The 2011 Annual Meeting of the SEAS Advisory Council will take place on Friday, November 11, 2011 at the Marcum Conference Center, Oxford, Ohio. The meeting will begin at 8:00 am. For your convenience, a continental breakfast will be available at 7:15 am. The full schedule will be posted soon.
Please RSVP by Monday, October 31, 2011. Cancellation [...]
The 2011 Annual Meeting of the SEAS Advisory Council will take place on Friday, November 11, 2011 at the Marcum Conference Center, Oxford, Ohio. The meeting will begin at 8:00 am. For your convenience, a continental breakfast will be available at 7:15 am.
Please RSVP by Monday, October 31, 2011. Cancellation deadline is Friday, November 4, [...]
The “SpeedGeeking” session took place during the Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) Alumni Conference in 2011. Ten groups of students were around the room presenting their capstone projects in 5-minute intervals to the conference participants. It was a great and fun way for alumni to hear about multiple projects quickly. For example, one of [...]
“Innovations in Autonomy: Miami Students Creating Smart Applications for Smart Phones and More” was the theme of this year’s Miami University Interdisciplinary Technology Development Challenge (MUITDC). The 2011 winning team rose to that challenge with their “my Metro” app—and received the $5,000 award for their efforts.
School of Engineering and Applied Science computer science majors Paul [...]
Miami University Professor Jade (Yu) Morton, researchers at Ohio State University (OSU), and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s (CTBTO) On-Site Inspection Division have unveiled a new tool for detecting illegal nuclear explosions using the Earth’s global positioning system (GPS). The researchers discovered that nuclear tests leave their mark on the ionosphere. Within minutes of the [...]
The purpose of the project is to improve the design of low cost eye tracking glasses. These glasses are used in numerous applications such as eye-typing, web usability study, sports training, communication systems for disabled, etc. It is noted that the current low cost eye tracking glasses may not function well in the dark.
In this [...]
Josh Wonser, who was a double majored in chemistry and computer science and is now in the master’s program for Computer Science, found out about the “awesome virtual reality research” at Miami after taking a networking class from Dr. Eric Bachmann, professor of computer science and software engineering.
Bachmann, co-director of Miami’s HIVE facility (Huge Immersive [...]
Computer science majors Ryan Kelly, from Hudson, and Han Wang, from China, worked as undergraduate summer scholars with Iddo Friedberg, assistant professor of microbiology and affiliate in computer science and software engineering.
This was the first undergraduate research experience for Kelly and Wang, whose USS projects were part of Friedberg’s research program in bioinformatics, microbial genomics [...]
Miami University Hamilton nursing and psychology students took time from their busy schedules to bring health education to the Pre-K through third grade students at Wildwood Elementary School. They brought poster boards and provided a variety of hands-on activities. Some of the health areas covered was the importance of regular exercise, bike safety, and the [...]
Michael Bailey-Van Kuren, associate professor of mechanical and manufacturing engineering, worked with Donna Scarborough, associate professor of speech pathology and audiology, to develop a medical device to suppress the gag-reflex of the throat muscles. The glove-like acupressure device diminishes the gag-reflex in speech therapy and in people who are sensitive to activities such as dental [...]