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Integrating Engineering and Aviation Standards in Higher Education Curriculum

  • PI Leila Halawi

    CO-I Marwa El-Sayed

    CO-I Mark Miller

    CO-I Sophia White

  • This project aims to develop a transferable plan for integrating industry standards into engineering and aeronautics programs, with a short-term goal of refining learning modules. It has the potential to serve as a model for other STEM institutions and improve learning outcomes at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Matrix Analysis and Operator Theory

  • PI Edward Poon

  • Matrices and operators are ubiquitous throughout science, engineering, and mathematics; they are the transformations that arise whenever one studies a linear system (or approximates a nonlinear system by a linear one). Examples include rotations and reflections (rigid motions of space), spin operators (quantum mechanics and quantum computing), stress tensors (mechanics), regression and curve fitting (statistics and data analysis), derivatives and linear differential operators (dynamical systems), to name just a few.  By studying various properties, relations, and transformations of matrices and operators one may obtain insight into a wide range of phenomena.
Mesoscale Computer Modeling of the North American Monsoon over Arizona

  • PI Dorothea Ivanova

  • The Department of Meteorology is involved in research on the North American (Mexican) Monsoon in Arizona and the U.S. Southwest.

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Non-Commutative Ring Theory

  • PI Hisaya Tsutsui

  • Specific interests include prime and primitive Noetherian rings and injective modules. My research interests are in the area of non-commutative ring theory. A ring is a set on which two binary operations are defined. Concrete examples of such an abstract model include the set of integers with usual addition and multiplications, and the set of n by n matrices over a ring with the well-known addition and the multiplication.

Novel n x n Bit-Serial Multiplier Architecture Optimized for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)

  • PI Akhan Almagambetov

    CO-I David Feinauer

    CO-I Holly Ross

  • Bit-serial multipliers have a variety of applications, from the implementation of neural networks to cryptography. The advantage of a bit-serial multiplier is its relatively small footprint, when implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Despite their apparent advantages, however, traditional bit-serial multipliers typically require a substantial overhead, in terms of component usage, which directly translates to a large area of the chip being reserved while many of those resources are unused.

    This research addresses the possibility of an efficient two's complement bit-serial multiplier (serial-serial multiplier) implementation that would minimize flip-flop and control set usage on an FPGA device, thereby potentially reducing the overall area of the circuit. Since the proposed architecture is modular, it functions as a "generic" definition that can be effortlessly implemented on an FPGA device for any number of bits.

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Pilot Study of the FAA's OSE of the GTG and NCV Products

  • PI Sean Jeralds

  • This is a summary of the evaluations that were conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC) Weather Team in regards to the Operational Suitability of the Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) weather product.
Project Global Officer

  • PI Aaron Clevenger

  • Project GO provide's overseas language instruction consisting of a minimum of 8 weeks and/or 150 contact hours (per grant program) to ROTC students nationwide with the goal of helping student to reach an ILR 1 proficiency level in a critical language: Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan, and Arabic in Jordan. All students should reach the objective of successfully applying the target language and cultural knowledge in actual communication with native speakers.

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Robotics Redundant Manipulation and Space Robotics

  • PI Douglas Isenberg

    CO-I Iacopo Gentilini

  • The research focus of Dr. Isenberg and Dr. Gentilini in the Robotics Laboratory revolves around the modeling and control of industrial and mobile robotics system. In particular our current effort is directed towards the investigation of novel optimization techniques for energy optimal trajectory generation in redundant manipulation systems,

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Satellite Research

  • PI Ronald Madler

  • Ron Madler of Aerospace Engineering spent summer 2005 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working with a team of students on a satellite project.
Simulation Based Inquiry Oriented Linear Algebra

  • CO-I Ashish Amresh

  • Games that teach introductory concepts in linear algebra such as vectors, span and dependence are created to be used by instructors in an undergraduate class.
Software Safety

  • PI Matthew Jaffe

  • Matt Jaffe was one of the authors of the recently published RTCA DO-178C/EUROCAE ED-12C, Software Considerations in the Certification of Airborne Equipment and Systems.
Software-Defined Computational Photometry – Arctic Multi-Spectral and Passive 3D Imaging Project

  • PI Samuel Siewert

    CO-I Matthew Vis

    CO-I Ryan Claus

    CO-I Nicholas DiPinto

  • This research focuses on the development of field deployed multi-spectral computer vision systems for use on maritime vessels, buoys, ports, and for use on unoccupied aerial systems. The approach includes development of both General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit and multi-core image processing along with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hybrid architectures for low-power real-time computer vision. The mission is detection and monitoring of security, environmental and safety threats in Arctic maritime environments.