1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
A corporate identity is the visual identity or personality of a corporation that is designed to meet business objectives. It is most often manifested by way of branding and the use of trademarks and comes into being when there is a common ownership of an organizational philosophy that is manifested in to a distinct corporate culture.Students in the senior level Graphic Design III course were assigned a semester long project where they were required to research, invent, name, and create a trademark (logo, logotype and/or mark) for a hypothetical business. Each of the companies was required to represent a fresh new innovative approach to the production of a qualitative product and/or service. The students were also required to create their fictional company within a well-rooted environmentally conscious and sustainable venue, an approach that would have to be maintained throughout the creation of the identity system.The student projects displayed each reflect a hypothetical company that is entrepreneurial in its approach to product, service and promotion. Each of the visual identity systems demonstrate a student’s own developmental research regarding their company product, name, competition, copyright, materials, etc., as well as a sampling of their extensive written and visual development of the company trademark and its coordinating business collateral which together form a visual identity system. Students will be available to discuss and answer questions about their projects from 1-2 PM in Torch Lounge.
Necrophagous Insect Community Assembly Associated with Replicate Sus scrofa Carcasses: An Exploration of Inter-Carcass Variation Biology Oral Presentation, Graduate Research Advisor(s) - Mark E Benbow Student(s) - Andrew J Lewis
1:00 PM-1:20 PM Kennedy Union - 331
During a criminal investigation involving a corpse, there are a variety of methods that can be used to determine the post-mortem interval (PMI). By knowing the PMI, investigators can determine who is and is not a suspect, so the more methods that can be utilized, the more accurate the estimation. Most PMI determination methods are medical, but there are a few that involve ecological processes, such as succession. Necrophagous insects are one group of organisms that have a pattern of succession that changes during the course of decomposition that has a successful history of use as evidence in criminal and legal cases.The objective of this study was to evaluate the extent insect species richness and diversity change over decomposition. It was hypothesized that necrophagous insect species richness and diversity would vary between replicates and across different seasons. To test this hypothesis for the insect assemblages, Sus scrofa carcasses (N=6) were placed in a forested habitat near Xenia, OH during spring (March 15th- June 8th) and summer (July 23rd - August 31st) 2009, fall (November 11th, 2009 - Ă‚?May 1st 2010) and winter (February 2nd- May 1st 2010). Standardized insect samples involving aerial sweep nets, pitfall traps and hand collections were obtained from the start of decomposition till the carcasses entered the dry stage. Statistical analyses included one and two-way ANOVAs, non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS), multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP), and indicator species analysis (ISA) were used to determine significant differences variation. Necrophagous insects species richness ranged from 1-4 and 1-6, during the spring and summer months respectively. Several species were only present during certain seasons, showing seasonal fluctuation. Results match previous research that involves insect succession in PMI estimates. However, both replicate and seasonal variation in necrophagous insect species richness was noted and should be taken into considered during future investigations.
Memristor Devices for Neuromorphic Computing Applications Electrical & Computer Engineering Oral Presentation, Graduate Research Advisor(s) - Tarek M Taha Student(s) - Christopher G Yakopcic
1:00 PM-1:30 PM Kennedy Union - 312
The memristor is known as the fourth fundamental two-terminal passive circuit element (the others being the resistor, capacitor, and inductor). The memristor was first theorized by Dr. Leon Chua in 1971, and the first successful fabrication of the device was published by a research team led by Dr. Stanley Williams at HP Labs in 2008. It was shown by Chua that the memristor was a missing link representing the relationship between charge and flux in the symmetry of the equations governing these devices. The memristor has unique properties including the ability change resistance based the amount of charge flowing through the device, and more importantly the ability to retain its resistance state after the power is removed from the device.These properties lead researchers to believe that this device can be used to approximate the effect of a synapse in neuromorphic computing architectures. The synapse is a component of brain tissue that provides a connection with variable strength between 88