Teaching Record

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New teaching facilities developed

Process Control Laboratory (under construction)

A new College of Engineering Facility for hands-on experimentation with Honeywell's TDC-3000 process control system; intended for seniors and first-year graduate students, and funded jointly by Honeywell Inc. ($543,629), the PRIDE Project ($35,000), and the National Science Foundation ($100,000).

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New courses developed

Enhanced Engineering Experience for Undergraduates- Systems (ENG-MCS 221/2)

A sophomore-level class in dynamic systems, modeling, and differential equations; developed as part of the NSF-supported E4 experiment on the basis of a previous development effort by the late Thomas Moore.

Evaluation and Presentation of Experimental Data (ENGR 231/2)

A sophomore-level class which combines laboratory experiments with elements of history of technology, ethics, technical writing and oral presentations; a multidisciplinary course taught by professors from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Reliable Communications and Coding I, II, III (Y564, 65, 66)

An introductory graduate class in information theory and algebraic coding.

Advanced Topics - Game Theory and its Applications (Y590)

An advanced graduate-level class in non-cooperative game theory and differential games.

Special Topics - Advanced Detection Theory (Y480)

An introductory graduate-level class in detection and estimation, with emphasis on multi-sensor systems.

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New laboratories developed

Enhanced Engineering Experience for Undergraduates - Systems (EEP 294)

A sophomore-year introduction to modeling, using LabView and MAPLE.

Circuits and Systems III

A laboratory in lumped circuits to demonstrate network theorems and study sensitivity.

Hands-on Control Laboratory

A senior-year laboratory in robotics, based on a physical hopping-leg system.

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Graduate courses taught

Control Systems I, II, III (Y650,51,52)

Fundamentals of Systems I, II, III (Y438,39,40) (taught three times)

Detection Theory (Y433)

Reliable Communications and Coding I, II, III (Y564, 65, 66) (taught twice)

Linear Operator Theory I, II, III (Y640, 41, 47) (taught twice)

Optimization Methods for Engineering Design (Y642)

Advanced Topics - Game Theory and its Applications (Y590)

Special Topics - Advanced Detection Theory (Y480)

Topics in Communications and Control I, II, III (Y400, 01, 02)

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Undergraduate courses taught

Systems I/II [Differential Equations and Introductory Systems Theory] - taught eight times

Evaluation and Presentation of Engineering Data I/II- Ethics Component - taught six times

Evaluation and Presentation of Engineering Data I/II- Lab Component - taught six times

Circuits and Systems I, II, III (pre-junior - E411, 12, 13) (taught twice)

Advanced Circuits I, II (senior - E421, 22) (taught five times)

Advanced Systems (senior - E476) (taught five times)

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Senior design projects (BS)

1999-2000

1. Reliable cryptographic tools for medium-size networks
2. Automatic counting of the new US denominations
3. A second generation self-navigating wheeled robot
4. Optimal routing of calls in satellite communications

1998-1999

1. Helicopter stabilization
2. Drexel’s Third Mechanical Snake
3. Drexel’s Third Mechanical Insect
3. The Automatic Shower Head

1997-1998

1. Drexel's Second Mechanical Snake
2. Process Control Using the TDC 3000
3. A Wheeled Mobile Robot

1996-1997

1. Drexel's First Mechanical Snake
2. Drexel's Second Mechanical Insect
3. Modeling of the SkyCam Entertainment System

1995-1996

1. Fire Hydrant Protection II
2. The Two Tank Experiment II
3. Drexel's First Mechanical Insect

1994-1995

1. A Mechanical Arm for the Autonomous Tracked Robot ATR 6000
2. The Music Sight Reader II

1993-1994

1. Camera Installation for the Autonomous Tracked Robot ATR 6000
2. The Music Sight Reader I

1992-1993

1. Fire Hydrant Protection I
2. The Autonomous Tracked Robot ATR 6000
3. Decision Fusion for Biological Signals

1991-1992 1. Modulation Recognition of M-QAM signals
2. Controllers for a Magnetic-Ball Suspension System (with S. Gray)

1990-1991 1. The Two Tank Experiment I
2. Design of Neural Networks Using Nonlinear Programming
3. Voice Recognition for Domestic Applications

   1989-1990

1. Hardware Implementation of Neural Networks
2. Name That Tune - a Melody Recognition System
3. Contextual Cues for Phoneme Recognition (with W. Freedman)
4. A Distributed Sensor System for Binary Detection

1988-1989 1. Linear Programming for Neural Networks
2. Multi-sensor Data Fusion
3. A Speaker-dependent English Language Phoneme Recognition System Using Neural Networks (with W. Freedman)

1987-1988

1. Applications of Artificial Neural Networks
2. Effect of Element Failure on the Beam Pattern in Phased Arrays
3. The Broom Balancing Problem - Adaptive Control with Neural Networks

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Supervised study

1. R. Cheng (B.S.) : State Space Analysis of Neural Networks (1987–1989)

2. G. House (B.S.) : The Four Color Problem (1989–1990)

3. M. Azam (M.S.) : Neuro-control for Aircraft (1991–1993)

4. A. Das (M.S.) : Decision Decoupling in Distributed Detection (1989–1992)

5. W. Tong (Ph.D.) : Bifurcations in Dynamical Systems (1992–1994)

6. J. Prosser (Ph.D.) : Discrete-event Systems (1993–1994)

7. G. Cane (M.S.) : Map Making for Mobile Robots (1993–1995)

8. B. Callahan (Ph.D.) : Dynamic Simulation of Tracked Mobile Robots (1993–present)

9. P. Kelsey (B.S.) : Mechatronics (1994–present)

10. C. Hawes (M.S.) : Numerical Optimization (1994–1995)

11. G. Audo (B.S.) : Nonlinear Optimization (1996-present)

12. B. Reardon and D. Tack (B.S.) : Robotic Navigation (1996-present)

13. F.M. Luei (B.S.): Linear Operator Theory (1998-present)

14. L-H Loo (B.S.): Random Processes (1998-present)

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