Summary of Discovering Students’ Concepts and Attitudes Toward Technology

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Steven Shumway and Dr. Curt J. Derres-Davenport, Technology Education Research for this project began by contacting three middle schools in the Utah Valley area, American Fork Junior High, Oak Canyon Junior High, and Lehi Junior High. These schools were asked to participate in a research project that would discover the students’ attitudes and concepts of […]

The “Sideward Glance”: Double-voiced Discourse in The Tempest

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Joel W. Darrington and Dr. Joseph Parry, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature Mikhail Mikhailovich (M. M.) Bakhtin is increasingly becoming one of the important literary theorists of our century. Writing in Stalinist Russia in the first half of this century, Bakhtin has come out of obscurity in the last twenty or so years to a […]

The Initial Research For The Effects of Suppression on The Acoustic Reflex And Otoacoustic Emissions

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Jannica Dale and Dr. Wendy Hanks, Audiology Under the supervision of two of my professors and a graduate student, I participated in research investigating whether or not contralateral suppression affects the hearing system and what any effects may be. We focused on two specific aspects of the hearing system, the acoustic reflex and otoacoustic emissions. […]

Parental Authoritativeness, Social Support and College Adjustment

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Sarah Cusworth, Kelly McCoy, Family Sciences College Adjustment A factor analysis (principal component analysis, Varimax rotation method) of the 28 college adjustment questions yielded eight factors. Five of these factors closely related to the five subsections in the adjustment measure. Because the questions hung together in the analysis it was assumed that the questionnaire was […]

Design of Equipment to Test Compliant Centrifugal Clutches

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Nathan B. Crane and Dr. Larry L. Howell, Mechanical Engineering A compliant mechanism is a mechanism in which some or all motion comes from deflection of its members. Several years ago, a one piece centrifugal clutch based on a compliant mechanism was developed and implemented in several products. It offers many cost and assembly advantages […]

Waste Not, Want Not

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Mary Cragun and Dr. William Hecker, Chemical Engineering The treatment of wastewater or sewage is a multi-step process. One of the steps involves the treatment of the organic mass collected during the treatment process. There are several different methods of treating this organic mass or sludge. At the Springville Wastewater Treatment Facility, the sludge is […]

The Role of Religion in Post-Soviet Russia

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Jennifer Christenson, Richard H. Jackson, Geography My research during the last year can be divided into four general categories: the history and state of the Russian Orthodox Church today; the current geography, or spatial distributions, of religions in Russia; non-traditional religions in Russia; and finally, Russia’s 1997 religion bill On Freedom of Conscience and Religious […]

Statistical Process Control Methods for Multiple Stream Processes: A Comparative Study

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Jared Caleb Christensen and Dr. Scott D. Grimshaw, Statistics The Shewhart control chart is the most common statistical process control (SPC) tool used to determine stability. One fundamental assumption of the Shewhart chart is that the output comes from a single, continuous stream. This implies the monitoring of a single source of variation. Filling machines […]

Evolutionary Relationships of Genera in the Lizard Family Iguanidae

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Bruce W. Christensen and Dr. Jack W. Sites, Zoology The family Iguanidae contains eight living genera of large, herbivorous lizards that by virtue of their size occupy important ecological niches wherever they are found. They are important elements of the food web, both as seed dispersers and prey for other animals, including humans (1). Of […]

Fast Simulation Methods For Electrons in a Penning Trap

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Brent A. Chipman and Dr. Ross Spencer, Physics and Astronomy The motivation for this work comes from the paper “Parametrically Pumped Electron Oscillators” by J. Tan and G. Gabrielse (1). Tan and Gabrielse describe a number of unexplained behavior exhibited by electrons confined in a parametrically pumped penning trap. In order to gain a better […]