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Curriculum Development of an Audio Processing Laboratory Course
No full textThis paper describes the development of an audio processing laboratory curriculum at the graduate level. A real-time speech and audio signal-processing laboratory is set up to enhance speech and multi-media signal processing courses to conduct design projects. The recent fixed-point TMS320C5510 DSP Starter Kit (DSK) from Texas Instruments (TI) is used; a set of courseware is developed. In addition, this paper discusses the instructor’s and students’ assessments and recommendations in this real-time signal-processing laboratory course
Terrorism, Islamism, and Western Liberal Democracies: Prospects for Nonviolent, Proactive Countermeasures to Terror
No full textThis article outlines some prospects for nonviolent, proactive countermeasures to terrorism, essentially interreligious dialogue, with the aim and intention of incorporating multidisciplinary approaches to understanding associated phenomena and innovating appropriate dialogue projects. These projects would be intended to facilitate better understanding and improved relations between communities. This improved understanding and better relations would be the end goal of attempting to address some of the root causes of terrorism and to attempt to ameliorate some of the damaging effects of terrorism
2010 Health Sciences Commencement Ceremony
No full textThis is the 2010 Health Sciences Commencement Ceremony taking place on May 23, 2010. The commencement speaker was Dr. Gerard E. Mullin, the director of Integrative Gastroenterology Nutrition Services and director
of Capsule Endoscopy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Developing VLSI Curricula in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
No full text© ASEE 2010VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits) technology has enabled the information technology revolution which greatly changed the life style of human society. Computers, internet, cellphones, digital cameras/camcorders and many other consumer electronic products are powered by VLSI technology. In the past decades, the VLSI industry was constantly driven by the miniaturization of transistors. As governed by Moore’s law, the number of transistors in the same chip area has been doubled every 12 to 18 months. Nowadays, a typical VLSI CPU chip can contain millions to billions of transistors. As a result, the design of VLSI system is becoming more and more complex. Various EDA tools must be used to help the design of modern VLSI chips. The semiconductor and VLSI industry remain strong needs for VLSI engineers each year. In this paper, efforts in developing systematic VLSI curricula in Electrical and Computer Engineering department have been proposed. The goal of the curricula is to prepare students to satisfy the growing demands of VLSI industry as well as the higher education/research institutions. Modern VLSI design needs a thorough understanding about VLSI in device, gate, module and system levels. We developed CPEG/EE 448D: Introduction to VLSI to give students a comprehensive introduction about digital VLSI design and analysis. In this course, various EDA tools (such as Mentor Graphics tools, Cadence PSPICE, Synopsys) are used in the course projects to help students practice the VLSI design. In addition, analog and mixed signal circuit design are becoming more and more important as MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) and Nano devices are integrated with VLSI into Systemon-Chip (SoC) design. We developed CPEG/EE 458: Analog VLSI to introduce the analog and mixed signal VLSI design. As portable electronics (e.g. laptops, cellphones, PDAs, digital cameras) becoming more and more popular, low power VLSI circuit design is becoming a hot field. We developed CPEG/EE 548: Low Power VLSI Circuit Design to introduce various low power techniques to reduce the power consumption of VLSI circuits. Nowadays the VLSI circuits can contain billions of transistors, the testing of such complex system becoming more and more challenging. We developed CPEG/EE 549: VLSI Testing to introduce various VLSI testing strategies for modern VLSI design. In addition to the design and testing, we also developed EE 448: Microelectronic Fabrication to introduce the fabrication processes of modern VLSI circuits. With such a series of VLSI related curricula, students have an opportunity to learn comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience about VLSI circuit design, testing, fabrication and EDA tools. Students demonstrate tremendous interests in the VLSI field, and all the VLSI courses are generally oversubscripted by students in the early stage of enrollment. Many students are also doing the VLSI graduate research and published various papers/posters in the VLSI related journals/conferences
Israel and Palestine - Looking Ahead Twenty Five Years: A Symposium Report
No full textThis article summarizes the findings of symposia conducted at the University of Bridgeport between 2005 and 2007 on the ways in which in changes in political economy, religion, and demographics will affect Israel and the Palestinian territories by the year 2030
Combining Private and Public Key Encryption Techniques for Providing Extreme Secure Environment for an Academic Institution Application
No full textThis paper presents the implementation of a secure application for an academic institution that offers numerous services to both students and the faculty. The primary focus of this paper is to provide a technical implementation of a new architecture for encrypting the database. The scope of this paper mainly includes but is not limited to symmetric and public-key cryptography, authentication, key management, and digital signatures. The final results of this paper demonstrate that what security features one should implement in order to achieve a highly secured application. This paper presents the implementation of a stand alone system that can be implemented on any legacy systems, and still operates effectively. In other words, it is self sufficient in terms of the data that it stores
China's New Diplomacy Towards Southeast Asia: Motivations, Strategies, and Implications
No full textThe mutually beneficial China-Southeast Asia relationship is a successful South-South cooperation in international political economy. For China to become a truly responsible global power, it will also need to pay more attention to other development issues such as the environment and rule of law
UB Knightlines Summer 2010
No full textThe UB Knightlines newsletter for Summer 2010. This issue contains articles discussing UB's 100th Commencement, memories of the UB from each decade it has been in existence, UB's choir performing Leonard Bernstein's Mass, the awarding of 2010 Student Leadership and Distinguished Service Awards, audio surveillance from video cameras, the opening of the UB's Physician Assistant Institute, the dedication of the Bigelow Discovery Pavilion, UB's robot entry into NASA's 2010 Lunabotics Mining Competition, UB's student Diego Moreno placing honorable mention at the PAVE the Way 3D Design Challenge, the launch of CTech IncUBator at UB, UB junior Piotr Safronczyk of the UB swim team being name National and NCAA Division II Men's Swimmer of the Week, UB's Gymnastics team winning the U.S.A. Gymnastics College Team National Championships, highlights of UB's Baseball and Softball teams, and other campus news
