Faculty and Staff Daniel Budny

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Academic Director, Freshman Programs Email: Phone: (412) 624-6474 Fax: (412) 624-2827 Office: Benedum B74A

Education

• PhD Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1988
• MS Engineering Mechanics, Michigan State University, 1984
• MS Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 1979
• BS Civil Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 1977

Professional Interests

Dr. Budny's academic and professional interests are in the fields of basic fluid mechanics and in the development of programs that assist the entering freshman student either on a standard track or an academically disadvantaged student by providing counseling and cooperative learning environments for the standards in their first and second semester freshman engineering courses. He has numerous publications in this and other engineering education areas.

For more information, visit Dr. Budny's home page.

Representative Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Bisnette, J. B., Smith, A.K., Vipperman, J. S., Budny, D. D., "Active Noise Control Using Phase-Compensated, Damped Resonant Filters", Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, February 2006, Vol. 128, Issue 2, pp. 148 – 155.
• Callison, Rachel, Budny, D.D. and Thomes, Kate, "Library Research Project for First Year Engineering Students: Results from Collaboration by Teaching and Library Faculty", The Reference Librarian Journal, Vol. 43, Issue 89/90, pp. 93 – 106, April 2005.
• Budny, D.D., Paul, C., "Working with Students and Parents to Improve the Freshman Retention", Journal of Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education, Vol. 4, Issues 3&4, July - December 2003, pp. 45-53.
• Finelli, Cynthia, J., Klinger, Allen, Budny, Dan, D., "Strategies for Improving Student Learning", Journal of the Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 491 - 497, October 2001.
• Budny, D.D., "Integrating the Freshman Seminar and Freshman Problem Solving Courses", 2001 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. F4B-21 - F4B-26, Reno, NV, October, 2001.
• Budny, D.D., "Working with Students and Parents to Improve the Freshman Retention", 2001 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. T3E-5 - T3E-10, Reno, NV, October 2001.
• Budny, D.D., Hein, T. L., "Learning the "Write" Way in Science and Engineering", 2001 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. T1B-7 - T1B-13, Reno, NV, October, 2001.
• Hein, T.L. and Budny, D.D., "Research on learning style: Applications in the physics and engineering classrooms," IEEE Transactions on Education., vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1 - 6, August 2001.
• Budny, D.D., "Adding Advising and Mentoring to an Integrated Freshman Curriculum", 2001 ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, pp. 6E5-15 - 6E5-20, Oslo, Norway, August, 2001.
• Budny, D.D., "The Freshman Seminar Assisting the Freshman Engineering Student's Transition from High School to College", American Society for Engineering Education 2001 Annual Conference, pp. 1-7, Albuquerque, NM, June, 2001

Recent Conference Publications

• Budny, D., Allen, A., Quarcoo, J., "What Do Our Students Think Is Important During The Freshman Year", Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education 2007 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.
• Lund, L., Budny, D., "What Makes A Successful Service Learning Project For Freshman Engineers", Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education 2007 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.
• Budny, D., "Helping Freshman Engineering Student Deal With Failure", Proceedings 2007 International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Plenary Session 2, pp. 1 -4, Sao Paulo, Brazil , March 2007.
• Budny, D., Paul, C., Bon, L., "The Impact Peer Mentoring Can have on Freshman Students", Proceedings 2006 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 28 – 31, 2006.
• Rocha Brito, Claudio da, Ciampi, Melany M. and, Budny, D.D., "Work in Progress: Cultural Immersion: A Collaborative work among Countries in Engineering Education", Proceedings 2006 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 28 – 31, 2006.
• Rocha Brito, Claudio da, Ciampi, Melany M. and, Budny, D.D., "New Strategies for a New Concept of Education: Cultural Immersion Fostering the Engineering Formation", Proceedings 2006 IJME-Intertech International Conference, Union, New Jersey, Oct. 19 – 21, 2006.
• Jennifer M. Nolan, Frank N. Kremm , and Dan Budny "Advances in On Demand Programming Solutions Developed in C# by Non Computer Science Majors", 2006 ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, Session T1E, San Juan, PR, July 2006, pp. T1E-8 – T1E-11.
• Budny, D., Paul, C., Bon, L., "Impact of Peer Mentoring on Freshman Students", 2006 ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, Session M4B, San Juan, PR, July 2006, pp. M4B-10 – M4B-12.
• Lund, L., Budny, D., "The Value Of A Service Learning Course For Freshman Engineers", 2006 ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, Session M4B, San Juan, PR, July 2006, pp. M4B-10 – M4B-12.
• Rocha Brito, Claudio da, Ciampi, Melany M. and, Budny, D.D., "Cultural Immersion: A Successful Activity for Engineering, Technology and Business Administration", 34th Annual SEFI Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, June, 2006.
• Budny,D.D., Ciampi, Melany M. and Rocha Brito, Claudio da, "Designing a Study Abroad Program for Freshman in Brazil", World Congress on Computer Science, Engineering and Technology Education, Santos, Brazil, March 2006.