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Development System For Intelligent Surgical Box-Trainer Research, Janos Grantner

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (FRACAA)

Laparoscopic surgery, also referred to as minimally invasive surgery, describes the performance of surgical procedures with the assistance of a video camera and several thin surgical instruments. During the surgical procedure, small incisions of up to half an inch are made and plastic tubes called ports are placed through these incisions. The camera and the surgical instruments are then introduced through the ports which allow access to the inside of the patient. The video camera becomes a surgeon's eyes. Excellent eye-hand coordination capabilities are crucial to carry out laparoscopic surgery procedures. Gaining basic laparoscopic skills such as …

Interdisciplinary Projects Help Fulfil Psychological Needs Of University Students, Hamid Mehmood Pasha

STEM Instructional Graduate Teaching Assistant Posters

Every scientific discipline is based on a specific body of concepts and presumptions. These concepts are crucial for understanding the design and implications of a situation.Therefore, it is believed that an interdisciplinary approach to research projects will help in generating a successful change to encourage an evolution in higher learning at University level.

Student retention can be increased by introducing interdisciplinary study projects which may involve students from the engineering, economics, social, history, language and/or human sciences departments. This is done to increase the basic psychological needs of the students in helping promote the academic engagement. Such projects can contribute …

Human Behavior Modeling For Residential Energy Consumption, Mesfer Alrizq

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Electric utility companies are interested in load profile (electricity consumption) data for expansion planning. Conventional methods of collecting the load profile data, such as surveys and metering, are tedious and time consuming activities. Cumbersome data collection processes also pose barriers. We present an innovative behavior model for generating electricity consumption load profiles. The model, based on fuzzy logic and activity graphs, requires minimum consumer data and can be easily updated to adapt to changes in technology. We demonstrate the accuracy of our model against real world data.

Work Protecting Sensitive Data In Vanets Using Active Data Bundles, Abduljaleel M. Al Hasnawi

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Conclusions

• Integrating ADB with VANETs inaneffective and efficient way shouldsolvemost of the privacyissuesin VANETs
• ADB is extensible -allows adding more security and privacy protection mechanisms
• According to the sensitivity of the carried data

Future Work

• Evaluateusing ADB in VANETs via simulation
• Propose ADB routingprotocolfor VANETs
• Apply the proposed solution to diverseVANETapplications

A Pnn-Jensen-Bregman Divergence For A Wlan Indoor Positioning System, Osamah Ali Abdullah

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

For decades, humans have been keen on creating smart spaces where advanced technology is utilized to provide enhanced services Indoor positioning systems (IPS) can be used to provide a wide range of user navigation and directions services, particularly in abnormal conditions such as needing emergency healthcare services. IPS also can be a friendly tool for people with vision impairment to allow for better livable communities for them. Other applications for IPS fall under tracking applications which may include activity recognition for security purposes and observation for the elderly or infirmed individuals. An indoor positioning system can be a hybrid system …

Implementation Of Software Community Radio Using Low Cost Resources, Amean Shareaf Ghazi Al-Safi

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Community radio is the third third model model of radio broadcasting besides besides the commercial and public systems systems. It aims to provide individuals with local news and information that are important to a small community. This poster presented a new method of implementing community community radio using low cost hardware and free software.The transmitter system consists of PC, USRP, and antenna while the receiver side consists of Raspberry Pi, RTL –SDR, and antenna .The main goal is to define and demonstrate a low, cost, flexible transmitter consisting of the USRP N210 and and commodity PC and a receiver consisting …

Electrical And Computer Engineering Department 2015-2016 Newsletter, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

1. A Word from the Chair 2. ECE on the Inside • Faculty Highlights o Introducing a New Faculty Member o Introducing a New Staff Member o Welcoming a Visiting Scholar o Exciting MicroController Lab Upgrades o Senior Design Lab Renovation on the Horizon • Faculty Buzz o Faculty Working with FlexTech Alliance o Development of an Intelligent Surgical Box-Trainer o Remembering a Faculty Member 3. Student Body Highlights • Student Organizations o Sunseeker’s New Edge o Raspberry Pi Club Updates • Student Buzz o Student Scholarships 4. Department Outreach • Local Outreach o Raspberry Pi (Not a Typo!) Summer …

Design Of Hardware Accelerator For Fuzzy Automaton Using Dynamic Reconfiguration, Chinh K. Nguyen

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Introduction

Nowadays, computational intelligence has been applied to transform human behavior and experience into mathematical representations that can be interpreted by computer programs. The development of intelligent control systems and intelligent decision support systems (IDSS) (Fig. 1) are part of this trend. Moreover, Partial reconfiguration allows some regions of the FPGA to be dynamically reconfigured while other tasks are still running in the remainder of the device. A hardware accelerator was developed for a fuzzy automaton-based decision support system in the context of testing eye-hand coordination skills for handicapped children. A Zynq-7000 FPGA platform (Fig. 3) was used for this …

Removing Interference From Above Ground Reflectors In Ground Penetrating Radar Data, Vincent Krause

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

This poster considers the background and approach to removing interference from above ground reflectors in ground penetrating radar data.

Smart Home Node For Local Wireless Applications, Lalith Narasimhan

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

This research investigated the possibility of implementing a multifrequency and multiprotocol wire-less smart home node by using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) and the open-source GNU Radio platform. Such an implementation could provide a high level of interoperability between various devices leading to a higher level of flexibility and easier implementation of current and future smart home standards and protocols.

Electrical And Computer Engineering Department 2013-2014 Newsletter, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• A Word from the Department Chair
• New Faculty
• Exploring the Intersection of Biology and ECE
• Laboratory Upgrades
• New Initiatives
• Student Highlight
• Students Create New Startup
• Senior Design Highlights
• Student Organizations
• Student Highlight
• Chaotic Circuits
• Recent Publications and Grants

2012/13 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Development of a Fuzzy Model for Deteriorating Engine Oil
• Development of Fuzzy Automata for Robot Control Applications
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Laboratory
• Tau Beta Pi
• Center for Advanced of Smart Sensors and Structures (CASSS)

2011/12 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Dual-Use Ground Vehicle Condition Maintenance
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Laboratory
• Neurobiology Engineering Laboratory
• Storing Grid Power with Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries
• Stryker Challenge
• Tau Beta Pi
• Electrical and Computing Engineering Department Hosts Workshop for Mattawan Middle School Group
• Center for Advanced of Smart Sensors and Structures (CASSS)
• Sunseeker Displayed at Chrysler Technology Center

2010/11 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Center for Advanced Smart Sensors and Structures (CASSS)
• Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Augmenting GPS Systems
• In-Flight Discreet Wireless Communication System
• Dual-Use Ground Vehicle Condition-Based Maintenance
• Neurobiology Engineering Laboratory
• CEAS Students Win Stryker Challenge!
• Earth Today iPhone Application for JPL’s Earth Sciences Directorate

2009/10 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Design of iPhone Game Applications for the Eyes on the Earth Initiative
• Printed Electronics Research and Sensor Development
• Dual-Use Ground Vehicle Condition-Based Maintenance
• TS-Type Fuzzy Automaton for Software Agents
• NEW DEAN – College of Engineering & Applied Sciences
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Laboratory
• ECE supporting Sunseeker Solar Rayce Team
• DOE Strategic Training and Education in Power Systems (STEPS) Funding

2008/2009 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Neurobiology Engineering Laboratory
• CEAS team’s sensors to monitor Parkview Bridge health
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Laboratory
• ECE Visting Professor
• Changing of the guard in the CEAS Dean’s Office
• Dr. Bazuin recipient of DENSO Award

2007/08 Research, Development, And Activities, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
• Computing with Neuron Cell Cultures
• Rehabilitation Engineering
• Cooperative Localization and Communication via Indoor Wireless Networks
• Wireless Communications over Time-Varying Channels
• Development of an Intelligent Vehicle Health Management System for Light Tactical Vehicles

2006/07 Research And Development, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Swarm Behavior
• Expanding Your Horizons @ WMU Engineering
• Design of a Reconfigurable Digital Architecture for Fuzzy Automata
• Rehabilitation Engineering
• Integrated Smart Wireless SAW Sensors and Systems
• Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
• Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) conference provides research opportunities to WMU students

2004/05 Research And Development, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

Electrical and Computer Engineering Newsletter

• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Integrated Smart Wireless SAW Sensors and Systems
• Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
• Steam Trap Acoustic/Ultrasonic Analysis
• Micromachined Wireless Dosimeters for In-Situ Radiation Measurement
• Nanowires and Nanoparticles Microsensors
• Mechanical and electrical characterization of b-Ga2O3 nanostructures for sensing applications
• Interdisciplinary Research with the Occupational Therapy Department