Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Sez Atamturktur, Ph.D.
Dr. Atamturktur is currently the Harry and Arlene Schell Professor & Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State Universityand director of the CU-Ideas research group. The group is dedicated to the development, application and dissemination of model validation and uncertainty quantification (MVUQ) techniques. Their main emphasis is in structural dynamics applications and structural systems coupled with other domains. Funding for their research is provided by several federal agencies including National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, Los Alamos National Laboratory as well as industry organizations and partners, such as National Masonry Concrete Association and Vulcraft Inc.
Their focus directly relates to the goals of the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) MVUQ technical division, currently chaired by Dr. Atamturktur.
Selected Publications
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Prabhu, S.*, Atamturktur, S. and Cogan, S. (2017), "Model assessment in scientific computing: Considering robustness to uncertainty in input parameters,” Engineering Computations: International Journal for Computer-Aided Engineering and Software (Emerald), Vol. 34 Issue: 5, pp. 1700-1723.
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Yazdekhasti S., Piratla K. R., Atamturktur S., and Khan A. (2017), “Experimental Evaluation of a Vibration-Based Leak-Detection Technique for Water Pipelines,” Journal of Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier), (Impact factor: 3.82) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2017.1327544
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Hu X.*, Prabhu S.*, Atamturktur S. and Cogan, S. (2017), “Mechanistically-Informed Damage Detection Using Dynamic Measurements: Extended Constitutive Relation Error,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 85, pp. 312-328. (Impact factor: 2.77).
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Brown A. and Atamturktur S. (2017), “Nonparametric Functional Calibration of Computer Models,” Statistica Sinica (Institute of Statistical Science), DoI: 10.5705/ss.202015.0344. (Impact factor: 1.24).
Interesting Facts
I have strange sleep habits. I wake up around 2am most nights, make myself a nice cup of coffee and work (write proposals, journal papers, analyze data etc.). If I don’t feel like working on my research that night, I read a book or some random Wikipedia pages all night! I would like to be a chief academic officer (a.k.a. provost) at an R1 institution one day (in say about 15 years from now); so I read a lot of fun books about higher education landscape, academic leadership, development/fund-raising, strategic planning etc. etc. At a given year, I read at least 12 books. Some of them are directly related to my research while others related to higher education administration.