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Two faculty members from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) received international recognition recently for their outstanding research publications.

Dr. Fengxia Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was selected as the winner of the Best Presentation award at the 2014 International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MoViC2014).

Dr. Mark McKenney, assistant professor of computer sciences, was awarded the prize for Best Paper at the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming.

Dr. Fengxia Wang 

The 12th annual International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MoViC2014) was held on August 3 at the Sapporo Convention Center in Hokkaido, Japan. Over 800 papers and presentations were submitted for the event, with Dr. Wang’s presentation being selected as the winner.

“It is a great pleasure for me to attend the MoViC2014 conference,” said Wang. “With this award, I hope to enhance my researching abilities and continue building my reputation as a researching specialist.”

The MoViC conference is held only once every two years, making Wang’s prize-winning presentation “A piezoelectric laminated curved THUNDER model for energy harvesting” a notorious international accomplishment. The goal of MoViC is to stimulate contacts between scientists active in the area of Motion and Vibration Control and engineers of virtually every field. By holding this symposium, MoViC creates an environment where researchers from around the world can discuss recent progress in the fields of motion and vibration control, as well as their applications to current industrial, economical and environmental issues. As a result, MoViC hopes that the conference will encourage researchers to form international cooperative research projects.

“Dr. Wang works very hard and rightfully deserves the utmost congratulations for her research achievements,” explained Dr. Hasan Sevim, dean and professor in the SIUE SOE. “Her excellent work further speaks to SIUE’s dedication to providing quality educational experiences for both students and faculty alike.”

Dr. Mark McKenney 

On November 4, hundreds of researchers from both industry and academia gathered in Dallas, Texas to celebrate the annual ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference, which hosted the International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). The primary purpose of the event is for researchers and industry representatives to share their most current advances in research in the field of spatial databases. This year, a Best Paper award at IWGS was accepted by Dr. Mark McKenney.

Dr. McKenney was assisted in his research by SIUE SOE students Roger Frye, Zachary Benchley and Logan Maughan. As a result, the group was awarded first-prize for their publication “Temporal Coverage Aggregates Over Moving Region Streams.”

The International Workshop on GeoStreaming is hosted in order for researchers to gather and discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far and to plan for the future of “GeoStreaming.” The goal of this event is to create awareness of GeoStreaming and further the understanding in both stream processing and geographic information systems.

“This award is recognition of the excellent work that SIUE students are capable of, both at the graduate and undergraduate level,” said McKenney. “SIUE and the School of Engineering continue to attract highly qualified students who are able to push forward the limits of research in a meaningful way, and this award shows that the work of these students is recognized as outstanding by scientists at an international event. Hopefully, we will be able to see more student publications come out of this work.”

The “Temporal Coverage Aggregates Over Moving Region Streams” award-winning paper can be found at Mark McKenney.