 series titled “Women’s Workplace Challenges: Part 1 – Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes.” After highlighting foundational research methods for the study as a whole, this report shares the findings of these four areas of focus and includes both the applicable quantitative and qualitative results
RAPID: Data Collection on Roadway Vehicle Abandonment in the Fast-Moving Los Angeles Wildfire Evacuations
No full textDevelopment of Turbopump for ZERO Rocket Engine
No full textFlash Talk presented during the 2025 SmallSat Conference
ACMES: The Next-Generation of Advanced LWIR Observations of the Earth
Get PDFThe Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors (ACMES) program is an advanced Long-Wave IR (LWIR) remote observation Earth Science Small Satellite mission scheduled to launch in 2026 to a high-inclination 550 km Sun synchronous (SSO) orbit. ACMES will host several novel payloads and technologies, including the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager 2.0 (HyTI 2.0), the Filter Incidence Narrowband Infrared Spectrometer (FINIS), the Planar Langmuir Impedance Diagnostic (PLAID) probe, and the Active Thermal Architecture (ATA) system. ACMES will serve a one-year primary mission focused on technology demonstration, followed by a three-year science-based mission to provide valuable LWIR observations of the Earth’s surface. The ACMES satellite is currently under development at the Center for Space Engineering (CSE) at Utah State University in partnership with the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) and Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company. ACMES is funded through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) under an InVEST grant
Development of 6U CubeSat VERTECS Utilizing the BIRDS Bus System
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Optimizing Ground Station Communications Using Multiple Spacecraft Per Aperture in a Ground Segment as a Service Framework
No full textThe increasing deployment of satellite clusters in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) presents new challenges and opportunities for satellite communications, particularly from a Ground Segment perspective. This paper investigates efficient management of multiple ground contacts, in the Ground Segment as a Service context, by leveraging on Multiple Spacecraft Per Aperture (MSPA) technique to maximize connectivity by sharing ground resources to multiple satellites simultaneously.
MSPA is particularly valuable for handling multiple spacecraft in close proximity, such as during the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of rideshare missions, all being supported by same ground segment infrastructure. By enabling simultaneous downlinks through a shared ground stations, MSPA improves spectral efficiency and ensures equitable distribution of communication windows among different users. Moreover, sharing the communication opportunities during the nominal satellite’s operational phase shall increase operational efficiency from both ground and space point of view, especially for formation flying missions.
From an orbital mechanics perspective, this paper addresses the challenges of constructing efficient tracking trajectories and optimizing contact schedules to maximize ground station usage. This requires optimizing antenna tracking trajectory of satellite visibilities, reducing the unused time between tracked objects and ensured seamless data acquisition. On the other hand, from an RF engineering standpoint, the complexities of simultaneously monitoring and processing multiple portions of the RF spectrum using multi-radio and single-radio architectures are explored.
Key challenges associated with MSPA include managing inter-satellite signal interference, ensuring robust data demodulation for concurrent downlinks and maintaining synchronization across multiple communication channels. Additionally, ground station hardware limitations such as antenna beamwidth constraints and high-speed digital signal processing requirements must be addressed to fully exploit MSPA’s capabilities.
By leveraging advanced scheduling algorithms for contacts and spectrum management techniques, GSaaS providers can significantly enhance service effectiveness for satellite constellation operators or multi mission shared resources coordination. This paper will first present the overall framework, analyzing both orbital and RF challenges of MSPA. Then, simulations of a few case studies demonstrating the benefits of MSPA are presented, offering insights into the future of scalable and efficient satellite-ground communications
TES-11 Goes DCS Demonstration: A Novel LEO-to-GEO Communication System for Nanosatellites
No full textA satellite in any low Earth orbit (LEO), with access to various geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellites, could have a near constant, low bandwidth, real-time link back to Earth during most of an orbit. These GEO satellites could include the two GOES, steadily refreshed since 1974, the European Space Agency (ESA) Meteosat, and the Japanese Space agencies (JAXA) Himawari satellite. These satellites implement the GOES Data Collection System (DCS), or analog, with applications which include meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, ecology, and remote sensing of Earth resources. The relatively compact DCS ground stations used by thousands of researchers transmit data at 100, 300, and 1200 bps at 402 MHz. A full-time link during much of an orbit, even at low data rate, would be useful for reporting internal spacecraft health, hazard avoidance for a future space traffic control system, and an augmentation of the GEO satellite monitoring capability (by monitoring, for example, polar regions not accessible to the system) including real-time events requiring immediate attention. A joint effort between NOAA and the NASA Ames Research Center began such an effort using the TechEdSat (TESn) -8, -10 and -11 missions. This required a miniaturization of the basic DCS transmitter such that it could fit within the constrained volume of the cubesat standard (i.e., 100 x 100 mm cross-section). In addition, the transmitted signal needs a different Doppler correction depending on the orbit position or velocity, which represented a significant part of the mission development. The transmitted power levels were varied from 1-10 Wrf,to assess the success of the acquired message string. Even at low power, the message success was greater than 40% and found to be adequate for some applications, particularly if the message were repeated. While not a replacement for high data downlink capability, it is an attractive option for long-lived thermosphere sensing, quick command and control of the basic spacecraft avionics, and rapid identification protocols, which has become increasingly important in the crowded 400-600 km altitude band. For geostationary transfer orbits (GTO) and cis-Lunar space including the Lunar surface, the addition of this rapid command and control capability can help assure the success of the mission with the simple addition of an extra communication link. In addition, the system frequency is the same standard for the UHF Mars relay satellites, allowing for future Mars ‘nanosat-class’ ground science stations. – Thus, this process may permit the extension of the basic DCS concept, enabling significant augmentation of Mars weather predictions for the upcoming series of missions