http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:18:00 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/TigerPlaceIntro.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/TigerPlaceIntro.m4v Interdisciplinary and collaborative projects on technology for elder care at TigerPlace, especially applying "fuzzy logic" to these problems. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:30:56 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/FuzzyLogic.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/FuzzyLogic.m4v How "fuzzy set theory" and "fuzzy logic" are useful in dealing with events that are vague or contain variation. Getting computers to think more like humans do. How fuzzy logic is used in modern technology (e.g., video camcorders). Why many scientists in the West have been suspicious of fuzzy logic. More on why it is a useful tool to make so-called "soft decisions" that call for intervention. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:31:47 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/FuzzyLogicApplied.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/FuzzyLogicApplied.m4v Funding for the TigerPlace project and how fuzzy logic technology is beginning to be implemented in elder care (e.g., assessing mobility and range of motion, detecting accidents, and identifying the need for early intervention by health care providers). 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:32:17 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/landmineDetection.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/landmineDetection.m4v Applying fuzzy logic to landmine detection. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:34:08 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/ImprovisedExplosiveDevices.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/ImprovisedExplosiveDevices.m4v Applying image processing and pattern recognition to new challenges: roadside bombs. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:36:02 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/LazyEyeDetection.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/LazyEyeDetection.m4v Using technology for early detection of "lazy eye" in infants. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:34:36 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/Mathematician.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/Mathematician.m4v Being a mathematician in an engineering department. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:35:29 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/SensoryDataOverload.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/keller/ipod/SensoryDataOverload.m4v Using sensors. The problem of possessing an overload of sensory data and how to effectively summarize sensory data. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:36:33 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward3.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ward/ipod/ward3.m4v The potential at MU to create profoundly innovative and viable research collaborations, for example, with MU’s Veterinary School, Medical School, College of Engineering, and Department of Anthropology. More specifically, Ward discusses the exciting joint project to examine the effect of exercise and mechanical load (weight) on joint and bone growth, with implications for arthritis treatment. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:43 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/jonassen/ipod/jonassen3-examples.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/jonassen/ipod/jonassen3-examples.m4v 3 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:36:19 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever02.m4v The first space mission to use electric propulsion was Deep Space I. Launched in 1998, it was a test mission for electric propulsion, one on which a lot of people worked to see the mission to success. “It had a very modest target,” Kluever says – basically just to fly by an asteroid – “and it was able to complete that mission.” Since then there have been some very big plans to send spacecraft to Jupiter or other outer planets using electric propulsion. “But the problem with electric propulsion (and NASA) is that these technologies cycle,” observes Kluever. “Sometimes they’re politically in favor and sometimes not. Right now they’re out of favor,” largely due to budgetary restraints. 3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:22:03 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever05.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever05.m4v Asked how he was drawn to aerospace engineering, Kluever responds: “Well, really it’s from the Apollo days. When I was in kindergarten, I remember watching the Apollo 11 landing—the first lunar landing—on a grainy black-and-white TV. That just made a big impact on me, and of course the first thing I wanted to be was an astronaut, and when that didn’t work out I found out that engineers are really what’s needed to design these missions, so aerospace engineering just seemed like a logical thing for me.” 3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:21:08 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever06.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever06.m4v In the most basic definition of his field, Kluever explains that engineers apply math and science knowledge to real problems, taking existing knowledge from mathematics and the physical sciences to construct some real device or to make some system better. “What do engineers do at work?” he laughs irreverently, “they go to a lot of meetings, they work on projects, and they try to stay on budget!” 3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:46 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever08.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/kluever/ipod/Kluever08.m4v The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has recently developed an emphasis area in aerospace engineering. Kluever teaches such required courses in the general areas of dynamics (how bodies move and how forces produce certain velocities and accelerations) and controls (how to design a control system to do a particular task), and he teaches such elective courses as Space Flight Mechanics and Aircraft Flight Mechanics (how to design a space mission or determine such performance characteristics as take-off, landing, range, endurance, and stability with an airplane). 3 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:23:35 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/chicone/ipod/chicone2.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/chicone/ipod/chicone2.m4v Chicone contributes to other fields of science outside of mathematics, cooperating, for example, with MU’s Medical School and School of Engineering to produce the kind of mathematical models that now play an integral role in designing predictions for scientific experiments. 3 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:13:42 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu05-Wu.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu05-Wu.m4v Wu teaches a number of classes, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in the area of industrial systems analysis and design. 3 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:42:56 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu06-Wu.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu06-Wu.m4v Wu has published four books, all in the area of manufacturing and systems design, several of which have become internationally adopted as textbooks: _Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis_ (1992, 1994), _Manufacturing and Supply Systems Management_ (2000), and _Handbook of Manufacturing and Supply Systems Design_ (2001). 3 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:43:09 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu07-Wu.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/wu/ipod/Wu07-Wu.m4v Following years principally involved in research, Wu now spends more time working with both students and the public on energy efficiency and the environment. As he puts it, “I feel very strongly that every one of us needs to do something and behave in responsible ways, individually or collectively, [to] do _something_ about it.” As an educator, Wu gets the message out to his students, who he says are the future: , “It’s really a very fulfilling thing to do. I have been a professor for all of my professional life—doing research, writing books and other publications, and teaching. I can honestly say that what I’m doing now regarding energy efficiency is absolutely the most fulfilling.” 3 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:43:24 GMT