College of Engineering
The College of Engineering at Montana State University will serve the State of Montana and the nation by fostering lifelong learning, integrating learning and discovery, developing and sharing technical expertise, and empowering students to be tomorrow's leaders.
Sub-communities within this community
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Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE)
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Chemical & Biological Engineering
www.chbe.montana.edu -
Civil Engineering
www.coe.montana.edu/ce -
Computer Science
cs.montana.edu -
Electrical & Computer Engineering
coe.montana.edu/ee -
Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
www.coe.montana.edu/ltapv2/index.html -
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
www.coe.montana.edu/mie -
Western Transportation Institute
www.wti.montana.edu
Recent Submissions
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Impact of an automated hand hygiene monitoring system and additional promotional activities on hand hygiene performance rates and healthcare-associated infections
(2019-07)Objective: Determine the impact of an automated hand hygiene monitoring system (AHHMS) plus complementary strategies on hand hygiene performance rates and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Design: Retrospective, ... -
A Novel Gastric Spheroid Co-culture Model Reveals Chemokine-Dependent Recruitment of Human Dendritic Cells to the Gastric Epithelium
(2019-03)Background & Aims Gastric dendritic cells (DCs) control the adaptive response to infection with Helicobacter pylori, a major risk factor for peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. We hypothesize that DC interactions ... -
Randomized controlled trial evaluating the antimicrobial efficacy of chlorhexidine gluconate and para-chloro-meta-xylenol handwash formulations in real-world doses
(2019-06)Chlorhexidine gluconate-based soaps have become the gold standard for handwashing in critical care settings and para-chloro-meta-xylenol is an effective alternative antibacterial active ingredient. This study benchmarked ... -
Who goes in and out of patient rooms? An observational study of room entries and exits in the acute care setting
(2019-05)The objective of this study is to determine what percentage of patient room entries and exits (opportunities) are attributed to health care personnel (HCP) and non-HCP. A total of 14,876 opportunities were observed by ... -
Kinetics of Calcite Precipitation by Ureolytic Bacteria under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions
(2019-05)The kinetics of urea hydrolysis (ureolysis) and induced calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitation for engineering use in the subsurface was investigated under aerobic conditions using Sporosarcina pasteurii (ATCC strain ... -
Quorum sensing inhibition as a promising method to control biofilm growth in metalworking fluids
(2019-04)Microbial contamination in metalworking systems is a critical problem. This study determined the microbial communities in metalworking fluids (MWFs) from two machining shops and investigated the effect of quorum sensing ... -
Pay or prevent? Human safety, costs to society and legal perspectives on animal-vehicle collisions in Sao Paulo state, Brazil
(2019-04)Direct road mortality and the barrier effect of roads are typically identified as one of the greatest threats to wildlife. In addition, collisions with large mammals are also a threat to human safety and represent an ... -
An Agent-Based Hierarchical Bargaining Framework for Power Management of Multiple Cooperative Microgrids
(2019-01)In this paper, we propose an agent-based hierarchical power management model in a power distribution system composed of several microgrids (MGs). At the lower level of the model, multiple MGs bargain with each other to ... -
All-sky polarization imaging of cloud thermodynamic phase
(2019-02)Knowing the cloud thermodynamic phase (if a cloud is composed of ice crystals or liquid droplets) is crucial for many cloud remote sensing measurements. Further, this knowledge can help in simulating and interpreting cloud ... -
Analysis of convective and diffusive transport in the brain interstitium
(2019-03)Background Despite advances in in vivo imaging and experimental techniques, the nature of transport mechanisms in the brain remain elusive. Mathematical modelling verified using available experimental data offers a powerful ... -
Glass Dynamics and Domain Size in a Solvent-Polymer Weak Gel Measured by Multidimensional Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry and Diffusometry
(2019-02)Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of rotational and translational molecular dynamics are applied to characterize the nanoscale dynamic heterogeneity of a physically cross-linked solvent-polymer system above and below ... -
Dynamic processing of DOM: Insight from exometabolomics, fluorescence spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry
(2018-06)Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in freshwater environments is an important source of organic carbon, supporting bacterial respiration. Frozen environments cover vast expanses of our planet, with glaciers and ice-sheets ... -
Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation on Textured Breast Implant Shell Materials
(2019-04)"Background Bacterial biofilms have been implicated with breast implant complications including capsular contracture and anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. The actual mechanisms for either are still under active investigation ... -
Metagenomic Profiling of Microbial Pathogens in the Little Bighorn River, Montana
(2019-03)The Little Bighorn River is the primary source of water for water treatment plants serving the local Crow Agency population, and has special significance in the spiritual and ceremonial life of the Crow tribe. Unfortunately, ... -
Hypoxia arising from concerted oxygen consumption by neutrophils and microorganisms in biofilms
(2018-06)Infections associated with microbial biofilms are often found to involve hypoxic or anoxic conditions within the biofilm or its vicinity. To shed light on the phenomenon of local oxygen depletion, mathematical reaction-diffusion ... -
Cytoprotective Nrf2 pathway is induced in chronically txnrd 1-deficient hepatocytes
(2009-07)"Background Metabolically active cells require robust mechanisms to combat oxidative stress. The cytoplasmic thioredoxin reductase/thioredoxin (Txnrd1/Txn1) system maintains reduced protein dithiols and provides electrons ... -
Persistent Homology for the Quantitative Evaluation of Architectural Features in Prostate Cancer Histology
(2019-02)The current system for evaluating prostate cancer architecture is the Gleason grading system which divides the morphology of cancer into five distinct architectural patterns, labeled 1 to 5 in increasing levels of cancer ... -
Impaired Postural Control and Altered Sensory Organization During Quiet Stance Following Neurotoxic Chemotherapy: A Preliminary Study
(2019-02)Individuals diagnosed with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) demonstrate impaired balance and carry an increased risk of falling. However, prior investigations of postural instability have only compared ... -
A permeability-increasing drug synergizes with bacterial efflux pump inhibitors and restores susceptibility to antibiotics in multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains
(2019-03)Resistance to antibiotics poses a major global threat according to the World Health Organization. Restoring the activity of existing drugs is an attractive alternative to address this challenge. One of the most efficient ... -
Incorporation of Carbon Nanofillers Tunes Mechanical and Electrical Percolation in PHBV:PLA Blends
(2018-12)Biobased fillers, such as bio-derived cellulose, lignin byproducts, and biochar, can be used to modify the thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties of polymer composites. Biochar (BioC), in particular, is of interest ...
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