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View article: PLC in Industrial Controls Course
PLC in Industrial Controls Course Open
Electrical and computer engineering programs typically help students learn fundamental concepts and skills, but often strive to help the students become exposed to and learn more industrial applications. For example, many programs have cou…
View article: Differentiability of limit shapes in continuous first passage percolation models
Differentiability of limit shapes in continuous first passage percolation models Open
We introduce and study a class of abstract continuous action minimization problems that generalize continuous first and last passage percolation. In this class of models a limit shape exists. Our main result provides a framework under whic…
View article: STEM Program for Female Students
STEM Program for Female Students Open
STEM Program for Female Students Abstract Despite engineering careers helping to solve problems in society and the environment, and enabling financial independence, a disproportionately low number of women enter engineering careers. One fa…
View article: Feedback and Control Course Labs for Distance Learning
Feedback and Control Course Labs for Distance Learning Open
Feedback and Control Course Labs for Distance Learning Abstract: Feedback and control is a course that introduces students to mathematical concepts that are used to analyze feedback control systems. Conventional courses in feedback and con…
View article: Monitoring and Management of Classroom Presentation Technology Using Crestron Fusion
Monitoring and Management of Classroom Presentation Technology Using Crestron Fusion Open
Many of the learning spaces across a typical college campus are equipped with tools to aid the learning process. These tools such as projectors, microphones, and document cameras should be monitored and when needed maintained to ensure tha…
View article: Board 176: Summer Robotics Program for High School Students
Board 176: Summer Robotics Program for High School Students Open
ImpactLab is a pre-college program newly developed at our institute, which was offered in summer 2022 for the first time. It was a two-week residential summer experience for rising juniors and seniors in high school, that let them experien…
View article: Board 85: Using Telecommunication Instructional Modeling System (TIMS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses
Board 85: Using Telecommunication Instructional Modeling System (TIMS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses Open
Conventional courses in signals and systems, communications systems, and data communications use lecture and readings to explain the theory and assign paper-based problem sets of theory and math, possibly supplemented with simulation labs,…
View article: Interpretation of the Power Consumption Characterization of an Urban University Campus toward Power System Planning
Interpretation of the Power Consumption Characterization of an Urban University Campus toward Power System Planning Open
The power consumption analysis of a university campus can provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into the patterns and trends of multipurpose commercial buildings. The result of such an analysis may lead to the exploration of methods…
View article: Differentiability of the effective Lagrangian for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in dynamic random environments
Differentiability of the effective Lagrangian for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in dynamic random environments Open
We prove differentiability of the effective Lagrangian for continuous time multidimensional directed variational problems in random dynamic environments with positive dependence range in time. This implies that limiting fundamental solutio…
View article: Differentiability of the Shape Function for Directed Polymers in Continuous Space
Differentiability of the Shape Function for Directed Polymers in Continuous Space Open
For directed polymers, the shape function computes the limiting average energy accrued by paths with a given average slope. We prove that, for a large family of directed polymer models in discrete time and continuous space in dimension $1+…
View article: Joint localization of directed polymers
Joint localization of directed polymers Open
We consider (1+1)-dimensional directed polymers in a random potential and provide sufficient conditions guaranteeing joint localization. Joint localization means that for typical realizations of the environment, and for polymers started at…
View article: Joint localization of directed polymers
Joint localization of directed polymers Open
We consider $(1+1)$-dimensional directed polymers in a random potential and provide sufficient conditions guaranteeing joint localization. Joint localization means that for typical realizations of the environment, and for polymers started …
View article: In-Class Laboratory Exercises to Improve a Signals and Systems Course
In-Class Laboratory Exercises to Improve a Signals and Systems Course Open
In-Class Laboratory Exercises to Improve Signals and Systems Course Signals and systems is a course that introduces students to mathematical concepts that are used to analyze systems or signals. Conventional courses in signals and systems …
View article: Girl Scouts STEM Day Program
Girl Scouts STEM Day Program Open
Girl Scouts STEM Day Program Careers in engineering help a person to both contribute toward solving problems in society and environment, and live independently with available work. Nevertheless, a disproportionate number of females have no…
View article: STEM Program for Female High School Students
STEM Program for Female High School Students Open
STEM Program for Female High School Students Despite engineering careers helping to solve problems in society and environment, and enabling financial independence, a disproportionately low number of women enter engineering careers. Contrib…
View article: Superconducting Nanowire Fabrication on Niobium Nitride using Helium Ion Irradiation
Superconducting Nanowire Fabrication on Niobium Nitride using Helium Ion Irradiation Open
Superconducting devices are prone to reduced performance caused by impurities and defects along the edges of their wires, which can lead to local current crowding. In this study, we explored the use of helium ion irradiation to modify the …
View article: Using Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) in Communications Systems Course
Using Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) in Communications Systems Course Open
Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) is a very advanced system for telecommunications training. TIMS is a rack and module system. Most TIMS modules perform a basic communication or signal processing function. For example…
View article: Fuzzy Logic Training for Predicting Age of Rats
Fuzzy Logic Training for Predicting Age of Rats Open
Physiological measurements may contain data with nonlinear relations, non-normal distribution and large signal-to-noise ratio. Fuzzy logic has been utilized to analyze and classify physiological data. Age in mammals is reflected in physiol…
View article: A Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms for Telerobotic Control Using Electromyography Signals
A Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms for Telerobotic Control Using Electromyography Signals Open
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is central for many applications, including hazardous environment inspection and telemedicine. Whereas traditional methods ofHCI for teleoperating electromechanical systems include joysticks, levers, or but…
View article: Automatic Regulator for Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
Automatic Regulator for Supplemental Oxygen Therapy Open
Living tissues require a sufficient supply of oxygen for survival. An insufficient supply of oxygen may result from impairments of the respiration or oxygen transport systems, such as lung disease, heart disease, and anemia. Supplemental o…
View article: Activity Monitoring System for Independent Elderly Living
Activity Monitoring System for Independent Elderly Living Open
Some elderly people prefer to live independently and not in group settings, such as nursing homes. As age increases, health risks for independent living increase, including incapacitation. The longer one remains in an incapacitated state b…