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Interim Report Response
No full textAfter reviewing the Interim Report submitted in November 2015, HLC outlines the major points to be addressed in the Standard Pathway Year 4 Comprehensive Evaluation scheduled for September 11-12, 2017. The embedded report will be focused on the implementation of program review; and the use of data and information generated by program review in budgeting and planning. In addition, the Year 4 Assurance Filing will include an embedded report providing clear evidence of the following: That the University’s faculty workload policy revisions have been completed and that a comprehensive institutional policy on faculty workload has been approved and is memorialized in appropriate documents; That the institution’s learning assessment system and procedures have been standardized across the University and are being employed for the purposes of academic and institutional improvement
Paired vehicle occupant analysis indicates age and crash severity moderate likelihood of higher severity injury in second row seated adults in frontal crashes
No full textThe majority of advances in occupant protection systems for motor vehicle occupants have focused on occupants seated in the front row of the vehicle. Recent studies suggest that these systems have resulted in lower injury risk for front row occupants as compared to those in the second row. However, these findings are not universal. In addition, some of these findings result from analyses that compare groups of front and second row occupants exposed to dissimilar crash conditions, raising questions regarding whether they might reflect differences in the crash rather than the front and second row restraint systems. The current study examines factors associated with injury risk for pairs of right front seat and second row occupants in frontal crashes in the United States using paired data analysis techniques. These data indicate that the occupant seated in the front row frequently experiences the more severe injury in the pair, however there were no significant differences in the rate of occurrence of these events and events where the more severe injury occurs in the second row occupant of the pair. A logistic regression indicated that the likelihood of the more severe injury occurring in the second row seated occupant of the pair increased as crash severity increased, consistent with data from anatomic test dummy (ATD) tests. It also indicated that the second row occupant was more likely to have the more severe injury in the pair if that occupant was the older occupant of the pair. These findings suggest that occupant protection systems which focus on providing protection specifically for injuries experienced by older occupants in the second row in higher severity crash conditions might provide the greatest benefit
Injury severity data for front and second row passengers in frontal crashes
Get PDFThe data contained here were obtained from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration׳s National Automotive Sampling System – Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS) for the years 2008–2014. This publically available data set monitors motor vehicle crashes in the United States, using a stratified random sample frame, resulting in information on approximately 5000 crashes each year that can be utilized to create national estimates for crashes. The NASS-CDS data sets document vehicle, crash, and occupant factors. These data can be utilized to examine public health, law enforcement, roadway planning, and vehicle design issues. The data provided in this brief are a subset of crash events and occupants. The crashes provided are exclusively frontal crashes. Within these crashes, only restrained occupants who were seated in the right front seat position or the second row outboard seat positions were included. The front row and second row data sets were utilized to construct occupant pairs crashes where both a right front seat occupant and a second row occupant were available. Both unpaired and paired data sets are provided in this brief
Queueing models with optional cooperative services
No full textIn this paper we consider a single-server queueing model in which the customers arrive according to a versatile point process that includes correlated arrivals. An arriving customer can either request for an individual service or for a cooperative service (to be offered along with other customers with similar requests) with some pre-specified probabilities. There is a limit placed on the number of customers requiring cooperative services at any given time. Assuming the service times to be exponentially distributed with possibly different parameters depending on individual or cooperative services, we analyze this model using matrix-analytic method. Second, we simulate this model to obtain a couple of key performance measures which are difficult to compute analytically as well as numerically to show the benefit of cooperative services in queueing. Interesting numerical examples from both analytical and simulated models are discussed. We believe this type of queueing model, which is very much applicable in service areas, has not been studied in the literature
2016 Draft Statement Engineering
No full textA Draft Statement presenting the findings of the recent evaluation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET
